Poll: "For adults under age 65 who are vaccine-hesitant, reluctance is mainly driven by concerns about safety, side effects and distrust in government."
Wendy King, Delphi Group, Carnegie Mellon University
A coincidence of timing. A college classmate sent me the joke comment that starts this blog post. I laughed and sent it to a few people.
It arrived by email just after I got off the phone with a former colleague from my Morgan Stanley financial advisory practice who told me that he and his wife were not getting vaccinated for COVID. That surprised me. He and his wife are educated, civic-minded, and in their 70s. They are also White, Republican, and Christian. He said,
I'll let the government experiment on a hundred million other people first. No one knows what's in those vaccines. There could be side effects and bad long term consequences from the COVID itself or the trace ingredients.
Just for fun I decided to see what's in a McDonalds Chicken McNugget.
Ingredients: White Boneless Chicken, Water, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Enriched Flour (bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Bleached Wheat Flour, Yellow Corn Flour, Vegetable Starch (modified Corn, Wheat, Rice, Pea, Corn), Salt, Leavening (baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Calcium Lactate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Spices, Yeast Extract, Lemon Juice Solids, Dextrose, Natural Flavors.
America's favorite hot dog brand is Ball Park Franks. The brand edges out Oscar Meyer in sales.
Ingredients: Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Water, Corn Syrup, Potassium Lactate, Contains 2% Or Less: Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Beef Stock, Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Erythorbate, Maltodextrin, Paprika Extract, Sodium Nitrite.
Readers may have heard of Sodium Erythorbate --C6 H7 NaO6. It is a food additive, the sodium salt of erythorbic acid. There is an urban myth circulating that it is ground-up earthworms, an idea fueled by a name that is seems to include the words earthworms plus bait. This is untrue but it gets around because the idea triggers a sense of disgust combined with distrust of corporations. That makes the rumor "clickable" and good for passing along as warnings on Twitter and Facebook. Sodum Erythorbate is made from beets and corn.
5 comments:
It does take courage to get the vaccine, but about as much as you need to ride the whirl-a-go or fly Delta.
Now that I'm vaccinated and out and about a little more I'm hearing the same things.
"...concerns about safety, side effects and distrust in government."
Republicans are committing what I call "soft genocide" on their own voters. They are cornered by their decades long assault against science and lies about liberals trying to control them and take their freedom. Now, faced with a life threatening pandemic they have no choice but to fear monger the vaccine and other public spirited health measures
Fear, however, is a prison locked from the inside.
My meme: So Republicans take millions from Pharma while downplaying the vaccine? And you say irony is dead...!
Many are also concerned about the "vaccine" injecting a microchip that enables the government to track them, unlike their smartphone and GPS.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't get up in the morning without a nice hot cup of Sodium Aluminum Phosphate.
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate is the agent that allows baked goods to rise. Baking Powder. Glad to hear you appreciate an early morning rise
Works like sprinkle-on Viagra.
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