Covid - Go Away!

 Covid - is it real or is it fake!

I am going to announce up front that I am fully vaccinated and intend to get the booster as soon as a Moderna booster shot is available.  

I am just flabbergasted at the theories and conspiracies and ideas etc. that people have come up with about Covid.  I'm not sure we will ever know the absolute truth.  So here goes on what theories or conspiracies I have heard to date. It is not my beliefs listed - it is what I've seen on the news and social media.  

1.  Covid virus was released on purpose from China to the rest of the world.  It was deliberate and planned for a long time.

2.  There were already vaccinations for Covid but were withheld to the public until "enough" people had died.

3.  Covid was released as a way of population control.

4.  When you get the vaccination, you get a microchip that stays in your body and allows "them" to track you where ever you go.

5.  Pres. Trump never really had Covid.  It was fake to make people feel a kinship to him.

6.  How much did the media influence people?  To get the shot, or not get the shot.

7.  The statistics on the number of people getting Covid are false.  They are inflated.

8.  The statistics on the number of people getting the Covid are underreported.

9.  Covid is a manmade virus.

10. Covid came from animals.

11.  There is no real cure for Covid.  You get better or you don't.

12.  There are medicines that cure Covid available, but doctors aren't allowed to use them.

13.  Wearing masks keep others from getting Covid from you.

14.  Wearing masks keep you safe from getting Covid.

15. Masks do absolutely nothing to help curtail the catching of Covid.

16.  Stay away from other people to avoid spreading Covid.

17. Don't worry about being in crowds - it'll give us herd immunity.

18.  Covid is completely and totally fake.  

19.  Vaccinations against Covid are harmful and will cause awful after effects.

20.  If you have gotten Covid and are well again, you have antibodies that will keep you from getting it again.

21.  Vaccinated people can still give others Covid.

22.  Even if you have antibodies, you need a vaccination.

23.  If you have antibodies, you do not need a vaccination.

24.  China released the virus to take down America.

25.  Vaccinations will help keep you safe, and help keep you alive.

Now I am quite sure, that this list doesn't have every conspiracy theory out there.  I guess getting vaccinated doesn't bother me as much as some because I grew up in the polio vaccination age. I took it, as well as my smallpox vaccination, measles, mumps, whooping cough, tetnus etc. etc. shots to keep me safe. My children did too.

I have no answers.  Even if I did, half would believe me, half would call me an idiot and tell me I was stupid and crazy.

All I know for sure is that Covid is NOT fake.  Whatever you want to call this hideous virus that has sickened and killed so many people - it is real and dangerous.  It is very contagious.  It will kill some people.  It will make some people so ill, they must be in ICU.  Some people get it, and are hardly sick at all. Some never get Covid at all.

Will we ever know the truth?  I very much doubt it.  I think we do the best we can with whatever information sounds the best, and hope that works!

Peace and blessings to everyone.  We need it now more than any other time in the history of our world.