A 70 yr old friend of mine is not planning to get the COVID vaccine.

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60. mRNA vaccines were not designed from anything involving stem cells.

It is one thing to design a vaccine using stem cells versus testing a vaccine designed independently of stem cells using the most reliable method of showing that those vaccines are safe for human use. Now, a person can say that distinction doesn’t matter, to them I say bullshit, it does matter as much as night versus day. I have no interest in catering to people that don’t respect facts at all, so if I slice things thin when dealing with them, so be it.

Beyond the above, the key reason why I have no use for those people or their claims, is their grotesque hypocrisy concerning life and it’s sanctity. They cherish a fetus, but are ok with with a child drowning with her father as both tried to escape brutal killers in their home country, or with their cherished leader separating families who were running for their lives, seeing us as their only safe harbor. They want children born that the parents can’t or won’t support financially, only to turn around and deny those same children medical care and nutritious food if they had their way.

Union General William T. Sherman was quoted as saying on waging war “You can not qualify war in harsher terms than I will”. Many fundamentalists, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers take a harsh view toward that which they disapprove of, like it or not, I view people that value life as being in a moral and philosophical war with those people and kindness toward them only leads to more destruction.