What About: “My Body, My Choice”❓

It seems to me like we live in two different and separate realities:

Reality #1

In any office setting: One must make an appointment 📆 and call from their car 🚗 once they arrive. If the service cannot be rendered online, over the phone ☎ or curbside, then they only can enter the building if vaccinated 💉 or wearing a mask. Billboards and signs to get vaccinated are prominently displayed EVERYWHERE, and if you didn’t get it, there’s that sense of: “What’s wrong with you?” But what about: “My body, my choice”? It’s a catchy slogan that’s only deemed appropriate when it aligns with a certain narrative. It appears to be far less of a crime to abort your unborn baby (even one that’s just about to be born) than it is not to get antibody therapy (the vaccine is an experimental gene therapy). And I don’t trust the numbers of those who got vaxed, because I wonder: How many were forced to in order to keep their job and hop on a plane, or who simply succumbed to pressure? Like the literature class I took in college where the professor touted about her book sales - then mandated her students to buy her books. Out of the 12 books that were required reading for the course, 8 of them were hers. 😡 I suppose that’s one way to boost book sales!

Reality #2

In the world of retail, 🛍 people pack those shops and stores with abandonment, with no appointment necessary, and completely maskless. This past Christmas, 🎄 I would see all those shoppers and think: “What pandemic?” The rules and views to vax or not vary widely depending on the setting and the person, and the changing winds 🌬 of dictates and mandates can make things confusing and perplexing. Personally, I appreciate treatments and medicines, but using them should be a matter of choice and not forced. Immunotherapy is best for someone who suffers from immunodeficiency, but might not be needed for someone else who is young or just plain healthy with a strong immune system. The choice to use biotherapies should be a personal one, and not something that is dictated by our government. Most people are adult and mature enough to make their own health risk assessment and selection.

Lynn – Poma

1 – 20 – 2022