NO RAGE TODAY!

NO RAGE TODAY! As I stand here, frantic in my office, trying to see patients while getting ready to administer 40 COVID-19 vaccines this afternoon, I can't help but feel just a touch of anger. I won't waste what little energy I have for today on this anger. Please click on this link and read accurate and scientifically proven information. http://byrambridle.com/ Twelve to eighteen year olds are not being vaccinated fast enough to avoid becoming ill with a COVID-19 variant and although serious illness in this age group and in children under the age of 12 remains rare, for now, the general community is not safe until the vast majority of us are vaccinated.

Vaccine hesitancy and the mis-information that perpetuates it can be dangerous. The variants of concern are now the most common COVID-19 virus we are seeing in our community. The delta variant is more transmissible ( up to 60 % more transmissible) and it causes more serious disease and illness. If you do not get vaccinated you will eventually get COVID and it will likely be this variant or another dangerous variant of concern.

Why is this true? Do you know anyone who has not had the common cold? If you breathe the air during cold and flu season, eventually you will get a cold or the flu. COVID-19 is much more transmissible than either a cold virus or a flu virus. Breathe the air without a mask on or without being vaccinated while COVID-19 is circulating in the community and you will eventually get COVID-19. You do not need scientific proof of this. It is a scientific, biological, epidemiological fact. No one needs to prove it.

There are rare medical reasons for avoiding vaccination. The greater the percentage of people who get vaccinated, the more the individuals who cannot be vaccinated are protected.

One dose of vaccine is only 30 % effective against the delta variant. Get two doses when the second is offered to you. Please read the information on this link. It will help dispel the myths that are now circulating. These myths concerning breast milk, breast feeding infants and the fertility of our children are ABSOLUTELY FALSE with no scientific substantiation. People who perpetuate these myths may cause vaccine avoidance or hesitancy. Vaccine avoidance and hesitancy can cause death if someone who avoids a vaccine gets COVID-19. These vaccines are safe. mRNA ( Pfizer and Moderna) vaccines have been given to hundreds of millions of people around the world with incredibly rare serious side effects (mainly related to rare allergic reactions to the ingredients of the vaccine like polyethylene glycol). These vaccines are safe in people over the age of 12 and soon we will know that they are safe in people over 6 months. Don't make my patients or the beloved members of my community terrified with false information. Stay alive and well......Get vaccinated. Anne-Marie Please share. For non-Facebook users, you can find this post here: https://braceletofhope.blogspot.com/ And if you'd like to help Bracelet of Hope work towards making sure that Lesotho has access to these vaccines, donate here: https://www.braceletofhope.ca/ways-to-