Stay home please
The remote worker campaign idea by the CEO of Zippy’s Restaurants is outrageous. He to thinks we should embrace the idea of bringing (and paying) the ” movers and shakas” from the West Coast to live here to work will help our economy? Really?
Zip it, mister. And while we’re at it, zip it, Mr. software engineer Raymond Berger .
What we don’t need are you people from the “loser cities ” that are falling apart. Don’t bring your liberal ideas and politics to our beautiful islands.
Stay home please. We will figure it out.
Chris Danzilo
Waimea
Not an easy choice
Vaccine theory is more alluring than ever and is positioned to ride in like a white knight, the panacea to our problems, during a global crisis.
A virus is an ever changing thing. With each infection it slightly mutates and sheds a little different than the virus that infected the previous host. A virus can evolve to attack our weakest system, and it can also be rendered powerless by a strong immune support system. A vaccine tries to mimic a single point in time in the lifecycle of a virus, but a virus never actually stays the same.
Theoretically, a vaccine is effective in a vacuum in which viral evolution is not instantaneous and a person injected with COVID-19 through a vaccine, receives the dose size necessary to trigger an immune response and the creation of viral antibodies, without killing the recipient.
There will be one, maybe two boosters, and after that you can rely on approximately the same success rate as an influenza vaccine. The flu vaccine must be altered yearly, a different strain of vaccine every year for a different flu virus, precisely because of the viral evolution described above. Since the inception of a flu vaccine, the average rate of flu death has remained relatively constant each year.
A flu vaccine is a snapshot in time, and influenza has never been eradicated. If a vaccine is created to combat the most severe version of any virus, while the population, through contraction, evolves a virus further toward the benign, is it possible for a vaccine to be more dangerous than the virus itself?
Our ohana will do everything in our power to keep our immune support systems strong. Consistent quality sleep, clean water, whole fresh plant food daily, avoiding toxins of any kind, and maintaining a positive mental attitude through movement, play, and time in nature. The choice to take an experimental vaccine that has shown in clinical trials to be potentially dangerous to a population of the healthiest test subjects, a vaccine that will roll out in under 18 months when most vaccines are in research and development for eight to 10 years, is not an easy one, especially if health, not compliance, is the ultimate goal.
Noel Snyder
Kailua-Kona
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