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Cruz speculates on the real reason behind massive flight cancelations
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took to Twitter late Sunday to speculate about Southwest Airlines’ decision to cancel more than 1,000 flights just days after its pilots’ union asked a court to block the company's new COVID-19 vaccination mandate. The airline has blamed the cancellations on "disruptive weather" and air traffic control issues. Some Twitter users were suspicious of the timing of the disruption, including the Texas Republican. (www.foxbusiness.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Ted Cruz is a perfect example of one who says, "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up!" Arguments against accepting the vaccine make about as much sense as someone declaring he can't freeze to death in a minus 20° freezer because his body is warm.
Lest there be any doubt, vaccination against Covid is sound medical science that protects us and those around us from serious illness and/or death. It defies belief that the highy skilled and inteligent people who fly us every day can think such vaccination is bad for us or a violation of our rights.
Healthy young adults in their twenties and thirties are at near zero risk of dying from covid if they get infected.
This same group however is at a very elevated risk of myorcarditis/pericarditis post vaccination. This condition can kill them shortly after they fall ill - however if they survive the initial acute inflammation they are left with a damaged heart muscled for life. According to the NIH the five year mortality for myocarditis is 50%.
From a public safety standpoint do we really want pilots at the controls who have a ticking time-bomb in their hearts?
No doubt many airline workers are aware of the above FACTS which is why they are resisting the vaccines. Health care workers certainly know of these risk factors which is why 10,000's of them are refusing to get vaccinated and face being fired. The very people who heroically risked their lives to treat covid patients at the outset of the pandemic are being villainized by Biden and and thrown out onto the streets.
This same group however is at a very elevated risk of myorcarditis/pericarditis post vaccination. This condition can kill them shortly after they fall ill - however if they survive the initial acute inflammation they are left with a damaged heart muscled for life. According to the NIH the five year mortality for myocarditis is 50%.
From a public safety standpoint do we really want pilots at the controls who have a ticking time-bomb in their hearts?
No doubt many airline workers are aware of the above FACTS which is why they are resisting the vaccines. Health care workers certainly know of these risk factors which is why 10,000's of them are refusing to get vaccinated and face being fired. The very people who heroically risked their lives to treat covid patients at the outset of the pandemic are being villainized by Biden and and thrown out onto the streets.
Kevin Keswick, spoken like a true Republican .
There is a risk of myocarditis from the vaccine, but claiming the risk is "very elevated" is false. The risk is very small. Furthermore, you statement about near zero risk of covid deaths for healthy young adults in "their 20s and 30s" is also false because you lumped the 20s and 30s together. The risk of dying for people age 30-39 is 4x the risk for those aged 18-29.
The infection fatality rate (IFR) is very small in the ages I mentioned. Here is a breakdown of IFR's
The estimated age-specific IFR is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) but increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85 source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v7?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_wulq8BVQ.Dzc6TtVb6PkyE64EB6xJAPo_bHOaoAOH6U-1632368609-0-gqNtZGzNAfujcnBszQkl
The incidence of myocarditis in the age 16-25 group is estimated to be as low as 1 in 1000 injections
The estimated age-specific IFR is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) but increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85 source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v7?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_wulq8BVQ.Dzc6TtVb6PkyE64EB6xJAPo_bHOaoAOH6U-1632368609-0-gqNtZGzNAfujcnBszQkl
The incidence of myocarditis in the age 16-25 group is estimated to be as low as 1 in 1000 injections
"The incidence of myocarditis in the age 16-25 group is estimated to be as low as 1 in 1000 injections"
False.
False.
Well stated! As someone over 65 and having had this disease, I would rather fight the disease than the vaccination.