Many of you know I lost my beloved brother to brain cancer three years ago.
He was diagnosed at age 22, died at 32. Until the last year of his life, he had all of his faculties; he even became a pilot as a hobby, cleared by an FAA physician. He has 3 sons.
One year before he died, he tried immunotherapy, which caused inflammation (which is what it does), and inflammation in the brain causes brain damage.
He lost his speech.
He lost his right side.
He lost his peripheral vision.
But his cognition remained perfect.
For years, every Purim, his best friends would show up to my family’s afternoon Purim party. They told my brother it was for my moms ribs and wine, but it was also to lift his spirits (and have ribs and wine).
Pay attention, believe survivors, speak up, donate, demand change, talk to your children. Demand more of frum journalism, of rabbis, of leaders, of yourself.
Then, as delta surged and breakthrough cases increased, the CDC acknowledged that vaccinated people CAN transmit COVID.
Multiple studies found that vaccinated people were NOT as infectious & did NOT shed the virus like unvaxxed people, but people conveniently ignore that.
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Now there’s this:
“The number of transmissions from unvaccinated controls was three times higher than from fully vaccinated patients. Fully vaccinated showed a lower viral load, less frequent symptoms, and, above all, a significantly reduced risk of transmission."