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Marc Girardot's avatar

Not really, 50 years ago people injecting did aspirate. Someone stupid decided to change that and nobody cared... 20 or 30 years ago.

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Craig Bitler's avatar

Marc:

A couple comments of your article.

1. I acknowledge that we were raised differently. I am 73 years old and my father believed MDs were quacks. He often said that their "medicine" was "drugs and knives." (By "knives" he meant surgery.) He said the pillars of health were eating good food, exercising, getting adequate sleep, trying not to worry, getting outdoors for some sunshine and staying as far away from MDs as possible. I doubt that he ever heard the words "anti-vaxxer" but he was indeed an anti-vaxxer. He believed in trying to support your immune system by healthy living and not allowing someone to inject you with a concoction made in a laboratory. So, I admittedly recoil at your position that the issue is not the vaccines, but simply how they are administered.

2. However, I do believe that following the advice of the CDC to not aspirate is crazy. I believe that those who had an almost immediate metallic taste in their mouth had been injected intravenously. Nevertheless, I believe that these vaccines, like all vaccines, are harmful to some people. It is not just how they are administered; it is their bodies reaction to the actual vaccines.

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