Perfection Isn’t Always Available

Dick Young

On his Substack, Jon Rappoport recounts his reasons for skipping the flu vaccine in 1957, and other vaccines since then. After not getting vaccinated in 1957 and avoiding the flu he was warned about, his logic became, “Ignore mandates; don’t get sick.” As he explains “That’s not perfect logic, but perfection isn’t always available.” He writes:

In my 40 years of work as a reporter, I’ve learned a great deal about evidence.

I’ve also learned about intuition and instinct.

Much earlier, in the winter of 1957, I was a student at Amherst College. One day out of nowhere, the administration announced that a flu pandemic from Asia had arrived in America—

And we should all go to the infirmary and take a vaccine. Right away.

I barely knew what flu was. I’d had colds. But flu?

The whole idea struck me as preposterous.

A wave of dangerous illness was heading our way? It sounded like a World War 2 news broadcast.

Besides, I was busy studying. I wasn’t about to stand in line with a bunch of dutiful students to take a shot in the arm. I failed to see the connection between a germ from Asia and an injection in Massachusetts.

I thought: I’m not going to get sick anyway. This is rubbish.

So I skipped the recommendation. I went to the cafeteria, had a strong cup of coffee, and trudged over to the library to read Spinoza. I didn’t get sick.

In the years that followed, I remembered that.

“Ignore mandates; don’t get sick.”

That’s not perfect logic, but perfection isn’t always available.

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