This is your brain on religion

A Providence TV news reporter tells us the sad story of health care workerswho are losing their jobs because they refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. I ' ll quote two of them." It goes against all of my religious beliefs to the core of my existence. " " I have not infected one patient that I know of. Who knows what [the vaccine] is going to do [to our bodies] years from now. I have my own God-given antibodies against this virus. " (She says she has been infected and recovered.)The first speaker is a phlebotomist. The second speaker is a registered nurse who works in a hospital. There is no major religious denomination -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, you name it -- that has a prohibition against vaccination. There are a few Christian Scientists and other small sects who might, but obviously nobody who adheres to one of them is working as a registered nurse or a phlebotomist. As a hospital nurse, speaker #2 presumably routinely administers antibiotics and other medications, which as far as I know were not provided miraculously by God. While it ' s nice for her to think that she hasn ' t infected any patients, by her own admission she doesn ' t actually know that. And as someone whose professional education includes the basics of immunology, she knows or certainly ought to know that the only long-term effect of a vaccine is to cause your body to generate antibodies to a pathogen. She also knows that the reason she doesn ' t treat people for smallpo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs