Aug 05, 2021

OPINION: State Senator responds to County Commissioner's column

Posted Aug 05, 2021 6:48 PM
Mark Steffen Senate Photo
Mark Steffen Senate Photo

State Senator Dr. Mark Steffen is a former Reno County Commissioner.

It was about the second, maybe third, day of the Covid virus debacle that I realized the politics behind the response. And, it continues. The Biden Administration is at war with Florida and Texas where Republican Governors place individual rights and a fact based understanding of the covid virus before inflated fear campaigns. A wide open southern border betrays the Democrat’s desire to fill the country with their kind of voters of which many are contagious with the Covid-19 virus. While Cuban refugees who are passionate for democracy remain ignored. More liberals spread throughout our nation are more important than containing the spread of their dreaded virus. Pure politics!

At the very core is the shot. It’s not a vaccine. It’s a medical procedure. The liberals brag and brag as to its efficacy. Yet, not a peep as to its pitfalls and they are plentiful. The CDC has a system to report vaccine complications. Its acronym is VAERS. Its on the CDC website. Do not fall for the liberal mainstream talking points. More deaths and complications are associated with this current shot than all other vaccinations in the several decade history of VAERS. Do the research!

A recent study by the renowned Cleveland Clinic of 50,000 people proved the robust nature of natural immunity. The shot just adds risks for complications. It is an affront to science to deny the worth of naturally acquired immunity. Do the research!

Recent studies out of the United Kingdom and Israel show a much different rate of infection after vaccination versus that reported by our overly enthusiastic Health Department. They to are guilty of fanning the flames of fear rather than talking to us in an adult manner. Fanning flames with misleading data points goes beyond enthusiasm and becomes blatantly off putting. Do the research!

Injecting our children with this mRNA shot is beyond bizarre. A report on the CDC website outlining their thought processes on recommending the shot clearly defines that vaccinated children experienced “more severe complications” than unvaccinated children. Never in the history of mankind has a society knowingly sacrificed children for the alleged benefit of adults. Please do your research!

It’s quite clear that the India (delta) variant is more contagious and correspondingly less deadly than the original Covid-19 virus. Early treatment remains key. Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are proven in multiple studies to be effective in preventing hospitalization and death. Yet, liberal academic medicine continues to shut down their use while promoting a brand new, unproven, hospital based IV infusion that is expensive and in short supply. This, to a medical doctor such as myself, is unforgiveable if not criminal. I won’t forgive my colleagues for this. Do the research.

I will leave the idiocy of masks for another time. And, if you want the shot, then by all means please get it. Just don’t be so condescending as to tell me what to do. Remember this, elected officials that feel a stronger need to “go along to get along” rather than advance the truth, are not leaders. They are politicians. My respect they do not gain.

For those of you intrigued enough to continue down this road of edification, look no further than RCCFT.org for all the studies referred to above.