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There was a disturbing zealousness one both sides of the vaccination issue BEFORE the Kung-Flu came kicking down our doors: One side insists that vaccines of all shapes and sizes were milked from Bill Gates' nipples and will turn you into an autistic, screeching infertile ape, and the other side demands that you, under absolutely no circumstances ever question big pharma or research the contents and side effects of what you put into your body. All faith-based, mind you.

India's request for safety trails is, in no way, extreme or misguided – it is precisely rational. India isn't exactly famous for it's hygienic practices, but requesting the bare minimum from a company that shat out a vaccine in the time it typically takes to get permission to submit something for a approval from the FDA was a fair and intelligent thing to do. And Pfeizer's refusal to comply is frighteningly telling.

Vaccines are not perfect inventions. They can be flawed – there can be bad batches and other mishaps regardless of the innumerable safety standards placed on them. And while there certainly can and have been malevolent intentions behind mass-deployed medical initiatives, there doesn't always need to be. Shit can go wrong either way. And if you've ever played a video game in the last decade, you know that a rushed product produces a lot of issues.

All that being said, I am not, in fact, anti-vax. Probably because I've gotten shots and I'm not autistic or impotent or whatever (ladies). I am, however, entirely against the idea of mandating vaccinations. I think feminists said it best – my body, my choice. It is no place of government or anyone else to make personal, health-related choices for people. If someone gets sick and dies because they didn't get vaccinated, that's on them. If they have a severe reaction and die because they did get vaccinated, that's on them – well, I guess that would be on the manufacturer. Call it halfsies – so long as they didn't twist your arm or blow up the airwaves with apocalyptic fear-porn (which they do).

Way I see it, if I expect to go to a region or otherwise put myself in a situation where I'm likely to be exposed to a deadly – emphasis on deadly – pathogen, I'll probably get the shot. When I was expecting to take up a career in welding back in 2019, I got a tetanus shot. Tetanus, of course, being able to fuck you up far worse than Corona ever could. I had to get a meningitis shot before I started college. That one kicked my ass; my joints ached for days. Not sure why the admissions office couldn't just offer a waiver relacing them from liability if I got meningitis, but I guess that would have made too much sense – they don't seem to care who got AIDS or hepatitis on campus, but I guess getting pozed is inclusive.

So good on you, India, for actually standing up to a monolithic pharmaceutical conglomerate while all the sons and daughters of hippies and punks over here call you reprehensible retards. Franky, considering that people bathe in a river full of human shit and dead bodies over there, I don't think flu-like symptoms really amount to much in India. Their immune systems must be air-tight.

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