Of all the alarmist vaccine side-effects predicted in the time of COVID, maybe this one wouldn’t be so bad.

This side effect would have you shredding an axe like Eric Clapton. 

Pre-COVID-vaccine and continuing through vaccine release, newly minted vaccine experts warned of tracking devices in the shot, a giant leap forward toward the goal of world domination via 5G chips.

There was genuine evidence, it seemed. Making social media rounds with viral speed was a technical-looking black and white schematic – the ACTUAL DIAGRAM of the 5G chip inserted into the mRNA COVID vaccines! 

And of course, if it looks science-y and is on the internet and it contradicts Anthony Fauci, it must be true.

Leave it to a couple of scholarly journals like Rolling Stone and Guitar World Magazine to debunk the story.

It was a guitar pedal. The viral image shared across the globe was the electric circuit of a guitar pedal. 

Three years into our COVID experience, and conspiracy theories have yet to die. 

When an NFL player collapsed unconscious on the field during a game, social media was buzzing with the diagnosis before the guy even arrived at the hospital. It was the vaccine!

It wasn’t, but all too often, the first story out becomes THE story. It’s true, myocarditis (almost always temporary), is a rare side effect of the covid vaccine. 

But do you know who is eleven times more likely to develop myocarditis? Unvaccinated people.

One in ten Americans still believe that mRNA vaccines change your DNA. Thirty-two percent of Americans are on the fence about it. 

The science is fairly simple – it’s high school biology 101: the mRNA in a vaccine directs the construction of a protein in the cytoplasm of a cell. DNA resides in (and never leaves) the cell nucleus.

Vaccine conspiracies about death, microchip control, and modified DNA are alive and well in 2023, but here’s the champ: thirteen percent of Americans believe that COVID vaccines cause infertility. Forty-two percent aren’t sure. There is no evidence, at all, supporting this claim, yet it persists. 

Facts are boring.

Controversies are interesting. Conspiracies are compelling. 

Can scientists GUARANTEE that a COVID vaccine won’t turn you into zombie in twenty years? No, but there is absolutely no evidence that it will.

Pseudoscience provides certainty. Science, on the other hand, is always updating, tweaking, and changing.

Science is a work in progress. We look at the best evidence we have. We look at the consensus of scientists working in a field. 

Unfortunately, confidence in science is on the decline in the United States. Even more unfortunate is the fact that confidence levels in both science and medicine are sharply divided along political lines.

Bring on the zombie apocalypse.