There are reports that there is resistance by some to the COVID-19 vaccinations.

Considering the lives that vaccines have saved since Edward Jenner smeared a skin tear on a 13-year-old boy with cowpox virus in 1796, becoming the founder of vaccinology in the West, declining the Covid vaccine doesn’t seem logical.

We can’t claim it is absolutely infallible but we can tell you our experience with the covid inoculation.

As a “senior citizen” was able to visit the Kingfisher County health department last Thursday where a nurse administered the shot in my upper arm.

She had me sit down for 30 minutes afterward to be sure I would have no allergic reaction. I didn’t.

She also said the area near where the vaccine was administered might become sore. It didn’t.

The only discomfort I felt was pulling the little Bandaid off a couple days later after noticing it was still stuck on me.

That is a small price to pay for the relief of not worrying about catching or transmitting the virus to someone else.

I thought back to the 1950s when my whole family attended a clinic where a long line of people received small cubes of sugar containing Jonas Salt’s polio vaccine.

It worked, not only on us but for the whole world. The disease has disappeared from many regions around the world.

It seems reasonable to believe that one of the reasons young people are bigger and stronger today than they have been in the past relates to the fact that the children don’t have to fight the childhood diseases so prevalent before the development and common use of vaccines to prevent them.

I don’t like the idea of becoming sick. If there’s prevention available for a disease prevalent in our area I’m going to take it.

However, I am “sick” of the shutdown of our nation because of a strange virus release by Communist China.

Hurrah for the vaccine. Hurrah to President Trump for helping push it through for use in record time.

The column on the right side of Wednesday’s edition in which the “counsel” for the Public Broadcasting System downgraded rural residents of America as “dumb” reminds me why I never listen to its so-called news programs, which are as leftist as the networks’.

PBS has a few worthwhile programs but their news presented by people with affectation in their voices ticks me off from the word go. I can just picture them angling for invitations to Georgetown cocktail parties where they’ll be seen with the right (but not real) people.

We have said before and we repeat that the first 435 names in a local phone book would provide a wiser Congress than we have now.

A ‘unifying’ example?

Jumping right into his promise to “unify” the nation, President Joe Biden (or his handlers) militarized Washington,D.C., ahead of an inauguration without citizens.

Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen suggested that National Guard personnel might commit an act of sedition at Wednesday’s inaugural.

Asked to provide evidence to substantiate his claim, Cohen offered none, but explained how he would look for those who might be viewed as a possible threat.

“You draw a circle, the first circle is people who worked for Trump and not for Biden, as far as people who would be in the zone of folks who you would be suspect of,” Cohen said. “The suspect group is large.”

After noting the National Guard is 90 percent male, Cohen added: “There are probably not more than 25 percent of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden.” He called the Guard “predominantly more conservative” than the population.

So now we have a preview of the Biden presidency

You can illustrate that the Guard is suspicious by pointing to their shoulder patches - the American flag.

Someone should point out to President Biden that American citizens have never marched in lockstep as the new regime wants but have always been independent thinkers determined to use their first Amendment rights but willing to allow others to do the same.

A rehearsal for the inauguration had to be called off on Monday and everyone in attendance evacuated due to what was reported by corporate media as an “external security threat.” That “threat” turned out to be a fire started by a homeless woman under a nearby bridge.

A retired Army sergeant major who ran the nation’s enlisted National Guard association says “it’s paranoia” and a “serious distrust of our nation’s military” for FBI vetting of inaugural security troops on suspicion of extremist ties.

“I think it’s paranoia basically to vet members of the National Guard,” Frank Yoakum told The Washington Times. “National Guardsmen have already been vetted. They may hold views that are contrary to the incoming administration. But they nonetheless own security clearances, are trusted by this nation to do the nation’s bidding, both domestically and in times of war, and they don’t vet them before they send them to Afghanistan and Iraq or Somalia or Kosovo or any other place.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he finds the FBI/Pentagon vetting “offensive.”