{"id":54786,"date":"2021-10-06T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54786"},"modified":"2021-11-20T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:16:09","slug":"why-i-am-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54786","title":{"rendered":"Why I am unvaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kevin Baldeosingh<br \/>\nOctober 06, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54786\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kevin-baldeosingh.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Kevin Baldeosingh' \/><\/a>I am not vaccinated against Covid-19 and do not intend to take any of the existing vaccines. Here are my reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Medical: I am under 70 years of age, have no co-morbidities, am not obese, and can run one mile in under nine minutes. This puts me in a cohort that Covid does not seriously affect. Thus, the vaccine does not benefit me.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nStatistical: If I do catch Covid, the odds of me dying are virtually nil; and for hospitalisation, extremely low. The overall fatality rate is 1.3 per cent, and 99 per cent of those who die have already exceeded the average life expectancy of their country (73 years in Trinidad), have co-morbidities, and\/or are obese.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/letters\/why-i-am-unvaccinated\/article_7edc3c1e-263b-11ec-baec-5bcafe2f32e3.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kevin Baldeosingh October 06, 2021 I am not vaccinated against Covid-19 and do not intend to take any of the existing vaccines. Here are my reasons. Medical: I am under 70 years of age, have no co-morbidities, am not obese, and can run one mile in under nine minutes. This puts me in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I am unvaccinated<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1524,1,33],"tags":[1515,1581],"class_list":["post-54786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-general-tt","category-health","tag-kevin-baldeosingh","tag-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54870,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786\/revisions\/54870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}