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Tom, welcome back to the show. It's lovely to be sitting down with you again to record some

more of your thoughts on all of the questions that

have come in. And today we're looking at questions around the USA culture and society conspiracy

theories. Seems like we come back to this every so often. Many, many listeners in the US who

are interested in your thoughts on these issues. But speaking of conspiracy theories, one thing

that obviously has been in the news is the coronavirus vaccine. And there's even been, you know,

a certain amount of speculation in some communities as to its efficacy and certain conspiracy theories

that have been doing the rounds and so on.

I understand you and Maggie have both been vaccinated recently, though.

Yes, we got a note on our phones from our GP saying you're on the schedule for,

it was last Saturday, actually, from the time I'm speaking now.

And so we were mightily glad and we went along and queued, not a very long queue, but it was very efficiently done. And we were asked various questions where we sure we wanted

to do this, etc. So we said, yes, please, let's do it. So we were vaccinated, told there might be

side effects. We both felt slightly woozy the next day, like mild flu symptoms, which is exactly

what they said

would probably happen. And then we've just been going on from there. Who knows whether this

vaccine is totally effective against all variants or partially effective against some variants.

But it seems to me it's a very good thing. We were praying for the last year for God to find ways through and forward, et cetera,

and something like this seems to me in principle a gift from God,

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