I speak as someone who probably owes his good health, and perhaps his life, to mandatory vaccination over sixty years ago.
I say that it is mistaken and immoral to make Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for adults, and an abomination to do so for children. I say this when the world’s attention on the folly and harm of Covid-19 vaccine mandates has been drawn to a large, peaceful and cheerful protest of truck drivers in Canada – condemned, of course, by big media who accuse them of being Nazis, right-wingers, supporters of the US Confederacy, and that sort of thing.
I should be in favour of mandatory vaccination against a disease if the disease was severe and if the vaccines were safe and effective, protecting you from serious harm and preventing your spreading the disease. None of this is true for Covid-19.
The disease is mild, with a death rate of below 0.5%, scarcely more than that of a bad flu. Children are hardly affected at all. Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous, not very effective, and only last for about six months. (Will we be required to have mandatory boosters every six months until the end of time?) They do not stop you spreading the disease but reduce your chances of doing so. They reduce your chances of suffering harm from the virus – temporarily.
When I was a child in the 1950s, I was vaccinated against polio, smallpox and various other dread diseases. I think it was compulsory, and think it should have been. I believe those vaccines are still protecting me sixty years later, and I don’t remember hearing of any adverse effects from them. Vaccination, which began in its modern form in 1796, is probably the greatest triumph of medical science. But Covid-19 vaccines are tarnishing its good name.
Madder, and more sinister
The more you look at the whole Covid-19 story, the stranger and madder, and more sinister, it becomes. Towards about the end of 2019, a new respiratory virus was detected in China. It produced only a mild disease but caused massive panic all around the world. Why? There were a series of idiotic lockdowns around the world that caused poverty, illness and death – far more than the virus ever could have. (I believe most ‘excess deaths’ are caused by the lockdowns, not the virus). There was a rushed attempt to develop vaccines against it but no attempt to treat it with medicines. Why?
As far as I know, there has never been a successful vaccine for a viral respiratory disease. Why the huge effort to develop one now against a mild disease? Why no treatment? There is only one logical thread in this knot of confusion: any measure that threatened the profits of the giant pharmaceutical companies producing the vaccines must be fought – fought by politicians, public health officials and the media, who all willingly obliged.
The vaccines could only get approval for emergency use if no treatment was available. But plenty was available, including Ivermectin, a cheap, very safe drug that won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015, that has been used with complete success on over 300 million humans in about four billion doses for over 30 years, and that has been shown in a large number of scientific studies to be effective against Covid-19. Ivermectin was instantly denounced by politicians, public health officials and the media, all using exactly the same terms, as if they were reading from a script written by Big Pharma. Ivermectin was a ‘horse de-wormer’; it was dangerous; only lunatics, libertarians and right-wingers used it.
The same jokes against it were used by the media all around the world. Public officials chanted the same refrain: that one study in Egypt on it had been flawed and it had been found ineffective by the Cochrane Institute – which began as an ethical research institute but now seems little more than the mouthpiece of Big Pharma. In a previous article I gave the link to many studies showing Ivermectin’s effectiveness against Covid-19.
The vaccines were rolled out in huge numbers to various populations around the world. There was evidence from hospital data and elsewhere that they reduced Covid-19 infection and symptoms, including death. But when you look around the world at countries that have been heavily vaccinated and those lightly, you cannot see much difference between their Covid-19 cases. If anything, they seem lowest in the countries least vaccinated, such as in Central Africa.
Adverse effects
We are constantly told how safe the vaccines are, but data from the Vaccination Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) of the US Government showed they caused more deaths in a short time than all other vaccines had done in the previous 30 years; it is estimated that the real number of adverse effects is at least ten times higher than reported.
There seems to be a deliberate policy by public health officials to suppress the truth about the vaccination dangers, which include heart disease, blood clots, skin rashes and neurological damage.
All around me, from friends, acquaintances and medical people, I hear horror stories about these ill effects, which include death. I then switch on the radio and hear some spokesman for the Department of Health telling me how safe the vaccines are. In Israel, the most heavily vaccinated nation on Earth, there are suddenly emerging scary reports of harm from the vaccines, almost as if such reports had been suppressed until now. In the US thousands of nurses have resigned rather than taking a Covid-19 vaccination. Have they seen patients suffering following vaccination, and are not allowed to report it?
In the UK, the Office for National Statistics, looking at 2021, showed that vaccinated children between the ages of 10 and 14 were 44% more likely to die of all causes than unvaccinated children. Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for children will do them no good at all but will kill a considerable number of them.
One of the most odious aspects of the whole wretched Covid-19 phenomenon is the vilification of decent, informed people trying to tell the truth about the disease and the vaccine. They have been vindicated now. Professor Susan Vosloo was named Mampara of the Week by the Sunday Times for making a video of Covid-19 that now appears to be completely true and accurate. In the US, Dr Robert Malone, perhaps the world leading scientist on vaccination, is mocked, threatened, cursed and cancelled for giving clear, knowledgeable warnings about some possible dangers from the vaccines, dangers that have now been shown to be real. The Great Barrington Declaration, where over nine-hundred thousand medical scientists appealed for a more rational and scientific approach to Covid-19, was condemned, and now been proved completely sensible. In South Africa, Panda, a group of medical and statistical experts, warned about the stupidity and peril of the official policy on Covid-19 and vaccination; again they were mocked and cursed; again they were right.
Official hype
A personal confession. Being a gullible person, I was taken in by the official hype. I was right to suggest at the beginning that doing nothing would be better than lockdown. But I was wrong to believe the sales talk about the vaccines. On 4 November 2021, I took the single jab J&J vaccine. This was partly because at my age I thought the benefits would outweigh the dangers, but mainly because I was due to fly and thought I might not be able to without a vaccine certificate. (It turned out I didn’t need one for my flights but would have for some other flights). I had no after-effects. But I have no intention of having a booster.
Here is my ideology on the matter. I believe in science and I believe in capitalism. In a free market I see no reason why drug companies should not make big profits by producing life-saving drugs. There was no free market for Covid-19 vaccines. Big Pharma, which has huge amounts of money and great political power, persuaded governments to shut down competing treatments of Covid-19. It used money and influence to persuade public health officials to do its bidding. By intention or accident (probably the latter) it was easily able to persuade big media and big tech that vaccines were ‘progressive’ and ‘left-wing’ and that anybody who questioned them or suggested alternatives was a ‘right-winger’, a lunatic, an anti-vaxxer, a conspiracy theorist and probably a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Authoritarian political leaders around the world, notably in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, were only too pleased to enforce ferocious lockdowns and vaccine mandates on their long-suffering people.
The latest Covid-19 virus is Omicron, the most infectious and the least dangerous, which people tell me just gives you mild flu-like symptoms. It seems to be driving the other variants into extinction. It seems to be ending the pandemic. Let’s hope this whole horrible pantomime will soon end.
[Image: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vaccinate-coronavirus-corona-virus-4833616/’]
The views of the writer are not necessarily the views of the Daily Friend or the IRR
If you like what you have just read, support the Daily Friend