COVID-19 and our culture of vaccines

Reprinted with permission from Rodef Shalom 613

Taking a closer look at the stories we are told

In order to understand whether or not a vaccine can eliminate Covid-19, or at least decrease morbidity and mortality, it is important to understand how traditional vaccines have actually performed as opposed to our beliefs about them. Beliefs are often formed by cultural or societal narrative and not research. They may be on shaky ground. This is particularly true for vaccines which "are responsible for the decline of mortality from infectious diseases that we saw during the 1900s" ... or so the story goes. This longstanding belief has been responsible for the widespread acceptance of a multitude of new vaccines for children including government vaccine mandates.

What if, however, this truism - that vaccines are responsible for saving countless lives - isn't true after all? What if the entire vaccine industry is built not on fact, but on the public's "belief" in vaccines, a belief sustained and maintained by industries (medical, pharmaceutical, non-profit, and media) and governments? That would be quite shocking, all the more so since we have been told that only a vaccine can save us from Covid-19.

Yet, the facts show that vaccines and medicine had very little, if anything, to do with the reduction of deaths from many infectious diseases, and the elimination of some of them, during the last century. Here are some facts about just a few diseases and vaccines; the facts are similar for the other diseases and vaccines, as well.

How do we know it wasn't the vaccines?

Measles

The graph at the right^[1] shows that while cases (children who were sick with measles) remained fairly steady, the death rate dropped precipitously from the beginning of the century. In fact, in the five years before the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, the annual death rate from measles in the US was 432.^[2] Measles had become known as a

“... self-limiting infection of short duration, moderate severity, and low fatality [that] has maintained a remarkably stable biological balance over the centuries.”^[3]

A vaccine was only created

"Because it [measles] is there." To this may be added, ". . .and it can be done."^[4]

Polio

Public perception is more important than truth and public perception can be manipulated.

“For public interest and parental concern, in spite of relatively low incidence, nothing has equaled poliomyelitis."^[5]

This is because polio was a largely hyped illness; most people who were infected hardly knew they had it. (Notice the graph below - polio deaths are almost a totally flat line on the bottom, with a small rise from 1915-1918 and another from 1948-1957.)

“... The poliovirus produces no, or only minor, symptoms in 95% of those infected. However, in about 5% of cases, flu-like symptoms of fever, neck stiffness, nausea, and fatigue, or a slight, temporary paralysis occur. About 1% of those with polio symptoms experience a severe form called paralytic polio that has lasting effects. In the worst cases of paralytic polio, 2% to 5% of children and 10% to 20% of adults die.”^[6]

The photo, with which many of us are familiar (and informs our perception of the disease), of rows of children on a hospital floor encased in "iron lungs" was created by an advertising agency for a March of Dimes campaign. The March of Dimes was responsible for presenting polio as a more fearsome illness than it actually was; the organization brought in millions of dollars with such advertising campaigns, appeals, and events.^[7] In fact, "... relatively few polio patients spent time in the large tanks and outside of photographs and newsreels few Americans actually saw someone in an iron lung."^[8],[9]

Changing diagnostic criteria

"The practice among doctors before 1954 was to diagnose all patients who experienced even short-term paralysis (24 hours) with “polio.” In 1955, the year the Salk vaccine was released, the diagnostic criteria became much more stringent ... Dr. Greenberg said:

“The change in 1955 meant that we were reporting a new disease, namely, paralytic poliomyelitis with a longer-lasting paralysis. Furthermore diagnostic procedures have continued to be refined. Coxsackie virus and aseptic meningitis have been distinguished from paralytic poliomyelitis. Prior to 1954 large numbers of these cases were mislabeled as paralytic poliomyelitis. Thus, simply by changes in diagnostic criteria, the number of paralytic cases was predetermined to decrease in 1955-1957, whether or not any vaccine was used.”^[10]

DDT and arsenic poisoning

Another contributor to polio-like illness was the use of DDT, a ubiquitous pesticide and arsenic, which was used medicinally. During the polio epidemic of the mid-late 1950s, DDT was sprayed all over everything, including children, and was even considered healthy. Many likely had DDT poisoning and not polio, the use of which was phased out at about the same time the polio vaccine was introduced. Likewise, arsenic was considered healthy and even good for children.^[11]’^[12]

Smallpox

"Daily experience now unhappily shows an altered state of things: small pox, in spite of vaccination, is rapidly on the increase… There were more admissions to the London Small-Pox Hospital in 1844 than in the celebrated small-pox epidemic of 1781 before vaccination was introduced. I shall also select the Registrar’s returns of one of the country districts (Bradford) to show how little protection vaccination afforded in the last quarter of that year, 1844: 118 [181?] deaths from small-pox were recorded, 60, or nearly one-third, of which had been vaccinated.

"Newspapers constantly reported deaths from smallpox in properly vaccinated citizens, as well as deaths from other conditions after vaccination.

“... As vaccination rates declined in England, so did the deaths from smallpox."^[13]

“In 1911 Dr. J. W. Hodge published a paper on how smallpox was controlled in Leicester [via isolation/quarantine of infected people]. By this time, the rebel experiment had been successful for decades. The experience of unvaccinated Leicester is an eye-opener to the people and an eye-sore to the pro-vaccinists the world over. Here is a great manufacturing town having a population of nearly a quarter of a million, which has demonstrated by a crucial test of an experience extending over a period of more than a quarter of a century, that an unvaccinated population has been far less susceptible to small-pox and far less afflicted by that disease since it abandoned vaccination than it was at a time when ninety-five per cent of its births were vaccinated and its adult population well re-vaccinated.”^[14]

Could the vaccine have saved anyone?

"The standardization and purity of smallpox vaccines was lackluster even after the eradication of smallpox from the United States. Dr. Beddow Bayly’s 1952 statements should leave everyone wondering how such a vaccine could have possibly been responsible for eradication of any disease: “When we recall that vaccine lymph is derived, in the first place, either from a smallpox corpse, the ulcerated udder of a cow, or the running sores of a sick horse’s heels, the choice depending upon the country of its origin and the firm which manufactures it, it is hardly to be wondered at that it has far-reaching ill effects on the human constitution. Years ago, the Lancet declared that “no practitioner knows whether the lymph he employs is derived from smallpox, rabbit-pox, ass-pox, or mule-pox.”{117} Our own Ministry of Health has long confessed to complete ignorance of the ultimate source of its own supply of lymph; but last year Dr. A. Downie stated in the British Medical Journal that “the strain of vaccinia virus used for the routine preparation of lymph in this country [England] is believed to have been derived from a case of small-pox in Cologne during the last century.” That, of course, disposes of the whole theory of cow-pox vaccination.”^[15]

Natural remedies ignored

A number of herbal remedies had been proven as cures against smallpox and other diseases, yet they were ignored in favor of vaccines, Among them were apple cider vinegar, onions, garlic, echinacea, and cinnamon.

“Apple cider vinegar might seem silly, but only because most people have been conditioned to accept the age-old prophylaxis for smallpox: raw, disease-laden, contaminated pus scrapings from an infected animal’s (usually a cow) belly, diluted in glycerin, and scratched into the human arm with a metal prong until the arm was raw and bleeding. What seems sillier now?”^[16]

Preserving Faith in Vaccines

Even though it had been repeatedly shown that the smallpox vaccine did not prevent subsequent smallpox infection and deaths, the need to preserve faith in the smallpox vaccine was so great that the narrative turned from preventing infection to resulting in milder diseases.

The dogma that faith in vaccines and the vaccine program must be preserved at all costs, has been a recurrent theme in vaccine literature. It is the reason why doctors have lied about deaths from vaccines.

“Mr. Henry May, writing to the Birmingham Medical Review, January, 1874, on “Certificates of Death,” says “As instances of cases which may tell against the medical man himself, I will mention erysipelas from vaccination and puerperal fever. A death from the first cause occurred not long ago in my practice, and although I had not vaccinated the child, yet in my desire to preserve vaccination from reproach I omitted all mention of it from my certificate of death.”^[17]

It is also why countries will still vaccinate an entire population for smallpox.

"Even though they knew that vaccination was ineffective, the Yugoslavian Federal Epidemiologic Commission went ahead and vaccinated 18 million citizens. Vaccination had to continue through the end of April because so many of the vaccinations were considered unsuccessful and had to be repeated. An obvious question is, just how many smallpox vaccines in the previous 200 years didn’t “take” either? Yet no one knew… In the meantime, the Leicester Method was also carried out, and all cases were quickly quarantined.

“Vaccination, although known to be ineffective, had to be implemented if the history of vaccine success was to be upheld. But what really stopped the epidemic was use of the Leicester Method.”^[18]

It is why problems with paralyzing live virus vaccines were concealed and the vaccines continued to be marketed:

"You may be wondering how this information was concealed from the public for nearly fifty years. Congressman Percy Priest ordered and chaired a full investigation of the vaccine controversy. He admitted in 1956 that:

“…in the previous year (1955) many responsible persons had felt that the public should be spared the ordeal of “knowledge about controversy.” If word ever got out that the Public Health Service had actually done something damaging to the health of the American people, the consequences would be terrible.… We felt that no lasting good could come to science or the public if the Public Health Services were discredited.”^[19]

It is why in the 1984 Federal Register vaccine policy was cited as a reason for ignoring possible harm from the polio vaccine (see image below) and is what led the World Health Organization to declare, in 2019, that vaccine hesitancy is a top global threat to world health and threatens to reverse progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases."^[20]

If it wasn't vaccines, what did cause the decrease in mortality from infectious and communicable diseases?

Economic and social changes reduced deaths

“... the decline of mortality in the second half of the nineteenth century was due wholly to a reduction of deaths from infectious diseases; there was no evidence of a decline in other causes of death. Examination of the diseases which contributed to the decline suggested that the main influences were: (a) rising standards of living, of which the most significant feature was a better diet; (b)improvements in hygiene; and (c) a favorable trend in the relationship between some m1cro-orgamsms and the human host. Therapies made no contributions, and the effect of immunization was restricted to smallpox which accounted for only about one-twentieth of the reduction of the death rate.”^[21]

And

"...  improved nutrition and public health measures, particularly important for the young, were vastly more important in this period than medical interventions."^[22]

Diseases that disappeared without vaccines

"Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics". Child Health Safety, 2009, https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/#Meas_ScarlFev_etc. [/caption]

Missing from the conversation are the diseases for which there never were vaccines - they, too, had the same reduced mortality and have disappeared. Yet no one questions the ideology surrounding vaccines and the "fact" that they rescued society despite this startling contradiction.

Dr. Jayne Donogan explains how this came about.

"... Along with all my medical and nursing colleagues, I was taught that vaccines were the reason children and adults stopped dying from diseases for which there are vaccines.

"We were told that other diseases, such as scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, typhus, typhoid, cholera, and so on, for which there are no vaccines at the time, diminished both in incidence and mortality (ability to kill) due to better social conditions.

"You would think—as medical students who are supposed to be moderately intelligent—that some of us would have asked, “But if deaths from these diseases decreased due to improved social conditions, mightn’t the ones for which there are vaccines also have decreased at the same time, for the same reason?” But we didn’t.

"The medical curriculum is so overloaded with information that you just have to learn what you hear, as you hear it: nonvaccinatable diseases into the social conditions box and vaccinatable diseases into the vaccines box and then on to the next subject.

“Everything I was taught and read in textbooks, both before I qualified as a doctor and through all my post-graduate training, reinforced this view.”^[23]

Not only is this further evidence that social conditions and nutrition were what brought down mortality, this is also glaring proof that vaccines haven't saved us. Medical students, now doctors, were/are too overloaded to notice this startling contradiction and, since these diseases are out of the awareness of most of the population today, few think to question the necessity for vaccines on this basis.

Covid-19

Following the same pattern, health authorities and government agencies have been able to form public opinion about Covid-19 and the Covid-19 vaccine.

Mortality

Less than a year after the WHO's pronouncement about vaccine hesitancy, Covid-19 appeared on the scene. It was quickly given pandemic status, the media included links for information on Covid-19 on just about every website, and it became the sole pressing issue about which the public needed to be constantly informed and updated.

Statistical estimates of the huge number of deaths to be expected, as predicted by Neil Fergusson of Imperial College London in March 2020, led nations to lockdown most citizens of the world and engage in widespread PCR testing, further confirming the disease, particularly in people who had no symptoms.

However, similarly to the way mortality rates had precipitously declined in the early 20th century before the development of the vaccines (and removing actual justification for a vaccine), survival rates for Covid-19 patients did not justify a vaccine either. According to the CDC, survival rates by age range in the US, as of Sept. 30 were 99.997% for ages 0-19, 99.98% for ages 20-49, 99.5% for ages 50-69, and 94.6% for individuals 70+.^[24]

The death rates and death growth rates in the US and Israel for 2020 have also been inline with those of previous years; there is no evidence of excessive deaths as was expected.^[25]

US data (see graph below) shows that the percentage of individuals who died from Covid-19 is small compared to all causes of death.

Vaccines - the only way out?

While doctors and scientists were still claiming that they didn't understand the novel coronavirus, Bill Gates told the world that only a vaccine will end the Covid-19 crisis and that multiple companies were at work on one.^[26]

Similar to the way proven natural remedies for other communicable diseases were ignored or "forgotten", FDA approved drugs which had been in use for many years, and shown to be successful in preventing and/or mitigating Covid 19, such as hydroxychloroquine^[27] and Ivermectin,^[28] were delegitimized and not approved for use in Covid-19 patients.

Just as nutrition was shown to have had a significant role in decreasing mortality in the early 20th century, many doctors and scientists realized that serious illness in Covid-19 patients was due to nutritional deficiency, primarily Vitamin D. A research paper published in July 2020,^[29] points to a deficiency in glutathione as the most likely cause of serious illness and death in Covid-19 patients and recommends further study. Interestingly, glutathione has been shown to be involved in the synthesis of Vitamin D; low glutathione levels mean low Vitamin D levels.

“The hypothesis that glutathione deficiency is the most plausible explanation for serious manifestation and death in COVID-19 patients was proposed on the basis of an exhaustive literature analysis and observations.”

Additionally, cortisol levels were found to be much higher in patients with Covid-19 than in those without Covid-19 and IV Vitamin C therapy has been successfully used to help patients in some hospitals.

Despite all these findings, no health agency has recommended that hospitals use Vitamin C therapy as regular protocol (although some hospitals do), or that people increase their nutrition, supplement with Vitamins C and D, glutathione, and reduce their cortisol levels through diet, supplements, and lifestyle changes. And, they certainly didn't approve for use in Covid-19 any of the time tested drugs that had been shown effective for Covid-19, either.

This needlessly increased the Covid death rate and led people to believe a vaccine is the only way out. FDA emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vaccines was given based on the "fact" that there is no "FDA approved" remedy for Covid-19.^[30]

Some vaccine "strategies" used to propel vaccine uptake

• Claim the vaccine makes the disease milder, even though it doesn't stop infection.
  • When the smallpox vaccine was found not to have lifelong immunity as claimed, the narrative turned towards the vaccine being a temporary way of making the disease milder.^[31]
  • The Covid-19 vaccine doesn't prevent infection or transmission so it is promoted as making symptoms milder.^[32]
• Deaths and vaccine failures are ignored.
  • The medical community continued to embrace Jenner’s vaccine despite many accounts that refuted its benefits, all describing numerous cases that had natural cowpox or were vaccinated and still died of smallpox.^[33]
  • Covid-19 vaccine failures have been rebranded as disease breakthroughs^[34] and the large number of deaths said not to be related to the vaccine.^[35]
• "People are led to believe that because the world is a dangerous place, only governments and large institutions can provide protection because they are bigger and more knowledgeable than small communities. Rules and restrictions are put in place. Those who believe this lose trust in their own capability and thus surrender thinking and decision making to others."

Who benefits?

This all begs the question: why have we been led to believe that diseases have been/are eliminated by vaccination, and, in the case of Covid-19,  subjected to extreme and draconian mitigation measures such as masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and more, in anticipation of a hurriedly developed experimental vaccine?

“... there always seems to be some person or group (witch doctors, priests, medicine men) able to persuade others, sometimes on the basis of acceptable evidence for most people at that time, that they have the explanation for the phenomenon in question and may even claim responsibility for it. They also seem to benefit most from common acceptance of the explanations they offer. It is not uncommon today for biotechnological knowledge and specific medical interventions to be invoked as the major reason for most of the modern (twentieth century) decline in mortality. Responsibility for this decline is often claimed by, or ascribed to, the present-day major beneficiaries of this prevailing explanation.”^[36]

Vaccine manufacturers

While the vaccine dogma may have arisen in the early years of vaccinology to give more power and control to the medical profession, after the 1986 law was enacted, removing liability from vaccine manufacturers, the number of vaccines given to children quickly increased and turned vaccines into an extraordinary profit center for drug companies.^[37]

Before any vaccine for Covid-19 had been approved, Moderna's investors and CEO had sold off their shares, reaping huge profits.^[38]

All profit, no losses - Vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability for injury and death from the vaccines, as are doctors, nurses, and anyone else who administers them.^[39]

Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci/US Government

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft turned philanthropist, is known as the world's greatest proponent and funder of vaccines, including manufacture and distribution. Despite not having any related experience in epidemiology, virology, biology, vaccinology, economics, or any other related field, nor a college degree, he has somehow become the world's "vaccine guru".

Gates is, in fact, the largest funder of the World Health Organization;  non-member state donors can earmark their contributions, so the WHO concentrates on vaccination campaigns, rather than on fulfilling its mission's goals.^[40]

In 2015, Bill Gates said that the most deadly thing in our future would be a virus.^[41]

In January, 2017, Anthony Fauci, long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), warned members of the incoming Trump administration that there was going to be a "surprise outbreak" of a new disease.^[42]

On October 18, 2019, Event 201 was held. This was a 3.5 hour tabletop event which simulated a coronavirus pandemic, and the coordinated world response to it.^[43] Organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the similarities between the Event and the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic which occurred just a couple of months later, and the world response to it, are extraordinary. Attendees included "representatives from the World Bank, the World Economic Forum (Great Reset), Bloomberg/Johns Hopkins University Populations Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, various media powerhouses, the Chinese government, a former Central Intelligence Agency/National Security Agency director (there is no such thing as a former CIA officer), vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson, the finance and biosecurity industries and Edelman, the world’s leading corporate PR firm."^[44]’^[45]

How did they know??

Neil Fergusson has a long history of disastrously wrong predictions, yet his prognostications regarding Covid fatalities were accepted unquestioningly, as was the wildly wrong model provided by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The Imperial College of London, where Ferguson works, and the IHME are both funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.^[46]

Bill Gates recommended the following was needed for life to return to normal again:^[47]

"The number one on his list is “testing.” Gates said that countries must improve and develop various strategies to advance current testing methods including at-home test kits.

"The billionaire also said that “contact tracing” is key.

"He said Germany’s model of interviewing everyone who tests positive and using a database to make sure someone follows up with all their contacts would be useful. Gates suggested that technology may be more adept at this, such as apps that help you remember where you’ve been or using cell phones.

"He mentioned “effective treatment” but noted that right now, there is no ready vaccine for the treatment for Covid-19, as other drugs like hydroxychloroquine have received a lot of attention but are still being studied.

“Gates finally talked about getting a “vaccine” which many countries and companies around the world are working at break-neck speed to develop.”

Regarding testing:

A Chinese firm found to be mining DNA data collected through Covid testing has been funded by the Gates Foundation.

"The company has recently come under fire following a 60 Minutes exposé on the company’s use of COVID-19 tests to “collect, store and exploit biometric information” on American citizens, according to former U.S. intelligence officials. What’s more, a recent Reuters article linked the firm to the Chinese Communist Party’s military.

"In addition to the Obama administration enabling the firm to gain a foothold in the U.S., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation played a critical role in BGI’s American expansion.^[48]

Regarding contact tracing:

• ‘Contact Tracing’ Group Funded By Soros and Gates, With Chelsea Clinton on Board, Wins Gov’t Contract^[49]
• Murphy Teams Up With Gates Foundation Funded Company to Track Citizens^[50]

Regarding vaccines:

• Bill Gates has investments in Pfizer, BioNTech (Pfizer and BioNTech partnered for the Pfizer vaccine which received emergency use authorization), CureVac, and Vir Biotechnology.^[51]
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a strategic collaborator with Moderna in it's work on mRNA therapeutics and vaccines.^[52]
• Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, funded the Moderna phase 1 trial and NIAID scientists had been instrumental in developing the vaccine.^[53]

“We do have some particular stake in the intellectual property” for the Moderna vaccine stated Francis Collins, the director of NIH, in a revelatory recent Economic Club panel discussion. “One of the vaccines– the one that’s furthest along– what started, actually, at the federal government in our own Vaccine Research Center at NIH– then worked with a biotechnology company called Moderna to get to where we are now, with very impressive Phase I results and getting ready to go into a large-scale trial as early as July. That one, of course, we do have some particular stake in the intellectual property."

Covid-19 vaccines - why are we still using them?

In the US:

According to VAERS, the US Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, 3,837 people have died from the vaccines. According to the Harvard Pilgrim study, only about 1% of all adverse events from vaccines are ever reported to VAERS; it is likely that Covid-19 vaccine related injuries and deaths are far greater than what has been reported to the system, as shown in the image below.

In Israel:

• Death rates skyrocket in Israel following Pfizer experimental COVID “vaccines”^[54]
• Experimental vaccine death rate for Israel’s elderly 40 times higher than COVID-19 deaths: researchers^[55]
• Israeli People Committee’s Report Find Catastrophic Side Effects Of Pfizer Vaccine To Every System In Human Body^[56]

In 1976, a feared swine flu epidemic led to a hastily developed vaccine which all Americans were urged to get. 3 senior citizens died of heart attacks shortly after being vaccinated by the same clinic, and dozens of others were diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological disorder causing muscle weakness, tingling in the extremities and paralysis. After 45 million Americans were vaccinated and no pandemic appeared, the government decided that the risk was no longer acceptable and stopped the vaccination campaign.^[57]

In conclusion

The time has come to begin questioning the narratives we have been and are being told. It's time to start reframing the conversation - for our benefit, not for those who benefit.

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