How to combat vaccine hesitancy? Stop censoring experts...

I don't consider myself vaccine hesitant, because I have had them all.  Looking at my immunization record book I see that I've had: Polio, MMR, dTap, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Meningitis, and while it's not listed I know I've also taken a shot for Tetanus.

The big one lacking of course is the Covid shot, or shots I guess.  

Why not?  There are a number of reasons actually.  

Firstly I've never been worried about this Covid bug, like a large segment of the population (many of whom have rolled up their sleeves regardless) I've never been concerned about contracting this virus.  I know the world is a dangerous place, there are influenzas, RSV, staph infections, streps, gastro intestinal bugs and on and on.  The world is full of pathogens, any one of which can be incredibly serious and sometimes fatal.  Younger healthy people die in this country all the time, it happened before Covid, and it will happen after Covid.  

Another reason is the speed at which they were developed.  While it's true that a number of roadblocks were removed, and vaccine developers went "all in" on the development of these shots, science hasn't solved the problem of speeding up the calendar.  Establishing a long term safety profile takes time, and none of the authorized shots has even completed its Phase 3 trial.  Moderna's is first up with an estimated study completion date in October of 2022, more than a year from today.

But probably the single biggest reason for my hesitancy is the censorship of basically anyone who dares to raise questions. I don't have a degree in any field of science or medicine, so I am not qualified to speak to this with any degree of expertise.  I have taken science courses at the University level, undergraduate studies, so I'm not completely scientifically illiterate, but I know I'm out of my depth. 

Someone like Dr. Robert Malone however is absolutely qualified.  Google is now the expert on everything that is true and false, of anything that qualifies as misinformation.  Fair enough, and according to Google Scholar Dr. Robert Malone is an inventor of both mRNA and DNA vaccines.  He has an impecable academic CV which includes highly respected schools like Northwestern and Harvard, and he worked at the prestigious Salk Institute.  

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jf1bApYAAAAJ&hl=en

But he is now censored and deplatformed due to his views on these vaccines.  His concerns over the potential for long term safety issues is banned with near Nazi type zeal.  One has to go to some alternative site like Rumble or Bitchute in order to hear him.  His video with Dr. Weinstein enumerating some of his concerns has been tossed down YouTube's memory hole.

Dr. Byram Bride, a viral immunologist with Guelph University is another.  He was considered esteemed enough that his lab at Guelph U was awarded $230,000 from Ontario's government to study four vaccines under development back in May of 2020.  Now he too is being censored, although having no real social media footprint to speak of deplatforming wasn't needed.  That didn't stop others from creating fake Twitter accounts that published dubious tweets in his name in an attempt to slander this respected academic.  

There's Dr. Michael Yeadon a former VP and a Chief Science Officer at Pfizer, Nobel Prize Winning Dr. Luc Montagnier, Dr. Francis Christian a highly esteemed surgeon from Saskatchewan, Dr. Hodkinson of Alberta a Cambridge educated recognized expert on pathology, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche who's held senior roles in vaccine development with GSK, Novartis, GAVI and even with the Gates Foundation. 

And there are dozens more, maybe even hundreds....all being censored and deplatformed.  

If public health officials really want to combat vaccine hesitancy, then have an open public forum and invite some of these individuals to speak.  Rather than engaging in intellectually weak ad hominem attacks, confront their opinions and the data and facts they're presenting....rather than just censoring them for being guilty of thought crime.  

Science isn't really a thing, it's more of a process of evolving evidence.  What is believed to be true today can later be found to be false.  Lots of drugs are approved after being deemed safe and effective, only later to be taken off the market when dangers are discovered, some after 2 or 3 years, sometimes 5 years, and sometimes decades.  The older set knows about Thalidomide of course, but for many that's ancient history, something that could never happen again.  

Here's 10 that are far more recent for those who want to read some more.  Many post the year 2000.  

10 dangerous drugs recalled by the FDA

Restoring Canadian Democracy - Are we winning or losing?

Are we winning or losing?

I just saw a post on Facebook from a friend in British Columbia, a simple proclomation of": "WE WON"!!! I was wondering if the Canadiens had managed a win against Tampa, or if it was a personal victory against a lockdown ticket.

From the comments I'm inferring that it's in reference to BC lifting the so called 'state of emergency' and ending things like masking mandates. Other parts of the country like where I am of course, we're still living with draconian and overreaching measures that violate both the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms.

Any victory that restores our God given freedom should of course be welcomed, but we've been fighting battles that never should have been needed. Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms lays it out plainly in the preamble, one single sentence which says:

Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law....

The word "supremacy" means just that....supremacy, that God is Supreme. It strikes me that for the past 15 months (longer actually, but the past 15+ months in particular) we've ignored this simple fact.

Our freedom to assemble, worship, operate a lawful business, travel ....these are rights that come not from government, but from God. These rights can be limited the Charter says, in the case of a justifiable emergency....and back in March 2020 we were told that such an emergency was unfolding.

After hearing in January and February of 2020 that Covid was nothing to worry about, suddenly in March the script changed. Now we were told that 200,000 Canadians would be dying as a direct result of this virus in the first year, on top of the ususal deaths that occur. Instead of 295,000 deaths we'd be approaching half a million just in the first 12 months.

That was if we did nothing. But even with lockdown measures it was still going to be 100,000 excess deaths, directly caused by Covid in the first year. Even with shuttering, businesses, schools and vital life saving support services for the marginalized and vulnerable, even with all that we were going to be lining up eight deep to get a critical care bed in our ICUs.

Two weeks to flatten the curve?

Some of us knew that was never in the cards. Viruses spread, it's what they do, germs are ubiquitous. Closing everything down would invite the Zombie Apocolypse. Hosptials had to stay open, retirment homes and LTCs couldn't just be closed, Fire, police, sanitation, water treatment, the electrical grid and internet connectivity....all the workers in these industries would be out and about, transit and gas to get them to and from work was also needed.

A lot of dim bulbs have said we should have just shut everything down, forced everyone to stay in their homes. It's the kind of low resolution thinking usually expressed by double digit IQ types who think the supply chain is as simple as a light switch that you just flick off and then back on.....real life is obviously more complicated.

Besides, the science was wrong....incredibly wrong. SARS-CoV-2 we found out is not the major health threat it was made out to be. Overwhelmingly the only people getting seriously ill and dying were those who were already in that state to begin with.....people who would be compromised by ANY virus or bacterial infection.

That's borne out by the numbers. Roughly 16 months in and less than 4% of Canadians have even tested positive for this thing. Over a year down the road of living with a virus that is reported to be spreading like wildfire, and more than 95% of Canadians haven't even tested positive for it. And that's using a PCR tests that gives off false positives "nearly half the time" as per Ontario's Associate Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Barbara Yaffe.

There never was an emergency, but don't tell that to the Covid Karens and Karls who have been traumatized by fear. They're convinced the only reason they're still alive and breathing, that it's because we locked down....they can't let go. These mensa drop outs look at people lining up at a hot dog stand outside without masks on and they start hyperventalating.

Canada, like most of the western world was founded on what can broadly be termed the Judeo Christian ethic. On the belief that there is a God, and ulimate good. But we've been chipping away at the foundation of our society for decades. Lately it strikes me that we've taken a jack hammer to the very foundation of our society.

It's now believed by many that this earth, the universe as a whole, that it's simply a random accident. Science has put forth the theory of the big bang, of energy and matter just blub blub blub....floating around in space, and then by some accdident that life magically came into being.

It's interesting to me that people use science to contradict science. Louis Pasteur conducted experiments which have so far proven that spontaneous generation (life out of nothing) is impossible. Nobody has been able to disprove the fact that only life begats life. As for evolution, that flies in the face of the laws of thermodynamics respecting entropy....that things decay, devolution is what science says happens, not evolution.

But crazy or not, it's what many believe....our educational system has been indoctinating our youth for over 50 years with this thinking, and it's accelerating.

What does it mean if there is no God? If there is not God then logic dictates that there is no ultimate truth, no ultimate right and wrong. Human systems of law become fluid, there is nothing fixed. We're sailing in ancient times without the North Star to guide the the ship that is our society.

This is our new reality. Everyone is encouraged to find "THEIR" personal truth, because there is no unifying central truth anymore. And it makes us easy to manipulate, because rather than having that North Star to guide us we start worshipping individuals.....and human beings are anything but divine.

Today's saints are tomrrow's demons. Women who were venerated for advocating for the rights of women are now burned at the stake if they dare believe that a man can't declare himself a woman and use the women's locker room at the local fitness centre. A 5 year old boy who sees his mother and father paying more attention to a developmentally challanged sister can declare that he's a girl and society has to affirm his choice.

And now, if Dr. Theresa Tam says something, she has to be believed and followed with the same reverence that scriptural wisdom used to command. Every time she's wrong, she hides behind data and says "the science has changed, it's evolved" and society has been conditioned, like a Pavlovian dog, to salivate at her feet and listen to whatever bell she's ringing.

Have "we won"? Nope, we're losing and we're going to keep losing so long as we put our faith in flawed and corrupted government officials, and that includes health officials. The Dr Hinshaws, Yaffes, Williams, Henrys and all the rest.

It includes our judicial branch as well. Asked to provide proof of the state of emergency justifying these life destroying measures, the health officials have constantly refused, and the men and women behind the benches have bowed low and let them get away with it.

There is victory to be had in the end of course, but not by putting faith in flawed men and women, forget Trudeau and O'Toole....and Trump and his crew as well. Victory comes only through God, something society used to broadly accept and at least acknowledge, but not any more.

We haven't won, we've been granted a reprieve. Like that older sibling who delights in dunking you, forcing your head under water....then after struggling lets you up to grab a few mouthfuls of air before plunging you under again.

Ultimate victory only comes when we put ourselves into relationship with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It's something I'm still working at, and it isn't easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is.