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

Facebook allows the spreading of false information on Covid-19 Vaccines...

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that social media is an ocean of ignorance, almost any theory or belief, you can find people claiming to have definitive proof.  Dr. Tam and Michelle Obama are men, Joe Biden is an alien, John F. Kennedy didn't die and is living somewhere in Antarctica....whatever.

In point of fact I don't care most of the time. Whether the earth is round or a dome covered disc, (or a flat rectangle) has zero impact on my life.  Same with the moon landing, whether we've been there or if the whole thing was staged, the impact on me and basically everyone I know is zero.  

"What"???  "The moon landing was faked"???  "That's it, cancel the cottage this summer, we're staying home now"!!!  

The Covid-19 vaccines though, that's another matter.  There is a lot of false information being spread around, both by those who are either opposed or skeptical, as well as with those who either have had it,  or can't wait to roll up their sleeves.

Sadly, in today's world most people are completely ignorant of what science actually is.  For many people they think it's a yes or no answer, something that is either right or wrong.  "What does the science say"?  This common question is most often posed by those who haven't the foggiest idea of how to even define science.  

Science is not a yes or no, it is not a simple right or wrong determination.  Science is a process, and it is evolving constantly.  That which is accepted as true today can later be seen as false with the emergence of new evidence, and then it can go back to true with newer and better evidence.  Science is rarely ever "settled". 

Let's talk about the Covid-19 Vaccines

My facebook account has been suspended for 24 hours.  It wasn't because I shared false information, it was because I called out someone's ignorance about these shots.  Pointing out someone ignorantly sharing false information is justification for a stay in Facebook Jail according to our technocratic masters.  

Here is the false information being shared that I responded to:  

No vaccine on Earth has ever had "Long term side-effects". They do their job, then the body disposes of them.  There is no such thing as a DNA vaccine. The mRNA vaccine does not teach the immune system how to build a virus. It simply introduces a pathogen that prompts an immune response.

That false information is still up, my response was deleted and I've been banned from posting for 24 hours because of this reply:  

No words for this level of ignorance....name for me one other vaccine that has sent spike building instructions for your cells, or instructions to build any component of any virus.

Saying that all vaccines are the same is like saying all pain medication is the same, so shut up and take your Oxycontin and don't worry about it....if you think it's incredibly addictive with the very real potential for overdoses, then you're a conspiracy theorist.

Is it true that no vaccine has ever had "Long term side-effects"?  No it is not, the rushed Swine Flu vaccine of 1975 was withdrawn for precisely that reason.  There are loads of scientific papers and articles on it, but for those who like things in an easier to digest format, here is 60 Minutes reporting on what happened, and their indictment of the profit driven Pharmaceutical Industry.  

And it is also absolutely 100% true that all the Covid-19 vaccines are the first ever agents authorized that send instructions into the human body telling our cells how to construct the component of a virus, in this case the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein.  

Informed consent requires that ALL information be shared, not just that which encourages a desired behaviour.  These vaccines have already showed clinically documented risks of blood clotting, severe allergic reactions, bell's palsy, and in the case of a recent study out of Israel, the potential to potentially increase the risk of getting Covid rather than reducing it.  

None of these shots has completed its clinical trial.  Moderna's will be the first to finish with an estimated study completion date of October 27, 2022.  Pfizer's is slated to be completed in January of 2023, AstraZeneca's in February of 2023.  

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427

The risks of adverse events and deaths is said to be very rare, but then for younger healthy people, having a serious case of Covid is also rare.  But with all that being said, if someone decides to roll up their sleeve after being made aware of ALL the facts, that should obviously be their right.  The old: "My body, My Choice" slogan certainly applies here, and equally so for those who wish to decline.