An op-ed came out from some doctors that was published in USA Today supporting compulsory vaccination for Covid and the gestapo like use of immunity papers.
I was beyond triggered the first time I saw this opinion piece. It’s a load of crap.
If your vaccine requires me to get a shot for you to be safe then you need to assess your technology, not infringe on my rights. Put differently, if your technology relies on infringing on the rights of other people (i.e., remove their body sovereignty) in order for it to work, then something is wrong with your technology and you need to reassess it to figure out how to fix the technology rather than imposing on other people who choose not to use your technology by demanding they use it while removing their right to choose.
A friend did some research and said he couldn’t see how it violates a human right to mandate a vaccine, to which I responded:
How can one call medical rape not an infringement on rights? If I don't consent to a medicine in my body, and you force it into me with a needle (or any other means for that matter), that is medical rape plain and simple.
Another friend suggested this is all part of the Bill Gates conspiracy theories and that it’s because of his influence and standing as an authority that this has happened. I truly wish people would stop equating pro body sovereignty — a concept one might simply call “pro choice” — with Bill Gates conspiracies. It has nothing to do with Bill Gates.
This is a body sovereignty issue that is separate and apart from any conspiracies around Gates wanting to microchip people vis-à-vis mandated vaccination and predates the popularization of the TED talk that called his motives into question for people, or at least it certainly seems that way from my experiences over the last 6 years.
Historically, here in California, it had nothing to do with Bill Gates or his perceived authority. It’s a result of SB 277 having passed which removed personal and religious exemptions for people to decline vaccines, mandated that teachers in schools have to be vaccinated, and also mandated that care givers at schools have to be immunized according to the state requirements as well. It was passed in June of 2015, before Gates was seen as he is seen now.
To be clear, this is probably the single most important political issue of our time to my mind. I got interested in it because when I was married I thought my husband and I might have a child and vaccinations for our children is obviously something that would be relevant.
It might be surprising, given my passion on the topic, to know when I first started exploring the topic I set out to prove the anti-vaccination people were bat-shit crazy. I got shots as a kid and I, like many people I’ve met, was convinced that vaccines were 100% good. Through my research I discovered these so called anti-vax people, most of whom simply believe in the right to choose, are not so bat-shit crazy after all and they have some very legitimate points.
Apart from the fact that the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccines are unavoidably unsafe, vaccine manufactures can’t be sued, and we the people have paid out billions for vaccine injury over the years (because remember, vaccine manufacturers can’t be held liable), my top three favorites are:
1: Tetanus is not communicable. Calling the mandate for a tetanus shot something that is “for the public good” is an absolute lie considering tetanus is not communicable. To then mandate it as a shot children need to get before they enter schools, citing “the public good”, is truly absurd. (Not to mention the so called greater good is a subjective and measurable, unprovable fantasy that is subjective and relative based on your criteria. Even Thanos thought his actions were for the so called greater good and those concerned about overpopulation might agree, as an example.)
2: Disease declined before vaccines were available. If you look at all of the evidence and data that exists prior to the general release of vaccines for public use, like the measles vaccine, you will notice that the mortality and morbidity rates for all of the diseases (including polio) for which vaccines were available when we were young kids had already dropped by 50% before the public immunization was wide spread. The reasons cited are because of the invention of refrigeration, improvement in nutritional health, and the vast improvements in sanitation and hygiene standards.
3: No evidence exists that a sufficient portion of the full US population is vaccinated with the measles vaccine to provide herd immunity. This is my favorite point of all and the one that actually has me be completely committed to pro body sovereignty on this topic. So far nobody can show me any evidence that we have achieved herd immunity through vaccination by having the requisite percentage of the population immunized for measles and yet people blame lack of immunization for the outbreaks. First of all, you can’t claim that the shot is what is conveying herd immunity when you can’t prove that the requisite percent of the population has it. According to these pro-vaccine theories, herd immunity is achieved when a specific percentage of the population is vaccinated. That number varies depending on the vaccine. For measles it is something between 90% and 95% (depending on the source) of the population. While there are lots of statistics available for the child population in the USA, there are no statistics currently available for the full US population that I am able to uncover and I have asked, at this point, literally countless people to provide that evidence and they can not or choose not to share if it they have it.
Interestingly enough, there used to be statistics on the CDC website back when I started researching (prior to SB277 being signed) this with those numbers (for the full population) which were conveniently pulled from the website. I have to say, at the time, I was certain the CDC really was out to help me and then this happened. I wish I had screen captured the data, but I did not, because I thought, stupidly, “It’s data on the CDC website; why would anyone remove that?” I fear (and have no evidence to substantiate this fear) the reason they were removed is because they showed that the vaccination level for the full population in the US was something lower than 50% of the population.
If you’re following along with what I’m writing here, what that means is that the numbers they pulled prove that the vaccine was not preventing us from getting sick because it conferred herd immunity since, according to their assertions, you need a much higher percentage of the population immunized than we had in order for the vaccine to convey such immunity.
I’m not much for conspiracy theories. And while I think the attempts of government are often misguided, before this happened, I used to believe the government really did want to help the people and intended to tell the truth.
I no longer hold such naive views most especially about the CDC. I have not been the same human since I experienced this.
Evolutionary Biology Trumps Human Invention
One final point on this topic. The overarching objection I have to compulsory vaccination is that the idea of mandating vaccines in all humans in order for them to interact with society essentially says that the human body is not fit to interact with the world when it comes out of the womb. Think about that for a second. Can you imagine the idea that you are born defective and that somehow through the use of something that is relatively new compared to the age of our species is necessary for you to live in the world? Does that make sense to you? If so, please, explain the sense it makes as you see it.
There is absolutely no part of that thinks it makes any sense. I do not believe that manmade vaccines are suddenly going to outpace evolutionary biology and the wisdom that got us to this point in the evolution of consciousness. It makes far more sense to me to believe that the viruses we fight off are intended to serve a purpose in our development since they’ve been around longer than our vaccines and we’ve been living in relationship with trillions of them for millennia.
Furthermore, I can’t possibly support the idea that a tiny little innocent blood covered baby human is somehow not fit for the world simply for being born. What kind of messed up psychology is that? And what sort of message are we sending to humans everywhere to believe that?
Something is radically wrong with that thinking to my mind and I object to people attempting to impress that morality on the rest of the world which is what mandated vaccination essentially dictates.
If you support mandatory vaccination, I assume you object to abortions because if you’re pro choice around abortion, you’re a hypocrite to not support choice around vaccination, especially when abortion, arguably and provably, kills another life and not taking a vaccine does not.