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COVID is not serious enough to warrant vaccine mandates
American Thinker ^ | 16 Oct, 2021 | Pandra Selivanov

Posted on 10/16/2021 4:35:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber

There are diseases with such high mortality rates that vaccines, even if risky, make sense. COVID is not among that list of diseases.

The saying that desperate times call for desperate measures was never more true than when applied to vaccination. Consider the first vaccine in 1796, when a young boy was inoculated against smallpox. It had been noticed that milkmaids almost never contracted smallpox. Milkmaids frequently caught cowpox, a mild illness related to smallpox. British physician Edward Jenner theorized that infecting someone with cowpox would confer immunity to smallpox.

The procedure was simple enough. A cut was made in the arm, and fluid from cowpox blisters was smeared in the cut. The person would contract cowpox and then be immune to smallpox. Jenner’s theory was correct, and he is now considered the father of vaccinology.

The procedure was simple, but to a modern eye, it also seems disgusting. Smearing liquid from cow blisters onto open wounds is not something most of us would care to do. Or would we? Smallpox was a very contagious disease that killed many of the people who contracted it. The survivors were immune to another attack, but they were also usually disfigured for life. Many people were very willing to take a desperate measure to prevent such a fate.

Louis Pasteur was not even a doctor when he developed a vaccine for rabies. In our modern world, rabies is a plot point in movies like Old Yeller. In Pasteur’s time, rabid animals were so terrifying that any pet dog was suspect and might be killed out of hand. Rabies is almost 100 percent fatal. It causes hallucinations and painful spasms, and a person infected with the disease could become violently aggressive.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; communism; covidstooges; mandate; obamacare; tyranny; vaccine; vaccinemandates
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To: MtnClimber

From the article: “There are diseases with such high mortality rates that vaccines, even if risky, make sense. COVID is not among that list of diseases.”

Typical one-dimensional thinking. Comparing death rates leaves out all the impacts of surviving COVID. Everyone gets so upset about myocarditis associated with the vaccines while ignoring this:

HEART inflammation triggered by some covid-19 vaccines has been a concern, especially in younger people, but a preliminary study suggests that in those most affected, it is six times more likely to occur after a coronavirus infection than after vaccination.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133462-800-myocarditis-is-more-common-after-covid-19-infection-than-vaccination/


21 posted on 10/16/2021 6:55:38 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Whether or not the bioweapon was perfected before it escaped a lab....it turned out to be a perfect bioweapon.

I am having to research autoimmune diseases. Science is clueless...they wont understand covid and long term effects for decades..

Btw...while i wait to see a rheumatologist... I started using cinchona bark as alternative to deal with whatever is going on as my body is trying to kill me. It is helping.

So...since covid mimicks some autoimmune diseases..people with long haul covid symptoms might want to try it...

Anti malaria use by the Incas


22 posted on 10/16/2021 7:03:01 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

I suspect the number of individuals advocating for a complete lack of any vaccination is minute if not non-existent. This whole “anti-vax” concept is silly. Additionally, the concept of calling the mRNA cocktails a vaccine is silly. As time has shown, these barely qualify as therapeutics while vaccines provide long term immunity from the disease targeted.

I feel you could select dozens if not hundreds of examples of vaccination campaigns that saved the day in the past. Targeting Washington’s use of vaccination to ensure the health of his soldiers is admirable but strikes me more as an exercise in rhetoric or appealing to pathos than providing anything substantive to the argument.

COVID is not serious enough to warrant vaccine mandates. The article title alone encapsulates the idea. I doubt you’d fine anyone who would seriously attempt to argue that Washington’s use of vaccination against smallpox is an example of vaccine efficacy, something that is sorely missing from the current state of affairs.


23 posted on 10/16/2021 7:03:31 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia

I am not for or against this vax. People have to choose what is right for them...but once you sign up for the military they have the right to vax you

History has many examples of problematic vaccines. I got the wrong measles shot back when they where clueless about it.

I have no trust for the FDA. They wanted to claim MRI contrast is harmless

It can and does cause harm.

Now there is a black box warning...maybe because of what happened to Chuck Norris wife.


24 posted on 10/16/2021 7:13:27 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: MtnClimber

I have never seen a study by the CDC explaining the risk benefit ratio of the “vaccine” in various age groups and comorbidity. They have the data but do not publish a study. WHY?


25 posted on 10/16/2021 7:15:52 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, consultant, pilot instructor, pharmacist , retired now)
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26 posted on 10/16/2021 7:18:47 AM PDT by deport
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To: MtnClimber

The Republican Party is full of duplicitous traitor. Why? Because they are beholden to big business and corporate interests, not the American people:

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/ohio-house-speaker-shuts-down-planned-hearing-vaccine-mandates


27 posted on 10/16/2021 7:45:55 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: MtnClimber

The Republican Party is full of duplicitous TRAITORS. Why? Because they are beholden to big business and corporate interests, not the American people:

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/ohio-house-speaker-shuts-down-planned-hearing-vaccine-mandates


28 posted on 10/16/2021 7:46:43 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: DugwayDuke

If it was so serious then Fauci and his minions would be sent to GITMO to be interrogated to find out why the development of this virus was funded, if it was released intentionally and what the purpose was.


29 posted on 10/16/2021 7:54:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: RummyChick

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30 posted on 10/16/2021 8:27:43 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber
"COVID" isn't serious enough to warrant ANY of the crap to which we have been subjected. It is no more serious or dangerous than the flu.

EVERYTHING about "COVID" is a LIE.

31 posted on 10/16/2021 8:40:54 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber
"Remember when Zer0 refused to impose travel restrictions from Ebola-stricken African countries?"

It was worse than that: he actually had people with ebola brought to hospitals in the US!

32 posted on 10/16/2021 8:42:07 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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33 posted on 10/16/2021 11:03:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AnglePark

You are asking the correct questions.

It is partly about money for sure—Big Pharma is bribing every “opinion leader” that moves.

But—here is a really interesting article that looks at this from a different angle—with facts to back it up:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/science-propaganda-still-being-developed-and-advanced


34 posted on 10/16/2021 11:11:03 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: deport

The Covid numbers are probably way overstated because almost everyone who “dies from Covid” had other severe health issues.

Folks who died from these other diseases were cut and dry—no stupid data games were possible.


35 posted on 10/16/2021 11:13:28 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

Interesting article. Thanks for the heads up!


36 posted on 10/16/2021 11:22:58 AM PDT by AnglePark
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To: AnglePark
maybe the vaccine isn’t a vaccine

Well you got that part right for sure. So if it doesn't prevent Covid, what does it do? Why has the whole world bought into it? Do you really think the government lacks the resources or knowledge that a few keyboard warriors have managed to figure out? Notice the Covid infection rate is highest among the fully vaccinated. I am sure money is a motive but it is only a side benefit they surely have other motives. For one they have divided the population against itself quite effectively.

I fear we haven't even begun to see the real motive but we soon will I am sure.

37 posted on 10/16/2021 12:41:55 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: RummyChick
cut the skin..vaccinated small pox

It was done that way for me, in fact you could prove you had been vaccinate by simply showing your scar.

38 posted on 10/16/2021 12:44:46 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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