Posted on 09/01/2021 3:44:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Politicians love force.
The idea of leaving us alone to make our own decisions goes against their nature.
To be sure, civilized society sometimes needs government force: police to punish killers, soldiers to protect us from foreign invaders, environmental police to stop my smoke from flowing to your lungs ...
But the political class always goes too far.
Now some want medical police to force everyone to get vaccinated. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.
"It has!" you say. "I have to get vaccinated to keep my job, for my kids to attend school, to go to the movies, a restaurant, etc."
That's force, absolutely. But it's not mandatory. There's an out – we don't have to work for the government, eat indoors or go to a movie theater. We can home-school our kids. We still have choice.
So far, politicians haven't sent police into homes to force everyone to get vaccinated.
They did do that once.
In Philadelphia 30 years ago, a measles outbreak sickened 1,400 people, mostly children, and killed nine. The outbreak spread because leaders of two fundamentalist churches told congregants to refuse the vaccine; God would do the healing.
Philadelphia's health department got a court order that compelled parents to allow their kids to be vaccinated.
Remarkably, "They complied with the law," says vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit in my new video. "They were law-abiding." The Philadelphia parents didn't fight the order. That ended the epidemic.
Politicians love force.
The idea of leaving us alone to make our own decisions goes against their nature.
To be sure, civilized society sometimes needs government force: police to punish killers, soldiers to protect us from foreign invaders, environmental police to stop my smoke from flowing to your lungs ...
But the political class always goes too far.
Now some want medical police to force everyone to get vaccinated. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.
"It has!" you say. "I have to get vaccinated to keep my job, for my kids to attend school, to go to the movies, a restaurant, etc."
That's force, absolutely. But it's not mandatory. There's an out – we don't have to work for the government, eat indoors or go to a movie theater. We can home-school our kids. We still have choice.
So far, politicians haven't sent police into homes to force everyone to get vaccinated.
They did do that once.
In Philadelphia 30 years ago, a measles outbreak sickened 1,400 people, mostly children, and killed nine. The outbreak spread because leaders of two fundamentalist churches told congregants to refuse the vaccine; God would do the healing.
Philadelphia's health department got a court order that compelled parents to allow their kids to be vaccinated.
Remarkably, "They complied with the law," says vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit in my new video. "They were law-abiding." The Philadelphia parents didn't fight the order. That ended the epidemic.
But I doubt that vaccine-resistant Americans would be similarly compliant today. Now there's an anti-vaccine movement. I'm surprised by the outpouring of hatred for Offit on my YouTube and Facebook channels that follows my video.
Some of it is nonsense from ignorant anti-vaxxers. But I respect commenters expressing versions of the chant, "My body, my choice!"
That slogan makes a good point.
We are not really free if we don't own our own bodies. (It's another reason to oppose the Drug War.) Individuals should get to decide what's put in our own bodies.
But a deadly pandemic is a special case.
COVID-19 continues to kill, partly because some people refuse the vaccine. "This virus has a great many friends," complains Offit. "Science denialists, conspiracy theorists, political pundits. It's hard to watch."
"People have reason to be suspicious!" I say. "The government has experimented on people and lied to people."
(Officials once promised Black syphilis patients treatment but gave them empty pills. The CIA sneaked LSD into people's drinks. More recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Americans don't need to wear masks, and then he said we should wear masks.)
"I'm not saying that the government hasn't done things that make one trust them less," Offit responds. "Or that the CDC hasn't made statements that were incorrect, (but) such is the nature of science. You do learn as you go."
What we have learned now is that the vaccine does dramatically reduce hospitalization and death, and we'd all be better off if more people took it.
Vaccine skeptics point to media reports of "breakthrough" cases, vaccinated people who get COVID-19 anyway. Offit's reply? "I'm on CNN and MSNBC a lot ... I think they want to scare people."
They do. It raises ratings, and it makes reporters feel important.
But Offit points out that even after delta, "99.5% of people killed by this virus are unvaccinated! Ninety-seven percent of those hospitalized are unvaccinated! No vaccine works 100%."
Today's COVID-19 vaccines have now been tested on millions of people. It's clear that they are very safe and that they save lives.
It's why Offit would mandate vaccinations.
That's where we disagree.
I consider vaccine refusers foolish and selfish. I got vaccinated, and I wish you would.
But government should never force a treatment on people. That's tyranny.
That said, I shouldn't say "never."
If you are proven a direct threat to others -- if your behavior kills -- then the safety police do have a right to step in to stop you from hurting others.
Short of that, politicians should never force us to put anything into our own bodies.
Funny how women who want abortions have the right, my choice my body
It’s painful reading John Stossel once. But twice in the same post?
When i read an article like this my only thought is that Stossel loves his job more than his virtuous principles. He mashes them so much....but he will not lose his job
You went on CNN,msnbc,that’s all I need to know.
Where did measles come from natural or man made?
Where did Corona virus come from?
Natural or man made?
If you can’t get an honest answer about that I am not listening to the perpetrators and the exact same perpetrators who are getting good rich on the only supposed cure they are promoting at the same time denigrating therapeutics that are less expensive and the perpetrators make nothing on. So spare me your phony sanctimony.
The people demanding you get a vaccine that was promoted as the cure are the ones who created this monster,they need to be prosecuted,anybody that allows their children to have this crap put into their bodies are nuts
“But Offit points out that even after delta, “99.5% of people killed by this virus are unvaccinated! “
A provable lie
In the case of the microclot side effect, I've not seen where any study is trying to verify or disprove.
Stossel: “I consider vaccine refusers foolish and selfish.”
Just like that, covidianism turned Stossel into a cruel, cranky, group-thinker old man.
I am waiting on Novavax
I’d consider Novavax as well. Will wait to see how it performs however.
united states post office employees are exempt from vaccine requirements...
just imagine how much mail they handle, how many mailboxes they touch, and how many people they deal with 6 days a week...
we’re being played...
Try telling a true believer.
1 Sept: Reuters: Japan finds another Moderna vial suspected to contain foreign substance
Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim and Rocky Swift; Additional reporting by Corina Rodriguez in Madrid; Editing by Miyoung Kim, Michael Perry and Kim Coghill
Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a week, threatening to slow the country’s sputtering inoculation campaign.
Kanagawa prefecture said on Tuesday several black particles in one Moderna vaccine vial were found upon checking for foreign substances before its use, and it has put the rest of the lot on hold...
Kanagawa prefecture said the vaccine’s domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (4502.T), had collected the vial with the suspected contaminant and that about 3,790 people had already received shots from the same lot...
The company posted a notice on its website on Wednesday saying that on rare occasions during manufacturing, rubber stopper material can get mixed into the vaccine solution.
Japan’s health ministry, citing an investigation by Takeda, said on Wednesday that the vial sent to Kanagawa was from a different lot than the other lots, and rubber stopper material appears to have gone into it during the manufacturing process...
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-finds-another-moderna-vial-suspected-contain-foreign-substance-2021-09-01/
and to top it off...
our citizens are being used as experimental lab rats while biden freely spreads hundreds of thousands of invaders and now afghanis across our country during a so called “global pandemic”...
and not one warning from the cdc or the world health organization about the dangers of biden spreading the kung flu...
That explanation is plausible.
But I don’t believe it.
Can’t tell you why, but I don’t.
Democrats are not mentally sound.
sorry about that. It got stuck. I did not do it on purpose
EU says Moderna COVID vaccine production can continue after contamination incident
Snort.
If the vaccine is so effective, then vaccinated people would not get Covid.
Period.
It is not effective.
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