Is It Time To Question The 'Safe And Effective' Mantra?

I think it is.

I know this is heresy but it's time to revisit this claim.

I'm not so sure anything in nature and life is ever set in stone. It would be foolish to not heed this fact of Mother Nature. It strikes me as the height of hubris for the medical world to not maintain a healthy dialogue with those who question the 'safe and effective' claim.

How did I end up on this topic? Prior to Covid, I went along with the vaccine narrative. Greatest thing since sliced bread. I was indifferent but I did think there was more good than bad with vaccines. The probabilities were vastly in its favour. 

I just accepted until I started to meet 'anti-vaxxers' and listening to the other side of the argument. Like anything I do, I invest a lot of time and money researching a subject. I felt the anti-vaxxers had valid points. It didn't change my mind, but I certainly wasn't hostile to their arguments and always kept it tucked away in the back of mind. For me, it was a simple choice. Want to vaccinate? By all means. Don't want to? By all means too. We're a free and pluralist society and this includes the right to medical autonomy.

Full stop.

Then Covid hit.

A moral panic ensued.

Suddenly, it became permissible to toss out decades of medical ethics and standards out the window. Experts from physicians, infections disease specialists, ethicists, politicians and a host of other authority figures decided it was ok to trample civil rights, disrupt the civiil oder, cause confusion and promote fear because of a health threat.

Not very wise. We failed to maintain calm and reason convinced this was the plague. Within a couple of months we knew it wasn't a plague but pretended it was and we've been living in an Orwellian charade for 20 months now. One in which citizens have been stripped of their agency and forced to submit to the collective.

It's no longer about public health but about compliance.

This is what happens when we ignore the science.

Now it's all political and it's ugly. We've permitted a man-made virus with a hight survival rate (a fact long before the vaccines came along so be wary of any claims of vaccine triumphs) to set this country onto very  troubled waters that threaten the very idea of what it means to be free.

We have not snapped out of our fears.

The push for the vaccines has become so unbearable and irrational, it triggered my natural 'cui bono?' instincts. Why are they pushing so hard?

Why do we find ourselves in a situation where we're completely obliterating the right to choose while denying people certain rights including the inalienable right to earn a living!

It's the latest stage in the hysteria but there's no excuse for it. Several countries and states are doing right by their citizens and refraining from psychologically traumatizing them and trampling on their civil liberties. Sweden is the poster child for such sober wisdom. North America is the opposite with Canada leading the charge.

My skepticism has led me into a world I never thought I'd enter. Quite frankly, I don't even want to be in it. But I'm driven to get to the source of how we got here.

There's a lot in play. Egos, greed, power, corruption and dogma when it comes to vaccines. 

I'm not going to preface saying 'I'm not anti-vaxx' because to do so is to give into the presumptive and predictable attacks that come with challenging vaccines.

No. To those who read this they're ostensibly their own agents of logic and can take the assertion like adults. If they choose to act like petulant children going on some ad hominen tirade, so be it.

I don't care.

If Galileo stuck with consensus...well, you know.

I'm not going to delve deeper more than I have to because this really is a topic for real experts to hash out. As a human and citizen, I expect healthy debate from the experts and I'm not getting it.

I'm seeing two sides refusing to debate. And the side doing most of the refusing are the ones sticking to their beliefs which strikes me as dogmatic. 

From the readings and lectures I've watched, there's sufficient evidence to warrant revisiting vaccines. During the pandemic, I've come to the uncomfortable conclusion that vaccines are seen as a means to a medical end. Take this injection or else you can't eat here is not scientific nor is it ethical and moral.

No matter what some pop ethicist on TV says.

Go with your instincts. When they spew nonsense about it being 'ethical' to not invite an unvaccinated friend to a wedding or dinner, look into your soul to see if this is right. 

It shouldn't. Prior to 2019 our personal morality would have reacted this. But suddenly, because of a virus, we ordain it to be permissible? 

I don't think so and we should voice opposition. 

Those who utter such divisive rhetoric fool themselves into believing they may not one day be on the wrong side of that low-quality assumption.

Stay kind and human to one another. Jesus treated lepers as humans. 

As frustrated and angry I am towards Canadians these days, I'd like to think that at the very least the moral code of the nation remains in tact. At some point we have to say, No.

The cure is way worse than the disease now. Way.

Safe and effective' is what they or you want it to be. How many vaccines got pulled over the years? So that puts a dent into the 'safe' part does it not? With these experimental injections, the deaths and injuries are staggering yet we try and rationalize them based on percentages. Yet, we do not apply this to the fact the vast majority of people survive this virus. 

The yearly flu shot has been miserable by any standards. It's in the 30-50% (if they're lucky) range. So what's so 'effective' there?  It's a fair question and explains why we may never have made it mandatory. Thankfully. Seems like reasoned mind prevailed during influenza season.

They seem to conflate the current injection with MMR vaccines, but those are a different group of vaccines for different diseases with proven track records conferring lasting immunity. Inlfuenza/Coronavirus vaccines don't have this kind of profile or record of success. In fact, the search for the universal flu vaccine has been elusive. 

Too many people think the shot they got is like a polio shot and that's a problem. Proof or poor messaging and the lack of informed consent.

Right now, the medical world and sciences in control of the narrative, are driven by a blind faith in vaccines.

We have every right to question them considering it's not a sure bet, we lack any true data and people's lives are being ruined for merely choosing to exercise their rights.

Let's be adults and discuss.