thelibertybeacon--2020-11-19--Let’s find out who’s honest and who has their snout in the trough

The following quote is from the prestigious BMJ “ The UK ’ s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests , including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests , treatments , and vaccines.
” What is emerging from the COVID debacle is the fact that our governance is stricken with a virus of its own It is the virus called corruption .
We really do need to deal with it before government decays any further .
So here is a wild idea .
We create a questionnaire along the lines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We send the questionnaire to each and every one of our MPs We demand that the MP answers our questions with honesty .
We make their responses or refusals to respond very very public Any MP later found the have lied or been evasive on the questionnaire is broadly and loudly and relentlessly outed as a corrupt lying scumbag and enemy of the People .
Here is the draft questionnaire .
It can be improved .
Your suggestions welcome .
Please answer the following questions with complete honesty A Do you have any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or friendship ties or allegiances with any person or group providing or seeking to supply the government or any of its ministries or agencies with any of the following .
• any medicines or remedies of any description or related goods or services • testing equipment for the actual or alleged detection of viruses or any related goods or services B Do you or any friend or family member profit potentially or actually from the provision of any of the above to government or any of its ministries or agencies ?
C Do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persons or entities involved with above .
D Are you receiving or do you expect or hope to receive any money , gifts , favours , employment or directorships of any kind from any person or company concerned with the above .
Please note that your response to this communication , whatever its nature , will be made public .
By signing it you are asserting that you have answered each question with complete honesty and in good faith towards your constituents and the nation .
What do you think ?
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by Watchdog
Here’s a wild idea
The following quote is from the prestigious BMJ
“The UK’s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines.”
What is emerging from the COVID debacle is the fact that our governance is stricken with a virus of its own
It is the virus called corruption. We really do need to deal with it before government decays any further.
So here is a wild idea.
We create a questionnaire along the lines of the one I have drafted below
We send the questionnaire to each and every one of our MPs
We demand that the MP answers our questions with honesty.
We make their responses or refusals to respond very very public
Any MP later found the have lied or been evasive on the questionnaire is broadly and loudly and relentlessly outed as a corrupt lying scumbag and enemy of the People.
Here is the draft questionnaire. It can be improved. Your suggestions welcome.
PEOPLE’S QUESTIONNAIRE
Dear ___________
Please answer the following questions with complete honesty
A Do you have any business, financial, advisory, familial or friendship ties or allegiances with any person or group providing or seeking to supply the government or any of its ministries or agencies with any of the following.
vaccines or related goods or services any medicines or remedies of any description or related goods or services track-and-trace equipment and related goods and services testing equipment for the actual or alleged detection of viruses or any related goods or services
B Do you or any friend or family member profit potentially or actually from the provision of any of the above to government or any of its ministries or agencies?
C Do you have any ongoing communication with any persons or entities involved with above.
D Are you receiving or do you expect or hope to receive any money, gifts, favours , employment or directorships of any kind from any person or company concerned with the above. Please note that your response to this communication, whatever its nature, will be made public.
Please sign this questionnaire.
By signing it you are asserting that you have answered each question with complete honesty and in good faith towards your constituents and the nation.
________________________________________________________
What do you think?
This could be the first broad action of The People”s Watchdog
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-20--Anti-Science Liberals Play Risky COVID Politics

Things are looking up in the fight against COVID-19 .
But you wouldn ’ t think so from the rhetoric coming from liberal politicians and their establishment media cheering section .
Throughout the pandemic , efforts to find a vaccine to bring the virus under control and to mitigate overall harm have been highly politicized .
As National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen , Ph.D. , points out in a commentary for The Epoch Times , this is coming at a large , unnecessary and tragic human cost .
At the moment , and announced shortly after the presidential election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high rate of effectiveness in treating COVID-19 .
And the vaccine that is made by Pfizer , Bonner notes , would “ vindicate the Trump Administration ’ s ‘ Operation Warp Speed , ’ which mobilized the federal public-health bureaucracy to approve vaccines and other treatments in record time.
” But prior to the election , possible vice president-elect Kamala Harris and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo both made clear they were in the anti-vax camp if a vaccine came out of a Trump Administration .
It ’ s a pathetic example of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ escape the grip of politics .
Bonner notes : The prospect of a vaccine just around the corner comes at a time when the public discussion over how to deal with the pandemic has become politicized to the point that dissident opinions , however well-argued and supported by real-world data , are being attacked .
Just as the moniker “ climate deniers ” is routinely hurled at scientists questioning the theory of human-caused global warming , those recommending therapies and other measures out of step with received opinion are met with a barrage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ example , Bonner cites the Great Barrington Declaration .
This document “ recommend [ s ] concentrating efforts on the most vulnerable – the elderly with underlying conditions – while allowing others to lead more or less normal lives until , either through vaccines or other therapies , herd immunity is reached.
” It has been signed by tens of thousands of scientists and medical practitioners worldwide .
The Great Barrington Declaration seeks to end the collateral damage of COVID-19 lockdowns while also reducing virus-related mortality “ includ [ ing ] lower childhood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come , with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden.
” Yet the document , Bonner writes , was “ quickly met with derision in certain quarters ” like the World Health Organization bureaucracy , the liberal establishment and the media elite .
Bonner explains that this opposition was based on false pretenses : What these critics of the declaration have in common is portraying herd immunity as a costly strategy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , it is the goal .
Herd immunity , also known as “ public Immunity , ” denotes the point at which the rate of new infections is stable .
The declaration ’ s authors are simply arguing that the measures taken to suppress COVID-19 have not only failed but have themselves undermined public health and destroyed livelihoods .
As the authors put it : “ Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.
” On an alarming note , this anti-science , pro-lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the White House .
Should Joe Biden be certified the winner of the election , the COVID-19 transition team he ’ s already selected contains at least two strong lockdown advocates .
Dr. Michael Osterholm has called for a draconian lockdown to last four to six weeks .
And Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel , who previously suggested people over 75 should deny themselves lifesaving care , has pushed for a similar scenario in which businesses are closed and people remain at home .
To read all of Bonner ’ s Epoch Times commentary – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Only Prolong the Disease ” – click here .

Anti-Science Liberals Play Risky COVID Politics
By: David Almasi
Things are looking up in the fight against COVID-19. But you wouldn’t think so from the rhetoric coming from liberal politicians and their establishment media cheering section.
Throughout the pandemic, efforts to find a vaccine to bring the virus under control and to mitigate overall harm have been highly politicized. As National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., points out in a commentary for The Epoch Times, this is coming at a large, unnecessary and tragic human cost.
At the moment, and announced shortly after the presidential election, two vaccines exist that offer a high rate of effectiveness in treating COVID-19. And the vaccine that is made by Pfizer, Bonner notes, would “vindicate the Trump Administration’s ‘Operation Warp Speed,’ which mobilized the federal public-health bureaucracy to approve vaccines and other treatments in record time.”
But prior to the election, possible vice president-elect Kamala Harris and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo both made clear they were in the anti-vax camp if a vaccine came out of a Trump Administration. It’s a pathetic example of how liberals seem unwilling to let science escape the grip of politics. Bonner notes:
The prospect of a vaccine just around the corner comes at a time when the public discussion over how to deal with the pandemic has become politicized to the point that dissident opinions, however well-argued and supported by real-world data, are being attacked. Just as the moniker “climate deniers” is routinely hurled at scientists questioning the theory of human-caused global warming, those recommending therapies and other measures out of step with received opinion are met with a barrage of slings and arrows.
As an example, Bonner cites the Great Barrington Declaration. This document “recommend[s] concentrating efforts on the most vulnerable – the elderly with underlying conditions – while allowing others to lead more or less normal lives until, either through vaccines or other therapies, herd immunity is reached.” It has been signed by tens of thousands of scientists and medical practitioners worldwide.
The Great Barrington Declaration seeks to end the collateral damage of COVID-19 lockdowns while also reducing virus-related mortality “includ[ing] lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden.” Yet the document, Bonner writes, was “quickly met with derision in certain quarters” like the World Health Organization bureaucracy, the liberal establishment and the media elite.
Bonner explains that this opposition was based on false pretenses:
What these critics of the declaration have in common is portraying herd immunity as a costly strategy to suppress the virus when, in fact, it is the goal. Herd immunity, also known as “public Immunity,” denotes the point at which the rate of new infections is stable. The declaration’s authors are simply arguing that the measures taken to suppress COVID-19 have not only failed but have themselves undermined public health and destroyed livelihoods. As the authors put it: “Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.”
On an alarming note, this anti-science, pro-lockdown mindset may already have a foothold in the White House. Should Joe Biden be certified the winner of the election, the COVID-19 transition team he’s already selected contains at least two strong lockdown advocates. Dr. Michael Osterholm has called for a draconian lockdown to last four to six weeks. And Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who previously suggested people over 75 should deny themselves lifesaving care, has pushed for a similar scenario in which businesses are closed and people remain at home.
To read all of Bonner’s Epoch Times commentary – “Suppressing Medical Debate Over COVID-19 Will Only Prolong the Disease” – click here.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-20--The Left’s Utter Nonsense

The Left’s Utter Nonsense

I ’ m at the end of my cooperative , benefit-of-the-doubt tether .
I “ officially ” declare a monstrous national misstep and hereby refuse to believe or accept anything coming out of any anti-Trump , anti-American mouth .
That means everyone from the mainstream media ( including Fox News ) , anyone from the Democrat party , anyone who worries about this dratted virus , anyone who thinks he or she can tell me with whom and with how many I can associate , what holidays I can celebrate , and which businesses I can frequent .
I have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ridiculous things .
We are being asked to believe that a minuscule speck of protein , just because it has the audacity to set up temporary housekeeping in the human body , can determine whether or not I get to see my children and grandchildren at Thanksgiving .
We are supposed to believe that a mask can keep such a critter away from us when we know that it ’ s too small to be dissuaded by mere cloth .
We ’ re expected to buy into the idea that six feet of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Why not five and half feet ?
Why not 12 feet ?
Do we have any clear idea how far this thing can travel ?
No .
And even worse , we ’ re supposed to accept without question any statistics spouted by any government mouthpiece as if statistics can ’ t be used to tell damnable lies .
Even worse , we ’ re not to make any connection at all between the timing of this virus ’ arrival and this election .
Good grief .
Furthermore , we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ muddle-minded plagiarist collected more real votes for president than a wildly popular ( note his rallies ) , highly successful incumbent .
We ’ re to believe that a man who didn ’ t , nay , couldn ’ t campaign , could amass more votes than any other presidential candidate before him .
Really ?
A man who has accomplished nothing in almost a half-century of public office ?
A man we know has enriched himself and his family by selling out America and her interests to enemy countries ?
We ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carry on as if nothing really important has happened ?
We ’ re evidently supposed be okay with battleground states just arbitrarily stopping the vote count and then later on resuming .
What possible , viable excuse can there be for such a procedure ?
And why do you suppose it happened right when Trump was pulling ahead of the pretender ?
And why , when the counting resumed , were the votes almost totally for Biden ?
If that doesn ’ t sound fishy , I have a bridge to sell .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ dead people vote , that illegals vote , that some people manage to vote over and over again .
But that is pretty small potatoes compared to the Dominion mess .
We are , of course , expected to just believe the company itself when it says it ’ s on the up and up .
Well , all righty then .
No problem here .
I gather that we ’ re also to be just fine with the fact that the Dominion voting hardware was designed in Venezuela for the purpose of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just fine with the Canadian ownership of its mother company , Smartmatic , and we should not be so terribly xenophobic as to object to our vote counting being shipped off to Spain and to Germany .
In fact , we ’ re supposed to not even notice that to do so would require Internet access and therefore access to hackers from anywhere .
What the heck ; it ’ s just a presidential election , and we should know from the last four years that a presidential election doesn ’ t mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s another president , more or less ?
And we ’ re not supposed to be irritated that the left , that has spent the last four years yipping about “ Russian collusion ” when none existed , now , with evidence galore to prove the involvement of at least four foreign entities , bats not an eye .
And none of that counts the puppet-strings that connect Biden to China .
That ’ s another flabbergasting outrage — Biden and China , but we ’ re not supposed to find his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money problematic .
What ?
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In fact , this presidential wannabe will not even be president for more than a few weeks if he were to be inaugurated .
We ’ re all supposed to think that ’ s just fine .
We ’ re not even supposed to notice that this person the left has put forward is physically and mentally so substandard that it ’ s doubtful he could handle a part time job at Burger King , let alone a 24/7 uber-stress position like leader of the Free World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his VP will in fact be the president .
Nuts to that .
She got nowhere in the Democrat primary — why should she be president now ?
What ’ s more , we ’ re supposed to pay no attention to our common sense .
I know that common sense went out of style back in the Clinton years , but a lot of us still practice that dark art .
We can compare a candidate who can draw crowds — happy , thrilled , enthusiastic crowds — of between 10 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a pandemic , and the other can ’ t get 25 in one place at one time , and we can conclude from that that the first candidate will win .
We can look back over presidential history and see the statistical likelihood of a successful incumbent easily winning — especially when the usurper never even attempted to campaign , and especially when said candidate has absolutely no record of accomplishments to run on , so we can deduce that the incumbent is a shoe-in .
Of course , our common sense also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the left ’ s candidate has going for him : • The educational system , K-college , has been prepping American children to hate our Constitution , our values , our traditions , our goals and accomplishments , and they ’ ve been doing so for at least three generations .
That would skew the vote , I ’ ll admit .
• The media has been co-opted by the left and has become alarmingly willing to and adept at flat-out lying .
And , since journalists are educated in the system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they lie left , way left .
• The left has no respect for truth and therefore is very comfortable with cheating their way to victory .
They believe their selfish , power-driven ends justify the most despicable means .
So they have that going for them .
But those of us who can still think know that what we have going for us is superior .
We still , in spite of the schools ’ best efforts , believe in freedom , in happiness , in success for all , in goodness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and God .
We still believe in our country and we love it dearly .
This is the most important of Donald Trump ’ s accomplishments : he has made it once again socially acceptable to be openly , enthusiastically , intensely patriotic .
I don ’ t think America is going to give that up easily ; it feels too good , too right , too honest .
We are Americans and Americans do not put up with such nonsense .

The Left’s Utter Nonsense
By: Deana Chadwell
I’m at the end of my cooperative, benefit-of-the-doubt tether. I “officially” declare a monstrous national misstep and hereby refuse to believe or accept anything coming out of any anti-Trump, anti-American mouth. That means everyone from the mainstream media (including Fox News), anyone from the Democrat party, anyone who worries about this dratted virus, anyone who thinks he or she can tell me with whom and with how many I can associate, what holidays I can celebrate, and which businesses I can frequent. I have been asked to accept one too many ridiculous things.
We are being asked to believe that a minuscule speck of protein, just because it has the audacity to set up temporary housekeeping in the human body, can determine whether or not I get to see my children and grandchildren at Thanksgiving. We are supposed to believe that a mask can keep such a critter away from us when we know that it’s too small to be dissuaded by mere cloth. We’re expected to buy into the idea that six feet of separation will thwart this shred of RNA. Why not five and half feet? Why not 12 feet? Do we have any clear idea how far this thing can travel? No. And even worse, we’re supposed to accept without question any statistics spouted by any government mouthpiece as if statistics can’t be used to tell damnable lies.
Enough.
Even worse, we’re not to make any connection at all between the timing of this virus’ arrival and this election. Good grief.
Furthermore, we’re expected to believe that a basement-dwelling, muddle-minded plagiarist collected more real votes for president than a wildly popular (note his rallies), highly successful incumbent. We’re to believe that a man who didn’t, nay, couldn’t campaign, could amass more votes than any other presidential candidate before him. Really? A man who has accomplished nothing in almost a half-century of public office? A man we know has enriched himself and his family by selling out America and her interests to enemy countries? We’re supposed to just go home and carry on as if nothing really important has happened?
We’re evidently supposed be okay with battleground states just arbitrarily stopping the vote count and then later on resuming. What possible, viable excuse can there be for such a procedure? And why do you suppose it happened right when Trump was pulling ahead of the pretender? And why, when the counting resumed, were the votes almost totally for Biden? If that doesn’t sound fishy, I have a bridge to sell.
We’re supposed to accept that dead people vote, that illegals vote, that some people manage to vote over and over again. But that is pretty small potatoes compared to the Dominion mess. We are, of course, expected to just believe the company itself when it says it’s on the up and up. Well, all righty then. No problem here.
I gather that we’re also to be just fine with the fact that the Dominion voting hardware was designed in Venezuela for the purpose of controlling election results. We should be just fine with the Canadian ownership of its mother company, Smartmatic, and we should not be so terribly xenophobic as to object to our vote counting being shipped off to Spain and to Germany. In fact, we’re supposed to not even notice that to do so would require Internet access and therefore access to hackers from anywhere. What the heck; it’s just a presidential election, and we should know from the last four years that a presidential election doesn’t mean much to the deep state. What’s another president, more or less? And we’re not supposed to be irritated that the left, that has spent the last four years yipping about “Russian collusion” when none existed, now, with evidence galore to prove the involvement of at least four foreign entities, bats not an eye. And none of that counts the puppet-strings that connect Biden to China. That’s another flabbergasting outrage — Biden and China, but we’re not supposed to find his massive wealth and his acceptance of foreign money problematic. What?!
In fact, this presidential wannabe will not even be president for more than a few weeks if he were to be inaugurated. We’re all supposed to think that’s just fine. We’re not even supposed to notice that this person the left has put forward is physically and mentally so substandard that it’s doubtful he could handle a part time job at Burger King, let alone a 24/7 uber-stress position like leader of the Free World. We’re to concede that his VP will in fact be the president. Nuts to that. She got nowhere in the Democrat primary — why should she be president now?
What’s more, we’re supposed to pay no attention to our common sense. I know that common sense went out of style back in the Clinton years, but a lot of us still practice that dark art. We can compare a candidate who can draw crowds — happy, thrilled, enthusiastic crowds — of between 10 and 50 thousand people in the midst of a pandemic, and the other can’t get 25 in one place at one time, and we can conclude from that that the first candidate will win. We can look back over presidential history and see the statistical likelihood of a successful incumbent easily winning — especially when the usurper never even attempted to campaign, and especially when said candidate has absolutely no record of accomplishments to run on, so we can deduce that the incumbent is a shoe-in.
Of course, our common sense also dictates that we recognize three major advantages that the left’s candidate has going for him:
The educational system, K-college, has been prepping American children to hate our Constitution, our values, our traditions, our goals and accomplishments, and they’ve been doing so for at least three generations. That would skew the vote, I’ll admit. The media has been co-opted by the left and has become alarmingly willing to and adept at flat-out lying. And, since journalists are educated in the system mentioned above, when they lie, they lie left, way left. The left has no respect for truth and therefore is very comfortable with cheating their way to victory. They believe their selfish, power-driven ends justify the most despicable means.
So they have that going for them.
But those of us who can still think know that what we have going for us is superior. We still, in spite of the schools’ best efforts, believe in freedom, in happiness, in success for all, in goodness, and truth, and decency, and God. We still believe in our country and we love it dearly. This is the most important of Donald Trump’s accomplishments: he has made it once again socially acceptable to be openly, enthusiastically, intensely patriotic. I don’t think America is going to give that up easily; it feels too good, too right, too honest. We are Americans and Americans do not put up with such nonsense.
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The above article (The Left’s Utter Nonsense) was created and published by American Thinker and is republished here under “Fair Use” (see disclaimer below) with attribution to the author Deana Chadwell and americanthinker.com. TLB recommends you visit American Thinker for more great articles and information. About the Author: Deana Chadwell blogs at www.ASingleWindow.com. She is also an adjunct professor and department head at Pacific Bible College in southern Oregon. She teaches writing, logic, and literature.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-20--Covid-19: A Large Majority of French Have No Intention of Being Vaccinated – Survey

ER Editor : We ’ re linking directly to the Ipsos poll on vaccination intentions of the public , conducted in October and published on Nov 5 , 2020 titled COVID-19 vaccination intent is decreasing globally .
Note that this survey was conducted IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM .
The survey involved 18,000+ people in 15 countries ( see image below ) .
France is known to be a vaccine-hesitant country , as the report indicates below .
Now on our MSM , we have Paris ’ great and good sitting in judgement on the rest of us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which currently contravenes French law we believe .
These people are notably from the left and/or globalist .
Given the falsification of data over the entire Covid debacle ( classification of deaths as covid when they ’ re not ; a ‘ casedemic ’ produced by mass testing using the unfit PCR test ; paying hospitals/doctors to list patients & deaths as covid ; flu cases currently not reported at all by WHO , PHE and CDC ) , and given the utter nonsense of polling when it comes to the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , WE WOULDN ’ T BE AT ALL SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THESE DATA HAVE BEEN ‘ OPTIMIZED ’ .
Kind of like the Dominion Voting System .
The article below refers to a 2nd poll of exclusively French people by Odoxa on November 12 .
From Le Figaro ’ s reporting of it ( MSM alert ) , 60 % are opposed to mandatory vaccination ; 38 % are favorable to it ( 9 % very , 29 % somewhat ) .
Further , one in 6 French declare themselves to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Another cause for optimism is that only 52 % would take their doctor ’ s advice to get vaccinated , whereas a rather large 31 % would prefer to get their information from another source first .
In other words , almost a third of the population would not trust advice from their doctor .
The report below carries an MSM alert .
COVID-19 : A Large Majority of French People Have No Intention of Being Vaccinated According to a Survey A few hours after Pfizer announced a vaccine that was “ 90 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poll says that nearly half of the French would not consider getting vaccinated if they had the chance .
Side effects related to hasty clinical trials are the main factors of mistrust identified .
Another survey , published Thursday , November 12 , indicates that only 14 % of the French have the firm intention to be vaccinated .
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If the prospect of a vaccine is getting closer , will it still be used by the French ?
This is precisely the question that a survey conducted by the Ipsos institute and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to answer .
Barely 24 hours after the announcement of a candidate vaccine against the coronavirus that would be “ 90 % effective ” according to its creator , the Pfizer laboratory , more is needed to convince the French of the merits of a possible treatment .
And for good reason : in France , only 54 % of the population intends to be vaccinated against Covid-19 .
Earlier in the year , when the prospects for vaccine delivery were even more uncertain , 59 percent of those polled wanted the vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most fearful of the vaccine ’ s arrival in the world .
Indeed , the Ipsos study shows that France is clearly the country with the lowest ranking of people who are in favor of the vaccine .
When faced with the statement “ if a vaccine against Covid-19 were available , I would get vaccinated ” , India and China come out on top , with 87 % and 85 percent of respondents saying they “ totally agree ” or “ rather agree ” respectively .
In comparison , among our European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Spaniards ( 64 % ) are the most skeptical on this subject , far behind Germany ( 69 % ) and the United Kingdom ( 79 % ) .
This Thursday , November 12 , 2020 , another survey conducted by Odoxa for Franceinfo and Le Figaro also inclines in this direction .
Even more significant , the results of the Odoxa study indicate that barely 14 % of respondents intend to be vaccinated “ with certainty ” .
Also , 60 % of the French people surveyed said they were opposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But then , how can we explain the mistrust around a vaccine as a French characteristic ?
According to Etienne Mercier , director of the opinion company questioned on BFMTV , “ there is a mistrust towards vaccination , which has always existed , but which is particularly strong there ” .
To top it all off , in Pasteur ’ s country !
In concrete terms , the Ipsos study expects that 32 % of French people opposed to the vaccine are worried about side effects .
Also , 35 % believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hasty , which reinforces the concern .
For the scientific director of the Institut Pasteur , interviewed by franceinfo for the publication of the survey , this mistrust is also explained by the lack of transparency in government communication on this subject .
“ We will not be able to thwart this pandemic if there is not strong public support and therefore transparent communication on what vaccines are offered to the population and the possible risks , ” he explains .
To this , we can add the great plurality of “ anti-vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in France .
Especially when political figures like Yannick Jadot , president of Europe-Ecology Greens , explicitly demand that the vaccine be made “ compulsory ” .
Enough to fuel the most smoky conspiracy theories… The Ipsos survey was conducted from 8 to 13 October 2020 via the Internet among 18,526 adults aged 16 to 74 from 15 different countries , including France .
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ER Editor: We’re linking directly to the Ipsos poll on vaccination intentions of the public, conducted in October and published on Nov 5, 2020 titled COVID-19 vaccination intent is decreasing globally. Note that this survey was conducted IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. The survey involved 18,000+ people in 15 countries (see image below).
France is known to be a vaccine-hesitant country, as the report indicates below. Now on our MSM, we have Paris’ great and good sitting in judgement on the rest of us, advising that vaccination should be obligatory, which currently contravenes French law we believe. These people are notably from the left and/or globalist.
Given the falsification of data over the entire Covid debacle (classification of deaths as covid when they’re not; a ‘casedemic’ produced by mass testing using the unfit PCR test; paying hospitals/doctors to list patients & deaths as covid; flu cases currently not reported at all by WHO, PHE and CDC), and given the utter nonsense of polling when it comes to the US presidential elections in both 2016 and 2020, WE WOULDN’T BE AT ALL SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THESE DATA HAVE BEEN ‘OPTIMIZED’. Kind of like the Dominion Voting System.
The article below refers to a 2nd poll of exclusively French people by Odoxa on November 12. From Le Figaro’s reporting of it (MSM alert), 60% are opposed to mandatory vaccination; 38% are favorable to it (9% very, 29% somewhat). Further, one in 6 French declare themselves to be ‘anti-vaccine’ or 17%. Another cause for optimism is that only 52% would take their doctor’s advice to get vaccinated, whereas a rather large 31% would prefer to get their information from another source first. In other words, almost a third of the population would not trust advice from their doctor.
The report below carries an MSM alert.
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COVID-19: A Large Majority of French People Have No Intention of Being Vaccinated According to a Survey
ALEXANDRA G.
A few hours after Pfizer announced a vaccine that was “90% effective”, a recent Ipsos poll says that nearly half of the French would not consider getting vaccinated if they had the chance. Side effects related to hasty clinical trials are the main factors of mistrust identified. Another survey, published Thursday, November 12, indicates that only 14% of the French have the firm intention to be vaccinated.
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If the prospect of a vaccine is getting closer, will it still be used by the French? This is precisely the question that a survey conducted by the Ipsos institute and published Thursday, November 5, tried to answer. Barely 24 hours after the announcement of a candidate vaccine against the coronavirus that would be “90% effective” according to its creator, the Pfizer laboratory, more is needed to convince the French of the merits of a possible treatment.
And for good reason: in France, only 54% of the population intends to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Earlier in the year, when the prospects for vaccine delivery were even more uncertain, 59 percent of those polled wanted the vaccine. Today, the French are the most fearful of the vaccine’s arrival in the world.
Indeed, the Ipsos study shows that France is clearly the country with the lowest ranking of people who are in favor of the vaccine. When faced with the statement “if a vaccine against Covid-19 were available, I would get vaccinated”, India and China come out on top, with 87% and 85 percent of respondents saying they “totally agree” or “rather agree” respectively. In comparison, among our European neighbors, Italians (65%) and Spaniards (64%) are the most skeptical on this subject, far behind Germany (69%) and the United Kingdom (79%).
This Thursday, November 12, 2020, another survey conducted by Odoxa for Franceinfo and Le Figaro also inclines in this direction. Even more significant, the results of the Odoxa study indicate that barely 14% of respondents intend to be vaccinated “with certainty”. Also, 60% of the French people surveyed said they were opposed to the obligation to be vaccinated.
But then, how can we explain the mistrust around a vaccine as a French characteristic? According to Etienne Mercier, director of the opinion company questioned on BFMTV, “there is a mistrust towards vaccination, which has always existed, but which is particularly strong there”. To top it all off, in Pasteur’s country! In concrete terms, the Ipsos study expects that 32% of French people opposed to the vaccine are worried about side effects. Also, 35% believe that the clinical trials have been too hasty, which reinforces the concern.
For the scientific director of the Institut Pasteur, interviewed by franceinfo for the publication of the survey, this mistrust is also explained by the lack of transparency in government communication on this subject. “We will not be able to thwart this pandemic if there is not strong public support and therefore transparent communication on what vaccines are offered to the population and the possible risks,” he explains.
To this, we can add the great plurality of “anti-vaccine” talk that find a certain echo in France. Especially when political figures like Yannick Jadot, president of Europe-Ecology Greens, explicitly demand that the vaccine be made “compulsory”. Enough to fuel the most smoky conspiracy theories…
The Ipsos survey was conducted from 8 to 13 October 2020 via the Internet among 18,526 adults aged 16 to 74 from 15 different countries, including France.
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Why Are Parents Enrolling Their Kids in Experimental COVID Vaccine Trials ?
On Oct. 13 , Pfizer announced that Cincinnati Children ’ s Hospital would begin enrolling children in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials , making Pfizer the first U.S. company to test an experimental coronavirus vaccine on children .
The FDA requires institutions that test drugs and biologics in children to have a pediatric plan in place , but some say the rule “ is lenient to the point of being no rule at all.
” As Dr. Robert Frenck , director of the Cincinnati Children ’ s Hospitals Center @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The plan can be simply ‘ We don ’ t have a plan.
’ ” On Oct. 22 , the FDA ’ s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee convened a panel of experts to discuss coronavirus vaccines .
Committee members expressed wariness about giving the shots to children , arguing that the risks could well outweigh the benefits .
Leading National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) researcher Dr. Luigi Notarangelo went further , frankly stating that coronavirus vaccines “ should not be considered for use ” in children “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the evidence presented at the meeting had been insufficient to answer pressing questions about safety .
Judging by the fact that parents of 100 children immediately volunteered to have their kids get the unapproved messenger RNA ( mRNA ) vaccine , Pfizer and the Cincinnati hospital have been successful in persuading parents that , even in the face of expert concerns , there is nothing to worry about .
Initially , Pfizer will test the vaccine in several thousand 12-17-year-olds .
The plan is then to broaden the pediatric test population to include @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months of fear-inducing messaging — a form of “ persuasive communication ” that intentionally uses fear to “ manipulate individuals or populations ” into “ doing things they would ordinarily resist doing ” — many parents are now far “ more afraid of COVID than the vaccine , ” making them willing to “ trust the science ” and sign on the dotted line .
Fear is only one of the tactics being used to attract the thousands of American families Pfizer needs to attain its target pediatric sample size .
Many experts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , suggesting that “ getting a vaccine , when it ’ s available , is not just about you .
It ’ s about protecting your grandmother who has diabetes and Uncle Sean , who is immune-compromised.
” The Cincinnati doctor heading up Pfizer ’ s pediatric study has made this very case , suggesting that vaccinated children will be able to “ indirectly ” protect their parents , grandparents , teachers and coaches .
The fact that Cincinnati ’ s investigator is making such claims is both misleading and perplexing , given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designed to assess only whether the vaccine lessens mild COVID-19 symptoms .
The trials , as a growing number of observers have pointed out , will not permit any conclusions about whether the vaccine prevents infection or interrupts transmission .
The experts at the Oct. 22 VRBPAC meeting agreed that the vaccine trials “ have serious design flaws.
” Medical trade groups have chosen to ignore the FDA advisory committee ’ s concerns about the wisdom of rushing COVID-19 vaccines into children .
Instead , as the Huffington Post reported , the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alarm ” in the opposite direction , arguing for children ’ s “ immediate ” inclusion in vaccine studies .
The media have not hesitated to add to this push , publishing thinly veiled recruitment pieces encouraging children ’ s clinical trial involvement .
For example , one editor-at-large for TIME recently gushed that the children participating in Pfizer ’ s study are engaging in “ an act of public-service heroism ” that is the modern-day equivalent of the “ polio pioneers ” of the 1950s .
Left out of the TIME article @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early polio vaccines were fast-tracked : The “ massive and highly publicised disaster ” called the Cutter incident gave polio to thousands of children , killing 10 and leaving many others permanently disabled .
Nor does TIME ’ s revisionist portrayal of polio vaccine history discuss the severe health problems and excruciating pain afflicting those who have suffered adverse reactions to polio vaccines , or the fact that polio vaccines are the leading cause of polio and “ polio-like ” illness .
Ignorant of this history and of the nearly 400 adverse reactions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some members of the general public are also reinforcing the heroism narrative .
As reported by TIME , one of the teenage Pfizer participants has had “ teachers and other students in the hallway say , ‘ Hey , my gosh , that ’ s so cool ’ and , ‘ You ’ re so brave !
’ ” The student ’ s mother replies that her daughter is “ just doing a little teeny-tiny thing that we believe will help lots of people.
” As the experts on the FDA ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indicate , not everyone agrees that receiving a hurriedly developed , experimental vaccine is a “ little teeny-tiny thing.
” As the mother quoted above concedes , “ there are some people out there who don ’ t think this is the smartest thing for us to have done.
” However , despite the fact that adults participating in Pfizer ’ s Phase 3 trials have reported experiencing high fever , pounding headaches , severe body aches , exhaustion and shivering intense enough to crack teeth , the mother ’ s assessment of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ describing “ all the ifs and whys and hows and whats ” ) led her to conclude that her daughter would risk only minor side effects — in other words , “ nothing drastic or dire.
” One wonders what these parents are being told about the never-before-approved mRNA technology featured in Pfizer ’ s vaccine .
The proprietary mRNA platform is being supplied by Pfizer ’ s German partner , BioNTech , a young company that , in September 2019 , fortuitously signed a deal with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) to “ build out its infectious disease infrastructure.
” mRNA molecules are known to be “ intrinsically unstable and prone to degradation , ” with an inflammatory component that risks “ dangerous immune reaction [ s ] .
” Pfizer and its mRNA vaccine competitor , Moderna — which plans to start testing its vaccine in adolescents soon — have recently grabbed headlines celebrating the apparent effectiveness of their coronavirus vaccines .
However , as the New York Times noted , both companies presented their preliminary and far-from-conclusive results in carefully crafted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ that would allow outside experts to evaluate their claims ” — rather than in peer-reviewed scientific journals .
The advocacy group Public Citizen openly criticized Pfizer ’ s uninformative PR blitz as “ bad science.
” Experts touting these mRNA vaccines have engaged in a number of linguistic contortions to allay legitimate worries , recognizing that “ the rapidity of development — an idea underscored by the name Operation Warp Speed — [ has ] inadvertently aggravate [ d ] the public ’ s safety concerns.
” One pediatric professional , refuting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ rushed ” said , “ I would say that it was intensified and that after each phase of the study it was analyzed in a quicker fashion than normally maybe so .
This does not mean it was rushed , it was just worked on more aggressively.
” A Stony Brook Children ’ s Hospital executive , alluding to the years of fruitless research on mRNA vaccines , has likewise soothingly stated , “ The technology for this vaccine , while new , is still years old.
” Pfizer , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for “ months and even years ” of follow-up to ascertain safety meaningfully .
Unfortunately , its clinical trials end after 24 months , and its active monitoring of adverse events largely focuses on the first couple of months .
As VRBPAC ’ s consumer representative , an attorney , stated at the FDA ’ s late October meeting , “ There could be adverse effects we don ’ t know about , and so isn ’ t two months a little short ?
” Moreover , long-term follow-up for conditions such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if not impossible , if the vaccine makers hasten to offer their vaccines to the placebo groups ( thereby erasing their comparison ) , which Moderna and Pfizer executives have both suggested they will do .
Running down children , no matter what According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) , “ Most children with COVID-19 have mild symptoms or have no symptoms at all.
” In its breakdown of risks by age groups , the public health agency rates 5-17-year-old children ’ s risk of COVID-19-related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk of death as 16 times lower than for young adults aged 18-29 — who themselves are a low-risk age group .
In comparison , the CDC assesses the risk of death for seniors aged 75-84 or 85+ years as 220 times and 630 times higher , respectively , than for 18-29-year-olds .
As of mid-November , the CDC had attributed just 39 deaths to COVID-19 in children aged 5-14 ( well under 1 % of all deaths in that age group ) .
The CDC also acknowledges that most of the children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as obesity , diabetes , asthma , immune suppression , congenital heart disease , or genetic , neurologic , or metabolic disorders .
Under the circumstances , it would not be surprising if many parents questioned the need to add an experimental COVID-19 vaccine to their young ones ’ already top-heavy vaccination schedule .
It would also be understandable if parents were beginning to rethink the wisdom of flu shots .
Numerous studies over the past decade , including in children , have indicated that influenza vaccination increases the risk of subsequent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pentagon study showed a 36 % greater risk of coronavirus infection post-flu shot .
Recognizing the need to build a more solid “ bedrock of confidence ” among parents , officials have been busy marshaling their counterarguments .
All signs point toward the continued use of tactics such as fear appeals ( including comparisons of the coronavirus to past “ plagues ” and warnings that parents will “ exponentially ” increase their children ’ s risk of “ catching the virus ” if they refuse the vaccine ) , minimization of risk concerns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any vaccine can cause an allergic reaction ” ) and old-fashioned bribery ( with the vaccine being held out as the only way to “ recover from the financial , emotional and medical burdens that [ COVID-19 ] has caused ” ) .
The true “ heroes ” of this story , however , are likely to be the parents who recognize these tactics for the soft forms of coercion that they are , and who choose to protect their children rather than sacrifice them on the altar of a disingenuous altruism .

Why Are Parents Enrolling Their Kids in Experimental COVID Vaccine Trials?
The CDC admits that most children experience mild COVID symptoms or none at all, yet thanks to months of fear-inducing messaging, some parents are more afraid of COVID than of an experimental vaccine.
By: Children’s Health Defense Team
On Oct. 13, Pfizer announced that Cincinnati Children’s Hospital would begin enrolling children in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, making Pfizer the first U.S. company to test an experimental coronavirus vaccine on children.
The FDA requires institutions that test drugs and biologics in children to have a pediatric plan in place, but some say the rule “is lenient to the point of being no rule at all.” As Dr. Robert Frenck, director of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospitals Center for Vaccine Research told TIME magazine, “The plan can be simply ‘We don’t have a plan.’”
On Oct. 22, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee convened a panel of experts to discuss coronavirus vaccines. Committee members expressed wariness about giving the shots to children, arguing that the risks could well outweigh the benefits. Leading National Institutes of Health (NIH) researcher Dr. Luigi Notarangelo went further, frankly stating that coronavirus vaccines “should not be considered for use” in children “at this point” and adding that the evidence presented at the meeting had been insufficient to answer pressing questions about safety.
Judging by the fact that parents of 100 children immediately volunteered to have their kids get the unapproved messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, Pfizer and the Cincinnati hospital have been successful in persuading parents that, even in the face of expert concerns, there is nothing to worry about. Initially, Pfizer will test the vaccine in several thousand 12-17-year-olds. The plan is then to broaden the pediatric test population to include younger children and infants.
Thanks to months of fear-inducing messaging — a form of “persuasive communication” that intentionally uses fear to “manipulate individuals or populations” into “doing things they would ordinarily resist doing” — many parents are now far “more afraid of COVID than the vaccine,” making them willing to “trust the science” and sign on the dotted line.
The altruism con
Fear is only one of the tactics being used to attract the thousands of American families Pfizer needs to attain its target pediatric sample size. Many experts are also heavily playing the altruism card, suggesting that “getting a vaccine, when it’s available, is not just about you. It’s about protecting your grandmother who has diabetes and Uncle Sean, who is immune-compromised.”
The Cincinnati doctor heading up Pfizer’s pediatric study has made this very case, suggesting that vaccinated children will be able to “indirectly” protect their parents, grandparents, teachers and coaches.
The fact that Cincinnati’s investigator is making such claims is both misleading and perplexing, given that Pfizer’s clinical trials are designed to assess only whether the vaccine lessens mild COVID-19 symptoms. The trials, as a growing number of observers have pointed out, will not permit any conclusions about whether the vaccine prevents infection or interrupts transmission. The experts at the Oct. 22 VRBPAC meeting agreed that the vaccine trials “have serious design flaws.”
Medical trade groups have chosen to ignore the FDA advisory committee’s concerns about the wisdom of rushing COVID-19 vaccines into children. Instead, as the Huffington Post reported, the American Academy of Pediatrics is “sounding the alarm” in the opposite direction, arguing for children’s “immediate” inclusion in vaccine studies.
The media have not hesitated to add to this push, publishing thinly veiled recruitment pieces encouraging children’s clinical trial involvement. For example, one editor-at-large for TIME recently gushed that the children participating in Pfizer’s study are engaging in “an act of public-service heroism” that is the modern-day equivalent of the “polio pioneers” of the 1950s.
Left out of the TIME article is any mention of what happened when early polio vaccines were fast-tracked: The “massive and highly publicised disaster” called the Cutter incident gave polio to thousands of children, killing 10 and leaving many others permanently disabled. Nor does TIME’s revisionist portrayal of polio vaccine history discuss the severe health problems and excruciating pain afflicting those who have suffered adverse reactions to polio vaccines, or the fact that polio vaccines are the leading cause of polio and “polio-like” illness.
Ignorant of this history and of the nearly 400 adverse reactions listed in childhood vaccine package inserts, some members of the general public are also reinforcing the heroism narrative. As reported by TIME, one of the teenage Pfizer participants has had “teachers and other students in the hallway say, ‘Hey, my gosh, that’s so cool’ and, ‘You’re so brave!’” The student’s mother replies that her daughter is “just doing a little teeny-tiny thing that we believe will help lots of people.”
Weighing the risks
As the experts on the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee indicate, not everyone agrees that receiving a hurriedly developed, experimental vaccine is a “little teeny-tiny thing.” As the mother quoted above concedes, “there are some people out there who don’t think this is the smartest thing for us to have done.” However, despite the fact that adults participating in Pfizer’s Phase 3 trials have reported experiencing high fever, pounding headaches, severe body aches, exhaustion and shivering intense enough to crack teeth, the mother’s assessment of the 11-page handout provided by Pfizer (describing “all the ifs and whys and hows and whats”) led her to conclude that her daughter would risk only minor side effects — in other words, “nothing drastic or dire.”
One wonders what these parents are being told about the never-before-approved mRNA technology featured in Pfizer’s vaccine. The proprietary mRNA platform is being supplied by Pfizer’s German partner, BioNTech, a young company that, in September 2019, fortuitously signed a deal with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (worth up to $100 million) to “build out its infectious disease infrastructure.” mRNA molecules are known to be “intrinsically unstable and prone to degradation,” with an inflammatory component that risks “dangerous immune reaction[s].”
Pfizer and its mRNA vaccine competitor, Moderna — which plans to start testing its vaccine in adolescents soon — have recently grabbed headlines celebrating the apparent effectiveness of their coronavirus vaccines. However, as the New York Times noted, both companies presented their preliminary and far-from-conclusive results in carefully crafted news releases — short on the details “that would allow outside experts to evaluate their claims” — rather than in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The advocacy group Public Citizen openly criticized Pfizer’s uninformative PR blitz as “bad science.”
Experts touting these mRNA vaccines have engaged in a number of linguistic contortions to allay legitimate worries, recognizing that “the rapidity of development — an idea underscored by the name Operation Warp Speed — [has] inadvertently aggravate[d] the public’s safety concerns.” One pediatric professional, refuting the characterization of the vaccine development process as “rushed” said, “I would say that it was intensified and that after each phase of the study it was analyzed in a quicker fashion than normally maybe so. This does not mean it was rushed, it was just worked on more aggressively.”
A Stony Brook Children’s Hospital executive, alluding to the years of fruitless research on mRNA vaccines, has likewise soothingly stated, “The technology for this vaccine, while new, is still years old.”
Pfizer, for its part, admits to the need for “months and even years” of follow-up to ascertain safety meaningfully. Unfortunately, its clinical trials end after 24 months, and its active monitoring of adverse events largely focuses on the first couple of months. As VRBPAC’s consumer representative, an attorney, stated at the FDA’s late October meeting, “There could be adverse effects we don’t know about, and so isn’t two months a little short?”
Moreover, long-term follow-up for conditions such as cancer and autoimmune diseases will become difficult, if not impossible, if the vaccine makers hasten to offer their vaccines to the placebo groups (thereby erasing their comparison), which Moderna and Pfizer executives have both suggested they will do.
Running down children, no matter what
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Most children with COVID-19 have mild symptoms or have no symptoms at all.” In its breakdown of risks by age groups, the public health agency rates 5-17-year-old children’s risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization as nine times lower and their risk of death as 16 times lower than for young adults aged 18-29 — who themselves are a low-risk age group.
In comparison, the CDC assesses the risk of death for seniors aged 75-84 or 85+ years as 220 times and 630 times higher, respectively, than for 18-29-year-olds. As of mid-November, the CDC had attributed just 39 deaths to COVID-19 in children aged 5-14 (well under 1% of all deaths in that age group). The CDC also acknowledges that most of the children who develop severe coronavirus illness have comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes, asthma, immune suppression, congenital heart disease, or genetic, neurologic, or metabolic disorders.
Under the circumstances, it would not be surprising if many parents questioned the need to add an experimental COVID-19 vaccine to their young ones’ already top-heavy vaccination schedule. It would also be understandable if parents were beginning to rethink the wisdom of flu shots. Numerous studies over the past decade, including in children, have indicated that influenza vaccination increases the risk of subsequent acute respiratory illness, and a 2020 Pentagon study showed a 36% greater risk of coronavirus infection post-flu shot.
Recognizing the need to build a more solid “bedrock of confidence” among parents, officials have been busy marshaling their counterarguments. All signs point toward the continued use of tactics such as fear appeals (including comparisons of the coronavirus to past “plagues” and warnings that parents will “exponentially” increase their children’s risk of “catching the virus” if they refuse the vaccine), minimization of risk concerns (even as experts admit that “any vaccine can cause an allergic reaction”) and old-fashioned bribery (with the vaccine being held out as the only way to “recover from the financial, emotional and medical burdens that [COVID-19] has caused”).
The true “heroes” of this story, however, are likely to be the parents who recognize these tactics for the soft forms of coercion that they are, and who choose to protect their children rather than sacrifice them on the altar of a disingenuous altruism.
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