'Advocates of blanket COVID vaxx mandates have tried to conflate those insisting on individual risk assessment w/ the ideological anti-vaxxers. While there is some overlap between the two, many people who never thought twice about immunizing their children against measles, mumps'
'have balked at the thought of injecting their children w/ an experimental medical solution to a virus that poses a negligible threat to them.'
Absent significant co-morbidities (some still unknown), & recognizing that fatality is not the sole negative outcome, of C19 or vaxx...
'Never in American history have schoolchildren been required to receive vaccines that had not already undergone years—usually at least a decade—of safety trials. Nor have we required children to receive vaccines for diseases that primarily pose a risk to adults or the elderly.'
'To date, there are no studies being conducted on the effects of COVID vaccines on the approximately 38% of children who have naturally acquired immunity.'
'Yet as soon as the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the 5-11 age range at the end of October, a number of U.S. cities & educational institutions imposed mandates... or declared [them] imminent.'
'the legal basis for EUAs is a matter of the individual right to access experimental treatments, not of government right to compel such treatments. EUA products, by definition, have not yet been proven safe and effective according to FDA standards.'
'The language leaves no doubt that Congress intended for any decision to take such products to be made free of coercion, pressure, or duress.'
'there remains no legal precedent for mandating EUA vaccines for anyone outside of the military. There is certainly no history of doing so for children.'
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3. the International Covenant on Civil & Political rights: 'no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.'
(whereas the UDHR Article 7 'is nonderogable, even "in time of public emergency which threatens the life of the nation."')
4. even for soldiers, at war:
'soldiers may relinquish their right to refuse medical treatment upon enlisting, they retain, as all humans do, their right to refuse to be subjects of human experiments--& so retain their right to refuse experimental or investigational drugs...'
Stumbling into Armageddon...
'As an old cold warrior as a member of the anti-Soviet Committee on the Present Danger and as a member of a secret presidential committee that helped Reagan end the Cold War' paulcraigroberts.org/2022/01/18/can…
I can tell you that I am astonished that Washington has not heard what the Russians have, in all frankness, told them.
If the Committee on the President Danger had heard the Russians say this in the 1980s, we would have told President Reagan to acknowledge their concern...
' and reduce the tension.
Today the situation is so different that to an experienced cold warrior such as myself it is extremely scary.'
Ever see it argued that vaxx *weakened* our pandemic response?
'In the last 24 hours there were 55,232 new Covid cases in Australia.
By comparison, Australia had 10 (yes, ten) new daily cases a year ago in January 2021, just prior to the vaccine rollout.' sovereignman.com/trends/austral…
'But now that 92.6% of eligible Australians have been vaccinated, the infection rate has increased more than 5,000x from a year ago.'
'In other words, these politicians think that Australian residents will only become vaccine hesitant if Djokovic is physically present in Australia, as if he’s going to sneeze and his ideas will spread like Omicron droplets.'
Gifted visual communicator, @tomaspueyo makes devastating use of this photo (caution: legit trigger warning). And tho scientists in the UK 'Nudge Unit' have recently expressed regrets wrt exploiting fear, surely many would have found such a photo tempting. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
But the smallpox vaccine does actually set up an interesting counterpoint: far more frightening & horrifying disease (to most), with a vaccine agreed to have caused a level of vaccine injuries unacceptable by pre-2019 standards.
This is the context for a pub. in an American Bar Association special issue: Body Rights, Body Ethics soon after it became apparent that
US medical scientists & psychologists
were being enlisted in torture
in the Bush II regime's War on Terrorism: americanbar.org/groups/crsj/pu…
Informed consent:
'A Canadian father who has not been vaccinated against Covid has temporarily lost the right to see his ...child.
A judge ruled his visits would not be in the child's "best interest"' bbc.com/news/world-us-…
'The judgement is the first depriving a parent of access rights on immunisation grounds' though the child is double-vaccinated & though even if vaccinated the father could still contract & transmit the virus to his child. ledevoir.com/societe/659685…
The father had declared his willingness to respect all other public-health requirements, including avoiding leaving his residence for all non-essential excursions. He did not provide reasons for his reservations regarding vaccines.