Recently, leading anti-rationalist Dominic Lawson had his COVID 19 vaccine promotion pamphlet published by the Daily Mail with the headline “To win the war on Covid-19 we must inoculate Britain against the crazy anti-vaxxers.” Like many anti-rationalists Dominic seems to struggle with complex issues.
Certainly questioning anything they are told is unthinkable. Repeating information is where it’s at for the anti-rationalists.
Anti-rationalists are incapable of independent thought and need to be told what to believe by someone, some body or organisation, they consider to be important. They call these carefully selected important people and groups “reliable sources.”
It isn’t entirely clear what constitutes a reliable source for the anti-rationalist but they appear to range from globalist think tanks and appointed world health authority officials, to mainstream media hacks, multinational corporation spokespersons, the right scientists, fact checkers and government representatives.
For many anti-rationalists Dominic is one of those reliable sources. However, there is a pecking order and Dominic probably has his own favourite goto’s for information, though presumably Richard Tomlinson and Boris Johnson aren’t among them.
Given that virtually nothing he says in his article is plausible, let alone accurate, it is clear that veracity doesn’t have much to do with reliability for the anti-rationalists. If they can’t cherry pick the information they need to confirm their opinions, they just make it up.
Accept Everything And Question Nothing
Dominic get’s off to a flyer:
“There is only one sure way to deal with the coronavirus which has plunged the world’s economy into recession and killed (so far) more than half a million people. A vaccine.”
The specific novel strain of coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 may cause the associated respiratory syndrome of COVID 19. While Dominic doesn’t bother making this distinction, it is important to do so. Otherwise, he could be suggesting that half a million people have been killed by the common cold, which is what most coronavirus strains are.
I’m sure Dominic knows this isn’t just semantics. Something which so called fact checkers , the kind of reliable sources anti-rationalists prefer, have been keen to highlight.
When a 2020 study by Pentagon scientists of flu vaccinated U.S. military personnel found that vaccine interference increased the subjects risk of contracting coronavirus by 36%, the inaccurately named FactCheck were quick to point out that this didn’t specifically mean SARS-CoV-2. They said the vaccine study only showed an increased risk for coronavirus and that this is not the same as SARS-CoV-2. Despite Dominic’s slapdash approach, on this occasion, precision was important for the anti-rationalists.
The study was of service men and women inoculated between 2017 – 2019. This was before SARS-CoV-2 was discovered. This also means the Pentagon team weren’t testing for SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility. SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus, so FactCheck’s categorical statement that there is “no evidence” that the flu vaccine increases the risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 is false. There is inconclusive evidence that this could be the case. FactCheck have got their facts wrong.
Evidence of this potential risk was also found in the paper by scientists from the University of Hong Kong who discovered almost a five-fold increase in susceptibility to non influenza respiratory viruses, including coronavirus, among flu vaccinated children. Anti-rationalists will be quick to deny the existence of this science because that’s what they do whenever it doesn’t “fit” with their articles of faith.
Given that we know that COVID 19 is only a significant threat to the older people with comorbidities, and that this is the section of the population most extensively vaccinated with flu vaccines, the correlation and the existing scientific evidence would seem to warrant further investigation. Something the anti-vaxxers at the British Medical Journal are willing to contemplate.
However, rather than call for urgent research to establish if vaccine interference from the flu shot could increase SARS-CoV-2 risks, Facebook’s anti-rationalist fact checking partners preferred instead to deny everything and suggest that vaccine interference isn’t a thing. A quick search of Gargoyle Scholar reveals hundreds of papers and scientific articles discussing vaccine interference. Even the most cursory independent research is not something the anti-rationalists like to do.
A virus has very little to say about fiscal or monetary policy. However, government’s do. Dominic’s belief that a virus has caused global economic collapse is very silly. Of course it hasn’t, the political response to claims about a virus has.
Thus far this virus has supposedly affected about 0.15% of the global population and allegedly killed 0.007%. Though it seems, in the UK at least, there is reasonable doubt about the figures. Oxford University Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) reports that one of the main sources of mortality statistics in the UK, Public health England (PHE), have considerably overestimated deaths from COVID 19.
According to the World Health Organisation, if we accept the figures they report, COVID 19 is slightly less dangerous than a bad, though relatively common, seasonal influenza. Quite why COVID 19 necessitates plunging “the world’s economy into recession,” while flu doesn’t, is difficult to say. Still, Dominic thinks this all makes perfect sense, so that should be more than enough for his anti-rationalist followers.
I say “allegedly killed” because there is very little evidence that these people died “of” COVID 19. The vast majority of people who sadly died “with” COVID 19 were older people approaching, or already receiving, end of life care.
No one, including Dominic, knows how many of the people who died with COVID 19 died of COVID 19. Nor do we have much hope of ever finding out because the death registration process for COVID 19 produces a new from of mortality statistic which is almost perfectly useless.
This makes no difference to the anti-rationalists and they are willing to report that the virus has killed “more than half a million people” because that is what they have been told to think by their reliable sources. It is almost certainly a wildly inaccurate claim, but that’s no reason not to demand everyone else unquestioningly believe it in the myopic world of the anti-rationalists.
No Fault, No Liability, No Responsibility, No Problem
And so we come to the central theme of Dominic’s fantastical rant. The undoubted wonder of the COVID 19 vaccine, that doesn’t exist yet, and why anyone who has any reservations is a lunatic.
For anti-rationalists any questioning of their faith is evidence of the “perversity of human psychology.” The crazy anti-vaxxers, who, for example, urge use of the precautionary principle before we irrevocably alter the human genome, are all mad as far as Dominic and his anti-rationalist chums are concerned. Dominic enthuses:
“The global race to develop one [a COVID 19 vaccine] has been extraordinary in its scale and speed. As a result, it is thought possible that a vaccine might be approved as safe for general use as early as this winter.”
The oxymoron at the heart of this claim eludes anti-rationalists like Dominic. Vaccines usually take between 10 to 15 years to develop and trial. Yet Oxford University, and their collaborators Astrazeneca, are among the numerous public private partnerships around the world to have already injected experimental COVID 19 vaccines into thousands of human beings.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) are the largest single contributor to the World Health Organisation (WHO). They funded nearly every aspect of both the COVID 19 pandemic preparedness exercises and the planned response. Recently Bill Gates spoke about the indemnity vaccine manufacturers will need in order to avoid being sued for the harm their COVID 19 vaccine will probably cause. He Said:
“The efficacy of vaccines in older people is always a huge challenge. It turns out the flu vaccine isn’t that effective in older people…….Here, we clearly need a vaccine that works in the upper age range…..If we have one in 10,000 side effects, that’s way more, you know, 700,000 people who will suffer from that…….So that decisions of OK let’s go ahead and give this vaccine to the entire world, governments will need to be involved because there will be some risk and indemnification needed.”
This is standard procedure for vaccines and vaccine manufacturers. The various Vaccine Injury Compensation Programmes (VICP’s) operating around the world, are overseen by the BMGF owned WHO via their Global Vaccine Safety initiative. The WHO are keen to stress the “no fault” element of the various VICP’s.
Before anyone can receive compensation for the proven harm a vaccine caused them or their loved ones, they first have to agree that this is no ones fault. The vaccine manufacturers are not liable and the cost of the harm they cause is picked up by the tax payer.
As of November 2019 the U.S. NVICP alone had paid out $4.2 billion in compensation for people injured or killed by vaccines. In the UK the Vaccine Damage Fund (VDF), with a ceiling payout of just £120,000, has cost tax payers just over £74 million in compensation.
This no fault legal technicality allows the the anti-rationalists to claim that there is no evidence, despite the proven deaths and disabilities caused, of any harm from vaccines. A ridiculous legalese argument which is difficult to counter due to the depth of the stupidity it is based upon.
This fear of liability begs the question why the world’s most powerful health authority, the software salesman Bill Gates, wants to indemnify his minions against being sued. Could it be because his own estimate for the potential harm caused by the vaccine seemingly exceeds the risk from the disease he wants to vaccinate the world against?
Bill’s vaccine hesitancy may be well founded. Previous attempts to create SARS related vaccines have been a total disaster. This explains why, despite decades of trying, science has failed to engineer a vaccine for SARS strain coronavirus.
Earlier efforts did stimulate the hoped for antibody and protein reactions but also increased the subjects immunopathological response to the disease, instigating cytokine storms which killed the tested ferrets and mice far more effectively than the virus alone. The researchers noted:
“Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”
Thankfully, initial animal trials of Atrazeneca and Oxford University’s ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (renamed AZD1222 SARS-CoV-2) didn’t immediately kill the mice and 6 macaque monkeys they tested it on. Following this extensive non peer reviewed study, which the researchers called “a rapid yet thorough investigation,” the team decided to inject more than 10,000 people with their experimental vaccine.
People really volunteered for this. A tiny bit of independent research would put huge doubt in your mind before ever agreeing to be experimented upon with any alleged SARS vaccine. Anti-rationalism is a high risk faith because the first rule of anti-rationalism is do no research.
Meanwhile no one, anywhere, has reasonably explained how an R&D, trial and safety testing process, that usually takes decades, can suddenly be safely completed in a few months. Anti-rationalists, who probably correctly assume the experimental substance will be approved as safe no matter what, consider anyone who asks how this is possible to be an idiot.
It is safe because the people who want to make billions by selling it, say it is safe. They have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain so why wouldn’t they? If you wonder if they actually constitute a reliable source you are clearly deluded. Or, as Dominic puts it, have fallen for “an increasingly popular form of conspiracy theory.”
The Highest Scientific Standards
To hammer home just how far off the reservation the anti-rationalists have strayed, their leading light Dominic then completely destroys the whole purpose of his own diatribe. While meandering aimlessly through some strawman argument, weirdly alleging that to question any aspect of any vaccine is to unquestioningly believe in homeopathy, he writes:
“This hits the anti-vax nail on the head. Its campaigning is all about the way people say they ‘feel’, far removed from the complex and even intimidating world of scientific and medical research. Furthermore, the advance of genuine medical knowledge is a painstaking process, involving exhaustive double-blind’ clinical trials. It can be hard…….for such conscientious empiricism to win out over raw emotional certainty masquerading as knowledge.”
This hits the anti-rationalist nail on the head. They genuinely believe that the scientific method is the listing of scientific theories from official “reliable sources.” They have completely lost sight, or simply don’t understand, that the core tenet of all science is, and always has been, doubt.
Moreover they assume that the considerable volume of science that questions vaccine safety and efficacy doesn’t exist. Therefore, in the goldfish bowl of anti-rationalism, to question the science funded by pharmaceutical corporations, often by citing science that isn’t, is “crazy” and based upon nothing but feelings.
Of course anti-rationalists themselves often cite feelings to back up their arguments against the people they wrongly label anti-vaxxers. Dominic tells us about the “heart-breaking detail” of Roald Dahl’s loss of his daughter Olivia. Anti-rationalist appeals to emotion are fine because they support their opinion.
The people anti-rationalists label as anti-vaxxers generally do not claim that all vaccines are either useless or dangerous. They acknowledge that vaccines can be, and have been, a useful component of effective public health policy. They point out that not all vaccines are equal, that some have caused harm and that this harm needs to be carefully considered.
Because anti-rationalism is based upon faith and belief, rather than empirical evidence, its acolytes are often forced fall back on the popular falsehoods they have been spoon fed. One such is the mythology surrounding the 1998 study which Andrew Wakefield participated in. Dominic’s version goes like this:
“The British (ex) doctor Andrew Wakefield, whose fraudulent 1998 study for the medical magazine The Lancet, claiming that autism in children was caused by the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine…..”
The only thing Dominic has got right is Dr. Wakefield name and that he was struck off. If he read the study, which presumably he hasn’t, he would know that this was the finding:
“We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described……..Published evidence is inadequate to show whether there is…….a link with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.”
That Dr. Walker-Smith’s study did not say there was a proven link between MMR and autism; that no one questioned the scientific efficacy or conduct of the researchers for more than a decade; that an independent scientific review of Dr Wakefields contribution found no reason even to suspect scientific fraud, nor any misconduct; that it was only a witch-hunt by a lone alleged investigative journalist which caused the furore; that he worked for a GlaxoSmithKline board member at the time and that the High Court then overturned the blatantly corrupt decision of the the General Medical Council, who stripped Dr Wakefield and others of their licenses, matters not to the anti-rationalists.
I suspect Dominic knows that confidence in the MMR jab was already waning, prior to publication of the study in the Lancet. This was due to the 1992 withdrawal of the previous MMR vaccine Pluserix after it was found to cause aseptic meningitis. Though, like every other anti-rationalists, who bleats on about the stories they have made up about Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Dominic is careful not to report this fact.
So it comes as no surprise that, while venerating the “double-blind (placebo) clinical trial,” anti-rationalists like Dominic neglect to mention that their are no Randomised Clinical Trials (RCT’s) of the vaccine schedule. No one has any idea what the cumulative health benefit or costs are for injecting people with a combination of substances.
Anti-rationalists become incandescent with clueless rage whenever anyone raises this concern, because vaccines save lives and have eradicated disease. Blind placebo trials of vaccine schedules are impossible because not to offer vaccines to anyone is to condemn them to certain death. Therefore, this justifies not bothering to find out what the actual health benefits, or risks, of vaccine schedules are.
The anti-vaxxers, published in the Lancet, called this the ‘vaccine paradigm’. The Lancet is usually a reliable source for anti-rationalists, but not in this case.
The vaccine paradigm is built upon RCT’s which only measure the targeted immune response. Like all anti-vaxxers, the research scientist anti-vaxxers point out both that there are non-specific effects, associated with vaccines, and that not all vaccines are the same.
They report a number of positive, hitherto unrecognised benefits from vaccines which can be identified in the research literature. For example, a study found that Danish infants who received the MMR vaccine were not only protected against measles, mumps and rubella but all cause mortality from other non specific diseases also decreased for the vaccinated children.
However, they also found increased mortality among vaccinated groups compared to unvaccinated groups. For example studies showed that children who received the DTP vaccine were more than twice as likely to die from some other diseases than unvaccinated children; the H1N1 vaccine was found to increase all cause mortality among girls and the attenuated Malaria vaccine more than doubled female all cause child mortality in West Africa.
The research scientists noted the lack of research studying the combination and order of vaccine schedules. Finding numerous examples where the vaccine combinations have an impact upon associated all cause mortality, some positive, some not, they noted, for example:
“In all studies exploring this, the incidence of all-cause mortality increases if the DTP vaccine is administered after the measles vaccine compared with inverse order. Likewise, administering the measles vaccine and DTP vaccine together is associated with higher incidence of all cause mortality than only receiving the measles vaccine.”
On balance, they conclude:
“Taking non-specific effects into account in the global vaccination programme could reduce global mortality by 1·1 million deaths per year.”
According to the anti-rationalists none of this is real. To use the scientific method and seek to understand the relative health costs and benefits of constantly giving more and more vaccines to human beings, is all crazy anti-vaxxer gibberish.
Consequently, the anti-rationalists have formed a sort of vaccine cult, based upon the scientifically illiterate delusion that all vaccines always save lives. Convinced that only they understand “real science” they no longer need to apply any and can viciously attack all that do, because they are crazy anti-vaxxers.
Anti-rationalists think anyyone who questions their tightly restricted, officially approved, science is just too dumb to understand it. Therefore, while refusing even to acknowledge, let alone discuss, the science they don’t agree with, they propose we should instead listen to anti-rationalist celebrities. Dominic suggests:
“I would prefer instead that the Government turns the celebrity’ endorsement factor against the anti-vaccination lobby. So in the field of sport, it should hire, say, Andy Murray, to promote a campaign (a suitable antidote to anti-vaxxer’ Novak Djokovic).”
While, to be fair to Dominic, he isn’t so keen on mandating vaccines, this kind of estrangement from sanity is leading us all in that direction. Something which government is all too eager to foster and exploit.
I have no idea if Andy Murray is an anti-rationalist, nor what Novak Djokavic believes about vaccines. Frankly, I couldn’t care less what they think because they are both fantastic tennis players but not independent research scientists.
The Authoritarian Certainty of Anti-Rationalist Scientism
For the anti-rationalist a restricted, officially approved, tranche of medical science has transcended into the puritanical certainty of “scientism.” All that is required is an announcement, from their priests and priestesses in white coats, for the anti-rationalist to obey without hesitation. This mindless obedience is damned useful if you are a government that wants to control the behaviour of your population.
All the government needs to do is say all their decisions are “led by the science” and the anti-rationalists will throw themselves on the bandwagon quicker than the State can say “for the general good.” This technique is predicated upon the anti-rationalist aversion to ever reading any of the “wrong science.” Or any of the right science for that matter.
The wrong science is the science that doesn’t agree with the predetermined political, social or economic agenda. Providing the mainstream media only report the “right science,” and tell the anti-rationalists that all the other science, which disproves or question their faith, is “crazy,” the authoritarians are good to go. Safe in the knowledge that the devout anti-rationalist will never question anything told to them by one of the government’s (or their multinational corporation partner’s) pet scientific experts.
The fact that the COVID 19 vaccine doesn’t exist yet is an irrelevance for the anti-rationalists. They have already decided that it will be perfectly safe. Dominic insists that injecting 7.8 billion people with an experimental genetic modifier (in all likelihood) is the only thing that can save the 99.99% of the global population for whom COVID 19 present absolutely no threat whatsoever.
The lack of something’s existence is no reason not to vigorously promote it or, indeed, buy it. More importantly, anyone who questions their mythical, future ambrosia must be attacked for being a crazy anti-vaxxer.
In keeping with the faith over reason approach, the fact that anti-vaxxers don’t really exist fits neatly with their deification of the fictional elixir they imagine to be their only hope. As they wage war on an enemy which is, of course, invisible.
Dogmatic adherence to questionable ideologies has always been one of the most lethal components of the human psyche. Especially when any dissent is considered to be dangerous. Dominic writes:
“The necessity of a mass vaccine take-up is not to safeguard the lives of children but for the general good of us all, economically as much as medically.”
The general good is precisely the principle advocated by all authoritarian regimes throughout history. For example, the National Socialist Program (25-Punkte-Programm) of the Nazi’s contained the following:
“The activity of the individual may not clash with the interests of the whole, but must proceed within the framework of the whole for the benefit for the general good.”
Further:
“Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden.”
As the COVID 19 crisis spread from the alleged epicentre of Wuhan the UK Law commissioner Penney Lewis warned that anyone posting, what the government call, online “anti-vaccine propaganda” could be prosecuted under new laws the government want to invent. This is likely to come in the form of the Online Harms Act which will bring in wide sweeping censorship.
The UK government have persistently hinted that they will ignore inalienable human rights and mandate a compulsory COVID 19 vaccine. As the Coronavirus ACT 2020 suspended all democracy and, with the State warning of second waves (please watch the video below) and no return to abnormal before Christmas, initial government assurances that removal of rights was a temporary measure were utterly worthless.
If COVID 19 vaccines become compulsory then the legal precedent will be set to force you to have every other vaccine the pharmaceutical corporations dream up in the future. You will have no autonomy over your own body, which will be owned by the State, and you will “officially” be a slave.
If it is not permitted to openly discuss the scientific evidence, both for and against vaccines, then medical tyranny is assured and any eye rolling by anti-rationalists merely demonstrates that they are not only incapable of understanding science they have no appreciation of history either.
The anti-rationalists are certain that the COVID 19 vaccine is going to save all of us, but with some surveys suggesting that up to 40% of the population might refuse it, Dominic is among the many anti-rationalists who worries himself about achieving the herd effect. Let’s forget that this unproven theoretical concept applies to natural and not artificially induced immunity, and just address the anti-rational witter. Dominic writes:
“For a vaccine to create the herd immunity’ required, it is necessary for between 70 and 90 per cent of us to receive such an inoculation.”
If limited uptake of the wonder drug keeps the anti-rationalists awake at night, an obvious solution springs to mind. On that might go some way towards assuaging the concerns of the people who like to make their own minds up.
Once the vaccine is ready, a truly independent health body with absolutely no financial ties to any pharmaceutical corporation, no government backing nor government contracts, should undertake an independent scientific evaluation of the vaccine. They could be given temporary authority to select a random sample of the vaccine, from batches they select without warning, and test it’s safety and efficacy in a large cohort, double blind, placebo randomised control trial.
That large cohort will be drawn from all member of parliament, the U.S. congress and the EU commission, all policy makers and lobbyists who advocate “anti-vaxxer” censorship, all boards of pharmaceutical corporations, all BMGF members, all GAVI members, and all World Health Organisation bureaucrats. It will also include all members of the mainstream media, like Dominic, who think anyone who questions vaccines is an anti-vaxxer, and any other anti-rationalist who has argued for censorship of scientific opinion.
Any hint of any involvement or influence from anyone with either a commercial or policy interests in vaccines, will render the study null and void and the COVID 19 vaccine will be deemed to be unproven and unsafe. Once the vaccine injury rate has been independently assessed another, separate, independent panel, again with no links to any pharmaceutical corporations, government or policy makers, will then decide if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Only following approval via this process, will the vaccine be offered to the people. There will be no suggestion or demand for compulsory vaccination because that would contravene Article 6 of the United Nations Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights which states:
“Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.”
Given how enthusiastic Dominic and other anti-rationalists are about the COVID 19 vaccine, and how concerned they are about uptake, who among them could object to this?
However, if they mandate that we must take their vaccine, one developed, trialled and deemed safe by the people who profit from it; if they refuse to acknowledge the appalling conflict of interest in the scientism they worship; if they won’t listen to legitimate scientific concerns and deny all opportunities for rational debate and independent research; if they censor scientific evidence, and persist with their strawman arguments and false appeals to faux authority; if they continue to deploy the meaningless labels, they have created, to marginalise anyone who dares criticise their vaccine cult, then we must inoculate ourselves against the crazy anti-rationalists.
It’s easy, we just ignore these zealots. And, if millions of us refuse to comply, there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.
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Superb!
Glad you found it interesting.
Yes Tom, superb! Thanks Iain
Many thanks Pete. Please share with those you think it might do some good.
Excellent, thanks for this. My ex wife and I have four kids, our eldest boy is now 21 and has severe autism and learning difficulties. He attends a college, and the subject of vaccines came up nearly a year ago. My ex and I usually are 100% agreed on anything to do with the kids, but she wanted him to have them, I didn’t. No matter how much info I present to her, she just sees it as conspiracy theory. Trouble is, people will watch or read things, but with the mindset that they must find a reason to be able to discount it. Even if there isn’t one, they will believe there is. It’s like banging your head against a wall. Hopefully this will help to break down the denial…if I can get her to read it.
Thanks James. I think an important aspect is to highlight that for many so called “anti-vaxxers” there is no denial of the potential public health benefits of vaccines. As I have tried to stress here, it isn’t the black and white argument the “anti-rationalists” claim. I don’t know your personal view, but perhaps just pointing out that the 1992 MMR was withdrawn because it did cause harm, doesn’t mean that the current MMR is as harmful. They are not the same.
It’s usually impossible to reason someone out of something they haven’t been reasoned in too. Maybe your best bet is to state your fears sincerely and ask your partner if she could refrain from new vaccinations for your son until much better evidence proves their safety. A mental list of well-known tragedies concerning wonder cures or treatments that went horribly wrong (eg thalidomide, Gates vaccines in India and Africa) and some data concerning big pharma’s projected projects from fotcing us all into vaccination would be useful ways of explaining your fear and backing up a very reasonable request. Forget about proving who’s right.
Agree with every word, other than the last part of your final sentence.
“there is absolutely nothing they can do about it”
If the rumoured ID chip is placed within the vaccine they, TPTB, can/will refuse you permission to work, travel, eat out, visit sporting events, go to the pub etc, etc. without the ‘passport’; for the common good , of course.
Personally I think that there is a great Reset coming, although I have no proof of this, just the creeping Corporate Fascism we have witnessed since the Great Terror began in 1997.
Thanks Inmate, there is evidence of the Great Reset as that is precisely what the World Economic Forum have called their new technocracy. You raise an interesting point. I agree at this stage it seems more likely that they won’t mandate for a vaccine yet. The first stage will be as you described. By linking your “vaccine status” via your “immunity passport” biometric ID to all economic activity.
However, potentially this will instantly creates a huge counter economic demand for vaccine free goods and services. If they don’t mandate the vaccine and significant numbers don’t take it, it will be difficult to deny the “unvaccinated” the goods and services they need. They will try, but the more who refuse the harder this will become. Shrewd entrepreneurs could do well if they seize on this likely new market in my opinion.
The alternative will be the obvious crack down and effective starvation of the “unvaccinated.” There will be no denying the fascistic nature of the policy at that point.
But the whole point of the “Great Reset” is to destroy the global economy so that they can “build back better”. There will be no economic demand for vaccine free goods and services allowed. I knew when the first lockdown was announced what was coming. One of the advisors flanking Johnson when he made the initial announcement said so. He said,”things will not be the same again”. I never heard anyone in the media mention that.
The demand will be there it is the degree to which people are “permitted” to meet it which you rightly question. I don’t know but assume there will be restrictions. That’s why we need to consider a counter-economic approach. http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf
Iain, I really must thank you. This is a brilliantly written, well researched and intellectual article.
But more than this it is so important. It has made me feel less helpless for a start, even though it tells us how helpless we are. But for the time-being, as a retired Research Fellow whose area was Medical Research, I can feel validated against those ignorant and vile people, including Matt Hancock who wish to turn the world against people such as me because I raise my serious fears about the intentions of hastily injecting a so-called vaccine into everybody saying it will prevent the newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 making us sick with COVID-19. As if such a thing could be found so fast and be effective and safe! Of course I am highly sceptical about how the aforesaid virus became a threat and suspect that this “vaccine” was already in the pipelines alongside it. I have tried to send messages to warn people but once people become brainwashed and feel they are speaking for a noble cause I fear all is lost.
I do think it remains for the minority of us, probably those of us who read a little more and think a little more deeply and ask questions, we need to keep in touch and give each other strength and support during the difficult time ahead.
Many thanks again for your excellent work.
Thanks Lesley. I agree we will need to stay united in the coming months. All comments here are moderated before approval so if you need to contact me for any reason please leave a comment and if you wish the comment to remain private just let me know and it will.
You will need to find a way of staying in touch, because the WEF website is telling us it´s going to close down the internet next.
Yep communication will be a key issue. I think internet outages are distinct possibility but they won’t be long lived. It is so intrinsic to the modern economy and certainly to the future economy that it won’t closed down for long in my view.
Iain,
Thanks so much for such a thoughtful and provocative piece with well researched and documented links. I also particularly like the “anti-rationalist” term as it just so fitting and spelled appropriately to boot. I would have loved a linknto the excess mortality associated with DTAp and the sequence issues with that and MMR. If poasible to post, that would be great but I am also not averse to researching myself. Thanks for the great article.
Many thanks Rose. I am currently looking at something else at the moment but would be interested in those figures myself. Please let me know if you dig them out.
“A ridiculous legalese argument which is difficult to counter due to the depth of the stupidity it is based upon.”
Brillant.
Cheers Steve, I have lost patience with those who use the “no fault” aspect of VICP’s as “proof” that there is no evidence that vaccines cause harm. It is a mindless argument.
Excellent analysis, Iain.
I’m not as optimistic as you. The general public turned the Kardashians into billionaires ffs.
May I suggest that vaccines are a contrived opportunity for Big Pharma because their existing business model no longer works. I wrote a piece for Principia Scientific on this subject and you can also find it n my little blog if you are interested.
Thanks Finn. Brilliant Article. highly recommended to all: https://thatsenoughofthat.com/2020/07/16/covid-19-the-drugs-dont-work/
I am going to send you an email as I would like to discuss something with you. Hope that’s OK.
Missing the big lie there is no new disease Covid.
No inoculation necessary, You’re either barking mad believer in a Covid cult or youre not.
https://notpublicaddress.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/how-to-spot-a-fake-or-cia-funded-alt-right-blog/
You’ll need to convince the Wuhan researchers that their own work, as published frequently in Nature magazine, was just a dream. The coronaviruses they isolated from bats back in 2012 were selected for their ability to infect humans directly, as this paper explains:
Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711?fbclid=IwAR13dLP-B4mOYlfWlwkl9Ciys5jaHmUeenjgQjjkbp0cwPVWuSOBrHYk9SA
I can tell you that without even looking. They all herd their readers (which is why I call them herders) into believing it´s “the Zionists”.
Excellent article: I wrote a long comment and lost it!
I was suspicious from the start of this so-called pandemic – Covid19, having had my eyes opened in the 1980’s when four babies in my village developed life-changing conditions, weeks after receiving the MMR vaccine, one died.
What I find hard to get my head round is that so many people fall for the ‘story-line’and seemingly rarely question the efficacy of vaccines, or even research their contents, considering the number that are administered to pre-school aged children. Surely we weren’t always this dumbed-down?
Sorry you lost your reply Poppy but thanks for this, a good point, well made. There has certainly been a persistent campaign to move education away from encouraging critical thinking towards simply parroting officially approved narratives. In all disciplines. However, the depth of cognitive dissonance and the child like belief that the State is some sort of loving, protective parent is extremely difficult to overcome. People would rather live with comfortable lies than face uncomfortable truths.
True, but take into account an awfully large section of the population now work in the public services which are now little more than government agents.
True and I would say you could extend that number to a large percentage of the general public. They too seem wedded to government and love it deeply. Anyone who questions authority is in a minority but it is often the minority view which changes society.
I highly recommend “The Handbook of Nature Cure” and the Australian, John Fielder’s work… I read this book after a trip to India (meeting the Natural Farmer Bharat Mansata) and returning back to the US before the plandemic broke out (as part of a 25 day fast).
http://www.johnfielder.com.au/about.html
https://earthcarebooks.com/product/handbook-of-nature-cure/
The book clearly debunks Germ & Caloric theory…
There’s a free version downloadable on below (I found it on Scribd) for those interested…
https://anonfiles.com/rbk0Z3I6o7/Handbook_of_Nature_Cure_Fielder_pdf
What mask do we wear to deal with the pandemic mind virus of collective insanity and mass extermination that is the cultural operating system called industrial civilization? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mxGA05qPeo
This very helpful Notice has helped to allay my fears of being forcibly jabbed
http://philosophers-stone.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Vaccination-Notice-v3-1.pdf
-from the very helpful Jerry Day
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8hHmMbMIGnNi/
“Advice for Anyone Not Wanting to be Stuffed” from good ole Dr Vernon
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M0tYjcd5XRwR/
Talking of homeopathy, Kerala and Cuba have given out homoeopathic prophylactics to everyone, and they have less than 10 deaths per million.
Iain, excellent article and great to see so many of the issues in one piece. Vaccines are a crucial issue as it is “their” trojan horse way in to dictate all the other things you described – biometric I.D. linked to health, vaccine and money. I have been living in Africa for nearly 10 years and now we are seeing Gates et al moving in here with biometric I.D. which will link to health/vaccine status. They are rolling it out here as part of a new colonial/medical domination. Also, pharma has been working hard in last twenty years to revoke vaccine exemptions in the usa, even in California where I lived for long time. Jerry Brown, democrat governor signed new draconian bill into law. Definitely Big Pharma’s plan is mandatory vaccs for all, including adults. I have written a long article on the recent media manipulation regarding the vaccine issue, called “Is Nearly Everybody a Conspiracy Theorist Now? Links MSM campaign to the UK government complicity in pharma agenda. happy to share with you and others. Love A Dangerous Ideology BTW. Keep up excellent work
Thanks Richard. I’ve just looked on your excellent site, which I will again highly recommend to all – https://covidwatching.org/
However, I can’t find the article you refer to. Please send a link when you can.
HI Iain. I have asked UK Column to see if they are interested in publishing the article. Not heard back yet and so haven’t published it yet on the blog. But happy to send to you anyway. I wrote it before seeing so much of your references to the way “conspiracy theorist” is being used now by MSM so good to address this crazy narrative they are pushing on us. Mad days. You must be following Del Bigrtree’s campaign to force drug companies to do proper trials. Also, thx a lot for all research into “climate change”. was really useful.
Yep it’s only beginning too. the Highwire’s censorship is pretty blatant. I think the gloves are off now. A couple of my articles have drawn the attention of the censors too. See UK column for Wed 5th August.
Hi Iain,
I was checking back with your site because I forgot to subscribe. Just as well, as you kindly give a free copy of your book which I have just downloaded.
Did you ever get round to emailing me? I would hate to think that I lost it if you did.
Hi Finn, my apologies, I have had my nose in a few pies lately and forgot but I will do.
After attempting to warn my friends (and anyone else who listens) about the rise of Fascism sponsored by the SNP in Scotland, I was in despair of it being obvious enough that the ordinary guy could spot it. If this doesnt,then hell mend them!!!
People get very confused when I question vaccines and masks but don’t believe the earth is flat
To that I say: if you believe there is a pandemic, you might as well believe that the earth is flat
I am so utterly confused by so much in the world right now. As an American living in Istanbul, I traveled back home to the see this summer (despite strenuous objections from friends and family on both sides of the ocean, who argued the trip was too dangerous to take), and was horrified by what I saw. Horrified by the mental trauma that has been inflicted on people. At the same time, it is to me glaringly obvious what is happening; the manipulation of numbers and the harnessing of fear to get people to submit to a panoply of new regulations as well as to general economic suicide. I do think this is about a reset, both economically and technologically (techno-fascistically). But what I note most despairingly is the looks that my family even gives me if I mention or try to talk about any of this. What can we do? How can we organise? And I guess my biggest question is: WHY. JUST WHY. WHY DO SOME PEOPLE WANT THIS NEW ORDER TO BE INSTALLED? That’s the essence of what I don’t understand. In the meantime, it is clear to me now that my most important role, as mother to 3 children, is to protect them from mandatory vaccines, to show them not to live with fear, and most of all, to allow them to hew a path forward into this strange new world without losing their autonomy and their selves. It is nothing less than a struggle to keep the roots of our trees safe.
Thanks Julia for your insightful comment. I wish I had answers to your question, but I agree protecting our children is now the key concern. How we do that is something all of us need to consider. But the objective here is to centralise all power and authority. Therefore, I suggest, the solutions will be decentralised. We need to be as autonomous and self reliant as possible.
Thank you for responding! I just found your blog after reading your piece in the OffGuardian today. You are right about solutions being decentralised ones. But I am wondering what will happen to my children if, for example, school is held at bay until or unless they are vaccinated. I suppose it will mean finding independent schools that don’t demand them. Same for international travel. Does it mean we need to buy our own airplanes? Boats? Also, do you think we are in any danger posting comments on sites like OffGuardian? Like are our names/IP addresses being taken down, or am I just getting paranoid now?
I think all communications are monitored at all times, or rather data is hoovered up to be analysed. So leaving comments on sites like the OffGuardian won’t make much difference. Nor should we be worried about doing so. No one is suggesting anything harmful or illegal and we should never be frightened to speak openly in good faith. As I said Julia, I am sorry but I have no answers for you. All our circumstances vary so greatly there are no one size fits all, right answers. But one might imagine, if vaccines are mandatory for schooling, home schooling may increase in popularity perhaps with households coming together to share the responsibility. Whether this will be tolerated will depend very much on your local rulers I would suspect.
Lawson sounds pathetic. A typical mainstream commentator bought and sold by BIG PHARMA.
Vaccines have NEVER WORKED.
They contaminate the gene pool and undermine our immune systems. They contain toxic additives like formaldehyde and aluminium that cause autism, allergies, neurological damage, paralysis and a host of other impairments.
That’s how BIG PHARMA works. Their vaccines make you ill then their meds make you even more ill.
To top it all – BIG PHARMA is entirely absolved of any indemnity for the damage and death wrought on us by its vaccines and meds.
BIG PHARMA is worth trillions of dollars and is now holding the world to ransom with their latest VIRAL SCAMDEMIC.
Rocket science it’s not.
I disagree somewhat. I think some vaccines have worked and the concept of inducing an immune response is sound. For example the DPT (acellular) combined vaccine significantly reduced pertussis in young children, across Europe. However, It differed immensely from the cheaper DPT vaccine distributed in the U.S. which caused severe health harm for many infants.
As for the way Big Pharma has exploited vaccines, and all allopathic medicine, I couldn’t agree more. And therein lies the problem. If you try to address the misuse of medical science and corruption the label of “anti-vaxxer” is then applied to stop you doing so. Or moreover, to stop others listening to what you have to say. Despite the fact that you may not be opposed to vaccine in principle. Which personally, I’m not.
You need Thorazine.
I see. So in response to an article about people being irrational in there arguments, you suggest I have a schizo-effective disorder.
Del is ready for battle – https://youtu.be/ZpDl0ohW3I8
A horrible read – https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/09/12/coronavirus-vaccine-transhumanism.aspx?
and a reminder that we already had plenty of good solutions – http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n37.shtml
Thanks again Sumy for an informative comment.
One thing Mr Davis needs to think about when deciding whose opinions to value or not is whether or not someone has reached a sufficiently high level of mental evolution to be able to evaluate fields outside their primary expertise to a high level of competence.
What I can tell him is this: if you have, you may not be able to evaluate the detailed technical claims of (in this case) certain scientists, but what you can most certainly do is identify the right questions to ask, what to look for given certain answers to those questions and most importantly, recognise logical dissonances in the arguments being put forward.
I suspect that Mr Djokovic has the first primary qualification to investigate what vaccines are about: he is a FATHER of a young child. As the father of a young child, he has to take responsibility for decisions concerning that child’s vaccination schedule, so he has every reason to take a close interest in what is going on.
But Mr Davis has no reason to seek out Mr Djokovic or Mr Murray as primary sources of wisdom, on that we are both in agreement.
I suggest that Mr Davis think very carefully about one very, very important question: ‘If you give the same (age-adjusted) dose of the same vaccine to different adults and children, do you expect a homogeneous response of those patients to the vaccine given?’
I can tell Mr Davis with certainty that the answer to that question is NO! The research team I was part of in the early 1990s were working with human tissues and thus were obliged to be vaccinated against HepB by the Occupational Health Services. There were two men and two women: both men (I was one of them) produced excellent immune responses and both women failed to respond at all. Both women were in good health, had no immune system issues.
There is no evidence there that men and women react differently (could be a statistical artefact) but obvious evidence that reactions are far from uniform.
So when Mr Davis starts to wonder about ‘adverse reactions’, he might like to think about potential subpopulations who respond very differently to the average and who are therefore being dosed inappropriately.
The most important thing for you as a parent is for your children to be in the middle of the curve where dose-response issues are concerned for vaccines.
Perish the thought that your child might be an outlier at the sensitive end of things. At the other end, well, natural immunity can take over if necessary. Unless you are very unlucky, they won’t die. But at the sensitive end, things can be lethal….
Thanks Rhys for an excellent comment. One thing I never consider, in evaluating someones opinion, is their innate (or developed) cognitive abilities. Primarily because I have no way of knowing what they are. I am only interested in the evidence to support that opinion. Largely, I am equally unconcerned about who expresses that opinion. Although I am keen to understand any possible conflicts of interest that may have contributed to possible cognitive bias. Which we all have, including me.
I am not suggesting that either tennis player is incapable of forming a perfectly valid opinion. Both may have a better grasp of vaccine science than I.
However, the point of the article is to highlight the illogical claims of the “antirationalists.” That there is no scientific evidence to question any aspect of any vaccine and than doing so warrants application of the “antivaxxer” label.
Moreover that this label, once applied, supposedly proves that the person making the criticism is essentially illogical, doesn’t understand scientific principles or methods, and is therefore incapable of expressing anything of any merit on the subject of vaccines. I strongly suggest this is a deliberate artifice to convince the wider public, who perhaps have yet to consider vaccines in any great depth, that the only people who ever question them are “antivaxxers” and can therefore be ignored completely.
That artifice relies upon a series of illogical and quite ludicrous assumptions, combined with a set of propagandist strategies and techniques. One being the use of celebrities to sway public opinion. Rather than criticising the tennis stars themselves I am bemoaning the evident fact that this strategy works.
I am not suggesting that vaccines don’t, or cannot, work, nor that they haven’t been demonstrated to do so. I am not claiming that there is no solid science behind the development or use of vaccines. I am not alleging that medical profession is incapable of administering them safely.
However, I am trying to highlight that there are perfectly valid scientific, medical and historical reasons to question some vaccines. That doing so is not an act of lunacy but is rather based upon the normal evaluation of scientific and medical evidence and that many of those who want the wider public to believe that any vaccine criticism is without foundation are liars and propagandists for the pharmaceutical corporations and the State.
Unless we break away from this childish use of labels then adverse reactions, such as the one that caused VDPV illness, paralysis and death for 490,000 children in India, will be impossible to discuss rationally.
The new world order is terrifying. Thank you for exposing some if its dark corners
Thanks for looking into them Jay.
Hey Iain, just read your newest piece in the OffGuardian and came over here and read the above article again. It’s gained further relevance as the months have passed for sure. New lockdowns and new rules; it looks almost certain that the vaccine will in fact be necessary for travel, school, and a number of other basic parts of life. Do you think the vaccine is actually dangerous (in particular the mRNA ones), or is it what it being Perhaps both? Anyway, curious to hear what you think.
Sorry, my comment got cut off: meant to ask “Do you think the vaccine itself is dangerous (content wise, and in particular the mRNA ones), or is it more what is being ATTEMPTED through forcing everyone to take it (the digitization of our bio medical histories as a way to track and categorize us)? Or perhaps both?
Thanks Julie I think the the mRNA thing, which isn’t a vaccine as it doesn’t rely upon the concept of variolation, is perhaps the most concerning for it’s programmable DNA potential which Moderna have openly admitted. However neither the mRNA nor standard “vaccines” have been trialled. All who take it are trial participants. Early signs aren’t good for either as a number of SAE’s have been reported.
Several good points. But I wish you hadn’t suggested that the jabs might “irrevocably alter the human genome”, I have not found anything yet to indicate this is a real risk, and it possibly makes you look like you doesn’t understand the underlying mechanism of the mRNA jabs. Someone let me know (with evidence) if I’m wrong. Thanks!
Yep, point taken. A better way of putting it is that mRNA technology raises the possibility altering gene expression.
Ooops! In my previous post “doesn’t” = “don’t” …
It is my belief that there is far more sinister addition to this “vaccine” that produced unwavering cooperation and belief in any old propaganda that known liars sold through their funded Presstitute Propaganda… at the flick of a switch.
How else can we explain the dystopian zombie effect.
I think the re-set will not be anything like what we imagine, but will be the total removal of self determination and will, and subjugation to our masters…or death – those will be the only choices. I am only glad that my life is at an end.
Thanks for the comment Katpus. I hope you have a few years left in you yet and I think the “Reset” is far from a foregone conclusion.If we understand that the small choices we make everyday, collectively have a massive impact then byt controlling thos choices we can reset society in our image. You might find these posts interesting.
https://iaindavis.com/inalienable-rights/
https://iaindavis.com/towards-freedom/
I am so glad I found your blog Iain and the comments of your readers, which have given me comfort and hope knowing that I am in fact seeing the truth and not losing my mind, as my children have tried to infer, because I and my Husband refuse to be inoculated.
I previously had severe flu in 2019 (despite being fully flu vaccinated every year) I was seriously ill for over three weeks… We came down with flu and were ill for ten days before being diagnosed with the Convid in November 2021? Husband spent 3 days in hospital with double pneumonia, I was 6 days with a pulmonary embolism, allegedly caused by THE virus? Nothing to do with us being 77 years old and having many comorbidities between us?. I think our previously healthy lifestyle enabled us to overcome IT..
We have investigated this FULLY, and nothing will dissuade either of us from the opinion that this has been a massive psyop…. to see how quickly and for how long the people could be controlled?
I’m glad you found this blog too Katpus. Welcome.