The four crumbling pillars for justifying COVID-19 vaccination mandates
Questioning Exclusivity, Individual Efficacy, Safety, Community Protection of the current US spike-protein-based mRNA and DNA vaccines
There are four common reasons given to justify vaccine mandates. One way to visualize these is as pillars supporting a structure.
If you think that looks ugly, stay tuned, because the state of the ones being held up for supporting vaccine mandates are even worse. The two arguments we normally hear are safety and efficacy, but efficacy is two-fold, and the “go-to” argument is actually exclusivity – the idea that there is no other solution for stopping the pandemic other than mass vaccination. Here they are in the usual order they are regurgitated:
1) Exclusivity: The COVID-19 vaccine is the only way to mitigate the pandemic. Our public health authorities have assured us that there are no therapeutic options or lifestyle changes of any significance that will prevent infection and that only the vaccine can stop it from killing any of us, regardless of how young or healthy we may think of ourselves. This drives the message that nothing short of mass vaccination of every person of every age can solve the pandemic.
2) Efficacy: Efficacy discussions often blur the lines between what is effective for the individual to prevent serious illness or death versus the overall efficacy to the community. This is a dubious reason for a mandate in that mandating a personal health decision is an affront to personal freedom. The justification is that an unvaccinated victim of the COVID-19 takes resources from the responsible ones who are vaccinated. Therefore, this bleeds into the commonly used justification of efficacy for the community.
3) Safety: The never-ending refrain about vaccination is that it is safe. Never mind the over one million serious adverse events or the more than 20,000 deaths in VAERS or the thousands of reports of serious effects and deaths on social media as those are just anecdotal.
4) Protection of the Community: This is the primary driver for mandates that integrates the pillars of safety and individual protection to make the case that it is our civil duty to take the jab to protect the community.
Over the next 4 weeks, I plan to post an article addressing each of these with the final article being the conclusion. None of these pillars have any resiliency and the more data that arrives, the worse it looks. Here’s a preview of the key issues for each pillar along with some resources for pre-reading before we get down into the weeds of each over the coming weeks.
1. Exclusivity: This ignores the use of effective prophylactic therapeutics, a healthy lifestyle, effective treatment options, and the impact of natural immunity. Recommended resources:
1.1. COVID-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 1,281 studies (c19early.com)
1.2. Vitamin D and COVID-19: An Overview of Recent Evidence (nih.gov)
1.3. 140 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity – Covid Care Alliance
1.4. Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 Infection (ahajournals.org)
2. Protection of the individual: This links back to the exclusivity argument in that the vaccine is not the only option to provide protection and that certain segments of the population, including those with natural immunity have little to gain from vaccination. This pillar also falters as more data shows waning efficacy and practically no benefit for advanced mutations of the virus. Recommended resources:
2.1. 39 Studies on Vaccine Efficacy that Raise Doubts on Vaccine Mandates ⋆ Brownstone Institute
2.2. Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study - BBC News
2.3. With Omicron: Negative Efficacy Like Never Before (substack.com)
2.4. Is Natural Immunity More Effective Than the COVID-19 Shot? - Udumbara Falun Dafa and more...
2.6. Four things I learned treating patients and fighting for medical freedom in 2021 (substack.com)
2.7. Monoclonal antibodies | COVID-19: Evidence Based Medicine (umn.edu)
3. Safety: Even if the vaccine is deemed safe through a brute-force comparison of reported deaths, death rates vary exponentially with age therefore magnifying the death rates associated with adverse events, which are showing to be much more age-agnostic. The arguments for vaccine safety not only often disregard events registered in the short-term, but longer-term potential impacts as well. The data indicates a detailed review of the mRNA vaccine design which largely being ignored. Safety comparisons do not utilize the CDC death and hospitalization statistics at suitable granularity for a risk/benefit analysis appropriate to a particular demographic. Nor do they consider the true mortality rates when factoring in the degree of cause due to COVID-19 versus other factors. For example, anybody who dies with COVID is considered a covid death even though 95% of deaths involve co-morbidities, of which at least 80% are pre-existing), and does not factor in the age or health of the target vaccinee for risk/benefit appraisal.
A confounding issue with determining the true risk for adverse events is the problematic Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System which suffers from data quality issues, but more importantly is vastly underutilized. Mitigation of this can be done using excess death statistics to determine how death rates in the population correlate to vaccination adoption. Recommended resources:
3.6. Proof of VAERS Underreporting and Hidden Vaccine-Associated Hospitalizations (substack.com)
3.7. Myocarditis Risks in Children and Young Adults (substack.com)
4. Protection of the community: This pillar disintegrates considering the data that crumble the other three pillars. Additionally, the actual technology evidenced by the overall trend in its increasing failure to prevent infection adds validity to the argument that a long-term scenario is unfolding whereby the community is being significantly endangered by decreasing the robustness of the natural immune system response, as well as promoting more virulent immune escape variants.
4.3. What if the largest experiment on human beings in history is a failure? (substack.com)
Thank you for gathering these compelling studies and references while demolishing the four frangible pillars! These will come in handy as I seek out supporting resources for future articles.
Well written!