It turns out that for most healthy people, especially children, the vaccines’ possible side effects are far worse than their experience of having a Covid infection would be. Children also almost never die from Covid. According to the CDC, in the entire US since the start of the Covid era, in March of 2020, through December 2021, a total of 678 children age 0-17 have died “a Covid-related”. This is a rate of about 400 per year. To give some perspective to those unfortunate deaths, there are approximately 74 million children in that age group…. 400/74,000,000 is about 5 per million per year.
Historically about 500 children per year die from the seasonal flu in the US. Thus Covid risk to children is LESS than the risk of the seasonal flu. Over 3,000 children in the US die each year from injuries and another 2,000 die from car accidents. Over 1,000 are killed (by guns, etc), Over 1,000 commit suicide every year. Nearly 1,000 die in water drownings.
All of these are tragic deaths. But we never shut down our schools, our parks, our libraries and our economy over any of these other more common causes of death.
People of all ages have been severely harmed, both economically and psychologically, by Covid mandates: lock down orders, school and “unessential” business closures, masks, 6’ distance rules, and now vaccine mandates to work or go to university… and vax passports are required in some places like Seattle and New York. The damaging effects of Covid mandates on children are well reported, including lost learning opportunities, developmental delays, increases in anxiety and depression and suicidal ideation.
From the December 2021 US Surgeon General’s report Protecting Youth Mental Health: “In early 2021, emergency department visits in the United States for suspected suicide attempts were 51% higher for adolescent girls and 4% higher for adolescent boys compared to the same time period in early 2019.”
It should not come as a surprise that there are many well-regarded doctors, nurses, scientists, public health officials and infectious disease experts who disagree with our governments’ response to Covid...and don’t admire Dr Fauci or Bill Gates. They disagree with the push to vaccinate the entire population, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. What do these PhD level supposed “anti-vaxxers” see that others don’t see?
Other views and voices
To show you evidence that a great many highly credentialed doctors and scientists disagree with the Covid mandates, here is a recent collection of 400 scientific studies which counter the mainstream Covid narrative, including mask wearing and the claim that children transmit the Covid virus.
Each of the 400 studies has a short summary and a link. One in particular caught my attention regarding the use of face masks:
“Face masks should not be worn by healthy individuals to protect themselves from acquiring respiratory infection because there is no evidence to suggest that face masks worn by healthy individuals are effective in preventing people from becoming ill.”
Another place to find views that differ from the mainstream Covid narrative is The Great Barrington Declaration, which is a document written in October 2020 which outlines an alternative response to Covid. Here is its introductory statement:
The Great Barrington Declaration was and has been signed by over 900,000 people worldwide including tens of thousands of medical practitioners and scientists:
Their response to Covid, which I agree with, is described as, “The Middle Ground between Lockdowns and “Let it Rip.” Here is a summary of the “focused protection” approach to Covid:
“For older people, COVID-19 is a deadly disease that should be met with overwhelming resources aimed at protecting them wherever they are, whether in nursing homes, at their own home, in the workplace, or in multi-generational homes. For the non-vulnerable, who face far greater harm from the lockdowns than they do from COVID-19 infection risk, the lockdowns should be lifted and – for those who so decide – normal life resumed.”
The introduction to the Great Barrington Declaration reads:
“Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include 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. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.”
To better understand this response to Covid, you can read the Great Barrington Declaration here: https://gbdeclaration.org/
The findings and views of the scientists and doctors referenced above shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. But their findings and views are dismissed, without consideration, by many people who believe firmly in the Covid response that is promoted in mainstream media. I believe our 22 month response to Covid will go down in history as a failure.
Incidentally, people don’t fall neatly into 2 camps: pro-vaxers and anti-vaxers. Researcher and health consultant K.J. Parker explains how there is a third category of people- critical-vaxers:
“Anti-Vaxers believe ALL vaccinations cause more harm than good. Pro-Vaxers believe that ALL vaccines outweigh the risks for ALL categories of people, and Critical-Vaxers believe most vaccinations provide more benefit than harm, but analyze each vaccine individually to determine a risk to benefit ratio for an individual or category of people.”
I’m a critical-vaxer and also a critical pharmaceutical user. My skepticism of pharmaceuticals stems from a childhood illness which lasted for over a year. I was prescribed a lot of medication, some of it newly developed, and almost died, either from the medication or from the disease, which the medication didn’t cure. My skepticism toward the Covid vaccine and my interest in health and the power of the immune system stems from that experience.
My reason for writing this article is to show how the Covid vaccines aren’t working as promised and have serious side effects. I write this to show that one of the leading indicators of high Covid death #’s isn’t that people aren’t taking vaccines. It’s poverty. I write this to show that our entire approach to Covid benefits a few ($$$) while damaging the many.
To support my claims I compare highly vaccinated states to low vaccinated states to see the effect the vaccines have had on the case and death numbers. I compare the rates of poverty to Covid death #. I share the Covid death profile, the number of people who have died in each age group, vaccine side effects and damages caused by vaccine mandates. I share a lot of data from the CDC and other well-known sources like Worldometer.
As we continue to go down this road of blindly following government dictates, we are, maybe without realizing it, in the middle of a massive money making opportunity for a select few people. Award winning journalist Max Blumenthal explains:
“While average Americans paid a heavy price for the restrictions, Big Tech oligarchs quickly emerged as the pandemic’s winners. In 2020, billionaires increased their wealth by 54%. In fact, the top 1% of US. households now officially controls more money than the entire middle class, or the middle 60 percent of households by income, in the US.”
Consider reading Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable to see how our current response to Covid is enriching a few while impoverishing millions.
To maintain the Covid narrative, there are fact checkers, media talking heads and government officials who use censorship, ridicule and cancel culture to put “naysayers” in their place. However, this is not the time in history to be an unquestioning person. Be like this guy.
If you have been vaccinated and believe fully in the information the government and your favorite mainstream media pundits tell you, I hope that you are open-minded enough to consider other points of view as well.