Introduction:
Recent state of vaccines and opinions thereto…the sudden rise, justification and enthronement of “conspiracy theories”…my take, and why I’m taking it instead.
My problem with Conspiracy Theorizing is, simply, this: For a conspiracy theory to work, you have to assume that:
- The people running the conspiracy are few, competent, and almost godly in their foresight and ability to both plan things and put their plans into motion,
- The people directly underneath them are bought in enough to do the actual work and have bought into the amount of ignorance/unknowingness to not suffer from cognitive dissonance, and.
- Everyone else is mesmerized enough, bought off enough, or is silenced – however it happens so that they obey without major hesitation.
In short, it would require too much competence and knowing of what’s going on to have said plan go perfectly as planned. And, outside of plans which taps into deep biases (such as the Nazi “Final Solution,” which tapped into 1700 years of anti-Jewish sentiment across Christendom even as the work required the development of a new religion and spirituality in order to come to fruition), there isn’t going to be any plan secret enough to be a conspiracy yet powerful enough to work.
My take is more from another viewpoint – a birds-eye view, where I watch a dream develop, find its expression, and fulfills its promises before hitting overreach, starts missing its marks and finally fails (which, it turns out, through a conspiracy becoming activated) with the effect of said failure tarnishing even its successes.
Note that this line of development occurs over a lot of efforts. Early successes always come easy and against the easy targets, with later successes hard-won and more equivocal until something gets tried that fails and serves only to drain resources. After the failures, the only thing keeping such efforts going are the memories of the successes, and when those successes get forgotten the failures become the new truth.
I: Smallpox: Chasing The Dream
Smallpox was probably the first disease to have something along the lines of vaccination tried out, with the idea of infecting people with the scabs of those who had already suffered from Smallpox.
As luck would have it, It had been discovered by a certain John Fewster that farmers who were exposed to cowpox had become immune to Smallpox itself. The story of the milk maid telling Edward Jenner about “not getting Smallpox because she had already gotten Cowpox” to the contrary, there was already a low-level understanding of vaccination amongst doctors worldwide, with Fewster actually figuring out that sometimes you can use a milder disease to protect from a more severe one. Jenner was able to get credit because he was the one to spread the news far and wide in an age before standardized mechanisms for the spreading of knowledge were developed for the sciences.
Of course, there was plenty of resistance to this way of inoculating against Smallpox – after all, why would you give someone a disease to prevent another disease, even if the disease given was supposed to be milder than the disease trying to be avoided?
II: Polio: The Concept Becomes Proven
Polio (aka Poliomyelitis) had been a disease for thousands of years, crippling people all that time. It wasn’t everyone, mind you – most people wouldn’t even get any symptoms, and most of those suffering symptoms got something along the lines of a mild cold. But every so often someone would end up getting a severe case which would end up with paralysis, wasting of limbs, or death.
However, something happened in the early part of the 1900s. Whether it was the sudden expansion of sanitation which made certain groups cleaner (and, in an ironic response, unprotected from Polio) or the evolution of a more virulent form of the virus(es), suddenly a larger group of people were suffering from the more severe set of symptoms – and many of those people were of a higher class than usually suffered from these diseases. Even Franklin Delano Roosevelt complained about his fate of having gotten “a child’s disease in my adulthood” (Although, looking at his symptoms, it’s more than likely that he got Guillaine-Barré Syndrome; given that people knew about Polio he assumed it was Polio and left it at that.).
By the mid-fifties there were two different vaccines out – one that was add to a sugar cube and ingested, the other by the now-normalized shot. The results were practically immediate, with the disease going from scourge to almost invisible and vaccines going from a suspected danger to enshrined as Western Medicine’s greatest achievement. Remember this.
III: MMR: Something’s Not Quite Right
In 1986 the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed, giving vaccine makers protection by shielding them from liability from lawsuits from people seeking damages. This was possible because Vaccines were seen as an unalloyed good by the greatest part of the public. There was a minority of critics of vaccines in general, but it was seen as better to protect the vaccine makers from lawsuits even under the then long-considered unlikelihood that those lawsuits would be justified.
Needless to say, there was an explosion of vaccines developed afterwards, and a lot of them ended up being applied to babies and younger children – so much so that there ended up being a schedule developed for all the shots a child is supposed to take – some even before they’re born (via the mother).
Not only that, but the shots have become more than just the item being vaccinated against. We’re talking about adjuvants (stuff that increases the reaction of the body’s defenses), preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, and other things. Sometimes you don’t even have a proper item to react against – just enough of a part to make for identification, separated and given in isolation from the actual infectant.
This, of course, leads to various reactions.
Some people have noted the sudden rise in peanut allergies. While I’m not saying this is a direct result of vaccinations (because I have no idea of how similar peanut molecules are to molecules used to accentuate the immunological response or whether they use peanut extracts of some sort in the shots), but I do find it interesting that a food that caused no problems to anyone when I was a child now is such a issue that they ban peanut butter in schools (because MOLECULES of peanuts can cause an extreme reaction, evidently).
Then there’s Autism (now Autism/Asperger Spectrum). Suddenly people (mainly mothers and other women – keep this in your mind) began to notice that there were more children (mainly boys) who had become a greater problem to raise up. They didn’t get as social as they should have, tended to focus more tightly around themselves, and generally didn’t fit in – and their mothers were in a tizzy over it.
Enter Andrew Wakefield. He put out a paper which started by looking at gut issues and eventually came around to blame Merck’s MMR vaccine for Autism, and after the Medical community turned around and cast him fully out of their world, the alternative world embraced him and proceeded to avoid the MMR shots…with many deciding to avoid all shots, believing that the diseases were less dangerous than the shots.
And they may have a point. Fact is, while I don’t believe the MMR vaccine causes autism (we’re talking more a coincidence between the MMR shot and Autism suddenly becoming obvious), I DO believe that the collection of vaccines that have become necessary thanks to their guidelines have a combinatory effect – and that, at some point, they should take a good look at the schedule and cut down on the number of shots given.
But it goes on from there; going from the collective of shots to single shots:
IV: Gardasil: Again, It’s The Women…
You’d think that people would have reacted against a vaccine for Chicken Pox, but somehow that was very much accepted despite the fact that everyone seemed to get Chicken Pox when they were young. But with the power of vaccination long proven, maybe the embrace of the Chicken Pox Vaccine should have been expected.
Years later, they came up with a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Not all of HPV, mind you, but mainly the most virulent versions – the ones that threaten to give you cancer of certain…inconvenient locations in the body. So they push Gardasil on the female population, aiming it at early teenage women so that, in case they become sexually active (or get raped, lest we forget THAT possibility), they’re at least protected against “the worst HPVs.”
Not exactly the best of ideas, it appears, as there’s a sudden movement of resistance. Some of it is the obvious antivaccine/MRR critics, but a big portion of the resistance is by peoples who don’t expect their children to become sexually active in their teens because they actively teach them to avoid sex until marriage. And while it’s a tactic which can badly backfire (since if you never thought you’ve have sex, you’re not prepared when it happens), I will admit there is a logic to this.
However, it’s not just people with a moral axe to grind – turns out there’s physical issues. Seems that Gardasil causes the immune system to react in such a way that it turns against the body that it’s supposed to protect – and at a much higher rate than it seems the cancers from HPV seem to develop.
In a way this shouldn’t be surprising – between the higher number of vaccinations that are prescribed, the ingredients that are put in alongside the actual item that’s supposed to emulate the virus/bacteria/fungus that the vaccine is supposed to invoke protection against, and just the simple fact that the targets have gotten harder to vaccinate against (the low-hanging fruit has already been taken care of), it’s to be expected that whatever’s being vaccinated against is likely to be harder to vaccinate against AND for the vaccines to have a greater level of side effects – especially side effects that are debilitating, since we’re talking about putting an infectious agent into your body with the intent of having the body fight it off now and be able to fight it off later.
And while the joke is “So what can go wrong?”, it’s obvious that there’s a lot that can go wrong by this point – and that the stuff going wrong can be worse than the original disease being risked. Even if we’re talking about occurrence levels, it’s still an issue to look at.
V: mRNA: Experimenting On Everyone Now
So…now it’s 2019, and there’s a new disease going on in the middle of China in time for The Military Games (interesting how I found out about this only in what could be considered a run-up to the doo-doo that happened in 2020). It had been going around Wuhan for a while now, of course, but once you throw a bunch of military men into the mix it gets legs and REALLY starts spreading around – first around China, then to Italy, and finally to These United States!
At least that’s the official story, although suddenly getting diarrhea when eating a certain meat replacement product in the early months of 2020 BEFORE Covid-19 made it to this side of the pond makes me wonder.
Then came the shutdowns, the requirements for masks, and the general frenzy of fear that suddenly got thrown into everyone’s minds. Whether you caught it, played along or merely noted it for future reference, it was a real thing. And once people started dying with the COVID virus infecting them (I wouldn’t call it the cause, but for many it definitely helped them towards the grave), you had to think hard about what you were doing.
ENTER THE mRNA VACCINES!
I can imagine the medical establishment looking at this and licking their chops:
- The researchers thinking that, once this works, they can apply it to every other disease (whether there’s a working vaccine or not) and cure everything in sight – and in record time to boot.
- The Pharmaceutical Companies, who are not only seeing the possibility for massive profits but also the idea that they’ve earned them the proper way – by doing their job and making the populace healthier.
- The Doctors and other Medical Service People, who by giving their patients the vaccine can claim that they’ve done their part and that Vaccinations are still the miracle they were back in the late fifties, and
- The Medical Establishment as a whole, as we’re talking about the single item that sets Western Medicine apart from all other medical practices, both in the world to day and in the past – the ability, since the Salk Vaccine, to actually PREVENT disease through an outside intervention. This is a point of pride in Western Medicine, and with the MRR and Gardasil vaccines messing with that point of pride, an unalloyed success with this would silence the critics and put Western Medicine back in its place as “the King of Medical practices.”
And it seemed to work at first. By focusing on the spike proteins (the easy thing to target), you get an immediate measurable response, and since the antibodies seem to work (especially since the unvaccinated seem to continue dying at their pace) there’s immediate positive results.
As it turns out, however, there was a higher level of “side effects” to the mRNA vaccines. Not only that, but those side effects have turned out to be much greater than usual – heart issues, blood issues, Long Covid – too many side effects, and a surprising number of them were also effects of the spike proteins. Not only that, but now we’re talking about various cancers going around that either did not exist in the body before or that were revived, leading to thoughts that maybe the mRNA was translated to DNA and incorporated into certain cells which then turned – or re-became – cancerous.
It adds up to a rate of 1 in 800 in deleterious side effects, at least. Think of it – they stopped the Swine Flu vaccine in the mid-1970s with a 1 in 10,000 rate of deleterious side effects, yet now something that negatively affects more than one person per thousand recipients keeps its go-ahead.
Continuation:
Thanks to the slap-dashedness and danger from the mRNA vaccines the movement against vaccinations of any sort has suddenly gotten legs. A study was done in Florida with newborn who weren’t getting their shots, and it turns out they’ve bene healthier as a group.
Indeed, it’s conceivable that the vaccine era (between the institution of the Polio vaccine and the publication of Andrew Wakefield’s paper in February of 1998) was nothing but a nationwide placebo effect (the idea that getting the shot would make it easier to resist Polio whether the shot works or not) with everything since then being either a reversion to the norm or an actual case of the nocebo effect – not likely, but definitely conceivable.
More likely is that we’re seeing the usual cycle of “progress'” – after a bit of struggle getting things right, we get the immediate benefits (the Salk/Sabin Vaccines), then comes the regular advances (pertussis, diphtheria, mumps – all the obvious suspects, so to speak). After that, the problems and drawbacks start coming into view (chicken pox vaccine leading to more shingles cases, all the new vaccines and additives supposedly making them more potent, issues with MMR/multiplicity of vaccines causing issues) until finally there comes an attempted intervention which ends up more damaging, yet it’s allowed because IT’S WORKED BEFORE – never mind the increase in issues and decrease in actual successes (Gardasil, COVID). Usually the belief ends up dying NOT from actual proof, but from the turnover from the generation for whom the intervention worked wonders to the generation that only had to deal with the problems and drawbacks from being forced that which their elders benefited from.
Indeed, I can imagine the return of fear over the introduction of infectious agents to the body in any form. After all, this was the original state of people’s thoughts before the Salk/Sabine vaccinations against Polio gave people reason to trust the doctors when those needles came to view…and it’s ONLY that trust which allows people to take the needle for vaccinations of all kinds, whether they act against the flu, pneumonia, shingles, measles, mumps, diphtheria, or covid19.
And that trust has been dropping since 1998. Whatever you think of Andrew Wakefield’s study, it has brought out the understandable distrust of doctors when they inject stuff into your body. That’s something which Western Medicine (which, remember, holds the Salk Vaccine as its greatest achievement) needs to consider at some point…
If it can.
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