A recent article in the New York Times discussed the rise in vaccine-preventable illnesses and deaths in children. Forty-seven countries have reported measles outbreaks, compared with sixteen in 2020. Nigeria is experiencing its largest outbreak of diphtheria in its history, with more than seventeen thousand cases and six hundred deaths. Twelve nations have reported circulating polio virus.
And what is driving this outbreak of disease and deaths? According to the NYT, this outbreak is the result of pandemic-related lockdowns and movement restrictions causing children to miss scheduled childhood immunizations. Many children who otherwise have been immunized against deadly infectious disease have aged out of such programs. These so-called zero-dose children are likely to remain so without special efforts to reach them. The article ends by taking a swipe at unnamed purveyors of vaccine “misinformation” and “disinformation,” noting that “People with low trust in officials and official guidance were particularly vulnerable to believing alternative sources of information,” and adding:
In 2005, 95% of Ghanaian parents said they believed vaccines were safe, That figure plunged to 67% of parents in 2022. It had climbed back to 83% by October of this year.
This is all so mendacious it makes my head spin.
Where do I even begin with this? There is not a hint in this article that parents were not perfectly willing to have their children immunized – at least before the covid pandemic and accompanying war on everything we need to live together as a society of intelligent, self-governing men and women began. These parents were PREVENTED from getting their children immunized by means of lockdowns and movement restrictions which did nothing to save lives and inflicted incalculable harms on society – harms that will continue to reverberate for decades and which go far beyond denial of access to life-saving vaccines.
And it’s not as if we weren’t warned about this. The Great Barrington Declaration, drafted by three eminently credentialed epidemiologists from three of the world’s top medical institutions – Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford – warned us about the harms of the scorched-earth approach to disease control. They argued for nuanced, targeted protections that took into account the effects of pandemic restrictions on society as a whole, rather than focusing on the prevention of a single disease. And they specifically warned us of the dangers of denying access to childhood immunizations. The declaration was endorsed by a whole slate of distinguished experts, including at least one Nobel prize winner.
And how did our public health authorities react to all this? Did they invite these distinguished experts to sit down with them at the National Institutes of Health and discuss these matters further? They did not. In an email to NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, NIH Director Francis Collins referred to the authors of the declaration as “fringe epidemiologists,” adding “there needs to be a quick and devastating public takedown of its premises.”
I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound to me like science. It sounds more like something out of gangland fiction. And at least two of the authors (Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff) were targeted by our Censorship-Industrial Complex, as was the declaration itself.
Now, the NYT article doesn’t come out and say we need to do more to censor opposing viewpoints, but that’s the whole point of labeling someone else’s views as “misinformation” and “disinformation” – to justify silencing the opponents of the regime before the rest of us even get to hear what they have to say.
So let’s sum up what’s going on here. Parents were who perfectly willing to have their children immunized against deadly diseases were PREVENTED from doing so, and children are dying as a result. We were warned about this by eminently credentialed experts from the world’s top medical institutions, who were smeared, censored, and deplatformed as a result, and all this is held up as evidence that we need to do more to smear, censor, and deplatform those who question the pronouncements of captured regulatory agencies and drug-company-funded media.
This is outrageous. This is like the man who murders his parents and asks for mercy on the grounds that he’s an orphan.
These people hate us.
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I've given up on everyone who still believes the NYT. They prefer the writers and celebrities who hate them and trust them more than family and friends. There's something horribly wrong with this situation.