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Stephen Due's avatar

Vaccination began with smallpox in 1800 (Jenner) followed by Rabies 1885 (Pasteur) and Cholera 1896 (Pasteur). Government doctors in NSW started vaccinating children in 1803. In some of the Australian colonies (states) vaccination was made compulsory in the 1850s, and it was strongly promoted by all the Australian colonial governments throughout the 1800s.

My point is that this medical practice has been embedded in the Australian psyche for over 200 years. At the same time, it had very primitive beginnings, and the science behind it, in so far as there was (or is) any, has long since been obscured by layers of myth, propaganda and emotional commitment, which lend an aura of sanctity to the newer vaccines.

There ought to be a thorough, objective, intellectually robust review of the practice of vaccination in the context of individual and public health. This could be done anywhere, by anyone competent to assess the published evidence. Messrs Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have the necessary skills and objectivity, but possibly lack the time.

It is worth noting that the Covid vaccines are just the most recent in a series of products that have been legitimised by the aura of sanctity attached to vaccines in general. However they have now been thoroughly studied using the original trial data and plenty of real world data and are known to be worse than ineffective, with horrendous rates of serious side effects. The fact that they were promoted on the basis of grossly inadequate evidence is notable. Government officials seem to think that if something is called a "vaccine" it must prevent disease - just as they evidently think that if something is called an "antiviral" it must cure viral illnesses. This is a very elementary error. Can we get some intellect and perhaps even some basic moral responsibility happening in government - or is that too much to ask?

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Dr Rosemary Faire's avatar

Great 'gotcha Heidi' moment! What a ludicrous job description these people have "combatting vaccine hesitancy"! They like to label it as aberrant behaviour or mental illness when it's actually just scientific skepticism and common sense to want to know what's in something before it gets injected into your body. The insidious ways that they then go about "cognitively inoculating" the public against "misinformation" about their "vaccines" is a weaponisation of psychology, and those who engage in it have incredible hubris to pat themselves on the back that they are doing something "for-the-greater-good" when they are actually just useful idiots for the pandemic industrial complex.

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