'It’s Almost as if The Entire World Has Been Poisoned'
“Either with the infection SARS-CoV-2 or with the vaccine, or both,” Dr. Peter McCullough.
Recently, on The Highwire, host Del Bigtree interviewed Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake about their latest book “Vaccines, Mythology, Ideology and Reality”, which delves into the pseudoscience and ideology surrounding vaccines dating back to the end of the 18th century, when Edward Jenner, an English physician, inoculated an eight-year-old boy with cowpox and exposed him to both smallpox and cowpox.
The boy did not develop the disease, leading to speculation that cowpox could induce immunity to smallpox. However, to this day, there is no solid science as to why and how the boy developed immunity.
Sacred Science, Sacred Cow
The word vaccine comes from the Latin word "vaca" and means “cow.” It is now a universal catch-all phrase for chemicals injected or inhaled to confer “immunity” into the body, including the COVID-19 gene therapy. As Dr. McCullough succinctly stated, vaccine ideology has become a “sacred cow.”
He notes that the book's front cover has a coin put out by the Catholic Church — a 20-euro coin depicting a child receiving a COVID-19 shot with a doctor and nurse standing by. The messaging behind the coin promoted by the Vatican: it is your civic and moral duty to get vaccinated.
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And you thought the COVID-era lockdowns were bad
When vaccines were mandated during the smallpox epidemic, resistance was met with brute force. Compulsory vaccination was strongly resisted by anti-vaccination leagues and individuals who argued that mandates violated personal liberty. In Victorian England, protesters marched and were arrested, with banners declaring: "Better a felon's cell than a poisoned babe." (1)
Historian Michael Willrich noted:
"There was one episode in Middlesboro, Ky., where the police and a group of vaccinators went into this African American section of town, rounded up people outside this home, handcuffed the men and women and vaccinated them at gunpoint. It's a shocking scene and very much at odds with our daily-held notions of American liberty." (2)
In 1905, the issue of compulsory vaccination reached the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case involving Cambridge, Massachusetts, pastor Henning Jacobson. He refused to pay a $5 fine for declining a mandatory vaccination during a 1902 smallpox outbreak. Jacobson's case challenged the law as an invasion of his liberty, but the Supreme Court upheld the state's power to enforce vaccination mandates for public health, ruling that individual liberty is not absolute. (3)
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The Historical Context
As disease waned through improved nutrition, better hygiene, and overall improved quality of life, vaccines emerged, and the medical community continued to equate vaccination with the decline of communicable diseases. However, as the graph illustrates, diseases were already declining before compulsory multiple vaccines were initiated.
You can find Dr. McCullough and John Leake’s latest book here.
References
- Crane, L. (2019, December 27). The anti-vaccination movement that gripped Victorian England. BBC News. Link
- Neel, J. (2011, April 5). How the 'pox' epidemic changed vaccination rules. NPR. Link
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905). Link
Written by Brooke Lounsbury
