The nineteenth century guide, A Story of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens opens with these phrases:1
“It was one of the best of instances, it was the worst of instances, it was the age of knowledge, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of perception, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of sunshine, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair …”
He may have been describing the tradition wars deconstructing social orders and threatening liberty on this and different international locations around the globe at the moment. Dickens was speaking about Europe simply earlier than the French Revolution, which adopted the American Revolution that led to the founding of the USA of America, a coalition of impartial states united in a constitutional republic that democratically elects representatives to control the individuals.
Signed by the founders of the 13 authentic states, yearly July 4 marks the Declaration of Independence from British rule by these states in 1776.2
On the Nationwide Vaccine Info Heart, this July 4, 2022 we joined with individuals all throughout America in honor of those that bravely fought to make liberty a foundational worth in America. This was NVIC’s fortieth Independence Day.
The Dangers of Vaccination Had been 100 P.c
Kathi Williams, Jeff Schwartz and I had been younger dad and mom within the Washington, DC space once we watched the Emmy Award successful documentary DPT: Vaccine Roulette within the spring of 1982 and banded along with different dad and mom of vaccine injured youngsters to ascertain Dissatisfied Dad and mom Collectively — DPT — the charity recognized at the moment because the Nationwide Vaccine Info Heart (NVIC).3,4
Our mission was a easy one: to forestall vaccine accidents and deaths by way of public training. We needed different dad and mom to have the knowledge we didn’t have when the dangers of vaccination for our kids turned out to be 100%.
We had been the primary in post-World Battle II America to arrange nationally and lift public consciousness about vaccine dangers and failures.5 From the start, it was apparent that necessary vaccination legal guidelines had been the principle purpose why dad and mom had been stored at the hours of darkness about vaccine reactions and why so many medical doctors both denied vaccines can injure and kill or insisted that — if vaccines do trigger hurt — a foul response solely occurs a few times in one million doses.6
That’s the reason the vaccine security and knowledgeable consent motion launched within the U.S. within the final a part of the twentieth century has by no means been about one vaccine or one illness, one vaccine ingredient or one scientific speculation. It has all the time been about the fitting to entry truthful data and the liberty to make a voluntary choice.
There isn’t any liberty extra essentially a pure inalienable proper than the liberty to accumulate data and observe our conscience when selecting for what purpose we’re keen to danger our life or our baby’s life.7
Proper to Know, Freedom to Select
This yr as we mark NVIC’s fortieth Anniversary, we’re witnessing one other inadequately examined and extremely reactive vaccine, the mRNA COVID vaccine, roll out throughout America and be injected into infants as younger as six months previous — regardless that 75 % of them have already had COVID.8,9
It’s a vaccine that doesn’t stop an infection, a vaccine that has already generated over a million response studies to the federal Vaccine Antagonistic Occasion Reporting System (VAERS)10 that oldsters secured as a security provision within the 1986 Nationwide Childhood Vaccine Damage Act.11
Once we began this journey, we didn’t know that our “proper to know and freedom to decide on” message would stand the check of time and turn into much more related a long time later, when a genetically engineered virus and vaccine can be unleashed on humanity and governments would mandate it.12
As Kathi and I look again on the highway we’ve got traveled with so many moms and dads, who trusted the recommendation of medical doctors after which watched their wholesome youngsters regress bodily, mentally and emotionally after vaccination, we’re impressed by a brand new era of moms and dads pushing again in opposition to pressured vaccination legal guidelines.
A few of them have youngsters, who’ve not too long ago joined the ranks of the vaccine injured, and others are taking motion as a result of they merely need their youngsters and grandchildren to have a alternative.
When medical historian Harris Coulter and I had been conducting two years of analysis for our 1985 guide, DPT: A Shot within the Darkish,13 I discovered it wasn’t simply the crude previous complete cell pertussis vaccine in DPT pictures that was an issue. All the necessary vaccination system was — and nonetheless is — the issue.
Obligatory vaccination legal guidelines enslave the individuals and provides the pharmaceutical business a free experience all the best way to the financial institution.
I noticed then that the one option to reform public well being coverage and regulation was to defend with out compromise the human proper to autonomy, which is the primary human proper.14,15 Autonomy is the muse for knowledgeable consent to medical danger taking that guides the moral observe of drugs.16,17
Knowledgeable consent means you will have the human proper to bodily autonomy and the authorized proper to be absolutely knowledgeable in regards to the dangers and issues of a medical intervention, resembling use of a pharmaceutical product, and be free to decide with out being coerced or sanctioned by anybody for the choice you make.18,19
Within the early 1980’s, medical doctors had been giving youngsters 23 doses of seven vaccines by age six20 — DPT, MMR and polio vaccines — however they weren’t telling dad and mom that some youngsters don’t get by way of the method of vaccination with out struggling mind harm and even dying from vaccine reactions.
Moms taking their infants to pediatricians for routine checkups again then didn’t know the way poisonous the crude complete cell pertussis vaccine in DPT pictures actually was,21,22,23,24 or {that a} purified, much less reactive model (DTaP) was already accessible in Japan.25
They didn’t know that the stay oral polio vaccine may trigger vaccine pressure polio and paralyze youngsters, and that it additionally may paralyze dad and mom and anybody coming in shut bodily contact with the physique fluids of not too long ago vaccinated youngsters.26,27,28
The Authorized Proper to Sue Negligent Medical doctors and Vaccine Corporations
When Massive Pharma threatened to go away the US with no childhood vaccines until they got complete legal responsibility safety from vaccine harm lawsuits, we labored with Congress for 4 years to guard the authorized proper of oldsters to sue vaccine producers and negligent medical doctors29 and to safe vaccine informing, reporting, recording and analysis provisions within the 1986 Nationwide Childhood Vaccine Damage Act.30
When you find yourself handed a Vaccine Info Assertion (VIS) at a pediatrician’s workplace throughout a properly baby go to,31 it’s as a result of we insisted that the 1986 Act require each physician and vaccine supplier to offer each mum or dad printed illness and vaccine danger data earlier than vaccinating a baby.32
We additionally made certain the Act would assure dad and mom authorized entry to the title of the vaccine producer and lot quantity, and would require medical doctors and all vaccine suppliers to report critical well being issues that occur after vaccination to a centralized Vaccine Antagonistic Occasion Reporting System, recognized at the moment as VAERS.33
The 1986 Act was historic acknowledgement by the US authorities that vaccine accidents and deaths are actual, and that vaccine security ought to be made a nationwide precedence. The federal compensation program created underneath the Act was designed to be a substitute for a lawsuit — not the only treatment.
That’s as a result of within the authentic regulation we did efficiently shield the authorized proper of oldsters of vaccine injured youngsters to sue negligent medical doctors for medical malpractice and to sue drug firms for design defect when there was proof the corporate may have made a vaccine safer.34
Congress, Medical Commerce & US Supreme Court docket Betray the Individuals
We by no means imagined that after the regulation was handed, Congress would do the bidding of medical commerce teams just like the American Medical Affiliation (AMA) and American Academy of Pediatrics and secretly amend the regulation in 1987 to protect negligent medical doctors from legal responsibility for vaccine accidents and deaths.35
We by no means imagined that the US Supreme Court docket would betray the individuals in 2011 by ignoring the Act’s legislative historical past and take away all remaining legal responsibility from the vaccine business — even when there may be proof an organization knew methods to make a vaccine much less more likely to trigger hurt however didn’t do it.36,37
The systematic gutting of the 1986 Act by Congress, federal companies, and the pharmaceutical and medical commerce industries is greater than shameful, it’s tragic.38,39,40,41 It’s symbolic of the dearth of compassion inherent in necessary vaccination legal guidelines that dismiss the lives of people as expendable within the title of the larger good and permit vaccine weak youngsters to be written off as acceptable sacrifices.42
A 4 Decade Public Document of Client Advocacy
Kathi and I labored with dad and mom for 14 years to lift consciousness about DPT vaccine dangers and to get a purified, much less poisonous pertussis vaccine licensed for infants in 1996.43 Three years later, the stay oral polio vaccine was lastly changed in 1999 by the killed vaccine that can’t trigger vaccine pressure polio.44,45
Starting in 1988, NVIC representatives served as client members on the Nationwide Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC), Advisory Fee on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV), the FDA Vaccines & Associated Organic Merchandise Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), the Institute of Drugs Vaccine Security Discussion board and CDC public engagement initiatives to supply an knowledgeable client perspective and voice for the vaccine injured.46,47,48
We’ve spoken out at well being conferences within the US, Canada and Europe and in lots of public boards, together with testifying in Congress and state legislatures.49,50,51,52,53
We warned dad and mom about digital vaccine monitoring methods54,55 and the dangers and failures of hepatitis B,56 chickenpox,57 measles58 and rotavirus59 vaccines, in addition to monkey virus contamination of polio vaccines;60 and about smallpox61,62 and anthrax63 vaccines in 2001; and about “Gardasil” HPV vaccine in 2006;64 and H1N1 swine flu vaccine in 2009;65 and, now, in regards to the dangers and failures of COVID vaccines.66,67,68
In 1995, we established NVIC’s flagship web site that, at NVIC.org, is without doubt one of the oldest and largest well being data web sites on the Web containing an internet library of greater than 2,000 pages of referenced print and video data on vaccine science, coverage, regulation and ethics.
Previously 27 years, three extra web sites have been added: MedAlerts.org, a user-friendly search engine based in 2003 and sponsored by NVIC since 2006 to supply public entry to vaccine response studies made to VAERS;69 NVICAdvocacy.org, launched in 2010 to arrange on the state degree to oppose pressured vaccination and shield vaccine exemptions in public well being legal guidelines; and TheVaccineReaction.org, a journal newspaper first revealed in print kind in 1995 and re-launched as a digital publication in 2015.
NVIC has a singular public document of defining and debating the vaccine security and knowledgeable consent situation within the public sq.,70 particularly on legacy media tv71 and radio networks, in newspapers, and on web sites and social media, and throughout the 5 worldwide public conferences on vaccination we sponsored starting in 1997.
It’s a public document that authorities, business, and medical commerce, now partnered with Silicon Valley, have been attempting to erase and finish for greater than twenty years, and the COVID pandemic declaration was an ideal excuse to double down on that effort.72,73,74,75,76,77,78
A Pandemic Declaration That Triggered World Censorship
After we held our 2020 Fifth Worldwide Public Convention on Vaccination: Protecting Health and Autonomy in the 21st Century, a political operative in the UK launched an internationally publicized hate marketing campaign in opposition to NVIC making false claims and calling for the elimination of our data from all social media platforms.79,80
In 2021, Massive Tech companies pressured by politicians, medical commerce and allied organizations eliminated NVIC from all 4 social media platforms (Fb, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube).81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88
It was a extremely organized, politically motivated act of censorship in opposition to the oldest and largest group defending knowledgeable consent to vaccination. That censorship marketing campaign culminated in one other assault just a few days earlier than Christmas out of the blue blocking the power of NVIC supporters to course of donations by way of PayPal.89,90
This unprecedented censorship of a extremely rated charitable group, which doesn’t make vaccine use suggestions and easily defends the knowledgeable consent precept,91 is why I’ve been warning since 1994 that:
If the state can tag, monitor down and compelled people in opposition to their will to be injected with biologicals of recognized and unknown toxicity at the moment, then there will likely be no restrict on which particular person freedoms the state will take away within the title of the larger good tomorrow.
The escalating assaults on freedom of speech and autonomy are being orchestrated by a worldwide public well being empire primarily funded by the pharmaceutical business and governments in partnership with medical commerce and influential establishments benefiting from that partnership, together with mass media.92,93,94,95
The general public well being empire has appropriated sufficient energy within the twenty first century to wreck economies and danger the bodily, psychological and emotional well being of hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of kids and adults.96,97,98,99
Floor zero is the World Well being Group (WHO) headquartered on the United Nations, which in 2019 declared “vaccine hesitancy” to be among the many prime 10 threats to international public well being.100 It was a declaration that triggered international censorship of anybody publicly criticizing vaccine security or effectiveness.101
A yr later, the WHO declared a novel coronavirus pandemic and persuaded governments to droop civil liberties and lock individuals down till a COVID vaccine may very well be rushed to market and mandated as a situation for getting medical care, going to highschool, holding a job or coming into public areas.102,103 It’s no shock that Merriam-Webster Dictionary confirmed that the phrase “vaccine” was the primary most searched phrase in 2021.104
Now, at the moment, much more individuals know any individual who was wholesome, obtained vaccinated and was by no means wholesome once more.
And whereas US public well being officers suggest that youngsters get 72 doses of 17 vaccines,105 together with COVID vaccine, and states mandate most of them, the exploding and nonetheless unexplained continual illness and incapacity epidemic marked by continual irritation within the our bodies of extremely vaccinated youngsters and younger adults106,107 — which we’ve got been speaking about at NVIC for many years108,109,110 — continues to hang-out each college in America.111
Reforming Legal guidelines That Violate Our Human Rights
The dialog about vaccination, well being and autonomy that oldsters of DPT vaccine injured youngsters began 40 years in the past, has turn into the primary subject of dialog in properties, workplaces, faculties, hospitals, capitals and courtrooms around the globe.
Kathi and I do know we may by no means have finished this work for 40 years with out the steadfast encouragement and help of caring individuals such as you, who’re studying or listening to this message.
Proper now, by way of the NVIC Advocacy Portal, we’re on the entrance strains in lots of states monitoring almost 1,000 proposed vaccine-related payments and dealing with households and well being freedom teams to cease necessary vaccination and discriminatory vaccine passports legal guidelines.
In 2021, regardless that just a few Governors and Mayors issued COVID vaccine mandates, no state legislature voted to mandate COVID vaccine.112 It was an historic rejection of federal vaccine coverage by state legislators, who listened and responded to the desire of the individuals.
However now that the US has turn into the primary nation to direct medical doctors to offer mRNA COVID vaccine to all infants and toddlers underneath age two, we all know there will likely be a giant push to mandate the vaccine as a situation for youngsters attending daycare, faculties and different social actions.113
The darkish cloud created by concern of a virus that plunged our nation and each nation into a virtually three-year nightmare just isn’t over but. It’s going to solely raise once we refuse to permit these benefiting from the concern they promoted to make us adjust to legal guidelines that violate our human rights.
Proper now, we’ve got a possibility to construct on the larger public consciousness that has been generated by the oppression we’ve got skilled throughout the COVID pandemic.114 The truth is, there may be each purpose to maneuver ahead with renewed hope and willpower.
In 2020 and 2021, individuals on this nation and around the globe stood up for liberty and in opposition to pressured vaccination in bigger numbers than ever earlier than.115 Each time the general public well being empire tries to mandate a brand new vaccine sooner or later, that shared reminiscence will get in the best way.
The Vaccine Tradition Battle116,117 has been happening for 200 years and it has all the time been a David and Goliath battle, a marathon and never a dash. It started with legal guidelines mandating that every one youngsters get the notoriously reactive smallpox vaccine,118 a vaccine that some public well being medical doctors need to carry again as a result of a monkeypox virus has out of the blue popped up in international locations the place it had not been circulating earlier than.119,120,121
And so, one other spherical of virus concern mongering has begun, with the “consultants” holding out a vaccine as the one answer. What number of extra microbes will likely be weaponized to maintain the individuals residing in perpetual concern of one another?
It’s time to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of the consultants and declare our independence from those that need to rule over us with an iron fist. You would not have to be a physician or scientist or have a tutorial title written after your title to be an authority by yourself well being and the well being of your baby.
You possibly can empower your self with data and rise up in your proper to know and freedom to decide on the way you and your loved ones keep wholesome. You possibly can defend your authorized proper to make voluntary vaccine choices. The censorship that threatens to close down the general public dialog about vaccination, well being and autonomy — a dialog that has been the main target of NVIC’s work since 1982 — could be overcome with grassroots motion on the native degree.
You by no means know the way or when a small motion you’re taking will change somebody’s life. Please make a dedication to enlighten a buddy or somebody in your individual household or group in regards to the significance of defending the human proper to knowledgeable consent.
Go to NVIC.org and share our properly referenced data like our new on-line Guide to Reforming Vaccine Policy and Law. Turn out to be a subscriber of NVIC’s free journal newspaper, The Vaccine Reaction, and get it delivered to your e mail field each week.
Join the free NVIC Advocacy Portal at NVICAdvocacy.org and work in your state to guard your proper to know and freedom to make vaccine decisions for your self and your youngsters. Make a donation to NVIC on this, our fortieth Anniversary, to assist us proceed to do that work underneath essentially the most tough circumstances we’ve got ever confronted.
Be the one who by no means has to say you didn’t do at the moment what you possibly can have finished to alter tomorrow. It’s your well being. Your loved ones. Your alternative. And our mission continues: No pressured vaccination. Not in America.
