The nineteenth century e-book, A Story of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens opens with these phrases:1
“It was the very best of occasions, it was the worst of occasions, 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 might have been describing the tradition wars deconstructing social orders and threatening liberty on this and different international locations all over the world at this time. 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 unbiased 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 Data 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 Have been 100 %
Kathi Williams, Jeff Schwartz and I had been younger dad and mom within the Washington, DC space after we watched the Emmy Award profitable documentary DPT: Vaccine Roulette within the spring of 1982 and banded along with different dad and mom of vaccine injured kids to ascertain Dissatisfied Dad and mom Collectively — DPT — the charity recognized at this time because the Nationwide Vaccine Data Heart (NVIC).3,4
Our mission was a easy one: to forestall vaccine accidents and deaths by means of public schooling. We wished different dad and mom to have the knowledge we didn’t have when the dangers of vaccination for our youngsters turned out to be one hundred pc.
We had been the primary in post-World Conflict II America to prepare 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 cause why dad and mom had been saved at midnight 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 couple of 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 at all times been about the fitting to entry truthful info and the liberty to make a voluntary resolution.
There is no such thing as a liberty extra basically a pure inalienable proper than the liberty to amass data and comply with our conscience when selecting for what cause we’re keen to danger our life or our youngster’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 — though 75 p.c 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 experiences to the federal Vaccine Opposed Occasion Reporting System (VAERS)10 that oldsters secured as a security provision within the 1986 Nationwide Childhood Vaccine Harm Act.11
After 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 grow to be much more related a long time later, when a genetically engineered virus and vaccine could be unleashed on humanity and governments would mandate it.12
As Kathi and I look again on the highway we now have traveled with so many moms and dads, who trusted the recommendation of medical doctors after which watched their wholesome kids regress bodily, mentally and emotionally after vaccination, we’re impressed by a brand new technology of moms and dads pushing again in opposition to compelled vaccination legal guidelines.
A few of them have kids, who’ve lately joined the ranks of the vaccine injured, and others are taking motion as a result of they merely need their kids and grandchildren to have a selection.
When medical historian Harris Coulter and I had been conducting two years of analysis for our 1985 e-book, DPT: A Shot within the Darkish,13 I realized 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 journey all the best way to the financial institution.
I noticed then that the one technique to reform public well being coverage and legislation 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 follow of drugs.16,17
Knowledgeable consent means you’ve gotten the human proper to bodily autonomy and the authorized proper to be totally knowledgeable concerning the dangers and problems of a medical intervention, corresponding to 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 kids 23 doses of seven vaccines by age six20 — DPT, MMR and polio vaccines — however they weren’t telling dad and mom that some kids don’t get by means 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 dwell oral polio vaccine might trigger vaccine pressure polio and paralyze kids, and that it additionally might paralyze dad and mom and anybody coming in shut bodily contact with the physique fluids of lately vaccinated kids.26,27,28
The Authorized Proper to Sue Negligent Docs and Vaccine Firms
When Huge Pharma threatened to depart the US with no childhood vaccines except they got whole 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 Harm Act.30
When you’re handed a Vaccine Data Assertion (VIS) at a pediatrician’s workplace throughout a properly youngster go to,31 it’s as a result of we insisted that the 1986 Act require each physician and vaccine supplier to provide each mum or dad printed illness and vaccine danger info earlier than vaccinating a toddler.32
We additionally made positive 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 Opposed Occasion Reporting System, recognized at this time as VAERS.33
The 1986 Act was historic acknowledgement by the US authorities that vaccine accidents and deaths are actual, and that vaccine security needs to be made a nationwide precedence. The federal compensation program created underneath the Act was designed to be an alternative choice to a lawsuit — not the only real treatment.
That’s as a result of within the authentic legislation we did efficiently defend the authorized proper of oldsters of vaccine injured kids to sue negligent medical doctors for medical malpractice and to sue drug firms for design defect when there was proof the corporate might have made a vaccine safer.34
Congress, Medical Commerce & US Supreme Courtroom Betray the Individuals
We by no means imagined that after the legislation 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 legislation 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 Courtroom 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 the way to make a vaccine much less prone 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 susceptible kids to be written off as acceptable sacrifices.42
A 4 Decade Public File of Client Advocacy
Kathi and I labored with dad and mom for 14 years to boost 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 dwell 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 shopper 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 Medication Vaccine Security Discussion board and CDC public engagement tasks to supply an knowledgeable shopper perspective and voice for the vaccine injured.46,47,48
We have now 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 programs54,55 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, concerning 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 info web sites on the Web containing a web based library of greater than 2,000 pages of referenced print and video info on vaccine science, coverage, legislation 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 experiences made to VAERS;69 NVICAdvocacy.org, launched in 2010 to prepare on the state stage to oppose compelled vaccination and defend vaccine exemptions in public well being legal guidelines; and TheVaccineReaction.org, a journal newspaper first revealed in print type in 1995 and re-launched as a digital publication in 2015.
NVIC has a novel public file of defining and debating the vaccine security and knowledgeable consent subject 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 file that authorities, business, and medical commerce, now partnered with Silicon Valley, have been attempting to erase and finish for greater than 20 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 International Censorship
After we held our 2020 Fifth Worldwide Public Convention on Vaccination: Defending Well being and Autonomy within the twenty first 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 info from all social media platforms.79,80
In 2021, Huge 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 a number of days earlier than Christmas all of a sudden blocking the flexibility of NVIC supporters to course of donations by means 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, observe down and compelled people in opposition to their will to be injected with biologicals of recognized and unknown toxicity at this time, then there might 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 making the most of 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 destroy 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 might 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 this time, much more individuals know anyone who was wholesome, acquired vaccinated and was by no means wholesome once more.
And whereas US public well being officers advocate that kids get 72 doses of 17 vaccines,105 together with COVID vaccine, and states mandate most of them, the exploding and nonetheless unexplained power illness and incapacity epidemic marked by power irritation within the our bodies of extremely vaccinated kids and younger adults106,107 — which we now have been speaking about at NVIC for many years108,109,110 — continues to hang-out each faculty 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 kids began 40 years in the past, has grow to be the primary matter of dialog in houses, workplaces, colleges, hospitals, capitals and courtrooms all over the world.
Kathi and I do know we might by no means have accomplished this work for 40 years with out the steadfast encouragement and assist of caring individuals such as you, who’re studying or listening to this message.
Proper now, by means of the NVIC Advocacy Portal, we’re on the entrance strains in lots of states monitoring practically 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, though a number of 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 need of the individuals.
However now that the US has grow to be the primary nation to direct medical doctors to provide mRNA COVID vaccine to all infants and toddlers underneath age two, we all know there might be a giant push to mandate the vaccine as a situation for youngsters attending daycare, colleges and different social actions.113
The darkish cloud created by worry of a virus that plunged our nation and each nation into an almost three-year nightmare isn’t over but. It’s going to solely carry after we refuse to permit these making the most of the worry they promoted to make us adjust to legal guidelines that violate our human rights.
Proper now, we now have a chance to construct on the larger public consciousness that has been generated by the oppression we now have skilled throughout the COVID pandemic.114 The truth is, there may be each cause to maneuver ahead with renewed hope and willpower.
In 2020 and 2021, individuals on this nation and all over the world stood up for liberty and in opposition to compelled vaccination in bigger numbers than ever earlier than.115 At any time when 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 Conflict116,117 has been happening for 200 years and it has at all times been a David and Goliath battle, a marathon and never a dash. It started with legal guidelines mandating that each one kids get the notoriously reactive smallpox vaccine,118 a vaccine that some public well being medical doctors wish to convey again as a result of a monkeypox virus has all of a sudden popped up in international locations the place it had not been circulating earlier than.119,120,121
And so, one other spherical of virus worry mongering has begun, with the “consultants” holding out a vaccine as the one resolution. What number of extra microbes might be weaponized to maintain the individuals dwelling in perpetual worry of one another?
It’s time to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of the consultants and declare our independence from those that wish to rule over us with an iron fist. You would not have to be a health care provider 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 youngster.
You may empower your self with info and arise in your proper to know and freedom to decide on the way you and your loved ones keep wholesome. You may 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 focus of NVIC’s work since 1982 — might be overcome with grassroots motion on the native stage.
You by no means know the way or when a small motion you are taking will change somebody’s life. Please make a dedication to enlighten a buddy or somebody in your individual household or neighborhood concerning the significance of defending the human proper to knowledgeable consent.
Go to NVIC.org and share our properly referenced info like our new on-line Information to Reforming Vaccine Coverage and Regulation. Turn into a subscriber of NVIC’s free journal newspaper, The Vaccine Response, 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 kids. Make a donation to NVIC on this, our fortieth Anniversary, to assist us proceed to do that work underneath probably the most troublesome circumstances we now have ever confronted.
Be the one who by no means has to say you didn’t do at this time what you might have accomplished to alter tomorrow. It’s your well being. Your loved ones. Your selection. And our mission continues: No compelled vaccination. Not in America.
