John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© September 29, 2021
I have a terrible sense the lies propagandized upon
Americans (and the one-time free world) is the hope of stealth Marxist agenda
(you really should read up on Antonio Gramsci) to attempt the final
transformation nails in the American concept of individual Liberty coffin. Why else
would it be acceptable for the number of adverse reactions (including deaths by
the thousands) that have exceeded a half-a-million aberrant side-effects when
earlier vaccinations with far-far less casualties were removed due to harm?
o The
Gramsci Influence on Alinsky; JRH; SlantRight 2.0; 3/25/10
o Gramsci
the Eurocommunist and Obamunism; JRH; SlantRight 2.0; 4/2/13
o Antonio
Gramsci: the Godfather of Cultural Marxism; By Bradley Thomas; FEE Stories (Foundation for Economic Education);
3/31/19
I found this Dr. Mercola post talking about Jab casualties
and the mysterious push to continue jabbing. Though I am cross posting Dr.
Mercola may have removed the post from his website by the time you read it here
due to political persecution and protecting his medical credentials.
Which leads me to the second cross post. The political
persecution people are receiving for resisting government/Globalist/Leftist
science has reached cult-like proportions. If you ever have an opportunity to
examine pre-WWII rallies of how the Nazis shamed and coerced their citizens
into compliance of the State-agenda, there are eerily similar occurrences
TODAY! Fay Voshell calls this cult manipulation COVIDism.
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COVID Jabs Are Killing Two People for Every Person Saved
[Dr. Mercola removes posts after 48-hours from his
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Analysis by Dr.
Joseph Mercola
September 27, 2021
Youtube VIDEO: THIS Is Why You Can’t
Trust Big Pharma
[Posted by Russell
Brand
Published Sep 19, 2021
The FDA is funded by the same Big
Pharma & Corporations it regulates. What are the issues of the potential
conflict of interests within this current system? #FDA #BigPharma #Corruption
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Ø The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration has gone from a drug approval rate of 38% in
2005 to 61% in 2018. According to a 2017 Yale study, nearly 1 in 3 FDA approved
drugs ends up having new safety issues detected in the years following approval
Ø September
17, 2021, the FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot Comirnaty as a
third-dose booster for people over the age of 65 and people at high risk of
exposure to SARS-CoV-2 due to their profession
Ø According
to a retrospective study by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 1 in
1,000 mRNA injections (Pfizer and Moderna) have resulted in myopericarditis,
i.e. inflammation of the heart or heart sack, within one month of the shot,
although symptom onset typically occurred within days
Ø Other
data suggest 1 in 317 boys aged 16 to 17 will get myocarditis from the shots,
and after a third booster, that number may reach as high as 1 in 25
Ø Even if
the COVID shots were to provide 100% protection, which they clearly don’t,
VAERS data suggest they still kill two people for every life saved. Analyses
using non-U.S. data show there are approximately 411 excess vaccine-related
deaths per 1 million doses
In the video above, Russel Brand discusses the conflicts of
interest that arise when a regulatory agency is funded by the industry it is
charged with regulating. Take the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for
example. In years past, the FDA was funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers.
Today, nearly 45% of its annual budget comes from user fees
paid by the drug companies that seek approval for a given product, Brand says.
This transition from public to corporate funding has had a significant impact
on how the agency operates, and it’s clearly not in the public’s best interest.
Brand cites data showing the FDA has gone from a drug
approval rate of 38% in 2005 to 61% in 2018. In situations where a drug is
aimed at a disease where few medication options already exist, 89% of new drug
applications are approved on the first try.
Has drug development simply gotten that much better? Probably
not. The fact is that drug companies view the FDA’s user fees as payment for
service rendered, and that service includes approval. They’re not paying for
the FDA to turn them down.
Why FDA and Big Pharma Have a Trust Problem
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA issued
emergency use authorizations for completely novel types of “vaccine” in a
matter of weeks. While some applaud this speediness, it’s worth remembering
that as speedy approvals have increased with other drugs, so have the number
found to be harmful after the fact.
Data cited by Brand show that 21% of FDA approved
medications ultimately had to be removed from the market or be given a black
box warning. Essentially, if you’re taking a newly approved drug, the chances
that this drug will be found to be extremely dangerous is 1 in 5, which is
hardly encouraging!
A 2017 Yale study1 found the situation is
even more dire than that, showing nearly 1 in 3 FDA approved drugs ends up
having new safety issues detected in the years following approval.
The FDA is also allowing drug makers to profit at the
expense of public health by allowing them to “claim success in trials based on
proxy measurements instead of clinical outcomes like survival rates or cures,
which take more time to evaluate,” Caroline Chen notes in a June 2018
ProPublica article.2
FDA Advisers Receive Payouts to Approve Drugs
In addition to that, “pay-later conflicts of interest” are
widespread, according to an investigation by the journal Science.3 This
is when doctors who advise the FDA or sit on drug panels that are in charge of
drug approval are paid by drug makers AFTER the approval is a done deal.
Science examined 107 physician FDA advisers who voted on
drug approvals. Of those, 40 ended up receiving more than $10,000 in post hoc
earnings from the drug company whose drug they voted to approve; 26 of them got
more than $100,000 and six were paid more than $1 million. FDA advisers who
help drug makers gain approval also reap rewards in other ways. As noted by
Science:4
“The FDA says its rules, along
with federal laws, stop employees from improperly cashing in on their
government service. But Science found that employees at the agency often reap
later rewards — jobs or consulting work — from the makers of the drugs …
A 2016 study found that 15 of
the 26 employees who left the agency later worked or consulted for the
biopharmaceutical industry. Of the more than $24 million in personal payments
or research support from industry to the 16 top-earning advisers, 93% came from
the makers of drugs those advisers previously reviewed.”
FDA Has Already Lost Most of Its Credibility
As argued by Brand, the data is rather unequivocal. It tells
us corruption is rampant and the FDA has completely abandoned its charter to ensure
public health and safety. It’s really just there to give the appearance that
someone is looking out for public health, while in actuality it’s a venue
through which drug makers are enabled to profit from unsafe and unproven drugs.
The sad reality is that while FDA approval used to mean
something, today it has basically lost all meaning. Just because a drug is
FDA-approved doesn’t mean it’s been proven safe and effective.
Again and again, drugs are found to have serious safety
issues in the years after their approval. As a result, drug companies are
allowed to benefit while public health is sacrificed, which is precisely the
situation that the FDA was created to prevent.
FDA Approves COVID Boosters for Seniors
September 17, 2021, the FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech
COVID shot Comirnaty as a third-dose booster for people over the age of 65 and
other high-risk individuals. As reported by The Vaccine Reaction September 19,
2021:5
“Despite not convening the
Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) last month
to vote on effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
(licensed under the name COMIRNATY), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) convened the advisory committee on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021 to vote on
booster doses of the vaccine.
The FDA asked the VRBPAC to vote
‘yes’ or ‘no’ on the following question: Do the safety and effectiveness data
from clinical trial C4591001 support approval of a COMIRNATY booster dose
administered at least six months after completion of the primary series for use
in individual 16 years of age and older?
The C4591001 booster dose study
did not include any subjects under 18 years of age and only 12 subjects 65-85
years of age in Phase 1 of the trial and none in Phase 2/3.”
At the end of the day, 16 of the 18 VRBPAC members voted
“no” on approving a Comirnaty booster dose for people over the age of 16. A
second vote was then hastily thrown together, after members indicated they’d be
comfortable recommending a booster for seniors and “people at high risk of
severe COVID-19,” which the FDA is defining as health care workers and those at
increased risk of exposure due to their occupation.
This unscheduled second vote passed unanimously. However, as
reported by The Vaccine Reaction:6
“It’s important to note the data
VRBPAC was asked to consider for Vote #2 is different than for Vote #1. For
Vote #2 they were instructed to consider the ‘totality of scientific evidence
available’ — not just Pfizer’s booster dose clinical trial.
Had the VRBPAC been required to
only consider the evidence provided by Pfizer, it would have had to base its
decision on data from only 12 subjects 65 years and older in Phase 1 of the
trial because they were not included in Phase 2/3. The particular evidence
basis for VRBPAC’s approval of a booster dose for this group was not
specified.”
What’s more, the FDA suddenly shifted from “individuals at
high risk of severe COVID-19” infection, to having it apply to “health care
workers or others at high risk of occupational exposure.”
“This effectively shifted the
focus from those who were at high risk of become severely ill from COVID-19 to
those who are simply at high risk of being exposed, which will greatly expand
the scope of those recommended to have a booster dose,” The Vaccine
Reaction states.7
In a September 19, 2021, appearance on CBS News,8 director
of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins stated he fully
expects the FDA to extend boosters beyond seniors aged 65 and older, health care
workers and others at high risk of occupational exposure.
1 in 1,000 mRNA Shots Results in Heart Inflammation
So, the FDA claims the Pfizer shot is safe and effective
enough to warrant a third booster for certain groups. But is it? According to a
retrospective study9,10 by the University of Ottawa Heart
Institute, 1 in 1,000 mRNA injections (Pfizer and Moderna) have resulted in
myopericarditis, i.e., inflammation of the heart or heart sack, within one
month of the shot, although symptom onset typically occurred within days.
The study was posted on the preprint server medRxiv
September 16, 2021, the day before the FDA voted “yes” on boosters for the
elderly and certain high-risk groups. As explained by the authors:11
“This study is a prospective
collection and review of all cases with a myocarditis/pericarditis diagnosis
over a 2-month period at an academic medical center … Patients were identified
by admission and discharge diagnoses which included myocarditis or
pericarditis. Inclusion criteria: in receipt of mRNA vaccine within one month
prior to presentation …
Diagnosis was based on clinical
presentation, ECG/echo findings and serial troponins and was confirmed in each
case by CMR. Incidence was estimated from total doses of mRNA vaccine administered
in the Ottawa region for the matching time-period. This data was obtained from
the Public Health Agency of Ottawa …
Results: 32 patients were
identified over the period of interest. Eighteen patients were diagnosed with
myocarditis; 12 with myopericarditis; and 2 with pericarditis alone. The median
age was 33 years (18-65 years). The sex ratio was 2 females to 29 males.
In 5 cases, symptoms developed
after only a single dose of mRNA vaccine. In 27 patients, symptoms developed
after their second dose of. Median time between vaccine dose and symptoms was
1.5 days …
Chest pain was the commonest
symptom, but many others were reported. Non-syncopal non-sustained ventricular
tachycardia was seen in only a single case. Median LV ejection fraction (EF)
was 57% (44-66%). Nine patients had an LVEF below the normal threshold of 55%.
Incidence of myopericarditis
overall was approximately 10 cases for every 10,000 inoculations. This is the
largest series in the literature to clearly relate the temporal relationship
between mRNA COVID vaccination, symptoms and CMR findings.”
COVID Shots May Be Killing Two for Every Life Saved
Youtube VIDEO: FDA committee meets to
debate and vote on Covid booster shots for the general public — 9/17/21
[8:11:34 – whew lengthy]
[Posted by CNBC
Television
… MORE TO READ]
According to expert testimony given during the September 17,
2021, FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee meeting (see video above),12 the
shots may in fact be killing far more people than they’re saving.
“Even if the vaccines have 100%
protection, it still means we kill two people to save one life. ~ Steve Kirsch”
According to Dr. Joseph Fraiman, an emergency medicine
physician in New Orleans, there’s no clinical evidence to prove the COVID shots
are saving more people than they harm. He told the committee they ought to:
“Demand the booster trials are
large enough to find a reduction in hospitalizations. Without this data we, the
medical establishment, cannot confidently call out anti-COVID-vaccine activists
who publicly claim the vaccines harm more than they save, especially in the
young and healthy. The fact we do not have the clinical evidence to say these
activists are wrong should terrify us all.”
Steve Kirsch, executive director of the COVID-19 Early
Treatment Fund, then went on to show what Fraiman feared the most, namely that
the Pfizer shot kills two people for every person it saves.
“We were led to believe that the
vaccines were perfectly safe, but this is simply not true. For example, there
are four times as many heart attacks in the treatment group in the Pfizer
6-month trial report. That wasn’t just bad luck.
VAERS shows heart attacks happen
71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine,” Kirsch
said, adding: “If the net all-cause mortality from the vaccines is
negative, then vaccines, boosters and mandates are all nonsensical.”
Here’s a screenshot from Kirsch’s slide show, showing the
number of people killed by the COVID shots, compared to the number of lives
saved by them.
Kirsch went on to state that while the VAERS data is the
only data that are statistically significant, the other two data sources are
still “troubling”:
“Even if the vaccines have 100%
protection, it still means we kill two people to save one life … Four experts
did analyses using completely different non-U.S. data sources and all of them
came up with approximately the same number of excess vaccine-related deaths —
about 411 deaths per million doses.
That translates into 115,000
people who have died (due to the Covid-19 vaccines) … The real numbers confirm
that we kill more than we save. And I would love everyone to look at the Israel
ministry of health data on the 90+ year olds where we went from a 94.4%
vaccinated group to 82.9% vaccinated in the last four months.
In the most optimistic scenario
it means that 50% of the vaccinated people died and 0% of unvaccinated people
died. Unless you can explain that to the American public you cannot approve the
boosters.”
Kirsch also showed data suggesting 1 in 317 boys aged 16 to
17 will get myocarditis from the shots, and after a third booster, that number
may reach as high as 1 in 25. He also points out that Pfizer’s Phase 3 trials
must clearly be “gamed,” as “it is statistically impossible for protocol
violations to be five times higher in the treatment group.” “Why has this not
been investigated?” he asked.
What Do the VAERS Data Tell Us?
Rumble VIDEO: Jessica
Rose, PhD -- Adverse Events Reporting: What do the Data Tell Us?
[Posted by covexit.com - covid-19 news & policy
analysis
Published September 19, 2021
This interview with Jessica Rose,
PhD, covers the question of vaccine safety, as it can be evaluated from actual
real world data collected into the so called "VAERS" system.
Sub-titles are available in Spanish
& Portuguese, yet refer only to the spoken English version in case you have
doubt about the meaning of what is said.
The interview covers the question
of the nature and magnitude of adverse effects, as compared to previous
vaccination programs; the issue of under-reporting, which is considerable; the
question of causality between an adverse event and an injection and the extent
to which causality can be established, using the Bradford Hill Criteria. There
is also a discussion of effectiveness, with Dr Rose answering the somewhat
rhetorical question whether these injections are as effective as they are safe.
Dr Rose then answers some questions from the audience.
The interview relies on a few
slides, which you can find at: https://covexit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/slides_Dr_Rose_talk.pdf
Find the podcast version at http://covexit.com/podcast]
In a September 18, 2021, interview with The Covexit podcast,
Jessica Rose, Ph.D., who holds degrees in applied mathematics, immunology,
computational biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, discussed what the
U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) data tell us about the
safety of the COVID shots.
Rose covers issues such as the magnitude of the side effects
compared to other vaccination programs, the problem of under-reporting, and how
causality can be assessed using the Bradford Hill Criteria. You can find a PDF
of the slide
show that Rose presents here.13 Here’s a summary of
some of the key points made in this interview:
Between 2011 and 2020, the
number of VAERS reports ranged between 25,408 and 49,412 for all vaccines. In
2021, with the rollout of the COVID shots, the number of VAERS reports have
shot up to 521,667, as of September 3, 2021, for the COVID shots alone.
Between 2011 and 2020, the total
number of deaths reported to VAERS ranged between 120 and 183. In 2021, as of
September 3, the reported death toll had shot up to 7,662.
Cardiovascular, neurological and
immunological adverse events are all being reported at rates never before seen.
The estimated under-reporting
factor (URF) is 31. Using this URF, the death toll from COVID shots is
calculated to be 205,809 as of August 27, 2021; Bell’s palsy 81,747; herpes
zoster infection 149,017; paresthesia 305,660; breakthrough COVID 365,955;
myalgia 528,457; life threatening events 230,113; permanent disabilities
212,691; birth defects 7,998.
If there’s no causal
relationship between the shots and adverse events, we would expect side effects
to occur at any given point between the vaccination date and symptom onset.
This is not what we’re seeing. Death, for example, dramatically spikes within
the first few days post-injection, and rapidly falls off after day 10.
The Bradford Hill Criteria for
causation are all satisfied. This includes but is not limited to strength of
effect size, reproducibility, specificity, temporality, dose-response
relationship, plausibility, coherence and reversibility.
Children Are Now the Next Target
While the FDA voted against recommending a third booster to
young adults aged 16 and over, there’s little doubt that the recommendation
will soon be expanded to people under the age of 65, and eventually even young
children.14 I say that because there seems to be no ceiling
above which the death and disability toll is deemed too great. Why? We have not
been given a straight answer, leaving us to speculate about the FDA’s
intentions.
Why aren’t they concerned about safety when more than half a
million side effect reports have been filed? How come nearly 15,000 reported
deaths15 haven’t set off emergency alarms and in-depth
investigations? As noted by Rose, 50 deaths have historically been the cutoff
point at which a vaccine is pulled. We’re so far beyond that now, it seems
there’s no threshold anymore.
At present, one wonders whether the FDA’s reluctance to
approve a booster for younger individuals is mere show. Perhaps they’re trying
to reclaim some measure of scientific authority, which was undermined by the
U.S. government and Pfizer announcing the release of boosters before the FDA
had even made its determination.
Whatever the case may be, I urge you to review as much data
as you can before you jump on the booster bandwagon. Based on everything I’ve seen;
I believe the risk of side effects is likely going to exponentially increase
with each dose.
If you need a refresher on the potential mechanisms of harm,
download and read Stephanie Seneff’s excellent paper,16 “Worse Than The
Disease: Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Vaccines
Against COVID-19,” published in the International Journal of
Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research in collaboration with Dr. Greg Nigh.
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10 Trial Site News September 19, 2021
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The Forcible Conversion to COVIDism
COVID
Jab Vials - Image:
torstensimon via Pixabay, Pixabay License.
By Fay Voshell
September 26, 2021
By now, even progressives are aware that the restrictions
imposed by COVID-19 hygiene rituals are onerous. Temperature-taking,
hand-sanitizing, mask-wearing, social distancing — all have become ubiquitous
social practices since the arrival of the virus eighteen months ago.
Now forced vaccination and possibly vaccine passports have
been added to the list of requirements deemed necessary for establishing and
maintaining national health.
It strikes one that the ever-changing rituals pronounced by
such entities as the CDC and WHO have become not only arbitrary and
increasingly revelatory of dubious and ever-changing science, but also
evocative more of religious practices than of rational, scientific measures.
Eerily, many of the rituals of COVIDism have assumed the
status and significance of the ceremonies practiced by millions of Christians,
who cross themselves, genuflect before the altar, and pray the
rosary. Christians believe those rituals are an acknowledgment of
the higher power who is God. God is represented by the irreducibly Christian
symbol of the cross and worshipped by the observance of sacraments, of sacred
liturgies, and by bowing the knee in prayer.
Devotees of COVIDism are acknowledging by their repetitious
and symbolic rituals a higher power as well—that of the almighty State.
Fear is often the chief impetus behind the establishment of
a political religion of the State, which requires rituals indicating
obedience. As Jason Christoff has put it:
To effectively brainwash and
mind control a population you first need fear. ... The tyrant is best served by
being in control of the fear plus manufacturing the ritual that removes the
fear. That pre-manufactured ritual will in turn trick the public into
participating in their own enslavement and brings them willingly into the iron
grip of the tyrant.
While no one seriously doubts that COVID-19 is an illness
requiring medical attention, it is increasingly apparent that the fear of the
virus and almost superstitious practices have been factors in the rise of the
cult of COVIDism, which in turn has become a useful tool for establishing the
State's control over every sector of society and every aspect of life.
It is also perfectly clear the governing priestly elite
foisting their quasi-religious rituals on the masses are miraculously immune
from a virus that discerns who are the pure sheep of the church of COVIDism and
who are the deplorably diseased goats. The high priests partying at
the Obama birthday bash on Martha's Vineyard, at the Met Gala, and at the Emmys
do not have to wear masks. Nor do they have to observe the rules of
social distancing once reserved for lepers and others deemed unclean.
But the unhealthy goats, most of them congregated in
churches, the middle class, and the military, do have to
follow the regulations and rituals.
Now it appears that even the United States military must
submit to the ritual of forced vaccination, which could be seen as COVIDism's
imitation of Christian baptism.
No doubt encouraged by the nearly complete capitulation of
churches, public schools, the media, and academia, the federal government has
continued on its campaign of forced conversion. Joe Biden has
declared that all members of the military must submit to
vaccination. The White House has declared those who refuse should
be dishonorably
discharged. Such action smells of a purge of any
dissenting troops.
It's salutary to recall that pseudo-religious rites have
been characteristic of the religious-political ideologies of the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Many historians recognize the semi-religious
qualities of Nazism, which had strict dogmas and easily recognizable symbols
and rituals. Raising one's arm in a salute, chanting "Heil
Hitler, singing the Horst Wessel song, displaying the swastika, and
acknowledging the authority of the ruling class were ways to declare oneself a
loyal follower of the Third Reich.
It is critical that Americans realize the terrible
implications of and strongly resist the forced vaccination of our
soldiers. Demanding that soldiers be forcibly vaccinated is a
violation of inherent human and religious rights — rights enshrined in the
Constitution of the United States and also in international ethical codes such
as the Nuremberg
Code of 1947, which clearly states that any medical procedure
considered experimental requires "the voluntary consent of the human
subject" as "absolutely essential."
Ominously, while the military pays lip service to
conscientious and religious objections, the process is slow-walked through
labyrinthian procedural requirements punctuated by what amount to struggle
sessions designed to change the objector's mind. An official chart
outlines the procedures:
ANNEX
XX Refusals & MedicalReligious Exemptions Process
It is hard to avoid the impression that the current
administration is shaking up and re-forming America's armed
forces. The forced vaccinations Biden and his show generals Milley
and Austin are attached to and fostering look like part and parcel of the globalist
vision outlined by Biden at the United Nations. That vision is
essentially a religious-political vision that includes the universal sign and
seal of vaccination and acceptance of the globalist dogmas of global warming;
anti-capitalism; and, increasingly, hostility toward the entirety of Western
civilization.
Add to the above the ignominious retreat of the United
States from Afghanistan, the arming of a vicious authoritarian regime, and the
reshuffling of old alliances that virtually exclude Europe, and one can deduce
that this administration is determined to destroy the exceptional
nature of America and the unique qualities of Western civilization in
order to shift global alliances.
It is hard not to speculate that the United States Army is
being shaped according to a globalist vision. It is suspect that
America's soldiers are being forced to accept the sign and seal of vaccination
and to accept being led by officers whose ultimate loyalties lie not with
America, but elsewhere. After all, Americans have seen that General
Milley has pledged to inform the Chinese of our battle plans.
Who can help stem the tide of COVIDism, which in turn may be
the spear point of globalism?
The churches have already been conquered, with nearly all
acceding meekly to the State. Christian churches, Protestant and
Catholic alike, folded before state demands. There still is almost
universal acceptance of masking and social distancing. On the near
horizon is the acceptance of a vaccination passport indicating entrance into
the body of the secular blessed. Given the churches' history over
the last eighteen or more months, it seems no government edict concerning
vaccinations will be in serious danger of being defied by religious
institutions that have willingly and even enthusiastically drastically altered
or suspended what were once considered vitally essential sacraments.
To be fair, most churches have not recognized COVIDism as
being religious in nature. Separated into conclaves largely ignorant
of the forces that are determined to alter and even to crush them, most have
been blind to those who wish to seize the impetus that was once behind the
Great Commission for their own purposes of converting the entire globe to their
vision.
Given the failure of most religious institutions in
discerning and confronting the tyrannous aspects of COVIDism, it appears the
military itself must utilize the tools still available to
it. Officers, commissioned and noncommissioned alike, as well as
soldiers of every rank must resist the assaults against religion, conscience,
and bodily integrity, claiming the universal rights given by the Almighty and
established in law by the Constitution the military has sworn to uphold and
protect. Physicians who are in the military must rise up for the
sake of true medical science. Lawyers should consider lawsuits to
fight transgressions against soldiers' human rights.
It is time to resist the totalitarian nature of
COVIDism. It is time to reject the authoritarianism COVIDism
represents. It is past time to stop COVIDism's devotees from forcing
what have become essentially religious beliefs and practices on our military
and on the entire nation.
Fay Voshell holds a M.Div. from Princeton Theological
Seminary, which awarded her the prize for excellence in systematic
theology. Her thoughts have appeared in many online
magazines. She has been a regular contributor to American Thinker
for about a decade. She may be reached at fvoshell@yahoo.com.
© American Thinker 2021
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