We’re publishing an original essay today by Cory Zue, an American software developer in South Africa, that he posted on his blog last week. This is one of the best pieces I’ve read by someone who has chosen to remain unvaccinated for entirely rational reasons – and it resonated with me because I’ve decided not to get vaccinated after having had the same argument with myself as Cory. Here is an extract from near the beginning:
For most people my vaccination status is surprising. For many, it’s incomprehensible.
How could an MIT-educated, well-meaning, rational (hopefully), Massachusetts-born, Democrat who works in public health still not have a Covid vaccine?
I’ve been asked this question many times – sometimes in good faith and sometimes less so. And each time, I’ve struggled to fully satisfy people with my response. So I thought maybe I’d try writing it down.
This essay is my attempt to explain my vaccination status as best I can. It’s a complicated answer, which touches on family, science, policy, and morality. It’s a topic that is simultaneously very personal and very broad; difficult to talk about, and yet also important – perhaps, now more than ever.
What follows is likely to anger some of you, but I hope that it makes more of you curious, or even empathetic, to my position. We’ll see if I can pull it off.
Not only does Cory pull it off, but he does so with a good deal of humour and panache. This is very much worth reading in full and if, like me, you’ve chosen not to get vaccinated, it’s worth sharing with others who find it hard to understand that decision.
You can find Cory Zue’s blog here.
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Thank you for this long read, Cory. I agree with most of it.
In particular, I agree with your astonishment that this sh*t show does not end when some new piece of evidence arises that seems to change everything for the better. Again and again it has happened and each time things have got worse not better. With the omicron cr*p, it’s happening again – mild like a cold yet what does France, Italy etc do – double down on vaxxes and passes, or Austria insisting on masks on the ski slopes. Unbelievable, illogical but impossible to argue with the idiots.
I can’t help but feel that whilst we may have light possibly starting to appear at the end of the tunnel here in England (NOT the UK), it’s still very very dark over much of Europe. And that really worries me as I need to go to Spain sometime this year and I cannot see how I will be able to without a vaxx.
An excellent article, and I agree with everything he says. The only difference between him and me is that I’m vaccinated. But in practical terms of “new normal freedom” it means nothing because I reject the use of vaccination pass for all purposes. So if anyone asked for a formal confirmation of my status, my answer would be “it’s none of your business”.
I recommend everyone to read Real Anthony Fauci by Bobby Kennedy Jr. On chapther 3 he explains how Ivermectin could have saved 80 percent of deaths Worldwide. This book have opened my eyes. I now know that, 90% of all medicine is not for anything else than profit for them. Low profit and effective medicines are bashed and marketed as ineffective because they go against their narrative and profit plans. One of them is wonder drug Ivermectin. I see that everyday people search for it but can’t find a place to obtain. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
Possibly the work of subversive elements:
An advert announcing that ‘the vaccine bus is coming to Berndorf’ placed next to the ad for the local untertaker…
From #ploetzlichundunerwartet
Strangely, for all his time researching and finding conflicting information he never seemed to ask the bleeding obvious;
WHY?
Why are the governments doing this, it’s not like there is a lack of opinions out there. He too seems hypnotised.
I don’t understand your logic, what’s the benefit of asking a question you’ll never know the true answer to? There couldn’t possibly be a good reason behind the evil of mass experimental medication so who cares why. It just needs to be stamped out along with the evil that implemented it.
I remain unvaccinated because I’m not a stupid [unt.
Anyone that trusted the lying shit stain Boris and his cronies and allowed them to inject a ‘warp speed’ pharma product into their body knoing that pharma reused to take liability for the after effects is a complete bell end.
A poisoned bell end at that 😂
“I do genuinely believe that given my previous infection the risk-benefit of the vaccine is negative. That is – I think it is more likely to do harm than good. And I believe that any good it will do is temporary, and futile in the long term.”
Shouldn’t this alone be enough? I’m not saying all his other points are invalid, but if this was the only one then it’s still sufficient!
Query. Why, for someone so ready to question the narrative, do you think masks make a blind bit of difference?
Secondly. Morality. Does not the use of cell lines from a deliberately aborted unborn girl not figure in your thinking?
The best way, in my opinion, is to seek out any evidence before March 2020. For example, any evidence before March 2020 on masking to prevent influenza like illnesses suggests that surgical masks do little or nothing to prevent disease spread. There is a great pile of evidence over the years that suggest this – until March 2020. The definition of natural immunity was also changed in the last 2 years from what it had been for years and years. The definition of herd immunity also changed within the last 2 years previous to what it had been for years and years. The definition of a vaccine was changed over the last 2 years previous to what it had been for years and years. The list goes on and on. As well, even though mRNA has been known for decades, and studies and trials (in animals) of how to use this technology in vaccines have never been successful – until the fall of 2020. What happened to pandemic preparedness plans that were developed over many years prior to 2020 that said lockdowns were not to be used to lockdowns were the only way to stop the spread?
The question then… Read more »
‘Masks are a great example because now, after all the new evidence of cloth and surgical masks helping, they are now saying they don’t and N95s should be worn. Again, WTF?’
Because the N95 mask mandates in Germany have done such a good job in Germany.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/20/germany-mandates-medical-grade-masks/?sh=62da35722596
Yes, that’s been a big red flag for me too, the rewriting of or the memory-holing of history/previously established science, definitions, plans, methods etc, all aimed at justifying the new measures, all since March 20.
Why go around the houses? I won’t have this jab for one simple reason. I have no idea what’s in it and no-one seems able to tell me. I’m also careful and sometimes wary of what I eat for similar reasons. Besides, mother told me to beware the snake-oil salesman.
To show the neighbours who is unvaccinated and encourage vigilantes.
I’ve just seen a report in the Daily Arsehole about Imperial College London ‘discovering’ that having exposure to the common cold could give you immunity to SARS nCoV2.
We knew two years ago that having broad spectrum low affinity antibodies capable of targeting 20+ proteins for a family of viruses that make up at least 12% of common circulating viruses would give you a good level of immunity to another coronavirus Two. Fucking. Years. Ago.
So my question is this:
WHY IS EVERYONE SO FUCKING STUPID?
They’re not they are desperately searching for a way to keep their necks.
I know, my thoughts when I saw it too. But BBC tells its viewers “not to rely” on that kind of protection “you still need to be jabbed”
Science was being used to affirm our previously-held beliefs, rather than help us see truth. Applied to certain members of SAGE, this translates as: data were being selectively chosen and manipulated to promote their political agenda.
Thinking about it, I have come to the conclusion that we are now at an impasse between the two camps, the sceptics and the covidians. Both sides are now so intrenched that to admit that you were wrong (whichever side you’re on) would mean they are stupid, foolish and naive.
To get either side to change their views will take a monumental effort and the evidence would have to be so convincing as to make whomever feel very foolish.
As a sceptic from the start, I’d need bodies on the street before I was convinced, anything less I’d consider to be lies and propaganda.
‘I’d need bodies on the street before I was convinced’
Aren’t the bodies on the football pitches enough?
Justin Truedau bombshell ….
https://twitter.com/matthoyofficial/status/1480480614482595840?s=21
they have to control those WEF young global leaders somehow 😮
Justin Paedo.
The thing that put me off these “vaccines” was when I saw a BBC News article about how the mRNA vaccines work.
I instantly thought “that sounds a bit dodgy, why not just make traditional ones based on a weakened form of the actual virus instead of buggering around programming my cells to produce ‘spike proteins’??”
I was also concerned that they would be rushed and not properly tested. I was going to wait at least until the trials ended – which I thought were a bit short.
Since then, as the coercion and social bullying ramped up, it made me even more determined to not have them.
Now we’ve got footballers collapsing almost weekly and my dad has mysteriously lost 70% of his hearing. Also a friend of mine was in hospital for weeks due to heart inflammation and another friend had a severe reaction to the Pfizer jab.
It’s put me right off.
Remember when people used to say “doing X is like trying to come up with a cure for the common cold” about something impossible or futile? It was obviously going to mutate and I thought it was a bit silly to try and eliminate this… Read more »
Absolutely agree …
Discovery identifies a highly efficient human reverse transcriptase that can write RNA sequences into DNA — ScienceDaily
Toby Young,
Seatbelt analogy fact checked
( Sarc)
Interesting. I just told a colleague today that I’m unvaccinated. He was aghast, and wondered if I had told our employer. They’ve actually never asked.
When I am asked, I am completely honest:
1) I know about vaccine development, as I worked for a vaccine manufacturer for years, and know about the risk of ADE, in particular with respect to coronaviruses
2) I felt I would wait 2-3 years at least to see if this were a problem on the waning of the vaccinal antibodies, as if the entire population were to put themselves at risk of ADE, some people would need to stay healthy at least to ensure society continued to function.
3) I wasn’t worried about catching it in the meantime, as I never considered myself to be at risk (qcovid.org gives me a risk of death of 1:55,000) and I have a strong ethical position that one should only undergo medical intervention to protect ones own health, as all the risk falls on the person undergoing the procedure (especially so in a liability free one for the manufacturer).
4) Then data started emerging on the side effect profile, with VITT and then myocarditis and more
… Read more »
Oh and I then I got covid, so I definitely don’t want it now.
Oh, and one other thing: I have now collected 13 stories of people who have dropped dead shortly after being vaccinated or getting the booster shot, along with one story of a guy in Massachusetts who ended up as a quadruple amputee, just like that woman in Minnesota.
My total of Covid stories, on the other hand, stands at about 10. (It stood at 7 until this past weekend, when the woman who runs a pizza place that I frequent told me that she and her husband and daughter tested positive and were sick, but only with common cold-type symptoms. They were quite bummed that they had had to close their business for a week. When I asked her if she would’ve closed her business if it had happened 3 years ago, she replied: “Not for a week, we wouldn’t have.” So, it’s hard to even include them with 3 of my other Covid stories.
I submit that if it can be proven that one, just ONE person has been killed by the jab … jabs have out-killed Covid.
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I say no because it’s my God-given right. And I exercise that right.
I am a free man, not a slave. Reasons are secondary.
What are you going to do? Beat me with sticks?
My principle reason for refusing to jab – nothing to vaccinate for.
I’m a 64-year-old woman who has been unafraid of this virus and has been going about my business unvaxxed and mostly unmasked for 2 years and no one is interested in how I’ve stayed healthy. NO ONE! It’s quite amazing. I keep thinking someone will say: Wow! What‘s your secret?! But, no! I’ve been treated like a lunatic and an alien for 2 years—for being healthy and knowing how to take care of myself when I have felt the least bit dodgy.
In Brazil, I read that they initiated a study on people who seemed to be immune to Covid. In the U.S., I think they just want everyone to be sick. There seems to be no real interest in wellness.
Anyway, even though you didn’t ask, here’s my secret: All of that mucosal tissue around the eyes, inside the nose, inside the throat, it’s the first line of defense of the immune system and it can all be ‘washed’ just like one’s hands. The easiest way I have found to do it is to put a pot of water on the stove, get it simmering, put my head over it, and breathe the steam through my nose, into… Read more »
I woke up at 1 am this morning with that sore throat feeling. You know, not quite right, however much you try to convince yourself it is. So I boiled some water, mixed it up in a cup with a teaspoon of Cornish sea salt, left it to cool and gargled and snorted it.
Woke up three times during the night sweating, but now I’m perfectly fine.
I had the same sort of experience a few months ago, and it worked then too.
Here’s the trial which found excellent results against respiratory viruses from gargling and nasal irrigation with this simple solution. Bear in mind that the participants were only using the method when they had confirmed symptoms, rather than at first signs, as I did.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37703-3
Don’t do this all the time as a preventive though – you need those mouth bacteria. Don’t wipe them out unless you have reason to, i.e., think you’re coming down with something.
at first sign of scratchy throat I take a half tsp of manuka honey. works every time
Ginger for me! 🙂 Either as crystallised ginger or in cinnamon and ginger tea.
I thank you Cory for your essay I have come to similar decisions myself at 57 I am making a “stand” in particular because I am worried about the dystopian future my family face (adult children and grandchildren)if this medical tyranny continues. The younger generations, have had taken from them, their right of personal agency. This has happened over many years of state control and they probably will not know what it is.? Very sad.
I wish I dare write a personal essay but it would probably get me at least sent to Coventry in the school I work in/sacked but also more friends lost. So all I can do is resist vaccine, masks and sign things like The Great Barrington Declaration. Support dailysceptic and you.
Thank you for being braver than me. 🙏🏻👍🏻
Too my ‘arrogant’ comments. I read this and a lot of it rhymed with our situation. Being in France its far harder to be carried away with popular sentiment. I can read English language comment or translate, but its really news from UK and US that gives deeper meaning to what is happening. However we have been buffeted by adverse French reaction rather than the quite positive reaction the writer has experience in SA.
Certainly its an advantage not being engulfed by daily psyop from BBC or CNN.
My father was always anti-London centric Establishment, which equates to ‘free thinker’ these days.
But at the end of the day, it just comes down to doing your own homework, never trusting ‘the man’ , natural resistance to anything that subverts independence of thought. Pooling taxes for social health needs is one thing, pooling your brain and body to accept social wellbeing over your own is something entirely different. I am not an ant ( or a number).
And then there is the possibility that its all a pantomime to cover up the necessary social changes require to enforce zero carbon, to enforce a bio-security totalitarianism for the benefit of very few… Read more »
If the vaccines were magic potions that conferred the invulnerability of Robocop to those receiving it, the Branch Covidian cult would find an excuse to restrict anyway.
The graph in the article makes the classic ‘ablative’ mistake. Even CDC and Fauxi are beginning to admit that not all those 600+ 0-17 years died ‘from’ C-19. Also masks protecting people! The xkcd cartoon is crap too, typical deepthought for midwits. Could have saved himself a lot of time and heartache by reading the PANDA website.
https://www.pandata.org/about/
One of the many great articles that make this site an essential daily.
jesus! no need to make such a song & dance about it! is it necessary? is it effective? is it safe? do you trust the entities pushing it? that’s 4 “no”‘s from me – end of story.