We’re publishing a piece today by Dr. Oliver Robinson, Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich, entitled “Vaccine Passports and Mandates: An Interdisciplinary Critique“. Dr. Robinson reviews the biomedical, social, psychological and ethical arguments for and against Covid vaccine coercion as represented by vaccine passports and mandates and concludes such coercion is far from justified. Here’s an excerpt from the section on ethics.
Informed consent and bodily autonomy are integral to medical ethics. To override them for the public good requires a cast-iron argument and evidence that is almost irrefutable. Mandated measures for public health and safety that override consent do exist in liberal democracies. An example is wearing seatbelts in the front seat of a car. This is ethically justifiable as wearing a seatbelt does not infringe any basic liberties such as bodily autonomy or freedom of movement, and it can’t kill you. In contrast, vaccines do have the potential for harm.
In the U.K., the Government’s Yellow Card system counts approximately 1,900 deaths due to adverse reaction to the vaccine. In the U.S., the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has counted approximately 19,000 deaths following a vaccine adverse reaction. Proportionally, this gives almost exactly the same vaccine deaths per capita across the two countries. Some argue these figures are an overestimation given that the deaths are not medically proven to be caused by the vaccine, while others argue that they are likely to be an underestimation given that only a fraction of adverse reactions get reported to these systems. But if we take the Yellow Card figure for the U.K., on the basis of 48,000,000 people double vaccinated, this means approximately a one in 24,000 chance of dying from a Covid vaccine. Crucially, the age of those who have died from vaccine side-effects in the U.K. has not been released. A concern is that vaccine fatalities may include a high proportion of young people, given that vaccine adverse events are more common in the young.
Evidence of the potential adverse side-effects of the vaccine is still being found. For example, a concern has been recently highlighted about unexplained excess deaths in young men since the vaccine rollout. In January 2022, a spinal condition was added to the list of AstraZeneca side effects. In relation to this, it is worth bearing in mind that it took three years after delivery of the vaccine for swine flu in 2009 before it was finally accepted that it caused narcolepsy in some people, leading to a flurry of lawsuits. Where things end up for the COVID-19 vaccines is still a wait-and-see situation. Full approval is not yet granted to them in the U.K., and many countries have limited their use in the young (for example, Belgium does not allow Moderna to the under-30s, Japan recommends against AstraZeneca for the under-40s, and Taiwan has halted use of Pfizer in the under-17s). All considered, we don’t know what the long-term burden to the health system will be from those who have been vaccinated.
When a medical procedure comes with risk of harm, as is the case with the COVID-19 vaccine, it must be left to the informed consent of the individual. Japan is an exceptional model in this regard. Japan’s Ministry of Health of health website encourages citizens to receive the vaccine, but stresses it is not mandatory. Those taking it in Japan are required to be informed of the factual risk of side-effects such as myocarditis before they give their informed consent to be injected.
Worth reading in full.
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If it’s not for Noah, so called free speech advocate DS would be just another propaganda mouthpiece with monochrome view of Ukraine conflict: peaceful democratic Ukraine was unprovokedly invaded by barbaric Russia in February 22. Those pesky Russians who are in the habit of occupying nuclear plants so that they can shell themselves causing nuclear incident…
Even if US didn’t openly provoke Russia, they (US state in partnership with MIC and big business) definitely have million reasons for the war to continue. Europe is weakened by the war and US is making money. Classic.
An excellent article which makes a lot of sense. Obviously the timing of the Russian invasion was, shall we say, fortuitous, allowing TPTB to maintain their fear programme on the back of a waning C1984.
The reasoning expounded by Noah Carl matches very much with the views of proper news organisations which are US based, such as Brighteon / Natural News, and the excellent Technocracy News.
The bottom line is that it is seriously beginning to look like the US deep state has declared war on the world and has recruited some deeply influential and well-funded pockets to their cause – the likes of Gates, Bezos,Zuckerberg etc. In many respects the US is a failing state and their current actions could perhaps be seen as the flailings of a dying man, but this of course makes it very dangerous.
A very plausible theory, it also explains why the
one had to be removed at all costs as he wasn’t onboard with the Ukraine/permanent war project.
Sounds plausible. As they say — America is prepared to fight Russia to the last European.
There’s also the small matter of the Biden family’s dubious commercial interests in Ukraine.
Not to mention the now accepted secret biolabs, funded by the USA, which everyone said was a conspiracy theory.
The difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘truth’ is now about 6 weeks….
Granted this friction has been boiling for a long while, even before Euromaiden and during Obama’s tenure nothing much was resolved despite the “revolution” (or coup depending on your perspective). But you’re right, the Biden’s connections are certainly worthy of note in this whole debacle, Hunter’s Burisma “contracts” are highly suspect. They were anyway but especially now in retrospect, Burisma being owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi. We could argue Zelensky owes his rise to power to Kolomoyskyi (and his ‘1+1 Media Group’) in the ‘Servant of the People’ comedy series, plus Kolomoyskyi reportedly was the original funder of the infamous Azov Battalion. I gather there are abundant shale deposits in the Donbas too which again Kolomoyskyi (Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast at the time) presumably wanted to benefit from which may have had something to do with perpetrating the conflict in 2014. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
I’ve said it before.
America’s worst nightmare has been and will continue to be any alliance between the raw materials of Russia and European tec./industry – then it’s Goodnight Uncle Sam and take all your decadent baggage with you.
As an additional bonus that would be our best chance of avoiding The Great Reset.
What’s not to like…
Strange that there’s no mention of the role that eco-zealots may have played in effectively making Nordstream 2 a white elephant. Given that they’ve managed to get Keystone and various other pipelines in America cancelled or so wrapped up in lawsuits that they may never happen it seems obvious that they regard pipelines as an easy target in their war against fossil fuels and would put pressure on the U.S. government to try and stop the flow of gas/oil anywhere in the world.
I’m not sure which is worse, this delusional article from Carl or the number of Daily Sceptic readers who appear to buy in to this nonsense.
Anyone who thinks that the US intelligence agencies or the State Department is capable of organising anything more than a group order at Starbucks is delusional.
Many of us have said from the outset of the Ukraine war that the US deliberately provoked Russia. I have no problem accepting the argument outlined above is highly plausible.
“When you think about it, this is extremely provocative. Imagine if Chinese officials travelled to Canada, and publicly backed a protest movement seeking to replace Canada’s government with a pro-Chinese one. Americans would be outraged”
Whilst there is, as usual, much to agree with in Noah’s piece, he (never mind the Putin fans active in comments) cuts the Russians way too much slack. And his paragraph 4 – repeated above) is laughable.
No need for hypothetical Chinese in Canada. What about actual Russian funding of GangGreen fanatics “protesting” oil pipelines in US and Canada and Fracking in the UK and Europe? What about RT’s disgraceful support for the same “protestors”?
When will Noah notice that?