Society in 2021 has taken on pandemic fear and created a social class based on ignorance. I have heard someone say “we should just take those anti-vaxxers and shoot them”. Why would someone suggest murder of a person because they exercised their rights to not be injected? Fear that such a person would spread the virus?

But it is not just those who feel that they have the right to kill or imprison someone for not taking an injection. The government of the two nations I am a citizen of (Canada and Australia) have created a two tier society based on this fear, by introducing vaccine “passports”. Those without a passport have less rights and privileges.

I won’t write about this in detail, but if you doubt that the lockdowns should never have happened, watch this two hour video that contains all the major reasons why Oxford, Standford, and other universities studied the alternatives and recommended in 2020 that lockdowns do more harm than good.

In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Bhattacharya takes us through how the whole COVID-19 issue started, how it spread throughout the world, the efficacy of lockdowns, the development and distribution of the vaccines, and the rise of the Delta variant. He delves into what we got right, what we got wrong, and what we got really wrong.

In fact, the research done on the transmission of the man-made disease is that the vaccines primarily have an effect on the individual who takes them, for a period of about 4 months, after which you have to rely on your own immune system or take a booster shot. If you are exposed to a variant, the vaccine is not able to reduce your risk, which is why DELTA and other variants continue to spread irrespective of the vaccine.

However even if you are exposed to the original COVID for which the vaccine reduces individual risk, the ability to spread the non-living virus is nearly the same as if you had not taken the vaccine, and certainly less than a person who has natural immunity (been exposed and has an auto-immune response).

COVID is not going to go away. Over time everyone will be exposed to COVID, and adapt accordingly. The argument for a vaccine was never that it would stop COVID, but that it would assist in “lowering the curve” to allow medical staff to cope with the infection rates. This happened to a certain extent, but that argument no longer applies. Your safety depends on your ability to resist COVID and its variants, and such natural immunity will become the norm over time.

However people who have had COVID are still expected to take the vaccine? Why?

The logic in saying that you are safe from COVID by taking an mRNA vaccine is flawed. If you have symptoms you can still transmit the virus. You can still get the virus. If it has been over 4 months since you had the vaccine you have little remaining vaccine protection.

Still I wear a face mask and keep distance in order to comply with the rules. Why is that not the same for taking a vaccine? Why not take the shot, or the boosters to come?

So here is the reason for alarm.

Western governments, including the UK, USA Canada and Australian, have created the following elements:

1 Mandated an unsafe procedure that puts lives at risk. (A mandate is not law, but the social expectation is that you “have to” or will be punished by restrictions or loss of employment)

2 Created a “passport” or mark that people who are vaccinated are “approved” as better citizens.

3 Endorsed and advertised this false narrative as if the vaccinated are “protecting the population” through taking the vaccine. (This is not true, though there is justification for high risk individuals to take the vaccine – those who are overweight, over 80 and have co-morbidities fit that profile – and account for over 90% of COVID deaths)

Let’s relate these current events to something that happened in Germany a century ago:

1 Certain people (gypsies, Jews etc) were “marked” by information and symbols[1] as being “less than” the Nazi government’s definition of “Approved”

2 A false narrative was promoted to society that the government was “protecting the population” by isolating these people because they would “infect” the rest of German society.

3 They mandated that these people should be cleansed (the official policy was “redemption by work”) and that they could be enslaved. At the start this was not law, just a mandate. The loss of human status meant that later these same people in concentration camps were murdered.

This was the “holocaust” genocide. Don’t push it away as different to now, because the seed elements are the same. The verbal distancing and threats are already present. Even the implications of asking “have you had your shot or booster?” goes over the line into territory that is judgmental, against our charter of rights, and just plain rude.

If you distance people at any time by defining them as “less than” you create a social distance that entitles those who are “pure” to look down on those who are not. This is ethically wrong and against the UN charter of human rights.

The next step is to isolate and remove privileges. That is already happening. More is threatened.

An unvaccinated person cannot attend a restaurant or a hockey game here in Canada. However the COVID deaths continue to climb in countries like Israel where forced vaccination has resulted in vaccination rates well over 90%.

Now our societies face ongoing “boosters” to address the issues that are covered by natural immunity.

The “real” social distancing from COVID?

It is not standing 6 feet apart from other people.

It is standing above other people, thinking you are better or safer or somehow more “pure” because you took a risky chance to remove your fear in order to get back to “normal”.

That’s not going to happen. The flu is still here, and COVID is going to be part of our future.

The big question is, do you intend to run the risks of ongoing mRNA vaccine “boosters” in the years to come? Every time you do, you face the same risk of death and adverse event. Over and over again.

Your call.

NB, Fortunately there are other non-mRNA vaccines which are showing all the signs of low adverse event rates in their trials. E.g. Novavax in Canada, Covax-19 or Spikogen from Australia and now available in Iran.

Rather than thinking that people who are unvaccinated haven’t done their research, instead let’s pull together to find a safe way forward.

[1] The Jews in Germany after “Kristalnacht” were forced to wear a star on their clothing to identify them.