Thought for the day as we embark on Year Three of the pandemic: Even if the Bee could explain to the Fly why pollen is better than shit, the Fly would not understand.
The people to whom it applies should be obvious,
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I was genuinely surprised and also pleased that you replied to my comment of February 11th. So far I’ve contacted fifteen other people, mostly journalists, who share your mindset about vaccines, sending them the same message. I’ve yet to hear from any of them, and don’t expect to.
I don’t diminish the deaths of people whom you and your wife knew. It’s always painful to lose a close friend or relative. Nevertheless, I’ve seen no evidence with my own eyes of any pandemic, nor, to my knowledge, has anyone in the world isolated and identified any virus that supposedly causes Covid-19. I believe this whole thing to be a monstrous hoax driven by evil people with their own hidden agenda, including the top decision makers in the mainstream media. I’ve maintained all along that, had the media never reported anything about Covid, no one would have noticed anything unusual, because nothing unusual in the way of death and disease happened in 2020. The CDC, an agency long mired in extreme corruption, was and still is a huge part of it with all their usual tricks. There’s so much fraud involved, and so much commentary about it on the internet, that I can’t possibly go into it here.
Your rebuttal is weak. You simply repeat a few stale myths of the vaccine dogma. Also, some of your assertions are incorrect. Edward Jenner was born in 1749 – it was in 1796 that he came up with his smallpox vaccine – and he didn’t discover anything, he conducted crude experiments with cow pus and declared them to be successful. Then, as now, he had his supporters while many vehemently disagreed with his theories. I’m one of the disagreers. You should at least read the first seventy pages of my book, where I tell my own story in detail, and deconstruct Jenner and Salk and their respective vaccines. You might also be interested to know that I’ve written a long chapter, beginning on page 107, entitled “For Our Soldiers Who Fought in Vietnam,” in which I quote from A RUMOR OF WAR. In that chapter I tie in the treachery of the federal government’s war policies with their vaccination policies.
In commenting, I’m not trying to convince you of anything because no friendly dialogue seems possible. My intention was to expose the ignorance of people like you who castigate anti-vaxxers like me. To my mind, the lack of a response is proof of that ignorance. But in responding, you tacitly admitted that you haven’t studied the vaccine controversy and have no intention of doing so. In other words, you prefer to remain ignorant because arrogant certainty feels much better than uncertainty. That’s how I see it. So, in the near future, I’m going to post this give and take on my website, and let readers decide for themselves who has the truth on his side. Incongruously, I’m also happy to give your book a plug. I think all Americans born after the Vietnam War era, who know so little about their own history, should read it.
It’s regrettable that all this lockdown and vaccination business has caused so many social divisions, and so much acrimony, but I’m afraid that’s the way the world works. And I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse as the enormous toll of casualties from the Covid jab continues to mount, and word of its terrible side effects, especially related to the heart and circulatory system, continues to spread, despite the media’s best efforts to censor and obfuscate what is happening. Notwithstanding my disenchantment with you, I hope you’re spared any suffering in your old age from the possible long-term effects of this shot.
Take care, Phil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_vaccines
Louis Pasteur..etc.
Thanks again, Phil.
You are like a Timex watch.
I just finished the story of Fred & Ethel.
Great stuff!!
Phil,
This is not going to be a pleasant letter, but I’ll begin it on a cordial note by saying that I read A RUMOR OF WAR a long time ago. I’m 68, and have been a voracious book reader my entire life, and nothing else I’ve ever read reached my emotions as deeply as this book, while also enlightening me for the first time about “the facts on the ground” about the Vietnam War. I also felt I had a great deal in common with you temperamentally. A few years ago I googled your name out of curiosity and that’s how I found your website. I’ve read all your “dispatches” of the last three years or so. Since I felt that we were so much alike in many ways, I was astonished to discover that most of your attitudes and opinions clash with mine, and none more than your position on vaccines.
Back in the 1980s I traveled extensively and mostly alone around Africa, Asia and South America. As a schoolboy I was taught that vaccines had greatly benefited humanity and I believed it. Consequently, I got at least fifteen shots scattered over six years as protection against various tropical diseases. In 1987 I learned for the first time that there was a dark side to the vaccine story. A few years later I learned that I had a freakish autoimmune condition, almost certainly from one or more of those shots, that would have a profound impact on my life. I made a personal investigation into the subject, studying it with an open mind from both sides, and became a total anti-vaxxer.
I stopped taking the mainstream news media seriously forty years ago. I get almost all my news and commentary from the internet these days. You went the opposite way, enjoying a successful career in journalism. While I certainly admire your courage as a platoon leader in Vietnam, and later as a war correspondent, it seems you adapted your opinions, perhaps subconsciously, to the alternate reality of the mainstream media. I would’ve thought that with your life experiences and your own extensive travels, and the sensitivity with which you wrote about the Vietnam War, you’d have a good idea how the world works, but that’s clearly not the case. You’ve swallowed the mainstream media Covid lockdown and vaccination narrative in its entirety, without showing any critical thinking, or awareness of events here and abroad that have been completely censored. Calling people like me part of the Great American Moron tribe, or idiots, or comparing us to flies who prefer shit over pollen, proves nothing. I find you hard to take.
Tell you what, Phil. Over the course of ten years I wrote, revised, and updated a book entitled WILL VACCINES BE THE END OF US? I recently had 1000 copies printed. The entire book can also be read for free on my website endtheshots.com, on which you will also find my offer of $30,000 to anyone who can name me one vaccine developer who wasn’t a failure, swindler or psychopath. I’ll be happy to publish your reply. What a great opportunity for you to show the whole world what a bunch of nuts we anti-vaxxers are! And you’re welcome to put this message on your own site, so that your regular commenters, who routinely agree with you, can apply for my offer as well. Show me that you have a broader knowledge and deeper understanding of vaccines than I do, and not only will I send you or anyone else a check for thirty grand, but I’ll take all the unopened cartons of my books to the landfill with the rest of my household trash, and on top of that I’ll take my website down after apologizing to the world for being such a horse’s ass and spreading so much misinformation. Deal?
Well, it’s here on the site. I make no apologies, having had at least as many vaccines as you have, while I was in the service overseas, as a foreign correspondent, and as a traveler, and never experienced a single side-effect beyond a sore arm. They protected me from any number of diseases, from Yellow Fever to Bubonic Plague, not to mention the Salk vaccine, received when I was a kid in grammar school. I don’t have time to look into the backgrounds of every vaccine creator in history, but I’m quite sure that Jonas Salk was not a swindler or psychopath, nor was Edward Jenner, who discovered the Smallpox vaccine in 1749. In 1979, Smallpox was declared eradicated world-wide.You find me hard to take, ditto for how I find you. Perhaps you’d think differently if, like my wife and me, you’d lost people close to you in the current pandemic, though I doubt it.
Phil
Let’s suppose Archie Bunker(all in the family) is a pro vaxxer. Then let’s imagine him making your bee and fly comment. Hilarious! I am pro by the way. On a more somber and serious topic, I am keenly interested in your insights into what is unfolding in Ukraine. If I may politely corner you, can u envision a situation where Western and US combat troops are required, and should they be, and finally how would the American public respond to what would surely be horrific casualties. Should we be looking in the mirror and asking who we are.
I have a sticker of a Raven
Titled
“I Poop on Non Vaxers”
Dear Phil,
Thanks for the constant inspiration.
Continue to march…