Anti-vaxxers are principled freedom fighters
I do not want to live in a country in which education is a privilege reserved for those who follow government orders. Do you?
A free society is one in which the people have certain rights that cannot be taken away by the government.
In a free society, people cannot be forced to submit to unwanted drug injections in order to exercise their rights.
This is because any activity that is conditioned on submission to government-mandated drug injections has been transformed from a right to a privilege.
For example, if the ability to travel is denied to those who have not submitted to the approved kind or number of government-mandated injections (as was the case in Canada), then the ability to travel is not a right, but a privilege. A privilege granted only to those who follow government orders.
Let there be no mistake, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and all state and city departments of public health ARE the government. The fact that the officials staffing these departments are agents of the government is often obscured because they are unelected, often anonymous, and mostly doctors.
But unelected, anonymous bureaucrats not only comprise the majority of government agents, they are typically the most amoral and ruthless ones. And officials who are doctors have been revealed as perhaps the most amoral and ruthless government agents of them all. As Anton Chekhov (himself a doctor) wrote:
“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.”
As things currently stand, children in all 50 U.S. states are forced to submit to an extensive array of drug injections as a condition of attending school. Not just public school, but private and parochial school, as well. No government-mandated injections, no school.
Without most of us noticing, every state government has taken away the right to an education, by making it contingent on obedience to government orders.
One group of people did notice. They are the principled freedom-fighters known as “anti-vaxxers.” They have been on the front lines for years, fighting for all of us, reviled and shunned for their efforts.
I am ashamed that I did not see this before covid:
In California, for example, in order to attend kindergarten, small children must submit to no less than 16 drug injections.
When I write “must submit” I mean just that. In California, medical exemptions are extremely hard to get, and are becoming more so by the day. Not only are the rules strict, but the state now keeps a record of doctors who grant vaccine exemptions, and then punishes them. As you might imagine, not many doctors are willing to issue exemptions any more.
In California, there are no religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements and no personal belief exemptions to school vaccine requirements. None.
This is such a horrific human rights violation that it is incumbent on all of us to act. I do not want to live in a country in which education is a privilege reserved for those who follow government orders. Do you?
Also, this is off the education topic, but there's a billboard along Interstate 5, midway between Seattle and Portland, viewable to southbound travelers. It says: "No one died in World War II so you could show papers to buy food"
King County imposed a vaccine passport last winter in order to eat and drink in restaurants and bars.
There's a 2011 book, Pox, by Michael Willrich, about smallpox and smallpox vaccine battles in the U.S. circa 1900. It has many echoes of the covid vaccine battles, because that was also a time of public health exerting more pressure on society, trying to shape it through coercion. Back then, there were smallpox vaccination travel and work and school requirements, which led to Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, and anti-compulsory vaccination leagues.
In Utah, the state legislature made a law, over the governor's veto, barring smallpox vaccination as a requirement anywhere in the state, including for enrolling in or working for a public or private school.