Raymond Potvin, Windsor, ON

In Wendy-Ann Clark’s critique of “Vaccine Hesitancy”You could set Bramadat and Seljak’s reasoning to music; all predicated on receiving the mantra of “the injections are safe and effective” (aka. SaE) as if an uncontestable truth: so anything short of full acquiescence and obedience to ever-intensifying dictates derived therefrom can be characterized as emanating from flawed minds/souls. Thus a new sub-class of detestable human beings (those refusing to volunteer for history’s largest medical experiment) are being presented as sinners (unintentionally-misguided at best, obdurately-selfish at worst).

I’d agree with the lamentations they expressed in the Wendy-Ann Clark piece, IF (repeat IF) the axiom on which they hinge – that the safety/efficacy profile of this set of injections has been sufficiently demonstrated to withstand the scrutiny that the vetting process SHOULD have been subjected to. No previous vaccine had ever been released within YEARS of its development…this one came through the pipeline within MONTHS!..and MAJOR corners were blatantly cut:

*the testing-in-animals stage was “somehow” quashed and thus the sine qua non conditionality upon which the commencement of human trials hinged was blatantly ignored – convenient, as BigPharma knew that in previous attempts to develop mRNA-type injections ALL the ferrets died;

*and when the protocol-violating human-trials were underway, alarmingly-early in the process the absolutely crucial “control group” (ie. the untreated or “unvaccinated” group) was abandoned; without it any later pre-rollout pronouncements on “effectiveness” and/or “safety” were little more than PR slogans;

*no adults under the age of 40 were involved in pre-rollout human trials (so each successive drop in the age-cohort that big-Pharma now targets is another “experiment” we’re supposed to volunteer for (and scowl suspiciously at those who don’t!)

*neither were any pregnant women involved in whatever passed for pre-rollout “testing” (and Pfizer’s original official documentation, as provided to doctors, strongly-specified that female adults who even suspected they may be pregnant should not get shot until they were “sure” and furthermore that all potentially-fertile women should carefully guard against pregnancy for at least nine weeks post-jab)…somehow within just a few months, this contra-indicative warning – that might have been passed along in a doctor’s office – was essentially “forgotten” when the jabbing rolled into assembly-line mode at large venues.

Long story short, there are PLENTY of red flags that warrant a patient look ‘round. Under such circumstances, being “hesitant” is not a character flaw at all…but a shining example of what Rudyard Kipling would praise as “keeping your head while all about you people are losing theirs”. That a handful of people like me refuse to jump off a bridge simply because they “were told to” (or attempted to be cajoled / browbeaten into it via an increasingly-surreal schedule of “carrots and sticks”) is unambiguously a good thing.

What got me started in thinking how I’d respond to the inaccurate and patronizing description of “vaccine hesitant” people like me was a pithy section I came across in this Jan. 31 editorial piece in Epoch Times called “How My View of the Holocaust Was Altered During COVID”, by Roger L. Simon, which managed to cleverly flip the character-flaw point on its head.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-my-view-of-the-holocaust-was-altered-during-covid_4247128.html

Most striking was this section dealing with the actual degree to which Enthusiastic COVID Policy- Compliers were wont to get/stay informed of the scientific issues related to said polices.

In a personal survey of those who have most willingly and unquestionably accepted the vaccines (if that’s what they are), wore masks, and lived obediently under lockdowns as if that were the only way to survive, I have met absolutely none who have read the works of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Alex Berenson, or Dr. Scott Atlas or heard the lectures or seen the readily available videos by the likes of Drs. Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, Harvey Risch, or Vladimir Zelenko, not to mention many others, including the august group that signed the Great Barrington Declaration. Many don’t even know what it is or even that it exists. They certainly haven’t read the statement, although it’s only a few pages.