The numbers don’t support scapegoating the unvaccinated | Eastern North Carolina Now

By Annie Holmquist
Intellectual Takeout
July 30, 2021

If you’re tired of the pandemic and just want to go back to normal, David Frum at The Atlantic has news for you: It’s all the stupid people who refuse to take the vaccine that are prolonging our COVID misery.

Oh, wait, that’s not it exactly. In actuality, it’s all Trump’s fault. Frum, once a leading voice of the conservative establishment, declares: “Pro-Trump America has decided that vaccine refusal is a statement of identity and a test of loyalty.”

That’s an odd statement given Trump was in favor of the COVID vaccine, got it himself, and even launched Operation Warp Speed to develop and roll out the vaccine quickly. Frum also seems to forget that many liberals have been skeptical of the vaccine as well, while numbers of conservatives—including Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, who also recently suggested we blame the unvaccinated for the pandemic surge—have staunchly supported the vaccine.

The fact is, many unvaccinated people may not be acting out of willfulness or spite as Frum suggests. They may instead be looking at the data and wisely expressing caution until more is known about the vaccine and its effects. More information is surfacing on that front every day…but you probably wouldn’t know that unless you looked past the talking points of our ruling elites.

As I mentioned in a recent article, Israel, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, is a good indicator of how the vaccine is working. A few weeks ago it was reported in The Times of Israel that 60 percent of those vaccinated had not contracted COVID, a startlingly low rate considering the vaccine has only been in effect for a few months. However, the latest data out of Israel is even worse, for now that number has dropped to 39 percent, though the vaccine is 91 percent effective at preventing severe cases of COVID. The vaccine’s benefits also appear to be very short-lived.

Unfortunately, statistics like that are often overlooked in the U.S., a fact former New York Times reporter turned author Alex Berenson has been carefully documenting. In a recent article, Berenson explained that the U.S. doesn’t give the full truth about who is dying or having complications from the COVID vaccine. The official narrative advanced by Dr. Anthony Fauci and others is that the unvaccinated are the ones getting sick and dying, yet data shows such a narrative is false.

As Berenson notes, official numbers in the U.S. do not include the partially vaccinated. Authorities claim a person is not fully protected until several weeks after they have had both doses, and so anyone who has received a shot but not completed the full course of treatment is treated as unvaccinated for statistical purposes. This is not how things are usually done with most medical treatments, nor is it the case in other countries. Thus, many U.S. COVID cases in the last few months attributed to unvaccinated individuals actually occurred in those who were partially vaccinated, a fact that is often suppressed and never reaches the ears of mainstream Americans.

Berenson also uses data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to show officials like Fauci are flat out lying when they say that only about 1 percent of the fully vaccinated are contracting or dying from COVID, when in reality around 10 percent of U.S. COVID deaths since the beginning of May 2021 have been in the vaccinated. That still is not a number to be ashamed of, Berenson says, so why don’t officials like Fauci simply tell the truth and admit that the vaccines last for a short time and won’t necessarily stop the virus from spreading?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel Lecture sheds some light on this question. “We shall be told,” he says, “what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.”

According to the good ol’ dictionary, the use of force can be one meaning of the word violence. We may not yet be seeing physical force to get us to wear masks, take the vaccine, or stay locked down (although in some cases people actually have), but we are definitely seeing our government officials use other forms of coercion, through mass media messages and official talking points, to get us to conform to their way of thinking. And that force or violence, Solzhenitsyn explains, can only survive when it’s cloaked in falsehood:

Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE. At its birth violence acts openly and even with pride. But no sooner does it become strong, firmly established, than it senses the rarefaction of the air around it and it cannot continue to exist without descending into a fog of lies, clothing them in sweet talk. It does not always, not necessarily, openly throttle the throat, more often it demands from its subjects only an oath of allegiance to falsehood, only complicity in falsehood.

We are being throttled with ever more force, a fact revealed by Berenson’s information about COVID, as well as by the increasing censorship he is encountering. This throttling will only continue in the weeks ahead, not only with regards to COVID, but in other realms as well. The question we must ask ourselves is whether we will allow this throttling and violence to continue. If we do not speak up, then we are a party to falsehood and violence just as much as are our elites.

The time to make a conscious choice about whether to choose truth or falsehood is fast approaching.

This article first appeared on the website of Intellectual Takeout. It is posted here with the author’s permission. Amy Holmquist is the editor of Intellectual Takeout, which is part of the Charlemagne Institute. You can visit their website and read other great articles like this one by going here.


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Jann said:
( August 5th, 2021 @ 11:41 am )
 
I pray everyone watches before it gets banned!!!
I wish someone would put the video on the community board. So much information that the public needs to know.
( August 5th, 2021 @ 7:41 am )
 
Jann that was a good eye opening video. Here is the link to
www.bitchute.com
Jann said:
( August 4th, 2021 @ 10:14 pm )
 
Watch the new documentary Plandemic Indoctrination 2.0
It says it ALL..
Of course you won't find it on YouTube so search for it either on Rumble or Bitchute.
Grab your popcorn and hang on! Your mind will be blown!!!!
( August 2nd, 2021 @ 7:31 am )
 
For me there are a lot of reasons I have not gotten this injection. I started researching mRNA injections back spring/summer 2020. But the biggest issue is a moral issue. All the injections have used aborted fetal tissue at some point in the making of the product.
"The Johnson & Johnson (Janssen Pharmaceuticals) COVID shot “did require the use of fetal cell cultures, specifically PER.C6, in order to produce and manufacture the vaccine.” 1 Multiple state department of health “FAQs” confirm that while mRNA vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna
do not “contain” fetal cells, but clearly state that “[e]arly in development of mRNA vaccine technology,
fetal cells were used for ‘proof of concept’ (to demonstrate how a cell could take up mRNA and produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein) or to characterize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.” 2 Thus, both Pfizer and Moderna used abortion-derived cell lines to “to test the efficacy of both vaccines.” 3 Therefore, claims that Pfizer and Moderna “do not require the use of any fetal cell cultures in order
to manufacture (produce) the vaccine” are in conflict with the statement that “such a cell line was used to test the efficacy of both vaccines.” 4 “Testing the efficacy” is certainly a part of the research and development process."



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