Covid-19 and the Vaccination Dogma - Why Medicine Won't Abandon a Flawed Idea

[Red Phoenix]

Source: https://romanbystrianyk.substack.com/p/covid-19-and-the-vaccination-dogma

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Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., and Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination, The New England Journal of Medicine, May 20, 2025, https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

A recent New England Journal of Medicine paper critiques the U.S.’s aggressive, one-size-fits-all approach to annual Covid-19 boosters—yearly Covid-19 injections for essentially everyone—a policy unmatched by other high-income nations. While the authors acknowledge the program’s overreach, they tacitly accept its permanence, sidestepping fundamental questions: Do these boosters actually help? Could they harm? Are they even necessary?

Prasad and Makary’s stance feels less like scientific rigor and more like political appeasement—a performative nod to Americans alienated by past bureaucratic overreach. The implied promise—“This time it will be different, we’ll do better!”—rings hollow when the underlying assumption remains unchanged: unquestioned faith in perpetual boosting.

“Over the past 5 years, the United States has moved toward an annual Covid-19 booster program. Each fall, Covid-19 booster shots are developed, alongside seasonal influenza vaccines, and are recommended for every American. As compared with vaccination policies in all European nations, the U.S. policy has been the most aggressive. While all other high-income nations confine vaccine recommendations to older adults (typically those older than 65 years of age), or those at high risk for severe Covid-19, the United States has adopted a one-size-fits-all regulatory framework and has granted broad marketing authorization to all Americans over the age of 6 months.”[3]

Unfortunately, they refuse to question the foundational premise. By invoking “seasonal influenza vaccines”—with their 60-year history of universal promotion—they imply Covid boosters should follow the same path. But what does the actual record show?

 

> The core of the article then deep dives in the actual records and comes to this conclusion: 

 

When examining official mortality data—free from institutional spin—a startling pattern emerges. Diseases such as measles and whooping cough saw death rates plummet by nearly 100% before vaccines were introduced. Even more revealing, true plague-level killers like scarlet fever and tuberculosis faded into obscurity before antibiotics or without any vaccines at all. These aren't conspiracy theories but documented facts from government records and medical literature.

The charts don't lie: when scarlet fever deaths vanished without a vaccine, when whooping cough became manageable before DTP shots, the writing was on the wall. Modern medicine has rewritten this history, substituting scientific triumphalism for uncomfortable truths about what actually saves lives—real, genuine health, which is something you can’t get in a pill or a shot.

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Another nobody anti-vaxer social media post from the gutters of the internet:

 

Here's UC San Francisco law professor Dorit R. Reiss on the above author's kind of nonsense:

 

MISINFORMATION AND COVID-19

2023

 

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on our world cannot be
overstated. One of its noticeable features was the prominence of
misinformation generally, and anti-vaccine misinformation
more specifically. This article provides a breakdown of the five
major themes of antivaccine misinformation and the way they
were used to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt about COVID-
19 vaccines.

 

Long before the pandemic, anti-vaccine activists
argued using a five-part playbook. They argued that (1) vaccine
preventable diseases were not really dangerous, (2) vaccines
were dangerous and ineffective, (3) there were alternative
treatments that were better than (dangerous and ineffective)
vaccines, (4) there was a conspiracy to hide this information,
and (5) the real issue is one of civil rights, not science. 

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The anti-vaccine movement is as old as vaccines. The
movement has used a variety of tactics to promote
misinformation for decades,9 but in the wake of the COVID-19
pandemic, it is operating in a new reality. COVID-19 killed
and harmed millions of people worldwide and upended our
society.10 COVID-19 vaccines are an important part of our

route out of the pandemic, so there is extensive public attention
focused on the vaccines and their development process.11 As
more people turned their attention to infectious diseases and
vaccines, anti-vaccine leaders saw an opportunity to increase
their reach and influence.12 They were ready."

 

(more)

 

https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2994&context=faculty_scholarship

 

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss is a Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey '50 Chair of Litigation at University of California Law San Francisco.

 

 

 

 

[Mark Nothing]

During the course of my pursuit of health, the natual healing books would often times mention the Holy Bible, which was unexpected. 

 

Several quotes referred to ensnaring victims in a trap.

 

Psalms 22:25  "Lest you learn his ways or entangle yourself in a trap."  Or Psalms 31:4  "Free me from the trap that is set for me."  

 

Have you considered the medical gameplan is working perfectly ensnaring those gullible to the trap?  It seems you have identified the trap.  Is it necessary to further study the trap?  Or would time be better spent developing mental toughness and making perfect health by design?