The Immorality of the Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Program – Part II

By: Steven Smith, Alan Moy MD, and Russell Gonnering MD

This is Part II of a three-part series on covid vaccines and the mass vaccination campaign. The thesis of this series is mass vaccination is a bad health policy because, by any reasonable standard or precedent, the gene therapy vaccines are not safe, not effective, and not necessary.  And mass vaccination is immoral because the general public is not being provided with the information necessary for informed consent and is instead being coerced into vaccination.

Thus, the Church should be advocating for rights of conscience and individual health autonomy.

In Part I of this series we established that a mass vaccination program is not necessary because covid-19 is not nearly as lethal as made out by the media; natural immunity is far superior to the vaccine-induced immunity; and, most importantly, people can prevent and treat covid-19 perfectly well without the gene therapy vaccines.

In Part II we look at the safety and efficacy of gene therapy vaccines.

The Gene Therapy Vaccines Are Not Safe

All current covid-19 vaccines available in the US cause vaccine recipient cells to produce the original version of the Sars-CoV2 spike protein (Sars-CoV-2 is the virus that, in some people, causes the disease covid-19).  That version is now essentially extinct, as most of the country is currently being exposed to the Delta variant of the virus.  The vaccines cause our cells to generate the spike protein using gene therapy technology.  The novel DNA vaccines (Janssen) accomplish this with an adenovirus vector delivery system and the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) use a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery platform.  This gene therapy technology distinguishes them from all other vaccine products, including covid-19 vaccines in development which are based on traditional vaccine technology.  These gene therapies (or genetic) vaccines have never been used before in human populations. There are no long-term studies of these vaccines in animals or humans.  We are learning as we go – with the entire world population serving as the clinical trial.

As of September 26, 2021, the CDC Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System^[1] (VAERS) has recorded the following adverse events of those receiving one of the gene therapy covid-19 vaccines:

• 752,801 Adverse Events
• 15,937 deaths
• 20,789 permanently disabled
• 70,036 hospitalizations
• 16,875 life-threatening events
• and the list goes on (the numbers are even higher in Europe)

Expert assessments[2] [3] of the VAERS covid-19 vaccine data have established that a majority of the adverse events can be appropriately ascribed to the vaccines; 50% of deaths occur within 48 hours of the shot, 80% within one week, and 86% had no other clear explanation than the vaccine[4].  Despite this, the CDC and FDA have claimed to have reviewed the deaths and none could be determined to be related to the vaccines.

In addition, it has been well established that only a small fraction (as little as 1%) of adverse events are reported to the VAERS system[5].   Thus, the actual number of events is likely many times higher, perhaps more than tenfold higher, than reported above.

Safety Misinformation Examples:  Shimabukuro et.al conducted a study of the effects of mRNA vaccination on pregnant women and found that the rates of pregnancy loss were similar to unvaccinated[6].  This study was often reported in the media as proof of that vaccines were safe for pregnant women.  Aside from reading so much into one very limited study (which, by the way, had nothing to do with the effects of the gene therapy vaccines on the pre-born child), the study failed to accurately assess the effects of vaccination.  Closer scrutiny shows that most of the pregnancy losses occurred in the first trimester, and with women who were vaccinated in the first trimester.  In fact, if focusing on the first trimester instead of the entire 9 months of pregnancy, the study showed that over 75% of pregnant women vaccinated in the first trimester suffered miscarriage[7].  Despite this and other safety signals, and the absence of any benefit for pregnant women, the gene therapy vaccines remain recommended for pregnant women.

In a similar way there is an intense push to vaccinate children, despite the fact that the risk/benefit assessment does not support this.  Serious infection in children is “incredibly rare” with only a few hundred child fatalities associated with covid-19 (similar to the number of children that die from influenza).[8]  The deaths that have occurred have generally been in children with significant underlying health issues,[9] and children are not a statistically significant source of viral transmission[10].  On the other hand, it is known that young people are at a higher of serious side effects such as myocarditis (which is fatal to 50% of young people in the first five years) than covid-19 hospitalization.[11]  In addition there is a host of undetermined long term vaccine health risks for young people, as discussed below.

As another example, because of the high survival rate for covid-19 (99.74% overall in the US, and much higher for everyone under 60 in good health) and because of the lethality of the gene therapy vaccines, a number of analyses are revealing the gene therapy vaccines are doing more harm than good[12] and costing more lives than saved[13].  One such analysis estimated vaccination caused 2 deaths for every 3 lives saved.  That analysis, fully peer-reviewed and published in the international journal Vaccines, was eventually retracted.[14]  The claimed reason for retraction was because there was no official determination that the vaccine directly caused the fatalities (even though reported in an official government registry).   Be that as it may, it doesn’t warrant a complete retraction, only an addendum with clarification.  Even so, let’s say actual deaths from vaccination are only half the reported number, by the reported analysis, that still results in one life lost for every three saved.

It is quite likely the actual reason for retraction of the paper is that multiple members of the editorial board quit because the paper was being used to promote “vaccine hesitancy.”[15]  The fully-peer-reviewed findings may indeed cause rational people to take a step back to make sure they have all the facts, and reconsider being injected.   In most circles that’s called informed consent and “vaccine literacy,” not vaccine hesitancy.  There is more to be said about this manipulation and censorship in the Part III.

Fortunately, the authors have had the paper (with essentially the same analysis and findings) again fully peer reviewed and accepted for publication in a different journal.[16]

Much remains unknown about how gene therapy vaccines may alter and damage the natural functions of the body.  To quote one recent study, “the [Pfizer] mRNA vaccine induces complex functional reprogramming of the innate immune responses, which should be considered in the development and use of this new class of vaccines.”[17]  This functional reprogramming includes the “toll-like receptors” that are critical in the body’s resistance to diseases such as cancer, and there is absolutely no long-term clinical data to shed light on how this will play out in years to come.  Thus, in addition to the immediate dangers of severe reactions, permanent disability, miscarriage, and death, there is a legitimate concern of the gene therapy vaccines causing long-term health problems such as infertility[18], autoimmune and vascular diseases[19], and cancer.[20] [21]

The Gene Therapy Vaccines Are Not Effective

The gene therapy vaccines are not sufficiently effective to justify mass vaccination.  This becomes evident when we specify the measure of effectiveness.

If the measure of effectiveness is “protecting others”, the gene therapy vaccines fail.  Vaccinated persons are becoming infected at high rates and carry a high viral load – which is to say vaccinated persons are a significant source of virus transmission and are a threat to the vulnerable (and by “vulnerable” we do not mean the unvaccinated, we mean the small percentage of persons who are particularly susceptible to severe covid-19, vaccinated or not).

If the measure of effectiveness is “eradicating covid-19”, the gene therapy vaccines fail.  Not only do vaccinated persons become infected and transmit the virus, but mass vaccination may be the cause of dominant variants like Delta.

Only if the measure of effectiveness is personal protection, to reduce severe infection symptoms, do the gene therapy vaccines demonstrate a degree of efficacy, but no more so than is achieved by safe, effective, and readily available means of prevention and early treatment (as discussed below, in Part I regarding necessity).

Let’s look further at personal protection, protecting others, and eradicating covid-19.

Effectiveness:  Personal Protection 

The gene therapy vaccines appear to provide some degree of protection against severe illness and death, but it is difficult to gauge how much protection because, as discussed in Part I, the attribution of covid-19 cases and fatalities is unreliable.  Be that as it may, we’ll look at available data from the U.S., England, and Israel with a focus on fatality, since prevention of death is arguably the most important metric of vaccine efficacy.

In the U.S., assessment of “vaccine breakthrough” cases is particularly difficult because, in addition to the issues of attribution discussed in Part I, as of May 2021 the CDC announced they would no longer actively track breakthrough cases, after being inundated with over 10,000 reports, and instead rely on a passive and voluntary system of hospitals reporting severe cases.  Covid-19 infections of vaccinated persons are referred to as breakthroughs because they have broken through the presumed protection of the gene therapy vaccines.  As of September 27, 2021 the CDC has reported the following hospitalizations and deaths from covid-19 breakthrough cases in vaccinated persons:^[22]

• Hospitalizations:  22,115
• Deaths (total) :  5,226
• Deaths (> 65 years old):  4,491

Note the majority of deaths (86%) are in those age >65, the most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the group that had the strongest case for vaccination.  There are three important qualifications of this data:

1. This data of hospitalizations and deaths is only for fully vaccinated persons and the CDC defines a person as fully vaccinated only 15 days after a second dose. If you die 10 days after your second dose, you are counted by the CDC as unvaccinated.
2. The above data is only since May 2021 and thus a portion of the mass vaccination program is not captured in this data.
3. The data is reliant on voluntary hospital reporting – relying on already overworked hospital staff to go through a timely process of accurately reporting data.

Looking closer at the third point, the CDC reports, “the number of reported covid-19 vaccine breakthrough cases is likely a substantial undercount of all SARS-CoV-2 infections among fully vaccinated persons. The national surveillance system relies on passive and voluntary reporting, and data might not be complete or representative”[23] (the CDC has since changed this language, removing the word “substantial”).  So, the actual percentage of vaccinated covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths could be much higher than reported.

Looking to the UK, the latest report on the Delta Variant reveals the following (data through September 19, 2021):^[24]

• Total Fatalities:  3,733
• Fully Vaccinated (2 doses):  2,684
• Vaccinated with 1 dose:  145
• Unvaccinated:  865

Fatalities among the unvaccinated account for less than 1/4 of all fatalities.  The majority of fatalities (over 70%) are among the fully vaccinated.  However, it is also true that a much greater percentage of England’s population is vaccinated, and so Public Health England is still reporting that the unvaccinated as a percent of the population is still many times more likely to die from covid than the vaccinated.  But, as in the US, we don’t know how reliably deaths are being attributed to the unvaccinated and the fact remains that, even with the hesitancy to report vaccinated deaths, many vaccinated people are dying from covid-19.  And it must be emphasized that the unvaccinated deaths are among people who are being deprived of safe and effective early treatment.  If the unvaccinated population had been properly treated, we would expect the unvaccinated death toll to be substantially lower (as discussed in Part I of this series).

Looking at the data from Israel, which leads the world in percent of population vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, their Ministry of Health is reporting that the vaccine effectiveness (2 doses) at preventing infection has dropped to 39%.[25] [26]  They are still reporting an approximately 90% effectiveness at preventing hospitalization and “severe covid”, but it is not as clear how that translates to preventing death.  In August out of 607 covid-19 deaths over 60% were among those with either 2 or 3 doses of the Pfizer vaccine[27].  And, once again, it should be noted that among the unvaccinated deaths the degree of comorbidities is unknown (e.g. dying with covid vs dying from covid) and they were likely never provided proper prevention or early treatment.

Effectiveness Misperception Example:   The original claims along the lines of the gene therapy vaccines being “95% effective” are relative risk reduction (RRR) against infection (as measured by positive PCR test and at least 1 symptom).  In other words, according to the original trial data, only 5% of participants who had a positive PCR test and symptom were vaccinated, the other 95% were unvaccinated.  Which sounds impressive.  But the absolute risk reduction (ARR) tells a different story.  The ARR has been estimated to be only 0.9% , 1.4% and 1.9% for Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen respectively[28].  Why the big difference?  Let’s look at the Pfizer clinical trial numbers.  Out of 18,198 vaccine recipients, 8 tested positive for covid-19.  Out of 18,325 unvaccinated participants, 162 tested positive; 8/162 = 95%[29].   But in total, only 170 out of 36,523 participants tested positive – so the overall risk of infection is very low as is the absolute benefit from the gene therapy vaccines.  It should be noted that the original clinical trials (used to justify the Emergency Use Authorization) never established efficacy for preventing death[30].  Also of note, the PCR tests were only conducted on the few individuals with symptoms; by not screening the entire clinical trial cohorts, asymptomatic patients were missed.

Effectiveness:  Protecting Others

Prevention of infection and transmission was never established for the gene therapy vaccines.  For example, the Emergency Use Authorization for Pfizer notes, “Data are limited to assess the effect of the vaccine against transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from individuals who are infected despite vaccination… Additional evaluations including data from clinical trials and from vaccine use post-authorization will be needed to assess the effect of the vaccine in preventing virus shedding and transmission, in particular in individuals with asymptomatic infection.”²⁷  As it turns out, the effectiveness of the vaccines is waning as the virus mutates.  As noted above, Israel is reporting 39% effectiveness against infection with Delta and the Mayo Clinic similarly reported 42% effectiveness for Pfizer.[31]  Vaccinated people do become infected and transmit the virus[32] [33] and it is now known that vaccinated persons can be asymptomatic spreaders and carry vary high viral loads.[34] [35] [36]

Effectiveness:  Eradication of covid-19

The precepts of epidemiology and vaccinology teach us that vaccinating into a pandemic with “leaky” vaccines (vaccines that are non-sterilizing; that are not particularly effective at eliminating the virus) will create evolutionary pressure that leads to a dominant, more aggressive variant.^[37][38]  This is loosely analogous to the well-known mechanism of over-use of antibacterial (antibiotics, hand sanitizers, etc.), creating “super bugs”.  Here is a prescient comment from Evolution in Health and Disease, “Moreover, vaccines of the future might also impose novel immune selection…  Such technical break-throughs have the potential to impose completely novel selection pressures…”[39]  The “vaccine of the future” has arrived, and it is the “novel selection pressure” caused by the gene therapy vaccines that is resulting in dominant and more aggressive variants, not the

The bottom line is that the gene therapy vaccines are not performing well.  The “leaky” vaccines are likely causing the rise of dominant variants.  The CDC acknowledges the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission, but only reduce disease severity.  Highly vaccinated Israel and UK are approaching pre-vaccine infection rates.  Breakthrough cases are increasing dramatically (increasing 50% every two weeks in recent UK data), overseas the majority of deaths are among the vaccinated, and in the US we have no reliable data from the CDC.  The vaccines provide some degree of personal protection, but for most people, the significant health risks do not justify vaccination, especially with the availability of safe, effective, and economical prevention and early treatment.  Most importantly, the argument of getting vaccinated “to protect the vulnerable” is proving to be a fallacy as vaccinated persons are presenting infection rates and potential for transmission similar and perhaps greater than the unvaccinated and those with naturally acquired immunity.

In Part III of this series, we will look at the harm being done by the vaccine propaganda campaign and the overarching immorality of how the mass vaccination program has unfolded and continues to be forced upon the world.

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[21] Williams, M.  “Stabilizing the Code”  UKColumn, September 12, 2021.  https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/stabilising-the-code

[22] CDC, “COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigation and Reporting”  https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html

[23] CDC, “COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1–April 30, 2021” https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm  (quote is from September 1, 2021)

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