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Forced vaccination is unconstitutional
by Rixta Francis
The self-proclaimed (and generally accepted) gold standard of the pharmaceutical industry is the
double-blind, placebo-controlled study (a placebo being a neutral, ineffective substance; in the case
of vaccinations, a saline solution). There is a lot wrong with this gold standard, but let’s just accept
that it is the standard that a drug’s claims to effectiveness and safety are expected to meet. Without
positive studies like this, drugs will rarely be accepted by the government regulators.
Vaccines are drugs, and they are made by the pharmaceutical industry. But they are the exception to
the rule, for the abovementioned gold standard is NOT applied to vaccines. There is no double-blind,
placebo-controlled study that shows that vaccines are either safe or effective, let alone a study that
shows the effects of multiple vaccines given, as is common practice, simultaneously. Those studies
simply are not done. The reason the pharmaceutical industry gives for that is that it would be
unethical to withhold a vaccine from the children in the placebo group. It seems to bother nobody that
this means that children (and adults) are injected with drugs that have in no way been proven to be
either safe or effective.
Vaccine efficacy is fatally flawed as a substitute for vaccine effectiveness. A vaccine’s efficacy is
measured by the proportion of vaccinees developing a certain concentration of antibodies, a
concentration believed to be protective. But scientists have already known for three decades that
antibodies do NOT equal immunity. The only way to measure vaccine efficacy in a lab is completely
useless for measuring its effectiveness in an epidemic. But that too seems to bother nobody; in lieu of
its effectiveness at protection, the drug’s efficacy in antibody production is still used universally to sell
it.
Those who try to impose their beliefs on others, we call zealots.
The reason people don’t care about these facts is that they have such a strong BELIEF in these shots
that it doesn’t seem to matter whether there is any evidence of safety or efficacy. But anyone can
believe anything; that doesn’t mean it’s true. And it doesn’t matter either that most doctors believe in
it and that many people believe their doctors. There are some 1.5 billion people who believe in Jesus,
some 800 million who believe in Allah, some 800 million who believe in Shiva. That’s considerably
more than the number of doctors who believe in vaccinations. Still everyone agrees that these are
religions and not science. So ‘everyone believes it’ doesn’t make a belief anything more than a belief.
Our freedom NOT to practice the religion of vaccination
The Australian constitution grants us freedom of religion. Section 116 of the constitution says:
“The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for
imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any
religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or
public trust under the Commonwealth.”
It’s clear: the Australian constitution prohibits forcing any kind of religious practice onto anybody
else. That prohibition includes government discrimination that is based in any way on submission or
non-submission to any religion or religious practice.
This implies that nobody can be denied government payments or a job or anything else solely based
on refusal to submit to the religious practice of vaccination. If the government, an employer, or
anybody else is to implement discrimination on the basis of vaccination, then it will have to show
clear, indisputable proof that the vaccine’s claimed safety and efficacy are based on science and not on
beliefs. The burden of proof is not on those who refuse to accept those beliefs; it’s solely on those who
want to force others to submit to them.
If the government (or anybody else) denies Australian citizens the FULL freedom to accept or reject
vaccinations for themselves or their children, then it does so in contravention of the constitution. And
that means the end of Australia as a democracy.
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