Over the last year, relentless propaganda has been targeted at those declining the vaccine. Messaging has been directed to insist everyone must get vaccinated:
Roll up your sleeve
Every vaccination gives us hope
15 million jabs to freedom
Let’s not go back
Get boosted
No-one is safe, until everyone is safe
That everyone needs to get vaccinated for Sarscov 2, is a lie. Natural immunity exists. Those who’ve had the virus have superior immunity, as learnt in 1.01 immunity class, and now confirmed by 146 studies. Some suggest it is 27 times more effective than the vaccines (1). In addition, this virus’s effect is age gradated, posing little threat to young healthy people. Under 19’s for example have a one in a million chance of death following infection.
So why the propaganda that everyone has to get vaccinated? Some science is being ignored. Instead of good public health policy, giving full information, so individuals can take personal responsibility, a one size fits all dictate has been issued. Following all the science would have kept the community united.
Instead governments around the world chose a fraudulent narrative that divided the community into vaccinated and unvaccinated. And this division is used by politicians and the mainstream media to ramp up hatred, against those who will not follow the dictate.
The slogans play their part in turning the population into us and them, as I describe in ‘Hallmarks of Tyranny(1): Division. But more worryingly, as a progression of this, governments and mainstream media have promoted the unvaccinated as the enemy of good citizens, an enemy to blame for the virus.
During the winter of 2021/2 in the UK, the message:
It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated
has been pushed by politicians and the mainstream media. For example, in December 2021, the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, said NHS resources were being drained by the unjabbed (2). The health secretary, Sajid Javid, said the unjabbed:
‘must think about the damage they are doing to society’ (3).
However, the public are being misled. Jamie Jenkins, previously head of health statistics at the ONS, shows how ‘experts’ continually misuse figures. This includes misusing statistics in a way that fuels propaganda against the unvaccinated. Here is an example from the beginning of February 2022:
And another example:
The propaganda against the unvaccinated exists across all so-called Western democracies, and as Neil Oliver pointed out in his monologue of 9th January on GBNews, the propaganda often appears to be synchronised.
The rhetoric that the unvaccinated are the enemy, is used to justify singling them out for punishment, as shown in this lovely new year message from the French president (3):
Macron said he wanted to ‘hassle …. the irresponsible …. and we want to tell them, from 15th January, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant…….for a coffee….. to the theatre……to the cinema.’
On the other side of the world in Australia, the State of Western Australia has just banned (31/1/2022) unvaccinated parents from visiting their sick children in hospital (5).
…. totalitarian propaganda….. (uses) indirect, veiled, and menacing hints against all who will not heed its teachings …..
Arendt (6)
In Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau said, ‘the public were angry at the unvaccinated’, and that he did not rule out taxing the unvaccinated throughout Canada, as the province of Quebec had done (6).
The mainstream media have joined in the political blame game against the unvaccinated. Philip Johnston (6) wrote in the Telegraph on December 2021:
‘I'm fed up with the unvaccinated rump who risk pushing us back into lockdown’.
The Independent published propaganda on the death of Csollony, who very sadly died shortly after receiving the vaccine:
The most despicable propaganda came from the BBC, when Clive Myrie reported from a ward at the Royal London hospital, in which a Doctor pointed out the unvaccinated patients to the camera (8).
Dr Karol Sikora, NHS consultant and leading oncology specialist, said on GBNews on January 24th 2022, that this was ‘outrageous and unethical’, and akin to ‘Stalinist propaganda’. In addition, a very sick elderly patient was asked on camera, to explain why he hadn’t taken the vaccine.
What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part. Repetition …. is important only because it convinces them of consistency in time.
Arendt (6)
Propaganda hasn’t stopped at politicians or the media. Corporations have played their part by changing slogans. Lidl, for example, have gone from: ‘Lidl is worth it’ to ‘Vaccination is worth it’ (9).
And prominent establishment figures, such as Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, have joined in. Welby called the unvaccinated ‘immoral’, and implied that Jesus would take the vaccine (10).
Government messaging is taken as sacred by a section of the population, as I described in Hallmarks of Tyranny(2): Brainwashing. Citizens who believe the rhetoric, feel entitled to hand out punishment. They discuss removing fundamental rights from the unvaccinated, in a way unprecedented in the UK, as these Facebook comments show:
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Claiming that a section of society are the enemy, the less deserving and the disease carriers, has chilling resonance in history. My Jewish family were called inferior, the disease carriers and a threat to public health by the Nazis. In both cases, there is no science to substantiate these claims. Both situations pretend to follow science, but instead use propaganda to support their aims.
Democracy is frail. If we are to protect it, we must recognise the patterns that undermine it. Challenging authoritarian and tyrannical methods has to happen early.
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References
https://www.westernjournal.com/johns-hopkins-doc-says-natural-immunity-27-times-effective-vaccine/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-says-anti-vaxxers-25623096
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/19/sajid-javid-hits-out-at-unvaccinated-for-taking-up-hospital-bed
https://www.newsweek.com/french-president-emmanuel-macron-says-someone-who-refuses-covid-vaccine-not-citizen-1665669
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10447723/Unvaccinated-parents-banned-seeing-sick-KIDS-hospital-Western-Australia.html
The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt (1951) Penguin Modern Classics
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/trudeau-says-canadians-are-angry-at-the-unvaccinated/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/21/fed-unvaccinated-rump-risk-pushing-us-back-lockdown/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-60116743
https://amp.dw.com/en/vaccination-or-nothing-150-major-german-companies-launch-social-media-offensive/a-60050329
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/archbishop-of-canterbury-says-unvaccinated-are-immoral-in-jab-boost/ar-AAS2hJE