According to a new study, vaccine hesitancy can be linked to abuse, parental neglect and lack of achievement at school.
The director of the Dunedin study, Richie Poulton, is quoted saying, "We also found the people who went on to become vaccine resistant had difficulties cognitively at times - they found it hard to process information, hard to read at school, and certainly when they hit middle age they were not very deep in their understanding of basic medical issues."
For the record, I have never been abused. I have not been neglected. I do not have a tin foil hat. I was an average student at school. And I am not a right-wing extremist.
I chose not to have the Pfizer vaccine because that was the logical thing to do.
I weighed up the benefits against possible harm and concluded that I had a greater chance of surviving COVID-19 than I had of being damaged by a risky pharmaceutical product – though admittedly I might have chosen a different path if I was overweight or suffered from diabetes.
Moving on from the derision, finger-pointing and ridiculous research findings, it’s now increasingly evident that the vaccine does not prevent infection, it does not stop transmission and new data shows that the number of Covid deaths, per capita, seems to be higher in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated.
Even mainstream media is starting to join the dots concerning adverse effects, though it will take some time before our ‘accredited journalists’ rebuild trust - there are all those unasked questions littering the floor of the press room at Parliament.
So let’s now acknowledge and help the thousands of people, who regret following the government’s one source of truth and let’s look at ways of promoting general good health to cope better with any future pandemic.
I truly believe that doctors want to do the right thing and I have personal experience of their skill and caring but there’s something amiss. UK doctor Aseem Malhotra raises points that will help explain the surprising lack of public debate in medical circles during the past two years.
Malhotra is a British cardiologist, and public health campaigner.
In 2016 he was named in the Sunday Times Debrett's list as one of the most influential people in science and medicine in the UK. It’s worth heeding what he has to say.
Globally, he points out, 90 per cent of COVID-19 deaths occurred in countries where more than 50 per cent of the population are overweight or obese.
And he describes an “epidemic of misinformed doctors and misinformed patients”, rooted in biased funding of research, biased reporting in medical journals, biased reporting in the media, commercial conflicts of interest and, last but not least, an inability of doctors to understand and communicate health statistics.”
He calls for a return to evidence based medicine and says drug companies should not be allowed to test their own products and then hide the results.
This is a big wake up call for health authorities and doctors.
And what can we all do at grassroots level?
For a start, eat whole foods. Don’t buy any supermarket item that lists more than five ingredients on the label. (Malhotra)
Get exercise, read, ask questions, don’t be afraid to make your own decision, stand up for your beliefs and dismiss retarded research.
Links:
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago839332.html
https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics
https://nzcovidcases.net/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15222906/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wellington_protests