Dan Gelernter posted “I’m Still Not Getting the Vaccine” at American Greatness:
. . . We have decided to make
avoiding disease our full-time job. It’s more important than going to work or
seeing your friends. It’s worth destroying the established Western social
convention that we be able to see each other’s faces in public.
I’ve got news for you: If you spend
all your time worrying about getting sick, you’re sick already. America is
having a giant, hysterical, hypochondriacal fit.
. . .
As a young and healthy person,
there is really no upside to vaccination. I’m simply not likely to get the
disease. And, say what you will, we don’t know what the long-term effects of
this vaccine will be.
(Full article is here.) And America’s Frontline Doctors has a sort of “white paper”
on why an “experimental” vaccine injection cannot be mandated, legally [endnotes not included in this extract]:
Covid-19 Vaccines are Experimental
Covid-19 vaccines are not approved
by the FDA. The Covid-19 vaccines are only approved under an
Emergency Use Authorization, for investigational use only. Covid-19 vaccines lack requisite studies and are not approved medical
treatment. The FDA’s guidance on emergency use authorization of medical
products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent
practicable given the applicable circumstances … That they have the option to
accept or refuse the EUA product …”
. . .
The right to avoid the imposition of
human experimentation is fundamental, rooted in the Nuremberg Code of 1947, has
been ratified by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and further codified in the
United States Code of Federal Regulations. In addition to the United States
regarding itself as bound by these provisions, these principles were adopted by
the FDA in its regulations requiring the informed consent of human subjects for
medical research. It is unlawful to conduct medical research, even in the case
of an emergency, unless steps
are taken to secure informed consent of all participants
The white paper (just 3 pages including endnotes] specifies students but the legal constraints
protect us all.
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