The Salvation of Soft Secession
Atlanta, GA
January 17, 2022
A couple days ago, I revealed how I failed a test for drugs…because I refused to consume one.
Regarding the pharmaceutical elixirs themselves, I’ve given reasons for reluctance countless times during the last six months, and I need not re-hash all of them here. But I will provide a few more.
It’s interesting that despite the dominant Delta variant being a quarter as lethal as the preceding Alpha strain, total Covid deaths doubled during the year after vaccines were introduced. This happened not only in the US, but in some of the most heavily-vaccinated countries on earth.
In Gibraltar, Malta, Israel, and Iceland, Covid fatalities increased by orders of magnitude after vaccination rates exceeded 80%. By the end of July 2021, 70% of critically ill Israeli patients had been fully-vaccinated, whereas only 61% of the Israeli population was.
In Britain, data among those over age 40 indicated that infection and death rates for the vaccinated were greater than in those who hadn’t received the shots. Per the UK Office of National Statistics, for the seven months to October 2021, 60% of Brits who died of Covid were double-vaccinated, with more per capita deaths among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
In Wales, 87% of Covid hospitalizations in October were among the vaccinated. In Scotland, almost 90% of “third-wave” Covid deaths were among those who’d received the jab. Similar data emanates from countries on every continent.
With the Omicron variant, the counter-intuitive data is even more stark. Doctors Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Andrew Bostom of Brown University reveal the scientific basis for it in their Amicus Brief last week arguing that the Supreme Court should stay the recent Biden Administration vaccine mandates. They make the case that Omicron is now the dominant variant, that it does not present a grave danger, and that the vaccines are ineffective preventing it.
The John’s Hopkins University Coronavirus Research Center collected and charted other data revealing post-vaccination death spikes in dozens of countries around the world. Based on this information, it’s difficult to find a place where mortality didn’t rise after universal vaccination was introduced, which is why Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr. Luc Montagnier has argued that mass vaccination in the midst of a pandemic was a horrendous mistake.
Closer to home, Vermont is the most vaccinated US state. Yet residents who’d received the shots comprised more than three-quarters of September Covid deaths. Massachusetts had four times the Covid cases this fall as last, yet vaccination rates are comparable to Vermont’s, as are death statistics. Half of Bay State Covid deaths were among the double-injected, with unknown additions among the partially jabbed. Similar statistics are propagating all around the dutifully vaccinated northeast this winter.
In other states, correlation between vaccination and Omicron cases is not what we would expect. In many instances, it’s the opposite…almost as if the vaccine is causing the virus (to be clear, that’s not what I am saying, but am sure we’d be reflexively encouraged to reach the opposite conclusion if these lines moved the other direction):
If this were funny, it’d be a joke. As it is, it’s a farce. This level of ineptitude would almost seem to be intentional. Is this what we were promised would happen? Are these statistics what we were told to expect? Are we not even allowed to ask about this? And why are we persisting with such obvious failure?
During the 1976 Swine Flu, a mere 25 vaccine-linked deaths were sufficient for regulators to pull the product. Even VAERS, which Harvard admits vastly undercounts adverse events, has documented almost 20,000 deaths in the first ten months of Covid shots. European data (also likely a vast underestimate) reveals 40,000 deaths and two million adverse reactions.
Why, during what increasingly appears to be a “pandemic of the vaccinated”, is the burden of proof still on those who question the injection? Why are the people with science on their side being forced to jeopardize their health or their livelihood to facilitate a program that is obviously questionable, likely fraudulent, and perhaps criminal?
Propagandistic explanations for these counter-intuitive phenomena have proliferated: different local demographics, density, diet, whatever. Yet regardless the spin placed on these outcomes, they are most emphatically not the ones we were assured.
Of course, the CDC perpetuates the fraud by counting all deaths within two weeks of vaccination as “unvaccinated” deaths, thereby disguising any causal relationship between the shots and death. To initially expound the absurd notion that 99% of Covid hospitalizations and deaths were among the unvaccinated, the agency used data from the entire first half of 2021. During this time, most people were unvaccinated, so of course they comprised the vast majority hospitalizations. As vaccination rates rose, those data obviously changed, and that talking point quietly dissipated.
Also curious…but consistent with these real world results…is that Pfizer’s own report submitted to win FDA “approval” for its “vaccine” revealed almost a quarter higher all-cause mortality among those in the (abbreviated) clinical trial who took the injection as among those who received a placebo.
Based on FDA guidelines, the agency must infer from this that people who inject the jab have a 24% increased risk of dying. Yet, despite this assumption, and a lack of long-term safety information (because there hasn’t been time to compile any) the FDA approved the shots, and the US government recommends that everyone over age five (!) receive them.
But drug safety and medical efficacy aren’t the only concern. A major one pertains less to protection than to precedent.
If we can be compelled by the government or its corporate appendages (because that’s what these big companies have become) to consume a pharmaceutical product to keep a job, board a plane, go to a game, or otherwise participate in what we once considered basic activities in an unshackled society, we’ve yielded whatever vestige remains of what once made us free…which is also the essence of what makes us human.
And, as we’ve already seen, it won’t stop with this shot, this disease, or even with our health. Once we comply with unauthorized edicts, we consent to being owned by those who issue them. There’s nothing they can’t force us to do. By yielding, we acknowledge that our lives are their property, and I’m not prepared to sign that deed.
I know many will say we crossed that bridge long ago. And it’s true. The latest incursions are merely accelerating inflation in the price of “security” that Americans started paying with their liberty years ago. The road to this point has been winding, and long. Not that some of us haven’t been warning about the potholes of prior precedent we blithely accepted along the way. But here we are.
Over many decades, Americans have yielded to central authorities powers that justly belong with their states, their communities, or themselves. It’s time to reclaim rights the US government has usurped, and to nullify its efforts to retain them. And if that doesn’t work, it’s probably best to part in peace.
Free people have no business being in a confederation with insufferable meddlers who can’t stand the sight of them. And why should they?
Why must the people of Alabama be bossed around by the same authority as the citizens of Oregon? Why should they be forced to abide abhorrent directives that contradict core tenets of their deeply held beliefs? Likewise, why should coastal Californians be forced to share a government with the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
The last few years affirm that half of America holds the other half in contempt. Why are we imposing and reinforcing a union of mutual disdain? Why not call a truce in this cold civil war, and go our separate ways before the battle gets hot?
Let New Yorkers, Michiganders, and Californians have their deviant, top-down authoritarian states, and allow the people of South Dakota, Florida, Texas, and Wyoming the opportunity to chart their course without culturally disruptive cross-currents from socially-repellent regions. This isn’t radical. It’s humane.
But even if states don’t secede and peaceably part, individuals can…at least to an extent. We can find friends that share our worldview, communities that accommodate our values, and professions where we can fulfill our potential. We need not continue hiding our opinions, walking on eggshells, and deferring to others. If our states won’t leave, we still can. To retain what matters most, “soft secession” is a viable answer.
I do (and would) regret losing friends because my opinion differs from theirs. I honestly never thought I’d see a day when that could happen. Yet if that’s what they desire, I have no choice but to let them go.
But I wonder about “friends” who after years of knowing me reduce my moral character and mental acuity to a single variable, about which they know only what they hear in the corporate press or pharmaceutically-funded media, and from which they’d not have guts to deviate even if they knew better.
I am blessed with a wonderful family, including many who remain able to respectfully disagree about contentious topics. I’ve also made new friends, who share my worldview, and who appreciate what it means to be free. And I’ll find different things to do, with people who don’t presume to micromanage my most personal decisions.
Sometime in what I hope is the not-too distant future, there will be two types of people: those who will be able to say they opposed the medical mandates, pharmaceutical surveillance, state-sponsored tyranny, and pseudo-scientific segregation thru which we’ve been living…and those who will lie and say they did.
In retrospect, the “right” side always seems obvious. But as Chesterton reminded us, every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
