The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Smallpox vaccine is less safe than other vaccines routinely used today. The vaccine is associated with known adverse effects that range from mild to severe. Mild vaccine reactions include formation of satellite lesions, fever, muscle aches, regional lymphadenopathy, fatigue, headache, nausea, rashes, and soreness at the vaccination site
For some reason the history of smallpox vaccines isn’t quite as cut and dry as the memes on FaceBook suggest.
“In the 1960s, serious adverse events associated with smallpox vaccination in the United States included death (1/million vaccinations)”
If I’m not mistaken, still a better safety record than the covid vaccines.
But, it actually worked.
Vaccines, like every other aspects of life, require a sober evaluation of the risks and benefits of doing it vs. the risks and benefits of not doing it.
Focusing only on the risk side of the ledger is a classical antivaxer strategy.
I hope this post was a joke.
The MSM concentrates only on the benefits, and minimizes the risk, thus attempts to negate informed consent. This blog provides a counterpoint to that message.
The MSM is spouting that children NEED the jab, wheras the fatality rate in under 30s combined with the known and unknown risks of the jab clearly indicate that the jab is a bigger risk than the disease is.
Nice little attempt to throw in those who are skeptical of the MSM/state line about the jab as “anti-vaxers”.
I hope your post was a joke.
Go read about the Cutter Labs incident and then come back to huff, puff and lecture the rest of us on why skepticism about the vaccines is a bad thing.
When Robert Malone (the MD who invented MRNA vaccines) is saying they exacerbate the spread of virus mutations you should read more and lecture less.
mhb23re
Here’s your link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
Science is wonderful when it tells us about some part of reality. When it ventures into speculation, and theory, one must be cautious. And that is all that Robert Malone is suggesting. He understands the part about being cautious having been at the cutting edge. You are right – investigate and listen more, preach less.
This post is not a joke. This post is a response to the facile praise of all vaccines as totally harmless and 100 effective as pushed by Facebook. Even the small pox vaccine, the single greatest success story of vaccine effectiveness, was not totally harmless. We must be honest about this. That’s the point.
And the Small Pox vaccine had one thing the COVID-19 vaccine does not, incredibly high effectiveness.
BTW I am old enough that the small pox vaccine is one of many vaccines I have had but I will not accept the COVID vaccine unless they hold me down and force it on me or put a gun to my grandchild’s head.
Agreed JB, However, the gun bit you mention might just happen. If it does the same for me, then I will probably take up hunting as my final pastime.
They didn’t threaten to socially ostracize and punish the unvaccinated back then.
Nobody has ever claimed that vaccines are perfectly safe. According to this article the risk of death from the smallpox vaccine is 1 in one million. The risk of death from smallpox itself is 1 in three.
Smallpox vaccines — for that matter most vaccines — are not comparable with the FORCED jabbing of billions of people with a highly questionable gene therapy by globalists that we see today.
I am not now nor have I ever been an anti-vaxxer per se. The risks are worth it compared to the horror of the diseases.
Covid is different. It’s not about the disease. Covid is simply a pretext for a global totalitarian coup that most Canadians welcome with open arms.
Your last sentence sums Covid up nicely. And it’s shameful yet true.
mb23re
Steve, Yup, so you noticed too, huh!
The CFR for the smallpox vaccine was one in a million. The CFR for variola major averages one in three, and its transmissibility is terrifying.
It’s no contest. Smallpox was one of humanity’s greatest killers. There was good reason to make the vaccine mandatory. There is no need for mandatory vaccination for a disease with a 0.3% CFR.
These vaccines are still not my biggest concern.
Where are the international tribunals investigating the traitorous westerners who funded and conspired with the enemy to engage in deadly germ warfare against the entire world? It is now quite clear that this is what happened. Curse the wretched media for their evil-inspired coverups and misdirection on this one.
Fauci should be sitting in a prison cell worried about being Epsteined, not strutting around free like the infallible God of Medicine he apparently has convinced himself and the left that he is.
I just read the article. It is from 2003 with US looking at allowing smallpox vaccinations again (bio weapons worries). The “good” is the potential protection. The “bad” is the negative reactions. Conclusion was net health effect of re-allowing smallpox vaccinations was negative, more harm than possible good. Where it goes from “bad” to “ugly” is that some of the “bad” reactions leads to release of smallpox virus which not only could harm close contacts of the person vaccinated but lead to a re-introduction into the world of an eliminated virus. That is the “ugly”.
The math was different in 1950 than in 2003.
FYI, while mass vaccinations did occur in North America and elsewhere, they did not occur in Australia as the prevalence of the disease was much lower without a history of outbreaks and thus the net health effect argued not to do mass vaccinations in Australia.
I normally find Allan Dershowitz’s commentary on FNC on point but yesterday’s segment with Laura Ingraham his comments sounded ill considered. Dershowitz actually said that he believes Covid is WORSE than Smallpox and that the SCOTUS would uphold gradual mandated vaccination of the population. Laura, in my view rightfully so, looked quite taken aback and challenged Dershowitz’s interpretation of the “1905 lawsuit, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, in which the Supreme Court upheld the authority of states to enforce laws on compulsory vaccination.” The smallpox vaccination was the subject of Jacobson’s suit.” Given the hard data showing that the so called “Delta” variant is less deadly to the unvaccinated under 60 than average Flu mortality, the apparent robustness of naturally acquired Covid immunity vs. waning vaccination protection and the huge disparity in significant complication risk including death with the Covid vaccine vs. Smallpox vaccine I think Laura wins the argument easily…but only if Fear isn’t addling the minds of those in the courts like it seems to be doing with the normally reasonable Dershowitz. No, Covid is NOT anything like Smallpox. Doesn’t it kinda feels like 11:30pm April 14th 1912? The captain of the freest country in the World is more concerned about getting a care aid fixing the smelly soft lump in his pants then keeping the individual rights of all citizens under his authority safe from being quickly smashed into unrecognizable bits by the intentionally obscured Liberty killing unrelenting tyrannical force of Communism that’s now moving directly in its path. If the direction countries like the U.S., Canada, France and the U.K. are heading doesn’t change in a short time not even Covid variants or soiled Depends won’t be of much worry. There will be much bigger concerns of the existential variety. https://www.newsweek.com/alan-dershowitz-clashes-laura-ingraham-covid-smallpox-1614597
I’m old enough to have been given the smallpox vaccine back in the day. Unlike today’s “jab” (which is actually an innoculation), the smallpox vaccination was given by having the vaccine placed on the skin and then being introduced by repeatedly pricking of the skin in a circle. Many classmates showed the classic smallpox scar: an ugly raised circle on the outside of the upper arm. I didn’t get that reaction; my fist dose was given by a doctor who was aware of possible reactions and so gave me the vaccination on the inside of the upper arm. Never had the raised scar so many of my classmates had, and it’s faded now. But I do remember when smallpox was not something one would want to trifle with.