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Intro:

Life is a complex journey, and the choices we make pave the way to extraordinary experiences. Embracing creativity, curiosity, and courage is essential for a fulfilling adventure.

Welcome to a realm of endless possibilities, where the journey is just as exciting as the destination. Every moment presents an opportunity to leave your mark on the canvas of existence. The only limit is the breadth of your imagination.

Critical thinking: Always be in doubt and check it out. In other words, think for yourself. Ask questions.

We continue forward with our last conversation—

The dreaded topic of: vaccines.

I’ve noticed that not many people really read in-depth about these topics; instead, they often skim through brief snippets on social media. Many rely solely on their doctor’s advice, while others may have lingering questions, yet don’t delve into the essential information. For instance, let’s think critically: when in real life does anyone encounter 15 or 23 different strains of pneumonia simultaneously? So, why would we consider injecting such an enormous number of strains along with a host of questionable ingredients and consider this ”safe and effective”? It demands a closer examination.

It would seem that the overall perception is that they will trust their doctor. They tend to believe what Big Pharma, the CDC, and the FDA communicate, assuming that these organizations are responsible for conducting the research, testing, and manufacturing of medications.

Without further ado, I leave you this list of ingredients, so you can decide if these are ”safe and effective” for the human body. Oh, and maybe ask for the list of ingredients (package insert) at the doctor’s office along with the Vaccine Information Sheet (VIS), which is required by federal law to be given for each and every vaccine that one gets.

Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary
Excipients Included in U.S. Vaccines, by Vaccine

In addition to weakened or killed disease antigens (viruses or bacteria), vaccines contain very small amounts of other
ingredients – excipients or media.

Some excipients are added to a vaccine for a specific purpose. These include:
Preservatives, to prevent contamination. For example, thimerosal.
Adjuvants, to help stimulate a stronger immune response. For example, aluminum salts.
Stabilizers, to keep the vaccine potent during transportation and storage. For example, sugars or gelatin.

Others are residual trace amounts of materials that were used during the manufacturing process and removed. These include:
Cell culture materials, used to grow the vaccine antigens. For example, egg protein, various culture media.
Inactivating ingredients, used to kill viruses or inactivate toxins. For example, formaldehyde.
Antibiotics, used to prevent contamination by bacteria. For example, neomycin.

The following table lists all components, other than antigens, shown in the manufacturers’ package insert (PI) for each vaccine.
Each of these PIs, which can be found on the FDA’s website (see below), contains a description of that vaccine’s manufacturing
process, including the amount and purpose of each substance.

All information was extracted from manufacturers’ package inserts.

If in doubt about whether a PI has been updated since this table was prepared, check the FDA’s website at:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093833.htm

Vaccine Contents (ingredients):

**Adenovirus
human-diploid fibroblast cell cultures (strain WI-38), Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium, fetal bovine serum, sodium bicarbonate, monosodium glutamate, sucrose, D-mannose, D fructose, dextrose, human serum albumin, potassium phosphate, plasdone C, anhydrous lactose, microcrystalline cellulose, polacrilin potassium, magnesium stearate, cellulose acetate phthalate, alcohol, acetone, castor oil, FD&C Yellow #6 aluminum lake dye.

**Anthrax (Biothrax) amino acids, vitamins, inorganic salts, sugars, aluminum hydroxide, sodium chloride, benzethonium chloride, formaldehyde BCG (Tice) glycerin, asparagine, citric acid, potassium phosphate, magnesium sulfate, iron ammonium mononitrate, lactose.

**Cholera (Vaxchora) casamino acids, yeast extract, mineral salts, anti-foaming agent, ascorbic acid, hydrolyzed
casein, sodium chloride, sucrose, dried lactose, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate.

**DT (Sanofi) aluminum phosphate, isotonic sodium chloride, formaldehyde, casein, cystine, maltose, uracil, inorganic salts, vitamins, dextrose.

**DTaP (Daptacel)
aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, 2-phenoxyethanol, Stainer-Scholte medium, casamino acids, dimethyl-beta-cyclodextrin, Mueller’s growth medium,
ammonium sulfate, modified Mueller-Miller casamino acid medium without beef heart infusion.

**DTaP (Infanrix)
Fenton medium containing a bovine extract, modified Latham medium derived from bovine casein, formaldehyde, modified Stainer-Scholte liquid medium, glutaraldehyde, aluminum
hydroxide, sodium chloride, polysorbate 80 (Tween 80).

**DTaP-IPV (Kinrix)
Fenton medium containing a bovine extract, modified Latham medium derived from bovine casein, formaldehyde, modified Stainer-Scholte liquid medium, glutaraldehyde, aluminum
hydroxide, VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells, Calf serum, lactalbumin hydrolysate, sodium chloride, polysorbate 80 (Tween 80), neomycin sulfate, polymyxin B.

**DTaP-IPV (Quadracel)
modified Mueller’s growth medium, ammonium sulfate, modified Mueller-Miller casamino acid medium without beef heart infusion, formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate, Stainer
Scholte medium, casamino acids, dimethyl-beta-cyclodextrin, MRC-5 cells, normal human diploid cells, CMRL 1969 medium supplemented with calf serum, Medium 199 without calf
serum, 2-phenoxyethanol, polysorbate 80, glutaraldehyde, neomycin, polymyxin B sulfate.

**DTaP-HepB-IPV (Pediarix)
Fenton medium containing a bovine extract, modified Latham medium derived from bovine casein, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, modified Stainer-Scholte liquid medium, VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells, calf serum, lactalbumin hydrolysate, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, aluminum salts, sodium chloride, polysorbate 80
(Tween 80), neomycin sulfate, polymyxin B, yeast protein.

**DTaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel)
aluminum phosphate, polysorbate 80, sucrose, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, bovine serum albumin, 2-phenoxyethanol, neomycin, polymyxin B sulfate, modified Mueller’s growth
medium, ammonium sulfate, modified Mueller-Miller casamino acid medium without beef heart infusion, Stainer-Scholte medium, casamino acids, dimethyl-beta-cyclodextrin. MRC-5 cells (a line of normal human diploid cells), CMRL 1969 medium supplemented with calf serum, Medium 199 without calf serum, and modified Mueller and Miller medium.

**Hib (ActHIB) sodium chloride, modified Mueller and Miller medium (the culture medium contains milk-derived raw materials [casein derivatives]), formaldehyde, sucrose.

**Hib (Hiberix) saline, synthetic medium, formaldehyde, sodium chloride, lactose.

**Hib (PedvaxHIB) complex fermentation media, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, sodium chloride.

**Hep A (Havrix)
MRC-5 human diploid cells, formalin, aluminum hydroxide, amino acid supplement, phosphate-buffered saline solution, polysorbate 20, neomycin sulfate, aminoglycoside antibiotic.

**Hep A (Vaqta) MRC-5 diploid fibroblasts, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, non-viral protein, DNA, bovine albumin, formaldehyde, neomycin, sodium borate, sodium chloride.

**Hep B (Engerix-B) aluminum hydroxide, yeast protein, sodium chloride, disodium phosphate dihydrate, sodium
dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate.

** Hep B (Recombivax) soy peptone, dextrose, amino acids, mineral salts, phosphate buffer, formaldehyde, potassium aluminum sulfate, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, yeast protein.

**Hep B (Heplisav-B)
vitamins and mineral salts, yeast protein, yeast DNA, deoxycholate, phosphorothioate-linked oligodeoxynucleotide, phosphate-buffered saline, sodium phosphate, dibasic dodecahydrate, monobasic dehydrate, polysorbate 80.

**Hep A/Hep B (Twinrix) MRC-5 human diploid cells, formalin, aluminum phosphate, aluminum hydroxide, amino
acids, sodium chloride, phosphate buffer, polysorbate 20, neomycin sulfate, yeast protein.

**Human Papillomavirus
(HPV) (Gardasil 9)
vitamins, amino acids, mineral salts, carbohydrates, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, sodium chloride, L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sodium borate, yeast protein.

**Influenza (Afluria)
Trivalent & Quadrivalent
sodium chloride, monobasic sodium phosphate, dibasic sodium phosphate, monobasic potassium phosphate, potassium chloride, calcium chloride, sodium taurodeoxycholate,
ovalbumin, sucrose, neomycin sulfate, polymyxin B, beta-propiolactone, thimerosal (multi-dose vials).

**Influenza (Fluad)
squalene, polysorbate 80, sorbitan trioleate, sodium citrate dehydrate, citric acid monohydrate, neomycin, kanamycin, barium, egg proteins, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), formaldehyde.

**Influenza (Fluarix)
Quadrivalent
octoxynol-10 (TRITON X-100), α-tocopheryl hydrogen succinate, polysorbate 80 (Tween 80), hydrocortisone, gentamicin sulfate, ovalbumin, formaldehyde, sodium deoxycholate, sodium phosphate-buffered isotonic sodium chloride.

**Influenza (Flublok)
Quadrivalent
sodium chloride, monobasic sodium phosphate, dibasic sodium phosphate, polysorbate 20 (Tween 20), baculovirus and Spodoptera frugiperda cell proteins, baculovirus and cellular
DNA, Triton X-100, lipids, vitamins, amino acids, mineral salts.

**Influenza (Flucelvax)
Quadrivalent
Madin Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cell protein, phosphate buffered saline, protein other than HA, MDCK cell DNA, polysorbate 80, cetyltrimethlyammonium bromide, and β
propiolactone, Thimerosal (multi-dose vials).

**Influenza (Flulaval)
Quadrivalent
ovalbumin, formaldehyde, sodium deoxycholate, α-tocopheryl hydrogen succinate, polysorbate 80, thimerosal (multi-dose vials), phosphate-buffered saline solution.

**Influenza (Fluzone)
Quadrivalent
formaldehyde, egg protein, octylphenol ethoxylate (Triton X-100), sodium phosphate buffered isotonic sodium chloride solution, thimerosal (multi-dose vials).

**Influenza (Fluzone)
High Dose
egg protein, octylphenol ethoxylate (Triton X-100), sodium phosphate-buffered isotonic sodium chloride solution, formaldehyde.

**Influenza (FluMist)
Quadrivalent
monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, arginine, sucrose, dibasic potassium phosphate, monobasic potassium phosphate, ovalbumin, gentamicin sulfate,
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA).

**Japanese Encephalitis
(Ixiaro) aluminum hydroxide, protamine sulfate, formaldehyde, bovine serum albumin, host cell
DNA, sodium metabisulphite, host cell protein.

**Meningococcal
(MenACWY-Menactra)
Watson Scherp media containing casamino acid, modified culture medium containing hydrolyzed casein, ammonium sulfate, sodium phosphate, formaldehyde, sodium chloride.

**Meningococcal
(MenACWY-Menveo) formaldehyde, amino acids, yeast extract, Franz complete medium, CY medium.

**Meningococcal
(MenB – Bexsero) aluminum hydroxide, E. coli, histidine, sucrose, deoxycholate, kanamycin.

**Meningococcal
(MenB – Trumenba) defined fermentation growth media, polysorbate 80, aluminum phosphate, histidine buffered
saline.

**MMR (MMR-II)
chick embryo cell culture, WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts, vitamins, amino acids, fetal bovine serum, sucrose, glutamate, recombinant human albumin, neomycin, sorbitol,
hydrolyzed gelatin, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride.

**MMRV (ProQuad)
(Frozen) chick embryo cell culture, WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts, MRC-5 cells, sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, sodium chloride, sorbitol, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, human albumin, sodium bicarbonate, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride; potassium phosphate dibasic, neomycin, bovine calf serum.

**MMRV (ProQuad)
(Refrigerator Stable)
chick embryo cell culture, WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts, MRC-5 cells, sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, urea, sodium chloride, sorbitol, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium
phosphate, recombinant human albumin, sodium bicarbonate, potassium phosphate, potassium chloride, neomycin, bovine serum albumin.

**Pneumococcal
(PCV13 – Prevnar 13)
soy peptone broth, casamino acids and yeast extract-based medium, CRM197 carrier protein, polysorbate 80, succinate buffer, aluminum phosphate.

**Pneumococcal
(PPSV-23 – Pneumovax) soy peptone broth, casamino acids and yeast extract-based medium, CRM197 carrier protein,
polysorbate 80, succinate buffer, aluminum phosphate, phenol.

**Polio (IPV – Ipol)
Eagle MEM modified medium, calf bovine serum, M-199 without calf bovine serum, vero cells (a continuous line of monkey kidney cells), phenoxyethanol, formaldehyde, neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B.

**Rabies (Imovax) human albumin, neomycin sulfate, phenol red indicator, MRC-5 human diploid cells, beta propriolactone.

**Rabies (RabAvert)
chicken fibroblasts, β-propiolactone, polygeline (processed bovine gelatin), human serum albumin, bovine serum, potassium glutamate, sodium EDTA, ovalbumin, neomycin,
chlortetracycline, amphotericin B.

**Rotavirus (RotaTeq)
sucrose, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate, sodium hydroxide, polysorbate 80, cell culture media, fetal bovine serum, vero cells [DNA] from porcine circoviruses (PCV) 1 and 2 has been detected in RotaTeq. PCV-1 and PCV-2 are not known to cause disease in humans.

**Rotavirus (Rotarix)
Vero cells, dextran, Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, ferric (III) nitrate, sodium phosphate, sodium pyruvate, D glucose, concentrated vitamin solution, L-cystine, L-tyrosine, amino acids solution, L glutamine, calcium chloride, sodium hydrogenocarbonate, and phenol red), sorbitol, sucrose,
calcium carbonate, sterile water, xanthan [Porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV-1) is present in Rotarix. PCV-1 is not known to cause disease in humans.]

**Smallpox (Vaccinia)
(ACAM2000)
African Green Monkey kidney (Vero) cells, HEPES, 2% human serum albumin, 0.7% sodium chloride USP, 5% Mannitol USP, neomycin, polymyxin B, 50% Glycerin USP, 0.25% phenol USP.

**Td (Tenivac) aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, modified Mueller-Miller casamino acid medium without beef heart infusion, ammonium sulfate, sodium chloride, water.

**Td (Mass Biologics) aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, thimerosal, modified Mueller’s media, which contains
bovine extracts, ammonium sulfate.

**Tdap (Adacel)
aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, 2-phenoxyethanol, Stainer-Scholte medium, casamino
acids, dimethyl-beta-cyclodextrin, glutaraldehyde, modified Mueller-Miller casamino acid medium without beef heart infusion, ammonium sulfate, modified Mueller’s growth medium.

**Tdap (Boostrix)
modified Latham medium derived from bovine casein, Fenton medium containing a bovine extract, formaldehyde, modified Stainer-Scholte liquid medium, glutaraldehyde, aluminum
hydroxide, sodium chloride, polysorbate 80.

**Typhoid (Typhim Vi)
hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, formaldehyde, phenol, polydimethylsiloxane, disodium phosphate, monosodium phosphate, semi-synthetic medium, sodium chloride, sterile water.

**Typhoid (Vivotif Ty21a) yeast extract, casein, dextrose, galactose, sucrose, ascorbic acid, amino acids, lactose,
magnesium stearate. gelatin.

**Varicella (Varivax)
Frozen MRC-5 human diploid cells, including DNA & protein, sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, sodium
chloride, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, sodium phosphate monobasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride, EDTA, neomycin, fetal bovine serum.

**Varicella (Varivax)
Refrigerator Stable
MRC-5 human diploid cells, including DNA & protein, sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, sodium chloride, monosodium L-glutamate, urea, sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride, neomycin, bovine calf serum.

**Yellow Fever (YF-Vax) sorbitol, gelatin, sodium chloride, egg protein.

**Zoster (Shingles)
(Zostavax) Frozen MRC-5 human diploid cells, including DNA & protein, sucrose, hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, sodium chloride, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride; neomycin, bovine calf serum.

**Zoster (Shingles)
(Zostavax)
Refrigerator Stable
MRC-5 human diploid cells, including DNA & protein, sucrose, hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, urea, sodium chloride, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride, neomycin, bovine calf serum.

**Zoster (Shingles)
(Shingrix) sucrose, sodium chloride, dioleoyl hosphatidylcholine (DOPC), 3-O-desacl 4’monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), QS-21 (a saponin purified from plant extract Quillaja saponaria Molina), potassium dihydrogen phosphate, cholesterol, sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate, disodium phosphate anhydrous, dipotassium phosphate, polysorbate 80.

A table listing vaccine excipients and media by excipient is published by the Institute for Vaccine Safety
at Johns Hopkins University, and can be found at http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/components-Excipients.htm.

Updates:

Trumenba: (added Aluminum phosphate)
RotaTeq: PI dated 2/2017
Rotarix: 6/11/18 (PI dated xx/xxxx)
Smallpox: 3/2018
Td (Tenivac): April 2013
Td (Mass Biologics): April 2009 (no change)
Tdap (Adacel): xxx/2017 (no change)
Tdap (Boostrix): 6/12/2018 (PI dated xx/xxxx) (no change)
Typhim Vi: March 2014 (added sodium chloride & buffered saline)
Ty21a: September 2013
Varicella Frozen: 2/2017
Varicella Refrigerator Stable: 2/2017
YF Vax: June 2016
Zostivax Frozen: xx/2018
Zostivax Refrigerator Stable: xx/2018
Shingrix: 10/2017

HELLO FREE THINKERS

Welcome! You are about to embark on a journey that will free your mind from the toxicity of a one-sided environment.

We will provide you with thought-provoking opinions, viewpoints, comments, insights, and perspectives from diverse backgrounds and age groups.

Our aim is not only to show different viewpoints but also to spark curiosity. We strive to inspire deeper discussions that can enrich your understanding of the topic(s) at hand, in hopes that it will encourage critical thinking

Thank you for joining the journey and freeing your mind.

Well, kids, I am back. Did you miss me? I had a lot of issues that required my attention, but onward we go.

We last left off with a very controversial topic: vaccines! Oy vey,oy vah, oy veh, right? 🙂 Let’s continue.

The last segment was about Edward Jenner and his innovative idea for vaccines. We can look further into him, but he isn’t the only one who decided to go with the vaccine narrative. We can break it down vaccine by vaccine and who invented which one, but that seems rather tedious. But if I must, I will, as it is very important to know who did what and why.

Let’s look at the smallpox vaccine. According to ‘A Guide to Health’ by Mahatma Gandhi, ”Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time, not to be found even among the so-called savage races of the world. Its supporters are not content with its adoption by those who have no objection to it, but seek to impose it with the aid of penal laws and rigorous punishments on all people alike.

The practice of vaccination is not very old, dating as it does only from 1798 A.D. But, during this comparatively short period that has elapsed, millions have fallen a prey to the delusion that those who get themselves vaccinated are safe from the attack of smallpox. No one can say that smallpox will necessarily attack those who have not been vaccinated; for many cases have been observed of unvaccinated people being free from its attack.

The fact that some people who are not vaccinated do get the disease, we cannot, of course, conclude that they would have been immune if only they had gotten themselves vaccinated.

Moreover, vaccination is a very dirty process, for the serum, which is introduced into the human body includes not only that of the cow, but also of the actual smallpox patient. An average man would even vomit at the mere sight of this stuff. If the hand happens to touch it, it is always washed with soap. The mere suggestion of tasting it fills us with indignation and disgust. But how few of those who get themselves vaccinated realise that they are, in effect, eating this filthy stuff!

Most people know that, in several diseases, medicines and liquid food are injected into the blood, and that they are assimilated into the system more rapidly than if they were taken through the mouth. The only difference, in fact, between injection and the ordinary process of eating through the mouth is that the assimilation in the former case is instantaneous, while that in the latter is slow. And yet we do not shrink from getting ourselves vaccinated! As has been well said, cowards die a living death, and our craze for vaccination is solely due to the fear of death or disfigurement by smallpox.

The vaccine is a filthy substance, and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.”

So there you have Gandhi’s observational fact, or opinion if you so choose.

Later we will continue with other notations/observations of how this practice of vaccines is nothing more than a cash cow for those who make them.

For now, consider this approach by Gandhi and think for yourself what it could mean to you.

Farewell for now, FREETHINKERS. I shall leave you to your thoughts.

HELLO FREE THINKERS

Welcome! You are about to embark on a journey that will free your mind from the toxicity of a one-sided environment.

We will give you thought-provoking opinions, viewpoints, comments, insights, and perspectives from various walks of life and ages.

Our aim is not only to show different viewpoints but also to spark curiosity. We strive to inspire deeper discussions that can enrich your understanding of the topics at hand, in hopes that it will encourage critical thinking

Thank you for joining the journey and freeing your mind.

Since my last few chapters were not happy for most, I will continue with very controversial topics. Why? Because too many are just rolling over and accepting the narrative without question. So, with that being said, I am going to write about, oh wait for it, that dreaded topic…vaccines! Oooh, me oh my, what will people think? Oh, wait, that’s the point, ”to think”.

VACCINES.

Well, where to begin. Ah, yes, the way back history machine of how they all began. Did it all begin with Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1796? He was an English scientist and physician after all. But was he even a real scientist?

Jenner was an active Freemason (serving in 1812 as master of the Royal Lodges of Faith and Friendship, NO 270) and Philosopher. Originally trained as a surgeon, Jenner’s interest in natural science led him to study under prominent figures, including the renowned surgeon John Hunter.

At age 13, he became an apprentice to Daniel Ludlow, a competent surgeon trained in London. Jenner studied books on anatomy, helped with simple operations, and participated in dissecting animals to improve his knowledge of anatomy.

At 18, Jenner had acquired enough skills to help him assist Ludlow in more complicated surgeries and to attend to and treat patients by himself.

In 1770, he went to London to study with the most prominent surgeon, John Hunter. Jenner studied anatomy and surgery with Hunter at St George’s Hospital for 2 years and helped him with dissection.

In 1771, he was asked to accompany Captain James Cook as a naturalist but declined the offer and returned to Gloucestershire in 1772, where he assumed the duties of a country doctor instead.

While still practising with his medical interests, Jenner continued his observations of nature by contributing to the natural science literature.

In 1785, Jenner observed that his old friend and teacher, John Hunter, exhibited all the symptoms of progressive angina (angina was considered incurable at that time). In 1793, Hunter passed away from ossification of the coronary arteries of the heart. Soon after his friend’s death, Jenner returned to Gloucestershire and began his medical career.

During his time as a medical practitioner, Jenner began the observations and experimentations that would lead to the discovery, some twenty-five years later, of the principle of vaccination.

However, the principle of inoculation goes further back to ancient times in India and China. They would introduce matter from the pustules of a person with an active case of smallpox into the skin of a person to be immunized from the disease. Then the person who was inoculated would usually contract a milder case of smallpox. At least that was the theory behind a vaccine. However, the inoculation, often performed on children, resulted in death.

Knowing this, Jenner moved forward with practising vaccination on his child many times over, resulting in the child being ill for life. He then inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps on May 14, 1796, with cowpox serum using material obtained from a pustule on the hand of a milkmaid who had contracted cowpox, without success.

Contrary to this horrific practice, they knew how to cure smallpox in the 17th century. The famous Dr. Thomas Sydenham, of England(1624-89), developed a new treatment that reduced the death rate from about 50 percent to 1 percent or 2 percent.

According to Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, “I don’t think there’s been any major shift in the medical profession’s general approach to new ideas. I don’t think there ever will be that kind of wholesale change. Three hundred years ago, when the major disease was smallpox, Sir Thomas Sydenham developed a new treatment that reduced the death rate from about 50 percent to 1 percent or 2 percent. His reward? He was being challenged to a duel. The English Medical Association wanted to drive him out. He wrote: “A new idea is like a sapling in the middle of a road, and if it’s not fenced in, it will be galloped over by the trampling hordes.” That’s a really great statement, and it’s also my view of what happens to medical discovery.”

At this point, I will stop, as this has been a lot to absorb. Meaning, it takes quite a bit of thought to undo what has been viewed as a ”life-saving preventive” for a great many years.

However, there will be many more chapters to come, as this is one vast topic that goes way back. So, reader, get ready to think for yourself.

Thanks for choosing to be a Free thinker.