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Jan. 14, 2022 - Jim Fetzer
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The Germ Paradigm Trap (19 September 2021)
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Germs.
They are the singular cause of all infectious diseases.
It's a basic understanding we all have.
It's an indisputable fact.
It's something that can't be questioned.
It's woven into our collective human consciousness.
Most people believe that, once upon a time, way back in history, various germs caused many deadly diseases.
Then, very brilliant scientists invented medications and vaccines, and now, thanks to them, We don't have to worry about these nasty sicknesses.
That's what I believed at one time, and several doctors and nurses I know thought that was true as well.
Well, that was until they went and looked at historical and scientific information.
So what caused the decline in deaths from diseases such as measles and whooping cough?
So what really happened?
The following might be shocking and even impossible to believe, but all the following evidence is based on verifiable public health records and historical documents.
It's a reality that might collide with your rock-solid beliefs, but it's information anyone can look up and verify.
Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more.
In the 1800s, measles was a major cause of death.
Many people believe it was a vaccine that caused the deaths from measles to be conquered.
But when did measles deaths actually start to decline?
When were the measles vaccines introduced?
What do history and data tell us?
This chart shows the death rate from measles in the United States from 1900 to 1987.
The first measles vaccine, which was a killed measles virus, was introduced in 1963.
By that point, the death rate had declined from the peak by a massive 98.7%.
This is a magnified view of the same chart.
In 1967, a live measles virus vaccine was introduced to replace the 1963 vaccine.
An added trend line shows that the vaccine had little impact on the already greatly reduced death rate.
This chart shows the death rate for measles in England.
The English started recording mortality statistics much earlier in 1838.
Measles deaths plummeted beginning in the late 1800s, reaching nearly zero by the 1950s.
In 1968, England began to vaccinate for measles five years later than in the United States.
By that point, the death rate had declined from the peak by an even more massive 99.8%.
This is a magnified view of the same chart.
Again, an added trend line shows that the vaccine had little impact on the already greatly reduced death rate.
The massive decline in deaths from measles was sometimes noted in scientific journals.
And as pointed out, it was the improved nutrition of children that made all the difference.
Scurvy is a deficiency of vitamin C. Back before the nutrition of people vastly improved, scurvy was a common condition that could result in death.
This chart shows as the death rate from vitamin C deficiency declined, so too did deaths from measles.
So, the true reason for the massive decline in measles deaths was the improved health of the people, not any medical intervention as often is assumed.
Is this information new?
No.
This data has been available for decades.
A chart identical to the chart I would create many years later was available in the 1960s from the United States Vital Statistics.
The information showing this massive decline in deaths before any vaccine was simply ignored.
Seriously?
Again, by the 1950s, measles was not considered a serious problem for most.
In this 1959 article from the British Medical Journal, Dr. John Fry notes that over 10 years, there were a few complications and all children made complete recoveries.
What's interesting is the comment that mothers found that children after an episode of measles seemed to be, quote, so much better, end quote.
During the same period in history, Dr. Klenner simply used vitamin C to help children quickly pass through measles without incident in a matter of days.
But, unfortunately, all this history and much more has been lost in favor of a single belief
system, vaccination.
So what about the death rate of other infectious diseases?
When did they decline?
What effect did vaccines have on their death rate?
Again, what do history and data tell us?
This chart shows the death rate from whooping cough in the United States from 1900 to 1957.
The whooping cough vaccine began to be used in the late 1940s.
By that point, the death rate had declined from the peak by 92.4%.
This chart shows the death rate from whooping cough in England.
In 1957, England began to vaccinate for whooping cough nationally.
By that point, the death rate had declined from the peak by a massive 99.7%.
The death rate for scarlet fever, a bigger killer in the 1800s than measles or whooping cough, reached zero without any vaccine.
The death rate for flu and pneumonia declined by about 90% from 1900 until the late 1970s when vaccination began.
Since that time, vaccination levels for the 65 plus year olds have remained high, yet the death rate has not improved in about 40 years of vaccination.
In fact, the death rate for all infectious diseases, like measles, began to plummet starting in the late 1800s before any vaccination programs or no vaccination programs at all.
Even by the 1930s and 1940s, people recognized that these infectious diseases were vanishing and becoming of little importance, when they had been big killers only decades earlier.
So we were on the right track of improving health and well-being.
But today we have forgotten this history.
As a result, there is almost always a complete panic whenever there is some so-called infectious disease in the news.
Instead of learning from history that these diseases were all conquered by improved health,
we always fall back to the fear and using tools that didn't have the major impact
that we have been told they had.
The legend of the first vaccine goes something like this.
us.
It was rumored among milkmaids that infection with cowpox could protect them from smallpox.
In 1796, believing these stories, Edward Jenner subjected an 8-year-old boy named James Phipps to an experiment.
He took pus that he thought to be cowpox from the lesions on the hands of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelms, and scratched it onto James.
The child was later deliberately exposed to smallpox to test the protective property of the cowpox inoculation.
When the boy did not contract clinical smallpox, Jenner assumed that the cowpox vaccination was successful and would provide lifelong protection against smallpox.
The procedure was called cowpoxing and later called vaccination.
Vaca is a Latin word for cow and that's where we get the term vaccination.
In 1798, Jenner published a paper claiming lifelong immunity to smallpox and promoting his technique.
Humanity lived happily ever after, having at last conquered smallpox.
Is that the whole story, or is there more to the tale that has been left out?
Having happened over a long period of over 200 years, it's a long, complex history.
But there is some information that you might not know.
Edward Jenner did his famous experiment using a cow.
Actually, he took pus from a lady's hand that was infected from milking cows and scratched it onto a boy.
Edward Jenner actually believed that genuine cowpox disease originated from the running sores of a sick horse's heels.
It was a condition called the grease, also known as horsepox, and he used the pus from the sores of these horses to supply vaccinators.
Jenner also thought that smallpox, swine pox, cow pox, and horse pox were merely varieties of the same disease.
People also used to use goats to acquire goat pox as a source of vaccine material.
Also, the blankets from people who died from smallpox were hung around cows' heads to make vaccine material.
In addition, some cows were directly inoculated with smallpox to make smallpox cow vaccine material.
The ulcerated udder of a cow was then scraped to get the vaccine material.
Another method was placing vaccination scabs from a person into a jar and filling it with water to make a paste.
The resultant mixture was used to vaccinate others.
Once a person was vaccinated with some type of vaccine made from the pus of a sore on a cow, horse, goat, pig, or smallpox from a corpse scratched onto a cow, that person was then used to vaccinate the next person in a method called arm-to-arm vaccination and then the next and then the next.
Millions of vaccinations were made with no one really knowing what they were really using.
Arms or inner thighs were scratched until bloodied and then, from that, the next person
was vaccinated.
Although there were many ideas about how to make these concoctions to scratch onto people,
they all fell under the brand name of vaccine, and many in the medical profession quickly
adopted Jenner's idea of vaccination.
In 1799, shortly after Jenner published his paper on using cowpox to get lifelong protection from smallpox, Dr. Drake conducted a vaccination experiment on three children with a vaccine obtained directly from Edward Jenner.
Unfortunately, when challenged with smallpox inoculation, all three vaccinated children developed smallpox.
The vaccine had failed.
As the years marched on, there were many reports of vaccination failure.
People were getting smallpox after vaccination despite the original claim of protection.
An article in the 1817 London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review showed yet again that a great many people who had undergone vaccination were still suffering from smallpox.
In 1818, Thomas Brown, a surgeon with 30 years of experience in Muselburg, Scotland, described how no one in the medical profession, quote, could outstrip me in zeal for promoting vaccine practice, end quote.
But after vaccinating 1,200 people and discovering that many still contracted and even died from smallpox, His conscience could no longer support vaccination.
In 1829, William Cobet, a farmer, journalist, and English pamphleteer, wrote about the failure of vaccination to protect people from smallpox.
And it was not only that there were often vaccine failures that didn't stop the person from getting smallpox or even dying, but the vaccination itself could cause significant harm and even resulted in death.
For example, Dr. Hopkins made the following report in 1882.
Our taunt authorities have employed a physician to vaccinate all persons who present themselves for the purpose.
The result has been fearful.
Nearly everyone vaccinated has suffered from erythema or reciprous, an acute serious skin disease, the arm swollen from shoulder to wrist, and the point of puncture, where the person was vaccinated, presenting the appearance of sloughing ulcer.
which means a separation of dead from living tissue, discharging freely sinus pus, meaning blood and pus.
Many of the sufferers have been confined to bed with high fever from five to ten days requiring the constant application of poultices to the arm and free use of morphine for the relief of pain.
Those who have tried it tell me they would much prefer to have smallpox.
Injuries and deaths from vaccination continued into the 1900s.
For example, this 1968 article from the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine showed that since the last smallpox death in 1948, there were 200 to 300 deaths from smallpox vaccination.
The genderist claim for lifelong protection was quickly scrapped, with calls now for revaccination.
There were calls for revaccination from every 10 years to as little as every year.
In 1840, as doctors and citizens realized that vaccination was not what it was promised to be, vaccine revisals increased.
In 1855, Massachusetts created a set of comprehensive vaccination laws.
Yet, despite these strict laws, where virtually everyone needed to be vaccinated, more people died, 85% more, in the 20 years after those strict laws than did 20 years before.
By the end of 1868, more than 95% of the inhabitants of Chicago had been vaccinated.
After the Great Fire of 1871 that leveled the city, vaccination was made a condition of receiving relief supplies.
Despite the passing of strict vaccination laws, Chicago was hit with a devastating smallpox epidemic in 1872.
The idea of vaccinating most of the population did not protect the people from the scourge of smallpox.
This 1900 medical article showed the epic failure of vaccination in France, Germany, and England.
Imagine that it reported 1 million vaccinated people died from smallpox in Germany over the span of 15 years.
In England, governments passed various laws to force people to be vaccinated.
Vaccination was made compulsory in England in 1853, with stricter laws passed in 1867.
Despite these strict laws and high vaccination rates, 1872 was devastating for the highly vaccinated population.
So, after 74 years, three quarters of a century of vaccination, there was a massive amount of smallpox deaths.
Despite all these failures, most of the medical profession was steadfast in its support of vaccination.
Through a series of legal acts over the years, the British government had made refusing smallpox vaccination a crime punishable by fines or imprisonment, The plan was to keep vaccinating and revaccinating, seemingly no matter what.
Not a great plan.
It was March 23rd, 1885, and after a long, harsh winter, the manufacturing town of Leicester, England, enjoyed one of the first beautiful spring days.
Thousands from the vicinity and surrounding towns gathered to protest what they felt were unjust laws forced upon them by the British government.
The 1871-72 smallpox epidemic, where most were vaccinated, shook many people's belief in the protective powers of vaccination to its core.
They had grown wary of fines, imprisonments, vaccine failures, injuries, and deaths.
Organizers of the event estimated the number of attendance to have been between 80,000 and 100,000.
The large, two-mile-long procession marched around the town for about two hours, receiving enthusiastic cheering at various points along the route.
It was a festive atmosphere with music playing.
Hundreds of flags and banners were on display.
The protesters' actions would soon have the effect they had hoped for.
In 1885, Leicester's government, which had pushed for vaccination through the use of fines and jail time, was replaced with a new government that was opposed to compulsory vaccination.
By 1887, the vaccination coverage rates had dropped to 10%.
Those who strongly endorsed vaccination believed the immunity enjoyed by the town of Leicester was temporary and that sooner or later the town would suffer a large smallpox epidemic.
They were convinced that a great tragedy was inevitable and tremendous suffering for the unfortunates who followed the leaders into what they felt was a misguided adventure.
They thought that the gigantic experiment would result in a terrible massacre, especially in the unprotected children.
Yet, despite these pronouncements of doom due to the falling vaccination levels, the predicted smallpox epidemics never materialized, as this chart shows.
Lower vaccination levels did not result in more and larger smallpox epidemics.
The year 1948 brought an end to compulsory vaccination in England.
By that point, the experiment in Leicester, which had been going on for more than 60 years, proved to be a great success.
In fact, vaccination for smallpox had fallen across all of England without resurging smallpox epidemics.
So, what happened?
After the summer of 1897, the severe type of smallpox, with its high death rate, with a rare exception, had entirely disappeared from the United States.
Smallpox turned from a disease that killed one in five of its victims to one that only killed anywhere from 1 in 50 and later to as low as 1 in 380.
This disease could still kill, but having become so much more mild, it was mistaken for various other pox infections or skin eruptions.
It was even confused with chicken pox.
This table from 1940 Public Health Reports shows that smallpox cases and deaths plummeted like all other infectious diseases of the time.
Smallpox that once killed one in five, which is a case fatality rate of 20, dropped starting in the 1800s until it was a small fraction of the original rate.
The number of smallpox cases from the peak in 1902 to 1939 declined by 86.5% and deaths by 98.5%.
As the classic and deadly variety of smallpox declined, so did the rate of vaccination.
This in turn sounded alarms in the medical community The fear was that the milder type of smallpox could, at some point, revert back to the original, more deadly form.
However, no smallpox epidemic ever materialized, despite declining vaccination rates.
It was not only smallpox that had become less of a threat.
Beginning in the late 1800s, into the 1900s, the mortality rate for all infectious diseases dropped.
By the time the following report was written in 1946, smallpox had all but vanished from England and the Western world.
What has been the cause of the rise and fall of smallpox, its decline in the later decades of the 19th century, was at one time almost universally attributed vaccination.
But, it is doubtful how true this is.
Vaccination was never carried out with any degree of completeness, even among infants, and was maintained at a high level for a few decades only.
There was, therefore, always a large proportion of the population unaffected by the vaccination laws.
Revaccination affected only a fraction.
At the present, the population is largely entirely unvaccinated.
Members of the public health service now flatter themselves that the cessation of such outbreaks,
as do occur, is due to their efforts.
But is this so?
Ultimately, Lester and most of the Western world's plans that vastly improved overall
health led to the decline of smallpox and all these diseases.
It was the world's greatest health revolution.
That was a pretty good plan.
It's clear the so-called infectious disease mortality rates all massively declined well
before vaccines.
The decline in these diseases is also coincident with many modern innovations that radically changed the life of struggle and sickness.
Vastly improved nutrition, labor and child labor laws, electricity, ice boxes and later refrigeration, sewer systems, the flush toilet, clean water, abolishing tenements, regulating food handling, and many more positive changes radically transformed how we live.
Measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, diphtheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis, and diarrhea, which was another huge source of death and misery, all simultaneously decreased and essentially disappeared because of those changes.
Yet, here we are over 200 years after Edward Jenner performed his famous experiment, and we are still caught in the notion that germs equal disease.
Do you still think that makes sense, or does the often ignored terrain theory or a healthier sick body that really causes a disease make more sense?
Dr. Charles O'Kell, a high-ranking expert in infectious diseases, noted in an article in 1939 in the medical journal The Lancet that large-scale immunization wouldn't be possible without propaganda.
Accidents and mistakes are suppressed and manipulated to cover them up because, if they told the truth, I don't like bullies.
the public would submit to vaccination.
As we have seen through history, vaccine failures, injuries, and deaths have all been swept under the rug.
The people who suffered and died because of a vaccine are erased from history
and replaced with a fantasy of a country doctor making an incredible discovery and saving humanity.
Bullying, pressure, fines, imprisonment were also needed to ensure vaccine compliance.
I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
Today, because most are still caught in this germ paradigm trap, as noted by Dr. O'Kell in 1938,
vaccination is being undertaken with almost a religious fervor.
As has happened through history to push a vaccine, today many are still using name-calling, intimidation, ridicule, blocking education, and threatening people's jobs to push forward their agenda.
Orders and laws are put in place to make sure everyone complies with their belief system.
Ironically, adults often teach their children not to bully others, but then they do the exact opposite.
Like it has always been done, all things that improved human health that have appeared in the scientific literature that would help, losing weight, exercise, increased vitamin D levels, reducing stress, and more, as well as vaccine problems, are all swept under the rug.
Enacting all these positive health actions would have also reduced heart disease, stroke, and cancer, yet the establishment is trapped into a single way of thinking.
There was a time when people thought the Earth was the center of the universe.
Those that thought differently were considered heretics.
Today, we are still stuck with a germ center of our health universe model.
How long will it take before we escape from this 1800s way of thinking?
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