How to Fix a Leaky Vaccine
... and stop big pharma and your medical officer of health from mandating unnecessary childhood vaccines
A few months ago, I had to fix a leaky bathroom faucet. I invested five minutes into watching expert instructions on Youtube and managed to replace the leaky cartridge inside the faucet assembly. I like to take my time thinking through hands-on projects, since experience tells me that almost certainly something will go wrong along the way. In this case, the plastic part of the replacement cartridge protruded beyond the original part, so that my wrench wouldn’t grab the socket. I had to cut off the top of the plastic part, ending up installing a “customized” part.
Fast forward from June to September 2021, when the Toronto Board of Health was scheduled to discuss Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa’s recommendation to add COVID-19 vaccination to the required vaccines for school-age children. The proposal created a last-minute scramble among concerned scientists and medical professionals, and several of us made oral or written submissions to the Board.
My 27 September 2021 email submission for the Toronto Board of Health meeting #30 read as follows and won’t need further comment.
Re: Input for today's BOH meeting
Dear members of the Board,
I noticed that the MOH recommends the addition of COVID-19 vaccines to the required school immunizations in Ontario (recommendation #2 and page 7 of Dr. de Villa's September 13 report). I call on the Board to reject this reckless proposal.
Dr. de Villa refers to "the current epidemiology of COVID-19 and the need to support the safe re-opening of schools". I have studied and written about the pandemic since March 2020 from a data analysis and social science perspective. COVID-19 has a remarkable age distribution with an average age of fatalities far beyond the average age at death in Canada (and elsewhere). Children and youth are at virtually no risk from the disease. Faint evidence of "Long Covid" in children cannot be distinguished from the physical and mental health impacts of lockdowns and other measures. Conversely, children need to build natural immunity to protect themselves and their surrounding adults from infectious diseases. The epidemiological data show that SARS-CoV-2 has been a mild respiratory virus, which is developing as expected into more contagious but less lethal variants. We should have protected those who fell severely ill and those who are vulnerable due to comorbidities; healthy people, and in particular children, should have been left alone all along.
What is particularly upsetting about Dr. de Villa's proposal is that children have no benefit from the vaccine but they bear all the risks. Canada's adverse event reporting, which is a requirement of the interim and full approvals of the vaccine products seems to be dysfunctional. There are credible reports of suppression of doctors' reports at the public health unit level, and self-censoring of concerned doctors and nurses worried for their jobs. Additionally, the reports on rare myocarditis occurrence in young people after vaccination have in fact resulted in a change, but that change was to add this risk to the product information - not exactly an action poised to protect our children! This is particularly concerning since informed consent with full information on the risks from the intervention has been all but eliminated through the mass vaccination campaign. However small the risk of short-term adverse events from the vaccines may be, it merits further study instead of pursuing total vaccination. More concerning yet, any long-term side effects of the vaccines will remain unknown until the passing of the corresponding time span (5 years? 10 years?).
If you examine the FDA's approval letter for the Pfizer vaccine, you will notice that in addition to the adverse event monitoring, 13 scientific studies are required as a condition of the full approval. Several of them concern children and young adults. Some of these studies haven't even started yet, and their results are expected to be reported to the FDA in the years 2022 to 2027. I trust that Health Canada is also committed to studying any possibility of harm from the vaccines. But since SARS-CoV-2 did not turn out to be a "killer virus", Toronto's health care system has managed just fine (no different from bad flu years in the last decade), and children have no direct benefit from these experimental, gene-based injections, Dr. de Villa's recommendation ought to be rejected as reckless and irrational.
Thank you,
Claus Rinner
While the impact of email submissions to the Board remains obscure, the live meeting included several engaged addresses, although they suffered from a reduction in speaker time from the usual 5 minutes. While the Board members did not have any questions for the speakers, and seemed generally rather uninterested to hear from the public, there was a most interesting interaction around the deputation from Dr. Don Welsh, professor of physiology at Western University. His statement begins at 56:45 in the Youtube recording of the meeting.
In his alloted three minutes, Prof. Welsh mentions the “leaky” quality of vaccines for respiratory diseases, and Board vice-chair and moderator, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam asks for an explanation of the term, which she is not familiar with. Welsh explains that respiratory vaccines don’t block infection or transmission, can only moderate the severity of disease in the vaccinated. He also mentions the contribution of leaky vaccines to increased variant development. Wong-Tam follows up for clarifications on whether all vaccines are leaky and what the difference is between a vaccine and a “therapeutic”, the term used by Welsh to characterize fake vaccines (my words!).
On this note, it appears that Big Pharma was quite aware of the opportunity to manipulate public opinion and health politics by emphasizing the term “vaccine” over, say, “gene therapy”, as witnessed in a speech by the head of Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division, Stefan Oelrich. His speech at the Oct 24 World Health Summit is enlightening with respect to how each side of the debate considers itself as the good guys. Oelrich celebrates the life sciences as the “light in the darkness of the COVID-19 pandemic”, praises unprecedented collaboration, transparency, and accountability across the medical-industrial complex (oops, meant to say “health sector”), as well as the “breath-taking” speed of discovery, regulatory approval, and manufacturing of vaccines. These are essentially all the 2020/21 developments that skeptics view as highly problematic or lacking!
At 1:37:30 into the Youtube recording of the session, Oelrich turns to the topic of “cellular gene therapy” (at first, I heard “selling gene therapy”, which is what this is really about). He pegs the mRNA vaccines as an example and estimates that two years ago, 95% of people would have declined injecting this gene or cell therapy into their bodies. Although he isn’t as explicit as suggested by a Nov 10 LifeSiteNew.com article titled “Bayer executive: mRNA shots are ‘gene therapy’ marketed as ‘vaccines’ to gain public trust”, the hubris of the speaker and audience at the World Health Summit is tangible.
Over the last couple of weeks, members of Canadian Academics for Covid Ethics have written an op-ed and an open letter attempting to bring back some reason into the cost-benefit assessment of the mRNA injections. In the op-ed, “Mandatory experimental shots – Canadians are being tricked, not treated” (paywalled, full text also available here), we do not hold back on calling the shots what they are: experimental, in several ways. Going with a Halloween theme, we feel that people have been tricked into believing in these genetic therapeutics as the only way out of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, instead of being treated with existing, affordable, proven to be safe and effective, drugs, and that only if they actually fall ill with COVID-19. In the letter, “Hands off our children“, directed at Ontario Premier Doug Ford, we extensively review the science around the benign infection and transmission risks with respect to children as compared to the problematic safety record of the vaccines. We can only hope that our persistent actions will eventually turn the tide of panic-and profit-driven public health measures.
Back to Toronto city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, who surprised us this morning with an opinion piece published by the Toronto Sun tabloid. In it, Wong-Tam rightly observes that “Fear is the enemy of rational thinking and compassion for others.” She bemoans “extremists” on both sides of the debate, not without insinuating the stereotypes about lockdown protesters and mask deniers, perhaps as an “insurance” for the remainder of her op-ed. The following paragraphs are quite remarkable. Wong-Tam calls on Canadians to respect each others’ individual choices and not discriminate against those who decided to remain unvaccinated for COVID-19. Wong-Tam further upholds her wellknown progressive positions, by e.g. cautioning against using labels such as “‘anti-vaxxers’ or even ‘vaccine hesitant’” to depersonalize others. She even refers to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, best know lately for silencing critical doctors, with respect to their informed consent guidelines, and to Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore’s recent acknowledgement of the existence of natural immunity, itself a positive surprise at the time. Overall, Kristyn Wong-Tam is hitting all the right notes towards de-escalating the rising tensions within society and families, and returning to a more nuanced, factual dialog.
Lastly, in terms of how to fix a leaky vaccine, a better question may be: do we need a vaccine for this virus? I do not personally think so, but if we did, then maybe we should go about it as I did with my faucet — replace the interior core of it, in this case replace the genetic cocktail with a traditional vaccination technology. And apply the therapy only when and where needed, not as a one-size-fits-all approach to the world population.