{"id":44468,"date":"2021-03-22T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=44468"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:36:50","slug":"not-a-moral-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/not-a-moral-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Moral Obligation","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-44469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc.jpg 1868w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc-1536x1233.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/newspapervacc-640x514.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Man tends by nature toward the truth. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">He is obliged to honor and bear witness to it&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence <\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">that they were being truthful to one another.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">\u2014<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), <\/em>n. 2467, 2469<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARE<\/strong> you being pressured by your company, school board, spouse or even bishop to be vaccinated? The information in this article will give you clear, legal, and moral grounds, should it be your choice, to reject forced inoculation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RASH ASSUMPTIONS<\/p>\n<p>There could be heard collective gasps around the world when some bishops, bishop&#8217;s conferences, and even the Pope stated publicly or on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcatholic.org\/coronavirus\/people-of-faith-called-to-act\/\">websites<\/a> that there is a moral obligation to line up and take the experimental vaccines being issued now in several countries. The Holy Father, for instance, said in a televised interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine. It is the moral choice because it is about your life but also the lives of others. I do not understand why some say that<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-43433\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/papaltgt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/papaltgt.jpg 1238w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/papaltgt-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/papaltgt-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/papaltgt-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/papaltgt-640x775.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/> <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>this could be a dangerous vaccine. If the doctors are presenting this to you as a thing that will go well and doesn\u2019t have any special dangers, why not take it? There is a suicidal denialism that I would not know how to explain, but today, people must take the vaccine. <\/b>\u2014POPE FRANCIS,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tgcom24.mediaset.it\/televisione\/papa-francesco-al-tg5-per-la-politica-questo-non-il-momento-di-rompere-lunit_27455525-202102a.shtml\"><span class=\"s1\">interview\u00a0<\/span><\/a>for Italy\u2019s TG5 news program, January 19th, 2021;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/vatican\/pope-francis-suggests-people-have-moral-obligation-take-coronavirus-vaccine\"><span class=\"s1\">ncronline.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have already addressed Pope Francis&#8217;s claims that these vaccines do not have &#8220;any special dangers&#8221;, though they do,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">for example, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/grave-warnings-part-ii\/\"><em>Grave Dangers &#8211; Part II<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-caduceus-key\/\">The Caduceus Key<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> as well as why his opinions in this television interview,\u00a0while important, are not binding upon the faithful.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8220;\u2026if you are troubled by some statements that Pope Francis has made in his recent interviews, it is not disloyalty, or a lack of Romanita to disagree with the details of some of the interviews which were given off-the-cuff. Naturally, if we disagree with the Holy Father, we do so with the deepest respect and humility, conscious that we may need to be corrected. However, papal interviews do not require either the assent of faith that is given to ex cathedra statements or that internal submission of mind and will that is given to those statements that are part of his non-infallible but authentic magisterium.&#8221; \u2014Fr. Tim Finigan, tutor in Sacramental Theology at St John\u2019s Seminary, Wonersh; from <em>The Hermeneutic of Community<\/em>, \u201cAssent and Papal Magisterium\u201d, <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">October 6th, 2013;<\/span> <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.co.uk\"><span class=\"footnote_url_wrap\">http:\/\/the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.co.uk<\/span><\/a>; cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/to-vax-or-not-to-vax\/\"><em>To Vax or Not to Vax<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Also, it would be a mistake to read this present article as though it were an affront or attack upon these shepherds (who are not all in agreement on this issue, by the way). Rather, I present this in the service of truth for the sake of the &#8220;common good.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Christ\u2019s faithful&#8230; have the right, indeed <i>at times the duty<\/i>, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters which concern the good of the Church.\u00a0<i>They have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ\u2019s faithful,<\/i>\u00a0but in doing so they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals, show due reverence to their Pastors, and take into account both the common good and dignity of individuals.\u00a0<\/b>\u2014<em>Code of Canon Law<\/em>, 212<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-44491\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/churhcvaccine2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/churhcvaccine2.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/churhcvaccine2-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/churhcvaccine2-640x718.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>In order to avoid rash judgment, we must assume that some of our shepherd&#8217;s positions on these matters, like many others in our society, are also the product of a highly controlled narrative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-pandemic-of-control\/\">abetted by the media<\/a>, that has obscured many facts about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-pandemic-of-control\/\">vaccine industry<\/a>, and above all, the true nature of these experimental vaccines being distributed now <em>even on church property.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation to another&#8217;s statement than to condemn it. But if he cannot do so, let him ask how the other understands it. And if the latter understands it badly, let the former correct him with love. If that does not suffice, let the Christian try all suitable ways to bring the other to a correct interpretation so that he may be saved.<\/strong><\/span> \u2014<em>CCC,\u00a0<\/em>n. 2478<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So all that said, here is why the experimental mRNA vaccines <em>cannot<\/em> be deemed morally obligatory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>THE &#8220;HERD IMMUNITY&#8221; FALLACY<\/p>\n<p>The entire argument behind this moral imperative is the concept of contributing to &#8220;herd immunity.&#8221; The definition has always been understood to mean that a greater portion of the population has built an immunity against a certain contagion, either through prior infection or through vaccines. Put simply:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Herd immunity may be achieved either through infection and recovery or by vaccination.<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Angel Desai, associate editor of JAMA Network Open, Maimuna Majumder, Ph.D., Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; October 19th, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2772168\">jamanetwork.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, in October 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) quietly but significantly changed the definition:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8216;Herd immunity&#8217;, also known as &#8216;population immunity&#8217;, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached. Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it.<\/strong> \u2014October 15th, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201223100930\/https:\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/question-and-answers-hub\/q-a-detail\/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19\">who.int<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The implications of this cannot be underestimated since unelected health officials, following the WHO&#8217;s guidelines, are now dictating public policy to entire populations with the goal of achieving &#8220;herd immunity&#8221; \u2014 and many bishops are simply getting in line behind them. This is deeply troubling. For now &#8220;exposure&#8221; of the healthy to a virus in order to build natural immunity is no longer considered a viable strategy; only <em>vaccines<\/em> can apparently achieve &#8220;herd immunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This unscientific and little challenged redefinition has essentially made the entire world beholden to vaccine corporations, and thus, has already led to gross <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-44472\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallbusinesssurvival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallbusinesssurvival.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallbusinesssurvival-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallbusinesssurvival-1024x833.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallbusinesssurvival-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallbusinesssurvival-640x520.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>human rights violations \u2014 such as locking down the healthy until they are vaccinated,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/when-i-was-hungry\/\"><em>When I was Hungry<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> forcing healthy people to wear masks until they are vaccinated in contradiction to a mounting consensus of studies that do not support it,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/unmasking-the-facts\/\"><em>Unmasking the Facts<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> and now barring healthy citizens from access to public places without a &#8220;vaccine passport.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/dear-shepherds-where-are-you\/\"><em>Dear Shepherds&#8230; Where Are You?<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> (A footnote to this disaster is the fact that PCR tests for COVID-19 are <a href=\"https:\/\/bpa-pathology.com\/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless\/\">deeply flawed<\/a>. The medical journal BMJ published an article on December 18th, 2020 that addressed this serious crisis, which is falsely inflating the seriousness of this pandemic with the aforementioned catastrophic consequences.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Even &#8220;The WHO instructed PCR test users and manufacturers on December 14, 2020, and again on January 20, 2021, that PCR cycle thresholds needed to come down.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2021\/02\/26\/pcr-test-false-positive-rate.aspx\">mercola.com<\/a>) <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> See: &#8220;Covid-19: Mass testing is inaccurate and gives false sense of security, minister admits&#8221;; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/371\/bmj.m4916\">bmj.com<\/a>. See also this article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/pdfs\/journals\/lanres\/PIIS2213-2600(20)30453-7.pdf\"><em>The Lancet<\/em><\/a>, and even the Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s (FDA) warning of PCR &#8220;false-positives&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/safety-communications\/risk-false-results-curative-sars-cov-2-test-covid-19-fda-safety-communication\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And here is where the whole argument that the mRNA vaccines are somehow a &#8220;moral obligation&#8221; takes a dark twist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>THEY AREN&#8217;T VACCINES<\/p>\n<p>The experimental vaccines utilizing messenger RNA called &#8220;mRNA vaccines&#8221; do not meet the standard definition of <em>vaccine<\/em>. They were developed as &#8220;gene therapy&#8221; primarily for treatment of cancer. One of the manufacturers of this technology, Moderna, states as much in their legal registration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA.<\/strong> \u2014pg. 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1682852\/000119312518323562\/d577473ds1.htm\">sec.gov<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason is that these COVID-19 &#8220;vaccines&#8221; are not conventional vaccines made with live or attenuated viruses.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-44475\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/europesuspend2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/europesuspend2.jpg 935w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/europesuspend2-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/europesuspend2-768x821.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/europesuspend2-640x684.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are made with lipid nanoparticles that contain polyethylene glycol (PEG)8 and messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA are snippets of genetic code that carries instructions for cells to produce proteins. The definition of genetic is &#8220;relating to genes&#8221; and genes contain instructional code that tell the body what proteins to make. Therapy is the medical treatment of disease, so mRNA vaccines are very clearly gene therapy.<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Joseph Mercola, &#8220;Definitions of Pandemics, Vaccines, Herd Immunity All Changed&#8221;, March 22nd, 2021; <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2021\/03\/22\/who-pandemic-definition.aspx?ui=0831f833e67c27ca91b4b4c08b9d873be9072511c706e7c99ee5b5a38dd9b82d&amp;sd=20161117&amp;cid_source=dnl&amp;cid_medium=email&amp;cid_content=art2ReadMore&amp;cid=20210322&amp;mid=DM836859&amp;rid=1113565767\">mercola.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, he says, referring to COVID-19 vaccines as &#8220;vaccines&#8221; rather than gene therapies is a violation of 15 U.S. Code Section 41, which states that it is unlawful to advertise&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8230;that a product or service can prevent, treat, or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies, substantiating that the claims are true at the time they are made.<\/strong> \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/USCODE-2011-title15\/pdf\/USCODE-2011-title15-chap2-subchapI.pdf\">govinfo.gov<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, one friend wrote recently to say that even his insurance company would not cover him in the event that he was injured or died from these new &#8220;vaccines.&#8221; The reason, they said, is because they consider them &#8220;experimental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conspicuously, notes Dr. Mercola, even the <em>definition <\/em>of a vaccine, meaning &#8220;a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease&#8221;, was altered recently by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/vaccine\">Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/a>. They changed it to include: &#8220;a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, word-play is not science.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The so-called Covid-19 vaccine is not a vaccine at all. It\u2019s a dangerous, experimental gene therapy. The Center for Disease Control, the CDC, gives the definition of the term vaccine on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/vac-gen\/imz-basics.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>. A vaccine is a product that stimulates a person\u2019s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease. Immunity is the protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without being infected. This so-called Covid-19 vaccine does not provide any individual who receives the vaccine with immunity to Covid-19. Nor does it prevent the spread of the disease.<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Stephen Hotze, M.D., February 26th, 2021; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotzehwc.com\/2021\/02\/dr-hotze-on-the-dangers-of-the-covid-19-vaccine\/\">hotzehwc.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The problem is that in the case of Moderna and Pfizer, this is not a vaccine. This is gene therapy. It\u2019s a chemotherapy agent that is gene therapy. It is not a vaccine&#8230; It\u2019s not a prohibiting infection. It\u2019s not a prohibiting transmission device. It\u2019s a means by which your body is conscripted to make the toxin that then allegedly your body somehow gets used to dealing with, but unlike a vaccine, which is to trigger the immune response, this is to trigger the creation of the toxin&#8230; The companies themselves have admitted to every single thing I\u2019m saying but they are using the public manipulation of the word vaccine to co-opt the public into believing they\u2019re getting a thing, which they are not getting. This is not going to stop you from getting Coronavirus.<\/strong> \u2014Dr. David Martin, &#8220;It&#8217;s Gene Therapy, Not a Vaccine&#8221;, January 25th, 2021; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westonaprice.org\/podcast\/its-gene-therapy-not-a-vaccine\/\">westonaprice.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After viewing the clinical trial protocols of Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_44468_1('footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine actually enters the nucleus of one&#8217;s cells, according to a <em>New York Times<\/em> report: &#8220;The adenovirus pushes its DNA into the nucleus. The adenovirus is engineered so it can\u2019t make copies of itself, but the gene for the coronavirus spike protein can be read by the cell and copied into a molecule called messenger RNA, or mRNA.&#8221; \u2014March 22nd, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/health\/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine.html\">nytimes.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_44468_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> former Harvard Professor William A. Haseltine observed that their &#8220;vaccines&#8221; were indeed only aimed at reducing symptoms and <em>not stopping the spread of infection<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>It appears that these trials are intended to pass the lowest possible barrier of success.<\/strong> \u2014September 23rd, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/williamhaseltine\/2020\/09\/23\/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed\/?sh=49d3fc0e5247\">forbes.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was confirmed by the U.S. Surgeon General on\u00a0<em>Good Morning America.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>They [the mRNA vaccines] were tested with an outcome of severe disease \u2014 not preventing infection.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Surgeon General Jerome Adams, December 14th, 2020;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9051427\/Surgeon-General-Jerome-Adams-says-people-need-wear-masks-vaccine.html\">dailymail.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And hence, the entire argument that these experimental vaccines are a &#8220;moral obligation for the common good&#8221; because they will build &#8220;herd immunity&#8221;, collapses. They no more build herd immunity than taking a Tylenol prevents others from getting a migraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>The only one benefiting from an mRNA \u201cvaccine\u201d is the vaccinated individual, since all they are designed to do is lessen clinical symptoms associated with the S-1 spike protein. Since you\u2019re the only one who will reap a benefit, it makes no sense to demand you accept the risks of the therapy \u201cfor the greater good\u201d of your community<\/strong>. \u2014Dr. Joseph Mercola,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2021\/03\/16\/mrna-vaccine-gene-therapy.aspx\">\u201cCOVID-19 \u2018Vaccines\u2019 Are Gene Therapy\u201d<\/a>, March 16th, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>If these vaccines don\u2019t prevent transmission at all, achieving herd immunity\u00a0<em>via<\/em>\u00a0vaccination becomes impossible.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014<em>ScienceNews<\/em>, December 8th, 2020;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccines-questions-social-distance-mask-transmission\">sciencenews.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44476 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/marchingfacts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"413\" \/>So if your co-workers, family, or even your pastor maintains that these vaccines are a &#8220;moral obligation&#8221; to protect others, show them the science. And if that does not convince, simply repeat the official document of the Church posted by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (noting the underlined words):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u2026all vaccinations recognized as clinically <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">safe<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">effective<\/span> can be used in good conscience\u2026<\/strong><strong>At the same time, practical reason makes evident that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation<\/span> and that, therefore, it must be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">voluntary<\/span>\u2026 In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recommend<\/span> vaccination\u2026<\/strong>\u2014 \u201cNote on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines\u201d, n. 3, 5;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/cfaith\/documents\/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html\">vatican.va;<\/a> a &#8220;recommendation&#8221; is not the same as an obligation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is urgent that the Church begin to listen to the facts, precisely for the sake of the &#8220;the common good&#8221; (read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-reset\/\">The Great Reset<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>to understand the existential implications of how this &#8220;crisis&#8221; is being manipulated).<\/p>\n<p>We apologized once for not following the science. It&#8217;s too bad Galileo was not alive to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">RELATED READING<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-pandemic-of-control\/\"><em>The Pandemic of Control<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/dear-shepherds-where-are-you\/\">Dear Shepherds&#8230; Where Are You?<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-caduceus-key\/\">The Caduceus Key<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/not-herods-way\/\"><em>Not Herod&#8217;s Way<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/our-1942\/\">Our 1942<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Grave Warnings<\/em> &#8211; 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Part II<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-caduceus-key\/\">The Caduceus Key<\/a><\/em><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_44468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_2');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">&#8220;\u2026if you are troubled by some statements that Pope Francis has made in his recent interviews, it is not disloyalty, or a lack of Romanita to disagree with the details of some of the interviews which were given off-the-cuff. Naturally, if we disagree with the Holy Father, we do so with the deepest respect and humility, conscious that we may need to be corrected. However, papal interviews do not require either the assent of faith that is given to ex cathedra statements or that internal submission of mind and will that is given to those statements that are part of his non-infallible but authentic magisterium.&#8221; \u2014Fr. Tim Finigan, tutor in Sacramental Theology at St John\u2019s Seminary, Wonersh; from <em>The Hermeneutic of Community<\/em>, \u201cAssent and Papal Magisterium\u201d, <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">October 6th, 2013;<\/span> <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.co.uk\"><span class=\"footnote_url_wrap\">http:\/\/the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.co.uk<\/span><\/a>; cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/to-vax-or-not-to-vax\/\"><em>To Vax or Not to Vax<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_44468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_3');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/when-i-was-hungry\/\"><em>When I was Hungry<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_44468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_4');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/unmasking-the-facts\/\"><em>Unmasking the Facts<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_44468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_5');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>5<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/dear-shepherds-where-are-you\/\"><em>Dear Shepherds&#8230; Where Are You?<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_44468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_6');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>6<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Even &#8220;The WHO instructed PCR test users and manufacturers on December 14, 2020, and again on January 20, 2021, that PCR cycle thresholds needed to come down.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2021\/02\/26\/pcr-test-false-positive-rate.aspx\">mercola.com<\/a>) <\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_44468_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_44468_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_44468_1_7');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>7<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine actually enters the nucleus of one&#8217;s cells, according to a <em>New York Times<\/em> report: &#8220;The adenovirus pushes its DNA into the nucleus. 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