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Christ\u2019s faithful are at liberty to make known their needs, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DEAR<\/strong> Catholic Bishops,<\/p>\n After a year and a half of living in a state of pandemic, I am compelled by the undeniable scientific data and testimony of individuals, scientists, and doctors to beg the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to reconsider its widespread support for “public health measures” that are, in fact, gravely endangering public health. As society is being divided between the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” \u2014 with the latter suffering everything from exclusion from society to the loss of income and livelihood \u2014 it is shocking to see some shepherds of the Catholic Church encouraging this new medical apartheid.\u00a0<\/p>\n There are seven<\/em> basic premises the Church has apparently accepted as scientific facts that are, in fact, pseudo-science at best. I will address each of these below. Although I am presently a lay evangelist within the Church, my professional background is a former television reporter with CTV Edmonton in Canada. As such, I have returned to my journalistic roots of late in hopes of piercing through the intense censorship and cancel-culture that has deprived the faithful and world at large of critical information that is a matter of life and death \u2014 a matter indeed of “the common good.” The American novelist Upton Sinclair once penned, “It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”<\/p>\n Before I address these seven premises, there is one underlying theme that has been accepted by society at large that has done tremendous damage. And that is the novel idea that a perfectly healthy person is somehow a viral threat. Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, is probably the foremost expert in the world today on the pandemic response and the most cited doctor in the National Library of Medicine. He stated recently:<\/p>\n The virus is not spread asymptomatically. Only sick people give it to other people.<\/strong> \u2014September 20th, 2021; interview, Gab TV, 6:32 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n One of the world\u2019s most renowned immunologists agrees:<\/p>\n \u2026it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have COVID-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Professor Beda M. Stadler, PhD, former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern in Switzerland;\u00a0Weltwoche (World Week)<\/em> on June 8th, 2020; cf. worldhealth.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The former Vice President and a Chief Scientist of vaccine manufacturer Pfizer, no less, flatly states that such a premise is a complete fabrication.\u00a0<\/p>\n Asymptomatic transmission: the concept a perfectly well person can represent a respiratory virus threat to another person; that was invented about a year ago \u2014 never been mentioned before in the industry\u2026 It\u2019s not possible to have a body full of respiratory virus to the point that you\u2019re an infectious source and for you not to have symptoms\u2026 It\u2019s not true that people without symptoms are a strong respiratory virus threat.<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Mike Yeadon, April 11th, 2021, interview on The Last American Vagabond<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.<\/strong> \u2014Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, World Health Organization (WHO), from Following the Science?<\/em><\/a>, 2:53 mark<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Recent studies confirm that asymptomatic transmission is simply rare if ever.[1]<\/sup><\/a>“A randomized controlled trial (RCT) of 246 participants [123 (50%) symptomatic)] who were allocated to either wearing or not wearing surgical facemask, assessing viruses transmission including coronavirus. The results of this study showed that among symptomatic individuals (those with fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose etc\u2026) there was no difference between wearing and not wearing a facemask for coronavirus droplets transmission of particles of >5 \u00b5m. Among asymptomatic individuals, there was no droplets or aerosols coronavirus detected from any participant with or without the mask, suggesting that asymptomatic individuals do not transmit or infect other people.” (Leung N.H.L., Chu D.K.W., Shiu E.Y.C., Chan K.H., McDevitt J.J., Hau B.J.P. “Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks.” Nat Med.\u00a02020;26:676\u2013680.\u00a0[PubMed<\/a>]\u00a0[Google Scholar<\/a>]<\/span>\u00a0[Ref list<\/a>])
\nespecially their spiritual needs, and their wishes to the Pastors of the Church.
\nThey have the right, indeed\u00a0at times the duty<\/u><\/i>,
\nin keeping with their knowledge, competence and position,
\nto manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters
\nwhich concern the good of the Church.\u00a0
\nThey have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ\u2019s faithful,<\/i>\u00a0
\nbut in doing so they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals,
\nshow due reverence to their Pastors,
\nand take into account both
\nthe common good and dignity of individuals.
\n<\/b>\u2014Code of Canon Law<\/em>, 212<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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This was further supported by a study on infectivity where 445 asymptomatic individuals were exposed to asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carrier (been positive for SARS-CoV-2) using close contact (shared quarantine space) for a median of 4 to 5 days. The study found that none of the 445 individuals was infected with SARS-CoV-2 confirmed by real-time reverse transcription polymerase.(Gao M., Yang L., Chen X., Deng Y., Yang S., Xu H. “A study on infectivity of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers”. Respir Med.\u00a02020;169\u00a0[PMC free article<\/a>]\u00a0[PubMed<\/a>]\u00a0[Google Scholar<\/a>]<\/span>\u00a0[Ref list<\/a>]).
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A JAMA Network Open study found that asymptomatic transmission is not a primary driver of infection within households. (December 14th, 2020; jamanetwork.com<\/a>)
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A massive study of nearly 10 million people was published on November 20th, 2020 in the prestigious Nature Communications<\/em>: “All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated… There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases\u2026 Virus cultures were negative for all asymptomatic positive and repositive cases, indicating no \u201cviable virus\u201d in positive cases detected in this study.”\u00a0\u2014 \u201cPost-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China\u201d, Shiyi Cao, Yong Gan et. al,\u00a0nature.com.<\/a>
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And in April 2021, the CDC published a study that concluded: “We observed no transmission from asymptomatic case-patients and highest SAR through presymptomatic exposure.” \u2014 “Analysis of Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Transmission in SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak, Germany, 2020”, cdc.gov<\/a><\/span><\/span>