Vexed Vax Facts

 

Despite a Malthusian global population explosion, which should hit 8 billion people in just a few months, people are apparently sick and tired of the never-ending call for vaccinations. Here in modern America, COVID vaccine resisters have come up with a substantial list of why they should not get the shot or a booster if they have a shot. Excuses like: people who got the vaccine are still getting COVID, the shot’s effect is worse than the disease, natural immunity is best, better alternatives exist (from bleach to horse meds), it’s just an experiment where we are the guinea pigs, it’s poison, they are injecting tracking devices in us, the shots are based on derivatives from human fetuses, you will become magnetized when you get the vaccine, they want you to get hooked on regime of perpetual boosters, the effect of COVID is fading away, and, the best, this whole COVID scare is nothing but a hoax.

But if this antivax movement has allowed us to let down our guard – tired as we are of masking, social distancing and perpetual new vaccinations – nature is still culling the herd. More war. Civil strife. Climate change creating new deserts, flood zones and decimating agriculture. And “plagues.” Nature’s old standby. Despite decades of well-developed and tested vaccines, before the pandemic, the vaccine resistance that exploded during COVID has impacted all other forms of vaccination. The United Nations has called this trend the worst backslide in global vaccinations in a generation.

Writing for the July 15th Washington Post, Adam Taylor explores the findings from the relevant UN report: “This [backsliding] came despite a historic effort to develop and distribute billions of coronavirus vaccines during the pandemic… The new data, released late Thursday [7/14] by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, showed that average global childhood coverage for vaccines developed for 11 key diseases had fallen from 71 percent in 2019 to 68 percent in 2021, marking the first time in over 30 years that the metric had fallen.

“The decline for some key vaccine programs was worse. The full three-dose coverage for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP) was 81 percent in 2021, a drop of five percentage points from 2019. DTP is often used as a benchmark for vaccine coverage globally as it’s been in wide use for decades. There were similarly alarming drops in coverage of measles and polio, two diseases that can have devastating and deadly impacts.

“Vaccine coverage for human papillomavirus (HPV) also declined by five percentage points since 2019. As the vaccine is relatively new and not as widely used as some others, this meant that a quarter of all global coverage has been lost, a huge setback for the health of women and children.

‘This is a red alert for child health. We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunization in a generation. The consequences will be measured in lives,’ said Catherine Russell, executive director of UNICEF, the U.N. agency focused on childhood health. ‘Covid-19 is not an excuse.’

“The number of children either not fully vaccinated with DTP, which prevents a number of potentially fatal illnesses including whooping cough, or not vaccinated at all for it rose from 19 million in 2019 to 25 million in 2021, the data shows. The spread of these children is deeply unequal, with 18 million in low and middle-income countries; India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Ethiopia and the Philippines recorded the highest numbers.

“That the decline in these vaccinations came amid the global coronavirus vaccine effort may seem surprising. By any measure, the development of coronavirus vaccines came at a record pace. The global rollout, though rife with logistical problems and hoarding by wealthy nations, has seen an enormous 12 billion doses administered since the pandemic began… But despite the attention given to vaccines over the past two years, the pandemic itself had many impacts on regular vaccination efforts, from lockdowns to closed borders to the general impact of huge levels of illness and death.

“Even the unprecedented focus on vaccination efforts could have had a negative impact, given a prominent backlash from those anti-vaccine or vaccine hesitancy. Money that once went to vaccinations for long-standing diseases like measles and polio has in some cases been diverted… ‘There’s never been more money in global public health than there is now,’ Lily Caprani, head of government advocacy for UNICEF. ‘But that doesn’t mean it’s going to children’s services. The opposite is true: basic essential health services and routine immunization have experienced a massive diversion’ of funding.’”

Malaria is exploding despite available effective vaccines. Common infections are now taking lives without access to treatment. But global concerns seem to have shifted focus to issues like starvation and unaffordable increases in the cost of just about everything. Indeed, if nature is amping up her efforts to cull the human herd, she is getting a great deal of cooperation from a very sizeable segment of the earth’s population. Some can’t afford the care. Some do not want to be bothered by the solutions. And some just don’t believe in modern science. Nature is smiling.

I’m Peter Dekom, and we keep learning the hard way that nature does not care if her containment efforts are uncomfortable or defy political denial; she just keeps on killing!