Our street stall offers an alternative voice
A GROUP of local Stroud citizens has recently set up a street stall to offer information about the Covid-19 vaccines. For many weeks now, we have been subjected to a relentlessly one-sided propaganda narrative from government, scientists, Big Pharma and the mainstream media about the supposed beneficence of the rapidly produced Covid-19 vaccines.
The substantial minority of people (45% in the latest opinion survey) who contest the need for, or appropriateness of, mass Covid vaccination have been given no voice. Indeed, censorship on an unprecedented scale in what is meant to be a “democracy” is determinedly tying to silence any voices that dare to put an alternative view. The recently published 480page book Ideological Constructs of Vaccination by Dr Mateja Cernic depicts a very different scientific story from the one we’re being told by the scientific and media establishment.
This silencing is symptomatic of the authoritarian mentality that is on the march globally, and is even manifesting in this county to such an extent that our media – with the BBC leading the charge – is starting to resemble a pre-1989 East European Communist state. Our very democracy is at stake here – and I’m personally far more terrified by the assaults on our freedoms and democracy than I am of the C-virus. Democracies can only thrive when we have open discussion with all viewpoints heard and shared; and that process also minimises the possibility of huge errors being made – not least by “the science” on the vaccine issue.
Many citizens are currently not in any position to make an informed decision about this vaccine, given that the mainstream media has been one-sidedly euphoric about it, and no space has been given to people holding a different, evidence-based view. Our street stall will be out in Stroud on a regular basis in the coming weeks and months – we have already been amazed by the degree of support for this initiative.
Finally, in contradistinction to the “anti-vaxxers” trope promiscuously being deployed by our opponents, we are emphatically not “anti” anything. Rather, we are pro-democracy and believe in open discussion with all views expressed; and we are also pronature and pro-humanity. It is arguably the “vaxxers” who are anti-nature, and whose patriarchal “scientific” approach to illness and its prevention is underpinned by a quasi-war mentality against nature, rather than one that seeks to find ways to work in a complementary way with its grain.
Richard House Stroud, Gloucestershire