According to an April 8th report in the two hundred-year-old peer-reviewed general medical journal, The Lancet, “Lockdowns can’t end until Covid-19 vaccine found”: (1)
“Although the aggressive countermeasures appear to have reduced the number of reported cases, the absence of herd immunity against COVID-19 suggests that counts could easily resurge when these interventions are relaxed, as business, factory operations, and schools resume.” (2)
Admist the starting of vaccine trials at the University of Oxford and a government that claims “UK is past the peak of outbreak”, it is the view of Professor Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator on the Oxford study, that clinical trials for a vaccine are “unlikely” to happen “before the end of this year.” (3)
Thus, in other words if the government does “follow the science”, acknowledging that “the science” exists in a political, subjective context rather than an objective one, the UK could still see out the year in “lockdown.” (4)
With so much being pinned on a vaccine for a return to ‘normality’ to happen we can expect an aggressive programme to ensure its take-up. Indeed, back in September last year, before COVID-19 became an issue, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the government was “looking very seriously” at making vaccinations compulsory for state school because he was “very worried” by falling vaccination rates. He added that “those who have promoted the anti-vaccination myth are morally reprehensible, deeply irresponsible and have blood on their hands.” (5)
Whatever one thinks of Hancock’s stance there was an implicit acknowledgement by him that there is significant enough opposition to vaccines in the country (often pejoratively referred to as “anti-vaxxers”). It remains to be seen if this resistance can withstand the Coronavirus lockdown experience.
To be clear, vaccines have been around for centuries. The Vaccine Knowledge Project defines a vaccine as “a type of medicine that trains the body’s immune system so that it can fight a disease it has not come into contact with before. Vaccines are designed to prevent disease, rather than treat a disease once you have caught it.” (6)
As such, vaccines are touted by many in the medical establishment as being an essential tool against disease across the world:
“It is no secret that vaccinations have revolutionized global health. Arguably the single most life-saving innovation in the history of medicine, vaccines have eradicated smallpox, slashed child mortality rates, and prevented lifelong disabilities.” (7)
If, as some commentators suggest, that even if attitudes to vaccinations become more amenable it will make little difference because “mandatory vaccinations” are on the way as a result of changes to The Control of Disease Act 1984 found in the Coronavirus Act 2020. Youtuber Zed Phoenix’s video on the subject has garnered a quarter of a million views in just five days.
The video states that under the legislation that comes into force on April 27th, a suspected infected person can have their possessions, including buildings, seized, quarantined, disinfected or even destroyed and no notice need be given if a justice of the peace deems it necessary. He further claims that the legislation gives the authorities the power to create offences with which to charge people and refusing the vaccine will be a criminal offence. It also gives the power to detain indefinitely. The new, he continues, removes all legal recourse. (8)
However, some have criticised the video as being misleading, “scaremongering” even. Louise Hooper of Garden Court Chambers while acknowledging that “there is potential for abuse leading to infringement of civil liberties and human rights unless the powers contained in the Coronavirus Act are exercised lawfully,” states that there have been no amendments to the Coronavirus Act since receiving royal assent on March 25th. She adds that Phoenix’s main point of reference is in fact from a 2009 British Journal of Medical Practitioners and not from The Act or other public health legislation. She notes that “The Act makes explicitly clear that the power to make such regulations does not include mandatory treatment or vaccination.” Hooper concludes:
“It is clear that mandatory medical treatment and vaccination are explicitly prohibited by the Act. There is, however, potential for abuse leading to infringement of civil liberties and human rights unless the powers contained in the Coronavirus Act are exercised lawfully. The YouTube video, whilst correctly identifying some of the powers above fails to refer at all to the limitations on those powers.” (9)
So, where Zed Phoenix may have fallen short on some of the finer points, his account actually mirrors the lived experience of many Afrikans. We need only look at the legions of restraint cases to get acquainted with police malfeasance in terms of unlawful detention resulting in not just in administering unnecessary medication but also death. (10) In terms, creating offences, we need look no further than Winston Trew, Omar Boucher, George Griffiths and the recently departed Sterling Christie, collectively known as the Fasimba 4 (referred to in the press as “the Oval Four”) and their forty-seven year fight to get their convictions for created offences quashed. (11)
In any case, as we gleaned from the Health Secretary above, with or without Coronavirus vaccinations are high on the agenda but the pandemic may be quite a potent persuasive tool in many minds. Moreover, there is a motivation far greater than any supposed public health concerns – profit. In truth, evidence reveals that “30 Years of Secret Official Transcripts Show UK Government Cover Up Vaccine Hazards To Sell More Vaccines And Harm Your Kids.” (12)
Research by Dr Lucija Tomljenovic of the Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at University of British Columbia, surveying official documents obtained from the UK Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), found that:
“The documentation which appears to show that the JCVI made continuous efforts to withhold critical data on severe adverse reactions and contraindications to vaccinations to both parents and health practitioners in order to reach overall vaccination rates which they deemed were necessary for “herd immunity”, a concept which with regards to vaccination, and contrary to prevalent beliefs, does not rest on solid scientific evidence as will be explained. As a result of such vaccination policy promoted by the JCVI and the DH, many children have been vaccinated without their parents being disclosed the critical information about demonstrated risks of serious adverse reactions, one that the JCVI appeared to have been fully aware of. It would also appear that, by withholding this information, the JCVI/DH neglected the right of individuals to make an informed consent concerning vaccination. By doing so, the JCVI/DH may have violated not only International Guidelines for Medical Ethics (i.e., Helsinki Declaration and the International Code of Medical Ethics) [2] but also, their own Code of Practice.” (13)
The papers also expose the extensive links that some of the Committee members have with pharmaceutical companies and that the JCVI frequently co-operated with vaccine manufacturers on strategies aimed at boosting vaccine uptake, again something that is a big concern of Health Secretary Matt Hancock. (14)
Additional evidence of the cosy relationship between big pharma, academia and relevant funding bodies and their influence on government policy is the UK Vaccine Network. The focus of the Network is to “support the government to identify and shortlist targeted investment opportunities for the most promising vaccines and vaccine technologies that will help combat infectious diseases with epidemic potential, and to address structural issues related to the UK’s broader vaccine infrastructure.” Its Chair is Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care. On report states that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has directly funded and has an ongoing financial relationship with thirty-two of the thirty-four network members, to the tune of two hundred million pounds. (15)
Back in 2013 GlaxoSmithKline launched its partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “to accelerate research into vaccines for global health needs.” (16) They are said to be working together on a Coronavirus vaccine. In a separate video Zed Phoenix opines that if it comes to fruition the NHS will be charged £477 per injection, which under a mandatory vaccination scheme covering the whole accrue over thirty-one billion pounds. (17)
This amount is roughly half of the estimated value of the ‘vaccines market’ in the USA where they give more vaccines than any other country in the world. Interestingly, the USA also has the highest infant mortality rate of any ‘developed’ nation. Its worth noting that the state of Mississippi has the highest rate of vaccination in the USA – and highest infant mortality rate. Yet this juxtaposition rarely receives media coverage. (18)
So far from being the health panacea for the world, several studies assert that collusion between the medical establishment, big pharma and media conceals the negative effects of vaccines in terms of the side-effects they induce and the fact they don’t always protect you from the disease it’s supposed to have immunised you from.
Journalist Julie Lévesque compiled a list of “25 Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccines and Anti-Vaxers.” The includes cases from around the world where: the disease was still contracted in spite of the vaccination and in some cases incidence of the illness increased; industry-sponsored trials published in medical journals consistently favour sponsors; nearly half of published articles in scientific journals contain findings that are false; and:
“Back in 2002, William Thompson was already aware of study results linking the MMR vaccine to a very large increase in autism risk among African-American children. See Brian Hooker’s published paper here, with a full analysis of the CDC’s own data revealing a 340% increased risk of autism in African-American children following the MMR vaccine. (Mike Adams, Autism Links to Vaccines: Whistleblower Reveals Evidence of Criminal Coverup by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Natural News August 26, 2014” (19)
A by-product of the narrative that places Afrikans at greater risk of contracting and dying from Coronavirus is that we could end being the initial targets of the vaccine. In fact, if the establishment media coverage works effectively, and in the absence of a coherent, joined up community strategy, we may be demanding it the loudest.
(1) Sarah Boseley (08/04/20) Lockdowns can’t end until Covid-19 vaccine found, study says. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/lockdowns-cant-end-until-covid-19-vaccine-found-study-says
(2) Kathy Leung, Prof Joseph T Wu, Di Liu, Gabriel M Leung (08/04/20) First-wave COVID-19 transmissibility and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning: a modelling impact assessment. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30746-7/fulltext
(3) Annelies Gartner; Lizzie Roberts and Global Health Security Team(02/05/20) How close are we to a coronavirus vaccine? Latest news on UK trials. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-vaccine-trials-latest-news-update-covid-19/; BBC News (30/04/20) Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says UK is past the peak of outbreak. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52493500
(4) Jana Bacevic (28/04/20) There’s no such thing as just ‘following the science’ – coronavirus advice is political. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/28/theres-no-such-thing-just-following-the-science-coronavirus-advice-political
(5) Peter Walker (29/09/19) Hancock: compulsory vaccinations being seriously considered. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/29/government-seriously-considering-compulsory-vaccinations-matt-hancock?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2XbkAafFd2b8o7BPgrTzzvj9waph1pSRr24nXDtaJQrBwlWslt2DzcCsY
(6) Vaccine Knowledge Project (03/01/19) What is a vaccine, and how do vaccines work? https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/how-do-vaccines-work
(7) Greta Keenan (09/04/20) A brief history of vaccines and how they changed the world. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/how-vaccines-changed-the-world/
(8) Zed Phoenix (01/05/20) Covid-19: Control of Disease Act 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzJpRvSUbl4
(9) Louise Hooper (22/04/20) Coronavirus Act 2020: Does it permit mandatory vaccinations? https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/coronavirus-legal-news-views/coronavirus-act-2020-does-it-permit-mandatory-vaccinations
(10) Afrika Speaks with Alkebu-Lan on Galaxy Radio (14/10/19) Deaths in custody Part 13 – Is justice further away now than 20 years ago? 14.10.19? https://www.mixcloud.com/AfrikaSpeaks/deaths-in-custody-part-13-is-justice-further-away-now-than-20-years-ago-141019/
(11) Afrika Speaks with Alkebu-Lan on Galaxy Radio (27/01/20) Are YOU Black for a cause? Winston Trew and the story of the “Oval 4” 27.01.20. https://www.mixcloud.com/AfrikaSpeaks/are-you-black-for-a-cause-winston-trew-and-the-story-of-the-oval-4-270120/.
(12) Child Health Safety (14/03/12)The Vaccine Coverup: 30 Years of Secret Official Transcripts Show UK Government Cover Up Vaccine Hazards “To Sell More Vaccines And Harm Your Kids” https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-vaccine-coverup-30-years-of-secret-official-transcripts-show-uk-government-experts-cover-up-vaccine-hazards-to-sell-more-vaccines-and-harm-your-kids/5354241
(13) Ibid.
(14) Ibid.
(15) Zed Phoenix (20/04/20) Covid-19: Bill Gates and the UK Vaccine Network Scandal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzDQAeKcIU
(16) gsk.com (29/10/13) New partnership between GSK and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate research into vaccines for global health needs. https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/new-partnership-between-gsk-and-the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-to-accelerate-research-into-vaccines-for-global-health-needs/.
(17) Phoenix (20/04/20)
(18) Timothy Alexander Guzman (18/05/18) Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market. https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-and-big-profits-the-multibillion-dollar-vaccine-market/5503945
(19) Julie Lévesque (25/03/15) 25 Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry, Vaccines and “Anti-Vaxers” https://www.globalresearch.ca/25-facts-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry-vaccines-and-anti-vaxers/5433260
We ask the question:
COVID-19: Are we on the road to mandatory vaccinations?
1) Would you rather a vaccine now or stay in “lockdown” until next year?
2) Can we really dismiss the “millions of lives saved” by vaccines?
3) Do “anti-vaxxers” really have “blood on their hands”?
4) Why does there appear to be so few mainstream reports highlighting the dangers of vaccines?
5) How do we ensure that we get accurate information about Coronavirus and its impact?
Our Special Guest:
Bro. Ldr. Mbandaka: Resident guest who is Spiritual Leader of the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement and UNIA-ACL Ambassador for the UK and national co-Chair of the interim National Afrikan People’s Parliament. Bro. Ldr is a veteran activist of over 30 years standing, a featured columnist in The Whirlwind newspaper and author of Mosiah Daily Affirmations and Education: An African-Centred Approach To Excellence. ffff