Vaccines and Jewish Law
The following downloadable pdfs are quite comprehensive documents regarding Covid-19 vaccine and vaccine in general.
Vaccines and Jewish Law
Pele Yoetz – “And to what is it similar? If 99 doctors are saying it does not do damage, and one is saying that there is danger and a matter of life and death if he eats it, who is foolish not to listen to his opinion? Certainly the intelligent person will say: What about me and this trouble to enter into a doubt of danger? Best to sit and not do anything.”
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Midst the cacophony of rabbis making headlines by urging everyone to get a Covid-19 vaccine, possibly to the point of getting it on Shabbos, there are a growing number of rabbis who are urgently warning the public against getting the vaccine. (Please don’t miss the section Injections and the Period before Mashiach at the end.)
This is what they have to say:
This is the English Translation. Read the Hebrew here (English also included).
Please listen רבותי דיינים מומחים, this is not the time for etiquette, not the time to be silent, and not the time to turn a blind eye, we are dealing with matters of life and death, and it is everyone’s duty to thoroughly check and find out the truth, and the obligation is on you to awaken the world in this time of utter darkness with the true light of the Torah, one which is based on the actual reality. And so I turn to you דיינים מומחים , it is clear to me as the sun that you do not have the time to get to the root of things and find out every detail, it is clear to me as the sun that there are those among you who
do not know foreign languages and you are not able to check original sources, it is clear to me that you are forced to rely on those who are considered to be knowledgeable experts and earned their trust over the years.
But you also need to know that a) the agencies that are in charge of monitoring and approving the vaccines as well as those that promote and advise, receive direct funding from the vaccine companies, b) the contracts between the countries and the vaccine companies are mostly either fully confidential or with large sections that are redacted, such that it is impossible to know what they agreed on between them on the backs of the citizens and without their consent, and the handful of countries whose contracts somehow leaked into the public domain were actually shown to contain very concerning information, c) the decision-making process of the governments on coronavirus matters is done secretly and without any transparency, and they flip-flop from moment to moment with draconian regulations that disrupt the order of life without any explanations as to what the guidelines are based on, even though we are dealing with things that completely go against all democratic norms that existed till now, d) most if not all advisors/askanim who earned our trust over the course of many years and rightly so, are currently betraying this loyalty, and are exploiting the automatic trust that they acquired, to do bad, and they went over to serve the שטן in exchange for payment, some as donations to their organizations
and some as part of a budget allocated specifically to advisors, and some as both, and perhaps there are among them who have received threats and are forced out of fear for their lives to go against their belief, media personnel in general and Charedim in particular, and they also appointed special people to act within our communities, to skew and mislead them.
For this reason, no trust should be put in them, and anything and everything requires meticulous investigation and inquiry. I myself do not believe anything or anyone no matter who it may be without doing my own investigations until I get to the source or to the best of my ability sufficiently enough that it can be trusted. I have come to realize over time that there are things and orders said in the name of גדולים that when I inquired with them personally it became clear that it never happened and nothing even similar.
“And for now I have come”, in the wake of the information I have acquired I have come to a clear knowledge and complete understanding that this injection is an injection of death, that its benefit does not exist and the damage is certain and to a much greater extent than what they reveal to the public. It has been more than a year since I published a pamphlet in which I proved some of the lies of the establishment, and even before they began to vaccinate, I clarified the איסור of taking this injection, although at the time it did not enter my mind on what shaky foundations they will later be מתיר the injection.
But, please know רבותי , I sent this pamphlet either in person or through a messenger to several רבנים, some of whom I even attached a letter to, and some of whom I spoke with directly, none of whom answered to the substance of the matter, did not refute my words, did not make me aware of my mistake if I had one, רבותי! This is not the way of Torah, to hear only one side – the official position of the government and their representative, and to turn away the eye and close the ears from hearing another side, something that was the norm and accepted up until תש”פ, and such is also mentioned in הלכה that other opinions are supposed to be heard and to weigh, investigate, and conclude to one way or the other, how is it possible to hear only those who talk words of arrogance and vanity without providing any proof to their statements, and only because they dare to lie brazenly and present their words with excessive self-confidence and resolve, to believe them and based on this to rule on דיני נפשות, literally and not as a משל or imagination, but actually literally? And then, in their comfortable and secure shadow, make exaggerated declarations and in ways of expressions that are unfit for תלמידי חכמים and ‘יראי ה, in regards to the “anti-vaxxers”, when there was no fulfillment of שמוע בין אחיכם ושפטתם צדק, and certainly this is not the way of the Torah, when you then return home and put on an innocent face, after you have handed over and abandoned our blood to the hands of wicked men and rotten criminals, יועצי אחיתופל and media clerks who are hiding under the apron of ‘דעת תורה’ of ‘all’ גדולי ישראל. I ask and of beg of you a) that you do your own research and investigations down to original sources as much as possible, slowly and seriously, and to earnestly listen to experts from both sides, because life depends on them, b) if I am right, then it is your obligation to speak your mind in a loud and clear voice, and if I am wrong, then it is your obligation to correct me on my mistake and in what I erred, to save us from deception and stumbling block, there is no היתר in the world to ignore my words in either direction, or the truth is with me and it must be voiced not only by me but also by you, and on the way to protest vigorously against those reckless and empty ones who took advantage of your innocence and trust that you placed in them, and they denigrated you and the honor of your Torah, or you are right and I am wrong, then it is also your duty to set us on the truth and prevent me from harming, חלילה , any Jewish soul.
And I will end with the answer I gave to one חכם who asked me, and it will be when you will stand before the בי”ד של מעלה and they will ask you, so and so passed away because he listened to you and did not take the shot, what will you answer on the יום הדין and what will you answer on the יום התוכחה? I answered him that I would bring in front of them the hundreds of days and thousands of hours and tens of thousands of pages and recordings that I heard and saw and checked and researched on both sides and say before them ‘אין לדיין אלא מה שעיניו רואה’ this is what I saw and this is what I heard, and this is what I investigated and searched extremely thoroughly and this was my conclusion, and I will be certain and secure to come out innocent in justice, because I did what I was obliged to do in order to express my opinion and save lives and even the life of one Jew. I was asked again, and if it still turns out you were wrong? I answered, then it will be on the shoulders of all those רבנים that I placed myself and my opinion before them, and did not bother to dispute my words and clarify my mistake, and what else should I have done, and with that I am again sure that I will be innocent. But what will those who are מתיר the injection answer on the יום הדין and יום התוכחה? We relied on biased doctors? On biased Askanim? We relied on the גדולים that the askanim and יועצי אחיתופל and the אויבי איש אנשי ביתו (Michah 7: 6) misled and lied to? So on the contrary, why should I wait for the יום הדין והתוכחה to discover my “mistake”, please I beg and plead of you, already reveal it to me now.
(The above was originally written by Harav Shaye Meshulam Feish Halevi Rottenberg shlita, Rozla Rebbe, Beitar Illit, and since some of it was written in a way that was specifically relevant to Eretz Yisroel, some changes were made with his permission in order to make it suitable for other countries as well. For comments and questions call: 0527111418 (from E.Y.) or 347-434-995 (from USA) or email: ayrozla@gmail.com)
Regarding the Covid-19 vaccine and children. See his initial letter on the vaccine below.
Original signed letter
For more information see Why Covid-19 Vaccines Might Affect Fertility
Former rabbi of Bikur Cholim hospital in Jerusalem. Explains that doctors are being silenced about their opposition to the Covid-19 vaccine – Hebrew with English subtitles. See his article further down.
Another message from Rabbi Sofer – Warning pregnant women in particular, and everyone else, not to get vaccinated. Rabbi Sofer begins at 2:08 – after Galit Dorit’s introduction. A rather abbreviated English translation is below. Even if you don’t understand Hebrew, it may be worthwhile to listen just to hear his urgency, heartache, and tears.
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I am Rabbi Uri Sofer from Bnei Brak. I have been dealing with the Corona issue for a year. I don’t know what to tell you. I want to cry.
I get tens of calls a day, people who want medicine for their loved ones who are seriously ill with Corona. I ask each one if they got the vaccine. They tell me yes.
One woman called that her sister is in critical condition at Linado Hospital. Pray for the healing of Mazal Tov Bat Sarah who is sedated, on a ventilator, in critical condition after receiving the vaccine.
Stories, one after the other.
Yesterday I received a call from a pregnant woman miscarried the fetus immediately after receiving the vaccine and the hospital warned her not to tell that the miscarriage was from the vaccine!!
I got another call about a pregnant woman who miscarried within 24-hours of receiving the vaccine for corona, and is in critical condition now.
I hear stories endlessly!! We are talking about thousands upon thousands of people.Sheba Hospital is asking to bring pregnant chareidi women to them, to vaccinate them and do laboratory experiments, in order to advertise to the world whether it is worth it for a pregnant woman to get vaccinated against Corona – does it or doesn’t it kill the fetus.
The Jews are the experiment rabbits for the world.
I told you this on the previous video but I see that people are Opaque, obscure.
They do not see a crying truth; we are the experimental rabbits of the wicked Gentiles in the world.
They are now telling pregnant women that they are in danger and need to get the vaccine. Pregnant women do not know that the greatest risk is for them to get this crazy vaccine!!
Believe, me. they are deceiving the great men of Israel and lying to them.
If you want proof, look at the newspaper Yated Ne’eman from the 5 of Shevat.
There is a Kol Koreh with the following 2 lies are written:1. It has been clearly proven that there is *no risk* in receiving this vaccine.
I want to cry. Thousands shout that the vaccine ruined their lives. One is paralyzed after receiving the vaccine, his legs don’t work because he got the vaccine.
There is a school of disabled girls. They all got the vaccine, one died. They said it was pneumonia. A 16 year old died from pneumonia within one day of getting the vaccine? …
Everything is from the vaccine!!How can you not see? How can you not hear?
2. It is also written that a person should worry more about not infecting others than getting infected himself!!
The biggest lie !!
Pfizer and the vaccine developers themselves say that whoever gets vaccinated has the potential to infect others more severely. They are confusing people.
A person who has been injected is an angel of sabotage to infect others!!If you want to know why this lockdown hasn’t stopped the tremendous transmission that we have, it is because there are 2 million people in the country who were vaccinated and they are infecting others. Others are getting infected from the vaccine. These are not mutations!! They are trying to confuse the mind!! They are covering up vaccine damage by calling it a mutation!
A person who has been vaccinated, you are harming others!!It is a complete lie to say that there is no risk in getting the vaccine!!
Pfizer and the FDA did not dream of it!! They themselves warn against vaccination. It will be a while, 5 to 9 months after receiving the vaccine that the damage will begin to show. It is already causing more than 10,000 people to be injured. There is full of information on the networks, in WhatsApps. People go through paralysis, allergies. An ophthalmologist says that already a number of people who received the vaccine who have come to him with retinal edema, that are having trouble seeing; they are at risk of blindness from the vaccine.
This is our vaccine that is written about and it has been clearly proven that there is no risk in getting it. A complete lie!!
It was reported this week that the EU had asked Pfizer for details on the vaccine because they had heard from doctors that it was toxic. Pfizer said it was a high-level carcinogen that was banned from drug use but was allowed with special vaccines in 2005, so therefore they included it.
They were asked about the substance in the vaccine that causes infertility in men and women, and they said: “True, this is a substance that needs testing. There are people who say this, but we have not tested it. It will be tested in 2023 !!!!!!!
Since this vaccine received a emergency use authorization; not a certificate of vaccination [license], they say they are allowed to use it even though it contains a substance that causes infertility.
Gentlemen, this is an official publication of the European Union.
‘Pfizer’ basically says that tests are needed.We need to take to the streets that this is a terrible Holocaust !!!!!!!!!
Surely everyone knows of an injured relative.
Tens of stories are coming to me.The vaccine is against the law!!
Rabbi Moshe Karp told me that one rabbi quotes the Kaf HaChaim that it is permissible to take a vaccine, but he omitted the most important line from the words of Maran, the owner of the Kaf HaChaim: that the condition of getting a vaccine is that no one in the world has ever been harmed!!! …
You have no idea how many people suffer from vaccines and how many lectures by professors from around the world are deleted from the internet. Why silence it?
Why commit a crime?
But the Jews always knew not to believe in a system of wicked and Gentiles. The Torah teaches us that Gentiles are suspected of murder. A medical establishment subordinate to the wicked must not be believed. There are billions of dollars poured into this project; turning us into lab mice. It is forbidden to listen to the Misrad. They want to dilute the world’s populations and dilute Jews. Listen to doctors around the world saying this …I can’t tell you the name of a very respected doctor who works in the emergency department who is not suspected of taking bribes. He got a directive from the Misrad Habriut to tell all people that there is no connection between the vaccine and whatever illness or injury they may have after they got the vaccine – if it’s paralysis, corona, … They were also told not to investigate deaths that occurred in homes after people received the vaccines. Not to ask any questions whatsoever, not to ask family members, not to fill out reports about the topic. Just send them straight to the chevra kaddishah.
Pregnant women are forbidden to vaccinate – this is a warning from several countries around the world.
I don’t know what it will look like in another nine months. They may want to give more vaccines for more mutations, without stop, even when each vaccine introduces tens of poisons into the body and causes more destruction in the body of the vaccinated. This is not just someone who is against all vaccines saying this. These are doctors who understand the current vaccine.
Recently, Frankincense went through tests in two different laboratories and was shown to destroy the corona virus.
Rabbi of the Southern Hill of Modiin Ilit (English excerpts follow Hebrew)
The following is an excerpt from a letter written on the second of Shevat (Erev Shabbos Parshas Vaera) by Hagaon Rav Moshe Mordechai Karp, shlita, a well -known mechaber seforim and Rav in Kiryat Sefer, who received an accumulated twenty five years of shimush under Harav S. Z. Aurebach, zt”l, and Harav Y. S. Elyashiv, zt”l:
Regarding the vaccines; many have expressed opposition to them, including doctors and experts. The vaccine was produced in confusion and haste, by parties who have many self-serving interests, as it is well-known. The vaccine producers themselves have publicized the hazards [involved], and it has only been approved for temporary use……However, a few weeks have already elapsed since people have taken the vaccines, and it has become known to us many horrific cases of previously healthy people who took the vaccine and were very harmed afterwards, and some even died, rachmana liztlan. We have read what the vaccine companies themselves warn, that there are many extremely serious side-effects that are liable to occur. Before the vaccinations began, we thought that they wrote this to protect themselves from legal claims etc. However we now clearly see, [even] in this short time period, that the damage is very great. And although the great majority of people were not harmed, and may it be Hashem’s will that they not be harmed, however the fact is that a great many were harmed from it. One may not comprehend from the directive of the Gedolim that was given before the vaccinations, how to act now following the vaccinations, [when we have seen] the great damage of the vaccinated, [or at the very least there is suspicion and a strong basis that the damage came on account of it]…
…We can thus see the outlook of Gedolei Yisroel regarding vaccines:
1) One must wait an extended period of time [about thirty years]
2) It must be tested by all countries worldwide
3) If it did not harm anyone in this time, then Gedolei Yisroel permitted one to take it. And although the issue then was the small-pox plague, when many were dying in the streets, and this would have been a great salvation, nevertheless, one may not carry out an act of damage to himself or others. And what is there to say; [today] not one of these conditions has been met!! For we have seen that in a short time span many have been exceedingly harmed. It is pashut that there is no heter [to take it]!! And certainly since even a minimal testing time has not elapsed, as it is known; and all countries have not permitted it; as some countries have not authorized it, and other countries in the world are waiting to see the outcome and damages from Eretz Yisroel.
And this that [some] say; the young should wait, and only the elderly should be vaccinated. Here we saw how totally uninformed [people are]. For specifically [regarding] the extremely elderly we have seen that they have been incredibly harmed in this matter, for they don’t possess the strength to handle it. And furthermore; we have heard of two old-age homes in Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh, where there were practically no sick cases. [Yet] from the time that they vaccinated, the sick increased, and many sick were even transported to the hospital.
And certainly whoever possesses any intelligence, will not entertain the thought of taking these vaccines, but rather will abstain until a longer time passes, and the effects and outcomes are seen.
Changes his mind about the vaccine and no longer recommends it. He says it causes damage to the heart, has problems, and they are not sharing all the data.
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Head of Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, Bnei Brak, Grandson of the Ba’al Shevet Halevi
Thursday evening, Parshat Vayigash, 10 Tevet 5781, translated from the Yiddish recording
Printed in Tzap Magazine (צאפ מגזין)
Hebrew followed by English:
Download English pdf here
(At the end explains that other rabbis are not listed for lack of space and some did not want to publicize their names for fear of threats.)
Translation:
Knowedge of Torah
Gedolei Yisrael Against the Vaccines.
In light of the facts and trustworthy testimonies about the terrible physical and spiritual dangers from the corona vaccine! And already, hundreds of people were harmed by the vaccine and tens died. We are hereby publicizing the ” Knowledge of Torah” regarding the vaccines that are being given to the multitudes by the government.
You are forbidden from putting yourself in a position of danger.
Sit and do nothing is preferable.
Brother of the Kabbalist, Rav Binyhu Shmueli
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This is a short clip from a longer shiur. In this clip he explains that those people who won’t listen to all the confused and confusing people, they are actually the ones that will save am Israel in the last generation. Because it’s Esav himself who is trying to harm us but is hiding in disguise, like they are trying to tell us that we need this dangerous vaccine and they are telling lies to rabbis…but in the end the head of Esav will fall.
From the flyer – these vaccines have terrible concerns, and you must stay far away from them like you would from the point of an arrow.
Rabbi and posek (rabbinical decisor) in the Eidah Chareidit.
Synopsis: After speaking with doctors – whether or not they are for or against the Covid-19 vaccine, they all agree that there are still serious questions of pikuach nefesh (life and death matters) regarding potential adverse events. In cases such as this, until we are totally certain that there is no possibility of harm, the Torah is very clear – it is preferable to sit and do nothing. Download typed pdf here
From the flyer:
The deniers of G-d (leaders of the state of Israel) now state they have a cure, a vaccine, for the pandemic. We KNOW that when THEY say they have a cure we have to consider the possibility it’s purpose is to KILL us.
Letter warning against taking the Covid-19 vaccine (Article in English below)
Former Rabbi of Jerusalem hospital writes against COVID vaccine
Fmr. Rabbi of Bikur Cholim: ‘It’s my obligation to publicize issue, prevent hardship’. Hospital: Letter does not represent our hospital.Mordechai Sones , Dec 24 , 2020
Israel National News
Rabbi Aharon Ros, who was in the past the Rabbi of the Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem, issued a letter counseling circumspection regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming that it has come to his knowledge that physicians are pressured not to reveal what is known to them regarding its possible dangers.
Rabbi Ros wrote: “To the many who have asked whether to take an influenza vaccine, as the doctors and others apply great pressure to take vaccines, while on the other hand they do not publicize difficult cases that occurred after administering the flu vaccine, that there are those who reached the very gates of death from the vaccines, and doctors and their advisors are prevented from telling what is known to them to the wider public, but rather are required to speak against their conscience, or at the minimum to maintain silence and not express an opinion at all.
“In the past, when the subject was the Mexican flu, and physicians who were not beholden to the Health Ministry publicized their unfavorable opinion regarding the vaccine, and listed many details supporting this, and added that the aim of the vaccine was world depopulation. And in the subsequent years up until now, components from this vaccine have been added to the influenza vaccine available today. Many senior physicians, their students, and others have refrained from taking that vaccine.
“In the past I have been contacted by senior officials, asking why I express my opinion publicly, as it causes them damage, and they weren’t embarrassed by the fact that they themselves refrained from receiving the vaccine.
“Therefore, I see it as my obligation to publicize this issue, to prevent hardship and injury from our brethren”.
Regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, Rabbi Ros wrote: “While the nature of coronavirus disease is still unknown, where it came from, who it injures and who it does not injure, and many kept all the guidelines and were badly hurt, while many who did not observe the guidelines were not harmed at all, and they are far from being able to think they understand this vaccine, and many doctors in Israel and abroad publicly opposed these vaccines, much more than all of the vaccines that have come out until now, and many misgivings have been written about it, especially since these vaccines have not been tested with all of the trials necessary for such vaccines, and some physicians have even written that this violates vaccine procedures and shouldn’t be administered at all.
“I will close by saying that as long as their benefit has not been established with certainty, and as long as the injuries that may be caused by them have not been absolutely ruled out, and we get answers from the doctors, one should distance oneself and refrain from taking them.”
The Bikur Cholim and Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center responded to Rabbi Ros’ letter: “The individual behind the letter does not represent our hospitals,” they stated. “His use of the hospital logo and official name doesn’t mean we approved of his message.”
“The Sha’arei Tzedek and Bikur Cholim Medical Centers are behind the vaccine,” they added, “and call on the public to get vaccinated in favor in order to rid society of the disease. Any publication making use of hospital names or logos isn’t authorized and we condemn this behavior.”
Read original report at Israel National News here.
The rabbi who wrote the following letter – verified by Rodef Shalom 613 – is responding with a request for clarification of the letter (following) by the Baltimore Va’ad encouraging everyone to vaccinate against Covid-19.
On Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s reported psak to take the Covid-19 vaccine. Through unedited video, Rav Yitzchak shows how Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s grandson, Yanky Kanievsky, manipulated the situation so that Rav Chaim appears to have approved taking the Covid-19 vaccine.
Please note that the article posted at about minute 11:53 of Rabbi Yitzchak’s video says that individuals were paralyzed from the vaccine. While it is true that according to the CDC 3,150 individuals had a “Health Impact” where they were not able to perform normal daily activities, go to work, and needed the assistance of a doctor or other healthcare professional, the interpretation that they were paralyzed is in error. Please see page 6 of the CDC report here.
Rabbi Ashurov explains exactly about vaccines and how the new mRNA vaccines work. Rabbi Ashurov has degree in physiotherapy from the University of Tel Aviv, studied acupuncture in Boston, and has been involved in natural healing for many years. Learn more about Rav Ashurov at his website Besod Hadevarim. Hebrew with English subtitles.
Short clip with Hebrew subtitles from the Sassover Rebbe’s Yiddish language video below.
Satmar, Breslov, Mir, Eidah Chareidis, and other rabbis issued this warning that it is a serious prohibition to get the vaccine against corona.
Download pdf here
Here the above letter is being read aloud
Slams COVID Vaccine, Calls Doctors “Murderers” (Yiddish) See article in English below.
Sassover Rebbe cites Rabbi Elyashiv, warns of unproven safety of COVID vaccine
“Rabbi Elyashiv said of another drug, ‘How can we take responsibility for something that’s only been around for a year or two?'”Arutz Sheva Staff , Dec 20 , 2020
Israel National News
In an address to his chassidim during Hanukkah at the end of last week, reported on Behadrey Haredim, the Sassover Rebbe of Ganei Tikva discussed the coronavirus vaccination campaign that has just begun in Israel, and expressed his concern that the safety of the vaccine has yet to be established.
The Rebbe also mentioned special herbal drops that he described as being especially potent against the coronavirus that are apparently banned in Israel. “I merited to be a partner in the healing of tens of thousands of people when I obtained these drops for them,” he related, “both here and in the United States. I got them to people who were on the verge of taking the crazy step of going to hospital – when it was already known that people who went, never came back – and I begged them to stay at home and take these drops, and they recovered.”
Returning to the topic of the vaccine, the Rebbe said, “Now the doctors want us to use this vaccine. Maybe it’s a good vaccine – I don’t know. But who does know? And when will they know? After the damage is already done? They’re already warning people with allergies not to be vaccinated.”
The Rebbe also mentioned the fact that several haredi social activists have been making the rounds of haredi rabbinic leaders and obtaining their signatures in favor of vaccination. “I don’t want to talk about the activists – after all, they have their own reasons for doing things, and they do lots of good things too. But I will address regular people, and to you, I say that you should take very good care of your health and stay away from this vaccine.”
He also related how, around forty years ago, he had the privilege of discussing a certain medical issue with Rabbi Elyashiv ztz”l, the Torah leader of the generation whose knowledge of medical, technological, and scientific issues that he dealt with was undisputed. “I sat with Rabbi Elyashiv for two hours while we debated a certain drug that was then relatively new on the market. It had been in circulation for a year or two at the time, in many countries, and doctors were promoting it. I remember how Rabbi Elyashiv said, ‘How can we take responsibility for a drug that has only been around for a few years?’”
Incidentally, Rabbi Elyashiv’s position on most childhood vaccinations was that since they were accepted medical practice, parents should see that their children were vaccinated – however, from this anecdote, it would appear that he believed that “medical practice” does not become immediately “accepted” simply because doctors make a decision, but rather that the safety and efficacy of a particular mode of treatment has to be independently established as well.
The Rebbe concluded his speech with words of blessing for all Jews to merit health and long life with spiritual fulfilment.
Read the original article on Israel National News here.
Rabbi Smith is a rabbi and lawyer from Passaic Park, NJ. He has education in virology and biology.
warns against the Covid-19 vaccine. He discusses, among other things, the media and medical corruption. They have already proved that that they are not honest and one is not allowed to rely on them.
Another impassioned plea from Rabbi Sofer not to vaccinate. Trust in Hashem and stop being afraid. For new documents and information from doctors outside of Israel in Hebrew, English, and other languages. Email Rabbi Sofer: 3100170@gmail.com.
Rav Alon is the father of the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Brachtfeld. He is formerly a scientist. He is warning against the vaccines and addresses Rabbi Firer and others who have advised to take it.
Rav Alon’s letter can be read in Hebrew (Google translate for your language) here.
Among many related topics, he explains the problem with Rabbi Firer’s recommendation to vaccinate. Rabbi Firer runs Ezra l’Marphe, a medical aid society where he advises people dealing with medical issues in Israel.
So we did not get answers to all these problems, and I know personally that Rabbi Firer was invited to the same conference that took place last Saturday night in Bnei Brak, where doctors from the ‘other side’ appeared. There were about seven doctors there who expressed their position on the issue of vaccines. There were those who explained why there is no need for a vaccine, when according to one of them the damage to the corona is minor in relation to its inflating by the authorities, and also because in many places herd immunity has already been established, certainly in the ultra-Orthodox public. One by one there, not only is it not clear that it will not help but it is quite clear that there is a greater chance that it will even be harmful.
In light of all these points, I allow myself to raise the possibility that it is unpleasant to say that Rabbi Firer wrote this letter out of severe pressure. I talked about two hours ago with one of Israel’s gedolim and he told me: It’s not wise. You’re sure what Firer says is not true, so you think he was pressured, but I think what he says is true. I told him – the rabbi is one hundred percent right, and that’s exactly the point: I’m sure what he’s saying is not true, in light of what we have said, so I think my concern is a matter that needs to be examined.
Another thing to keep in mind is that while Firer is a great expert in medicine, in our case, we need mostly a great expert in the social sciences, because there are mafias that control these matters and it cannot be ignored. An example of this is the fact that in Kenya tetanus vaccines were given in which the substance HCG was injected which caused infertility in about a million women. This was done by Bill Gates, who until today has connections with all the vaccine companies, including the corona. So in order to examine something like this it will not help to be just a medical expert, there needs to be an expert here who knows how to tell if a crime has been committed here or not. Check if Pfizer and Moderna are criminals or if Bill Gates has been planning for years to depopulate the world and the like. This requires expertise in criminal issues. It seems to me that Rabbi Firer is not versed in these matters.
He also responded to the Rosh Yeshiva from Hevron:
I also wanted to refer to the letter from the Rosh Yeshiva of Hevron who wrote that after sitting with the doctor of one of the health funds in Jerusalem who is a great expert in this field and explained to him the whole process of vaccination “there is no danger at all, so it is a good gift from heaven.” Is the rabbi sure in what he said that there is no danger here at all? After all, it is the opposite of the truth. Every child knows that they have not checked at all what is going to happen to the vaccinated for another two years and there is no such possibility. I do not understand how a Rosh Yeshiva can tell his students to go and get vaccinated because there is no risk at all is beyond my understanding.
Warning against the vaccine as long as benefits haven’t been ascertained and as long as they haven’t absolutely removed any possibility of adverse events.
Responds point by point to Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu who advocated getting the vaccine.
Watch the video here
Listen here:
רבי מנחם אדרי הי”ו, ראש ישיבת בן איש חי ומדרשיה לבנות
בירושלים תובב”א. מוהל מוסמך, מלמד ומזכה את הרבים בכל הארץ!
Head of Yeshiva Ben Ish Chai and the Seminary for Girls in Jerusalem and a certified mohel. Rav Edri’s WhatsApp chat: 058-703-3705.
Rabbi Edri begins by saying that it is forbidden to take this vaccine; do not take this poison, do not allow this poison of death to enter your body. It is coming from Amalek and it is forbidden to take the vaccine. Regarding Rav Firer (who has said to get vaccinated) and Rav Kanievsky (who is reported to have said to get vaccinated) Rabbi Edri says “they confused them. They deceived the sages of Israel. And I know this from the inside… but someone who takes this vaccine, I bear witness about him from heaven and earth, with both my hands on a Sefer Torah, that he will curse the day that he got the vaccine.”
Unfortunately, YouTube removed the video.
Clarifies his stance on whether or not people should get the vaccine. Translation below.
I am writing to inform that I have never given an halachic decision concerning the new vaccine for the corona virus. I am not saying anything general, not to take it or to take it. Rather each person should consult his doctor and should do what is necessary for himself.
Head of the Eidah Chareidit Bet Din discusses the appropriate response of G-d fearing people to Covid-19 and the vaccine. From Kikar Shabbat. English translation follows.
צפו: דעת ראב”ד ‘העדה’ על נטילת חיסון לקורונה
ראב”ד ‘העדה חרדית’, הפוסק הגר”מ שטרנבוך, השתתף באירוע של חסידות תולדות אהרון ובין יתר דבריו, הרחיב על הקורונה ועל האם יש חובה להתחסן נגד הנגיף • צפו (חרדים)
חנני ברייטקופף|י”ד בטבת תשפא 29.12.20
במעמד סיום סדר מועד שנערך על ידי קהילת תולדות אהרן בראשות האדמו”ר מתולדות אהרן, השתתף ראב”ד העדה החרדית, הגר”מ שטרנבוך ונשא את המשא המרכזי כאשר בין היתר הוא התייחס לנושא החיסונים.
“יש מגיפה בכל העולם”, אמר הגר”מ, “רבים חללים הפילה. והרבנים והאדמו”רים יושבים ודנים בשבועות האחרונים אם יש חיוב לקחת את החיסון או לא. אמנם לצערינו התרגלנו לתלות הכל בטבע, חושבים שהמחלה באה בדרך הטבע והיא תסתלק רק בדרך הטבע על ידי החיסונים, אבל שוכחים שמלבד חובת ההשתדלות צריכים בעיקר לפנות בתפילה להקב”ה, שהרי הקב”ה הוא בעל המגיפה, וצריכים להתפלל אליו שהוא יסיר את המגיפה.
“צריכים אנו לדעת שהמגיפה באה מהקב”ה ולא ממשהו אחר, והישועה תבוא כי זהו רצון הבורא, והבורא עולם ממתין שאנחנו נשוב בתשובה ונבין שהוא הבעל הבית של כל הבריאה. אין טבע בעולם, הקב”ה מנהיג את העולם מתחילתו ועד סופו, והקב”ה בצער גדול שבזמן כזה שיש צער, לא מדברים כלל על הקב”ה”.
עוד הוסיף הגר”מ להסביר: “בשנים קודמות כאשר יהודי אחד נפטר, כל המדינה היו רועשים בתפילה לקב”ה. אני זוכר בתחילת המלחמה, כאשר עוד לא היה כ”כ נורא, ולא ידעו שהולכים להרוג יהודים, כולם בכו ובכו ללא שיעור בתפילות. והיום שכבר מתו יהודים בכל העולם מהמחלה, ואין איתנו יודע עד מה אם יהיה חלילה יותר גרוע, הרי היו צריכים לשמוע תפילות ותחנונים, וכל הרבנים והאדמו”רים צריכים לפעול שכולם יקראו לקב”ה בתפילה.
“בעוונותינו הרבים אנחנו יושבים בשקט, ולא מדברים על תפילה עד שאפילו אבינו מלכנו לא אומרים, רק יושבים ודנים האם לקחת את החיסון או לא”ולכן אמר הראב”ד כי “צריכים אנו להכיר בכך שהקב”ה מנהיג העולם ואין טבע ומקרה בעולם כלל, תחילת המגיפה היה מהקב”ה, וסוף המגיפה יהיה גם מהקב”ה, ובזכות שיהודים יושבים ולומדים תורה ומקבלים על עצמם להמשיך ללמוד תורה, נזכה לראות ישועת ה’ בקרוב”.
בהמשך דבריו הרחיב הגר”מ על מעלת קביעת עיתים לתורה, וביקש מכל בני הקהילה להמשיך לשקוד על תקנתו של הרבי מתולדות אהרן ללמוד מידי יום ביומו “עמוד היומי” על סדר הש”ס.
ל’כיכר השבת’ נודע כי הראב”ד אמנם לא חתם על קריאה להתחסן אך מורה בעל פה לשואלים אותו להתייעץ בנושא עם הרופאים.
באורח נדיר, האדמו”ר מתולדות אהרן אשר מתחילת המגיפה נמנע מללחוץ ידיים בכדי להימנע מהידבקות בקורונה, רקד יד ביד עם הראב”ד הגר”מ שטרנבוך, אשר ישב על כסאו ורקד עם הרבי.
Read the article on Kikar Shabbat here
The rabbi of the Haredi conference, Rabbi Sternbuch, ruled in an event of the Toldot Aharon Chassidut and, among other things, expanded on corona and whether it is obligatory to get vaccinated against the virus.
Kikar Shabbat
Chanani Breitkopf, 12/29/20
At the conclusion of a siyum on Seder Moed held by the Toldot Aharon community led by the Rebbe of Toldot Aharon, the Rabbi of the Haredi community, the Gaon Rav Moshe Shternbuch, participated and carried the main burden when, among other things, he addressed the issue of vaccines.
“There is an epidemic all over the world,” said Rav Shternbuch, “many casualties have fallen. And the rabbis and rebbes have been judging in recent weeks whether there is an obligation to take the vaccine or not. Unfortunately, to our sorrow, we have become accustomed to pinning everything on nature, thinking that the illness comes by was of nature and it will disappear only by way of nature with vaccines, but they forget that besides the obligation to make an effort, we particularly have to turn to G-d in prayer. After all, God is the owner of the plague, and we should pray to him that he will remove the plague.
“We need to know that the plague comes from G-d and not from something else, and salvation will come because it is the will of the Creator, and the Creator of the world is waiting for us to repent and understand that He is the master of all creation. There is no nature in the world; God leads the world from beginning to end, and God is in great sorrow at such a time when there is sorrow we do not speak at all about God.
The Rav continued to explain: “In previous years, when one Jew died, the whole country was noisy in prayer to God. I remember at the beginning of the war, when it was not so terrible, and they did not know that Jews were going to be killed, everyone cried and cried without measure in prayers. . And today, when Jews all over the world have already died from the disease, and we do not know how much worse it will be, God forbid, they should have heard prayers and supplications, and all the rabbis and rebbes should work so that everyone will call on G-d in prayer.
“In our many iniquities we sit quietly, and do not talk about prayer until even Aveinu Malkeinu they do not say, just sit and discuss whether to take the vaccine or not.”
Therefore the Rabbi said that “we should recognize in this that G-d is the leader of the world and there is no nature and happenstance in the world at all – the beginning of the plague was from G-d, and the end of the plague will also be from G-d, and in the merti of Jews sitting and studying Torah and accepting upon themselves to continue studying, we will merti to see G-d’s salvation soon. ”
Later in his remarks, the Rav expanded on the virtue of setting times for the Torah, and asked all members of the congregation to continue to observe the Rebbe’s regulation of Toldot Aharon to study daily the “Daily Page” of the Shas.
Kikar Hashabat was informed that although the Rabbi did not sign a call to get vaccinated, he orally instructs those who ask him to consult with the doctors on the subject.
Rarely, the Rebbe of Toldot Aharon who from the beginning of the plague refrained from shaking hands in order to avoid contracting corona, danced hand in hand with Rabbi Rabbi Shternbuch, who sat on his chair and danced with the Rebbe.
Read the article in the original Hebrew here
The Lubavitcha Rebbe, Z”L
What to do when there’s a new disease. Hebrew with English subtitles
The following was written by the Kabbalist HaRav Yoram Abergel zt”l (1957-2015) who wrote a commentary on the Tanya called “B’Tzur Yarum” (published ~2005). He wrote (English following):
“Everything has a tikkun [correction/fixing, often spiritual], the only question is whether it is the correct tikkun. Sometimes we want to save a sick person, and for this purpose he is given an injection, but it becomes clear later the injection complicated things, they did not have divine providence, the medicine not only did not help it made things worse – this is what happens when G-d forbid one receives an incorrect tikkun. One of the threatening dangers that face the Nation of Israel before the coming of moshiach is that the nation will be led by leaders that are not part of the holiness [MeHaKedusha] at all, but whoever’s eyes are not covered, he will never get confused, he will be able to tell who is part of the holiness and who is not. Indeed, truth will be missing and will become like so many flocks [Sanhedrin 97a, on the time of moshiach], however whoever is strongly attached to holiness will not perish forever. For example Ruth and Arpa …”
Listen to a translation here
Vaccines
by Caryn Lipson
Reposted from Israel National News
Today’s million-dollar question is – Do I or don’t I take the Covid-19 vaccine? To help their congregants, members, and the general Jewish public make this decision, rabbis and rabbinical organizations are giving their advice. Some are adamant that everyone must take it and others are just as adamant that no one should.
Rabbis who have said that it is important to vaccinate said there is nothing to worry about, that the vaccines have been proven safe. Some recommend asking your physician and if s/he advises you to do it, don’t delay1.
Other rabbis have a different, more cautious, approach. The rabbis of the Bnai Brak Bet Hora’h L’inyanei Refuah (an organization giving direction in Jewish law regarding medical issues), among others, recommend against taking the vaccine. They cite lack of clear benefit, many associated harms and the possibility of altering a person’s genetic code. The Sassover Rebber said: “I remember how Rabbi Elyashiv, ztz”l (whose knowledge of medical, technological, and scientific issues that he was involved with was undisputed) said, ‘How can we take responsibility for a drug that has only been around for a few years?’” 2.
Rabbi Michoel Green3 asked a very important question on his FaceBook page, Dec. 174.
He wrote:
I have read shocking reports of prominent orthodox rabbis (allegedly) endorsing this dubious vaccine.
The UK advises women to avoid pregnancy for three months after first dose5.
So, does that mean that these rabbis have recommended universal birth control or abstinence for three months?
That’s a very striking observation. Rabbis are recommending that everyone get vaccinated without any apparent consideration of the consequences for all women of childbearing age who heed their advice and receive the vaccine. A decision regarding birth control and abstinence should never be made for an entire population; there are significant religious laws in this area and advice and guidance is ordinarily given by a rabbi to a couple on an individual basis, dependent upon their particular circumstances, not as a general blanket approval.
As it says in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 1:9: “ein chadash tachat hashemesh” – there is nothing new under the sun. And indeed, the question about taking a vaccine which will subsequently require use of birth control for several months has already been asked and answered by one of the most highly regarded American rabbis of the previous generation, Rav Moshe Feinstein, ztz”l. The questions along with his answers were compiled by his grandson, Rav Tendler, into the sefer Mesoras Moshe. Here is one of them.
Rav Sh. Eider asked R. Moshe (as he’s called), is a woman is allowed to get a vaccine for Rubella and afterwards use a form of birth control. Rav Moshe answered that unless there’s a real need for her to take the vaccine, “simply to take it, just because that’s what the doctors are suggesting, and afterwards to worry about getting pregnant, and there’s a difference of opinion among doctors if it’s three months or six months and the like, it doesn’t appear that you should listen to the doctors. And some people have such a faith and confidence in doctors that it borders on avodah zara [idol worship], ch”v.” (Even Haezer, page shin yud beis, gimmel. Emphasis added)
Other queries about vaccines and birth control received different responses, for which he explained his reasoning. No blanket authorization or denial was ever given.
The use of birth control or abstinence among young women who are vaccinated will effectively prevent Jewish children from being born for many months in the year(s) to come. It will effectively lower the Jewish birthrate and ultimately the Jewish population. I am reminded of what Miriam said to her father, Amram, who separated from his wife following Pharaoh’s decree against male offspring – He decreed against the boys and you are decreeing on both boys and girls. Do the rabbis advising everyone to take the vaccine not understand the ramifications of what they are recommending?
Now, perhaps these Rabbis believe that Covid-19 is so serious a threat that it is incumbent upon women to abstain from having children in order to get the vaccine. Let’s consider the facts we have about the Covid-19 vaccines.
Regarding effectiveness and safety.
Regarding reliability.
Regarding necessity.
Here are the survival rates for Covid-19 patients as of Sept. 30
Ages 0-19: 99.997%, Ages 20-49: 99.98%, Ages 50-69: 99.5%, Ages 70+: 94.6%25.
If people are treated with hydroxychloroquine26 or other known remedies that have been disregarded by the establishment in favor of waiting for a vaccine, the morbidity and mortality rate could easily come down and people can be treated and saved.
The CDC V-safe Active Surveillance for Covid-19 Vaccines report, reveals an incrementally increasing percentage of people who had the first dose of the vaccine, 2.8% % as of Dec. 18, had a health impact event where they were not able to perform normal daily activities, were unable to work, and required care from a doctor or health care professional27.
Regarding the vaccine and pregnant and nursing women and women planning on becoming pregnant.
The UK government recommends against giving the Pfizer vaccine (the one they are currently administering) to pregnant and nursing women since there is “no or limited data” on the vaccine. They also recommend against becoming pregnant for two months after the vaccines, admitting that they do not know what impact the vaccine has on fertility28. Vaccinating pregnant women for the flu shot resulted in a 4,250% greater rate of fetal death29.
The FDA has subsequently approved, and the CDC is now recommending the Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women, nursing women, and women who want to become pregnant soon30. The Israeli Health Ministry is reversing previous policy and is now prioritizing Covid-19 vaccines for them, as well31. In addition, the Health Ministry is advising people with allergies to get the vaccine, providing they do not have allergies to the known vaccine ingredients. Several individuals have already had serious allergic reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine, even one with no known allergies32.
Rabbi Refael Szendro writes that Rav Moshe, in his book Igros Moshe, said that one may not unnecessarily undergo a medical procedure, even one that’s considered safe, since there may be unknown adverse effects (אגרות משה או”ח ח”ג סי צ). He says that every medical injection runs the risk of injury, even if doctors are not aware of any risk. (One such example is SIRVA, a serious shoulder injury caused by inflammation to the shoulder for which the US “vaccine court” pays damages33.) Putting ourselves at risk, unless medically required for the individual, is a violation of Jewish law34.
How are rabbis able to recommend this vaccine for women planning on be35coming pregnant, or for anyone else for that matter? Are they not aware of the great and grave potential for harm that these vaccines carry? How could they not know?
Read the article at Israel National News here.
Footnotes
Videos
Below are a variety of videos about COVID-19 issues.
European Corona Committee Sitting #30 regarding Covid vaccines
Short clip from Standing Committee Sitting #30
"OH MY GOD!"
"THIS MEANS WE ARE MAKING EXPERIMENTS ON PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWING THE SAFETY OF THE PRODUCT"
Immunologist and toxicologist, Prof. Stefan Hockertz, gives evidence to the German Corona Committee, which includes lawyer Reiner Fuellmich
Please retweet widely pic.twitter.com/3yHCvdbr8A
— Ian Lyne (@lyne_ian) December 8, 2020
See full meeting here
Bill Gates “Innovating to Zero” TedTalk about population reduction
Clip from the Amazon series Utopia, 2020 about using a vaccine to sterilize people.
Event 201 was a simulation for Covid-19. Here’s a clip.
Learn more about Event 201 here
Bill Gates discusses the personal injury he estimates will be caused by a Corona vaccine and the indemnity the governments will need to provide to the manufacturers.
Dr. Roger Hodkinson on PCR tests, masks, and lockdowns
Dr. Fauci on asymptomatic carriers
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, on what “The Great Reset” means
Hebrew
Vaccines
Download English pdf here
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Covid-19
Dr. Gil Yosef Shachar
The following is a translation of Dr. Shachar’s article on his website חיסון לקורונה האם אפשר להיות רגועים שהוא באמת בטוח?
Vaccine for corona – Is it possible to claim that it is really safe?
By Dr. Gil Yosef Shachar (M.D.)
Before we talk about the safety of the vaccine, a few words about its effectiveness.
The companies that developed the vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, reported 90-95% efficacy rates for their vaccine.
This is an effectiveness in preventing illness in the vaccinated person himself.
These companies do not yet have any information on whether the vaccine also prevents the vaccinated person from infecting others. The chief scientist of the Moderna company said this himself.
Theoretically there may be a situation where the vaccinated person is exposed to the virus, but does not feel any sign of illness and therefore does not maintain social distance, etc., he meets people, including people at risk, such as the elderly and may infect them, while the unvaccinated person will experience signs of illness. As such, they will stay at home until the end of the disease and will not infect people in risk groups!
Perhaps the unvaccinated can actually protect the population at risk, more than the vaccinated! This is of course a hypothesis. We do not yet have data to answer the question of effectiveness in preventing infection.
We also do not know whether the vaccine will reduce severe morbidity and mortality in the elderly (who are the most important and most vulnerable population to the coronavirus), as these companies did not release accurate data on how many people over 80 participated in the study (average corona mortality is around 80 and they are the population most susceptible to the virus). Corona vaccine manufacturers have not released any specific information on the effectiveness of the vaccine among this age group.
But suppose the vaccine is indeed very effective for all age groups.
And suppose it also prevents infection.
It is quite possible that this will become clear.
Let’s talk for a moment about its safety.
Although the vaccine has not been tested on breastfeeding women and the companies that develop the vaccine explicitly state that they do not know whether the vaccine components pass through breast milk, the director general of the Israeli Ministry of Health has already issued a puzzling statement that there is no problem vaccinating breastfeeding women!
No one in the world knows what effect the vaccine components have on a baby at two days, two weeks, or two months old and whether it causes them such and such side effects, since the vaccine has not been tested on infants and newborns.
(We also do not know what the ingredients of the vaccine are, which is an issue in itself … Pfizer and Moderna did not specify the full list of ingredients of their vaccines)
So to make a statement that there is no problem in vaccinating breastfeeding women, in my opinion it is really irresponsible.
This statement by the Israeli Ministry of Health raises the concern that the Ministry of Health does not have a “responsible adult” who really examines the data carefully, considers them carefully and tries to observe the most basic rule in medicine: “First, do no harm.”
The feeling is that there is a gallop forward here, without looking right and left and who knows, maybe out of a conscious decision to absorb victims who might be trampled from the wild gallop to the finish line.
This is doubly puzzling, when reading that the British Ministry of Health explicitly writes that in light of the lack of information on the safety of vaccines for infants and newborns and in light of the lack of information on whether the vaccines pass through breast milk, breastfeeding women should not be vaccinated.
You can read the guidelines of the British Ministry of Health for the Corona vaccine at this link REG 174 Information for UK Health Professionals (On page 6, in section 4.6 you can see the guideline regarding breastfeeding women).
Regarding vaccine safety in general and not just for babies, there are some questions we do not have unequivocal answers for now:
Some of the questions are relevant to each vaccine and some are unique to the Corona vaccine.
First question:
The vaccine causes our body cells to produce one of the corona virus proteins.
Immune cells recognize the foreign protein and develop antibodies against it.
Here the question arises, can we be sure that there is no protein in the human body that is similar to this protein?
That is, there may be a condition called cross-reactivity in medicine – a condition in which the antibodies created against the corona virus protein will also attack body proteins that are sufficiently similar to the virus protein.
The antibodies will not differentiate between the foreign protein and our protein, a part of which may be very similar to the virus protein.
That is, there is a concern here about the formation of an autoimmune disease.
It is enough that only a section of the corona virus protein be similar (and does not even need a full identity) to a section of any protein in our body, for such a reaction to be generated.
If such a thing happens, the autoimmune disease, in which the immune system attacks tissues in our body, can appear even after many months and even years after the first exposure.
As is well known, the decision to approve the corona vaccines for mass vaccination of the population was following a study of a few months, so at this stage there is no way to know whether autoimmune diseases may develop.
It is important to note that this question is relevant not only to the corona vaccine, but in fact to any vaccine.
Indeed, a significant number of scientific studies have found an association between vaccines and autoimmune diseases. In some consumer leaflets of certain vaccines, it is even listed as a possible side effect that has been found and reported following the vaccine.
It is also worth noting that sometimes a virus or bacterium (not a vaccine) causes the body to produce antibodies, which attack not only the foreign invader, but also cells in our body and cause autoimmune disease.
This is the case for example in Rheumatic Fever disease in which in some people, probably with an early genetic predisposition to it and a specific mutation in DNA, the body produces autoantibodies in response to exposure to the streptococcal bacterium.
This is also what probably occurs in Gillian Barre syndrome and autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and there are other examples of this mechanism of autoimmune disease formation.
Will the specific protein chosen by corona vaccine manufacturers (out of so many proteins to choose from) cause such a cross-reactivity response and autoimmune disease?
For now we have no answer to that.
The second question for which we do not have an answer for now is: do the vaccine components penetrate our brain?
The blood vessels that feed the brain are made up of another layer in the artery wall, called the blood brain barrier – or in Hebrew ‘the cerebral blood barrier’.
The body wanted to protect the most sensitive and important organ and prevent the passage of substances that could damage the brain cells, so the blood vessels that supply the brain have an additional protective layer, which other blood vessels in the body do not have to prevent substances that can damage the brain from penetrating.
Do the vaccine components penetrate the cerebral blood barrier?
Have they checked it out at all?
We do not know. Corona vaccine manufacturers have not released any data on this.
The third question is unique to corona virus vaccines: mRNA vaccines
A brief background to understand the question:
All the vaccines we know to this day are vaccines that contain the virus / killed bacterium, or the attenuated one, or parts of it (for example only its shell and the like).
That is, the foreign protein, against which the body is supposed to produce antibodies, is found in the bloodstream and not inside our healthy cell.
Immune system cells that are designed for this exact function, reach the same foreign protein that is in the bloodstream, assimilate it into their shell and present it to the white cells that are responsible for the production of antibodies.
In the case of an mRNA vaccine, this is a completely different mechanism.
A molecule that is not a protein (but a genetic code) is injected into the blood, which enters a body cell.
Because mRNA is not a protein, no antibodies are produced against it at all. (Antibodies are produced only against proteins).
The mRNA that has penetrated a cell in our body uses our healthy cell to produce the protein it encodes. In the case of the corona vaccine, it is one of the corona envelope virus proteins.
Now the same cell, displays this foreign protein on its cell envelope.
White cells recognize a foreign protein on our cell envelope and produce antibodies against it.
Here the question arises, do the white cells really know that it is our body’s cell and that they should produce antibodies only against the foreign protein presented to them or, G-d forbid, they will treat the presenting cell as a foreign cell and also produce antibodies against other proteins on the cell envelope.
It is honest to ask, why do I not ask this question about the cells of the immune system that display foreign protein, something that happens every day?
How can the immune system not see the cells that display the foreign protein as an invader that must be destroyed in its entirety?
The answer is that when there is a foreign protein in the bloodstream, the cells that will assimilate it into their shell, are the cells of the immune system that is the job assigned to them: introducing foreign proteins into the antibody-producing cells.
The cells that produce the antibodies know that it is “in our power” and do not produce antibodies against all the proteins that display the cell, but only against the foreign protein that is presented to them.
But here, in the new vaccine for corona, the mRNA vaccine, for the first time in the history of vaccines, the one that is introducing the foreign protein is a different cell! A normal cell from our body and not a specific cell that the cells of the immune system know is its function!
That is, the immune system may think it is an invader and attack the entire cell and not just the foreign protein.
Here, too, the result may be an autoimmune disease.
Is this a real concern or is it part of a conspiracy theory of “vaccine opponents”?
The answer to this question was written by Dr. Michal Haran, a senior hematologist at Kaplan Hospital.
She wrote this in a post she posted on her Facebook page and it is available to the public.
She phrased it in a clear and understandable way to all.
I have brought here her words, as they say. Word for word.
Every other word is unnecessary.
Dr. Michal Haran’s reference to the uncertainty regarding the safety of mRNA vaccines and the possibility of developing autoimmune diseases following the corona vaccine:
Today, I finished writing (together with other doctors and experts) a stand paper that addresses the possible risks of the new vaccines in technology that has not been tested so far in humans. In the days when they were corrected this discussion would have stayed between doctors, there were committees and there were decisions that take into account all the considerations.
Except that these are not days as their repair and we have already been informed that they started providing these vaccines in other places in the world and very soon probably here too.
The newspapers and social media are full of explanations about the safety of vaccines compared to the serious disease caused by the coronavirus. They say loosely that there may be some unreasonable risks, but these are null in compared to the dangers expected from infection with the virus.
So, my opinion is different and I think that the risk of the virus for most of the population is much smaller than the risk of providing a cure that has not passed the acceptable stages. The claim that vaccines are very likely to be effective in preventing serious illness or contagion and that there is no proof (yet) of possible damages are valid for any experimental medication and anyone involved in clinical trials knows how few medicines go through the bar of effectiveness and safety required, not to mention those that even the normal stages don’t Ensuring their safety and they are off the shelves within a year or two from the moment they started to be given to everyone.
Since most of the public doesn’t understand medicine or biology and it’s required to decide, when it’s pressure to get the vaccine I decided to explain the important things that are written in the paper of the stand in an understandable language to those who don’t have a medical background and I’d also be be happy to answer and explain things that are not clear enough.
The idea behind the technology of the new vaccines is a brilliant idea that wasn’t easy to implement either and I’m definitely taking my hat off to whoever managed to do it.
You need to understand that the immune system is built so that it knows how to differentiate between the cells of the body itself and foreign cells, so that it normally will not attack the body’s cells, but once there is a foreign cell (for example a bacteria or virus that is not really a cell) it will attack it.
The method developed causes muscle cells to produce protein belonging to the virus and present it on the cell envelope. Meaning that turns muscle cells into foreign cells, temporarily, only until the immune system cells realize that they need to produce antibodies against them.
The problem is that I don’t know how we will explain to the cells of the immune system that the foreign cell they need to attack is not really a foreign cell, but a normal and healthy muscle cell and that they need to produce antibodies only against the protein of the virus and not against other protein that are next to it It’s not just a theoretical concern, but a familiar phenomenon from the field called cancer immunotherapy. One of the dangers in patients with advanced cancer receiving medications designed to activate the immune system against cancer cells is the development of self-antibodies to the point of serious and dangerous autoimmune diseases.
We need to understand that once antibodies are created against the muscle cells that are in the arm (the place of injection) they will also act against the same protein in other muscles. The skeleton muscles are an important and essential system without which there is no life. Each of the protein found on the membrane of the muscle cell (which is some of them and the complex relationship you can see in the attached fig) is essential and injury to it will bring a disease that can be difficult and deadly.
A lot of these diseases won’t manifest immediately, but only after a few years.
It is possible that now, in a patient who will receive the vaccine there will only be very light and not alarming signs: a little muscle pain, a light weakness, difficulty in breathing in an effort (all of them are easy side effects and tolerable in the studies done on these vaccines) and maybe even nothing.
If you want to know what might happen when only one protein is damaged, ask the parents of a child with a disease called Duchene muscular dystrophy. They will tell you that their child was born healthy and evolved as usual until the age of a year and then there were very small things that triggered a bit of concern until at the age of 4-5 he started slowly losing abilities like getting up from the floor, jumping, later also walking and within about ten years he was confined to a wheelchair Respiratory. https://www.littlesteps.org.il/%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%9E…/
Ask, rightly, why if this is such a significant problem, you thought about it and not any of the other doctors (including those who planned the experiments in the pharmaceutical company). Maybe the reason for this is because unfortunately I personally knew a charming and dedicated doctor to patients who due to a much more familiar vaccine and considered safe, developed a serious and progressive muscle disease that resulted in his death within 10 years. He may have received financial compensation for it, but how can you really compensate a person for the destruction of life?
Maybe this is because I also have a rare autoimmune muscle disease whose first episode was several months after I got the same vaccine. Although, in my case the connection is much less clear, but naturally when you’ve been dealing with this kind of disease for years, you know firsthand what it is all about.
Maybe the reason for this is because of the (somewhat unusual) combination of being a hematologist, who also deals with research (and I have quite a few publications on the subject) of these two systems (the muscle system and the immune system) I understand that it is two most complex systems that today we know about 10 times [more]. From what they knew when I was a medical student 30 years ago, and it’s pretty clear to me that in 30 years we’ll know 10 times more than we know and maybe then we won’t be able to understand and know everything.
I also know from past experience how brilliant people are looking for solutions to difficult problems, not always in the enthusiasm that floods them are able to think about the difficult and unexpected results that may be the result of their interference in complex biological systems that none of us really understand about Borane. And this is an unfortunate example from my field of expertise. Genetic therapy designed to cause bone marrow cells to produce a protein that is lacking in a disease called SCID (which is known in the general public as a disease of bubble children, because these are children with severe immune lacks that may die from any banal infection), caused some of the children who received it to get severe blood cancer after 3-6 years. Fortunately this treatment was only given to a very small number of patients while being followed over a number of years. When it comes to a small number of patients, you can learn from the mistakes and fix. But how will it be possible to learn from the mistakes when treatment is given to millions around the world? Why Gene Therapy Caused Leukemia In Some ‘Boy In The Bubble Syndrome’ Patients
Source: Michal Haran’s Facebook post on December 6, 2020
So far, the words of Dr. Michal Haran, a senior hematologist at Kaplan Hospital.
And finally – a point to think about:
The degree of caution and certainty regarding the safety of a medical procedure must be very great, especially when it comes to a procedure designed for healthy people.
When a person is ill with a life-threatening illness, we often give up clear evidence of safety and settle for the chances of success, because in any case there is nothing to lose.
But this is not the case when it comes to the procedure for healthy people.
For them there is a lot to lose.
In such a case, we need a very high certainty that the procedure will not harm them.
We can compromise on efficiency, but not on safety (if it does not help, at least it will not hurt).
Do we have enough data to say with confidence that corona vaccines meet the required safety threshold of a medical procedure designed for healthy people?
your,
Dr. Gil Yosef Shachar (M.D.)
Important clarification: This article should not be seen as a recommendation not to get vaccinated against corona. It is certainly possible that in certain risk groups, where there are high mortality rates, or severe morbidity in the case of corona infection, the benefit of the vaccine is worth the risk of side effects that may or may not occur.
The purpose of this article is to stimulate a legitimate and desirable discussion on the safety of the corona vaccine and to raise questions that are worth considering and present the essential question marks that exist regarding mRNA vaccines.
Covid-19
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Vaccines
Table of Contents
Vaccine development can ordinarily take as long as 15-20 years, including a lengthy period of animal testing to make sure that the vaccine is safe and effective. The initial development process requires iterative tests in animal models where adjustments are made along the way1. Many vaccines never even make it to the Phase III trials.
For the Covid-19 vaccine, however,
They are moving new technologies from the computer into the clinic at an unprecedented rate, and normally distinct phases of a drug program—preclinical animal models, clinical testing, and manufacturing —are happening all at once.
“It is like building an airplane while you are flying …” 2.
That isn’t how vaccine testing normally happens. Regulators require that a manufacturer show a product is safe before it goes into people, and while it isn’t enshrined in law, researchers almost always check that a new concoction is effective in lab animals before putting human volunteers at potential risk 3.
Animal testing is important; previous coronavirus vaccine development was halted when it was discovered that the vaccines created a paradoxical immune enhancement response in animals where vaccinated animals challenged with the virus became sicker than they would have without the vaccine and died. 4. In the absence of animal testing, they are planning on doing these challenge studies on people5.
Telescoping testing timelines and approvals may expose all of us to unnecessary dangers related to the vaccine. While preclinical trials to evaluate the potential safety and efficacy of vaccine candidates are likely to include tens of thousands of patients, it is still unclear whether that number will be large enough and a trial will last long enough to evaluate safety for a drug that would be administered to so many. The US alone plans to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people with the first successful candidate. One serious adverse event per thousand of a vaccine given to 100 million people means harm to 100,000 otherwise healthy people 6.
A 2012 paper, Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus7 concluded:
Conclusions: These SARS-CoV vaccines all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.
Dr, Anthony Fauci, the head of President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force had this to say:
‘I must warn that there’s also the possibility of negative consequences, where certain vaccines can actually enhance the negative effect of the infection.’ Dr Fauci later explained that in rare cases people vaccinated against a condition could end up contracting the virus they thought they’d been protected against, and falling more seriously-ill with that disease as a result8.
Well known vaccinologists, Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Paul Offit on the dangers of a coronavirus vaccine:
Regarding the mRNA vaccine, Professor Eric Caumes, head of the infectious and tropical disease department at a major Paris hospital said:
‘I have never seen such a high frequency’ of side effects from an injection, the head of the infectious and tropical disease department at a Paris hospital observed. Apart from minor injection reactions such as local redness and pain, other side effects occur at relatively high rates, especially in young people and after the second dose.
“Take the example of fever. It can occur transiently after an injection; it is classic. But here, 15.8 percent of 18- to 55-year-olds had a fever of 38 degrees Celsius or higher within seven days after the second injection. And 45 percent had to take medication for fever or pain. Another 55 percent had headaches and 62 percent were tired. No, really, that’s much too much, perhaps there’s a problem … ”
Caumes is also concerned that there is a lace of scientific data available regarding the vaccine trial results. He said that “he would never blindly trust the vaccine industry merely on their press releases”.
Professor Caumes is willing to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but not with an mRNA vaccine9.
No mRNA vaccine has ever been approved for use in humans before and they have never been tested in a large-scale clinical trial for an infectious disease. “The COVID crisis is a great opportunity for those technologies to be pushed”10.
mRNA vaccines, like those of Moderna (which has never yet had a product approved for market11) and Pfizer (that set a record for the largest health care fraud settlement and the largest criminal fine of any kind with $2.3 billion in 200912) work by providing the blueprint for the Covid-19 spike protein for the individual’s cells to reproduce. The body is then expected to create antibodies against the spike protein so that should the person come in contact with Covid-19, they will automatically have antibodies ready to combat it13.
It is a bit like wadding up plans for a Cessna, throwing them through the ventilation shaft of a Ford factory, and hoping that someone inside finds them, and that the factory starts rolling airplanes out its doors instead of pickups14.
Even more troubling is Moderna’ CEO’s own description of their products.
Moderna’s chief medical officer has described the company’s products as “hacking the software of life” and permanently altering a person’s genetic code”15.
Both Moderna and Pfizer are applying for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for their vaccines. EUA is given for investigational drugs or biological products [like vaccines] for a human subject in a life-threatening situation for which no standard acceptable treatment is available and for which there is not sufficient time to obtain IRB [independent revue board] approval16.
In this case, the Covid-19 virus is said to present a life threatening situation for which there is no treatment. However, September CDC statistics show that 99.9% – 99.5% of the people infected with Covid-19 under 70 years and 94.6% of people over 70 years recuperate17. Furthermore, proven therapies like hydroxychloroquine have been delegitimized and no longer approved for Covid-19 patients18’19.
COVID-19 vaccine developers seeking FDA emergency use authorizations won’t have to undergo pre-approval site inspections, agency official Jerry Weir said at the FDA’s open meeting last week … The FDA conducts thousands of facility inspections per year, and some find flaws that drug or vaccine companies must remedy before launching new products.
…
Moderna, one of the leading vaccine developers, has never had a facility inspected by the FDA … 20.
Whereas, other vaccines designed to halt the transmission of communicable diseases, this is not the case with Covid-19 vaccines.
Pfizer’s CEO says that he is not sure that their vaccine will not stop transmission22.
Further, scientists warn that:
… the trials are only investigating mild cases and not whether it will help the most vulnerable, according to a report by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
BMJ associate editor Dr Peter Doshi said: “None of the trials currently underway are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospitalizations, intensive care use, or deaths.
“Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus”23
Netanyahu, who has spent billions of taxpayer dollars since June24’25 on not yet developed and approved vaccines, calling them a light at the end of the tunnel, said: “… I suppose we don’t know the long-term effect of an RNA vaccine on human beings …” 26
According to the FDA: “… currently there is not enough research to guarantee the vaccine’s safety for immunocompromised groups, pregnant women and children27.”
The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee October 22, 2020, Meeting Presentation has put out a draft list of possible adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccines.
“FDA Safety Surveillance of COVID-19 Vaccines – DRAFT – Working list of possible adverse event outcomes; ***Subject to change***”:
- Guillain-Barré syndrome,
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis,
- Transverse myelitis,
- Encephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis/meningoencephalitis/meningitis/encephalopathy,
- Convulsions/seizures,
- Stroke,
- Narcolepsy and cataplexy,
- Anaphylaxis,
- Acute myocardial infarction,
- Myocarditis/pericarditis,
- Autoimmune disease,
- Deaths,
- Pregnancy and birth outcomes,
- Other acute demyelinating diseases,
- Non-anaphylactic allergic reactions,
- Thrombocytopenia,
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation,
- Venous thromboembolism,
- Arthritis and arthralgia/joint pain,
- Kawasaki disease,
- Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, and
- Vaccine enhanced disease.28.
The U.K. government is concerned that there will be an unusually high volume of adverse events caused by the Covid-19 vaccines. In October their Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), posted a bid for an AI software tool to help them “process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs).” The bid explains that “it is not possible to retrofit the MHRA’s legacy systems to handle the volume of ADRs that will be generated by a Covid-19 vaccine,” and that this “represents a direct threat to patient life and public health29.
Section 13 of all vaccine package inserts say that the vaccines haven’t been tested for carcinogenicity, genetic mutations, or impairment of fertility (some of tested fertility in mice, but never humans).
In June 2010, Bill Gates, in a TedTalk, discussed reducing the world population by 10-15%.
The world today has 6.8 billion people, heading up to 9 Billion. Now if we do a really great job on NEW vaccines, healthcare and reproductive health services [abortion], we can lower that [world population] by 10%-15%” [=1 billion people]30.
By “new vaccines” Gates was referring to contraceptive vaccines. A study, “Vaccines for Immunologic Control of Fertility”, was published shortly before his TedTalk31.
In 2014, a contraceptive vaccine was used on Kenyan, Philippine, Nicaraguan, and Mexican women and girls of childbearing age under the guise of a tetanus vaccine campaign (funded by WHO and UNICEF; both are heavily funded by the Gates Foundation32’33’34.
(This will “… put the Gates Foundation “in a position to potentially reap considerable financial gains from the COVID-19 pandemic …” 35)
Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg have petitioned the EUMA to stop the coronavirus vaccine studies immediately. Among their several concerns, is that one of the proteins, syncytin-homologous proteins, important to the development of the placenta, can possibly lead to infertility. “It must be absolutely ruled out that a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, as otherwise infertility of indefinite duration could result in vaccinated women”36.
The UK sent a 10 page informational document to healthcare workers regarding the Pfizer Covid-19 mRNA BNT162b2 Vaccine.
They had this to say about pregnancy, lactation, and fertility (emphasis added):
4.6 Fertility, pregnancy and lactation
Pregnancy
There are no or limited amount of data from the use of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2.
Animal reproductive toxicity studies have not been completed. COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine
BNT162b2 is not recommended during pregnancy.
For women of childbearing age, pregnancy should be excluded before vaccination. In addition, women
of childbearing age should be advised to avoid pregnancy for at least 2 months after their second dose.Breast-feeding
It is unknown whether COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 is excreted in human milk. A risk to
the newborns/infants cannot be excluded. COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 should not be used
during breast-feeding.Fertility
It is unknown whether COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 has an impact on fertility37.
The only people poised to benefit from Covid vaccines seem to be the manufacturers and investors in these companies.
Is a Covid-19 vaccine worth risking your health or life for?
Footnotes
WHO
As detailed in our post, The Heinous Background of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus1,
- Tedros Ghebreyesus (or Tedros as he prefers) is not a medical doctor despite the appellation. He is the first WHO director-general not to have a medical degree.
- As Ethiopia’s health minister, he is accused of covering up three cholera outbreaks, calling them cases of watery diarrhea.
- He was the third most important person in the terrorist organization, Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and is said to have played a key role in the kidnapping of a prominent dissident as well as other atrocities.
Did you ever wonder why Tedros praised China’s transparency at the start of the outbreak and said that China’s response to Covid was a model for other nations? At that time everyone else has been criticizing China’s handling of the epidemic, hiding it from the rest of the world, and silencing whistleblowers.
Consider the following.
Tedros Helped Indebt Ethiopia to China
Ethiopia has borrowed billions from China, reportedly including more than $13 billion during Tedros’ tenure as foreign minister between 2012 and 2016.
An editorial published by the Hill in mid-March pointed out:
We note China’s connections to Tedros’s homeland of Ethiopia, now called East Africa’s ‘Little China’ because it has become China’s bridgehead to influence Africa and a key to China’s Belt and Road initiative there. Indeed, China has invested heavily in Ethiopia2.
According to Yaakov Apelbaum of The Illustrated Primer, Tedros’s personal wealth had also been enhanced by China via foreign bank accounts3. 
China helped Tedros win the post of WHO Director-General
“Chinese diplomats had campaigned hard for the Ethiopian, using Beijing’s financial clout and opaque aid budget to build support for him among developing countries,”…Washington Post columnist Frida Ghitis similarly noted at the time that China “worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help Tedros defeat the United Kingdom candidate for the WHO job, David Nabarro. Tedros’s victory was also a victory for Beijing, whose leader Xi Jinping has made public his goal of flexing China’s muscle in the world4.”
China garnered support for Tedros from developing countries
According to Sunday Times columnist, Rebecca Myers, Chinese diplomats campaigned for the then-Ethiopian Foreign Minister, using Beijing’s financial clout and opaque aid budget to build support for him among developing countries. There were suggestions China would be pleased with any African or Asian heads for any UN agency because of the difficulties of dealing with more critical Westernized director-generals5.
This is why, shortly after his appointment to the position of director-general, he tapped Zimbabwe dictator and human rights abuser, Robert Mugabe, to become the UN’s “Goodwill Ambassador”.
Diplomats said his appointment was a political payoff from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — the WHO’s first African director-general — to China, a long-time ally of Mugabe, and the 50 or so African states that helped to secure Tedros’s election earlier this year6.
This is also why, shortly after the pandemic was declared, with all eyes pointing to China as the source of the virus, Tedros called it “misinformation”. At the Munich Security Conference, in mid-February 2020, when the majority of the cases of Covid-19 were in China and very few elsewhere, he said:
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.” And if we don’t tackle this, he went on, “we are headed down a dark path that leads nowhere but division and disharmony7.”
What happened in China with the discovery of the virus and how did the WHO respond?
Chinese authorities forced scientists who discovered the virus in December to destroy proof of the virus, U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times reported. The Chinese regime also punished doctors who tried to warn the public in the outbreak’s early stages and suppressed information about the virus online. A Chinese real estate mogul who criticized his government’s response has since gone missing.Approximately seven million people left Wuhan in January, spreading the virus all over China and all over the world, before China restricted travel to Wuhan on Jan. 22, The New York Times reported Sunday. One study found that “if interventions in [China] could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively – significantly limiting the geographical spread of the disease.”
Tedros, however, had nothing but praise for the way China handled the pandemic, using it as an example that the rest of the world should follow. On February 14, the WHO tweeted: “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.” On January 30, shortly after returning from a trip to Beijing and meeting with Xi, he tweeted: “China is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response”8. That was certainly true, but it wasn’t the standard the world wanted to see
In mid-February, members of the WHO emergency committee expected to be able to go to China to discover the source of the outbreak.
“If we don’t know the source then we’re equally vulnerable in the future to a similar outbreak,” Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization’s emergency director, had said that week in Geneva. “Understanding that source is a very important next step.”What the team members did not know was that they would not be allowed to investigate the source at all. Despite Dr. Ryan’s pronouncements, and over the advice of its emergency committee, the organization’s leadership had quietly negotiated terms that sidelined its own experts9.
In an effort to deflect criticism from China, the WHO may also have enabled the spread of the virus. Tedros permitted flights between Ethiopia and China, saying that closing travel can increase fear and stigma with little public health benefit. This was at a time when 59 other air carriers from 44 different countries halted flights to and from China10.
Tedros has also been supported for the position of director-general by Bill Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the other WHO donors that he funds, basically controls the agenda of the WHO11.
From 2009 to 2011 Tedros Ghebreyesus was also the Director of the Global Fund, a program to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, initiated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the head of the UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board …
In a profile published in April 2010, The Lancet reported that he was “a household name at the Global Fund Secretariat” and that his achievements led to naming Ethiopia as an exemplary high-performing country.
A surprising conclusion, when one finds out that during his leadership, the use of international aid funds he supervised was very questionable.In 2012, an audit[19] of the Global Fund looked at the expenses of the aids, tuberculosis, and malaria program in several African countries, including Ethiopia who had received $1.3 billion in grants.
Inspector General John Parson, who was in charge of the audit, revealed a flagrant lack of transparency and numerous shortcomings in the accounting and management of the funds, to the point of suggesting a minimum payback of $7 million to the organization.
Above all, the investigation also showed a huge discrepancy between the results presented and the reality observed in Ethiopia during the field visits.
For example, 77% of the medical centers built did not have drinking water and 32% did not have sanitary facilities. Only 14% had a microscope or a delivery table, and only 12% had a pharmacy.
The report should have led to a series of measures ensuring more transparency and efficacy in the management of the program but, instead, the Inspector General and his findings were dismissed.
Obviously, good relationships with the leaders of African governments had a far greater importance.
It was also obvious to some of the WHO member states that Tedros did not have their best interests in mind, but the interests of the Gates Foundation.
When the candidates were interviewed before the votes, the Brazilian Ambassador asked Tedros how he intended to “represent the voice of developing countries by proposing a program that was much more aligned with the priorities of the countries of the North,” hereby referring to his approach of health through security (pandemic preparedness), and to treating ‘equality’ in terms of “coverage” (vaccines), rather than in the development of universal health systems (for example medical infrastructure and training or access to water).
He also remarked that Tedros had not proposed anything concrete in terms of sustainable development for vulnerable countries.
In fact, this “northern agenda” was very much aligned with the priorities of the Global Health Security Agenda, promoted by WHO’s four main funders and influencers: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (14%), the United States (24%), the U.K. (11%) and GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization which was again mainly funded by Gates (17%), the U.S. (11%) and the U.K. (31%)12.
Tedros was also a Board Member of GAVI13 of which the Gates Foundation was a founding partner and continues to heavily fund the organization14.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is the largest contributor to the WHO and the Foundation supports many other WHO donors. This essentially gives Gates the ability to control activities of the WHO, even if they are not consistent with the WHO mission, since non-member donors are allowed to earmark their contributions.
Gate’s relationship with the WHO began with the former WHO Director-General Margaret Chan15. Perhaps that’s why she lamented:
… such influence is the de facto determinant of priority setting of the WHO: … “(m)y budget [is] highly earmarked, so it is driven by what I call donor interests.”
Today,
… the BMGF together with GAVI contributed a collective 20.3%, including Rotary, a collective 23.6%, and even more when you include all the other earmarked voluntary contributions from organizations with which the Gates Foundation shares its financial largess. In this way, Gates has acquired enormous control over the WHO’s priority setting, more than any other member state including the US while still a member16.
It is interesting to note, that Bill Gates is a huge supporter of China; he partners with the Chinese government in the areas of health, agriculture, computer technologies, and nuclear energy. In 2007, when the Foundation opened up an office in China; it declared:
Since the inauguration of our China office in 2007, we have been focused on unlocking that potential in a way that benefits China and the rest of the world. In working towards this goal, we continue to support China in overcoming domestic challenges, leverage China’s growing innovation capacity to supply high-quality, affordable health products to those in need, and assist China in becoming a stronger partner for global health and development17.
The Gates Foundation has helped to fund international cooperation projects of the Center for Global Public Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention18. In 2015, the Gates signed a memorandum of agreement with CNNC [China National Nuclear Corporation] to build a miniature nuclear power plant.
Gates, chairmain of Bellevue-based TerraPower, signed an agreement Tuesday to partner with the company’s Chinese counterpart during a U.S.-China trade conference.
The nuclear power startup is trying to build a new type of nuclear reactor to harness the power of depleted uranium. Gates helped found the company in 2006. It’s spin-off of Intellectual Ventures, headed by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold.
The nuclear power startup is trying to build a new type of nuclear reactor to harness the power of depleted uranium …
“The world does need a lot more energy,” Gates said. “By being a form of clean energy, (TerraPower’s system) can make a huge contribution to the global goal of having low-cost clean energy.” TerraPower has been working with CNNC for years, but Gates said Tuesday’s agreement was a “milestone in our relationship19.”
Gates has been a frequent visitor to China and has continually visited the University of Peking over the past twenty years. In March 2017, he spoke to the students there. Regarding his talk at the University, completely ignoring China’s dictatorship and long history of human rights violations he said this:
At a time when some countries seem to be turning inward and retreating from world affairs, China is primed to step up as a global leader. Building on its own successes—which include lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, dramatically improving health, and investing big in clean energy—China can share what it has learned with the rest of the world20.
In December of that year he was one of ten “foreign experts” in engineering and technology who were elected as new members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). The CAE is the People’s Republic of China’s elite society of technology professionals who have proven their service to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Communist State21.
While defending China’s problematic response to the Coronavirus pandemic and attempting to curb discussion about it, he had no compunction about castigating President Trump for his response.
The tech tycoon had previously taken a swipe at the president for publicly castigating China for its cover-up of the coronavirus. During a Sunday interview on CNN, Gates not only argued that it is not time to be questioning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CPC) efforts in handling the COVID-19 outbreak, but went so far as to dispel any wrongdoing by the communist regime:“China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say where they missed some things. You know, some countries did respond very quickly and get their testing in place, and they avoided the incredible economic pain. It’s sad that even the U.S. that you would have expected to do this well, did it particularly poorly. But it’s not time to talk about that.
Gates’s TerraPower is one of the businesses that has been caught in the cross-hairs of and impeded by President Trump’s technology battle with China22.”
In January 2006, Tedros, as Health Minister of Ethiopia, signed an agreement with the Clinton Foundation to expand their HIV/AIDS partnership.
“The support from Clinton Foundation is coming at a time when we are scaling up our fight against HIV/AIDS very aggressively in all three fronts: prevention, treatment and care and support,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom, the Minister of Health of Ethiopia. “The agreement with the Clinton Foundation is also unique in that it includes capacity building of the health system which is very crucial in sustaining the fight as indicated in our strategic plan. I would like to use this opportunity to thank President Clinton for his commitment to fight HIV/AIDS.”Ethiopia has been a member of the Clinton Foundation procurement consortium since August 2004. The procurement consortium comprises over 50 countries in the developing world with access to the Clinton Foundation’s reduced prices for anti-retroviral drugs and diagnostic testing supplies. Ethiopia is the sixth African country in which the Clinton Foundation will have a permanent team23.
In 2007, while Tedros was Health Minister of Ethiopia, the Clinton Foundation received a $100,000,000 commitment from the Lundin Group for its Clinton Guistra Sustainable Growth Initiative. The Lundin Group makes its money from “blood minerals”, minerals allegedly mined in war zones or sold as commodities to help finance political insurrections or warlords”. Among the countries with which the Lundin Group cut deals with warlords was Ethiopia24. Apelbaum, of The Illustrated Primer, alleges that Tedros brokered the donation from the Lundin Group to the Clinton Foundation25.
At the 2014 Opportunity: Africa Conference, Bill Clinton commended Tedros saying:
“The Health Minister of Ethiopia, now the Foreign Minister, is one of the ablest public servants I’ve ever worked with. You would all be very comfortable if he became the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States. He’s a really able man26.”
Tedros was also a speaker at the 2015 Clinton Foundation Global Initiative and a panelist on a conversation about advancing the status of women and girls over the next 20 years. This was in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the 1995 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Chelsea Clinton spoke with Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation Ursula Burns in a one-on-one conversation which preceded a panel featuring participants such as Executive Chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies William Lauder and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus27.
In 2004, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) entered into an agreement with the WHO to
… jointly provide technical assistance on scaling up national HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs to developing country Member States of WHO….
The agreement will also help accelerate the pace at which countries receiving funds from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the World Bank can access CHAI-brokered agreements for reduced prices.
“Because CHAI is a leader in negotiating breakthrough pricing for HIV/AIDS medicines and diagnostics, and WHO is the leading global authority in public health, our collaboration will significantly advance the goal of providing antiretroviral treatment to three million people by 2005,” said Ira Magaziner, Chairman of the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative28.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4870559/user-clip-clinton-foundation-acting-agent
This arrangement was illegal, as explained by Mr. Doylle, a Clinton Foundation whistleblower in the clip above and in this archived video; a US non-profit may not act as a broker for a foreign government or foreign company. The Foundation was not held accountable29.
The Clintons have a decades-long history of business and political relationships with Chinese individuals. The DNC illegally received donations from China while Bill was in the White House. Although these donations were returned, the offense was an impeachable one.
Chinagate, more than any other scandal, should have led to the impeachment, and removal, of Bill Clinton from office. At least six individuals were believed to have been used by the Chinese to influence the 1996 elections. Despite the fact that the illegal donations were returned, Janet Reno was criticized for never appointing an independent prosecutor for the Chinagate scandal.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton continued this pattern of getting foreign donations from unethical businessmen with the Clinton Foundation30.
Under Vice President Bush, China, previously ousted from the global economy, received observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor to the World Trade Organization. However, it was only after Clinton normalized trade relations between the US and China in 2000, that China was enabled to become a founding member of the World Trade Organization in 2001.
Not only did this result in millions of US jobs lost to China, but it also paved the way for “the legitimizing of the brutal and corrupt Communist Chinese government31.”
We can now see how the personal and political interests of an American millionaire and billionaire and the Chinese Communist Party have enabled terrorist Tedros to become the Director-General of the WHO.
Why Gates, Clinton, and China were allowed to gain so much unfettered power is a question we should all be asking.
Featured image: A petition against electing Tedros to the position of WHO director general – https://www.change.org/p/we-oppose-tedros-adhanom-s-candidacy-for-director-general-of-who
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