Should
Unvaccinated People Be Put on No-Fly List?
Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked
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August 17, 2021
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE
· In June 2021, the U.S.
National Security Council released a new National Strategy for Countering
Domestic Terrorism document. While it’s being largely framed as a tool to fight
extremism, the definition of what constitutes a “domestic terrorist” is
incredibly vague and based on ideologies rather than specific behaviors
· This policy can easily be
used to silence political opposition simply by labeling anyone who disagrees
with the government as a domestic terrorist and charging them with a hate
crime, and we’re already seeing signs of this
· Dr. Peter Hotez recently published
a paper in PLOS Biology, in which he suggests criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci and
other scientists ought to be labeled a “hate crime”
· Former assistant secretary
for Homeland Security Juliette Kayyem is urging the U.S. government to put
unvaccinated citizens on a no-fly list
· The San Francisco Chronicle
editorial board believes we ought to “make vaccination the price of admission
to society”
In June 2021,
the U.S. National Security Council released a new “National Strategy for
Countering Domestic Terrorism” document.1 While it’s being
largely framed as a tool to fight White supremacy and political extremism, the
definition of what constitutes a “domestic terrorist” is incredibly vague and
based on ideologies rather than specific behaviors.
It’s not difficult
to imagine this policy being used to silence political opposition simply by
labeling anyone who disagrees with the government as a domestic terrorist and
charging them with a hate crime.
We’re already
seeing signs suggesting that this is the path we’re on. July 28, 2021, Dr.
Peter Hotez published a paper2 in PLOS Biology titled “Mounting Antiscience
Aggression in the United States,” in which he suggests criticizing Dr. Anthony
Fauci and other scientists ought to be labeled a “hate crime.” Commenting on
the paper, Paul Joseph Watson at Summit News writes:3
“This is yet another transparent effort to
dehumanize anti-lockdown protesters and demonize people who merely want to
exercise bodily autonomy while elevating Fauci and his ilk to Pope-like status.
Science isn’t supposed to be a religious dogma that is set in stone, it’s an
ever-evolving knowledge base that changes and improves thanks to dissent and
skepticism.”
Science Depends on
Questioning and Challenging Assumptions
Attorney
Jonathan Turley also responded to Hotez’s paper in an August 4, 2021, blog
post, saying:4
“’Religion is a culture of faith; science is a
culture of doubt.’ Feynman’s statement captures how science depends upon
constant questioning and challenging of assumptions …
[T]here remain important debates over not just the
underlying science relation to Covid-19 but the implications for such science
for public policies. Criminalizing aspects of that debate would ratchet up the
threats against those with dissenting views, including some scientists. That
would harm not just free speech but science in the long run.”
Should We Have Protected
Classes That Cannot Be Questioned?
Turley also
points out how making scientists a protected class (and one would assume only
those with specific political leanings) is a slippery slope that will likely
have unwieldy ramifications:5
“The federal hate crime laws focus on basis of a
person’s characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender,
sexual orientation, and gender identity. We have seen calls for adding
professions like police officers, which I also opposed.
As with police officers, the inclusion of such
professions would have a direct and inimical impact on free speech in our
society. Indeed, it would create a slippery slope as other professions demand
inclusion from reporters to ministers to physicians. Hate crimes would quickly
apply to a wide array of people due to their occupations.”
Will America Accept No-Fly
List for Unvaccinated?
Writing for The
Atlantic,6 former assistant
secretary for Homeland Security Juliette Kayyem posits that people who do not
want to be part of the COVID injection experiment “need to bear the burden”
when it comes to preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
“The number of COVID-19 cases keeps growing, even
though remarkably safe, effective vaccines are widely available,” Kayyem writes.7 “Many public
agencies are responding by reimposing masking rules on everyone.
But at this stage of the pandemic, tougher
universal restrictions are not the solution to continuing viral spread. While
flying, vaccinated people should no longer carry the burden for unvaccinated
people.
The White House has rejected a nationwide vaccine
mandate … but a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the
federal government should take.
It will help limit the risk of transmission at
destinations where unvaccinated people travel — and, by setting norms that restrict
certain privileges to vaccinated people, will also help raise the stagnant
vaccination rates that are keeping both the economy and society from fully
recovering.”
Travel Ban Identified as
Effective Coercion Strategy
According to
Kayyem, traveling in general and flying in particular is not a human right, and
putting unvaccinated individuals on a no-fly list is a matter of national
security, in the sense that the country needs to protect itself from people
capable of spreading this dangerous virus.
She makes no
mention of the scientifically confirmed fact that none of the COVID shots
actually prevent you from getting infected, and that “vaccinated” individuals
carry the same viral load as the unvaccinated,8,9 which means they’re
just as infectious. The main difference is that vaccinated individuals might
not realize that they’re carriers, as the primary effect when the injections do
work is lessening symptoms of infection.
Kayyem also
cites a New York Times and Kaiser Family Foundation poll in which 41% of
unvaccinated respondents had said prohibition on airline travel would sway
their decision, including 11% of those “adamantly opposed” to vaccination. In
other words, where free doughnuts and million-dollar lotteries have failed to
coerce people to get the shot, an airline travel ban might do the trick.
Despite her
former position within government, she makes no mention of laws forbidding
coercion of medical volunteers, such as the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations 45
CFR 46 (subpart A, the Belmont report),10 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty,11 the Declaration of
Helsinki12 or the Nuremberg
Code.13 Supreme court rulings
have also clarified that Americans have the right to choose their own health
care in general.14,15
Reframing to Confuse the
Issue
Kayyem suggests
circumventing such basic human rights by reframing the issue. She writes:16
“The public debate about making vaccination a
precondition for travel, employment, and other activities has described this
approach as vaccine mandates, a term that … suggests that unvaccinated people
are being ordered around arbitrarily.
What is actually going on, mostly, is that
institutions are shifting burdens to unvaccinated people ... rather than
imposing greater burdens on everyone.
Americans still have a choice to go unvaccinated,
but that means giving up on certain societal benefits. Nobody has a
constitutional right to attend The Lion King on Broadway or work at Disney or
Walmart … People who still want to wait and see about the vaccines can continue
doing so. They just can’t keep pushing all the costs on everyone else.”
As pointed out
by Swift Headline,17 the owner of Atlantic magazine, Laurene
Powell Jobs, the billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, owns two private jets
herself, giving her the freedom to fly around the world at will, regardless
what vaccine mandates might be in place. Many other ultra-rich individuals
would also be able to ignore the rules due to wealth alone, essentially turning
them into a protected class. Swift Headline points out this projection:18
“The Atlantic went on to say
unvaccinated people who are exercising their individual rights as free
Americans ‘do not deserve’ to be a ‘protected class’ …
Jobs’s wealth and class status is detailed in
Breitbart News’ Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow’s book, ‘Breaking the News:
Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruptions,’ which
‘exposes the hidden connections between the establishment media and the
activist left.’
As Marlow details, Jobs’s past is a privileged one
... Jobs ‘married well and inherited a lot of money, and her wealth is tied up
in some of world’s biggest companies,’ Marlow continues. ‘She is the
establishment.’”
The Price of Admission to
Society
August 2, 2021,
the San Francisco Chronicle also published an opinion piece19 by the Chronicle
editorial board, in which they suggested we ought to “Make vaccination the
price of admission to society.” One way to evaluate the reasonableness of such
a proposition is to replace COVID “vaccination” with anything else. How about:
“Make proof of contraception use the price of admission to bars and
nightclubs.”
“Make clear
skin the price of admission to gyms and public swimming pools.” “Make being
taller than 5’ 9” the price of admission to theme parks.” “Make having a BMI
below 25 the price of admission to airline flights.” “Make proof of not having
an illness the price of admission to in-hospital care.”
According to
the Chronicle editorial board, “the unvaccinated account for over 95% of
hospitalizations and deaths.”20 The board does not cite where it got that
data from, so let’s review the source of that data.
In an August 5,
2021, video statement, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director
Dr. Rochelle Walensky noted that this statistic was obtained by looking at
hospitalization and mortality data from January through June 2021 — a timeframe
during which the vast majority of the United States population were
unvaccinated.
The narrative
that we’re in a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ was created by using statistics
from a time period when the U.S. as a whole was largely unvaccinated. When you
look at more recent data, the trend is swinging in the opposite direction.
January 1,
2021, only 0.5% of the U.S. population had received a COVID shot. By mid-April,
an estimated 31% had received one or more shots,21 and as of June 15,
48.7% were fully “vaccinated.”22
The CDC has
also pointed out that you are not considered “fully vaccinated” until two weeks
after your second dose (in the case of Pfizer or Moderna), which is given six
weeks after your first shot.23 This means that if you receive your first
dose on June 1, you won’t be “fully vaccinated” until eight weeks later, around
August 1.
So, the
narrative that we’re in a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was created by using
statistics from a time period when the U.S. as a whole was largely
unvaccinated. When you look at more recent data, the trend is swinging in the
opposite direction.
Vaccinated Now Comprise the
Bulk of Hospitalizations
For example,
August 1, 2021, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, director of Israel’s Public Health
Services, announced half of all COVID-19 infections were among the fully
vaccinated.24
A few days
later, August 5, Dr. Kobi Haviv, director of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem,
appeared on Channel 13 News, reporting that 95% of severely ill COVID-19
patients are fully vaccinated, and that they make up 85% to 90% of COVID
related hospitalizations overall.25
In Scotland,
official data on hospitalizations and deaths show 87% of those who have died
from COVID-19 in the third wave that began in early July were vaccinated,26 and in Gibraltar,
which has a 99% COVID jab compliance rate, COVID cases have risen by 2,500%
since June 1, 2021.27
A CDC
investigation of an outbreak in Barnstable County, Massachusetts between July 6
through July 25, 2021, found 74% of those who received a diagnosis of COVID19,
and 80% of hospitalizations, were among the fully vaccinated.28,29 Most, but not all,
had the Delta variant.
“What the breakthrough cases appear to show is that
the delta variant of the coronavirus is more easily carried and transmitted by
vaccinated people than its predecessors,” the Chronicle
editorial board writes.30
“In any case, the greater apparent transmissibility
of the variant makes it that much more important to protect as many people as
possible from severe COVID by increasing inoculation rates.”
What the board
appears to be saying is that unvaccinated people must be protected against
severe infection, against their will, if need be, and the best way to do that
is to discriminate against them and treat them like second-class citizens.
Again, a simple
way to check the reasonableness of this argument is to swap out the COVID
reference for something else. How about, “It’s important to protect as many
people as possible from dying in car accidents by raising car prices so fewer
people can get behind the wheel.”
Can ‘Big Brother’ Save You
From a Virus?
As early as
April 2020, The Times in the U.K. weighed in with similar suggestions, stating
“We need Big Brother to beat this virus.”31 Clare Foges, the
author of the piece in question, went on to say, “Don’t let the civil liberties
lobby blind us to the fact that greater state surveillance, including ID cards,
is required.”
The argument
that Big Brother can protect us from infection is ludicrous on its face,
because no amount of people surveillance can prevent microscopic viruses from
circulating.
The No. 1 place
of viral spread is in institutions, such as nursing homes and hospitals, yet
the staff within them are among the most well-trained in pathogenic control. If
trained hospital staff can’t prevent the spread of viruses, how can government
officials do it?
Importantly,
the argument that we need vaccine passports to prove we’re “clean” enough to
participate in society immediately falls apart when you take into account the
fact that the COVID shots do not provide immunity. You can still be infected,
carry the virus and spread it to others.
We’ve already
seen several examples of situations where 100% of people were fully
“vaccinated” against COVID-19 yet an outbreak occurred. We’ve even seen over
100 fully COVID injected people die from COVID in one state alone,
Massachusetts,32 so it is likely there are now many thousands of fully “vaccinated”
who have died from COVID.
Even a 100% Vaccination
Rate Cannot Eliminate COVID
Most recently,
Carnival cruise lines experienced an outbreak despite every last person on that
ship having proof of COVID “vaccination.”33 The cruise liner had
even intentionally reduced capacity from 4,000 to 2,800 to provide ample social
distancing capability. None of the measures worked. People got sick anyway,
which makes perfect sense if you remember that the shot doesn’t provide
immunity, only symptom reduction.
Cases such as
these clearly reveal that even if everyone gets the shot, SARS-CoV-2 will
mutate and continue to circulate, taking people out here and there. To think
that giving up basic rights and freedoms is the answer simply isn’t logical.
Taking responsibility for your own health is, and that includes deciding if and
how you want to protect yourself from SARS-CoV-2.
Not everyone is
deathly afraid of COVID-19. Many realize there are safe and effective
treatments available, such as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care
Alliance’s I-MASS Prevention and At-Home Treatment protocol and I-MASK+ Early Outpatient Treatment protocol.
Nebulized hydrogen peroxide
can also be used for prevention and treatment of COVID-19, as detailed in Dr.
David Brownstein’s case paper34 (https://www.annethermt.com/uploads/1/2/6/7/12670943/oral_vitamin_a_c_d.pdf) and Dr. Thomas Levy’s free e-book, “Rapid Virus Recovery.” ( https://rvr.medfoxpub.com ) And if there’s effective
treatment, there’s little need to risk permanent side effects from an
experimental gene technology that can only provide a narrow range of protection
in the first place.
- Sources
and References
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1 WhiteHouse.gov, National Strategy for Countering
Domestic Terrorism June 2021
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2 PLOS Biology July 28, 2021 DOI:
10.1371.journal.pbio.3001369
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3 Summit
News August 5, 2021
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4, 5 Jonathanturley.org
August 4, 2021
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6, 7, 16 The
Atlantic August 3, 2021
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8, 28 CDC MMWR
July 30, 2021; 70
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9, 29 CNBC July
30, 2021
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10 HHS.gov
The Belmont Report
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11 UN International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights
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12 WMA
Declaration of Helsinki
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13 British Medical Journal December 7, 1996; 7070(313):
1448 (PDF)
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14 Justia Rochin v. California
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15 Justia Griswold v. Connecticut
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17, 18 Swift
Headline August 5, 2021
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19, 20, 30 San Francisco Chronicle August 2, 2021 (Archived)
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21 Bloomberg COVID Vaccine Tracker, see US Vaccinations
vs Cases graph, top portion
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22 Mayo
Clinic COVID Vaccine Tracker
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23 CDC.gov When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated Updated July
27, 2021
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24 Bloomberg
August 1, 2021 (Archived)
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25 American
Faith August 8, 2021
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26 The Daily
Expose July 29, 2021
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27 Big
League Politics August 4, 2021
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31 The Times
April 20, 2021
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32 Boston.com
August 10, 2021
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33 FBA News
August 9, 2021
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34 Science, Public Health Policy and The Law July 2020;
1: 4-22 (PDF)
