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Jason's avatar

I get it. My ex wife refused to vax our children and I hesitantly held my objections. At the time she had me read some books about vax injuries and indeed those stories sounded legit. But I kept believing that if these things were unsafe then the CDC would correct the problem. And secretly, I felt that if I allowed myself to do proper research and it proved the ex was right, then I’d find myself on the wrong side of most of my relationships and of society. A full decade passed where I lived with this cognitive dissonance. In 2018 the ex dragged me to see “Vaxxed II” and it was basically impossible for me to deny the first hand accounts of the people in the movie. So finally I started doing independent research and quickly concluded she was right, and thanked her for protecting our kids against my “follow authority” instinct when they were born. By the time covid came around, I knew the drill and saw right through the CDC narrative from Day 1. And indeed, many of my long term relationships have been strained or lost. And that’s ok. It may take 50 years, but eventually truth will prevail.

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Same goes for the childhood vaccinations. I have spent countless hours talking with young moms about the baby vaccines. I presented to them the data, the vaccine ingredients, no liability (1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act), the vaccine labels, etc. I'm not a physician but I'm a chemist with 29 years of experience in the pharma industry. It's almost impossible to change anyone's mind. I'm sure most people think I'm crazy, but I will not stop warning people about vaccines.

When I was in college, all students were required to take a debate course in order to graduate. In this course, we debated very controversial topics. We didn't get to chose the topic or debate partner. It was set up so one week you had to present one side of the argument and the following week you had to present the opposite side of the argument. The class voted on who won the debate. At the time, I thought it was a useless college course, but as I got older, now I understand the precious value of that course. It forced all the students to keep an open mind and research both sides of any controversial topic. All high schools and colleges should require such a course. It trained my mind to question everything. Question authority!

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