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  • A religious argument against Mandatory Vaccination

    A religious argument against Mandatory Vaccination

    I haven’t written for a while, so I put together a collection of thoughts I’ve been pondering for a while on why grounds for religious exemption for mandatory vaccination should be given deeper consideration.

    Belief in Eschatology is a Prime Tenet of Faith

    Prophecy, or ‘extended precognition’ by a more modern definition, is an inherent part of the Abrahamic Faiths. From Noah to Abraham, Moses to Mohammad, the idea of understanding the importance of events prior to their culmination is a core part of faith. The idea of Christ giving himself up for crucifixion is radically altered by the idea that he knew what would happen and willfully submitted himself to God’s plan.

    John of Patmos is credited with authoring the Book of Revelations, a collection of visions regarding End Time events. Whatever his relation to the other Johns of the Bible, it is considered a historical fact that the book was written in Greek. It can be assumed from this that the author was literate in both Greek and Hebrew (Aramic), and considering his supposed exile to the island of Patmos by the Romans, likely understood Latin.

    Why is this revelant? Prophets throughout the Bible who describe the End Times referenced events that would occur in a distant future. Their descriptions of these events arrived in the form of dreams, as in the Prophet Daniel, or visions, as referenced by John. If they were witnessing events thousands of years in the future there would have been severe language constraints on their understanding. In some ways, it would represent an insurmountable information gap, allowing only fragments of information gleaned through studying the actions of people, never truly comprehending their words.

    So to first establish context, understand that at the time Revelation was written, languages like English hadn’t evolved. However, some English words that have Greek or Latin origins may have been intelligible to someone familiar with those languages. With this in mind, it is worth considering how John may have interpreted common modern words and phrases.

    The First Horseman

    “And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” -Revelation 6:2

    The first horseman of the Apocalypse has several possible identifications. While some interpretations identify the rider of the White Horse as either the Messiah or the Antichrist, a more common conception is that this particular rider symbolizes a global plague. The end of Revelation concludes with the rediscovery of the Tree of Life in Revelation 2:22, whose leaves are for the healing of Nations, to end the plague itself. The word pandemic has clear Greek origins that could have been understood by John. The horseman is also given a crown, or in Latin, a corona. Even the word virus is also Latin in origin, meaning a poison or venom, so the current coronavirus pandemic appears to have linguistic similarities to John’s vision as described in Revelation 6.

    The Mark of the Beast

    John, from his perspective as an ancient Greek, wouldn’t have understood modern medicine. He also wouldn’t have understood the concept of a vaccine in response to a pandemic. However, he might have understood the relevance of words like ‘vaccinated’ given how frequently they are mentioned in modern life. And this importance may have led him to try to interpret their meaning.

    The word vaccine derives from vacca originally, which is a Latin word for a milk cow, a common beast of burden in agricultural societies. One of the earliest demonstrated immunization technologies involved inoculation with cow pox to provide for an immune defense against small pox. The use of the word stuck, and even though modern vaccines have nothing to do with cows, its use persists.

    John, hearing what he’d identified as important and relevant Latin words repeatedly frequently, might have interpreted the word vaccinated as vacca nota. Vacca, referring to a common domesticated beast of burden, and nota, from the Latin word meaning mark or seal. Therefore the concept of a beast mark or mark of the beast referenced by John may correlate to the word vaccinated. Words like mandatory and mandated, meaning commanded, also have Latin origins that would have been decipherable. So to John’s Greek/Latin hearing, mandatory vaccination may have sounded like commanded beast mark.

    “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
    Revelation 13:16-17

    In John’s vision, those who refuse the commanded beast mark were denied access to aspects of society, including the ability to engage in commerce. In the modern era, those who refuse mandatory vaccination can find themselves unable to work, enter retail establishments, even go to Church. Those who support the beast mark were expected to show their status in their hand (via a smartphone VaxPass app) and on their forehead (photo ID). The similarities to John’s vision seem somewhat stark. John’s vision also identifies the group pushing mandatory vaccination/commanded beast mark as essentially being on the wrong side of God’s plan, with their work ultimately being fruitless.

    Given how negatively John’s vision presents those who support the mark of the beast, and how similar the circumstances of John’s vision are with these aspects of modern life, there should be strong grounds with which to seek a religious exemption from mandatory vaccination.

  • The best defense is a good offense

    [I’ve passed this information on to the federal and provincial governments of Canada, their respective health agencies, and several media outlets for consideration.]

    At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, we can state facts with some certainty.

    1. This virus is new, so our immune systems have never encountered it before.
    2. Those hit the hardest tend to be older and/or suffer from conditions that impair their immune function.


    Adaptive immunity vs Innate Immunity

    There are two different levels of immune response capable of fighting off the virus. The most studied is the adaptive immune system. This involves white blood cells and the development of antibodies capable of attaching to and deactivating the virus. This is the target the development of vaccines aims towards, training the adaptive immune system to recognize a pathogen. The first line of defense against pathogens is another system, the innate immune system, which occurs within the cells themselves.

    The response of the innate immune system is governed by the mitochondria. The mitochondria is an organelle that exists within the cells of almost all eukaryotic life, from plants to people. It is responsible for producing energy through the process known as oxidative phosphorylation, where oxygen and simple sugars are burned to produce energy for the cell. There are only a few known species that fall into this category that don’t contain mitochondria and they all live in anaerobic environments. One lives in dung, the other is a fish parasite. All higher forms of life contain mitochondria and it governs some of their most essential cellular processes.

    In higher life forms like humans, the number of mitochondria within cells varies significantly. Different cell-types have different numbers of them. Liver cells have some of the highest numbers. Exercise causes the body to produce more mitochondria. Without functioning mitochondria, the cell will die. The only mammal cells that lack functioning mitochondria are red blood cells, whose function is primarily to carry oxygen to other cells.

    The mitochondria also contribute to adaptive immunity. Healthy cells will produce more mitochondria when the body is under energy stress while fighting an infection. They will contribute these additional mitochondria to cells involved in the immune response.

    Hypothesis

    The trend towards older people and those with certain medical conditions to be at a greater risk of dying from COVID-19, while other people are able to be asymptomatic carriers who
    only show the most mild symptoms, correlates to the strength of their innate immune response. There is no adaptive immunity as the virus is novel.

    This leads to three conclusions:

    1. The virus is completely survivable.

    When not overwhelmed by the virus through a deficient innate immune response, the adaptive immune system is able to produce antibodies that can deactivate the virus.

    2. Healthy mitochondria prevent the adaptive immune system from being overwhelmed.

    As the first line of defense, healthy mitochondria can halt the proliferation of viruses early on in the infection of a cell. This reduces the total number of virions moving through a host body, allowing the adaptive immune system time to develop the antibodies needed to deactivate the virus entirely and aggressively suppress the infection.

    3. Therapies that target the mitochondria can prevent the host from being overwhelmed by the virus, reducing the risk of death.

    There is a group of chemicals, the dihalogenated acetates, that have demonstrated the ability to improve mitochondrial function. One member of this group, DCA (sold as sodium dichloroacetate) has been actively studied for its use in humans for a number of decades. Originally it was studied for its use in treating a metabolic disorder, lactic acidosis, but in more recent years it’s been used to treat cancers, endometriosis and other conditions. Its primary target is the mitochondria. It is considered non-toxic and safe to use. It is off-patent and cheaply produced, widely available for sale to the general public commercially through outlets like Amazon or direct from laboratories.

    This compound, and it’s associated higher family, should be considered for use against the current COVID-19 pandemic. If stimulating the mitochondria enhances the innate immune response in individuals with age or illness-related impairments to their mitochondria, the virus should become more survivable and developing the herd immunity to protect the more vulnerable members of society should become easier in the absence of a vaccine.

    It should also be noted that this compound is considered to be only artificially derived by agencies like Health Canada and the FDA, only discovered in the last century. Contrary to that belief, it has been reported to exist as a seaweed metabolite since the 1960s. Since seaweeds were the first multicellular life to evolve, this compound has existed since multicellular life began and would have been among the first vitamins that allowed other early multicellular life to flourish in an ocean awash with viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, conferring a strong innate immune response in the complete absence of an adaptive immune system.

    Conclusion: Strengthening the mitochondria will harden the host against pathogens like COVID-19, increasing the survival rate.

    I have another planned follow up on this one that shows these plants have been used for this purpose by ancient peoples. In some cases entire religions were built around them and their health benefits. This isn’t a new discovery, this is something very old we’ve forgotten.