Dean Jefferys, Mullumbimby
I feel concerned about the level of censorship on FB, Instagram, YouTube, MSM, local online groups and elsewhere about information concerning the dangers of the imminent rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. Surely information is vital when one is considering making the important decision whether to get this vaccine or not. People aren’t idiots, we can sort truth from fiction. We don’t need a nanny to protect us from info, even if it’s false. Free access to info and freedom of speech are the pillars of any democracy. Censorship creates suspicion about what it is they are trying to hide.
Up to 4 February, 650 people have died directly after receiving the CV vaccinations. This info comes directly from the USA government’s CDC website, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Fifty per cent of deaths occurred within 24 hours and only another 10 per cent occurred within 48 hrs, indicating the vaccine was the overriding cause of death. If you do have an adverse reaction to the vaccine you will not be compensated in Australia in any way by the government or vaccine manufacturers.
But don’t believe me, do your thorough research before making this important decision and don’t be coerced or bullied. The locally based ‘Australian Vaccination-risks Network’ was my first port of call when researching whether to vaccinate my kids 23 years ago.
I am also seeing much division over the vaccine issue yet again. Judging someone as an uninformed anti-vaxxer does nothing to advance our community. Likewise someone deciding to get the jab does not make them a mainstream media, brainwashed robot. We are all humans doing our best to work this crazy scenario out.
If, after all your research, you decide to get the jab, fine, yet don’t guilt trip people who decide not to. And don’t live in the illusion that you are making the world safer or more normal because you got vaccinated. Because it doesn’t stop you getting the covid virus or passing it on, it just lessens the symptoms. And with only a handful of people with covid in Australia you have to ask, where is the emergency and why would you want to be part of the biggest human big pharma experiment in history? I’d rather build on and trust my own healthy immune system and natural remedies than an experimental ‘Emergency Use’ listed vaccine, any day.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
