[Sundaycommunity] [Mission] Fwd: FW: Commenting on Jesuit Forum Webinar: Vaccine Equity in the Global South: Is Vaccination our only Salvation?
Arthur Blomme
art at integralshift.ca
Mon Aug 16 13:49:45 PDT 2021
Hi all
I would like to share part of a conversation I am having with our
Scarboro Missions group. I am in dismay in how strong our faith is in
the ethical mandates of our technocratic medical system. I fear that
our democracy and civil liberties are under attack and many former
allies and friends are unwilling to stand up to the fear messaging and
authoritarian overreach of our political propaganda systems. There is
another way. Rather than control creation, we can be one with creation.
Art
/* "Each age has only a meager awareness of its own limitations. "*/(
Francis, Laudato Si)
Dear Jenny
Thank you very much for your polite and timely comments to my email. I
too, believe that we need to continue this discussion especially with
Trudeau's promise to mandate vaccines and remove our civil right to
informed consent .
My critique of The Vaccine Equity webinar is that it obstructs the
process of logical and evidence based examination of the contradictions
of the dominant vaccination is our only salvation narrative. As the
focus of my critique of the webinar I state
> Unfortunately in the keynote of the webinar, Dr. Sachs, dismissed the
> relevance of any perspectives that questions the dominant vaccine
> narrative with the label anti-vaxxers. In so doing Dr. Sachs is
> complicit with the technocratic narrative that creates a new "other"
> to be excluded from society.
If you had selected Vandana Shiva as a presenter we would be having a
different conversation. Vandana Shiva has a history of calling out
vaccine producers like Bill Gates and his big pharma partners at the
WHO. She, like Francis in Laudato Si, sees this technocratic elite as
the greatest threat to our planet. (DIVIDE & RULE - The Plan of The 1%
to Make You DISPOSABLE - Vandana Shiva <https://youtu.be/f9lq-uBdxg8>)
I am concerned with how our society is blindly accepting the monolithic,
top down, dogmatic pronouncements on "science" and ethics made by the
technocratic elite who present neither data nor argument in support of
their position. In this link former ethics researcher at the W.H.O.,
Astrid Stuckelburger, PhD raises an alarm about the lack of once present
debate on the pronouncements and top down messaging made by WHO
concerning ethics and science.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wUK87otKU&pp=sAQA>
Basically, this narrative claims vaccination is our only salvation.
Dissenting opinions, the normal hallmark of science, are being
suppressed and censored while our civil liberties, rights and freedoms
are being nullified to the glee of the indoctrinated authoritarian
liberal class. There is a growing hostility and polarization where any
attempt at logical evidence based critique of the official narrative is
characterized by this class as stupid and immoral. Only the official
narrative is considered acceptable by the corporately owned media(mass
and social). All other narratives are misinformation. Asking questions
is considered immoral and irresponsible. Dr. Sachs seems to be OK with a
new scapegoat, "antivaxers" as a new class of others to be rejected
from society.
There is clearly no consensus in the Scientific community, yet news
worthy items that contradict the dominant narrative are censored and
dissenters are called "snake oil salesman". The mainstream media is
silent on all the law suits that are in progress regarding violations to
our civil rights.
https://www.shiftfrequency.com/1000-lawyers-and-10,000-doctors-file-lawsuit-for-violations-of-nuremberg-code/
This indoctrination has been achieved largely through negative bias, a
natural human condition where we pay more attention to negative info
that may be dangerous. Hence numbers quoted out of context substantiate
and legitimate our fears. So India having 4500 people dying a day may
strike fear in our hearts but it only becomes accurate when you consider
that the population of India is 1.3 billion. In actuality the death
rate from Covid in India is .03%, well below the global rate of .05%.
So if we say that In India 99.97 % of the population have not died from
Covid we might have a different view of the severity of the disease.
Covid death statistics would make even more sense if they are related to
the overall average death rate, . Check out how the Covid Pandemic
compares with other pandemics in the included chart.
When you say Laudato Si has to be read with these voices at the
forefront, with an ethical reflection on the morality of letting so
many people die." You here are referencing the negatively biased death
statistics and the daily negative bias we are exposed to in case
counts. This is the first time in history that we have used viral
testing to determine whether we have a disease. Previously we relied on
the presence of visible symptoms to determine that someone is diseased.
The entire third chapter of Laudato Si, titled, "The Human Roots of
the Ecological Crisis" is about "the dominant technocratic paradigm".
It is a mindset that Francis considers to be the wrong kind of thinking
and the cause of our current alienation from nature. Yet the wisdom
held in this chapter is largely ignored by church organizations such as
yours.
Since the Webinar:
1. In social and mainstream media I have heard of absolutely no more
about sharing the vaccine or making it available to the poor.
2. The vaccine companies are announcing that they will now charge more
for the vaccine.
3. The media are preparing us to have our children under 12 vaccinated.
4. Vaccination passports and censorship of all information that
contradicts the official story are being implemented in many of the
large private organizations and media centres.
5. Israel which has fully vaccinated 85 % of Israeli citizens is now
calling for further lock-downs, mask wearing and a third booster jab
for Israeli's over 60.
Hopefully you have a better idea of what i believe to be the great
contradiction in the Vaccine Equity webinar. Einstein said that we
cannot solve a problem at the same level that it was created. If the
problem is that the poor are bearing the brunt of the consequences of
the Covid pandemic. The solution must lie not in the vaccination
program but within the billionaire class that are controlling the
message and benefiting from the pandemic in order to increase their
power. We must see the evil in the system for what it is. Again as
Francis say's:
technology tends to absorb everything into its own cloud like logic
and those who are surrounded with technology know full well that it
moves forward in the final analysis neither for profit nor for the
well being of the human race and that in the most radical sense of
the term, power is its motive -- a lordship over all.(Laudato Si 108)
Art
> On 7/25/21 5:45 a.m., Rosina Bisci wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Jenny Cafiso has asked me to forward her reply regarding the Webinar:
> Vaccine Equity in the Global South.
> Rosina
>
>
> *From:* Jenny Cafiso
> *Sent:* Monday, July 19, 2021 2:14 PM
> *To:* 'Arthur Blomme' <art at integralshift.ca
> <mailto:art at integralshift.ca>>; mark at hathaway-ramos.com
> <mailto:mark at hathaway-ramos.com>
> *Cc:* mission at discuss.sfm-alumni.ca
> <mailto:mission at discuss.sfm-alumni.ca>
> *Subject:* RE: Commenting on Jesuit Forum Webinar: Vaccine Equity
> in the Gobal South: Is Vaccination our only Salvation?
>
> Dear Art,
>
> thank you so much for your message and the questions you raise.
>
> It would require a longer response which I am not able to give
> immediately, but just to exonerate the Jesuit Forum, I just want
> to clarify that the webinar was organized solely by Canadian
> Jesuits International, of which I am the Executive Director. The
> Jesuit Forum, headed by Mark is a separate organization and it
> was not involved at all in the planning or execution of the
> webinar. So they have no responsibility for any of the issues
> which you raise.
>
> You raise a number of very different issues Art, which in fact
> would need to be analyzed separately: the question of the medical
> safety or not of vaccines; the morality of vaccinating children;
> the power and monopoly of big pharma; the message of Laudato Si
> and Technocrats and corporate greed vis a vis COVID Vaccines.
> Each of these need to be examined in their own right, one does not
> lead to a conclusion on the other, or explain the other.
>
> Just a couple of things that would also need to be added to your
> list of issues to be discussed:
>
> * in India at the peak of the pandemic they were reporting 4,500
> deaths per day – but that is only the official statistic, we
> know from our partners on the ground who work in rural areas
> and with marginalized populations, that the numbers are much
> higher. In Brazil there are 4,200 deaths per day --
> officially. Just last Week I participated in a meeting with
> people who live and work in the Amazon – the picture they
> described in terms of impact of the pandemic in the Amazon was
> shocking. The people who told the stories were not the voices
> of “greedy” corporations” – but workers, teachers, rural
> leaders who are living in their skin the effects of the
> pandemic with families and whole villages infected or dead.
> * Laudato Si has to be read with these voices at the forefront,
> with an ethical reflection on the morality of letting so many
> people die. And it so happens that everywhere, even in rich
> countries, it is the poor who suffer most the consequences of
> COVID both medically and economically
> * and FYI if look up the institute headed by one of the 4
> speakers who presented at the webinar, Dr. Sunita Sarain from
> the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),
> https://www.cseindia.org/page/sunita-narain
> <https://www.cseindia.org/page/sunita-narain> you will see
> that she is very much in line with the thinking of Vandana
> Shiva, who was actually one of the other options we
> considered for our webinar
>
> I am sorry this is all I can say at this time due to time
> constraints. As you say, the issue is very complex and we could
> only deal with some of them, but the discussion needs to be
> continued. Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> Peace
>
> jenny
>
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> *From:* Arthur Blomme <art at integralshift.ca
> <mailto:art at integralshift.ca>>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 19, 2021 1:26 PM
> *To:* Jenny Cafiso <jcafiso at jesuits.org
> <mailto:jcafiso at jesuits.org>>; mark at hathaway-ramos.com
> <mailto:mark at hathaway-ramos.com>
> *Cc:* mission at discuss.sfm-alumni.ca
> <mailto:mission at discuss.sfm-alumni.ca>
> *Subject:* Commenting on Jesuit Forum Webinar: Vaccine Equity in
> the Gobal South: Is Vaccination our only Salvation?
>
> Open letter to the Jesuit Forum
> Re: Leaving no one Behind: Vaccine Equity in the Gobal South
>
> Dear Jenny and Mark
>
> I listened to the webinar " Leave No One Behind: Vaccine Equity in
> the Global South" presented by the Jesuit Forum. I consider it
> an important topic for a people of faith at this time and was
> pleased to learn that the Jesuit Forum were going to discuss it.
>
> I found this webinar was narrowly defined, framed exactly in the
> terms of the 24 hour vaccine advertisement purveyed in the
> official media where vaccines provide us with our only hope for
> salvation. Vandana Shiva writes "the health emergency of the
> corona virus is inseparable from the health emergency of
> extinction, the health emergency of biodiversity loss, and the
> health emergency of the climate crisis. "
>
> Unfortunately in the keynote of the webinar, Dr. Sachs, dismissed
> the relevance of any perspectives that questions the dominant
> vaccine narrative with the label anti-vaxxers. In so doing Dr.
> Sachs is complicit with the technocratic narrative that creates a
> new "other" to be excluded from society. Those who question
> vaccination as humanities only source of salvation are
> anti-vaxxers, morally reprehensible, a danger to society and not
> worthy of any consideration.
>
> Thus the webinar proceeded,fully framed in the narrative of fear
> being disseminated throughout the world. This same narrative has
> expedited the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the
> billionaire class in recorded history. All the webinar speakers
> were quick to acknowledge the role of greedy corporations in not
> wanting to share the vaccine with the poor and powerless.
> However they were unable to fathom a level of greed where powerful
> players might control and manipulate information into a narrative
> that would greatly increase their power.
>
> In Laudato Si, Francis contests this limited vision of corporate
> greed. He says of the technocrats:
>
> technology tends to absorb everything into its own cloud like
> logic and those who are surrounded with technology know full
> well that it moves forward in the final analysis neither for
> profit nor for the well being of the human race and that in
> the most radical sense of the term, power is its motive -- a
> lordship over all.(Laudato Si 108)
>
> Francis disputes the dogmatic fervor which prohibits any thinking
> outside this box provided by the technocratic elites(WHO, Anthony
> Faucci, Bill Gates and our WHO Rep, Theresa Tam). The technocrats
> do not have our best interests at heart. Follow the money and
> power relations of the trillion dollar vaccine industry. Clearly
> Francis see's the technocratic mindset leading our human project
> in the wrong direction; into further alienation from the wonder
> of creation.
>
> Having taken to heart the words of Laudato Si I am in dismay at
> the lack of solidarity in my Church for those who question the
> science of vaccine salvation. Most egregious of the incongruities
> in the vaccine salvation narrative is the logic of vaccinating
> children.
>
> 1. The Covid vaccines are a radically different technology from
> vaccines of the past like small pox. We do not know the long
> term effects of these gene therapy vaccines
> 2. They have been approved for emergency use only. Many of the
> safety protocols involved in the vaccine approval process like
> long term testing and animal testing have been eliminated.
> 3. Children have a natural immunity to the Covid virus. The
> incidence of children getting sick from the vaccine is
> statistically zero. Natural immunity is the best kind of immunity.
> 4. There is no evidence that healthy children spread the virus to
> adults.
>
> These facts only scratch the surface of the flaws in the
> utilitarian moral arguments that justify the criminal behaviour of
> injecting into our healthy offspring an experimental genetic
> therapy that manipulates the natural processes in their bodies to
> protect an unhealthy older more privileged population.
>
> Before we make an impotent foray into the question of global
> vaccine equity should we not listen to the thousands of doctors
> and medical experts who testify against the voracity of the
> narrative that our only salvation is vaccination?
>
> The question of vaccine equity is far more complicated than
> presented in this webinar. Is there no attempt in the Jesuit
> Forum to see this pandemic and its messaging in the terms laid out
> in Laudato Si? Specifically does the Jesuit Forum have the courage
> to research and publicly debate the morality of vaccinating
> children with this experimental gene therapy?
>
> Regards
>
> Arthur Blomme
>
> PS I am attaching an unpublished essay I wrote last
> November,_Technocracy, Pandemic Response and Laudato Si_ because
> it remains relevant to understanding the Pandemic in terms
> provided by Laudato Si.
>
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