This is the opinion of the writer and does not necessarily reflect the views of La Voz News.
Since the mid-20th century, cases of hepatitis, polio, tuberculosis, measles, smallpox and more have dwindled due to large-scale vaccination campaigns by major governments and organizations, saving over 100 million lives. Nevertheless, the American public’s distrust of vaccines is concerningly increasing.
Much of the public’s distrust resulted from cultural shifts during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, where mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations brewed new speculation on efficacy, safety and intentions.
Not all of the doubt is unjustified, although it is somewhat misguided.
It is crucial to acknowledge the scary aspects of vaccines and also recognize their net-positive impact on humanity.
A 2024 review of toxicology reports analyzing COVID-19 vaccines from major corporations found 55 undisclosed elements within the serums.
These undisclosed elements include arsenic, lead, uranium and other toxic substances.
The study revealed that Pfizer vaccines, of which 4.6 billion doses have been shipped worldwide, currently contain 0.25 micrograms per liter of uranium. All isotopes of uranium are radioactive, releasing particles that could interfere with DNA.
It sounds frightening, but the average person consumes 0.9 to 1.5 micrograms of uranium daily, and COVID-19 vaccines are not a liter large. The amount within vaccines is tiny.
This applies to all of the other heavy elements in the report.
The government and its partnering corporations are too cowardly to overtly address this data in fear that the public will panic and retaliate against vaccines.
For example, vaccine corporations do not list out their ingredients explicitly, vaccination goalposts were conveniently and dishonestly shifted by Anthony Fauci and a paper analyzing U.S. federal government public health websites found major failures of providing thorough statistics for claims.
Citizens still discover and spread information, true or not, on vaccines regardless. This causes the panic the government attempts to avoid.
Much of this information comes from easily misinterpreted data, such as a 2023 research report that calculated the total COVID-19 vaccine-caused deaths worldwide using an isolatable variable called the “all-ages vaccine-dose fatality rate.”
The vDFR was revealed to be about 1 in 470 people.
When inferring this death rate to about 5 billion people vaccinated as of 2023, the report estimated roughly 17 million people have passed from the vaccines alone.
The report also concluded that the government-reported data on vaccine fatalities was ubiquitously underreported, as there is little worldwide data on recorded vaccine fatalities. One figure, for reference, is 11,823 fatalities spanning 30 European countries reported by the European Economic Area by March 31, 2023.
Only about 7 million worldwide deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported as of 2023. Thus, the 17 million statistic could be panic-inducing.
Nevertheless, the risk of not having vaccines, on average, is massively worse than having them.
Unvaccinated individuals have a death rate from contracting COVID-19 that is 17.5 times higher than those vaccinated, according to reported data in 2022 to the Public Agency of Canada.
Moreover, according to research published in 2023 under The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in only one year of the pandemic alone, 19.8 million people would have died from COVID-19 if vaccines had not been created.
It is still true that research shows that many have passed from vaccines; vaccines come with a risk and a cost. Even if vaccines don’t cause death, several different life-changing health complications, such as myocarditis and reproductive toxicity, have been caused by COVID-19 vaccines.
Pharmaceutical corporations and the federal government still need more transparency. Underreported vaccine fatalities and undisclosed elements in vaccines are only beginning points to work on.
There are not enough public announcements to gently, but truthfully, disclose how vaccines are made and their complications.
If the government shares the “scary” data about vaccines, it will help quell anti-vaccine rhetoric.
Being anti-vaccine is only anti-science as a side effect. The focus of people who oppose vaccines is against unconditionally trusting institutions in power.
This belief is nearly rational.
A corporation’s primary interest is to make money, but the focus of manufacturers producing vaccines should be the wellness and safety of the people.
It takes communal cooperation to make vaccines work. If enough people are unvaccinated, cases will grow, as seen in the recent measles comeback due to lowering vaccination rates in America.
To save yourself and others, get vaccinated, but don’t be blind.
Demand that corporations and the government be transparent.
Furthermore, De Anza students have accessible immunizations administered by the school, including free flu vaccines.
You can also resist fear-mongering by reading research yourself. Take the opportunity as a De Anza student to use the library databases of scientific articles for free.
