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During the big health scare of the mid-1800s, vaccination became compulsory in Britain and parts of America, and, believe it or not, vaccine certificates were required for travel.

The health scare then was smallpox, and vaccination in those days meant cutting incisions into the arm with a knife and rubbing pus from an infected sore into the wound.

Each generation thinks the last is barbaric, and that they are working new miracles. Smallpox was eradicated in 1980, they tell us. But now we have monkeypox, which even the CDC admits looks a lot like it.

The early smallpox vaccine was by no means safe and effective. As the National Library of Medicine puts it: “Potential hazards ranged from excessive scarring at the vaccination site up to brain swelling (postvaccinal encephalitis) and death.”

No wonder vaccination rates declined significantly after conscientious objection was permitted from 1907.

The anti-vaxxers of the 1800s and 1900s were pissed not only because doctors were gouging their arms with scalpels, but because the number of vaccine-related injuries often exceeded the number of smallpox cases, according to the National Library of Medicine.

The first vaccinators were using an old idea from China in the 1500s whereby smallpox scabs were dried, ground, and blown into the nostril using a pipe. Then they started rubbing pus into wounds in Asia and Africa. (Source: the World Health Organization website.)

The idea was brought to Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1721, after she observed the practice in the Ottoman Empire, where her husband was stationed as ambassador.

“Around the same time, it came to public attention in the American colonies. Enslaved West Africans had long practised the technique, and after his slave Onesimus told him about how it worked in 1716, Cotton Mather publicized it and argued for its use in response to a 1721 outbreak of smallpox in Massachusetts,” says the WHO.

Edward Jenner did his bit, inoculating the 8-year-old son of his gardener with pus scraped from blisters on the hands of a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom—nice detail.

Fast-forward to 1870, and a large number of “vaccine farms” began to be established in America and Europe by those who saw an opportunity to profit from the ever-increasing demand. (Source: the National Library of Medicine.) The vaccine industry was born, along with more vaccine hesitancy that the pro-vaxxers could laugh at—some antis believed it would turn you into a cow.

Ha ha, this showed they were idiots, and no doubt that helped hush up what was going on behind the scenes to produce vaccines.

Suffice to say thirteen children died from a contaminated diphtheria antitoxin produced in a diseased horse in St. Louis, while nine children died from infection in Camden, New Jersey, after receiving contaminated smallpox vaccine. And so the vaccine industry got “regulated.” Whoopee.

Look, I’m all for free enterprise, so, good for the pox farmers. Just beware the nexus where health care, governments, and markets collide (I mistyped and wrote “collude” to start with).

Compulsory smallpox vaccination was only discontinued in England in 1971, a year before my birth. I received loads of other jabs, thankfully by hypodermic syringe and made in a lab, which is much better than a pus farm, right?

By the early ’80s seven vaccines were being given to children: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis or whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, and polio. I also had a BCG, for tuberculosis, at secondary school. And lo, I never got diseases growing up in a middle-class home with modern sanitation.

In the 19th century, vaccination reflected a new ability of national governments to interfere in disease outbreak, which had been up until then a local matter.

Fast-forward to now, and government control of our health is such that a pilot scheme in Europe right now is working out a way to put all your vaccines and your childrens’ onto a digital ID card or your iPhone, for reasons which can be guessed at.

Vaccine passports may not be new, but unlike their 19th-century counterparts, when travel was a luxury for a very few, these ones will surely enable the state to control the majority.

It’s all well and good if you believe that, from smallpox to Covid to monkeypox, the injecting of people by their governments is in their best interests and for the common good. But to know that, not just believe it blindly, you have to understand the evidence.

I refused the Covid jab because I did not see how it could possibly have been made safely in such a short time. I also refused flu shots because I believe a good bout of cold or flu is necessary for the immune system. Old wives’ tale?

One can distrust Covid and flu jabs while still trusting other vaccines. But I started to think, hang on, if I fear those ones are hooey, I need to look into The Whole Thing, which is a heck of a lot of bother when Googling vaccination brings up aggressive “fact-check” lectures designed to deter me questioning, because even search engines are pro-vax, and you almost expect a knock at the door from the thought police.

If, like me, you want the evidence, then may I recommend a recent podcast by the cardiologist Peter McCullough and Roman Bystrianyk, a statistician who has researched extensively and comes to the conclusion that most of the big contagious diseases were heading for oblivion before modern vaccination programs began?

Now, you can say this Roman Bystrianyk is being histrionic. But before you do, ask yourself if you have looked at the primary source material, or just accepted what the vaccine industry tells you.

McCullough has had in excess of fifty vaccines, including forty flu shots given at the hospital where he works, which were compulsory if he wanted to keep his job, so he is not an ideological anti-vaxxer. He looked into the Covid shots after seeing a huge spike in heart problems.

He says: “We don’t review vaccines critically in our training. I’m not responsible for their safety or efficacy. There are things in medicine that are considered background activities.”

In other words, we should not assume doctors make it their business to understand vaccines on our behalf, because they don’t. “I did blindly accept them,” says McCullough. “We kind of feel burned because we didn’t review this critically.”

Bystrianyk, who started researching childhood vaccines during the period of concern over neurological damage, produces various charts showing contagious diseases flatlining before modern vaccination begins. Better sanitation and living conditions, better diet, less pollution, and so on have already kicked in by the time we work out how to inject people.

When vaccination stops in some cases, the graphs show the diseases not budging.

He points specifically to a chart showing the decline of measles mortality by 95 percent before there was a measles vaccine in 1963 in the U.S. (1968 in the U.K.). From 1940 to 1960 the graph plunges and flatlines at the very bottom.

Let’s balance that by looking at what the CDC says: Widespread use of measles vaccine drastically reduced the disease rates in the 20th century.

A vaccine became available in 1963. In the decade before, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years old. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year. Among reported measles cases each year, an estimated:

• 400 to 500 people died

• 48,000 were hospitalized

• 1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain)

Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000.

So, a death rate of 0.01% a year pre-vaxxing. Almost all children got measles and recovered, and that, as I understand it, means with a boosted immune system, although if I say getting relatively safe illnesses like this helps the body build its cellular defense systems so it can fight much worse, such as cancer, that is misinformation, according to our governments.

Of course, measles continues in poor countries, where the risks are greater. Our World In Data shows measles going from 800,000 deaths worldwide in 1980 to less than 100,000 in 2021, so a win for vaccination, presumably.

It then climbs, with the authorities blaming post-Covid-vaccine skepticism. Those pesky excess death figures. Some experts warned that latent diseases would be reactivated in depleted immune systems after Covid vaccinating—all about the impact on the T cells if you look it up—but this also was dismissed as misinformation.

Whooping cough is shown by Bystrianyk as down 90 percent before there was a vaccine. I suppose we can argue the authorities decided to keep it gone. Who to believe?

Perhaps the most convincing study of vaccine inefficacy is one signed by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, along with two officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Jeffrey Taubenberger and David Morens), in which it is stated: “As of 2022, after more than 60 years of experience with influenza vaccines, very little improvement in vaccine prevention of infection has been noted.” Wowzer.

Vaccines for flu, Covid, and other respiratory viruses aren’t effective in protecting against illness over a person’s lifetime, they state.

Remember when the official line was that you had to have the Covid jab because it would stop you getting it and giving it, and it was only going to be two? Now my father is up to seven shots and he’s had Covid badly enough to get long Covid, along with a blood clot causing a heart attack, by coincidence, according to people like Fauci.

I don’t trust what they say about the other jabs anymore, simply because they’re only now admitting flu and Covid vaccines aren’t all they were cracked up to be, because they had to.

The least scientific person knows the Covid vaccine doesn’t “work” in the conventional sense because they still get sick from Covid.

People can tell themselves they would have been even sicker if they hadn’t had the jab, or seven, but really they must know something’s up.

One scenario I wonder about is whether the authorities had a bit of luck, initially, with vaccines. As they jabbed people up, the diseases receded anyway, so they chalked up the wins and kept going. If it looks like it’s working, what sort of government numbskull would commission official research that might show it’s actually a coincidence?

By the time a disease declared dead comes back we can always rename it…

The vaccine for monkeypox is the smallpox vaccine, is all we are allowed to know. As for whooping cough and measles rising again, that’s our fault for not having more vaccine, even though we had quite a lot of it (and nothing to do with immune systems malfunctioning).

It all makes me feel that I cannot say I personally believe in all vaccines anymore. But I do think they’re effective.

In a pandemic, what better way to contain panic than to say, “The antidote is coming,” while the thing burns itself out?

Vaccines are a very good method of averting chaos and strengthening belief in the state, while one obvious side effect is that they give governments more control over us.