Here in New Zealand, we have seen legislation passed that could be used to force a vaccine on the public. Some of the troubling text is as follows:

...require persons to take any actions, or comply with any measures, that contribute or are likely to contribute to preventing the risk of the outbreak or spread of COVID-19, including (without limitation) requiring persons to do any of the following...

This is a local example of a global narrative. Bill Gates and many others are suggesting that we need to vaccinate the whole planet. Needless to say the financial rewards to the winner of that vaccine race would be incomprehensible.

Two things could cut the race short and end the dreams of big pharma and reopen the world.

1. Herd immunity
2. An effective treatment

We may be closer to herd immunity than you might think. And, there may actually be an effective treatment already.

Debate is raging worldwide over the use of a well known drug, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), for the treatment of COVID-19.

Several doctors have published papers on their success using HCQ for the treatment of patients. A little known New York doctor named Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has pioneered a treatment protocol using HCQ with zinc and the antibiotic azithromycin. He has a paper in prerelease describing his results. His outpatient survival rate was 99.3%. A simplified explanation is that the zinc does the work of changing the pH of the cells that the virus would usual use to replicate itself, preventing the replication. The HCQ is just needed to get the zinc into the cells.

The Henry Ford institute in the US has released a study showing that HCQ reduces mortality by 50% in hospitalised patients. This is consistent with other research out of France.

So, this is great right? Well, not if you have a vested interest in the business of vaccination. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Oxford University in the UK both launched studies into the effectiveness and safety of HCQ, which seems a positive move if taken at face value. However, both studies used a dose of HCQ "four times the maximum dose for any medical condition." HCQ is a very safe drug with a 65-year track record...when dosed properly. However, using HCQ outside of its "therapeutic window" is potentially lethal. Not surprisingly the studies gave HCQ the thumbs down and this was picked up in mainstream media.

Another seeming blow to HCQ was the emergence of a study in the prestigious Lancet journal showing that HCQ was ineffective in combatting COVID-19 infections. However, a global community of researchers called the paper into question and the Lancet later retracted it as the data appeared to be fraudulent.

Dr. Zelenko's treatment protocol costs about $20 per patient and only needs to be administered to patients that are at risk and are showing symptoms. And, this protocol appears to be very safe for the very patients who are at risk. Vaccine trials are targeting the young and healthy, the very population that seems to face very little risk from COVID-19.

It is important to note that HCQ is not the only effective treatment emerging from pioneering doctors in the field. Dr. Richard Bartlett in Texas has found another protocol using inhaled budesonide (asthma inhaler) via nebuliser in conjunction with zinc and an antibiotic. He has had a 100% recovery rate with this method, including patients battling cancer who have recently had chemotherapy. You can see more in the video linked below. Dr. Bartlett also has an academic paper in the works.

A second Gates-backed COVID-19 vaccine failure has emerged. Researchers are pushing into human trials of a vaccine that failed to produce a strong enough antibody response to protect any of the monkey test subjects.

Jacinda Ardern said that "We will have to be managing COVID-19 until there's a vaccine." A recent press release from Moderna gives us troubling insight into how the vaccine race is unfolding. Moderna — a Bill Gates’ venture that has yet to produce a successful product — is one of the leading contenders in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Moderna press release takes a positive tone, but a close reading of it tells us that three out of the 15 initial high-dose test subjects experienced severe adverse effects "preventing daily activity and requiring medical attention." And, only eight of the 15 developed antibodies.

Researchers have been trying for 30 years to produce vaccines for other COVID family viruses with no success. These test vaccines tended to produce "binding" antibodies rather than "neutralising" antibodies. These "binding" antibodies seemed to put the animal and human test subjects more at risk, with the result being sometimes fatal.

Given the long history of coronavirus vaccine research, these troubling initial results are unsurprising. It seems like a poor idea to skip animal trials and rush the development of such a vaccine. And, it seems like an even worse idea to consider mandating it to whole populations.

Read more about this in Robert F. Kennedy's post "Vaccine Trial Catastrophe: Moderna Vaccine has 20% ‘Serious’ Injury Rate in High Dose Group"

If you are concerned about the issue of forced vaccination, then there has never been a more important time to educate yourself and enter into the debate.

In the past week, renowned US attorney attorney Alan Dershowitz was quoted as saying:

You have no constitutional right to endanger the public and spread the disease. Even if you disagree, you have no right not to be vaccinated. You have no right not to wear a mask. You have no right to open up your business. If they decide you have to be vaccinated, we have to be vaccinated. And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm.

Fortunately, that is not the end of the story. Del Bigree, producer of the Vaxxed documentaries, invited Alan Dershowitz to join him in a public debate. To Dershowitz's credit, he accepted the invitation. The resulting conversation was both frightening and encouraging.

The frightening part is that Dershowitz quoted case law precedent from 1905 for the mandating of vaccines that he felt would hold up in the supreme court of the USA. And, that could very well play out the same here in New Zealand where we have already seen extraordinary powers being given to the government and police force.

The encouraging part of the debate was that Bigtree was able to ask hard questions that took the debate into deeper waters. What does it mean for a vaccine to be safe? Does it need to be tested against an inert placebo? Should it be forced on the portion of the population that was excluded from the vaccine testing because of health reasons? Should children, who seem to be particularly resilient to COVID-19, be forced to take a vaccine that involves an inherent risk?

The result of the conversation was that Dershowitz engaged the questions and broadened his perspective. In a later interview, Dershowitz displayed a more thoughtful perspective that better reflects the complexity of the issues surrounding COVID-19 vaccines.

You can watch the full interview on Del Bigtree's show, the Highwire.