I hear that's nice up there. Lots of deer...

Thanks. As to meeting, I'm in upstate NY.

"If what you do causes substantial harm to another without their consent, that violates their rights. You have forced harm on them."

Amen

Would love to have a coffee (or beer) with you sometime.

Statistically, the healthiest and longest-lived people in the US are the Amish, who refuse to use the medical industry at all. I do not think this is a coincidence.

The lesson we should have learned from COVID and especially from its so-called vaccines is that the medical industry is not about making or keeping you healthy. It is to develop and spread diseases so that it can get paid for treating them, over as long a time as possible. (It also has plenty of "scientists" like Bill Gates who would like to see most of the world dead.) The Wuhan facility was and is a bio-weapons lab, and we're lucky that COVID got accidentally released before it was made as potent as the developers intended.

Rand advocated reason, logic, and the scientific method. None of which is the same thing as accepting whatever the credentialed class tells us as fact. The environmental movement should have already taught us for all time never to trust organizations like the State Science Institute.

No, it's simple. If what you do causes substantial harm to another without their consent, that violates their rights. You have forced harm on them.

We affect others in many ways, but few of those are substantial. Meanwhile, we have lots of intended, voluntary interactions that we benefit from immensely.

It seems to me you are arguing for the notion that doing anything anytime anywhere is an act of violating someone's rights in one fashion or another. I don't buy it.

Yes, there is a difference between murder and manslaughter, for instance. But both are rights-violations.

That's my point. Say you infect someone and make them sick. If you meant to do so, that's especially bad, but that you did so is a rights violation whether you meant to or not.

Perhaps you may have to pay my medical bills, but the law understands the difference between accident and malicious intent (usually). If you intentionally ran me over you would likely get charged with a criminal act and serve time above the financial restitution.

Everyone is an expert on vaccines and on autism. I dedicated a couple decades to reading everything I could get my hands on regarding this. Almost everyone is wrong. Imagine what that feels like. I was even IN A STUDY, firsthand, and watched the PhDs at this university cook the books and put out a false narrative when the data clearly showed a link between thimerisol and autism. It has been a crazy ride, my friends.

I have no hope that our society will learn anything on this. Opinions and politics are dug in like a tick. Did you know that almost nobody needs a tetanus shot since the automobile was invented? If you don’t know why, you’re in a huge club. Did you know that very few who get polio ever show any symptoms? That’s something worth studying, IMO. Did you ever wonder why areas with open sewers struggle with polio while countries with backflow prevention and chlorinated pools don’t? Here’s my personal favorite…Did you notice that AFL (the modern polio-like, really scary paralysis) almost exclusively affects 5 and 6 year olds at the beginning of kindergarten and 1st grade. Of course you don’t. The news is silent on that one.

Best wishes…

No. If I run you over because I wasn't looking as a I backed up, yet I am liable.

"...but anyone who infects another is committing a violation of that person's rights."

"...but anyone who infects another intentionally is committing a violation of that person's rights." There, fixed it.

Measles deaths are rising because the gross population consists of a passel of weaker wimps. The medical, food, media and education industries have been chipping away at individual health for decades and the result consists of a population of individuals with weak immune systems, weak cardio ... soft, limp, obese, frightened wastrels.

Gee, I had polio, smallpox and measles vaccines, and never got those diseases. Got chicken pox and mumps as a kids. Whatever.
Got the COVID vaccine and still got COVID, because it isn’t a real vaccine, and who cares about COVID? It is a silly flu.


So what is the point? Smallpox, measles and polio are almost gone. That is good. Anecdotes are stupid. Attempting to spread ignorance is bad, but common. More common among the left, but here we’re are spewing nonsense from TX.

Good for you. So what?

I am not advocating a law. People may choose for themselves, but anyone who infects another is committing a violation of that person's rights. it's like hitting them on the head.

That you may choose does not mean it is wise or good to choose irrationally. You may choose to be a heavy gambler, but reason would not advise that.

The irrational anti-vaccine movement is now starting to cause serious harm.

This is Galt's Gulch, inspired by Ayn Rand's work. Rand advocated rationality.

How about letting people decide for themselves instead of falling for main stream media induced panic?

I recieved the polio vaccine and then got polio anyway. Had all the childhood diseases except mumps. No one in my family had the mumps even though we were all exposed to them at some point, a natural immunity I suppose. Vaccines were supposed to be weakened viruses that your body would then be able to defeat and build immunities against them. Now they are full of numerous adjuncts that shouldn't be injected into healty bodies. I would never take another. An experimental mRNA injection, never considered it and none of my friends or family took it. Although it was touted to completely prevent COVID, which it did not, it was then sold as well, you won't get it as bad if you have the shot. The people who developed want to get rid of 90% of the population, that would be enough to deter me. I don't need to understand it fully to know I don't trust the people who made it.

It's okay...in another 50 years (assuming the earth is not covered in water), there won't be anyone smart enough to create new vaccines.

Then, natural selection will once again begin determining the future of mankind.

Only ever had Mumps in that group but we were always together some had natural immunity and it was best that seven got it over with together!

I got polio immunization, both injection and sugar cube, and smallpox vaccines (which did take). That's it! I did have the 10-day measles, which immunized me against the German measles (important to know during pregnancy), but even after all this time, I've never had mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, croup or Typhoid. Honestly, I am one of those lucky people who so rarely gets sick I hardly can remember what it's like.

Anecdotes are not data. Some people are robuster than others, and some just get lucky. I'm happy for you, but your life experience no more represents everyone than mine does

Measles deaths are rising in the US now thanks to all the anti-vaccine ideology.

So stop cheering for what kiils people.

Had 9 brothers and sisters. When any one of us got any of these, she would put us all in the same bed (the pull out mattress on the sofa) so we could all get it and then not have to worry about it again. She was an RN - and knew what she was doing.

We were never bothered with any of them again!

I remember getting polio, smallpox, and measles vaccinations but that was all. My smallpox never "took", either. I got the shot but no scar showed up. Glad I did not get the mRNA jab, which isn't a vaccine.

Mytwosons both had Chicken Pox and Measlesbut no vaccines...,.my doctor forbid me to take the Coviid Vax...I had Covid and 4 other viruses before Covid. Covid was nothing. the puniest flu I ever had; I had Asian flu, Hong Kong Flu and SARS.Hello. nb