Guest Post by Aaron Kheriaty
Japan’s ministry of health is taking a sensible, ethical approach to Covid vaccines. They recently labeled the vaccines with a warning about myocarditis and other risks. They also reaffirmed their commitment to adverse event reporting to document potential side-effects.
Japan’s ministry of health states: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.”
Furthermore, they state: “Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.”
Finally, they clearly state: “Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.”
They also link to a “Human Rights Advice” page that includes instructions for handling any complaints if individuals face vaccine discrimination at work.
Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s lead with this balanced and ethical approach.
This policy appropriately places the responsibility for this healthcare decision with the individual or family.
We can contrast this with the vaccine mandate approach adopted in many other Western nations. The U.S. provides a case study in the anatomy of medical coercion exercised by a faceless bureaucratic network.
A bureaucracy is an institution that exercises enormous power over you but with no locus of responsibility. This leads to the familiar frustration, often encountered on a small scale at the local DMV, that you can go round in bureaucratic circles trying to troubleshoot problems or rectify unfair practices. No actual person seems to be able to help you get to the bottom of things—even if a well-meaning person sincerely wants to assist you.
Here’s how this dynamic is playing out with coercive vaccine mandates in the U.S. The CDC makes vaccine recommendations. But the ethically crucial distinction between a recommendation and mandate immediately collapses when institutions (e.g., a government agency, a business, employer, university, or school) require you to be vaccinated based on the CDC recommendation.
Try to contest the rationality of these mandates, e.g., in federal court, and the mandating institution just points back to CDC recommendation as the rational basis for the mandate. The court will typically agree, deferring to the CDC’s authority on public health. The school, business, etc., thus disclaims responsibility for the decision to mandate the vaccine: “We’re just following CDC recommendations, after all. What can we do?”
But CDC likewise disclaims responsibility: “We don’t make policy; we just make recommendations, after all.”
Meanwhile, the vaccine manufacturer is immune and indemnified from all liability or harm under federal law. No use going to them if their product—a product that you did not freely decide to take—harms you.
You are now dizzy from going round in circles trying to identify the actual decision-maker: it’s impossible to pinpoint the relevant authority. You know that enormous power is being exercised over your body and your health, but with no locus of responsibility for the decision and no liability for the outcomes.
You are thus left with the consequences of a decision that nobody claims to have made. The only certainty is that you did not make the decision and you were not given the choice.
Japan’s policy avoids most of these problems simply placing responsibility for the decision on the individual receiving the intervention, or the parent in the case of a child who is not old enough to consent.
Incidentally, this focus on choice and freedom was somewhat reflected in Japan’s policies throughout the pandemic, which were less stringent that most countries, including those in the U.S.
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Japan has also approved the use of IVM as a treatment for the convid, something that could have saved 10’s (or 100’s) of thousands lives in the US.
Japan also has lower rates of autism. Wonder why?
The Amish, who do not vaccinate, also have no Autism and Leukemia.
…oh you mean the real Amish. Interesting.
The real Amish? There are differing groups?
I would say the traditional Amish.
Their hive mind fights the other hive mind.
Joke, sort of.
Dang, I really don’t want to move to Japan.
Fish heads and rice for every meal! Yummy!
Deep fried salmon head is a delicacy. It is where the tastiest meat is. Collar and cheeks are great!
My sushi chef brought me one on a slow night many years ago. I was hesitant but he assured me it was fantastic and had some himself. He was right.
Will have to admit I never had that. A very old gentleman used to make eats at our Moose Lodge meeting every Tuesday night. It sort of revolved around “just eat it, don’t ask”. Afterwards we learned what we just ate. Interesting times! His BBQ ground hog was beyond good!
I remember a missionary to Thailand our church supported. Every Saturday night they would go downtown and have deep fried tarantulas on a stick like a corndog. Being a Midwesterner, I’ll have the corndog. With Sweet Baby Rays mango habenero sauce. Good eats.
I would if I were younger, maybe…
Japan also has the lowest infant death rate as vaccines are not forced on them or the mothers.
Cause and effect of vaccine and infant mortality in the US are not even a question to rational minds. I don’t see how anyone with formal life sciences training could justify vaccinating infants. For those of you who qualify and disagree, I would welcome any comments.
Just asking: Will your health insurance cover a covid shot injury?
As long as it’s classified as something it’s not, then of course.
Sorta what I figured. No shot for me, period.
Even a society that has traditionally believed that the group is given priority over the individual and that the individual must conform to group standards gives it’s population more freedom and choice when it comes to taking the jab. They do this because they know the ill side-effects (known and unknown) of this injectible gene modifier.
Here, if you don’t conform, you lose your job and big government and corporate America turn you into a pariah.
Freedom? My ass.
Japan’s approach probably leads to a higher vaccination rate than American liberals’ approach of “we’re going to force you”. I know that if I’m told I have to do something, my response is “the fuck I do”. I think the vaccines are probably a good choice for lot of people over 50 or 60, depending upon their age, weight & sex. It should always be a choice. The main thing to remember is that progs want to control every aspect of your life and don’t ever forget that.
Cramer should have auditioned to be Kramer on Seinfeld.
Oh, how cute, but can they go outside without the cuck muzzle? I think not.
Good for Japan! But amid the covid noise the best of this article is explaining how recommendations turn into de facto, enforced mandates. The concept of “no locus of responsibility” is not only used by the illicit powers that be, but also forms the foundation of all successful resistance movements. (think cells). Patriots, be advised and learn from our enemies. Furthermore, with regard to coerced vaccination/gene modification/ poisoning, just because there is no Locus of responsibility does not mean that there is No responsibility. (think higher law or think “I was just following orders”, or think Nuremberg trials). Tyrants, beware; bureaucrats, politicians and over-reaching governors beware; needle pushers and promoters, beware; HR departments of corporations, beware. You are all responsible and are accountable. Here’s a recommendation for the recommenders: Change your stance quickly before the whole world knows you are murderers.
Also, Japan does not get forced diversity. It’s all Japanese people. Only white western nations must be diverse.
At one time there was 1/2 of 1% non-Japanese living in Japan; most of those were Koreans in menial jobs.
Well, it certainly helps when one’s government has not completely sold out to the bankers cabal.
On the other hand, the vax push started as 100% voluntary pretty much everywhere. So it remains to be seen how it ends up in Japan.
They know the shit is dangerous yet still urge people to take it. They are nuts.