For my own reasons, I don’t intend to get the Covid-19 vaccine – not that it’s any of your business.

Before you start referring to me as an Anti-Vaxxer, perhaps you’d like to volunteer for some of the more exotic vaccines that I currently have running through my veins. Japanese Encephalitis and Anthrax immediately come to mind, but there are others. I’ve had to staple two little yellow International Vaccination booklets together, in order to fit them all in. Hell, the Anthrax vaccine isn’t even approved for public use in Australia, provisional approval or otherwise, so you can keep your virtuous bile to yourself.

Did you know that all the Covid-19 vaccines being given to everyone in Australia are only under provisional approval? Do you know what that means? Try this:

“The Provisional Approval pathway, in contrast to the priority review pathway, enables a time-limited registration of a promising drug, based on preliminary (usually phase II) clinical data. If approved, the drug will be available for two years and the drug’s sponsor can apply for extensions up to a total of six years. Typically, the final stages of clinical trials (phase III) that address the safety, quality and efficacy of a medicine can take several years. By accepting applications for assessment before these trials are completed, a medicine could be brought to market potentially years sooner than under previous processes.”

So, it’s a means to fast track a drug that might save lives. One would think this process was designed to make new drugs available for Cancer, etc, to be given to individuals who were facing near-certain death. Does Covid-19 meet this criterion for the majority of the population? I’ve had cancer, I’m supportive of this provision, but I’m not convinced it’s appropriate for a medication that they want every Australian to take. It’s certainly not appropriate to coerce people to take anything released under it.

Did you know that typically the development of a vaccine takes about 10 years? Want to know why this is? Try this:

“This is because vaccines must pass a series of pre-clinical studies (usually laboratory based), clinical trials in humans, and approval processes before they become available for use. The steps of the clinical trial process are known as phases. Any vaccine in development must progress through each testing phase to make sure it is safe and effective.”

So, a Provisional Approval shortcuts these stringent requirements. Are you familiar with the safeguard criteria that are in place to try to limit the risk of this shortcut? Try these:

“The eligibility criteria are designed to ensure that only medicines providing the most benefit to patients will be provisionally approved. The criteria also require sponsors to demonstrate that they can provide additional clinical data to confirm safety and efficacy within the provisional registration period.

The eligibility criteria are:

• New prescription medicine or new indications medicine
• For treating a serious condition
• Favourable comparison against existing therapeutic goods
• Major therapeutic advance
• Evidence of a plan to submit comprehensive clinical data.”

Do you know which two of these safeguards/criteria have been removed to allow Covid-19 Vaccines to gain the already stripped down Provisional Approval shortcut? Try this:

“The eligibility criteria are:

• New prescription medicine or new indications medicine
• For treating a serious condition
• Favourable comparison against existing therapeutic goods
• Major therapeutic advance
• Evidence of a plan to submit comprehensive clinical data.”

So, in summary, a vaccine is being administered widely, even coerced into people, based on the three criteria:

1. It’s new and designed to counter Covid-19,
2. Someone’s deemed Covid-19 a serious condition for the entire population,
3. There is a plan to submit comprehensive clinical data sometime in the next 6 years.

If you’ve had the vaccine, you are part of that ongoing clinical trial.

Do you have any inkling what might happen if that ‘clinical data’ turned up something unexpected? I’d no more load the entire Government of Australia into a solitary aircraft than I’d juice up an entire population with a concoction that we know precious little about, for exactly the same risk mitigation reason (though I’m seriously reconsidering the Government scenario). The insignificant risk that Covid poses to most of the population, makes this decision even more daft. If you want to worry about overwhelming the hospital system, I suggest you pray to whatever deity you believe in, that the vaccines don’t result in a systemic and wide spread problem.

Before you accuse me of being anti-science, take care to know your audience. Do you have at least undergraduate qualifications in Science? I know I do. Once we get past that little call to authority, you need only answer one question for me; Are they following the science when they demand 10 years worth of testing before releasing the average vaccine unto the public, or are they following the science when they can shortcut it down to 12 months? If the science is so strong with what has transpired, why not remove the standard approval process for vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and replace it with the abridged version?

If my stance against universal Covid vaccination, medical coercion, my hesitancy to accept this vaccine, or my staunch resistance to expose my fully vaccinated children to it, makes me an ‘anti-vaxxer’ in your eyes, then so be it. It’s a lazy label, and it merely represents your lack of principles and/or critical thinking, your susceptibility to propaganda and/or your dearth of research skills.

Do your worst, Jacqui!