"Does the individual maintain an absolute right to govern his own life?"
Stirling Watts
Could a required Ebola vaccination be in your future?
Might it become necessary to require universal Ebola vaccinations to control the health of the population at large? Though there is not yet a trusted vaccine available to counter Ebola and no immediate expectation of such a requirement, the question clearly brings attention to the potential of more abuse of government authority.
Does the individual maintain an absolute right to govern his own life? If a vaccine were approved, what if the CDC insisted that its refusal would endanger others? How are citizens outside of the medical community to know the absolute truth about vaccines? If you said “no”, what can trump your authority to govern your own life and body?
My Disclaimer!
“I am not a medical authority of any kind. At this point, no Ebola vaccination exists.”
Watch out for the last point. Be suspicious of the CDC’s approval if a miracle vaccine suddenly surfaces, and/or if Ebola actually appears to become a real pandemic. Neither possibility is likely in my opinion, but you know what they say about opinions.
Thinking outside the box
Here are some unorthodox ideas to consider. They may help you decide what to do if Ebola did become a pandemic.
Medical epidemics and pandemics are naturally accompanied by public fear. An epidemic becomes a pandemic in the same proportion as fear of the disease.
So, fear and disease definitely go together. How might they be related?
Medical traditionalists hold that fear is a natural and expected consequence of disease, but that fear exists independently of the disease itself. Fear is generally thought of as a mental effect of disease, rather than having anything to do with its causation. An increasing number of medical thinkers disagree. They subscribe to the existence of a distinct mind-body-health relationship which reverses the accepted assignments of disease as cause and fear as effect.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Just so you don’t think this is theoretical hearsay, respected scientific evidence exists to support the proposition that matter does not act independently of the thoughts and expectations of its observers.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is widely accepted in the scientific community, specifically applying to particle physics observations. Heisenberg noted that a particle’s behavior changes as it is measured, and that the results of scientific experiments involving the behavior of matter are not independent of their observer. Without mental observation, matter is likely to act in uncertain ways that are different than it would act if it were not being measured. The ways that particles act have been shown to be related to their observation, which of course must be carried out by a thinking human observer.
What does that have to do with epidemics and pandemics?
What does that point of view do for the credibility of vaccines produced by human researchers? Each researcher must observe his own experiments. The action of observation produces, according to Heisenberg, some uncertain effect on the results. At the very least, that makes the reliability of the results uncertain!
Might it become necessary to require universal Ebola vaccinations to control the health of the population at large? Though there is not yet a trusted vaccine available to counter Ebola and no immediate expectation of such a requirement, the question clearly brings attention to the potential of more abuse of government authority.
Does the individual maintain an absolute right to govern his own life? If a vaccine were approved, what if the CDC insisted that its refusal would endanger others? How are citizens outside of the medical community to know the absolute truth about vaccines? If you said “no”, what can trump your authority to govern your own life and body?
My Disclaimer!
“I am not a medical authority of any kind. At this point, no Ebola vaccination exists.”
Watch out for the last point. Be suspicious of the CDC’s approval if a miracle vaccine suddenly surfaces, and/or if Ebola actually appears to become a real pandemic. Neither possibility is likely in my opinion, but you know what they say about opinions.
Thinking outside the box
Here are some unorthodox ideas to consider. They may help you decide what to do if Ebola did become a pandemic.
Medical epidemics and pandemics are naturally accompanied by public fear. An epidemic becomes a pandemic in the same proportion as fear of the disease.
So, fear and disease definitely go together. How might they be related?
Medical traditionalists hold that fear is a natural and expected consequence of disease, but that fear exists independently of the disease itself. Fear is generally thought of as a mental effect of disease, rather than having anything to do with its causation. An increasing number of medical thinkers disagree. They subscribe to the existence of a distinct mind-body-health relationship which reverses the accepted assignments of disease as cause and fear as effect.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Just so you don’t think this is theoretical hearsay, respected scientific evidence exists to support the proposition that matter does not act independently of the thoughts and expectations of its observers.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is widely accepted in the scientific community, specifically applying to particle physics observations. Heisenberg noted that a particle’s behavior changes as it is measured, and that the results of scientific experiments involving the behavior of matter are not independent of their observer. Without mental observation, matter is likely to act in uncertain ways that are different than it would act if it were not being measured. The ways that particles act have been shown to be related to their observation, which of course must be carried out by a thinking human observer.
What does that have to do with epidemics and pandemics?
What does that point of view do for the credibility of vaccines produced by human researchers? Each researcher must observe his own experiments. The action of observation produces, according to Heisenberg, some uncertain effect on the results. At the very least, that makes the reliability of the results uncertain!
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