JAPANESE VACCINATION ETHICS
In the USA, with the start of the Biden administration, they promised 100 million vaccinated in 100 days. They even exceeded that, then it started to stop for the simple reason of too many side effects. Post-vax problems were named post-vaccine syndrome, which in insurance healthcare couldn't be addressed. Since interest in vaccination completely fell, they chose the path of coercion: first mandatory for some occupational groups, then expanded the circle, putting responsibility for consequences on the vaccinated. This happened in America and Europe, creating a pandemic and vaccination hysteria never seen before in history. After two years, it's clear it's not about limiting the pandemic and protecting health and lives, as they don't follow basics of public health, epidemiology, immunology, and medical ethics, plus trampling the fundamental spiritual values on which Western civilization is based.
Japan has preserved ethical principles in this area. In the forefront are two principles.
1. Informed consent. They say: although we encourage vaccination, it is not mandatory. It can be carried out only with the person's consent after they receive appropriate information. Vaccinate by your own decision, considering effectiveness in preventing disease and possibility of side effects. No consent, no vaccination. Please do not force anyone to vaccinate and do not discriminate against the unvaccinated.
2. Assistance due to side effects. Vaccination can cause health problems and although rare, the risk cannot be excluded. For this purpose, a assistance system for health costs, compensation, or disability has been established under the Immunization Law.
The above is quoted by US doctor Dr. Suneel Dhand, who says: This is how a state that respects its citizens speaks to them, and the authorities follow basic medical principles, informed consent, and human bodily autonomy.
Dr. Dhand treated many COVID patients, recommends vaccination to all where benefit > risk; for a vaccine that cannot provide collective protection, he says medical ethical principles must be preserved. Meanwhile, the digital Merriam-Webster dictionary corrected the definition of "antivaxxer": to the first explanation that it is a person who opposes vaccination, they added "and who opposes mandatory vaccination orders." Thus, the majority of doctors in Western countries where vaccination was not mandatory, all Japanese doctors, etc., ended up among antivaxxers.
In 2020, we achieved the impossible, returned to 1984, Orwell's. Definitions are changing: WHO changed the definition of herd immunity, CDC changed the rules for recording deaths, natural immunity became a taboo topic, fake expert papers on hydroxychloroquine, and so on.
If someone says it's just one vaccination and one mask, they have probably just woken up from fall-winter hibernation; we're already at three vaccinations, preparing needles for the fourth, and Dr. Fauci charmed with two masks months ago.