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To: gg cox who wrote (217620)11/10/2025 11:15:39 AM
From: Maple MAGA   Respond to of 217654
 
I am not 'anti-vaccine.' I support traditional vaccines like those for polio, measles, and tetanus, which went through long-term randomized clinical trials and decades of real-world follow-up before becoming routine.

My skepticism is focused specifically on the COVID-19 vaccines, and it is based on facts:

Emergency Use Authorization (EUA):

The COVID vaccines were authorized under EUA, meaning they bypassed the normal full approval process that requires years of long-term safety and efficacy data. (FDA,

December 2020). Full biological approval (for Pfizer) was only granted in August 2021, and even then, only for certain age groups.

Failure to stop transmission:

Early messaging promised that the vaccines would stop infection and transmission ("get vaccinated to protect others"). However, by mid-2021, real-world data showed that fully vaccinated individuals could still catch and spread COVID-19 (CDC, August 2021, outbreak in Barnstable County, Massachusetts). Rochelle Walensky, then head of the CDC, admitted vaccinated individuals carried similar viral loads as unvaccinated individuals.

CDC quietly changed the definition of 'vaccine':

Pre-September 2021, the CDC defined a vaccine as "a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease."

After criticism that COVID-19 shots were not preventing infection, the CDC changed the definition to "a preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases."

(CDC definition change documented September 1, 2021; archived at Wayback Machine.)

Efficacy claims based on limited data:

Pfizer’s original clinical trial reported 95% efficacy, but this number was based on relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction (which was less than 1%).

The trials did not measure prevention of transmission at all. Pfizer executive Janine Small later admitted before the European Parliament (October 2022) that Pfizer had not even tested for transmission prevention before launching the product.

Ongoing safety questions:

mRNA technology had never been used widely in human vaccines before COVID-19.

Adverse events (e.g., myocarditis in young males) have been acknowledged by the CDC and FDA (VAERS and V-Safe data).

Given these facts, it is entirely rational, even responsible, to question a rushed and still-evolving medical product, especially when the narrative surrounding it has shifted so dramatically over time.

In short: I believe in vaccines that work. I do not blindly believe in rushed products or political messaging masquerading as science. That’s called critical thinking, not craziness.



To: gg cox who wrote (217620)11/10/2025 7:27:24 PM
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Canada: Pro-Hamas mob violently storms private Toronto campus event featuring IDF, few arrests made

Nov 10, 2025 12:00 pm

By Christine Douglass-Williams

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The pro-Hamas movement is intensifying its efforts in predominantly leftist countries such as Canada and Britain, with not enough pushback from authorities. While Islamic supremacists globalize the intifada and escalate violence as they always do, a systemic problem in Western societies feeds them. From politicians on down, every layer of society has blindly embraced DEI for years, without understanding what it was actually embracing. The problems of jihad violence, high crime, wars and cartels that plague foreign countries entered Western countries without question, because to ask questions rendered one “racist,” “Islamophobic” and the like. So rather than celebrate and protect the West’s once-advancing cultures, this is the kind of embarrassing foolery being celebrated in the name of DEI:

Meanwhile, in a dose of reality, as antisemitism soars in Canada, pro-Hamas thugs terrorized police and participants at a private event at Toronto Metropolitan University featuring IDF veterans. The group Students Supporting Israel organized the event.






Israeli-American speaker Jonathan Karten told Fox News:

He had come to Toronto to talk to students about his uncle, Sharon Edri, an Israeli soldier kidnapped and murdered by Hamas in 1996. “As soon as we got there, we were attacked by roughly forty protesters—terrorists, whatever you want to call them.”

This is what Canada and other Western countries have imported. Although five arrests were made, this wasn’t enough, based on the many video accounts. In all likelihood, whatever the consequences these thugs face will not be enough to deter them from future actions of this kind.

Some have already called for Toronto mayor Olivia Chow to “take responsibility for the attack on Jewish students at Toronto University.” The attack happened days after Chow emboldened the pro-Hamas crowd with her reference to “the genocide in Gaza”.

Pro-“resistance” domestic terrorists continue to globalize the intifada as they exhaust the patriotic citizens and resources of the West. Western DEI proponents who advocate the wrong kind of tolerance increasingly embolden these thugs. This serves as the perfect soil for Islamic interests to proliferate and expand. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has declared the Palestinian cause the central cause of the Muslim ummah.