I’ve written many articles discussing vaccine safety and freedom of choice. The encouraging news is that while we’ve faced more than 180 legislative attempts in the states to add more vaccine mandates and restrict or eliminate vaccine choices in the U.S. in the past two years, we’ve successfully defeated all but a few. As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC):

“What we’ve seen in the last few years is a very orchestrated attack on vaccine laws that allow people to have choice … We’ve had some of the most restrictive and oppressive vaccine laws. We do have exemptions in the laws and that’s what they want to eliminate. They want to eliminate all choice.

We have organized, and — through the NVIC advocacy portal, which people can sign onto — we’ve kept people informed by monitoring all the bills in the States. We have been able to generate enough opposition to not lose, despite more than 180 bills this last legislative session trying to add more vaccine mandates, trying to monitor vaccine status of everyone, trying to restrict or eliminate exemptions — we defeated all of those bad vaccine bills.

The only bill that passed was a meningococcal vaccine mandate in Indiana for college students. This is an incredible accomplishment, but the heat is on. We’re going to see another mass attempt in 2018 to take away exemptions.”

Vaccine Safety and Freedom of Choice Have Become International Issues

Americans are no longer alone in our fight for medical freedom of choice, as the aggressive push for mandatory vaccinations has gone international. Part of the problem is that governments are making business deals with vaccine makers. The Gates Foundation is also very much involved in the global mass-vaccination agenda.

Australian parents now forfeit child care and nontaxable child benefit payments unless their children receive all government-mandated vaccines.¹ As in California, they also cannot attend day care or preschool unless fully vaccinated.²

Italy suddenly added 10 vaccines to the mandated vaccination schedule for children,³ whereas before they had none. Noncompliance will result in a hefty fine, and unvaccinated children will be barred from attending preschool. France is also threatening to add more vaccine mandates.

“There’s this global push to take away all vaccine exemptions,” Barbara says. “I think people need to take it seriously because they’re not going to stop. Why? Because the global vaccine market is a $27 billion business right now. The projection is $55 billion by 2021 and $70 billion by 2024, which means they aim to double the market within eight years. It’s a serious situation.

The big four are Pfizer and Merck, which are U.S. companies; GlaxoSmithKline, which is a U.K. company; and then there’s Sanofi-Pasteur [in] France. They’ve had the lion’s share of the market. They clearly have all gotten together. They made deals with governments around the world.

Right now, in the U.S., it’s ‘No shots, no school.’ It’s ‘No shots, no medical care,’ because there are pediatricians who refuse to provide medical care to children who have not gotten all the government recommended vaccines. Then there’s the ‘No shots, no job for health care workers.’

I predict that what we’re going to see is ‘No shots, no driver’s license; no shots, no passport; no shots, no ability to get into, for example, a stadium to watch a football game.’ Anywhere you go out in public, you’re going to have to prove that you’ve had the vaccines. That’s what I think is going to happen if we don’t hold the line here.”

The Big Squeeze

People are waking up (and standing up) to these issues, and because of that, the vaccine industry is really ramping up attempts to quench opposition as quickly and as firmly as possible. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the new vaccine mandates in Italy, for example. “They know they’re in trouble if they don’t make the laws restrictive so that people can’t function in society unless they have all the government recommended vaccines,” Barbara says.

It’s also worth remembering that while we talk about protecting informed consent rights and freedom of choice when it comes to vaccination, this concern does not end there. The far broader issue is the process by which corporations are trying to achieve their means, which ultimately entails giving them unlimited power. Barbara explains:

“In 2015, I called it the ‘Vaccine Culture War.’ Truly, I believe that’s what it is. The vaccination issue is at the center of a larger culture war. The outcome of this culture war — which is an attack on autonomy, on privacy, on freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and freedom of religion — will determine how we’re going to live not just in this country, but around the world in the 21st century.

If the governments and the big corporations, which have gotten together financially, continue down this path where they limit individual freedom, we’re going to have a situation that’s very much reminiscent of Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ and George Orwell’s ‘1984.’ You look at the apocalyptic visions that are coming out of Hollywood. Often, entertainment and literature are harbingers — they sense something.

You see a lot of apocalyptic type movies coming out. People can sense there’s something that’s not right, and they’re anxious. You can feel the sort of collective angst not just in this country but around the world, particularly in developed countries where there’s a high education status.

We’ve seen the media — which seems to be increasingly controlled by governments and by large institutions — come down on the idea … that you cannot dissent from what you’re supposed to be believing and how you’re supposed to act.

Certainly, the holistic health care movement is also at the center of this. They do not want anyone to be able to take control of their own health, because this would diminish the profit-making of the corporations that are wed to the [medical model]. The medical model now is very wed to drugs, vaccines and use of products that have a lot of serious side effects. They don’t want people to talk about that.”