A few FYIs and some thoughts on a term with potential to upscale and advance anti-vaccination efforts

Republications

I continue to republish and (in some cases) update articles that were originally published on the Wood House 76 Substack onto the Wood House 76 WordPress site. That task is about 75% complete.

Most of the effort involves simply reposting articles under their original publication dates, without notifying subscribers, and/or making edits without sending an alert. Examples of articles republished or modified within the past month or so under those conditions follow:

Sometimes I republish with updates, notify readers, and then revert the article to its original publication date.

Two pieces I republished last week fit these parameters: one on Anthony Fauci and the other on Jay Varma:

Other times, I decide that the republication or update constitutes a “new” article and warrants a new publication date, as with the New York antibiotics “memo”:

Occasionally I have reconstituted an “old” article into a new article. “Absence of Expected Stochasticity…” is a good example:

Finally, when re-reading older articles, I sometimes spot observations, findings, or artifacts that I anticipate revisiting in the future. WordPress’s excerpt field gives me a way to leave myself that reminder.

This piece, published four years ago today, is one example. I’ve characterized it as “potential evidence of pandemic foreknowledge delivered as a script by a presumptively unwitting political actor.”

YouTube Channel

The @WoodHouse1976 YouTube Channel exists to archive presentations, conversations, interviews, and video clips that are referenced, transcribed, and/or excerpted in WH76 articles. I deleted the Rumble channel I created a few months ago for the same purpose, both to avoid uploading to two platforms and because WordPress does not support Rumble video embedding.

No appearance with an individual, or presentation to or for an organization, should be interpreted as an endorsement of everything (or anything) that person or organization believes, asserts, or advocates.

Anticipated Site Downtime

I anticipate transitioning Wood House 76 to a different and better format/template by June. There may be days when this site is “down” or set to private as a result.

Vaccine Abolitionist/Vaccine Abolitionism

I learned a new term from Katherine Watt recently that I invoked in a comment on a Wall Street Journal article: vaccine abolitionist. Watt added the term to her bio on Bailiwick News Archives a few days ago.

Without disrespecting the individuals and groups who understood and fought, long before 2020, the decades of lies told about vaccination by government agencies and officials, pharmaceutical companies, and others, the terms anti-vaxanti-vaxxer, and anti-vaccination are defensive, pejorative, and assigned by those who have sought to discredit scientists, doctors, parents, and others who have learned what vaccines are and are not.

Vaccine abolitionist, vaccine abolitionism, and vaccine abolition are proactive, affirmative terms. They name a principled effort to protect and free society and posterity from certain institutions, industries, messages, products, and acts of deceit and aggression — above and beyond efforts to resist or repeal mandates.

Abolishing mandates and abolishing vaccines are not opposing goals, but they are not the same goal. The first protects people from force and coercion. The second challenges a) the legitimacy of vaccines as a public health project, b) the act of vaccination, and c) the existence of vaccines.

Future work by Watt and/or others could expand the concept into a robust framework by explicating:

  • why “inherited” labels such as anti-vaxanti-vaxxeranti-vaccination, vaccine skepticism, vaccine reluctance, though accurate, are inadequate and are contrasted with promoted behaviors such as vaccine confidence, vaccine readiness, and vaccine willingness;
  • why a self-owned term is needed;
  • what historical parallels help explain and tether the cause;
  • where the position fits in U.S. law; and
  • what vaccine abolitionists seek to abolish and what they propose instead.


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