On Choices, Differences, & Freedom - Asao Shimanishi from the Volcano Alchemist
I was talking to a friend recently about how people can believe in mandates and actually vote to force things on other people. I want to also start this post by saying that I wear my seatbelt and do believe in lawfulness and equity. I am alive from wearing my seatbelt in a car accident that was so bad the car was totaled and pretzeled. I would not be alive and here today living out my purpose if it was not for seatbelts.
As human beings there is no one size fits all with medicine, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, food, exercise, supplements, vitamins, religion, etc.
How sad it is that we get baited in to thinking everyone on earth should be vaccinated, and that anyone that chooses not to is irresponsible. When evidence now coming out - that isn’t being censored or suppressed - proves people who don’t vaccinate have less chronic health problems as they develop and age.
What if one day you are on the other side of something being mandated or forced on you? What if one day you are forced to take supplements/herbs you and your doctor don’t feel are best for you?
You have the right to take 100 vaccines a year and as many boosters a month as you like, and I have the right to not take any vaccines, and take 100 supplements a month.
I was vaccine injured as a boy, and my life has never been the same since then. It is not rational, logical, reasonable, or cohesive to me that other people believe I am putting them in danger by not taking anymore vaccines after I was injured.
This is the same as saying unless you wear sunscreen, my sunscreen doesn’t work. Or my supplements only work if you take them too. My mask only works if you wear one too. Or my seatbelt only works if you wear one too. The whole point of taking the medicine, protective device, etc you and your doctor/professional/provider of choice decide is best for you is because it works for you, regardless of what everyone else is doing.
I am not diseased or dangerous for being a human being, existing unvaccinated, and having an immune system I trust, endowed to me by my Creator, and supported with exercise, traditions, indigenous ways of life, supplements, and foods rooted in nature and our Creator that have been around a lot longer than modern medicine and vaccines. Plumbing and us washing our hands, was what cleared up a lot of issues when people were dying younger from infections diseases.
I have not gotten complications from covid, and I worked with my doctor using ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and vitamin c, and it worked for me. Most of the people I know who got the covid vaccine now have health problems they did not have before getting that vaccine, and some still even got covid. A vaccine that works for you, makes it so that you do not get the disease you are being vaccinated to protect you from.
If your vaccine works for you - which is the whole point of being vaccinated - then why do you believe everyone else needs to be vaccinated for your vaccine to work? That is the whole point of deciding to take a medical intervention. We are not chattel or animals. We are human beings with different environments, genetics, cultures, lifestyles, eating habits, families, traditions, and backgrounds.
Dogma based religions and cults are what make people believe that everyone has to do the exact same thing as they are doing, and that anyone who does not do it is dangerous and dirty.
During covid the vaccinated and masked were publicized and put up on a pedestal as the clean, good, and responsible ones. The unmasked and unvaccinated were publicized, shunned, bad, ostracized out of civil society, and put down as the dirty and irresponsible ones.
Never forget how important it is we support and honor people across all choices and keep standing up for the right of everyone to make their own choices about their bodies and to speak freely - especially if you disagree with them. Because if we can’t all do these things regardless of what side we are on regarding a particularly issue, we are not truly free. Then there is no liberty, and pursuit of life and happiness for ALL.
Asao Shimanishi from the Volcano Alchemist
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