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Summary of arguments against Vaccine Passports: https://qr.ae/pGRI1R
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What are some criticisms against the concept of Covid-19 vaccine passports? - Quora
Vaccines are intended to augment the healthy, natural state of our immune system. Mandatory vaccination, immunity passports, or any other form of discrimination on the basis of the vaccination status are defeasible because they discriminate agains...
Petition to repeal the unconstitutional Emergency Powers in the State of Victoria. If you do not want the Victorian Government to rule by edict, without Parlimentary vote on each new restriction on your freedom, then sign and share. Let’s get 100,000 signatures and this path to Tyranny will be lawfully closed: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/374
The argument underpinning my petition to the Parliament of Victoria to repeal Emergency Powers:
The principle of Ultra Vires was succinctly formulated by Justice Griffith in Sydney Municipal Council v Commonwealth, HCA 50 (26 April 1904): “... if the authority which assumes to create such a delegation does not itself possess the power, the delegation is void, since the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
The legislative power in the State of Victoria is vested solely in the Parliament (s16, Constitution Act 1975), where the "Parliament" includes each House of the Parliament, the members of each House, the committees of each House and joint committees of both Houses (s94B.7). The only means of making legally binding restrictions on freedoms under the constitution is therefore by the majority vote of the Parliament.
Emergency Powers are essentially a delegation of the constitutional authority to make legally binding restrictions on freedoms (s200, Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008). If it were not an extension of the legislative authority of the Parliment it would not have the force of law. Emergency Powers, once assumed, are exercised by the decree of the government.
The constitutional objection is that the Parliament does not have the authority to dispense with or bypass any element of the legislative process set in the Constitution (including the majority vote by both houses). The Parliament cannot delegate powers it does not itself possess. Any Act of Parliament that would purport to delegate powers that exceed the procedural limits of the Parliament itself is therefore Ultra Vires and Void. This problem is most obvious in the case of purported suspension of the Parliament, as it then explicitly assumes authority over and above the Parliament, and yet the Parliament is the only source of its legitimate, constitutional authority, therefore contradiction. This takes us back to the judgment in Municipal Council v Commonwealth 1904; “...the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/374
The principle of Ultra Vires was succinctly formulated by Justice Griffith in Sydney Municipal Council v Commonwealth, HCA 50 (26 April 1904): “... if the authority which assumes to create such a delegation does not itself possess the power, the delegation is void, since the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
The legislative power in the State of Victoria is vested solely in the Parliament (s16, Constitution Act 1975), where the "Parliament" includes each House of the Parliament, the members of each House, the committees of each House and joint committees of both Houses (s94B.7). The only means of making legally binding restrictions on freedoms under the constitution is therefore by the majority vote of the Parliament.
Emergency Powers are essentially a delegation of the constitutional authority to make legally binding restrictions on freedoms (s200, Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008). If it were not an extension of the legislative authority of the Parliment it would not have the force of law. Emergency Powers, once assumed, are exercised by the decree of the government.
The constitutional objection is that the Parliament does not have the authority to dispense with or bypass any element of the legislative process set in the Constitution (including the majority vote by both houses). The Parliament cannot delegate powers it does not itself possess. Any Act of Parliament that would purport to delegate powers that exceed the procedural limits of the Parliament itself is therefore Ultra Vires and Void. This problem is most obvious in the case of purported suspension of the Parliament, as it then explicitly assumes authority over and above the Parliament, and yet the Parliament is the only source of its legitimate, constitutional authority, therefore contradiction. This takes us back to the judgment in Municipal Council v Commonwealth 1904; “...the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/374
As long as Emergency Powers can be ostensibly invoked under some pretext, the path to tyranny will remain open, and new dictators will replace the defeated dictators. The path to tyranny must be closed first. Sign and SHARE: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/374
In NSW, if a police officer asks for Statutory Declaration of your medical exemption from wearing a face mask, you can make a statutory declaration in person, on the spot. Raise your arm and state: “I solemnly declare, in front you, Police officer, that I have a valid health reason for not wearing a face mask” State your name and date. The police officer is now your witness. Done. You could also take a scrap of paper and write all this down, ask the police to sign as a witness.
How dangerous COVID-19 really is? https://www.quora.com/Is-COVID-19-as-dangerous-as-the-media-is-making-it-out-to-be/answer/Michael-Kowalik-5
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Is COVID-19 as dangerous as the media is making it out to be? - Quora
No. Death rate is only about 3% or so. There are deadlier organisms. The problem is with its high infectivity - fast spread will lead to huge number of people getting sick simultaneously. No healthcare system in the world is equipped to handle som...
Since Ivermectin was intentionally withheld from covid suspected patients, and intubation was a wrong treatment, then all Covid Deaths must be classified as deaths where a medical error was the underlying cause, therefore nobody died FROM Covid but from medical errors.
Vaccines are biotechnological enhancements intended for healthy people and therefore not healthcare (or healthy) but transhumanism. Any discrimination on the basis of healthy, species-typical characteristics would amount to discrimination against the human race in favour of a transhuman, biomedically augmented sub-species (the vaccinated). This would be a crime against humanity. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/03/30/is-transhumanism-a-health-problem/
Journal of Medical Ethics blog
Is transhumanism a health problem? - Journal of Medical Ethics blog
By Michael Kowalik. In medical sciences, health is measured by reference to our species-typical anatomy and functional integrity – the objective standard of human health. Proponents of transhumanism are committed to biomedical enhancement of human beings…
QUORA Question: If someone is fully vaccinated for Covid 19, why should they worry about someone who is not vaccinated?
Answered by Michael Kowalik
Because unvaccinated people will in time become the living proof that the vaccine causes more harm than good. Also, it is rather the unvaccinated who should be concerned because the vaccinated will be assymptomatic carriers with weak immunity (leaky vaccines), which drives mutations, whereas those who went through the infection naturally always develop more lasting, hrelathy immunity. https://qr.ae/pG5dKT
Answered by Michael Kowalik
Because unvaccinated people will in time become the living proof that the vaccine causes more harm than good. Also, it is rather the unvaccinated who should be concerned because the vaccinated will be assymptomatic carriers with weak immunity (leaky vaccines), which drives mutations, whereas those who went through the infection naturally always develop more lasting, hrelathy immunity. https://qr.ae/pG5dKT
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If someone is fully vaccinated for Covid 19, why should they worry about someone who is not vaccinated? - Quora
Because unvaccinated people will in time become the living proof that the vaccine causes more harm than good. Also, it is rather the unvaccinated who should be concerned about the vaccinated because they will be assymptomatic carriers with weak im...
QUORA Question: Should people be forced to get the Covid vaccine even if they don't have jobs like nursing that bring them into contact with others?
Answered by Michael Kowalik:
That would be a crime against humanity. Since death is a possible side effect of vaccines, vaccine mandates violate the right to life by arbitrarily killing the few for the benefit of the many.
In any case, I would trust my healthy immune system, optimised over 300 million years of evolution, over any corporation acting under absolute immunity, or the professional liars in public office. Zero trust. https://qr.ae/pGw8BU
Answered by Michael Kowalik:
That would be a crime against humanity. Since death is a possible side effect of vaccines, vaccine mandates violate the right to life by arbitrarily killing the few for the benefit of the many.
In any case, I would trust my healthy immune system, optimised over 300 million years of evolution, over any corporation acting under absolute immunity, or the professional liars in public office. Zero trust. https://qr.ae/pGw8BU
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The following study published in NATURE shows that severe COVID-19 illness has signatures of an anti-parasitic, IgE mediated (Allergic) immune response:
A) “Some cytokines not associated with antiviral responses, such as IL-5, which aids defence against parasitic worms and is released during allergic reactions, were, surprisingly, upregulated as people developed severe disease.”
B) “More remarkably, cytokines associated with immune responses to fungi (cytokines released by a type of CD4 T cell called a TH17 cell) were elevated and remained so in people with severe disease. The same was true for cytokines associated with immune responses to parasites, including worms, or with allergic reactions (cytokines such as IL-5, released by a type of CD4 T cell called a TH2 cell). The discovery that parts of the immune system unrelated to viral control would be triggered by a viral infection was unexpected.”
See the next post for another study showing a possible explanation of this unusual immune response.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02379-1
A) “Some cytokines not associated with antiviral responses, such as IL-5, which aids defence against parasitic worms and is released during allergic reactions, were, surprisingly, upregulated as people developed severe disease.”
B) “More remarkably, cytokines associated with immune responses to fungi (cytokines released by a type of CD4 T cell called a TH17 cell) were elevated and remained so in people with severe disease. The same was true for cytokines associated with immune responses to parasites, including worms, or with allergic reactions (cytokines such as IL-5, released by a type of CD4 T cell called a TH2 cell). The discovery that parts of the immune system unrelated to viral control would be triggered by a viral infection was unexpected.”
See the next post for another study showing a possible explanation of this unusual immune response.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02379-1