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I understand he wants indemnity from other first place. This is not conspiracy theory; this is a fact. This is why even
nations. In other words, he wants to be able to people like Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, are saying
promote it without any liability and not have that we must be careful about a coronavirus vaccine. But not Bill Gates.
to pay if anyone gets injured or killed from it.
HG: This is all really heavy, and I want to get practical for our listeners
AW: That’s exactly right. He’s said as much. He’s right now. I know a lot of us have friends and family who are going to be
said, “We need this vaccine, everybody should first in line to get that vaccine because they believe everything they’ve
get it, nobody should have a choice—but we’ll heard from the media. They believe that this vaccine is our only hope
need indemnity,” thank you very much. He’s and that we can’t have mass gatherings and can’t return to normal until
made it quite clear that he wants seven billion we’re all vaccinated. Do you have any tools for presenting this informa-
people vaccinated and that nobody should be tion to our friends and family?
exempt. But indeed, there is going to need to
be liability. The big danger and the big worry AW: Yes, I do. How do you educate people about this? There’s no excuse
about this vaccine—and one of the reasons that for people not to be educated. When I first got involved in this, there was
even those who are ardently pro-vaccine have very little information. Now there’s an abundance of information. How
been concerned about it—is that you may get do you sort out what is real and what isn’t? Well this is what the film is
a vaccine and may develop initial immunity to about. I’m not pushing the film, but it was written and designed to answer
the infection, but that is not the end of the story. your very question. It is about the journey of discovery about this issue
You may seem fine and not have an adverse by a couple, a husband and wife. She’s pregnant late in life with her first
reaction, but when you’re re-exposed to that baby. It is about how they go down the rabbit hole and look at these issues.
same virus a year or two later, your immune They start asking questions. What about polio? What about smallpox?
system may overreact and produce a very severe They do the research. When they do the research, how do they answer
form of the disease, which could be fatal. This these questions for themselves? They come to their own conclusions.
was seen with the earlier attempts to produce
a SARS vaccine. It was also seen with an ex- Where they end up is not their starting point. The reason for doing this
perimental respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) film is because they are us. We can do this as well. There is no excuse
vaccine that was given to children in the 1960s. not to do it. In fact, it is mandatory that everybody get educated because
This phenomenon is called “immune priming” these decisions are so far-reaching, not just for families but for the sur-
or “pathogenic priming.” The vaccine sets up vival of mankind as a whole. With that in mind, the approach I’ve taken
the immune system to produce an exaggerated is to make a film that does exactly what you’re asking right now. Sit
and dangerous immune response down the line. down and watch this, and then get more information. If at the end of that
We must be very careful of that, because that process, you decide you want to get vaccinated, that’s absolutely fine, but
is highly likely with any coronavirus vaccine. take that decision not from a position of ignorance but from a position
If you’re running safety studies for only two or of knowledge. Then, at least you know you can reconcile your decision
three weeks, you will never see it. You will not on the basis of due diligence. That would be my recommendation. The
see it until people are re-exposed to that infec- reason the film was made is to carry that message.
tion a year or so later.
Again this is not without historical prec- HG: It is difficult to change our paradigm and our worldview, isn’t it?
edent. Most recently, this was seen with the It is so much easier to go with the flow and believe everything we have
mass dengue fever vaccination campaign in the heard—phrases like “safe and effective” and other mantras like that.
Philippines. Millions of children were given this
dengue vaccination. It appears that the pharma- AW: It is, but we are at a defining moment in human evolution. What’s
ceutical company knew it was problematic in happening now, and vaccination policy globally, will determine who
this respect. After the children got the dengue lives and who dies, who reproduces and who doesn’t, and which element
fever vaccine, when they were re-exposed to of the population does or doesn’t survive. That’s where we are. That’s
dengue fever, many of them died and many how big this decision is. It’s not one to be undertaken lightly. If you are
of them remained susceptible to very severe frightened, if you are prepared to be a supplicant, if you’re prepared to
dengue fever, seemingly for the rest of their just roll over in the face of what you watch on CNN (which is owned by
lives. The vaccine was withdrawn, but it should the pharmaceutical industry), if that’s what your position is, then you will
never have been allowed on the market in the make your decisions accordingly, and I wish you the very best of luck.

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