Hi, Folks -

Perhaps a decade ago, either the FORCES site or the FOREST site (pro-smokers rights organizations) had a paper, "Historic (or Historical? not sure) Origins of Health Fascism" by Stephen Davies.

That paper has never been more relevant than it is right now - but I've searched high and low on Internet and so far haven't found a copy of it anywhere. (Looks like it's available in print form at some libraries, but not as a Web page or file.)

The paper laid out the details of how in England at some prior time vaccination was used to further not a health agenda but a social one.

Just as we're seeing today, vaccination was gradually changed from a recommendation to something mandatory - and then there were fines for "failure to be vaccinated" - and then there were jail sentences for that 'failure'.

Reading that essay again today, one would soon see that the present move toward mandatory vaccination is a 'reboot' of something that was tried once before.

(Similarly, when the "high cholesterol is a problem" idea was stirred up beginning now several decades ago, I was told by someone that it was a failed idea they'd tried to foist on us about twenty years earlier.)

The more we can see these "echoes of the past", the clearer it become that current events may be part of a social-engineering plan of some sort and not simply being driven by unexpected and unavoidable natural events (e.g., the surprise 'epidemic' of the Zika virus, etc., etc.)

If you have a file copy of "Historical Origins of Health Fascism", please let me know.

--hobie