How did needles become so normal? Mothers, fathers, your children are in danger – do what you need to protect them.
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As a parent all one wants to do is keep one’s children safe. So when the mothers and fathers of the world realise that they have inadvertently but effectively led their children into harm’s way, the collective maternal and paternal grief is going to seem unbearable.
The last two years have taught me that presenting data is not always enough to prompt people to question. So forgive me if I try something different today. In the same way that one might throw a bucket of iced water over someone who urgently needs to wake up before it’s too late, I am going to attempt to do the equivalent in this post.
Picture this. You walk into a room and your child is sat at a table with a gun to their head. What do you do? There’s no question – you would rush to your child’s aid and save them from harm. But wait – there’s more going on in this scene. The room is in a clinic. The gun is being pointed by a nurse. She reassures you that though this looks like a gun, it’s actually a clever delivery system for some wonderful medicine that your already healthy child may need in the future.
Everything the nurse is saying is at odds with what you can see. What do you do? Most probably, you’d still intervene – it is a gun, after all. There is no mistaking a gun.
But what if we replace the gun with a needle in the arm? Most people would change their perspective immediately. Most would say, that’s a completely different situation, for we know that needles are fine – and injecting babies using needles is in fact indicative of an advanced society.
How did needles become so normal? I think this may be part of the reason why we parents do not balk at having our babies injected. We have been programmed to believe injections pose no threat.
This programming is preventing us from seeing the truth: that the needles currently aimed at our children are an extreme threat. As parents, we need to react to them with the same urgency and sense of danger as if they were guns. If we don’t, an entire generation of babies and children will be maimed.
I write this as a mother who was also conditioned to believe that needles were normal. I took each of my children, one by one, to receive their childhood immunisations. I trusted that these vaccines would keep my babies safe. As they cried, I told myself that even if they were distressed, it was for their own good. As I nursed them through the subsequent fever, I reassured myself that I had done the right thing.
Looking back, I acknowledge that even as my mind was telling me it was okay, my heart was in distress. I wished I’d listened to my intuition.
I wish every parent would listen to their intuition right now as the government advertises the Covid-19 vaccines to their boys and girls.
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