Vaccines

March 4, 2015

The Honorable John Cornyn

United State Senate

517 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC  20510

Dear Senator Cornyn:

Your email reply on the subject of vaccines is emblematic of the cancer that has metastasized in our nation’s capitol.

The first sentence of the fourth paragraph of your email reply states,  “I support a system that identifies and assesses the potential risks of all preventative measures, including vaccines, and ensures that health care providers and patients are informed of such risks”.  What does that mean?  What you might as well have said is this − that your political career is more important than risking a controversial public position that may have the potential to politically harm you at some future date.

Let me be clear on two points.  First, I will never agree with nor support any elected official or political candidate who believes the government, at any level, should have the power to forcibly vaccinate the people.  And second, we must demand from medical science a zero percent chance of any negative or life-altering effect from receiving vaccinations of any kind.

The argument for “the greater good” is nothing more than a license for pharmaceutical manufacturers to take the easiest and shortest route to lower costs and higher profit margins, and for governments to lower their exposure to higher health care costs.  Would you settle for an immigration system that allowed two percent of all annual, legal immigrants to be known criminals or terrorists?  Would you settle for an airline system that allowed for two percent of all flights to end in disaster?  Would you settle for a legal system that allowed for wrongful convictions in two percent of all jury decisions?  Of course not!  You expect and demand perfection in these scenarios so why don’t you expect and demand the same for our vaccines?  I’ll tell you why, because you don’t understand the science and you put your faith and trust in those who say they do.  Medical science professionals in 2015 are no different than those in 1915, or 1815 – they all were and are convinced they knew and know everything there is to know about medical science.  It will be the same a hundred years from now although those future professionals will scoff at our ignorance and arrogance.

I will not endorse nor support any elected official who puts their self-interest before those of their constituents, who fails to challenge the status quo, who equivocates on policy issues, and who lacks the courage to have their convictions publicly examined.

Warning:  Every man comes to regret the cowardice of his prideful nature.

Respectfully,

Bill Monroe