How Are the Unvaccinated Doing? Survey Says: Healthy But Unjustly Treated By for Children’s Health Defense
A new international study of 18,497 individuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 shows potentially illegal discrimination. “Such discrimination and restriction of liberties based on a medical choice may fall foul of relevant national anti-discrimination laws and international treaties,” concluded the authors.
A new study published Aug. 12 in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research showed evidence of potentially illegal discrimination against individuals who declined COVID-19 vaccination.
The study reported the survey results of 18,497 individuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 throughout the world who voluntarily offered personal information through the Control Group Cooperative — also known as the “Vaccine Control Group” — which is a citizen-led initiative that seeks to provide an “independent, worldwide, long-term study of the health outcomes of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-free.”
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After collecting the survey results, the Control Group Cooperative invited a team of independent international medical researchers to analyze and publish the data.
The authors — including Robert Verkerk, Ph.D., from the U.K., Dr. Christof Plothe, D.O., of Germany, Naseeba Kathrada, M.B.Ch.B., of South Africa and Dr. Katarina Lindley, D.O., of the United States — said that “between 20% and nearly 50% of respondents, depending on region, reported being personal targets of hate, implying victimization, owing to their COVID-19 vaccination status.”
They added:
“Proportionately, rates of such victimization were highest in Southern Europe and South America and lowest in Western Asia and Southern Africa (although the number of respondents in the latter regions were also substantially lower).”
Moreover, the study authors noted:
“Such discrimination and restriction of liberties based on a medical choice may fall foul of relevant national anti-discrimination laws and international treaties, such as the United Nation’s International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN Office of Public Information, 1966), which includes fundamental rights to liberty and security of person, freedom of movement, privacy, religion and belief, freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly.”
Teachers and nurses ‘most intensely impacted’ by medical choice discrimination
Verkerk — who led the study team and is the scientific director for the Alliance for National Health International — told The Defender in an email that their data showed teachers and nurses were the two professions “most intensely impacted” by discrimination for their medical choice to abstain from COVID-19 vaccination.
“In many countries,” he explained, “but most especially in Australia and Canada, they required vaccination for many employees as a condition of work.”
For instance, on Aug. 24 Sky News reported that the Education Department in Queensland, Australia, issued a letter stating they will dock up to 18 weeks of pay for unvaccinated teachers as a disciplinary measure for refusing COVID-19 vaccination.
The department claimed the teachers had “acted inappropriately” by ignoring the public health advice.
Such actions were reflected in the study data, Verkerk said.
“Survey respondents reported feeling more victimized by the respective government authorities than by the non-state entities,” according to the study authors.
“Rates of perceived discrimination were greatest among respondents in Southern Europe (61%), Western Europe (59%), Australia and New Zealand (57%) and South America (57%),” they wrote.
Based on their analyses of the survey data, the study authors included a list of contributing factors that they considered to likely be “major drivers of discrimination,” Verkerk told The Defender.
The authors’ list included:
- Widespread misunderstandings about, and overstated benefits of, COVID-19 “vaccines.”
- False claims over societal risks posed by the unvaccinated.
- Misleading or plainly false media or state propaganda.
- Coercion to ensure high rates of COVID-19 vaccination.
- Institutional mandates.
- The desire for in-group identity as explained by social identity theory (Scheepers & Derks, 2016).
