Are the Covid-19 Vaccines Immoral? By Dr Geoffrey Brushwood
Prevention is always better than cure. In the case of Covid-19, it is especially important that the elderly with no reserves, and risk groups with deeper problems should be protected.
There are quite a few nursing homes in my area where the infection has run rampant. In one with 42 residents, 16 died in quick succession.
There are many remedies presented against a Covid infection, none of these work without a robust immune system.
The best help, a seriously ill patient could have, is plasma containing antibodies extracted from a patient who defeated Covid-19.
The best possible prophylaxis is a vaccine. There are plenty of arguments about the morality of vaccine development using tissue taken from aborted children, however, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has stated that cooperation with evil is "not proximate" in this case.
I can understand why there are Catholics who don’t trust the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith anymore, or any moral arguments favoured by Francis …More
1. Anyone who receives the vaccine is not cooperating with the act but rather with the effect.
2. Sadly, there are so many abortions every year (700,000+ in the US) that whatever tissue is used has no effect on the number of abortions. The vaccine is in no way a cause of the abortions.
3. Thus, the material cooperation is passive.
It does not matter in what kind of cooperation we are involved. Evil is always evil and noone should take this diabolical vaccines unless they will have a "clean" one. Veritatis Splendor by John Paul II is very clear:
Hence human activity cannot be judged as morally good merely because it is a means for attaining one or another of its goals, or simply because the subject's intention is good.122 Activity is morally good when it attests to and expresses the voluntary ordering of the person to his ultimate end and the conformity of a concrete action with the human good as it is acknowledged in its truth by reason. If the object of the concrete action is not in harmony with the true good of the person, the choice of that action makes our will and ourselves morally evil, thus putting us in conflict with our ultimate end, the supreme good, God himself.
You're saying that the distinction between formal and material cooperation is worthless.
The text from Veritatis Splendor applies to the abortion, which is malum intrinsecum
Just look at the headlines.
In so far as this concerns material cooperation, intention is not relevant. If it were, it would be formal cooperation.
These moral considerations are true, but incomplete. The good object still must be weighed against the evil with which one would cooperate.
"There is good scientific data showing that the risk of dying from COVID-19 is directly comparable to seasonal Influenza in most age groups and significantly lower than influenza in children.None of the COVID-19 vaccines have completed their Phase 3 trials so are still essentially experimental. Vaccine Companies have no liability for injuries/death.
There has never been a coronavirus vaccine before.
A vaccine takes on average 10 years from concept to market.
COVID-19 vaccines have been trialled for less than a year and many are using
completely new technologies (mRNA vaccines). There is limited short-term safetydata and NO long-term safety data available on any of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Late-onset adverse effects may take many months or years to become apparent
e.g. autoimmune disease, cancers or infertility."
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@ our lady of sorrows. Please quote the good deal of data comparing covid 19 to seasonal influenza. How do they explain the excess number of deaths ?
Oxford vaccine has completed all of the required trials. I cannot objectively comment on the other vaccines
The seasonal flu vaccine IS a coronavirus vaccine. Therefore they exist
In ordinary times a vaccine production can be prolonged due to bureaucratic red tape - which were overcome in the Oxford vaccine with government help. Which did not mean cutting corners but mandatory delays were removed. Trials of the vaccine however were as stringent if not more in the Oxford vaccine. Meanwhile Astra Zeneca company took a gamble and started production despite the trials still ongoing. This avoided further delay at end of trials.
The Oxford vaccine uses standard vaccine manufacturing technology, which means taking a small part of the sars-cov2 virus to stimulate the immune system. The Pfizer moderna vaccine uses a segment of mRNA from the virus. And it is novel vaccine technique. However not to be mistrusted on a whim.
It’s important to comment on matters intelligently and within one’s competence. There’s no use pretending to be an ‘expert’ and particularly important to string an intelligible sentence together too.