Mr Deputy President - a half-truth is a lie by Gerhard Papenfus

COVID-19
MR DEPUTY PRESIDENT – A HALF TRUTH IS A LIE

by Gerhard Papenfus

A few days ago, the Deputy President, in addressing Parliament on the future of mandatory vaccination in South Africa, mentioned that, despite the “likelihood of a fifth wave in the coming weeks”, Government was still planning to lift the national state of disaster.

 The Deputy President then continued to state that “the fifth Covid wave is expected to be less severe than other waves, with the country expected to have a ‘base’ of vaccinated people which will protect it from the devastation seen in prior waves”.
 
What you omitted to say, Mr Deputy President, is quite profound and a further confirmation of the falsehood of the entire Covid-19 vaccine narrative. What you conveniently left out is what the Covid-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee, on whose advice you are supposed to rely, in their 8 February 2022 position paper, refers to other factors that mitigate the impact of the virus: 

• sero-prevalence from prior infection (natural immunity) which affords similar protection; and
• the emergence of new therapeutic options. 

The fact that this crucial information is not mentioned, is indicative of an alternative agenda, which requires the suppressing of certain facts in order to promote a particular narrative – which is not only unethical, but downright dishonest.

Gerhard Papenfus is the Chief Executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA).

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