MRFF Advisory Board Member James T. Currie and others brilliantly respond to email that calls the COVID vaccines “Trump’s snake oil shots” and claims they cause lymphoma
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From: (Name withheld)
Subject: Re: A big difference, unless you lie
Date: February 1, 2022
To: Mikey Weinstein <[email protected]>
“Members of the military are required to get numerous other vaccines and the COVID vaccine should be absolutely no different,”
EXCEPT….there is ZERO long term safety data available for either mRNA or adenovirus vaccines. LAV vaccines have decades of safety data available.
Why should anyone be forced to play Russian roulette? Avoid a 0.4% chance of severe illness or possibly get lymphoma in the next 3 years?
Case studies already show that mRNA shots bring lymphoma out of remission…its not too far of a next step for them to be causing lymphoma.
My family, with 40 years of work experience working for Pfizer, aren’t willing to risk it…..why should people who are willing to risk their lives for our freedoms be forced to?
(name withhel)
Response from MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein
From: Mikey Weinstein
Date: February 1, 2022 at 1:17:01 PM MST
To: (name withheld)
Subject:Re: A big difference, unless you lie
It’s called science, little fellow… There are 12 step programs for your silly delusion…
Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell
On Feb 1, 2022, at 3:25 PM, Mike wrote:
Mr. (name withheld),
A 0.4% chance to catch a serious case of Covid? How does that square with the nearly 900,000 Americans who have reportedly died from it?
Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)
Response from MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein
On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 5:07 PM Mikey Weinstein wrote:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/navy-defying-court-order-covid-vaccine-mandate
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), which supports the military’s mandate, told Fox News Digital that the coronavirus vaccine shouldn’t be treated differently than others that members of the military have to receive.
“Members of the military are required to get numerous other vaccines and the COVID vaccine should be absolutely no different,” MRFF President Michael Weinstein told Fox News Digital via email. Weinstein clarified that MRFF did not support a mere administrative discharge for those who refuse the vaccine. Instead, he said MRFF supported court-martial and receiving less than an honorable discharge.
“MRFF has been contacted by over 700 American service members claiming a ‘religious objection’ to the COVID vaccine and requesting MRFF’s intervention and representation,” he said. “We DO consider we every request on a case-by-case basis. We have yet to find one that is even remotely meritorious.”
“The very first thing we ask them is if they objected to the other often numerous vaccines they were required by their chains of command to get. If their answer is ‘no’, we’re not buying that their sudden ‘religious objection’ to this COVID vaccine has anything to do with a ‘sincerely held religious belief’ and will most assuredly NOT take them on as a client. Unless the 35 Navy SEALS involved in this lawsuit can show a track record of seeking ‘religious exemptions’ for ALL of the other many vaccines they were required to have, their requests for a religious accommodation for this one are ridiculously specious and should be flatly denied.”Fox News Digital previously reported on the Coast Guard requesting chaplains ask how frequently service members seeking an exemption attend religious services and how consistently they “keep the tenets of their faith.”
If members cited the use of fetal stem cells, the draft guidance suggested asking whether “they have ever taken Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Aspirin, Ibuprofen,[ ]Benadryl, or Claritin, all of which were developed using fetal cells.”
You didn’t answer my question.I was very specific about my question.You even changed the color of the part about other medications…which have nothing to do with the question I asked.
I am not anti-vaccine, I got a tetanus shot when I put a rusty nail through my foot.I will not ever consider taking a mRNA or adenovirus-based injection however.Codagenix is working on a LAV covid vaccine that I would take right now…even without FDA approval. Why? We have decades of data showing that LAV vaccines are safe to use.(LAV vaccines are sterilizing as well, had Codagenix been Operation Warp Speed’d like the companies who gave Trump big bucks, we’d be out of the pandemic by now.)
(name withheld)
Response from MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein
From: Mikey Weinstein
Subject: Re: BREAKING: FOX News: 1 hour ago “Navy should be held in contempt for violating court order on COVID vaccine exemptions: complaint”
Date: February 1, 2022 at 4:06:21 PM MST
To: (name withheld)
…plz google the Dunning Kruger Effect…..& see yourself there, l’il sport….
Yes, “the science” shows that the non-sterilizing vaccines, like the current COVID shots, do nothing to stop the spread of the virus. Several other enlightened countries have already accepted this fact.
But that was known 2 years ago, yet the dead horse keeps being beaten.
The mRNA shots were designed for those at high risk…anyone else taking them is putting their long-term survival at risk.
Forcing people to take Trump’s snake oil shots have nothing to do with public health, it’s about power. Do as I say or else.
Would you represent a service member who said that mRNA shots are against their personal beliefs if they had never received a prior mRNA shot?
(name withheld)
Response from MRFF Board Member John Compere
On Feb 1, 2022, at 7:16 PM, John Compere wrote:
(name withheld),
Your lay opinion as a civilian on this military medical matter is acknowledged but not accepted. For your information, members of the United States Armed Forces are required to obey lawful orders. End of discussion.
“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.” – Jonathan Swift (Irish satirist)
Brigadier General John Compere, US Army (Retired)
Disabled American Veteran (Vietnam Era)
Board Member, Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member James Currie
Dear (name withheld):
I have been asked by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) to respond to your recent series of emails. I confess that I hardly know where to begin to refute the disinformation your emails represent, but I will try my best.
Let’s start with your assertion that the Covid 19 vaccines are “Trump’s snake oil shots.” Perhaps you don’t remember, but the former President had nothing to do with the actual development of the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Trump was the person who suggested publicly that injecting bleach into someone would cure Covid. So, let’s get that out of the way first off. The three legitimate Covid vaccines were developed over many years by dedicated professionals who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. These vaccines have been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, and there is no truth to the statement that they were “designed for those at high risk.” They were designed for everyone who might be exposed to Covid 19.
Perhaps you are too young to remember when polio was a common scourge throughout the world. Then a scientist named Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that would prevent polio. I was one of the school children—“Polio Pioneers,” we were called—who was given the polio vaccine at school. I was living in Mississippi in 1954, and despite the scourge of polio, we had neighbors who would not allow their children to be vaccinated. They basically played Russian roulette with their children’s health, and I hope these children did not come down with polio when there was such an easy way to prevent it. This same foolish attitude and objection to the Covid vaccines have led to countless unnecessary deaths among the unvaccinated, mostly among people who object to the vaccine not for moral or religious reasons but for political ones.
Perhaps you served in one of the military services, perhaps not. But if you ever put on your country’s uniform, as so many of us who affiliate with MRFF did, you would have received many injections and perhaps a dozen or more vaccines. I remember distinctly that nobody ever asked me whether I wanted these vaccines. We were simply lined up and given the shots. Yes, our arms or other injection site might have been sore for a few days, but most of us had sense enough to realize that these vaccines were designed to protect us against debilitating illnesses and allow our country to maintain a robust force in uniform. It’s the same with the Covid vaccine. Over 800,000 Americans have died of the disease and millions have been debilitated by the disease that this vaccine was designed to protect against. No, it’s not perfect, but no vaccine has been perfect ever since Edward Jenner first inoculated against smallpox back in the eighteens century. These vaccines are, nevertheless, the best prophylaxis there is against Covid 19, and the men and women who lead the Defense Department have made the informed decision that the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who have volunteered to serve our country in uniform need to be protected against Covid, just as they are protected against so many other terrible diseases. Those of us who served understand that we don’t get to decide which vaccines we take and which ones we don’t. The order was given, and people in uniform obey. It’s really very simple, Mr. Paul, and you need to understand that fact. The scientific truth is that the three Covid vaccines are highly effective in preventing serious Covid infection and death, though no vaccine is perfect, especially for individuals with serious underlying medical conditions.
Yes, there is a provision in the Defense Department rules for a sincerely-held religious objection to receiving one of these vaccines, but being a member of and worshipping at the Church of Donald Trump does not qualify a servicemember to receive that exemption. The Defense Department has set up procedures which would-be exemptees have to go through, and from what I just read online, the Army has granted five religious exemptions and the Marine Corps has granted two. These exemptions were not given for any of the reasons you cite in your emails, all of which impress me as unmitigated nonsense, and seven is not a large number of exemptions, considering how many men and women serve in these two branches of our military.
I don’t know what your scientific background is, (name withheld), but it is obviously not a very deep one. You rattle off phrases like , “mRNA shots bring lymphoma out remission” without the slightest knowledge of what this means. I just did a search on that phrase, Mr. Paul, and there is no evidence whatsoever that the Covid vaccine has anything to do with any lymphoma. What you have done is strung together some impressive sounding gobbledygook and attempted to pass yourself off as qualified to offer a scientific judgment on the efficacy and safety of the Covid vaccines. What you demonstrate to the contrary is that you are totally unqualified to offer an opinion on anything remotely medical. I urge you, Mr. Paul, to retreat from any public forums involving Covid vaccines and stop making a fool of yourself. You are just wasting everyone’s time and otherwise polluting the public airways.
Col. James T. Currie, USA (Ret.), Ph.D.
Board of Advisors, Military Religious Freedom Foundation
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