Gov't, activists silent on environmental impact of Vaccine rollout
Climate change 'crisis' takes backseat in global push for boosters
For all the talk of a ‘climate crisis’, little has been made of the staggering carbon output of the ongoing Covid 19 vaccine rollout.
Whether it’s due to the disposal of billions of contaminated syringes worldwide or the energy demands of refrigerating and transporting ultra-low temperature COVID-19 vaccines, the global ‘carbon footprint’ of this rollout is incalculable.
When vaccines hit their expiry date or fail to maintain temperature thresholds, they’re discarded. There are many countries in the world that simply don’t have the resources to properly dispose of them; a factor that rarely comes up in the drug companies’ relentless push for global immunization.
In countries, particularly in Africa where citizens have massively rejected these treatments, the mountain of waste from discarded vaccines presents a bigger health risk than the Omicron variant.
Nigeria recently destroyed more than 1 million expired doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine when health officials decided they could not be used before their expiration date.
In India, vaccine waste is an environmental nightmare.
It can be surveyed in massive waste dumps including one 52 acre site, rising more than 60 metres (197 feet) of trash filled with used coronavirus test kits, protective gear and medical dressings stained with blood.
Children sift through the pile with their bare hands while exposing themselves to disease.
The almost total absence of environmental alarm on this issue is perplexing given the ominous warnings of an 8 year window before ‘climate change’ presents an irreversible threat to humanity.
There needs to be a serious examination of the ongoing environmental costs of the vaccine rollout as weighed against the decreasing health risks of the variants.
For all the demonization of CO2 as a contributing factor to climate change, there are no environmental activists warning about all the dry ice (frozen CO2) used to maintain the appropriate temperature in Pfizer’s thermal shipping containers.
Protecting their precious cargo calls for the replenishing of dry ice pellets (10 mm to 16 mm) within 24 hours of delivery and every 5 days thereafter.
While the disposal of vaccine waste presents a hazard to millions in the third world, developed nations use enormous resources to process and dispose of it safely.
Meantime, the use of syringes and single use plastic; all of which, we’re told is an environmental hazard, has raised nary a cry from environmental groups.
Consider the precautions on merely disposing of ‘sharps’ in most jurisdictions.
In the U.S. for instance, needles are placed in a container approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Once the containers are three-quarters full, they’re sealed with duct tape and labeled as non recyclable, before taken to authorized medical waste processing facilities.
Energy and materials are expended every step of the way.
There are chemicals used to kill pathogens with high-pressure steam in order to disinfect the waste before its disposed of.
After the waste is disinfected, it’s compacted and sent to a landfill or a waste-to-energy plant.
After treatment eliminates the waste is then shredded and sent to a landfill.
That’s an enormous expenditure of energy, waste and chemicals used every day around the globe in countries that can afford it.
Given the extreme unlikelihood of the Omicron variant to be fatal to the vast majority of healthy persons, a rejection of the ‘booster’ on environmental grounds should not be laughed off in a world supposedly on the brink of climate disaster.
Marc why can’t we get a sensible human being in there to replace Trudeau? What’s his deal? His shadiness, back room dealings with black rock, man… It used to be so hidden - but it’s completely transparent and the information is out there. Yet he still sits up there on his throne allowing this to happen. The man needs to be fired.