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Vaccine ‘wafers’ prove that COVID measures have become ‘a religion’

Vaccine ‘wafers’ prove that COVID measures have become ‘a religion’

Last updated on: May 30, 2021 at 3:06 am by Barry Duke

Vaccine ‘wafers’ prove that COVID measures have become ‘a religion’ 2021-05-30T03:06:18+02:00 Barry Duke

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‘WELL, that’s gotta be the stupidest thing I’m likely to read all day,’ I muttered this morning after learning that two Tel Aviv men were arrested for taking a horse in an elevator to the sixth floor of an apartment building.

That was before I read that a new method of delivering vaccines orally is seen by some imbeciles that a “Church of Covid” is developing from efforts to end the pandemic.

What the Polymeric Biomaterials Lab at the University of Minnesota did was to create a tiny white polymer disc, or ‘wafer’ that can be placed under the tongue to deliver vaccines.

You don’t have to be a genius to see where this is going ….

Images via Polymeric Biomaterials Lab, University of Minnesota, & Twitter

This from “traditional Catholic” Michael Haynes, inset above, writing for anti-vax Christian website LifeSiteNews:

Catholics commenting on the wafer have noted the obvious and striking similarity to the host used at every Catholic Mass, which after the words of Consecration becomes the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ.

In fact, the wafer developed by the team of researchers appears physically to be almost identical to those used at Mass.

Should it come to be used as a means to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, comparisons would certainly be drawn between what has been described as the ‘church.’

Haynes added:

Indeed, in January, Archbishop Viganò, former Papal Nuncio to the United States, described the global adherence to the authoritarian COVID measures as being akin to a religious observance.

Image via YouTube

Viganò, above, threw a major wobbly when Pope Francis suggested in January that people have “a moral obligation” to receive one of the new “abortion-tainted” coronavirus vaccines as soon as possible

Viganò wrote:

The bleak Paul VI Audience Hall has been emblematically chosen as the temple in which to celebrate this new sanitary rite, officiated by ministers of the Covid religion in order to assure, certainly not the salvation of souls, but rather the illusory promise of health for the body.

Haynes pointed out that weeks before, Viganò described the COVID-19 measures as being part of a ‘pseudo-health regime’ governed by people both inside and outside of the Church who were ‘people corrupt in the soul and sold out to Satan.

They have thundered at us, using arcane words like ‘social distancing’ and ‘gatherings,’ in an endless series of grotesque contradictions, absurd alarms, apocalyptic threats, social precepts and health ceremonies that have replaced religious rites.

The archbishop, said Haynes, was supported by Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, Vatican whistleblower and the former head of the Vatican bank. Gotti Tedeschi spoke of the manner in which society turned to the COVID vaccines as though to a new form of religion:

The apparent result seems to be a new form of scientism, reincarnated to solve the COVID problem with vaccines to be accepted fideistically (with blind faith), and perhaps nominating itself as the new moral authority of this age, one that demands an act of faith towards the modern religion, the scientific one.

LifeSiteNews now has an entire section devoted to spreading conspiracy theories and anti-vax propaganda. Ironically it’s called LifeFacts.

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