We'll finally get together in person to celebrate the Winter Solstice -- and the New Year -- together this Sunday January 12, with a twist: our usual Cambridge restaurant luncheon and social will be followed by a Talk delivered via Zoom/screen, live from Miami, by our longtime leader, Dr Joe Gerstein, on a scientific and medical issue of great importance as we head into this new year: "The Vaccine Fraud".
Joe writes: “Vaccination has been in use via one form or another, for about 500 years! This form of preventive therapy certainly occupies the Olympus of medical discoveries, along with the Circulation of the Heart, Digitalis, Antisepsis, Obstetrical Forceps, Anesthesia, Insulin, Antibiotics, Cardiac Catheterization/Surgery, Cancer Chemotherapy and Organ Transplantation, and precedes all of them!
Basically, vaccination is responsible for the elimination of smallpox, the eradication of almost all polio, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, rabies. Now, finally, it is closing in on malaria and dengue. The exigent production of COVID vaccine saved millions of lives. Until recently, measles and whooping cough were under excellent control due to routine vaccination. Rubella no longer causes infant deafness.
So what is all the furor about? Almost all medical procedures have some negative consequences. Prudent use demands that the benefits greatly exceed the detriments. People's memories of the 1954 polio epidemic which filled the Haynes Memorial Hospital with iron lungs and the 1972 polio epidemic at a Christian Science School in Connecticut seem to have faded."
Joe Gerstein, MD, FACP, retired Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and former President of GBH will try to illuminate and clarify the situation with a presentation (via ZOOM) on January 12th at 2:30 PM at India Pavilion in Central Square.
THE RESTAURANT
The India Pavillion in Central Square Cambridge (vegetarian options, it is $17 per person for all you care to eat, not including drinks; bring cash or check made to GBHumanists, please). RSVP.
Parking in Cambridge is free on Sundays in metered and some non-metered spots, and several garages and lots in Central Square including several just steps away on Green Street. MBTA red line Central Square station and associated bus stops are also within the block.
The event will on Zoom, but Joe will only be interactive to those in the restaurant. For information about zoom access please contact us through MeetUp or by responding to the emailing about this event.
(The video of this will be available on our youtube, later, if you miss it.)
