Eventually encephalitis was diagnosed, after a spinal tap, and I was treated with Librium.

My parents were told by the “doctors” that I most likely contracted a virus from a mosquito bite during our visit to the Jersey shore.

I wonder till this day (my parents are dead so I cannot inquire) if the encephalitis occurred directly after my preschool mandatory vaccinations? The timing would make sense. Again – it was 1960’s so I have no access to those records.

Thankfully, I recovered, and I am grateful that we are evolving with more awareness about vaccines.

Thank you, Jon, for your continued efforts in breaking down the matrix belief systems.

The concept of causation and risk was well established in the Australian courts in the Rogers V Whitaker case- in which an ophthalmologist was successfully sued after he removed a blind painful eye in a woman with only one sighted eye. He failed to warn of the risk that the patient might develop a secondary condition which would destroy the sighted eye.

The patient lost the sight in that eye and even though the risk of that complication was only 1/14,000 or so- the High Court confirmed on appeal that the surgeon was negligent in not warning her of that risk, and that she would have cancelled the operation if she knew.

So that is what our courts think of risk and, by inference, causation.