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Guest Post by Steve Kirsch
This is an important post. This may be one of the most important posts I’ve made so far.
It shows that the tide is turning our way: a former advocate of the vaccine, trusted by millions of people, has now realized he’s been deceived and he’s not happy about it at all.
Back in early May 2021, I realized that the anecdotal reports of adverse events that I heard from my friends weren’t consistent with the government claims of a “safe and effective vaccine.”
In order to resolve the conflicting data, I dug into the VAERS system and it was instantly clear to me that the government was lying; there was no doubt. There was no other explanation that could have caused the enormous numbers of events in VAERS. When I reached out to over a dozen academic experts to explain what I saw, they all refused to look at the data and told me never to contact them again. They would not explain to me how I got it wrong.
I have to admit, I didn’t find this very convincing. If you are trying to persuade someone to change their mind, telling them they are wrong and never to speak to you again just doesn’t work for me. This is apparently how it works in science nowadays.
I confirmed the VAERS data with individual reports from physicians who also had never seen as many (and as varied) a list of adverse events from any previous vaccine.
And then, on May 26, I was on a CCCA call where Dr. Byram Bridle presented, for the very first time in a public forum, the Pfizer COVID vaccine biodistribution data he obtained from the Japanese government.
At the time, it was instantly clear to me that we now had the key missing piece: a plausible mechanism of action that could explain the huge number and huge variety of adverse event reports. A plausible mechanism of action is a key criteria needed to establish causality using the Bradford-Hill criteria.
Right after I got off the CCCA call, I warned some friends who were over at our house at that time that the vaccines weren’t as safe as the government was saying and we shouldn’t trust their assurances. I said they are lying to us.
I later learned that when I left the room, all of them asked my wife, “Is Steve OK?” They were all certain that I had completely lost it mentally and needed professional help.
I quickly incorporated the biodistribution data into the 285-page TrialSiteNews article I had published the day before entitled “Should you get vaccinated?” which went into great detail what I had learned.
Yesterday, on March 9, 2022, Dr. John Campbell published a video entitled “The Pfizer documents” where he steps through just one of the 150 released Pfizer documents in detail: the ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (AESI) document (aka the “5.3.6 document”).
One of the most disturbing findings was that the number of doses shipped was redacted from the safety document. The (b) (4) designation in the video snip below is a FOIA redaction code that means “Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential.”). Wow. The number of doses shipped is a secret?! Dr. Campbell was justifiable upset by this redaction, as he should be.
But even if we knew the number shipped, we still wouldn’t know the number of doses actually administered which we’d need to calculate the safety profile of the drug.
Dr. Campbell correctly points out that there is no way to assess safety if you don’t know what the denominator is.
He wonders out loud, why on earth would they redact that? It can’t be proprietary.
Indeed, I believe that the only reason you’d redact such a number is if you are trying to hide something.
More troubling is that nobody has talked about the underreporting factor, including Dr. Campbell. This is the factor that you multiply the reports by in order to get the number of events that actually occurred. Voluntary reporting systems often have an underreporting factor of 10 to 100 or even more depending on the severity of the symptom.
There was no attempt whatsoever to calculate the underreporting factor (URF) by Pfizer in the report. Are you surprised?
I guarantee you, all of these event reports are unreported. But Pfizer is silent on this and of course the CDC is never going to calculate this number because they don’t want anyone to know it either. If you ask them for it, they stonewall you and never provide it. So nobody can do a proper risk benefit analysis, including the CDC. This is not a problem for them since they are not required to produce such a document. Have you ever seen it? What URF did they use? Answer: they assume that VAERS and everything else is fully reported and never bother to calculate the URF. They know this is wrong. This is intentional. Their job is to push the vaccine and ignore all the safety signals.
Because our health authorities, mainstream academia, mainstream press, and members of Congress don’t want to know the underreporting factor (since if people knew that, they’d realize the vaccines are unsafe and it would create vaccine hesitancy), it’s up to the so-called “misinformation spreaders” such as myself to calculate this number.
I’ll do that three different ways, just to show you how large the number is. The smallest URF is 89 (for serious events). The largest URF is over 163 (for less serious events).
There were 86M doses given in the US by the end of February according to Google. There were 42,086 case reports but only 13,739 reports were received from the US:
Let’s assume that the deaths are proportionally reported (a reasonable first-order assumption since we don’t have more detailed data).
From page 7, there were 1223 deaths:
So this equates to 398 deaths reported from the US.
However, based on independent estimates, the death rate from the shot is around 411 deaths per million doses (for example, see Mathew Crawford’s analysis of this; I offered $1M to anyone who could prove this was wrong and there were no takers).
So we would have expected to see 411*86=35,346 causal deaths (these are not “background deaths” which we can estimated to be 52M*1%*2/12=86,000 deaths). So we’ll make the assumption that these are just causal deaths since otherwise the URF would be much larger (and we want to be very conservative here).
35346/398=88.8
So a URF estimate of 89.
This means for every 89 real world events, we’ll only get 1 report filed. This is pretty typical for a voluntary adverse event reporting system as was pointed out in the Lazarus report.
In short, if you thought the number of events reported in this report are bad, it’s actually around 89 worse than you previously thought.
There is a second independent way to calculate the URF: we can use the anaphylaxis data.
We know from the Blumenthal study that the rates of anaphylaxis are roughly 2.47 per 10,000 doses. So we should expect to see 86M doses*(2.47 anaph/10K doses)=21,242 cases in the US.
But we only saw 184 case reports in the US:
So this is an estimated URF of 115 which is even worse for Pfizer than our previous calculation.
And that’s for the most serious events. For less serious events, the underreporting factor is much much higher.
So the bottom line is that it’s a reasonable bet that the reality is around 100X worse than what is in the reports and we just showed it two different ways.
We can use other adverse events as well to show that the Pfizer report is at least 100X underreported.
For example, pulmonary embolism which VAERS shows is elevated by 954X normal.
So at a minimum, we’d expect to see at least the normal rate of pulmonary embolism in that population (even worse since the population would skew to the elderly since they were vaccinated first).
The scientific literature says the normal PE rate is 60 to 70 per 100,000 people per year.
There were 60 reports of PE, but that was worldwide. Only 1/3 of the reports came from the US, so that’s around 20 PE reports for the 56M people who got at least one shot. 700*56=39,200 per year so over 3 months, we’d expect 9,800.
Since we saw only 20 and expected at least 9,800 even for no elevation, that’s an underreporting factor of 490.
However, only a third of the PE’s will happen right after the a specific shot, so it’s more like a URF of at least 163 on this less serious event.
So once again, our URF of 100 for serious events is reasonable.
So we’ve now given you three different ways to show the report is at least 100X underreported.
Dr. Campbell never even considered the underreporting factor at all in his analysis. He assumed everything was fully reported and even with that he was appalled. The absolute numbers are way too high for a safe vaccine.
He concludes “This has just destroyed trust in authority” (watch @21:55).
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been saying that for almost a year now, since I first blew the whistle on the vaccine safety story on May 25, 2021.
Now, can you imagine how he’s going to feel when he realizes it is nearly 100X worse than he thought??
Dr. Campbell never mentioned the fact that the FDA, who knew all of this, believed it should be kept hidden from the public for over 75 years.
Doesn’t that erode trust in the authorities as well, Dr. Campbell?
YouTube has worked hard to shelter people from any information that goes against the government narrative and make sure that people only hear one side of the story. This is important because the US Constitution doesn’t allow the government to censor us directly: they must do it indirectly by compelling private companies to censor dissent.
AFAIK, and to my great surprise, YouTube did not take action on Dr. Campbell for the usual YouTube crime of “spreading misinformation” on ivermectin or questioning government authorities.
How can some of the most respected health authorities on the planet (the anonymous YouTube censors of course!) not censor Dr. Campbell for violating the YouTube Community Guidelines on COVID-19? How could Dr. Campbell not be banned for life for his egregious transgressions?
To find out the answer to these questions, I emailed Garth Graham, Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health at Google/YouTube, but I don’t expect to hear back. Ever.
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Here’s the fact check from Health Feedback, a site trusted by none of us.
The fact check basically argues that correlation isn’t causation.
This is easily countered.
First, this drug isn’t approved so the precautionary principle of medicine (something the fact checkers simply “forgot” to cite) tells us that we should assume that the drug caused it unless it has been shown otherwise.
But even if you don’t believe in the precautionary principle at all, there is something much more troubling: The rates of these events that are reported in the report (once you apply the underreporting factor) are far higher than what would be expected normally in the population. So if these excess events in the report were not caused by the vaccine, then what caused them?
Well, the fact check is completely silent on that one. Can you believe that?
Here’s the table from the VAERS data which shows an apples-to-apples comparison of adverse events reporting rates from prior years to this year. Why are the rates this year so high for these adverse events?
The fact checkers would immediately do a hand waving argument saying “This is because people are more aware of VAERS and are reporting like they are supposed to.”
This hand waving argument isn’t backed up by any evidence.
The simplest way to show this is to talk to lots of doctors. Individual physicians observe a dramatic increase themselves in adverse event rates.
For example, a neurologist I know with a 20,000 patient practice (there are multiple doctors in the practice) has never needed to make a VAERS report in the last 11 years. This year, after these vaccines rolled out, the practice needs to make 1,000 reports. That’s over a 10,000X increase in the rates observed (technically, it’s infinite so we assume 1 event happened that they missed).
Health Feedback doesn’t explain this at all. The doctors I talked to all say it was the vaccine. So if it wasn’t the vaccine, what was it??? Enlighten us. Make my day.
I will update this article if I hear back from them, but this has never happened before from any fact checker, so I’m not optimistic they are going to explain this.
The fact is, the fact checkers cannot explain this. The silence is deafening for anyone who is a critical thinker.
Surely, The New York Times should do a fact check on the Health Feedback fact check to set the story straight, right?
No. Not a chance. You’re dreaming if you think that is ever going to happen.
I have watched him every night for the past couple of months. I knew Dr. Campbell would eventually get there and finally two nights ago, he did. He looked stunned. He is obviously a conscientious reporter of health facts. I enjoy how he summarizes and puts out the data. I wondered why he hadn’t heard more about all the problems but he seemed truly convinced in the effective and safe line we’ve all been sold. I was sad watching it happen though. He basically promoted a very bad shot and for a man with a conscience the repercussions of his advice will haunt him for the rest of his life. I sincerely feel terrible for this poor man.
Another reader wrote:
That video, in my mind, is one of the landmark moments of the (still unfolding) Era of Covid/Vax Disaster. In it, you see an overall believer in the vaxxes, and in the basic trustworthiness of the companies and top institutions–though Campbell has been excellent from early on in tearing apart MSM mischaracterization of scientific data and papers–being forced by the same official information his reporting/analysis has always relied on to the conclusion that the bastards lied to us all. He’s never at a loss for words, and his politeness to all sides is second to none, but here for the first time, he is stumbling, seems dazed, and yet stoutly continues to walk through to the unavoidable conclusion. Science betrayed him, turned into anti-Science. It led him to falsely reassure hundreds of thousands.
This happened because people are trained to trust the experts. No verification is needed. You trust your doctor, your doctor trusts other experts, those experts trust the NIH, CDC, and FDA. When those organizations get compromised, it’s hard for anyone to believe it. They immediately focus all their efforts on defense rather than on confronting the reality that they made a mistake in trusting the authorities. Nobody likes to admit they were wrong. So they double-down.
Others were paid to look the other way.
And reporters who attempted to blow the whistle found themselves out of a job.
Dr. Naomi Wolf is organizing a team to analyze the Pfizer documents as they are released. They’re already working on the first release, which I believe is 50,000 pages long.
As of now she has 1,277 people – including 174 lawyers – signed up to help, but with this many pages even more help is needed.
You can sign up here.
This is a very significant milestone: Dr. John Campbell has now been red-pilled.
It wasn’t due to any of our efforts. He did it all himself by looking objectively at Pfizer’s own data.
He did that without even realizing that the events he saw were underreported by a factor of 100 or more.
The data to red-pill others is hiding in plain sight.
All people have to do is look and open their minds to the possibility that the government hasn’t been telling the truth.
Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
This is an opportunity unlike anything we have ever had in the past. Before now everyone could just pretend that things weren’t that bad because at least they had their job and home and you could keep your head down and no one would come after you because you didn’t agree with some ridiculous set of prog standards. Then they showed you who was boss by telling you to cover your face, keep your distance from each other, go to your room, take some shot and most people said well, maybe if we just do what they say it will all go back to normal and now?
What’s left? What are the good parts of their system? What do you still have left of your old world? What can you still say openly without living in fear? How much of your money is going to be left when they bleed you dry with every gallon of gas, every loaf of bread, every new tax and fee to cover their ever shrinking revenues?
This marks the beginning of the end of the old world that was irretrievably broken, rotten, corrupt and dirty and time to start fresh with something of real value.
If you are too old, then think of your children and grandchildren and set them up with something off-grid. Put all your efforts into helping them get established on a homestead, away from the rot and the oppression. Teach them everything you know, give them the tools and invest in their future if you aren’t able to do it yourself.
Make the change, anyone can do it who has the means before there isn’t any of that left over and your own children wind up trapped.
The idea that these people are going to control everyone and everything is an illusion, another of their bullshit stories meant to trap you into compliance. Now is the time to finally snap out of the trance that has paralyzed everyone for so long, wishing and hoping that eventually people will come to their senses and return to a normality that is long gone.
This is the chance that everyone has been waiting for all along without realizing it.
Be the change you want to see in the world and it will happen.
A U.S. cohort study assessing the effect of COVID-19 shots on menstrual cycles was peer reviewed and published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology on Jan. 5, 20221 after many women spoke out about changes to their menstrual cycles after receiving COVID shots. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided $1.6 million to fund the research conducted at five universities.2
If what you are about to learn was playing out onscreen, the collective gasp of the audience at the moment of reveal would register at deafening decibels.
First, let’s set the stage:
— Over one year ago, there were ample peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trials that provided strong evidence on ivermectin’s efficacy as a treatment for COVID in every disease phase.
— A paper considering these many studies was written by lead author Dr. Andrew Hill at the University of Liverpool for the World Health Organization’s COVID Guideline Development Group. Hill was an early and vigorous proponent for ivermectin. His paper showed that ivermectin could reduce deaths by 75% if used throughout the world.
— Inexplicably, just days before its publication, the paper appeared on a pre-print server, with its conclusions changed. Instead of concluding that ivermectin—one of the world’s safest and most inexpensive drugs— should be rolled out globally, it now concluded that more studies on ivermectin were needed before it could be recommended worldwide. Given the totality of scientific evidence for ivermectin, it was a stunning—actually shocking—reversal by Dr. Hill.
—In an urgent Zoom call to Dr. Hill initiated by Dr. Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy, Dr. Hill admitted to her that one of his study’s sponsors, Unitaid, had a say in the conclusions of his paper. But he would not divulge the name(s) of those who altered the paper’s conclusions.
Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times,
Russia has called for a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss alleged U.S. “military biological activities” in Ukraine.
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Dmitry Polyanskiy, first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, said in a Twitter post on March 10:
“Russian Mission asked for a meeting of #SecurityCouncil for 11 March to discuss the military biological activities of the US on the territory of #Ukraine.”
https://greatgameindia.com/covid-vaccines-triggering-diseases/
According to Dr. Robert Malone, COVID vaccines may be trigerring diseases since they target an outdated variant of the coronavirus.
“The data are showing that vaccination can actually increase the risk of being infected with the Omicron version of this virus,” in a recent conversation with the media, Malone stated.
Malone was alluding to how people hospitalized with COVID-19 in some regions, such as Scotland and New Zealand, seem to be more likely than not to have had a COVID-19 vaccine.
Furthermore, a recent study found that one dosage of a vaccination increased protection for individuals recovering from COVID-19, but two or three dosages seemed to reduce protection; the authors acknowledged they didn’t know why. Another study indicated that naturally immune people who were not even vaccinated had better protection than someone who was.
https://truthunmuted.org/5g-radiation-causes-microwave-syndrome-symptoms-study-finds/
(by Children’s Health Defense | Global Research) – In the first study of its kind, Swedish researchers found 5G radiation causes typical symptoms indicative of “microwave syndrome.” The study, published in the journal Medicinsk Access, also confirmed that non-ionizing radiation — well below levels allowed by authorities — can cause health problems.
In the first study of its kind, Swedish researchers found 5G radiation causes typical symptoms indicative of “microwave syndrome.”
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed last Tuesday that Ukrainian authorities destroyed inventories of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly pathogens in illegal US biowarfare laboratories in Ukraine operated and funded by the US Department of Defense to prevent them from falling into Russian hands. US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed the reports. These laboratories are in violation of Article I of the UN Biological Weapons Convention. This violation makes the US government a clear cut War Criminal subject to the death sentence under the Nuremberg Laws established by the United States Government itself.
What was Washington going to do with these pathogens? Which populations were going to be recipients of these gifts from Washington? Russia? Europeans and blamed on Russia? Was there to be a new outbreak to be used to destroy whatever remains of civil liberty in the Western world? Now that the US government has united with the Ukrainian neo-nazis, how long before the swastika flies over the Western world?
The Chinese government is demanding to know from Washington why Washington was hiding its illegal war criminal behavior in Ukraine. The Chinese Foreign Ministry demands that Washington “release relevant specific information, including what viruses are stored and the research that has been carried out.”
Dumbshit Americans do not understand that “their government,” actually the government of the greed and power driven elite governing group, is a criminal enterprise. Americans wrapped in the flag will go to their deaths in total ignorance.
Chinese government spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that the US Department of Defense controls 336 biological laboratories hidden in 30 countries and that the US biowarfare activities in Ukraine are only “the tip of the iceberg.”
So, what the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought forth is hard evidence that Washington is in violation of the biowarfare convention which Washington signed and hides its illegal engagement in biological warfare research not only within the US but also in 30 other countries.
The evil that resides in Washington is unprecedented in human history.
The US invested upwards of $200 million on labs in Ukraine conducting dangerous biological activities. On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that these US-funded biological facilities in Ukraine were performing research with bat coronavirus samples.
The post US Funded Biolabs In Ukraine Conducted Research Into Bat Coronavirus appeared first on GreatGameIndia.
President Donald Trump was interviewed in the most recent episode of the YouTube prank squad Nelk Boys’ podcast, Full Send Podcast.
The video was released on Wednesday.
According to Yahoo –The Nelk Boys are a group of YouTubers known for provocative prank and party videos peppered with crude, bro-culture jokes. Their main channel, which launched in 2010, has over 7 million subscribers and 1.15 billion views.
President Trump called the NELK Boys to the stage in October 2020 during a rally.
The NELK Boys video interview with President Donald Trump had 5 million views in its first day.
Then YouTube deleted it.
This is who they are. They can’t let the most popular president in history appear likable, funny, and cool.
So they deleted the video.
The NELK Boys tweeted this out earlier today.
Crazy. pic.twitter.com/ZWlRSbOnZO
— KYLE (@KyleForgeard) March 11, 2022
Here is the full NELK Boys interview with President Trump on Rumble.
Thank God for Rumble!
The post YouTube Deletes NELK Boys Interview with President Trump After 24 Hours and 5 Million Views appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Friday is going to be a very bad day for the United States. Sixty years ago (yes, I was alive then) the United States roasted the Soviet Union in a UN Security Council meeting convened over the Cuban Missile Crisis. There is an old saying, “revenge is a dish served cold.” Russia is going to dump a load of frozen food on the United States tomorrow at 10 am by exposing U.S. support to Ukraine over the last 17 years for research into biological and chemical weapons.
U.S. intelligence analysts last week were alarmed when they obtained intelligence showing that Russian Chemical and Biological Weapons units were activated and moving into Ukraine. These analysts knew nothing of what the Department of Defense had been doing in Ukraine in terms of funding military bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine. Without that knowledge, they concluded that Russia was preparing to use chemical and/or biological weapons. Understandable, but wrong.
The Russian units were deployed to secure those bioweapons labs. And in the process of securing them they have recovered a treasure trove of documents showing the United States has violated the international accord governing Chemical and Biological Weapons.
Tomorrow (Friday), Russia is going to expose the United States as a gross violator of the CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL)
AND TOXIN WEAPONS AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION.
The post Breaking: Russia Convenes UN Security Council Meeting to Present BioLab Evidence — Friday at 11 AM appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Special Counsel Michael Gableman says in a 136-page interim report that he has uncovered numerous instances of alleged lawbreaking in Wisconsin in the 2020 election.
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The former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was hired last summer by the Republican Speaker of the State Assembly, Robin Vos, to investigate suspected election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/03/no-effect-austria-suspends-national-vaccine-mandate/
Last month, Austria became the first country in the world to make it illegal to be without proof of COVID vaccination, but the European nation has suspended its law after protests and reports the measure had no effect.
The government said Wednesday the law was "not proportionate to the threat" of the omicron variant of the virus that caused COVID-19, which while more contagious presents with mild symptoms.
The Austrian daily Kronen Zeitung reported the announcement was made only days before the government was set to impose fines of up to 3,600 euros, about $4,000, for the unvaccinated.
However, Austria's constitutional minister, Karoline Edtstadler, and Health Minister Johannes Rauch said the law remains on the books and could be implemented again.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/03/n-y-times-writer-vaccines-masks-distancing-didnt-affect-covid-rate/
A New York Times senior writer who has observed a difference in adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures between Republican and Democratic-majority areas of the country concludes vaccination, masking and social distancing haven't made an impact on the number of cases during the omicron wave.
Consequently, wrote David Leonhardt in his daily newsletter Wednesday, "there is a strong argument for continuing to remove other restrictions, and returning to normal life."
Leonhardt compared COVID-19 case rates between majority Democratic and Republican areas, pointing out that Democrats have tended to adhere to mitigation rules and are more likely to be vaccinated.
Yet, the number of official COVID-19 cases recently has been higher in "heavily Democratic areas" than Republican areas.
Earlier this year, a phrase was trending because Bari Weiss used it on a talk show: “I’m done with Covid.” Many people cheered simply because the subject has been the source of vast oppression for billions of people for two years.
There are two ways to be over Covid.
One way is to do what the memo from the consultants of the Democratic National Committee suggested: declare the war won and move on. For political reasons.
Deaths attributed to Covid nationally are higher now than they were in the summer of 2020 when the whole country was locked down. They are also higher now than during the election of November the same year. But today we are just supposed to treat it for what it is: a seasonal virus with a disparate impact on the aged and frail.
Rationality is back! In that sense, it’s good to forget about Covid if it means living life normally and behaving with clarity about what does and does not work to mitigate a virus. The Democrats decided that the hyper-restrictionist ways were risking political fortunes. Hence, the line and the talking points needed to change.
Another way to get over Covid is to forget completely about the last two years, especially the astonishing failures of compulsory pandemic controls. Forget about the school closures that cost a generation two years of learning. Forget that the hospitals were largely closed to people without a Covid-related malady. Forget about the preventable nursing-home deaths. Forget that dentistry was practically abolished for a few months, or that one could not even get a haircut.
Forget the stay-at-home orders, the church and business closures, the playground and gym closures, the bankruptcies, the travel restrictions, the firings, the crazed advice for everyone to mask up and physically separate, the record drug-related deaths, the mass depression, the segregation, the brutalization of small business, the labor-force dropouts, the forced stoppages of art and culture, and the capacity limits on venues that forced weddings and funerals to be on Zoom.
Forget about a closer look at the bogus mathematical models, vaccine trials, the circumstances behind the Emergency Use Authorizations, the adverse effects, the inaccuracies of the PCR test, and misclassification of deaths, the billions and trillions of misdirected funds, the division of all workers between essential and nonessential, and the millions who were forced to get jabs they did not want.
Forget about the possibility of a lab leak, the role of China, the deadly use of ventilators, the neglect of therapeutics, the near-banning of all talk of natural immunity, the overselling of the vaccine, the lost religious holidays, the lonely deaths due to the blocking of loved ones from hospitals, the censorship of science, the manipulated and hidden CDC data, the payments to the major media, the symbiotic relationship between government and Big Tech, the demonization of dissent, and the abuse of emergency powers.
Forget how health bureaucracies headed by political appointees took over the task of regulating nearly the whole of life, while messaging the country that freedom just doesn’t matter much anymore!
Who precisely benefits from this method of being “over Covid?” The unrepentant hegemon that gave us this disaster to begin with. They want to be in the clear. They don’t just desire to be exonerated; they don’t want to be judged at all. They want to be unaccountable. The best path toward that end is to foster public amnesia.
When The Washington Post does a front page story on myriad heart problems plaguing people who recovered from COVID infection, it is big news. Cardiology practices across the country are being overwhelmed by post-COVID heart patients. "Long" COVID has been getting increased attention. Huge numbers of people are suffering long after getting through the initial infection.
What is important is the lack of attention to what research has found to be an important impact of spike proteins, namely micro blood clots. Toxic spike proteins invade bodies from COVID infection and also the major COVID vaccines. Those spike proteins can cause widespread micro blood clots. They can impede oxygen getting to all organs and the brain, leading to myocarditis or heart inflammation, heart attacks and strokes, for example.
There is no attention in the Post story to either micro blood clots or whether COVID victims also were recipients of COVID vaccines. There is a very high probability that recovered COVID victims succumbed to all the government coercion and propaganda and got the vaccine shots, even though they have natural immunity governments have not given credit for.
Physicians also are likely seeing "COVID" patients who never had proven COVID infection but were vaccinated. Surely there have been millions of Americans who might have been infected but were asymptomatic and did not have a positive test result. They may assume they were infected! And they very likely got vaccinated. Physicians seeing these people who are complaining of long COVID symptoms may actually be seeing people suffering from vaccine impacts. The medical reason is that spike proteins cause micro blood clots, and the main mRNA vaccines pump bodies full of spike proteins.
Key research study
Feeding the Post story was a new medical research article titled "Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19." The Post noted that one of the authors describes the pandemic as an earthquake. "When the earth stops shaking and the dust settles, we will have to be able to deal with the aftermath on the heart and other organ systems," he said. "Governments around the world need to pay attention. … We are not sufficiently prepared."
But this study did not assess whether COVID vaccination played a role in heart problems. The researchers compared more than 150,000 veterans who survived for at least 30 days after contracting COVID-19 with two groups of uninfected people: a group of more than 5 million people who used the VA medical system during the pandemic, and a similarly sized group that used the system in 2017, before SARS-CoV-2 was circulating.
The study found that there is a high risk of 20 diseases of the heart and blood vessels for at least a year after a COVID-19 diagnosis. The rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19 than in similar people who hadn't had the disease. This was the case even for those who were under 65 years of age and lacked risk factors, such as obesity or diabetes.
Here are two illustrative findings: COVID victims were 52% more likely to have had a stroke than the contemporary control group, and risk of heart failure increased by 72%,
Long COVID has clot cause
Medical research has found micro clots as the likely cause of "long" COVID. Yet the mainstream media are ignoring this in their articles on long COVID..
In October 2021 the material in this article discussed what was originally published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetology in August 2021 titled "Inflammatory micro clots in blood of individuals suffering from Long COVID." The research was done at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Researchers found an overload of various inflammatory molecules, "trapped" inside insoluble microscopic blood clots (micro clots), in the blood of individuals suffering from lingering symptoms associated with long COVID.
This important finding was made by professor Resia Pretorius, a researcher in the Department of Physiological Science at Stellenbosch University. "We found high levels of various inflammatory molecules trapped in micro clots present in the blood of individuals with Long COVID. Some of the trapped molecules contain clotting proteins such as fibrinogen, as well as alpha(2)-antiplasmin," Pretorius explained.
The insolubility of the micro clots became apparent through specific analysis of blood plasma samples from both individuals with acute COVID and long COVID. The researchers found that in both cases there was the same cardiovascular and clotting pathologies. In other words, this research connects both conditions with micro blood clots.
The Guardian article
Though ignored in the U.S., this research was seen as a very important development in a January 2022 article in The Guardian (U.K.) with the heading "Could microclots help explain the mystery of long Covid?" It was written by Pretorius: "My lab has found significant microclot formation in long Covid patients. Unfortunately, these are missed in routine blood tests." They are also missed by scan and imaging technologies.
Here are more excerpts from this article that was aimed at informing the world about the importance of micro clots.
"One of the biggest failures during the Covid-19 pandemic is our slow response in diagnosing and treating long Covid. As many as 100 million people worldwide already suffer from long Covid. That staggering number will eventually be much higher, if we take into account that diagnoses are still inadequate, and that we still do not know what the impact of Omicron and future variants will be."
"Patients with long Covid complain of numerous symptoms, the main ones being recurring fatigue and brain fog, muscle weakness, being out of breath and having low oxygen levels, sleep difficulties and anxiety or depression. Some patients are so sick that they cannot work or even walk a few steps. There is possibly also an elevated risk of stroke and heart attacks. One of the biggest sources of concern is that even mild and sometimes asymptomatic initial Covid-19 infection may lead to debilitating, long-term disability."
"Since early 2020, we and other researchers have pointed out that acute Covid-19 is not only a lung disease, but actually significantly affects the vascular (blood flow) and coagulation (blood clotting) systems."
"The presence of persistent microclots and hyperactivated platelets (also involved in clotting) perpetuates coagulation and vascular pathology, resulting in cells not getting enough oxygen in the tissues to sustain bodily functions (known as cellular hypoxia). Widespread hypoxia may be central to the numerous reported debilitating symptoms."
If COVID vaccines create the same type of micro blood clots, then the same health impacts would be expected in the vaccinated!
And here is what long COVID victims need to know: "So why can long Covid patients not go to their nearest clinic or health care practitioner to find treatment options? Currently there are no general pathology tests readily available to diagnose these patients. Desperately ill patients are told that their pathology test results are within normal/healthy ranges. Many are then told that their symptoms are possibly psychological and they should try meditation or exercise. The main reason the traditional lab tests do not pick up any of the inflammatory molecules is that they are trapped inside the fibrinolytic-resistant microclots (visible under a fluorescence or bright-field microscope, as our research has shown). When the molecular content of the soluble part of the plasma is measured, the inflammatory molecules, including auto-antibodies, are simply missed." The same would hold true for vaccinated people with micro blood clots.
Autopsies find micro clots
The medical literature provides findings of micro blood clots from autopsies. An article published in 2020 by Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center is important. Describing the work in a news story was this: "The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels. And this was dramatic, because though we might have expected it in the lungs, we found it in almost every organ that we looked at in our autopsy study," the researcher said.
This too was noted in another news story: "We knew that clinical people were finding clots in these [COVID] patients," she said. "So although I knew that that was going to be there, I didn't expect it at the microscopic level to the degree that I saw it." Her autopsy study found blood clots in small vessels of the patients' lungs, hearts, kidneys and livers.
In another news story this was noted in 2020 about research at Harvard University: "Researchers also noted that patients with the novel coronavirus suffered many microscopic blood clots. In a stark difference with lungs infected with the flu, the micro-clots were nine times as present in areas of the lungs that allow the passage of oxygen into the patient's bloodstream while carbon dioxide is emitted."
This is the title of a May 2020 medical article: "Pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2: Targeting of endothelial cells renders a complex disease with thrombotic microangiopathy and aberrant immune response. The Mount Sinai COVID-19 autopsy experience." Here is the summary of the findings; note the word micro:
"Autopsies were performed at the Mount Sinai Hospital on 67 COVID-19 positive patients and data from the clinical records were obtained from the Mount Sinai Data Warehouse. The experimental design included a comprehensive microscopic examination carried out by a team of expert pathologists, along with transmission electron microscopy."
"We report a comprehensive autopsy series of 67 COVID-19 positive patients revealing that this disease, so far conceptualized as a primarily respiratory viral illness, also causes endothelial dysfunction, a hypercoagulable state [an increased tendency to develop blood clots], and an imbalance of both the innate and adaptive immune responses. Novel findings reported here include an endothelial phenotype of ACE2 in selected organs, which correlates with clotting abnormalities and thrombotic microangiopathy, addressing the prominent coagulopathy and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Another original observation is that of macrophage activation syndrome, with hemophagocytosis and a hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis-like disorder, underlying the microangiopathy [disorder involving small blood vessels] and excessive cytokine release." In other words, this study also found evidence of micro clots in COVID victims.
Micro clots caused by COVID vaccines
All the results on micro clots in COVID and long COVID victims should be seen as holding for the same type clots in vaccinated people.
The work of Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi is critical. He has noted: "immune and blood-related categories of risks from vaccines: (1) Clotting from the direct action of spike protein in the bloodstream; (2) Further clotting from the immune system attacking spike-producing endothelial cells." This too was said: "The RNA injected into your body [from vaccines] are going to enter the cells that line blood vessels. He points to spiny spike protein that these cells will generate and protrude outwards to attract blood platelets and form micro-clots. Days after vaccination, white blood cells known as lymphocytes as well as antibodies will begin to mount an attack against these cells. If you dare to repeat this (get the second jab), 'God help you' warns Dr. Bhakdi." He warned about the blood clot side-effects months before the roll-out of the mRNA vaccines.
Canadian doctor blew whistle about micro clots from vaccines
Months ago, in July 2021 a brave and smart Canadian doctor, Charles Hoffe, went public with his findings on COVID-vaccinated patients. Using the d-dimer test of blood he found that 62% of hundreds of his vaccinated patients had high numbers indicating the presence of micro blood clots. A d-dimer test measures the amount of degraded fibrin in the blood.
He did more than just release that finding. He said that the use of mRNA vaccines would "kill most people through heart failure." This supports invoking vaccine shots as a cause of what is now being associated just with long COVID.
In plain language he said that the mRNA shots are programmed to turn a person's body into a spike protein "factory," and that over time these mass-produced spike proteins cause progressive blood clotting.
He said what other medical experts have expressed, namely that only 25% of the vaccine injected into a person's arm actually stays in your arm. The other 75% is collected by your lymphatic system and literally fed into your circulation so these little packages of messenger RNA invade your body. And in a single dose of Moderna vaccine there are literally 40 trillion mRNA molecules.
Dr. Hoffe said that while these packages were designed by Big Pharma to be absorbed directly into people's cells, the only place they can actually be absorbed is around the blood vessels and into capillary networks, which are the tiniest blood vessels where blood flow is slow and where genes are released.
"Your body then gets to work reading and then manufacturing trillions and trillions of these spike proteins," he said. "Each gene can produce many, many spike proteins. The body then recognizes these are foreign bodies so it makes antibodies against it so you are then protected against COVID. That's the idea." Now we know that this theory does not assure destruction of the virus or transmission of it, nor effective immunity.
Here is what you need to understand: Though the claim has long been that these spike proteins act as a deterrent to viral infection after being injected into a person's body, the reality is that they actually become part of the cell wall of a person's vascular endothelium or linings of the blood vessels. In very small diameter blood vessels, the spikes have a big impact on blood flow.
Your blood vessels are supposed to be smooth so that your blood flows smoothly. After spike proteins invade your body the small blood vessels have these little spikey bits sticking out, which impede blood flow and can cause clots. And if you get a lot of clots, then your blood platelet count can greatly decrease, and this can lead to bleeding problems.
Dr. Hoffe says it is an inevitability that the vaccine injected will develop blood clots because as the vaccine-inserted spike proteins embed themselves within blood vessels and capillaries, blood platelets circulate around trying to fix the problem by creating increasingly more clots.
"So, when the platelet comes through the capillary it suddenly hits all these COVID spikes and it becomes absolutely inevitable that blood clots will form to block that vessel," he writes. "Therefore, these spike proteins can predictably cause blood clots. They are in your blood vessels (if mRNA 'vaccinated'), so it is guaranteed."
What must be remembered is that these blood clots are different than the "rare" ones spoken about by physicians that show up on CT scans and MRIs or even ultrasound images. These are microscopic and do not show up on those tests; they can be detected using the d-dimer blood test, which is not routinely used.
Why some people do not get the clots is not entirely clear. They may benefit from a very health vascular system.
"The most alarming part of this is that there are some parts of the body like the brain, spinal cord, heart and lungs which cannot [regenerate]," he said. "When those tissues are damaged by blood clots, they are permanently damaged." That is the deadly issue for understanding why there are huge numbers of vaccinated people who have suffered death or a broad array of serious health impacts from COVID vaccines.
Conclusions
The central medical thesis of this analysis is that micro clots are a condition in three groups: those infected by the COVID virus, those suffering from long COVID, and those who have received COVID mRNA vaccines. The harmful health impacts in all three groups are extensive and myriad. Ordinary medical testing does not find micro clots. Most physicians seem oblivious to this blood disorder and its impacts on the body, including serious cardiac conditions and deaths.
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Known for censoring information about vaccines and COVID-19 that conflict with the establishment narrative, Facebook has been leading an alliance with the World Health Organization, the CDC Foundation and others that funds promotion of vaccines.
The Alliance for Advancing Health Online, or AAHO, has funded research into "how best to use behavioral science, social media and digital platforms to build confidence in and access to vaccines," the Epoch Times reported.
White House staffers received an email last June announcing Facebook's formation of an alliance to "boost vaccination confidence through social media."
It highlighted a "vaccine confidence fund" described as a $40 million multi-year initiative.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
The Epoch Times spoke with several medical scientists and physicians whose evidence-based views have been censored by Facebook and other social-media platforms.
Pierre Kory, president of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, who is known for his advocacy for ivermectin as a COVID treatment, argued there is no "scientifically-supported public health objective for getting people vaccinated."
Dr. Jay Battacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford, told the Epoch Times it's "difficult for me to understand this as anything other than a government propaganda campaign."
Dr. Robert Malone, who was banned by Twitter after raising safety concerns about the COVID vaccines, said that if Facebook is going to "play doctor," it must "fulfill the professional and ethical obligations of the profession," which include disclosing the vaccines risks.
Facebook teamed up with Dr. Anthony Fauci to censor the lab-leak theory, including a report by WND. It's now known that Fauci was told early in 2020 by a trusted scientist that the novel coronavirus likely came from a lab and was genetically modified.
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Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Special Counsel Michael Gableman says in a 136-page interim report that he has uncovered numerous instances of alleged lawbreaking in Wisconsin in the 2020 election.
Election officials count absentee ballots in Milwaukee, Wis. on Nov. 4, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was hired last summer by the Republican Speaker of the State Assembly, Robin Vos, to investigate suspected election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
In the report released March 1, Gableman wrote that his investigation uncovered instances of numerous mentally incompetent nursing home residents, non-citizens, and ineligible felons casting votes.
He cited the use by municipal and county clerks of unstaffed absentee ballot drop-boxes, in violation of state law.
Laws were also allegedly violated when the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) allegedly exceeded its authority by ordering local election officials to disregard state statutes that regulate absentee voting.
The Special Counsel raised concerns that private money influenced municipal officials in the state’s five largest cities to “disfavor” many of their own citizens, as well as the vast majority of state residents, by spending millions of dollars of grant money on voter registration drives, absentee voter efforts, and Get-Out-The-Vote campaigns designed to serve certain favored, and specifically targeted, racial groups, in violation of the equal protection clauses of the state and federal constitution.
Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee election commission, collects the count from absentee ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Nov. 4, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Gableman offered a list of suggested reforms designed to restore public confidence in Wisconsin elections.
Among Gableman’s recommendations was a call to abolish the WEC, prohibit outside money and personnel from participating in election administration, and improved training to better acquaint local election officials with their powers, duties, and rights.
He also laid out the legal rationale for decertifying the state’s 10 electors who voted for Democrat Joe Biden.
Biden was declared the winner of Wisconsin’s popular vote by six-tenths of one percent, or 20,000 votes.
Relying on the common law principle that fraud or illegality invalidate results under an illegal or fraudulent process, Gableman asserted that the state legislature had the constitutional plenary power to decertify the results of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin because state laws were broken.
Democrat Governor Tony Evers released a statement the day the Special Counsel’s Report came out, saying: “This circus has long surpassed being a mere embarrassment to our state … Every day this effort continues, it is an increasingly dangerous and ongoing threat to our democracy.”
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, who has sued to block, or curtail, subpoenas issued by the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), said in a March 1 statement that Gableman’s report was a “full-throated attack on democracy” and an attempt to “overturn the will of the voters.”
Kaul said that Republican state legislators “have an obligation to our democracy to condemn, and end, this preposterous fake investigation.”
The OSC report detailed instances of what it called “obstruction” on the part of some state officials and private interest groups, which have filed nine lawsuits against the OSC and snowed it under with what it calls “dilatory,” “frivolous,” and “voluminous” public information requests.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 6, 2020. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Gableman alleges in his report that Democrat political operatives, paid for by grants from the Zuckerberg-funded non-profit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), all but took over administration of the 2020 election in five of Wisconsin’s largest cities.
According to OSC’s report, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged in the spring and summer of 2020, CTCL donated nearly $8.8 million to county clerks and municipal election administrators throughout Wisconsin.
The stated purpose of the grant funding was to help ensure that communities had enough money to be able to conduct elections in accordance with public health safety guidelines.
Five of Wisconsin’s largest cities—Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha—received a total of $6.3 million in grant funding, ostensibly to purchase PPE and other health-related equipment, such as plexiglass barriers and hand-sanitizer.
The grants were conditioned on the five cities agreeing to guidelines of the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP).
Gableman alleged that WSVP was little more than a partisan campaign program designed to maximize voter registration and turnout in heavily minority-populated precincts.
The report states that the Wisconsin Elections Commission supported the WSVP Get-Out-The-Vote program, an action Gableman asserts is not part of the agency’s mission.
The cities used grant funds to pay for curbside voting tents, mobile polling places operated out of trucks, and for a drive-thru voting window at one city hall.
The cities spent grant money on voter education, a multi-media advertising and phone blitz, geo-fencing (a computer technique used to pin-point particular areas of geographic and demographic interest) and they paid for personnel called “voter navigators” (also known as ballot harvesters), whose job was to shepherd a prospective voter through the process of voting.
The municipalities purchased and installed in strategic locations, unstaffed absentee ballot drop-boxes in violation of Wisconsin law.
The OSC report presented data showing that the city of Green Bay spent eight-tenths of one percent of its $1 million in grant funding on PPE and health equipment.
Green Bay spent $50,000 for ballot drop-boxes and purchased a couple of new Ford trucks. The city paid a public relations firm $150,ooo for a voter outreach campaign.
The public relations campaigns in each city zeroed in on preferred racial groups, which, coincidentally matched the demographic profile of Biden voters, according to the OSC report.
The report said the cities’ actions were discriminatory and “disfavored” city and state residents who did not fit the targeted profile, raising issues of unequal treatment under the law.
CTCL and other private workers, called “grant mentors,” along with many volunteers, worked for weeks assisting city election officials and county clerks in conducting the 2020 presidential election.
What kind of assistance did the CTCL-supplied workers provide?
According to the OSC report, representatives of private organizations participated in much of the planning and administration of the election.
Tasks they performed included, curing defective mail-in ballots, challenging voted ballots, verifying photo ID, setting up voting equipment and vote counting centers, training volunteers, and writing instructions controlling the activities of count observers
Workers provided by private organizations assigned inspectors for polling places and vote counting centers, transported ballots to city hall and counting centers, issued a purchase order, made decisions whether or not to accept ballots after 8 p.m. on Election Day, participated in the counting of ballots, and set up wireless digital networks in polling places, clerks’ offices, and other buildings, according to the report.
The OSC report stated that local election officials, made beholden to private organizations by grant funding, could be susceptible to leverage pressuring them to do things in violation of their oath of office.
The special counsel alleged that rampant fraud and abuse occurred statewide in many of Wisconsin’s 6,875 nursing homes (housing 92,000 residents) during the 2020 election.
When visited by OSC investigators, many nursing home residents who are on record as having voted absentee in the election, were unaware of their surroundings, what year it was, or to whom they were speaking.
Some nursing home residents who purportedly voted had been adjudicated by a court to be mentally incompetent and whose voting rights had been taken away.
Wisconsin election laws require that a nursing home resident desiring to vote absentee must be visited by a Special Voting Deputy (SVD) designated by the local clerks or election boards to assist the resident and supervise the application and voting process.
Under the statute, only the resident’s immediate family, or an SVD, can have any contact with the ballots. They are never to be mailed.
Meagan Wolfe, the head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, speaks during a virtual press conference on Nov. 4, 2020. (Wisconsin Elections Commission via Reuters)
In June 2020, for reasons of public health, the Wisconsin Elections Commission directed all clerks to handle nursing home voting according to the rules governing ordinary mail-in voting, thereby disrupting the strictly limited chain of custody of residents’ ballots—a direct violation of Wisconsin law.
The result was thousands of application forms, ballot envelopes, and ballots were illegally handled by nursing home employees, according to the report.
The report alleges nursing home administrators and staff members illegally assisted residents in marking their ballots. Some family members have reported suspected cases of staff forging the voter’s signature.
According to the OSC, the result was an “improbably high” voting rate, with many nursing homes reporting that 100 percent of their residents voted in the 2020 election.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe said in a statement: “The integrity of the November 2020 election, and of the WEC, has been shown time, and time again, through court cases and previous investigations.”