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2.14.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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Venous Thromboembolic Syndromes From Covid & Vax by Dr. Peter McCullough
Free Speech Is Bodily Autonomy by David Zweig
Medicare Data Is No Smoking Gun by Mathew Crawford
Biden Riding Trump’s Populism Wave by Andrew Sullivan
Another Spike Therapeutic by Walter M Chesnut
Germany: Excess Mortality by Josh Guetzkow
Deep Dive Into IncRNAs by DoorlessCarp
Ever/Never Injected by Joel Smalley
COVID “Vax” Added To Childhood Vax Schedule by Jessica Rose
Singapore vs UK 2021 by AlternativeNarrative
COVID’s “Organizing Pneumonia” by Brian Mowrey
Science Needs A Hippocratic Oath by Dr. Robert Malone
Boosters Increase Covid Severity by Igor Chudov
Politicians Coming Around on Vaxes by Aussie17
Vaccine Dose Fatality Rate Exponential by Steve Kirsch
Immune Suppression & Persistent Infection
Do No Harm by Jessica Hockett
Positive vs Negative Human Rights by el gato malo
All-Cause Mortality Scotland by Joel Smalley
Aussie Terror Campaign by John Leake
Vax Injured: Laura by Team Humanity
There Will Be No Reckoning by eugyppius
Cited Deaths vs Actual Covid Deaths by Josh Stevenson
Venous Thromboembolic Syndromes From Covid & Vax by Dr. Peter McCullough
Because the Spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2 causes blood clotting, most venous thromboembolic syndromes are seen in both COVID-19 patients and those who took the vaccines. It is my experience that the highest risk patients are those who have cumulatively been exposed to the Spike protein via multiple injections and one or more occurrences of COVID-19 illness.
Zheng and colleagues performed a systematic review of the literature and found 123 cases reports of splanchnic vein thrombosis, or blood clots in the veins that drain the intestines.
There were 75 cases in those who had acute COVID-19 and I anticipate most where critically ill in the hospital with an overall mortality rate of 14%. Alarmingly, there were 58 cases of the same problem in those who were vaccinated, presumably well at home and the mortality rate was 25%.
Free Speech Is Bodily Autonomy by David Zweig
The free speech advocacy organization FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) creates an annual ranking of colleges from best to worst environments for free speech on campus
Many of our nation’s most prestigious private universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Amherst, Vassar, Johns Hopkins, Penn, and Northwestern, are in the bottom twenty percent. Conversely, the majority of the top fifth of the list are public and state schools.
The colleges with the most stifling atmospheres for speech also have the most aggressive Covid vaccine policies.
The colleges that most welcome and protect a free exchange of ideas, in turn, have the least intrusive vaccine requirements.
an extreme vaccination policy, out of step with much of the world yet perfectly accepted in progressive America, announces one’s institution as an unimpeachable member of the tribe.
Medicare Data Is No Smoking Gun by Mathew Crawford
Am I saying that this distribution shows no vaccine-associated mortality?
There is not enough information for me to determine that
So far as the general shape of the distribution goes, I see no problem at all.
The sharp rise at the beginning is an acute version of the healthy vaccinee bias.
There is a sort of hump in the middle that breaks the last point. In technical speak, that's called Omicron
The collapse of the distribution toward the end just means that the observation period came to a close.
Biden Riding Trump’s Populism Wave by Andrew Sullivan
Biden was triangulating hard. Stylistically, this was not-Trump at all. Substantively, it was Trump all the way.
If Trump were not mentally ill, he’d sit back and bask in his legacy of reorienting US politics — including the Democrats — toward all the themes he stressed from 2015 on. He’d be happy to go down in history as populism’s bipartisan legitimizer.
Again and again, this was an America First speech. It was about building infrastructure, protecting entitlements, buying American, re-shoring industry, cutting drug prices, bringing the supply chain back to the homeland, and a high-tech industrial policy to compete more aggressively with the Chinese. This is a whole different world than Barack TPP Obama, let alone Bill NAFTA Clinton.
Another Spike Therapeutic by Walter M Chesnut
I am taking the finding that the Spike Protein induces Actin Remodeling of red blood cells seriously. I am almost certain that this mechanism is ubiquitous as the Integrin Receptors on platelets are found on all nucleated cells.
Chrysin, a flavonoid compound found in bee pollen and propolis, has the ability to modulate the Actin Remodeling induced by the Spike Protein.
Chrysin has the additional property of being able to inhibit ER stress-mediated misfolding. This (please see previous posts) is another mechanism of the Spike Protein. I believe the evidence shows that once the Spike Protein has invaded the Endothelium, it then proceeds to invade tissues and organs, resulting in mistranslation (misfolding) of essential proteins.
Germany: Excess Mortality by Josh Guetzkow
It had already become apparent for 2021 that an excess mortality is observed particularly in the middle age groups. This trend has continued in 2022: now a high excess mortality is already be observed in the age group 15-29.
look at the excess mortality from November 2020 to March 2021…there is a strong age dependency: the older the people, the higher the excess mortality, and there is absolutely nothing to be seen in the age groups under 30…you can see a typical pull-forward effect: the phase of excess mortality is followed by a phase of a mortality deficit in all affected age groups…cumulatively, there is hardly any excess mortality at the time of the vaccination campaign at the end of March 2021.
pattern is changing from April 2021 onwards - the start of the vaccination campaign. Suddenly, an excess mortality appears that is no longer dependent on age, and which is no longer compensated for by subsequent phases of a mortality deficit.
massive decrease in the number of live births in the first quarter of 2022 - exactly nine months after the start of the vaccination campaign
A different picture emerges for stillbirths…A sudden increase is then observed in the second quarter of 2021, and the number of stillbirths is also higher in the third and fourth quarters than in previous years.
Deep Dive Into IncRNAs by DoorlessCarp
Only a relatively small proportion of lncRNAs have been demonstrated to be biologically relevant and some of these are associated with disease.
One of the lncRNAs called MIAT is associated with myocardial infarction and oncogenesis. Skewing expression either up or down could promote various pathologies. Downregulation of MIAT is associated with decreased risk of oncogenesis but DANCR and LINC01133 were increased. This implies an increased cancer risk for a time, including in young vaccinees.
all the currently administered and future vaccines, including for delivery at point of care, should be screened for potentially pathological effects vis dysregulated expression of lncRNAs and for any long term immunoglobulin subclass changes
These experimental gene therapy mRNA products should be withdrawn immediately, especially from cancer patients as per the precautionary principle.
Ever/Never Injected by Joel Smalley
We should only concern ourselves with “never injected” and “ever injected”. These terms avoid the pejorative association with the term “jabbed” but, more importantly, they also avoid the false impression given by using the term “vaccine”, which is something they certainly are not.
For those who still want to believe the Safe and Effective™ narrative, by all means, add a third group for “fully injected” if you so wish but never ignore the “ever injected” if you are going to make any representation of safety.
COVID “Vax” Added To Childhood Vax Schedule by Jessica Rose
‘they’ voted to put these COVID-19 injections into your babies - including the modified mRNA versions - and what that means is that they are free from liability, exclusive of EUA status, forever.
What that means is if your baby gets injured by these as yet experimental modified mRNA COVID shots - that your baby doesn’t need: AT ALL - then you are on your own with regard to the product manufacturers being responsible, on any level.
These mRNA shots, once again, have lamentable safety profiles and were NOT safety tested in infants. There is NO WAY to predict long-term development outcomes and they plan to use the original shot which is far and beyond obsolete.
Singapore vs UK 2021 by AlternativeNarrative
I found that Singapore was registering covid deaths ONLY if they came with an attendant diagnosis of pneumonia, unlike in the UK where at that time, ANY death for ANY reason within 28 days of a positive test was registered as a covid death.
early in 2021 prior to it's vaccine rollout mid-2021, Singapore was reporting just over 60 000 Covid cases but only 30 dead, producing a CFR (Case Fatality Rate) or as I called it at the time, Deaths-to-Cases rate, of 0.05%. The UK however was reporting 3.8 million cases+ & almost 127 000 deaths, which produces a CFR or Deaths-to-Cases rate of 2.9%.
In the six months following their rollout, Singapore's deaths from Covid has risen five-fold compared to before their vaccine rollout.
COVID’s “Organizing Pneumonia” by Brian Mowrey
the virus shuts down the reflex that normally prevents blood flow from going to lung regions that have obstructed airflow…Normally the body would shunt blood away from these flooded zones; failure to do so is like trying to turn the engines over in water.
People with severe COVID-19 pneumonia often arrive at the hospital with unusually low oxygen levels. They have two unusual features distinct from patients with other types of pneumonia:
First, they suffer widespread injury to their lower airway (the alveoli, which is where oxygen is taken up).
Second, they shunt blood to unventilated areas of the lung, which is called ventilation-perfusion mismatch. This means blood is going to parts of the lung where it won’t get sufficiently oxygenated.
the virus is perfectly capable of destroying lots of lung cells on its own, unchecked, thanks to suppression of antiviral innate immunity.
It is well established that lung pathologies in severe Covid-19 are partly vascular, from micro-clotting (thrombotic angiopathy) to full-on pulmonary embolism.
the evidence here argues for the virus as the direct agent of lung tissue destruction, not the immune system’s response to it
once one considers the direct evidence that a slow immune response predicts likelihood of severe outcomes better than any other sub-factor in the at-risk, it becomes clear that the immune “over-reaction” is a totally unnecessary part added on to disparities in direct viral destruction
Science Needs A Hippocratic Oath by Dr. Robert Malone
There is no hippocratic oath for scientists or science. Yet, science has radically changed culture, society, nature, biology, even the world. Science and scientists act as if the practice and practitioners of “Science” were a Godlike entity, free of moral constraints. The ethics of “Science” (or Scientism) have all too often been twisted to seek to replace the role of God in society.
Just because something can be done, that does not mean that it should be done. Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world. In the absence of clear accepted boundaries between the possible and the ethical, once Pandora’s box has been opened, it becomes impossible to reverse the consequences.
Boosters Increase Covid Severity by Igor Chudov
Covid vaccines significantly increase the risk of hospitalization in months 7-9 after vaccination.
for people over 50, the most dangerous period after vaccination is between 6 and 9 months after their last dose. Their risk of hospitalization is several times higher than before six months or after nine months.
people who take a Covid booster first go through a somewhat reduced hospitalization risk for the first six months, then go through a dramatically heightened risk of hospitalization, then hospitalization rates “return to normal,” with the normal being very high.
Politicians Coming Around on Vaxes by Aussie17
politicians work according to polling data and shift their position to win votes.
Currently, almost 1 in 3 of their voters believe vaccines are causing deaths
When it crosses 50%, you'll see a sudden shift of politicians making U-Turns.
this week, Australian MP Russell Broadbent spoke about the plight of injured citizens
"I've had some shocking days in my office in my time here since 1990. But yesterday, I spent an hour with three vaccine-injured people and heard the worst, most horrific stories I have heard in this place as a federal member for all of this time" Russell Broadbent, February 7, 2023
Vaccine Dose Fatality Rate Exponential by Steve Kirsch
“it is not unreasonable to assume an all-population global value of vDFR = 0.1 %”
For the US, 670M doses have been given, so the estimate is 670,000 people have been killed by the COVID vaccines in the US.
Using data from Israel and Australia, the paper estimates 13 million deaths worldwide from the COVID vaccines
The paper: Age-stratified COVID-19 vaccine-dose fatality rate for Israel and Australia
Immune Suppression & Persistent Infection by Brian Mowrey
The virus is doing the real damage. Just as inflammation reacts very strongly to any severe tissue injury, so are the lungs the scene of much post-injury inflammatory response. Certainly there are benefits to modulating this response, including to calm coagulation cascades that synergize with inflammation and can amplify injury; but again this is true of any type of severe tissue injury. The problem is that the immune system allowed the injury to happen in the first place.
rather than being a disease of over-response, Covid-19 is characterized by extreme immune suppression. Adults who fail to mount a prompt innate antiviral response then go on to fail to mount an effective adaptive anti-SARS-CoV-2 response
The end result is rapid-onset tolerance (even if only temporary) and resulting persistent infection.
The immune system decides to stand down, at least partially — go into a state of deciding that this is going to be a long-term battle, we need to figure out how to contain this invader; we can’t fully eliminate it. And T Cell exhaustion is one strategy that allows that to happen.
What can be expected from future infections as the mRNA-transfected…become more and more primed for the virus?
Kids, including infants, who were never at apparent risk for (severe disease leading to) persistent infection, now must run a decades-long gauntlet with a potential, yet-to-be-quantified propensity toward persistent infection.
If the Covid vaccines almost certainly protect against severe outcomes in part by tagging infected cells for destruction, IgG4 will sabotage that benefit. This may replicate the original problem that led to severe Covid-19 to begin with; namely, suppression of innate response to cell and tissue infection
Do No Harm by Jessica Hockett
On Sunday, my vaccinated 73-year-old mother tripped over a rug in her home, fell, and dislocated her shoulder.
she was positive for covid and immediately sent to isolation in the “covid unit,” where she has to stay for 10 days! No visitors allowed.
Mom also hasn’t been getting same level care of in the covid unit. It’s not as well staffed, so they can’t be responsive to her need to go to the bathroom.
The call buttons in this unit don’t even make noise. They turn a light on over the door. When a nurse or aide happens to be walking by and sees your light on, then they come in. No ding, no nothing.
The facility also said on Friday that they can’t get her more pain medication til Monday. For the “covid,” they’re giving her Tylenol.
What’s so crazy is that if she’d testing positive for RSV or flu, I doubt she’d be isolated like this.
Positive vs Negative Human Rights by el gato malo
they do not believe in your rights, it’s all tactical means to grab from some to buy others and then use the dependency they create to demand obedience.
the very idea that the rules they seek to impose upon you should also apply to them is inconceivable.
the game is ever the same: claim that “free stuff” is a human right, get people hooked on it while impeding the means to become self-sufficient, then threaten to take it away until people comply with whatever intrusion next takes your fancy.
a dependent populace is a subservient populace.
all fundamental rights are negative. they are rights to non-interference. you have a right to speech, to association, to bodily integrity. such rights to not obligate anyone else to act for you, merely to leave you unimpeded. no one must listen when you speak, or agree, or associate with you if they chose not to. such rights are universal, reciprocal, and require mutual consent for actions. if you cannot have it alone on a desert island, it’s not a negative right.
but positive rights are different. a “right to healthcare” is a positive right. such a right implies that others must do things for you. healthcare does not just appear, someone has to perform it, someone has to pay for it. the time, agency, and treasure of others is made yours. but by what right? by what right may one take from others against their will and call it a just entitlement?
this is the issue that bedevils such structures: you cannot have positive rights without violating negative rights.
there can be no “fundamental right to healthcare” because it always and unavoidably comes attached to a system that violates negative rights and thus the notion of fundamental rights at all.
All-Cause Mortality Scotland by Joel Smalley
when judging an intervention such as the mass injection of an entire population with a novel therapy, the obligation for certainty should be in favour of the intervention. This means that the evidence should be consistently beneficial to find in favour of it being safe and effective. Anything less then it would be prudent to judge against it.
For the “vaccine” to be necessary, there must be a discernible increase in mortality during 2020, over and above what might be expected given the prevailing trend.
For the “vaccine” to be considered safe, at worst, there must be no more mortality in 2021 and 2022 than 2020 and the trend should be no steeper than 2020.
For the “vaccine” to be considered effective, there should be discernibly less mortality in 2021 and 2022 than 2020 and the trend should be no steeper than 2014 to 2019.
Aussie Terror Campaign by John Leake
What happened to the Australians is that their government and media relentlessly terrorized them. Nowhere in the previously free world (except maybe Canada) has the State been more brutally paternalistic than in Australia. Nowhere has the State’s playbook been more clear and ruthless:
1). Blitz of media terror. 2). Invoke Emergency Power. 3). Suspend constitutional liberties. 4). Lock everyone up. 5). Bodyslam and blast with rubber bullets anyone who protests the lockdowns. 6). Relentlessly push of the COVID-19 vaccines as the key to safety and freedom. 7). Delist any doctor who publicly questions the safety and efficacy of the gene transfer products.
Vax Injured: Laura by Team Humanity
Even though a paramedic had witnessed Laura’s injuries with his very own eyes at the employer vaccination clinic nothing was documented in her medical record. The doctors at her healthcare system attempted to blame her injuries on anxiety.
Laura had never felt so alone. She had gone from being in the “best shape of her life” and a social butterfly who loved to try new restaurants with her friends to someone she hardly recognized-down 35 pounds because her mouth lesions were so excruciatingly painful that she struggled to eat.
There Will Be No Reckoning by eugyppius
We’re not witnessing anything like a general reassessment of pandemic overreaches, let alone a backlash. Instead, two very different phenomena are at work here.
The first is simply that nobody is any longer taking the trouble to suppress dissenting voices. This means that we’re finally hearing from a whole host of otherwise prominent people, whose opinions have been suppressed since the pandemic began.
the second thing: The press, as always, are doing their level best to simulate a broader public discussion without actually providing one. Pandemic policies involved everything from mask mandates, to extended solitary confinement for the elderly, to nationwide house arrests, to outrageous fines for entertaining friends in your own home, to vaccine coercion and the minimisation of vaccine injuries.
The press and the politicians are all agreed that they’d like to talk about as little of this mess as possible. Thus it’s telling that the central point of the simulated German media debate is not pandemic policies in general, or even lockdowns or vaccine mandates, but school closures.
Cited Deaths vs Actual Covid Deaths by Josh Stevenson
The cyclical nature of the references to child Covid deaths between Pfizer, the FDA, and CDC is a little hard to keep track of. When Pfizer was referencing these “deaths” in their reports that they submitted to the FDA, they are usually citing CDC’s own data. Then after the FDA would authorize the shots, in turn, the CDC would reference Pfizer’s report or EUA applications (which was usually CDC’s own flawed data) ,NOT correct or adjust the data, and the cycle continues.
the best way to account for deaths is to leverage the data source that actuaries use: CDC Wonder, which is based on death certificate data. Although it’s also imperfect and not always straightforward, it does allow us to cut down the numbers to a more realistic number- by only including deaths that could possible ever logically have anything to do with Covid.
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