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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Biased Cohort Selection by Mr Law, Health and Technology
Taiwan Needs Japan by Guy Gin
Using Nattokinase To Dissolve Vax Spike by Dr. Peter McCullough
Eliminate The FDA & CDC by el gato malo
Unvaxed Dying Of Covid; Vaxed Dying Of Other by Joel Smalley
ONS #Denominatorgate Shows Increased Vaxed Mortality by Igor Chudov
Ladapo Finds VAERS Safety Signal by Sasha Latypova
Start Calling Them “Vaccines” by Aaron Siri
Youth Suicide Up During Pandemic by Justin Hart
Early 2020 NYC Covid Cases by Jessica Hockett
Topol Pushing Bad Study Again by Vinay Prasad
Doctors Sue FDA For Prohibiting Ivermectin by Victoria Marshall
Virus Nanotubes by Walter M Chestnut
Vaccine Efficacy Revealed by USMortality
Iatrogenesis In UK by Norman Fenton
ONS Data ACM By Vax Status by John Dee
Pfizer Trial Vax Vs Placebo Deaths by Aaron Siri
The Culpability Principle by Mark Changizi
New York Times Comes Around On Masks by Michael P Senger
Nasal Spray Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Dr. Peter McCullough
Vax-Injured: Ashley by Team Humanity
US Cumulative Excess Death by Fabian Spieker
FEMA Ain’t Coming By Salena Zito
Biased Cohort Selection by Mr Law, Health and Technology
When your: (i) unvaccinated cohort consists almost entirely of people with severe infection who either presented to the emergency department (or died); while your (ii) vaccinated cohort that you are matching to contains the entire population of vaccinated people (ranging from those who were never infected all the way to those who died), it becomes very easy to see why even unintentionally your results would be worse for the unvaccinated.
It is not enough that the…study makes one highly significant concession to the unvaccinated - namely that natural immunity provides better protection against reinfection. The remainder of their conclusions all fall in favour of the vaccine - and clearly as a result of their biased cohort selection process.
The claim that the vaccines provide considerable protection against (a) severe infection, (b) hospitalisation and (c) death are all biased - tainted by the fact that the unvaccinated cohort would almost certainly have all fallen into at least one of these categories.
Taiwan Needs Japan by Guy Gin
if the US goes to war over Taiwan, it has a strong interest in Japan going too. But how can America ensure Japan’s participation?
Put simply, Japan’s participation made a US/Taiwan victory much more likely.
Japan’s importance is increased under the base assumption that no other country will offer much assistance to the US and Taiwan. India, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam “would be sympathetic to the United States and Taiwan but reluctant to expose themselves to Chinese attack.” On the Korean Peninsular, “North Korea would likely stage a provocation that would draw South Korea’s focus.” Australian forces would be able to operate in the South China Sea but “be unavailable as a result for operations around Taiwan.” Philippine neutrality is assumed due to “the relative weakness of the Philippine military compared with the Chinese military.”
Using Nattokinase To Dissolve Vax Spike by Dr. Peter McCullough
“how do I get this out of my body.”
The mRNA and adenoviral DNA products were rolled out with no idea on how or when the body would ever breakdown the genetic code. The synthetic mRNA carried on lipid nanoparticles appears to be resistant to breakdown by human ribonucleases by design so the product would be long-lasting and produce the protein product of interest for a considerable time period.
The adenoviral DNA (Janssen) should broken down by deoxyribonuclease, however this has not be exhaustively studied.
it is a big problem when the protein is the pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 Spike.
the pathogenesis of vaccine injury syndromes is believed to be driven by accumulation of Spike protein in cells, tissues, and organs.
Nattokinase is an enzyme is produced by fermenting soybeans
Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.
Eliminate The FDA & CDC by el gato malo
these agencies have failed to do their jobs, rigged the data collection to make it all but impossible to see adverse events, and even gone so far as to discredit and demonize effective and safe medications used for decades in order to push some of the most dangerous and ineffective drugs in history.
whatever the job of these regulators once may have been, it certainly seems like they have long abandoned the idea of ensuring safe and effective products around which one can make informed choices.
the vaccine vials are riddled with contaminants and these are not just any contaminants. it’s not just something toxic, it’s something outright pathogenic.
this vaccine is actually full of self replicating dsDNA that codes for antibiotic resistant spike gene. (and a CG enriched one at that)
the theory here is this is some sort of monstrous process problem where the dsDNA is getting into the same lipid nanoparticles (LNP’s) use to encapsulate the mRNA payloads of the vaxx.
it’s like having every new batch of alleged coast guard come with its own army of somali pirates.
and if these “vaccines” are full of self replicating plasmid loops to hijack your gut and turn it into an industrial belt of antibiotic resistant covid spike factories, well, that would sure start to explain quite a lot about post vaxx immune dysfunction and massively increased rates of covid contraction and adverse event commonality and diversity.
Unvaxed Dying Of Covid; Vaxed Dying Of Other by Joel Smalley
During periods of heightened COVID mortality, COVID disproportionally accounts for more unvaccinated deaths than vaccinated.
If the vaccine is protecting the vaccinated from a COVID death, it is causing them to die at a higher rate than we would expect given the rates of vaccinated population.
the only time that the vaccinated population death rate is lower than the unvaccinated population rate is before anyone is “fully protected”, which would, indeed indicate support for the “healthy vaccinee” hypothesis. Conversely, the younger age groups have higher death rates in the early months of 2021 which might be indicative of the “unhealthy vaccinee” hypothesis!!
Consistently, though, we see elevated mortality rates for the vaccinated since the start of 2022 when COVID represents less than 10% of deaths but the vaccinated disproportionally more of all deaths.
ONS #Denominatorgate Shows Increased Vaxed Mortality by Igor Chudov
The data appears soothing and demonstrates that unvaccinated people have somewhat higher mortality.
Be aware that the mortality per 100,000 person-years numbers are fake because ONS undercounts vaccinated people by approximately one-half.
Were only 6.19% of 50-59-year-olds unvaccinated at the time (per the ONS), or 13% (per the UKHSA)? The answer is that the second number (13%) from the UKHSA is correct and is based on databases of named UK residents eligible for vaccination.
So, the ONS understates the number of vaccinated people by about 2x
rough estimates suggest that boosted 50-59-year-olds experienced 229/183-1.0 = 25% greater mortality than the same age but unvaccinated people during December 2022.
Ladapo Finds VAERS Safety Signal by Sasha Latypova
simple math tells us that 764-564 = 200 reports had been accumulated in VAERS over approximately 30 years up to year 2021 from all vaccine products, and 564 were added in the past 2 years from 3 products. So, the total all-time increase in VAERS death reports in Florida is about 282%.
Will Rochelle Wallensky and Robert Califf notice this safety signal now? My bet is no. But, the Surgeon General of Florida is a bit harder to dismiss than tinfoil hat wearing citizens or even a persistent US Senator.
Senator Johnson wrote 50+ letters to criminals and was likewise ignored by all of HHS and labeled by Peter Marks (Head of CBER, FDA) as a “misinformation spreader”
my money is still on Rochelle and other criminals being unresponsive to questions about their crimes. Why would they respond? Why acknowledge the death and injury toll that they are directly responsible for? That would be self-incriminating.
Start Calling Them “Vaccines” by Aaron Siri
I see very little difference between mRNA vaccines and all other vaccines.
The main difference may be the number of people who simply refuse to admit that mRNA vaccines, like DNA vaccines, viral vector vaccines, etc., are all vaccines that fall into the same economic and regulatory model that permits pharma to harm people with impunity with these products.
The real difference between all the previously-existing vaccines and the mRNA vaccines is that these new vaccines were given to over 260 million Americans in a short time period, and there has been an atypical amount of public scrutiny of this product. The harms they caused are, therefore, hard to hide given the clear “before” and “after” amongst the world’s population.
In contrast, virtually all childhood vaccines were rolled out slowly over decades and were given to a narrow birth cohort each year, with uptake in each birth cohort only fractionally increasing. Therefore, two decades after a childhood vaccine is introduced, we still typically have only those 20 years old and younger who received that shot, and it took those twenty years to get even a portion of those people under aged 20 vaccinated. During that period, health issues that may arise following vaccination would recede into the background rates and become the new health “normal.”
Youth Suicide Up During Pandemic by Justin Hart
Recent data published in Pediatrics show a significant increase in observed youth suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic, equivalent to an estimated 212 excess deaths.
The study found demographic subgroups including males, youth aged 5 to 12 and 18 to 24 years, non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native youth, Black youth, and youth who died by firearms experienced significantly more suicides than expected.
Early 2020 NYC Covid Cases by Jessica Hockett
The earlier SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in New York City, the more questions Americans should have about the city’s cataclysmic death toll.
A study published in June 2021 reported positive samples taken in the later weeks of January, from New Yorkers who came to hospitals with influenza-like illness (ILI) but tested negative for what the authors call “routine respiratory pathogens.”
Retrospective testing of the specimens collected as early as January 25, 2020, identified SARS-CoV-2 RNA. While it’s possible these results were added to the city’s Testing Cohort dataset, they doesn’t account for the early January 2020 specimens.
if an NYC resident tested positive for the virus and was later hospitalized, both the test collection data and the hospitalization show under the specimen date — not the date of the hospitalization.
a specimen from January 2020 was first added to the file on November 12, 2020.
Other specimens taken the first month of 2020 were added to the database in January 2021, for a total of 233 specimens tested, with 23% confirmed as cases.
Despite being billed as highly contagious, evidence of a deadlier-than-flu virus silently spreading is nowhere in mortality data for the five boroughs, in the months & weeks leading up to mid-March 2020.
Topol Pushing Bad Study Again by Vinay Prasad
Dr Eric Topol once again is promoting bad science.
This paper…claims that vaccination lowers the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events
basically you had to have a COVID19 code the dataset, but could have even tested negative for COVID. What a joke!
Because you were unvaccinated, you immediately have a heart attack when you get COVID— is the authors claim.
The vaccinated person might be presenting with COVID19 with a mild cough and looking for paxlovid or other medical advice; the unvax’d person might be presenting to the hospital with a heart attack and then only incidentally found to have COVID19. Almost surely this is what is happening disproportionately.
The paper assumes that unvaccinated and vaccinated people are seeking medical care for covid and apart from covid ENTIRELY EQUALLY— which is almost surely not true.
Doctors Sue FDA For Prohibiting Ivermectin by Victoria Marshall
A group of doctors is suing the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services for their various attempts at preventing ivermectin from being prescribed to treat Covid-19.
“The FDA generally cannot ban particular uses of human drugs once they are otherwise approved and admitted to the market, even if such use differs from the labeling — commonly referred to as ‘off-label’ use,” the lawsuit argues. “The FDA also cannot advise whether a patient should take an approved drug for a particular purpose.”
But the FDA overstepped its authority by “directing the public, including health professionals and patients, not to use ivermectin to treat COVID-19, even though the drug remains fully approved for human use,”
Virus Nanotubes by Walter M Chestnut
In July of last year it was shown that SARS-CoV-2 travels incognito from cell to cell via nanotubes
The virus may be capable of commandeering a cell’s own nanotubes, diverting them away from other routine tasks, such as transferring lipids and proteins between cells. Early research on SARS-CoV-2 suggested that it might be able to hijack similar cell projections. A 2020 paper published in the journal Cell found that cells infected with the novel coronavirus extended out antennalike feelers called filopodia with viral particles onboard.
This mechanism also allows the Spike to propagate throughout the body COMPLETELY UNDETECTED AND ESCAPE THE IMMUNE RESPONSE.
COVID Virus May Tunnel through Nanotubes from Nose to Brain
Tunneling nanotubes provide a route for SARS-CoV-2 spreading
Vaccine Efficacy Revealed by USMortality
here I’m going to calculate VE against All-Cause Mortality, that means any death. So this will include other health effects from the vaccine, such as all side and long term effects! Probably the most important endpoint, because in the end it rarely matters, if someone dies from covid or a heart attack, right?
So here are the results. It shows, that efficacy was never over 50%, and went into negative territory for all age groups in 2022. That means more vaccinated people are dying in 2022 than in 2021. Interestingly the lower the age, the higher the VE - so the especially vulnerable, e.g. 80+, were never protected by the vaccine in the first place!
Iatrogenesis In UK by Norman Fenton
The case for the iatrogenesis hypothesis in the UK (and probably USA and Italy as well) is not just the incorrect use of ventilators (which was indeed common across all these countries) but specifically the inappropriate use of life-ending drugs and denial of potentially life-saving antibiotics, as well as “softer” issues such as denial of social care, relative visits and the social network which acts as the life-support system for the frail elderly.
There is clearly a much higher (and, because of its extreme and vertical nature, a very unnatural) peak at the start of the pandemic than appears in the other graphs.
The second problem (which is one I have pointed out many times) is that the data showing covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths etc from the Government ‘s covid dashboard is completely inconsistent with the NHS dashboard of covid emergency triage calls
ONS Data ACM By Vax Status by John Dee
Here is my best guess at what is actually going on when we wade through the fields of obfuscation sewn by arcane use of ASMR based on unreliable population cohorts. This is yer basic crude mortality by vaccination status (never vaccinated vs. ever vaccinated) and it’s where ONS should have started
Pfizer Trial Vax Vs Placebo Deaths by Aaron Siri
in the clinical trial from July 2020 to March 2021, 20 deaths occurred among those who received the vaccine as compared to 14 who received the placebo.
Yet, when more people died in the trial after vaccination than after placebo, did the FDA pull the trial? Nope. Instead, it let Pfizer explain away the deaths.
FDA let Pfizer explain away these deaths and guess what Pfizer concluded: “None of these deaths were considered related to [Pfizer vaccine] BNT162b2 by [Pfizer’s] investigators.” And the FDA simply parroted Pfizer’s conclusion in its report: “None of the deaths were considered related to vaccination.”
there were 11 cardiovascular-related deaths among those getting Pfizer’s vaccine compared to 5 cardiovascular deaths among those getting a placebo. But guess what Pfizer concluded? You won’t be surprised. Pfizer concluded that “BNT162b2 had a favorable safety profile.”
ONS Corrects Their Data! by USMortality
So now it’s as clear as it gets: The excess mortality is rising, while COVID-19 attribution is declining. Therefor the claimed vaccination efficacy by ONS themselves, might simply rely on a statistical fallacy, by under attributing the ‘vaccinated COVID-19 deaths’, and therefore creating the illusion, that less vaccinated people are dying from COVID-19. Instead, they likely die from other causes, which should be investigated!
The Culpability Principle by Mark Changizi
The Precautionary Principle says that the burden of evidence is on those proposing the novel interventions to show that they will work, and will have low harms.
Whereas the Precautionary Principle concerns how to behave BEFORE initiating novel interventions, this new principle concerns how to behave AFTER having implemented the novel interventions.
That is to say, in the post-intervention situation we’re now in, the burden has been on those skeptical of the interventions to demonstrate the failure of the interventions.
Why is that?
That has things backwards.
Why isn’t the burden on those that supported the draconian civil-liberties-violating interventions to demonstrate that the interventions were in fact successful?
Here’s the new principle…
The Culpability Principle
The burden is on those supporting the novel interventions to show they worked as advertised.
New York Times Comes Around On Masks by Michael P Senger
It took nearly three years, but in light of the recent Cochrane review including 78 peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) concluding masks made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu, the New York Times has finally been forced to surrender to reality: The mask mandates did nothing.
Stephens minces no words in his criticism for the CDC and its director Rochelle Walensky, likely a reflection of the Times’ growing disenchantment at having been led down the garden path by the public health establishment.
Stephens blames the CDC’s performance during COVID for a growing distrust of science and of public institutions more generally, and takes a subtle swipe at those who looked to China as a legitimate model for a public health response
Stephens’ article is good to see, and a promising step in the right direction. Still, the lockdowns and mandates that the New York Times supported since COVID began were a policy catastrophe of unprecedented proportion.
Nasal Spray Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Dr. Peter McCullough
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was supposed to be a churning mill of large RCT’s to help the nation understand what conclusively is effective in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
Unfortunately, after three years, has delivered failed products (remdesivir, baricitinib, molnupiravir, COVID-19 vaccines) and small inconclusive trials of products that doctors have found effective in practice including off-target generic antivirals and anticoagulants.
OWS did not test simple, affordable, available prevention strategies.
Fortunately such RCTs where done outside of the US and have brought us important findings.
conducted a prospective double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a xylitol based nasal spray…found that SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed by serology was 71% lower with xylitol compared to placebo
Vax-Injured: Ashley by Team Humanity
“I think the needle touched my bone.”
when she returned to teaching middle school art a couple weeks later in January, she attributed the heart palpitations she began to feel and the memory issues she was experiencing to the fact that she wasn’t used to being in the classroom after staying at home with her toddler son.
She found a local clinic and when she met with the health professional there, right away they asked her if she had the booster.
The tests that day didn’t seem to show any problems, but just before Ashley left the office her heart started fluttering again and she asked the nurses to feel her chest. They confirmed that she was experiencing some concerning symptoms.
She racked up nearly $70,000 in medical bills, half of which she had to pay up front while feeling dehumanized by doctors who at times wouldn’t make eye contact with her, wouldn’t touch her, or even take her vitals during appointments that would barely last 20 minutes.
“I felt so unheard,” says Ashley of that time.
US Cumulative Excess Death by Fabian Spieker
The more familiar I become with the US data, the less confident I am that SARS-CoV-2 explains what we are seeing on these charts
My method of estimating weekly population size is very basic:
Weekly deaths are subtracted from the previous year’s estimate as they occur.
The difference between the result after one year of subtracting deaths and the next year’s census estimate is distributed evenly onto this year
For the time after the mid-year estimate for 2021 I assume the same linear growth that we saw between the 2020 and 2021 estimates
I use the weekly averages from 2015 to 2019 as reference to calculate excess mortality
FEMA Ain’t Coming By Salena Zito
The people of East Palestine are back, but they don’t feel safe.
Faint traces of soot line the insides of some of their homes. An oddly sweet odor, like fresh bubblegum, also lingers.
I spoke to more than a dozen people over the past few days and many say they feel dizzy and have headaches. They worry about breathing in fumes that cause cancer.
Ohio’s Environmental Protection Agency insists the five wells supplying the village’s drinking water are clean. The agency also declared the water in 50 private wells and the air quality in over 500 homes free from deadly contaminants.
Many in East Palestine (pronounced Pal-e-steen) are seeking their own independent tests of the air and water. They also want better answers, more federal support, and a proper cleanup that eradicates all chemicals from the ground and the streams, guaranteeing their safety. But because this disaster is deemed man-made rather than environmental, relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) isn’t coming.
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