There is a lot to unpack here, but the bottom line up front: COVID vaccines were certainly not safe, and not effective at doing what they were sold to us as doing.
Long ago we learned that the vaccines were not effective--we were told endlessly that if you got the vaccine, you wouldn't get COVID. Not only is that not true, but there are now multiple studies that show that the more vaccine shots you get, the higher the likelihood you have of getting COVID.
This isn't even disputed anymore. Most of the politicians and public health officials who relentlessly banged on us to get the vaccine have had COVID multiple times; so often, in fact, that it became something of a joke. As for preventing others from getting COVID from you--that doesn't work either.
Effectiveness is a bust. There is some good evidence that you are less likely to get severe COVID symptoms if you get the vaccine, but that doesn't justify universal mandates or even recommendations for vaccination except for people at risk for COVID mortality.
Now the safety argument for the vaccine has begun sinking like the Titanic.
Actually, that isn't quite right: most of us have concluded that the vaccine wasn't particularly safe, but public health officials have kept trumpeting it as loudly as Travis Kelce yelling at Andy Reid.
Study of 99 million COVID-19 vaccine recipients reveals host of adverse events https://t.co/f0cCKSj62y
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) February 21, 2024
A new peer-reviewed article in the journal Vaccine reports on a study of 99 million people's reactions to getting the COVID-19 vaccines--specifically the three that were available in most of the Western world, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Novavax.
What did they find? A bunch of safety signals. As you already know, all 3 available COVID-19 vaccines present significant risks to people who get them.
Participants included 99,068,901 vaccinated individuals. In total, 183,559,462 doses of BNT162b2, 36,178,442 doses of mRNA-1273, and 23,093,399 doses of ChAdOx1 were administered across participating sites in the study period. Risk periods following homologous vaccination schedules contributed 23,168,335 person-years of follow-up. OE ratios with LBCI > 1.5 were observed for Guillain-Barré syndrome (2.49, 95 % CI: 2.15, 2.87) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (3.23, 95 % CI: 2.51, 4.09) following the first dose of ChAdOx1 vaccine. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis showed an OE ratio of 3.78 (95 % CI: 1.52, 7.78) following the first dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine. The OE ratios for myocarditis and pericarditis following BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and ChAdOx1 were significantly increased with LBCIs > 1.5.
Conclusion
This multi-country analysis confirmed pre-established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Other potential safety signals that require further investigation were identified.
First things first: the increased risks they identified were based on emergency visits to doctors or hospitals, so undoubtedly the actual risks from the vaccines are much, much higher, as many reactions to the vaccines would not be counted if the patient didn't wind up in a doctor's office or emergency room. This is certainly the case with pericarditis and myocarditis, which often go untreated.
Rare cases of myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — were found in the first, second and third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines.
Another heart condition, pericarditis, the inflammation of the cardiac muscle, had a 6.9-fold increased risk in those who received a third dose of AstraZeneca’s viral-vector shot, the study found.
Meanwhile, a first and fourth dose of Moderna’s jab had a 1.7-fold and 2.6-fold increased risk, respectively.
An increased risk also was identified of a type of blood clot in the brain from viral-vector shots such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by AstraZeneca, Bloomberg said.
There was a 2.5 times greater risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the immune system attacks the nerves, among people who received AstraZeneca’s jab, according to the study.
Possible safety signals for transverse myelitis, a spinal cord inflammation, were identified after viral-vector vaccines, as was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, the inflammation and swelling in the brain and spinal cord, after both viral-vector and mRNA vaccines, the researchers found.
Still, "experts" quoted in the New York Post made the predictable argument: the risk of adverse events from the vaccine are lower than those from COVID.
One expert who was not involved in the study maintained that the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks.
“The odds of all of these adverse events is still much, much higher when infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), so getting vaccinated is still by far the safer choice,” Jacob Glanville, CEO of biotech company Centivax, told Forbes.
Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, shared a similar conclusion.
Let me explain why that reasoning is absurd on its face: the vaccines don't prevent you from contracting COVID. Therefore, any additional risk a reasonably healthy person (somebody not at much risk of dying from COVID, which is almost everybody) assumes from getting the vaccine is IN ADDITION to the risk you assume from getting the vaccine.
Approximately 5.5 billion people across the planet have received some form of the Covid vaccine.
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) February 21, 2024
Now, a study conducted by researchers in Canada using such large amounts of available data seems to suggest potential safety concerns surrounding adverse effects. pic.twitter.com/yzUZOuey0H
It is not either/or; you will almost certainly get COVID at some point and in fact are more likely to when vaccinated. I have written about the Cleveland Clinic study on just this issue in the past. So getting the vaccine increases your risk of all these complications for no real benefit. Except if you are especially vulnerable to death from COVID.
This study is just another brick in the ever-growing wall of evidence that most people should NOT get the vaccine and that vaccinating healthy young people should be a crime. People with severe comorbidities likely should get the vaccine--I think.
I don't doubt that COVID-19 is nasty and, in some cases, deadly. However, the vaccine has an adverse risk profile for the vast majority of people.
VAERS reports for the COVID-19 vaccine have been awful--truly frightening. You should always take VAERS data with a grain of salt as the data is not confirmed in a timely fashion, but the danger signals are truly frightening.
VAERS data on all vaccine deaths from 1988 to 2021.
— Dr. Ben Tapper (@DrBenTapper1) February 17, 2024
COVID-19 vaccines have caused more deaths in one year than all the other vaccines combined in 33 years!!!! And this shot is on the childhood schedule… pic.twitter.com/f1SyaxVwRi
It will take years to get really good data on the long-term dangers and impacts of our COVID policies. Still, we know enough now to conclude that our public officials, the MSM, and Big Tech did a horrendous job, harming millions or billions of people.
Will a reckoning ever come? I have my doubts.
