Apparently, we can finally talk about it in the mainstream media.
For years, we were censored, called names, and polls were done asking people whether we belonged in concentration camps. Half of Democrats believed it should be a criminal offense to question the efficacy of the vaccine.
Seriously. Almost half of Democrats once believed that if you were a vaccine skeptic, you belonged in a camp and should have your children taken away. One of my own family members believed that. Other findings from the poll:
Other punitive measures in the same poll
From the same survey, with Democrat shares described in the Heartland release and related coverage:
Home confinement for the unvaccinated: Question asks if government should require citizens to remain confined to their homes (except emergencies) if they refuse the vaccine; 59% of Democrats supported this.
Fines for refusing the vaccine: 55% of Democrats supported fining Americans who don’t get vaccinated.
Fine or imprison people who publicly question vaccine efficacy: 48% of Democrats supported fining or imprisoning those who “publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines.”
Government tracking app or wearable for the unvaccinated: 47% of Democrats supported requiring unvaccinated citizens to use a tracking app or wearable device.
Temporarily remove custody of children from unvaccinated parents: 29% of Democrats supported this idea.
Well, five years later, you can read a piece in The Telegraph about "the lives ruined by the COVID jabs." And many of those lives ruined were those of people who were at almost zero danger from the virus itself.
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— Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵 (@DlugajJuly) March 26, 2026
Can you tell that I am a bit pissed off? I was put on Facebook time-out for over a month over mild vaccine skepticism and total opposition to non-pharmaceutical measures, and my Twitter feed was throttled for the same reason. I was robbed of actual money by Google and other search engines because they censored posts here, and our entire business model, based on advertising alone at the time, was upended by search bans.
Now? Oh, well. Not sorry about that, but you were right. And sure, we ruined countless lives, but it was for a good cause, you know.
Having been a dental nurse for more than a decade, Nikola Brindley was familiar with vaccination requirements for healthcare workers. So when she was asked to have AstraZeneca’s Covid jab in July 2021, she agreed without hesitation.
But within hours, Brindley was in A&E fighting for her life as an allergic reaction began to shut down multiple organ systems. “I collapsed on the doorway, and pretty much lost the ability to walk,” she recalls. “My husband rushed me to hospital, my heart rate had soared and I couldn’t speak. We were told that if I’d been 10 minutes later, there would have been nothing they could have done.”
Nearly five years later, the 36-year-old, who lives on the Isle of Man, remains profoundly affected. She lives with ongoing brain fog, chronic pain, headaches and gastrointestinal problems, and requires monitoring from a variety of specialists. Her worsening fatigue has left her requiring a wheelchair, while some days, she struggles to keep down food. Previously active and sporty, she is so disabled that her two children, aged eight and 11, have been certified as young carers.
She was 31 when the vaccine was forced on her by people who assured her it was totally safe and effective. It was neither.
Yet while the vast majority of the 50 million people in the UK (and in other nations) who received Covid vaccines experienced few or no ill effects, there are those like Brindley, who either suffered serious harm or, most tragically of all, lost their lives.
There are no official statistics on how many people were impacted in this way. However, data from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) indicates that the numbers are not insignificant. While these reports are not proof of the Covid vaccines causing serious harm and death, in the UK, as of February 24, there had been:
· 194,403 serious reports linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine (and 1,532 with a fatal outcome).
· 126,535 serious reports linked to the Pfizer vaccine (and 920 with a fatal outcome).
· 31,339 serious reports associated with the Moderna vaccine (and 102 with a fatal outcome).
For all the data collected, the plight of people who suffered Covid vaccine injuries has been handled markedly differently around the world. Authorities in Japan and South Korea have officially recognised a wide range of cases of vaccine-induced harm, from heart inflammation to sudden hearing loss, and have compensated tens of thousands of people accordingly.
Meanwhile, in the US – where just 92 cases of vaccine harm have been deemed eligible for compensation, compared to more than 24,000 in South Korea – a federal work group is now calling for major changes to how Covid vaccine injuries are tracked and treated. A distinct diagnostic code has been proposed for harms linked to the jabs, which could be used for reimbursement from health insurers, along with plans for The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop diagnostic guidelines to recognise and manage patients suffering from long-term harm.
However, it is a very different story in the UK, where patients like Brinkley describe a near-impossible fight to obtain any kind of financial support. “I’ve been trying to advocate to get help and support, not just for myself, but for others as well,” she says. “But despite engaging at every level [of the healthcare system] available to me, there’s still no clear support pathway for those injured.”
The scale of the disaster is impossible to calculate, partly because there are a lot of people whose injuries were or appeared minor (myocarditis can be asymptomatic while still causing heart damage that will show up later in life), and largely because there is a massive effort to deny the scale of the problem.
In fact, for much of its existence, there was no opportunity for informed consent at all.
Here in Minnesota, the health official who pushed the vaccine hardest at us all, Jan Malcolm, admitted (once she left her role as Commissioner) that she got a blood clot from the vax, reported it, and it took THREE years for anybody to look into it.
Former Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said during an October event that she got a blood clot in 2021 that was reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. pic.twitter.com/c9MhgqB4Bs
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) February 8, 2024
“I personally had a, you know, my doc reported I had a blood clot,” Malcolm said in response to a question regarding adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine. “I’m not saying it was the vaccine, but it fit the criteria for what should be reported. My doc reported it.”
Malcolm’s comments came during the Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation’s Oct. 31 “Insider Briefing” webinar, a recording of which Alpha News recently obtained.
During the event, Malcolm explained that her physician reported her blood clot to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the summer of 2021, when she was still serving as commissioner of the Department of Health in Gov. Tim Walz’s administration.
“I just got a call about a month ago from somebody following up on it,” she said. “I was both glad someone was following up and appalled that it was so long.” She encouraged anyone who experiences an adverse reaction to the vaccine to report it to VAERS.
Even after her own blood clot, Malcolm continued to tell Minnesotans, including children, to get COVID vaccines and boosters.
Talking about vaccine injuries was absolutely forbidden for years in polite company, and could get you banned from most corners of the internet.
It's great that some of the stories are coming out, and no doubt, a decade or two from now, there will be studies that give us a better understanding of the scope of the damage done by vaccines and other COVID interventions. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg now.
But, as always, there will be absolutely no reckoning.
To those who say that the vaccine efforts created a net positive benefit in lives saved, I say a few things: we really don't know yet, as the scale of potential problems remains unclear. We see increased rates of cancer since the rollout, but is that due to the vaccine, or due to missed diagnoses from insufficient checkups during the pandemic?
And how much harm has been caused by increased mistrust in public health? "Anti-vaxxers" are blamed for that, but there were anti-vaxxers before the pandemic. Any new skepticism is driven by the fact that the public health officials proved to be liars.
It's not RFK, Jr. causing this; it's the hangover from Fauci and company, who committed crimes against humanity.
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