In late February, I received an email from a Port Townsend friend about her 85-year-old aunt’s rapid decline following her first shot of Pfizer’s experimental mRNA vaccine.
A week later, her aunt was dead. What my friend witnessed mirrors reports of devastating injury and death around the world from these injections, particularly among the fragile elderly.
The photo above shows carloads of people lined up outside Jefferson Healthcare to receive experimental vaccines. The picture is different outside Jefferson County. Half of America–including healthcare professionals–is refusing the jabs. 
Is my friend’s aunt the first Jefferson County fatality from this global experiment? Or has our county already seen, in a matter of weeks, more death by injection—which you are not hearing about—than the virus itself caused here in more than a year?
Stories like my friend’s are being ignored, downplayed, or denied by the mainstream media. But for anyone who looks beyond the incessant propaganda from the pharma-controlled narrative that the new Covid-19 vaccines are “safe and effective,” a far different story has emerged about this unprecedented medical experiment.
The prevailing narrative tells us that injuries following the jab are exceedingly rare and deaths are coincidental. But thousands of doctors, scientists and other experts have been sounding the alarm about this reckless experiment, often at great personal risk. Despite heavy censorship, vicious attacks, shaming and shunning, truth is increasingly coming to light.
This article will examine the counter-narrative urgently calling for a halt to all mass experimental injections.
Ignored and denied by mainstream media, global death and injury abound.
Just a sampling of reports you will not see on mainstream news:
Experimental vaccine death rate for Israel’s elderly 40 times higher than COVID-19 deaths
“While in January a group of independent doctors concluded that experimental COVID-19 vaccines are ‘not safer‘ than the virus itself, a new analysis of vaccine-related death rates in Israel demonstrates that this may indeed be the case to dramatic levels.” An analysis of data from the Israeli Health Ministry determined that “the mRNA experimental vaccine from Pfizer killed ‘about 40 times more (elderly) people than the disease itself would have killed during a recent five-week vaccination period’, and 260 times more of the young than what the COVID-19 virus would have claimed in the given time frame.”
Whistleblower: 25% of Residents in German Nursing Home Died After Pfizer Vaccine [click on link for video]
Disturbed by a facility-wide vaccination drive with military soldiers present, and the distressing patient deaths that followed, a Berlin nursing home caregiver came forward to provide testimony to attorneys from the German Corona Investigative Committee. The whistleblower describes how rather than peacefully slipping away as was normally seen with elderly patients he cared for, after their first dose of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, seven of 31 residents with dementia died “as if they were tortured.” An eighth resident was near death at the time of the interview and died a few days later.
The long-time caregiver, sharing footage taken by a co-worker, says that reactions following the shot—“changes in behavior, strong fatigue, weakness, sudden gasping for breath with heart racing”—and the manner of the residents’ deaths were unlike anything he and his colleagues had ever witnessed before.
“Typically death was always peaceful for old people… their breathing was relaxed and their eyes stayed closed. This is very different death. It’s as if they cannot let go… their eyes are open, they are agitated, this strong tremor is changing their breathing. The pallor of their face is quite different. They are highly unsettled with this violent gasping for breath… a constant shaking of the upper body, this creepy, fearful gaze… it’s more of a struggle and it is not dying with dignity.”
When a second shot was forced on the 23 surviving residents just weeks after their first injection, another died and 11 more were seriously injured. (39 minutes, subtitled)
53 Dead in Gibraltar in 10 Days After Experimental Pfizer mRNA COVID Injections Started
Prior to the rollout of the injections, it is reported that over the preceding year only 17 people in total had died from Covid-19 in the small British Colony of Gibraltar (population 32,000). Within 10 days of starting Pfizer mRNA COVID injections, 53 were dead. “Tiny Gibraltar is like a petri dish; in no other place has there been such a brutally clear relationship between vaccine roll-out and increased ‘Covid deaths’.” Local media blamed the deaths on the virus, not the vaccine.
46 Nursing Home Residents in Spain Die Within 1 Month of Getting Pfizer COVID Vaccine
In Andalusia, Spain, 46 of 140 nursing home residents died in the wake of a Pfizer vaccination campaign. As in Gibraltar, their deaths were blamed on a “coincidental” outbreak of the virus, not the shots. In another nursing home in the same province, 22 elderly residents died following injections.
Similar alleged Covid outbreaks and death clusters following vaccination in Norway, Germany, England, Sweden. Scotland, Canada, and the U.S. are described here.
Vaccine injuries and deaths in the United States have followed the same pattern being observed around the world.
Closer to home
Knowing he was risking his career, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) James Develon could not remain silent after watching 14 of the nursing home residents he cared for die within two weeks after receiving the Pfizer experimental mRNA injections:
“They are dropping like flies.” [Click on link for video.]
CNA Develon reports that in 2020 there were “zero deaths” from Covid the entire year at the U.S. nursing home where he works. Following the shots, not only was there a rash of fatalities, but many other residents were near death. He describes the same spiraling loss of function my friend saw her aunt experience:
“People who were once walking are no longer walking. People who were once talking can no longer talk. People who were once able to think, can no longer think properly… delirium, confused.”
The deaths were explained away as resulting from the Covid virus—not the shots—from an unidentified “superspreader”. But that story didn’t add up, Develon said. Residents who had refused the injections were not sick; only the vaccinated were injured and dying. (5 minute clip at above link; full 47-minute video here).
32 Residents die from outbreak at Auburn nursing home.
As described in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr,’s article, Death by Coincidence?, “An Auburn, New York nursing home reported, without any apparent irony, that 32 of 193 residents have died since the facility began administering the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 21. The company claims that its clients are dying of COVID-19 infections, not the vaccine.”
“Coincidence is turning out to be quite lethal to COVID vaccine recipients,” says Kennedy.
That is true not only among the high-risk elderly following vaccination, but in cases of healthy younger people dying directly after their shots as well.
- Sara Stickles, a 28-year-old healthcare worker from Wisconsin, broke out in rashes immediately after her second Pfizer shot. Five days later, severe headaches led to loss of consciousness, hospitalization, and an initial diagnosis of a ruptured brain aneurysm. A week after her injection she died when all brain activity ceased. [source]
- A 28-year old nurse’s aide in Iowa received a Pfizer vaccine at 11 am. He initially called in to work with a report of headache and dizziness, but decided to come to work anyway. He “was found down in a patient bathroom during his shift in our facility while taking care of a patient,” wrote a co-worker. He was coded, dying that day. [source]
- Most recently, an 18-year-old Illinois teen with no pre-existing conditions experienced headaches, body ache and fatigue the day after receiving a Moderna Covid injection. Two hours after complaining of chest pain on day three, he was found unresponsive and pronounced dead. [source]
Miscarriages are also being reported following these injections. Among scores of reports are:
- a 37-year-old woman in Washington state who lost her baby at 26 weeks the day after receiving her first Moderna shot; [source]
- a 32-year-old New Mexican woman, 22 weeks pregnant, who began having abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding after a second Pfizer shot and miscarried the next day; [source]
- a healthy Wisconsin woman, 29, just four weeks pregnant, who miscarried the same day she had her first Pfizer shot. [source]
None of these nameless statistics made the news. However, the miscarriage of Wisconsin doctor Sara Beltrán Ponce, did. Dr. Ponce’s high-profile tweets exclaiming that at 14 weeks pregnant she was fully vaccinated—and urging everyone else to do their part, get the shot, protect the community—caused a stir on social media: “I got the #CovidVaccine to protect myself, my baby, my family, my patients, and my community! When it’s available to you, I encourage you to do the same!”
Just days later Dr. Ponce tweeted: “it’s with a heavy heart that I tell my #MedTwitter family that I’ve suffered a miscarriage at 14 1/2 weeks. My husband and I are devastated… Rest in Peace, angel… This is truly a sadness I didn’t know was possible to feel.”
Fauci: over 90% vaccine efficacy is “just extraordinary”!
Pharma’s Warp Speed trials prior to being granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)—not approval or licensure—were conducted on generally healthy people and were not transparent. The immune-compromised, those with co-morbidities, pregnant women, and children were excluded from the trials. Older adults and minorities, some of the hardest-hit populations, were significantly underrepresented, leaving many questions unanswered.
Investigators like British Medical Journal (BMJ) senior editor Peter Doshi are still asking for the raw trial data and challenging initial claims of efficacy based on the selective data hyped by the media.
“All attention has focused on the dramatic efficacy results: Pfizer reported 170 PCR confirmed covid-19 cases, split 8 to 162 between vaccine and placebo groups. But these numbers were dwarfed by a category of disease called “suspected covid-19”—those with symptomatic covid-19 that were not PCR confirmed. According to FDA’s report on Pfizer’s vaccine, there were ‘3410 total cases of suspected, but unconfirmed covid-19 in the overall study population, 1594 occurred in the vaccine group vs. 1816 in the placebo group’.”
Of the 43,448 low-risk trial participants who received injections, Pfizer used the minuscule subset of 170 symptomatic vacinees who were PCR confirmed to generate a media frenzy of headlines trumpeting an “extraordinary” 95% efficacy rate. Other vaccine developers followed their lead. Based on the far larger symptomatic Covid group that was revealed in the FDA report, Doshi calculates that there was an actual “relative risk reduction of 19%—far below the 50% effectiveness threshold for authorization set by regulators.”
He notes, “With 20 times more suspected covid-19 than confirmed covid-19, and trials not designed to assess whether the vaccines can interrupt viral transmission, an analysis of severe disease irrespective of etiologic agent—namely, rates of hospitalizations, ICU cases, and deaths amongst trial participants—seems warranted, and is the only way to assess the vaccines’ real ability to take the edge off the pandemic.”
Pharma’s trials, which were not designed to prove that the vaccines prevent infection, interrupt transmission, or reduce serious outcomes, appear to be an exercise in industry spin. The years of surveillance standard for licensing a vaccine have barely begun. An average approval process for any vaccine or biologic is normally between 7 and 10 years. The global campaigns underway, injecting nanotechnology never before deployed on human populations, are the true trials.
So how is post-vaccination damage from this giant experiment being monitored in the US?
Simple answer: it is not.
VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
In the first days of America’s Covid vaccine rollout, December 14-18, 2020, the CDC conducted “V-safe Active Surveillance for COVID-19 Vaccines.” According to the CDC’s website, V-safe is “a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to… tell CDC about any side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Over those five days, more than 5,000 “Health Impact Events” immediately following injections were identified. On December 18 alone, 2.79% of people who received first dose shots—3,150 out of 112,807—used this smartphone app to report reactions so severe that they were “unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, [and/or] required care from a doctor or other health professional.”
More than 60 million Americans do not own smartphones, and roughly half of senior citizens don’t use them. V-safe also excludes 25 million people in the U.S. with limited English proficiency; the app is only in English. Once again, two of the groups inadequately represented in pharma’s trials but being marketed to most aggressively—senior citizens and minorities—are also the most likely to not be able to use this reporting system.
So how many adverse reactions were NOT captured by this app-only surveillance?
Given the CDC’s reliance on a smartphone app for reporting vaccine side effects and injuries, the actual number of severe reactions might have been significantly higher. But the data gap gets even wider.
Despite being assured that this experiment would be closely monitored, our primary source of data since Dec. 18 has not come from V-safe Active Surveillance, but from VAERS—the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System.
VAERS is a voluntary passive system, with no regulatory oversight, no requirement or incentive to report vaccine adverse events. The system is so flawed that in 2010, a Harvard study commissioned by Health and Human Services (HHS) determined that less than 1% of vaccine injuries and deaths are captured. Only a small percentage of the public, including those working in health care, even know it exists. And because adverse events are regularly attributed to coincidence or denied outright, even when medical personnel do know about the system, vaccine reactions regularly go unreported. Not only is there no incentive for health professionals to report to VAERS, it is notoriously difficult to use.
With the new, experimental Covid injections, there are further disincentives to attribute death or injury to vaccination and to file reports with VAERS. Families may not be able to collect on life insurance policies if a loved one dies by injection, or use their health insurance if injured. Not only is there complete liability protection from damages for vaccine manufacturers, health departments, hospitals and retail establishments, personnel who administer the shots, and policy makers, but many private insurers exclude coverage of these vaccines as well. Medical insurers have clauses such as “side effects arising from the COVID-19 vaccine are not covered under our exclusion for… experimental treatment.”
Among doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers, there is tremendous pressure to deny any damage from the shot. As described by Bernadette Pajer of Informed Choice Washington, “A lot of the medical community are afraid that if it [an adverse reaction] happened to them, to speak out and report—because they have to be part of the system that pushes the vaccines.” And when Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer questioned CDC Director Robert Redfield during a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing on coronavirus containment, Redfield confirmed there were financial incentives to classify deaths as resulting from the virus, not other causes. Was there a “perverse incentive” monetary gain for hospitals to classify deaths as being coronavirus-related when the virus was not the actual cause of death?, asked Luetkemeyer. Redfield responded, “I think you’re correct in that.”
In my friend’s case, “This hospital [Jefferson Healthcare] has no way set up to document concerns and is not too interested from what I can tell.” She made the effort to report her aunt’s vaccine death to VAERS, but says the system was so difficult to navigate, “I couldn’t figure it out.”
She also asked her aunt’s attending doctor to report to VAERS and he said he would. If he did, she has received no follow-up. And it clearly was not reported as a Covid vaccine death—there is no mention of the vaccine as a causative factor on the death certificate or of the shot even being administered prior to her death. Her aunt’s cause of death is listed as “renal failure.” Our hospital and health department have not acknowledged it as a vaccine death, and the CDC has no record of it.… another vaccine casualty attributed to other causes, not captured by the system that we are relying on to assess safety of this new technology.
My friend’s experience is so common that organizations like Children’s Health Defense are offering additional resources to help people document vaccine injuries and deaths.
Even with the many disincentives and obstacles, as of March 19, VAERS data shows 44,606 reports of adverse events following Covid vaccines, including 7,095 serious injuries, and 2,050 deaths. 
With 118.3 million vaccines administered, that is a 0.037% adverse event rate. Given that the initial V-safe Active Surveillance showed a “serious adverse reaction” rate nearly 100 times that—almost 3% (and that missed people who didn’t have the smartphone app)—the 1% capture rate found by the Harvard study would appear to be accurate. That would mean that in the past three months there may have been more than 4 million (4,460,600) actual adverse events, 709,500 serious injuries, and 205,000 deaths from Covid injections.
Like the death of my friend’s aunt, the vast majority of fatalities induced by the shot go unreported. They are instead attributed to infections from the Covid virus, or to heart attacks, strokes, or organ failure “coincidentally” following injections.
Likely causes for so much injury and death from this experimental injection will be explored in Part Two…. [which you can now read by clicking here]
Arriving in Port Townsend in 1975 in Sherpa, her Ford van, Ana Wolpin has watched a sweetly funky, diverse and tolerant community increasingly gentrify, polarize and lose its soul. After almost half a century engaged in local business, city politics, county organizations and community projects, she joined with fellow editors to revive the Free Press and bear witness to extraordinary times. For a short sketch of Ana's history in Jefferson County, see “About the Free Press."
My mom lives in an assisted living facility in Portland, Maine that had a terrible outbreak of Covid 19 early on with some deaths. All staff and residents have now been vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine. There are no more cases of Covid 19 circulating at the facility. My mom is 96 and had her 2nd dose over a month ago with no ill effects beyond some soreness and a little tiredness for a day. After these vaccinations people are no longer locked down in their rooms to prevent the spread but have greatly increased freedom of movement and social interaction. I realize this is just one anecdotal story but so far almost everyone I know who has had the Pfizer vaccine here in Port Townsend is doing well with no side effects beyond the 1st day. Almost everyone of my friends in my age bracket and older has now been vaccinated. None of this seems to square with reports on the dangers presented here. I’m just presenting what I see from my limited perspective at this point and I am sure we will all know more as more data becomes available.
All blessings to your mom, George. My mother is 93 — we are very fortunate to have parents in our lives for so long.
When you say “early on” do you mean last spring? And did your mother’s facility have an outbreak ‘early on,’ as well?
Yes. They are a facility that is tied to the early outbreak in the state of Maine. My mom was not there at the time but had to be moved there in January because of health issues. By the time she was moved all of the residents and staff had been vaccinated except for her. She moved in just after her 1st dose to essentially a lock down situation. There was no common dining for her and meals were brought to her room. Visits were curtailed even for family members. I spent the month of January and February helping out. It was quite nerve wracking since Maine was having a severe outbreak in January of Covid and hospital capacity was getting low. My mom did have to go into the hospital twice but we were cautioned by the medical staff to get her the heck out of there as fast as possible due to the situation. Anyway to make a long story short things are now under control and there are no further cases at her facility. Visitors are now allowed again. Vaccinated visitors are preferred but others are permitted. Meals can again take place down in the common dining area and people are free to move about. It’s a world of difference from what it was in early January when the 1st vaccines were available. She is doing very well these days and see to be adjusting to her new diminished situation. 96 and still kicking.
Another little anecdote: A trumpet player that I play with has just completed her round of vaccinations and will be able to play again. She is 99 and looking forward to blow in a some old standards on stage with us in the coming months as things open up.
Of course all this is still just anecdotal.
Glad to hear that you and your mom are doing well, George. Anecdotal stories I have seen and heard include local folks whose legs are still aching for weeks after the shots, who have persistent brain fog, and who just “haven’t felt right” since their shots. A recent story (not local), described by a pediatrician, was of a “strong young man” who he saw at his gym. This man, in his late 20s, hadn’t been sick for more than a decade, but now looked pale and said he’d been sick for the past two weeks—chronic headaches, chronic fatigue, and losing weight. When asked if he’d taken the vaccine, it turned out that yes, he’d had the shot two weeks prior. Because of all the “safe and effective” messaging, it hadn’t even occurred to him that the shots could be the cause.
https://www.doctorsandscience.com/shows (2nd video, start at 56:49)
I’m interested in what other readers have heard about local reactions or experienced themselves.
It would be interesting to contact Jefferson Health Care and see how many people have had problems after vaccination. It might give us a good read on the frequencies are difficulties.
Just stumbled across this case of a 39-year old, otherwise healthy woman dying suddenly after a COVID vaccine injection. https://www.ibtimes.com/womans-death-second-covid-19-vaccine-shot-temporally-related-medical-examiner-says-3162210
This no doubt happens as can happen with any vaccine. I guess it comes down to which is more likely the problem Covid19 or the vaccine. I saw a report this morning that indicated Covid 19 is the 3rd most common killer in the world today. I guess we roll the dice and take her chances either way.
I’d like to see the report you read that “Covid 19 is the 3rd most common killer in the world today.” THAT is manipulative fear-mongering. Even the CDC has acknowledged that only 6% of what they’re calling Covid deaths are actually deaths FROM Covid, not WITH Covid, where the actual cause of death was a co-morbidity. Italy’s health ministry admitted the same. Deaths have never before been counted in this way. Not only have deaths been massively inflated by calling anyone who tested positive with a bogus PCR test a Covid death (including suicides, accidents, and—like the Jefferson County woman in her 90’s already on her deathbed—hospice patients with multiple co-morbidities)… now VACCINE deaths are also being called deaths from the virus. It is criminal that statistics are being manipulated this way, to intentionally create fear of a virus that 99.9+% of people survive.
https://escapeempire.travel.blog/2019/06/22/covid-19-evidence-of-a-fake-pandemic/
https://www.porttownsendfreepress.com/2021/01/14/jefferson-county-still-may-have-no-deaths-from-covid/
I recall it in the New York Times but I also see it recorded on the JAMA website. I do stand corrected in that the claim is actually the 3rd cause of death in the United States. In looking into this more it looks like world wide it might 6th since the world as a whole does not live in the relative state of luxury as we do.
This post is getting rather heated and I’m probably going to back out now since my intention is not to get people P.O.ed and I have other interests. I think we will know probably fairly shortly whether the fears of the vaccine are justified. The numbers of people vaccinated has already exceeded the amount of people diagnosed with Covid and will soon be much greater. If there are deaths numbering anywhere near what we’re seeing for Covid we will all know about it no matter which news source you turn to. I would say with the amount of people that are getting vaccinated in Port Townsend alone it should be demonstrated fairly clearly by the amount of friends we lose. Till then we must all place our bets as best we can.
The fear generated by the media, be it mainstream news or the local paper, has spread far quicker than any virus. Many fear both the virus and the experimental vaccine. Unless you don’t have a computer, smart phone or TV you, like most, are living in a cocoon of constantly generated fear. The question is what do folks do with their fear? Most will search for some form of security and that security can be in the form of an experimental vaccine made by a corporation known to make decisions based on profit rather than caring health care, or numbing our thoughts with alcohol or other forms of addiction. Yet most of us know that the worse time to make a decision is when we are in fear, especially fear of death. How then to make a rational coherent choice?
First we must assess and face our fear. Is my life in immediate danger or am I just worried about a future possibility? If I were to get this virus what chance will I have to survive? Can I avoid this virus like any other seasonal virus? What are the near and far term risks of the government cure? Am I willing to accept a supposed cure that NO ONE knows what the long term effects might be? We all know intellectually that we will die but how many of us can face this fact with calm serenity?
These are all hard questions for us to ask ourselves when faced with a daily barrage of fear about a unseen danger and yet we must still ask these questions if we value our right and obligation to be responsible. We can follow the frightened herd and do what we are told or we can look at the facts and then decide for ourselves what is MY responsible choice. No matter what our choice, a responsible, free human being will take full responsibility no matter what the outcome. Blame and denial know no home to a free and responsible being.
I agree that we all need to examine the facts as best we can and make our decisions based upon that. Fear mongering headlines such as “death by injection” are not helpful. Nor can decisions be made upon anecdotes including the one that I offered about my mom or the death of individuals by vaccine or Covid. It’s important to look at a larger set information. It is smart not to trust drug manufacturers and government any more than necessary. But it is just as smart to be skeptical of press, alternative or mainstream.
Thanks for your comment George. The problem, in the case of the virus, is that big tech and the government are only allowing facts which support their self serving agenda’s. Peer reviewed studies, which show accurate facts, are being over shadowed by opinion, ideas and misleading propaganda. This goes along with Obama’s 2012 NDAA directive allowing government sponsored propaganda to control the population. Without accurate facts we are left with fear as a subtle coercion and herd mentality as our social pressure.
Vaccine makers have no incentive to make a safe vaccine. Our sold out to BigPharma lawmakers made law exempting vaccine makers from liabiiity. I see no reason to take an experimental, profit making vaccine for a virus that has a 99+% full recovery rate. Still, the masses are going for it because they believe the fear generating media. I hope things shift for the positive ASAP.
Wish I was young and healthy enough to be in that category. Mortality rate and long term health consequences of getting Covid are quite a bit higher for my age group.
You’re smart not to trust to the drug companies and mainstream media and government. We have plenty of examples of disinformation coming from them. I also don’t think we’re getting the straight poop from alternative media these days and they are letting us down too.
Everyone has to come to their own conclusions here and I’m not going to try to sell anyone anything. I think it comes down to what you think your risk is and what the risk is to your loved one’s or others and what you can do to mitigate it. We have all witnessed hysteria from both sides of this argument. I think we all have to do our best to get this right and try to get the best information we can. We’re all in it together. In my case with a 96 year old mom and a partner in a high risk category I had to shelve my fears and big pharma and go with what seemed the best roll of the dice.
I have thought this whole thing stunk from the start. If you’re old enough, you will remember that the sick people were qauranteed not the heathy. As a child I had about every kind of measles there were. i couldn’t even go outside the house as long as I had a spot on me. How did I find out I was OK? The doctor came to my house to check on me. Now, the doctors don’t make house visits, so everyone gets quararanteed. It’s called control of the masses as is masks and “social distancing”. My fear isn’t from cny sickness it’s when are they going to require you to wear a patch on you attire to show you have be inoccoulated. It worked for the Nazis in Europe and we know what happened. We are a free country with free choices that are slowly being taken away. Fear can be a modivator of distrust of all the people you come into contact. I won’t even go into the government requiring masks. The way it changes doesn’t make sense by rhyme or reason. Please forgive any misspellings I like everyone else, survies on spell check
Always good to be on the alert for creeping Nazism. It can arise out of populism as it did in Germany. Anyway I missed call polio as a child but I have a good friend that did not. She is crippled for life but can get around on crutches. I had the vaccine she didn’t.
I filed Public Record Requests for adverse event figures in January, George. I received a report stating there were 13 “adverse effect of vaccine, initial encounter” up to and including January 28th, 2021, with the proviso “This report was run only where the COVID-19 vaccine was being administered.” Those would presumably be events which happened within the first 15-30 minutes of injection, while still in the observation area. Anyone presenting to Urgent Care or ER later would not be included in those numbers.
A further response to my AE inquiry from JH, Jefferson and Clallam Health Depts. returned a reply that they are all reporting adverse events to VAERS and had nothing further to give me. We cannot isolate local AE’s from the VAERS reporting system.
I agree that it would be great to get reliable information from local authorities on adverse reaction rates excetera. I do personally know of one of my friends that did have an adverse reaction but I also know far many more that have had no problem beyond a sore arm. This is not enough of a sample to draw any conclusions. On the other hand I do know that some outlets have used the CDC (VAERS) numbers incorrectly to imply high death rates from vaccination. I think it’s important for all of us to get this correctly and not to bolster an opinion one way or the other. I personally am neither for nor against vaccination in general. I don’t have an ax to grind here. There are examples of vaccinations that were discontinued because of adverse reactions and there are examples of vaccines that have made all of our lives much improved and safer. I don’t want belabor the point because it’s all common knowledge. It sure would be nice to get more information on the local adverse reaction rate knowing full well that it will be incomplete and nuanced. If we do get that information we need to use it honestly.
George, first I want to thank you for your thoughtful comments and non-inflammatory tone. The amount of shaming, blaming and vitriol that has characterized this discussion in our community has been one of the most disturbing things I’ve witnessed in my nearly half a century in PT. I know you’ve been here a long time, too.
I can see how my headline, “Death by Injection?”, would be taken as fear mongering by someone who has already chosen to get the shot. But it is a question, not a statement, an important question that needs to be weighed in making a life-or-death choice, one that becomes more concerning with each passing week as the casualties mount. It is fear, as you’ve expressed, that drove your choice. As Ben Montalbano commented, “The fear generated by the media, be it mainstream news or the local paper, has spread far quicker than any virus.” And that’s been by design. My intent is not to compound the fear in you and others who’ve already had the shots. My hope is to reach people who are still weighing that decision, to provide a perspective that is not being allowed by those controlling the narrative.
Anecdotes are not science. But stories like the death of my PT friend’s aunt become relevant when they fit a pattern. And they are even more important when they are denied as vaccine deaths and go unreported. How many more deaths in this county fit that pattern that we don’t know about? The public deserves honesty and transparency in this grand experiment and are getting neither. The denial and cover-up are global and local.
This is not your typical vaccine of the past. Thousands of doctors and scientists are being censored who have such grave concerns, they are calling for an immediate halt to what they say is the most reckless experiment in human history. Just as there has been no open debate allowed by the gatekeepers in our own community, some of the most highly-credentialed virologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, etc. in the world are banned from having any voice in the global conversation, with careers in peril if they challenge the prevailing narrative. If they are right, the biggest problems with this new experimental medical technology are yet to come. That is not fun news to deliver, but if this counter-narrative is true, people who have not already chosen to get the shots need to hear it.
Thanks again for thoughtfully contributing to this conversation.
I do believe you are correct in stating that fear has been generated by the mainstream media. Of course that is kind of what they do in looking for eyeballs. A cursory glance at social media shows that the same motivations are present there as well. Fear is a great motivator as we’ve seen in recent years and there are people of all stripes willing to use it to further their own causes. At any rate it cannot be said that Covid is not a serious worldwide problem. A statistic like 99% of the people don’t die is deliberately misleading as well as death rates gleaned from VAERS. The scandal over vaccines and autism is still fresh in my mind.
We are so lucky to be living in the safe bubble of Port Townsend. People I see here are largely responsible in mask wearing and social distancing and it shows in the low number of cases here. Cases here like everywhere tend to go up-and-down in a patterns related to the care people are taking. In the country as a whole had pulled together early as a unified society we would not be here today. Let’s keep our eyes on Brazil as an example of a lack of leadership, lack of vaccine and hotbed for emerging variants.
I digress. There will be deaths and complications from these vaccines but only if those numbers are provably greater than say the current 500,000 plus deaths and complications from Covid in the US is it a bad choice. That said we have been fooled before. I think we will all know fairly shortly on which is the wise choice. I’m placing my bet with the vaccine camp but am prepared to eat crow and perhaps more if I’m wrong.
George, please see my earlier comment about death counts. That 500,000 number is disinformation, playing into the fear campaign. Your reference to VAERS data being inaccurate is true. As Ana explained in this article, VAERS numbers were found in an HHS-commissioned study to only reflect 1% of total deaths and injuries from vaccines. That finding was confirmed by a second independent study. Harvard and others have found that VAERS captures such a tiny percentage of the adverse events, that it is indeed unreliable, grossly UNDER-reporting.
As far as the 99% survival rate statistic, that comes straight from the CDC:
under 20 years of age: survival rate is 99.997%
20-49 years of age: survival rate is 99.98%
50-69 years of age: survival rate is 99.5%
over 70 years of age: survival rate is around 95%
Under 70, your chance of dying from this virus is statistically close to zero, and in fact for younger generations is lower than deaths from the flu. And these percentages are using the inflated statistics of death WITH Covid, not from Covid, so they underestimate survival rates. If, as acknowledged by the CDC, only 6% of deaths in that 500,000 figure were actually FROM Covid, not some co-morbidity, that means even the over 70 survival rate is 99.7%. Some of our top epidemiologists (like John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford) have been saying this for months, have published peer-reviewed papers about it, but are shut out of the mainstream narrative.
This really has to be my last on this topic. I am not under 70 and have a co-morbidity. I figure my odds are somewhere around 90% survival perhaps without long term effects. Not too far off from your calculations. I think I can improve my odds with a vaccination.
The claim that VAERSs is under reporting deaths misses the whole point VAERS. It is also under reports positive outcomes.
You’ve spent much time researching this and that’s commendable. The problem with doing research on the Web is that fata and authority figures and with great credentials on any side of any issue can be found. The climate change debate comes to mind. If one starts from the point of view that vaccinations are bad (I dont know if you do) and that pharmaceutical companies, media companies and all of the world’s governments are in on this deception then these conclusions seem very logical. I can think of a number of examples from science where fringe theories turned out to be correct. But I have to go with a more consensus approach and one based upon personal experience in my PT bubble. Again I think the dangers of this vaccine will be quite obvious to us in our little town shortly. At this point I have quizzed many recipients in town and out. None have reported any negative effects beyond a sore arm and a tired day with the exception of one. This person has an on going problem with afib and it is quit possible that an episode was triggered by the shot. This person is fine now. I am guessing you’re taking an informal poll of people in town who have recieved the vaccine as well. Are you finding a lot of bad outcomes at this point?
I am confused by your statement about VAERS underreporting ‘misses the whole point.’ As for underreporting positive outcomes, it is, after all, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. It is there to catalog adverse, not positive, outcomes. Tragically, the CDC backed away from an active AE reporting system when the Harvard Pilgrim study revealed the staggering deficiencies mentioned above. HHS established VAERS out of duty to represent victims who had hitherto been able to sue vaccine makers in civil courts. That legitimate recourse was taking too heavy a toll on the manufacturers’ bottom line.
I don’t see a ‘problem’ with web research turning up ‘great credentials on any side of any issue.’ I want to hear the discussion. But that’s not what’s happening. The degree of censorship currently employed by mainstream media and tech giants make it crystal clear who ‘calls the shots’ when it comes to transparency, good journalism and honest interest in public health. Our regulatory agencies have been captured by those they are supposed to protect us from. Credible, respected scientists are being silenced, even on the web.
Our concern for negative effects must extend beyond what we observe in our friends in the short term. The last two decades of efforts to develop mRNA vaccines has ended very badly in the lab. Auto-immune disorders, cancer, cardiac and CNS impairments don’t necessarily manifest immediately. That was supposedly the argument for taking 10 years to create a vaccine. Pathogenic priming and strain replacement are grave possibilities for the near and distant future.
The politicization of cheap, effective treatments like vitamin D, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and budesonide is likely to have had more to do with dollars than sense. Emergency use authorization (EUA) for the investigational vaccines is voided by ‘discovery’ of an efficacious treatment.
Only a couple of people in my circle of friends have decided to take the jabs, but Ana’s friend who lost her aunt is also a friend of mine. Another person I know of had an obvious neurological reaction to the first Pfizer shot — confusion, inability to organize, do math. Those symptoms appear to have quieted for the moment, but one has to wonder — what happened biologically? This is a clinical trial in the real, only time will tell. Pharmaceutical companies do not have a history of accepting responsibility. Without the courts to hold them to account, we are left in a precarious position, indeed.
Look at I’m not going to argue with you about big pharma not to be trusted. We have the opioid epidemic, thalidomide and many more instances of profits before humanity. Not uncommon in America the rest of the world. Hey that’s one of the downsides of capitalism. We got the tobacco companies fighting any regulation, coal companies and oil companies with their fingers on the scales and messing with data on climate issues. I get it. Are these vaccines probably less safe and less effective then the rosy picture painted by Pfizer and Moderna. My sense is more than likely. The question is how far off. Main stream media has blown it before when it came to supporting the Bush administration on WMD in Iraq. It didn’t take long for them to turn around on that one and it seemed bogus right from the start. Most studies are showing vitamin D, hydrochloroquine, internal use of bleach not to be very effective. Most studies I’ve seen indicate that masks and social distancing are effective. I really don’t see any downside to these and they seem to be effective throughout the world. Do I think the CDC the rest of governments of the world and all of Main Street media and most of medical professionals are in bed with the pharmaceuticals. It’s not likely but there are certainly some that are. I see the biggest problem with the pharmaceuticals as the unequal distribution worldwide. (Amy Goodman had a great spot on this one aired on KPTZ just today. If there is fall out from this vaccine you can bet you’re going to be hearing it from her.) And of course we have some screw ups in manufacture as recently reported.
It is interesting that your aquaintenses are having quite different experiences then mine. I don’t know you and this maybe too personal a question but I am curious as to whether you are against vaccines in general or perhaps this a new stance for you? I think you see where I’m headed with this.
This could all end badly or not and I think both you and I will probably agree that we will all know without a doubt how bad this vaccine really is shortly. If the deadliness of this is as you predict we will be seeing the answer in town for sure given the amount of people receiving it. I for one will be changing my tune if this goes sour. You’re welcome to come visit me in Kai-tai and say you told me so.
On the subject of VAERS I don’t think it is designed to determine death rates from any vaccine or for comparison. The reporting system is too sloppy and subject to all kinds of error and bias either overstating dangers or understating them. Take your pick.
I too have heard from friends and family that have had a myriad of side effects post vaccination. These symptoms include weeks of unrelenting diarrhea or digestive upset, flares from musculoskeletal conditions like plantar fasciitis, swollen painful joints and nerve pain, headaches and fatigue.