For nearly a year, the Leader, the Peninsula Daily News and other local media outlets have been censoring all voices challenging the official Covid narrative (see my February article “Of Covid Testing, ‘Misinformation’ and Censorship”).
Then, on August 24, 2021 the Leader went a step further. Our local newspaper not only shut out civil, open discussion, it promoted demonization of and outright discrimination against the county residents it has been censoring:
“These dolts should be considered pariahs because of ignorance and intransigence. They should not work in offices or schools, should not be allowed in public places without proof of vaccination… Why is it taking so long to completely shut these knuckle-draggers out of civilized society?”
“Thanks, Spreadnecks, for our COVID miseries”—an admitted “rant” from columnist Bill Mann—was riddled with name-calling and inflammatory hate speech. With no science to support what is now a political narrative to demonize the healthy unvaccinated (see Stephen Schumacher’s letter below), Mann declared the “anti-vaxxers” in our community the enemy, a scourge responsible for the “miseries” that have befallen the good and righteous vaccinated.
In response, at least six people sent letters to the editor (LTEs) that we are aware of. They are printed below. None of their letters appeared in the September 1st edition of the Leader. However a concerned letter from Stacey McCarthy was published.
“This kind of talk is what incites violence…
You have an opportunity to create a space for meaningful
dialogue at a time when it is desperately needed.
Instead you choose name calling…”
Rather than embrace that opportunity for meaningful dialogue, the name-calling continued. The following week the Leader again chose to withhold all six letters below. Instead five letters were published on September 8th cheerleading Mann’s vile diatribe and calling for everyone to get the shots.
A health professional whose letter was not printed called the paper to inquire about being censored. Publisher Donna Etchey assured him that the Leader prints all the LTEs they receive, a patent lie. His and the other letters continued to be withheld from publication in the weeks that followed. In their place, the paper ran more “just get the vax” letters.
“Bill Mann is to be commended” began one of the opening salvos, calling those who refuse the injection “a real threat to society,” like “say,mass shooters.” Another writer provoked, “The time has come to make some hard decisions about what to do with these people.”
Is the newspaper’s management proud to be egging on this vigilante mentality?
The Leader couldn’t be a more blatant propaganda rag for pharma’s narrative that we must have never-ending shots in every arm on the planet or we’ll never be safe. Get your injection is the message in every opinion piece, every cartoon, every news story, every letter about Covid it publishes. The unvaxxed are “endangering the lives of others” say these misinformed writers. No matter that even the CDC says the vaccinated spread Covid as much or more than the unvaxxed. Or that the estimated 80-100 million Covid-recovered Americans who are unvaccinated have far more robust and durable protection against future infection than the vaxxed.
When history is written, it will likely be these Covid-recovered unvaxxed who are the true heroes in this saga. In the face of this leaky vaccine, those who developed natural immunity after contracting the virus may be our only hope for ever achieving herd immunity. But forget balanced journalism; the Leader will not allow these truths to see print, bent only on pressuring, cajoling and coercing more people to get injected with a dangerous, failed experimental product wreaking havoc around the world.
Freedom of speech is a thing of the past in Jefferson County. In a month of newspapers since Mann’s incendiary diatribe was printed, except for the initial token letter calling for meaningful dialogue in our community, not a single letter has been published that represents the 50% of Americans who see through this divisive fear narrative based on lies.
Who are these despicable “spreadnecks” – the “boneheads” that Mann and others would like to see purged from (im)polite society? According to researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, the highest proportion of “vaccine hesitant”—23.9%—hold PhDs. Nearly 74% of those refusing have at least some college education.
Other surveys have found that among top refuseniks are our medical personnel and first responders witnessing vaccine injuries and deaths first-hand which are being denied and covered up. They include:
Frontline nurses across the US and Canada, watching high numbers of fully vaccinated patients being treated for Covid and vax injuries, while their hospitals falsify that data. (7 minutes)
A UK funeral director who has seen far more deaths from vaccination than from the virus, with deaths from other causes falsely labeled Covid deaths, and deaths following vaccination attributed to anything but the shots. (38 minutes)
A New York Hospitalist Physician’s Assistant leaving her long-time career after filing more than 120 VAERS reports for Covid vaccine injuries and deaths, then ordered by her superiors to back off from making those reports… and now forced to choose between jab or job. (65 minutes)
Deborah Conrad, PA-C, MSHS, BSMT – Hospitalist Physician’s Assistant, Member of Medical Committee Advanced Practice Provider Director
Asked “Are you going to get this vaccine?”
“Absolutely not. I’m terrified. I am more afraid of this vaccine than I am of Covid. I love my job, I want my job. But I’m scared, scared because of what I’ve seen… I’ll give up my career, and many will—I’ve got many on my side who are walking away from careers that they love because they’re so scared.”
These are perspectives you will not hear from the tightly-controlled medical-industrial complex and complicit media. These health care workers are the “dolts” Mann and his ilk would have you treat as pariahs. As are the police, firefighters, and other first responders throughout North America making a stand to say no to vaccine mandates:
State troopers, correctional officers, city firefighters and other public employees in Washington state who have filed a lawsuit to overturn Inslee’s directive;
Police and firefighters in Los Angeles who have formed a resistance group against Covid vaccine mandates, with Fire Department Captain Cristian Granucci, a 31 year veteran, ready to lose his job rather than comply: “I’m done being silent.” (12 minutes)
A firefighters union almost 500 strong, both vaxxed and unvaxxed, taking the city of Newark, NJ to court over vaccine mandates, joined by police and other trade unions in challenging that city (first 16 minutes);
Toronto, Ontario police, firefighters and paramedics in this silent, powerful protest against mandatory vaccinations (1 minute).
In the face of rising resistance, the powers-that-be grow ever-more desperate to push the shots. What better way than to falsely portray those resisting as a threat, dangerous to society? As history has shown, a population gripped by fear is easily convinced to target a disenfranchised subgroup as the enemy. It diverts the focus away from power-hungry controllers pulling levers and turning dials behind the curtain.
Like most of the national media, local newspapers are simply bully pulpits for official propaganda. The Leader joins an agenda to vilify a segment of our population and instigate a segregated, two-tiered society—tearing apart community and country. To that end, it runs hit pieces that make a mockery of civil journalistic standards, while barring thoughtful opposing discourse from the public square.
Here are six of the letters the Leader would not print. You may not agree with their perspectives. Do you agree that it serves our community to censor their voices?
Editor, the Leader:
Considering history, there are many examples of atrocities, both long ago and recent, in other countries and our own, where a minority group in the community was demonized, called unclean, dangerous and disease-spreading. We look back on those moments in history with horror.
I don’t know if you can SEE it, but right now, we are demonizing a minority group in our community, calling them dirty, disease-spreading, “spreadnecks,” instituting segregation, firing them from their jobs, closing their businesses, destroying their lives. Can we see where this is heading? Do we continue on this path towards mob violence and segregation, or is this a community that believes in diversity, inclusion, tolerance and peace?
May we help turn the tide towards a more beautiful world!
Barclay Calvert, L.Ac.
Port Townsend
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In response to Mann Overboard.
Surely this unbalanced and hateful perspective can only be shared by very few folks in this town. I pray that this is the case. But moreso, I am simply amazed that the Leader would choose such a vile and immature piece to showcase. The only intent that I can think of to exhibit this column from Mann is to foment division and hatred. This does not in any way suggest journalistic integrity, but instead continues with a nefarious agenda that is promulgated through lies and deception and character assassination of anybody with a dissenting opinion. Anybody telling the truth.
In agreeing with this type of juvenile rhetoric you are choosing to continue with a false reality of fake PCR tests and censorship of treatments in order to coerce an experimental, toxic, gene altering concoction on the masses. Jabs that are aptly named “clot shots”.
If you are vaccinated then why should you be fearful of those who have done their research and have reached a different conclusion than you? Do you not see? This is straight out of the Nazi playbook, but instead now, we unvaxxed are the “unwashed” Jews. What will it be next? The 3 jab folks disparaging the 2 jabbers?
The people that I know who Mr. Mann has termed the “knuckle draggers” are the thought leaders of our time. They are the true investigative journalists who are working on the side of humanity, not for some diabolical agenda. It should never be an “us versus them” mentality. You may even find that these “clueless” ones, the folks in this town that have their guiding star exquisitely aligned, will be here to offer advice in the upcoming days, months, should you need it. We have the facts…..
Addy Thornton Port Townsend
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Editor, the Leader:
Science has always been a continuing course of inquiry. A hypothesis is formed, tested, debated, reviewed and argued over until a consensus is reached. Then additional information is discovered and the debate continues. Science is never “settled”, or we might still be sailing ships off the edge of the world. The discussion is ended when differing opinions are no longer allowed by the majority. Censorship is a sure sign of a weak argument.
We are now in a dangerous period when persuasion is displaced by propaganda. Hate speech is universally condemned, but here we have one of our Leader staff contributors spewing the same stuff we would expect to hear from a recently displaced President. Get ahold of yourself, Mann; you seem to have forgotten your role as a journalist. The Fourth Estate was always a check on power. Look under the rock that hides the information that may expose an uncomfortable truth. Whether your opinion is right or wrong, stifling debate is the antithesis of a robust community discussion in which people have the right and responsibility to explore ideas together. Please join the discussion.
Sebastian Eggert
Port Townsend
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On August 25th, 2021, the Leader reached an historic low with the publication of an ignorant, abusive screed disguised as a column by Bill Mann. His personal choice to play roulette with this experimental gene-based therapy is his business. Insisting everyone join him is not okay. I could go on at length about this man’s obvious lack of personal investigation into the current public policy-driven crisis that is disastrously transforming life as we know it.
But I’d rather take on the real culprits here — the so-called ‘newspaper’— its publisher and editor. The ’newspaper’ which censors the voices of highly educated, well-informed community members who have spent many hundreds of hours researching data, documents and diverging expert opinion around the most important event in human history, yet chooses to give voluminous ink to a malicious, uninformed diatribe from a bitter guy who apparently believes what he hears on CNN.
In the words of an elder British wisdom keeper: “In silencing the free speech of others, you’re silencing your own in this sense — if there is censorship of some free speech, then what is left is not free speech. It’s the freedom to conform to what is believed to be—by authority—acceptable opinion, belief and view.”
This has become the modus operandi for the Leader. It is an unabashed gatekeeper for totalitarian electeds and their appointed bureaucrats. This is not a community service, and it does not serve the Leader itself. The much-deserved downward spiral of its reputation, revenue and ultimately, its existence, will be the subject of its epitaph.
Annette Huenke
Port Townsend
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“Mann Overboard”, for sure.
Quite the unsurprising shock reading Mann’s excremental hit piece, which sadly & typically a mainstream paper would see fit to lend ink.
Dehumanizing “the other” is a time-honored political & media technique for sowing fear & division. “Fear is the foundation of most governments.” – John Adams
There’s eternally an enemy at the gates. If not, governments simply create them. The list is long: the godless heathens, barbarians, indians, commies, terrorists, both “left” & “right”, and now even an invisible one. As ever, the emperor has no clothes, as the subjects bow low to the new madness & nakedness with their own.
The Leader has sunk to a new high of lows — which is saying something after 18 months of unilateral insinuations & censorship.
Increasing numbers of physicians, nurses, orderlies, etc, have declined the jabs, and/or resigned; while a growing portion of regular folks, worldwide, are also refuseniks. And now so simple to turn the screws on “the new enemy” — as the PTB continue to lose control of their narratives.
Well, here we go again. To whit:
Hannah Arendt — “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
Joseph Goebbels, the ace Nazi propagandist sums with three quotes:
“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”
“If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
A reread of the Nuremberg Trials & Codes is overdue, but for now a central, simple question — if you & we have no idea what’s in these “vaccines”, then what the hell is “informed consent”?’
Alby Baker
Port Townsend
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The Leader should be ashamed for running Bill Mann’s column “Thanks, Spreadnecks, for our COVID miseries.” Its form is the same as WWII propaganda that similarly demonized out-groups and advocated segregating them into camps. What else can one make of “They should not work in offices or schools, should not be allowed in public places” and “Why is it taking so long to completely shut these knuckle-draggers out of civilized society?”
One factor delaying America’s descent into pure bio-fascism is its Bill of Rights. Since “the COVID virus doesn’t care about rights,” Mann pushes to “fire these Typhoid Marys and Harrys,” falsely fearing that the asymptomatic healthy are a threat to others just by existing and breathing… not caring that sick-until-proven-healthy is as tyrannical as guilty-until-proven-innocent.
Beyond the evil form of his rant are the dubious claims Mann makes to justify his agenda. He equates polio vaccines with today’s barely-tested experimental mRNA shots that are already linked with 13,068 adverse-events deaths… more in half a year than all other vaccines combined during VAERS’ 31-year history. [As of 9/17/21, 15,386 Covid vaccine deaths have been reported to VAERS.]
Mann complains “we have to wear masks again because of the boneheads,” but the real reason has nothing to do with the unvaxxed. Instead it is CDC data “showing that vaccinated individuals infected with delta may be able to transmit the virus as easily as those who are unvaccinated” and have “measurable viral loads similar to those who are unvaccinated,” which is the pretext for masks again being pushed.
Mann blames the unvaxxed for “making innocent people sick, especially children,” despite pitiful vaccine ineffectiveness with antibody levels waning in 2-3 months used to justify the current push for twice-yearly booster re-vaccination. By contrast, natural immunity following CV infection is broad and enduring against all variants. Children are at minimal (not “especial”) risk, the CDC reporting only 385 deaths under age 18 in two years, with John Hopkins finding “a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia.”
Mann continually insults the intelligence of “these dolts”, baldly saying “Not being vaxxed is … an IQ test. Over 99 percent of current COVID cases are unvaxxed.” Mann fails his own test by misquoting the Surgeon General’s debunked claim that “99.5% of Covid deaths [not cases] are among the unvaccinated,” a made-up number counting old deaths before the vax was widely available, counting the vaxxed as unvaxxed prior to 2 weeks after their second shot, and counting vaxxed deaths using a much lower PCR Cycle Threshold than unvaxxed deaths. By contrast, England and Israel report 60% of their current deaths are vaccinated.
The overall message is to scapegoat the vaccine hesitant as subhumans who “devastated … the population at large” so deserve discrimination and loss of livelihood. Shame on the Leader for promoting such blatant inflammatory hate speech while censoring all reasoned opposing viewpoints over the past year.
Has a letter you’ve written been censored by the Leader, Peninsula Daily News, or other local media? The Port Townsend Free Press will publish all censored letters to the editor that meet our guidelines for civil discourse*.
“Gene based vaccines have never been used on humans before.
So what we’re witnessing now are human experiments… Auto-immune disease can be triggered by these gene-based vaccines… all have rather severe side effects…
You have to be very, very careful that the vaccine is not killing the elderly with pre-existing conditions instead of protecting them.” Sucharit Bhakdi, MD, award-winning virologist and most cited microbiologist in German academic history
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In Part One of this series, we looked at the mass casualties occurring where Covid-19 vaccine campaigns are underway—injuries and deaths that are being ignored, downplayed or denied outright in a tightly-controlled narrative.
Since last week, total reports to VAERS of deaths from the experimental injections increased from 2,050 to 2,249. Reports of adverse events increased from 44,606 to 50,861 There has been a 6000%increase in reported vaccine deaths in 1st quarter 2021 as compared to 1st quarter 2020.
What is going on with these experimental shots?
As previously described, debilitating side affects often follow these injections. Common reactions include headaches, body aches and fatigue. Pain and weakness in the legs is a frequent refrain. People tell of muscle and joint pain, dizziness, chills and nausea, and brain fog that impairs their ability to think. Delirium and confusion often accompanies the brain fog.
Impairment is often so severe that a person is unable to function for days, weeks, or even longer. People frequently report that they just haven’t “felt right” since their shots. The clouded thinking or body aches just won’t go away.
Redefining vaccine damage as ‘the vaccine is working’
These reactions are so common, pharma cannot deny them. So now injurious effects are being spun by the media as not only “normal”, but positive. Adverse reactions are proof that the vaccine is “working”.
What is actually taking place? One clue comes from a paper analyzing data from Pfizer’s early vaccine trials. It reveals that in the week following vaccination, lymphocyte counts drop precipitously.
Lymphocytes, or white blood cells, are the body’s defense against unwanted invaders. Without active lymphocytes we cannot mount an immune response to a SARS-CoV-2 virus or any other opportunistic pathogen. As seen in Pfizer’s graph, lymphocytes are nearly wiped out for at least several days following mRNA injection.
According to the study, “Vaccine RNA can be modified by incorporating 1-methylpseudouridine, which dampens innate immune sensing and increases mRNA translation in vivo. The BNT162b1 vaccine candidate that is currently investigated clinically incorporates such nucleoside-modified mRNA.”
Dr. Rob Rennebohm, MD, explains, “This means that the vaccine manufacturers have deliberately added a substance (1-methylpseudouridine) that dampens innate immune sensing. Innate immune sensing is the first line of defense against all types of infection.”
The populations most at risk if they lose immune function are the very groups who were excluded from pharma’s trials, now being urged to get their shots first—the elderly and immune-compromised.
But immune suppression may be a negligible issue when compared to other problems caused by these experimental injections. Serious reactions have included anaphylaxis, Bell’s Palsy, seizures, strokes, transverse myelitis, heart attacks, and as discussed in Part One, miscarriages.
What else may be contributing to these adverse events?
To start with, the mRNA in Pfizer’s and Moderna’s shots are “pegalated”—encapsulated with nanoparticles of polyethylene glycol (PEG). These PEG nanolipids act as a delivery system for the mRNA.
Dr. Michael Yeadon, former Vice-President and Chief Scientific Officer at Pfizer Global R&D, and Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee, warn, “70% of people develop antibodies against this substance – this means that many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.”
It is estimated that as many as 7% of Americans have high enough levels of antibodies to PEG that exposure can cause anaphylactic shock. Indeed, anaphylaxis has occurred so frequently following vaccination, the risk from PEG in these shots has been acknowledged by the FDA.
While the CDC downplays the risk, they advise that:
“COVID-19 vaccination locations should have at least 3 doses [emphasis theirs] of epinephrine available at all times, and the ability to quickly obtain additional doses to replace supplies after epinephrine is administered to a patient. People with a history of anaphylaxis who carry an epinephrine autoinjector could be reminded to bring it to their vaccination appointment.” [source]
VAERS data currently shows 2,578 reports of anaphylaxis immediately following injection. Anaphylaxis is just the immediate, potentially fatal reaction from this delivery system. Pegalated mRNA can also cause serious long-range consequences, says neuroscientist Dr. Chris Shaw:
“The mRNA lipid-coated PEG-construct—by Moderna’s own study—does not stay localized, but spreads throughout the body, including the brain. Found in animal studies in bone marrow, brain, lymph nodes, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, etc. Doctors are saying that the vaccine does NOT cross the blood-brain barrier, but that is NOT true. …If it reaches the brain there will be an autoimmune response that will cause inflammation. That is characteristic to virtually all neuro-degenerative diseases—Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, etc.” [source]
Next, there is a total absence of data regarding reproductive impacts. Before the vaccines were even granted emergency use authorization, experts expressed concern that the spike proteins the mRNA packages are designed to generate could cause miscarriages and infertility. Not a single study, however, was done on pregnant women.
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg explains that the syncytin-homologous protein produced by the mRNA vaccine can cause antibodies against syncytin-1, the protein essential for the formation of placentas:
“There is one gene which is part of our genome that is regulating the placenta growing in the uterus… This protein is very similar to proteins that have been described in the spike cell of the coronavirus… It must be absolutely ruled out that a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, as otherwise infertility of indefinite duration could result in vaccinated women.”
Pfizer and Moderna’s own materials acknowledge that there is zero safety data on pregnant women and on reproductive impacts. Here is how the CDC spins that absence of data:
“There are currently limited data on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant people… If you are pregnant, you may choose to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems.”
The CDC implies that because no data exists on reproductive issues for this new biotechnology, we can trust it won’t be a problem. Having “no evidence”—because pharma excluded pregnant women from their trials and didn’t do research on infertility—now conveys safety.
The UK government issued guidance that “pregnant women should not routinely have this vaccine… In addition, women of childbearing age should be advised to avoid pregnancy for at least 2 months after their second dose.” [emphasis theirs] However, an expectant mother “should be reassured that the vaccine does not contain live SARS-CoV-2 virus and therefore cannot cause COVID-19 infection in her or in her baby.” This reassurance is another red herring. It does not address the spike protein issue experts warned about.
Many miscarriages immediately following the shots, as noted in Part One, are already being reported in the US. And data shows a 366% increase in UK miscarriages in the first six weeks of their rollout.
That pregnant women would choose to be part of this experiment, risking the lives of their unborn babies, is testimony to how effective the propaganda has been.
Will long-term or even permanent infertility also result? That is yet another unknown in this global experiment.
But perhaps the greatest risk of all—an impact yet to come—are phenomena known as Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) and pathogenic priming.
All attempts to develop coronavirus vaccines in the past were unsuccessful because of these phenomena. In animal trials, the vaccines provoked development of antibodies as intended, but when the animals were exposed later to the virus—called a challenge—an exaggerated immune response killed the animals. The body develops hypersensitivity to the virus and mounts an out-of-control systemic autoimmune response, attacking its own cells and organs. In a trial for a SARS-CoV-1 vaccine using ferrets, when the animals were challenged later by the wild virus, every ferret died. This challenge, coming into contact with the wild virus, could happen days, months or years after vaccination.
Scientists, including high-profile vaccinologists, warned about this potentially lethal autoimmune response long before Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials began. In the Warp Speed rush to a #CovidVaccine, pharma claimed that this dilemma which has stopped development of coronavirus vaccines for the last twenty years had now been solved. They offered no proof of that assertion. It was simply announced as fact.
“I was shocked to see that the FDA is rolling this [injection] out with prioritization of people in nursing homes. Absolutely shocked. Because that’s where the highest severe coronavirus disease enhancement and pathogenic priming is going to take place. It’s almost a certainty that we’re going to see mass casualties from this as a result of pathogenic priming.” – Senior Research Scientist Dr. James Lyons-Weiler [source]
Prior to Europe’s vaccine rollout, Dr. Yeadon, along with Dr. Wodarg, filed a petition to halt the Phase III clinical trials of the Pfizer mRNA injection until they were restructured to address these critical safety concerns.
More and more doctors and scientists, all censored by the mainstream, are voicing these kinds of warnings. One of the most recent is Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche.
Vanden Bossche, a Belgian virologist and vaccine developer who has worked for both GAVI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, adds another concern into the mix. “The key question”, he says in an interview, is “why does nobody seem to bother about viral immune escape?” He makes the case that this global campaign is a ticking time bomb, warning that “mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of a pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants,”
What is a “leaky” vaccine?
Efficacy has previously always been measured according to how well a vaccine 1) prevents disease transmission, and 2) prevents infection. These shots do neither. People who get these injections can still get infected and can still transmit the virus to others. That is what is meant by a “leaky” vaccine.
Pharma’s minimal safety trials were only designed to demonstrate a lower rate of infection among the vaccinated. As stated by Peter Doshi in the British Medical Journal, as well as NOT preventing infection and NOT stopping transmission, there is also no proof that getting the shot reduces hospitalizations or deaths.
A growing concern is the number of fully vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 more than 14 days—and sometimes months—after their second shot. Called “breakthrough cases,” there couldn’t be clearer evidence that this experimental injection is “leaky” and does not prevent infection.
“I was shocked,” said Florida physical therapist Hannah Rewerts when she contracted the virus more than two months after her shots. “I don’t think the public is aware that it [getting the Covid injections] doesn’t mean you’re not getting the virus, and it doesn’t mean you’re not getting sick.” Among dozens in Central Florida who have contracted Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated are three others in Rewerts’ family. “One of my family members actually went to the hospital,” she said. “I mean, that’s pretty severe enough to be concerned about the vaccine.”
The real level of harm from this new, rushed technology won’t be known for years. Not only don’t we know the true safety profile of these injections, the primary criteria for claiming a vaccine is effective have not been met. And despite attempts to censor bad press about adverse reactions, the flood of personal stories on social media has been impossible to contain.
That may be why the catchphrases used to manipulate public perception have quietly shifted. Rather than the traditional “safe and effective” assurance, there’s a new spin:
“The benefits outweigh the risks.”
Do they? What ARE the benefits?
In a March 6 interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mexican actor/director/producer Eugenio Derbez asks that very question: “[if] you still can get infected and you can still spread it… what is the main aim of the vaccines?” Dr. Fauci replies, “The main purpose of the vaccine is to prevent you from getting sick, going to the hospital and maybe dying.” He explains that because it does not stop transmission, that is “why we say… that people who were vaccinated should wear a mask when they’re near people who might be vulnerable to infection.”
Promises that once you get your shot you can take off your mask and get back to normal life without fear of infecting others or of contracting Covid yourself—or that some magic percentage of people vaccinated will create herd immunity—are pure disinformation. Social memes such as “I got the #CovidVaccine to protect myself, my family, and my community!” are nothing more than clever propaganda devised by pharma to get shots in arms.
Intentionally suppressing “innate immune sensing” is the opposite of protection, weakening rather than enhancing your immune response. Risking pathogenic priming is playing Russian roulette with a loaded gun. If you only have reduced symptoms when you contract the virus but can still spread it to others, you are a potential agent of infection, not protection. And if the vaccines are driving the creation of new, even more deadly variants—as previously seen with polio mass vaccination programs—the consequences could be catastrophic.
Feel-good memes are a brilliant marketing strategy—they appeal to people’s innate desire to be good citizens and help others. But they do not reflect the actual science. You not only can still be infected following vaccination and spread Covid-19 to your family and your community—if Vanden Bossche is correct you could become a superspreader of ever-more virulent strains.
The one thing this injection might do—reduce severity of symptoms if you contract the virus—can be achieved far more safely by taking supplements like vitamin C, zinc, vitamin D3, and quercetin. Hundreds of studies demonstrating remarkable success with inexpensive and benign treatments have also been systematically suppressed.
Never before has a “vaccine” been sold to the public with so great a risk… so little benefit… and so much pressure.
The fearful are motivated with carrots and intimidated with sticks — we will only be able to open up society after 80% or more are “fully vaccinated”. And then, it’s only those with a vaccine passport who will be able to freely engage in travel, school, concerts and sporting events, hospitality services, traditional retail activities, and work.
Family members who are taken in by the mainstream narrative are issuing ultimatums: get the shot or you can never visit me, your grandkids, your mother/father, or fill-in-the-blank, again. People steeped in the relentless messaging then parrot that propaganda… like the cartoonist in this week’s Port TownsendLeader who is “so ready” to get her shots and concludes, “The real work starts when we have to convince our loved ones to get the vaccine. If we don’t we’ll never hit herd immunity.”
That is fiction from the myth makers. The greater a portion of the public harboring a leaky vaccine, the LESS possible it will be to achieve herd immunity. The only ones in society who will be contributing to herd immunity are people who had the virus and developed natural immunity. Carriers of a leaky vaccine will be unprotected from infection, just experience lesser symptoms, and will still be able to transmit the virus. Worst case, they will also be driving the development of more virulent strains. The more people who get the shot, the LOWER our herd immunity.
But we are being told the inverse. It is the healthy people refusing to submit to this dangerous experiment who are being portrayed as Typhoid Marys, putting lives at risk by simply breathing. The irony is that it’s the vaccinated who are likely to be carrying infections without showing symptoms, spreading the virus, and, according to Vanden Bossche, driving a “tsunami of morbidity and lethality that is now threatening us.”
Sara Beltrán Ponce, the doctor who tragically miscarried days after her second shot (see Part One) enthusiastically trusted that the #CovidVaccine would protect her and her unborn baby. Hashtag slogans and internet memes are part of a comprehensive campaign of social engineering, broadcast by media and the medical-government-pharma complex day in and day out to indoctrinate us.
Had Dr. Ponce looked outside that spin machine—Pfizer’s and Moderna’s own materials acknowledge that there is not a shred of data to establish safety in pregnancy—she would have likely reached the same conclusion as her peers who are refusing the shot.
Global pushback
Over one million citizens from Germany and surrounds rally for health freedom in Berlin, August 1, 2020
As damage mounts, so do calls for an immediate halt to this global experiment.
Demonstrations all over the world are protesting government overreach and top-down medical tyranny, which is demanding compliance with disastrous lockdowns and coercing citizens to accept experimental injections. In the US, those citizens challenging the narrative are being demonized as “Covid deniers”, anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists, selfish granny killers, and even “domestic terrorists”.
As many world governments grow increasingly authoritarian, they use the fear of Covid to eliminate freedoms and criminalize dissent. Citizen pushback is typically ignored, downplayed or vilified by the mainstream press.
The Berlin rally for health freedom pictured above is a classic example. Independent reporting describes a peaceful gathering of “concerned citizens, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, doctors, lawyers, business owners… the official numbers from the police were 800,000 to 1.3 million, with 2-3 million people in the general vicinity.” Mainstream media reported “roughly 17,000 protestors”—”anti-vaccine groups and some far-right and neo-Nazi organizations” dispersed by police.
These mischaracterizations are no surprise. What IS shocking is the censorship and/or discrediting of highly credentialed, distinguished scientists and medical professionals, in a wholesale dismissal of valid scientific inquiry and the refusal to allow respectful open debate.
In December 2020, the petition filed by Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg to stop Covid vaccine trials addressed four concerns: 1) ADE/pathogenic priming; 2) fertility issues from syncytin-homologous proteins; 3) PEG causing allergic, potentially fatal anaphylactic reactions; and 4) lack of long-term data.
The letter questions “whether cardinal issues regarding the safety of the vaccines were adequately addressed prior to their approval” by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). It expresses concerns about what is occurring in care homes, and notes a “wide range of side effects” reported following vaccination of previously healthy younger individuals.
They conclude that “the approval of the COVID-19 vaccines by the EMA was premature and reckless, and that the administration of the vaccines constituted and still does constitute ‘human experimentation’, which was and still is in violation of the Nuremberg Code.” They implore EU regulators to halt Covid vaccinations unless significant safety issues are addressed.
In the U.S., physician-scientist Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, has joined the growing list of alarmed professionals, calling out a “clear and present danger.” In a letter to FDA officials, pharma executives and media he says, “it is untenable for you and your colleagues to be ignoring these deaths and vaccine complications without lifting a finger to do anything — simply this: These complications are mounting and CDC and FDA’s surveillance systems are missing the signal.”
The “signal” Noorchashm is speaking of is the death of vaccine recipients—some of them high-profile celebrities—who were vaccinated despite being already infected with Covid-19: “Benjamin Goodman, J. Barton Williams, Kassidi Lyn Kurill, Marvin Hagler, Hank Aaron, Larry King… these are Americans being harmed and ignored … by you and our public health system.”
Is the body’s manufacturing of spike proteins, engineered by the shot, triggering autoimmune attacks? Is this the pathogenic priming phenomenon that killed animals in earlier coronavirus vaccine trials? Many doctors and scientists censored by the mainstream press think so.
“If you are already immune, if you’ve already been infected, your risk goes way up of adverse events and death,” says Dr. Paul Thomas on his weekly podcast Against the Wind: Doctors and Science Under Fire. “It’s the most reckless thing I’ve ever seen in medical history.”
International pioneer in women’s health Dr. Christiane Northrup agrees: “All it does is make people THINK they’re safe… Don’t let yourself get trampled by the lemmings headed for the cliff.”
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche has also published an urgent appeal— Open Letter to the WHO: Immediately Halt All Covid-19 Mass Vaccinations. His March 6th letter asserts that, “We are currently turning vaccine recipients into asymptomatic carriers who are shedding infectious variants….[W]e’ll very soon be confronted with a super-infectious virus that completely resists our most precious defense mechanism: the human immune system.”
Calling this experiment a “colossal blunder,” vaccinologist Vanden Bossche does not mince words: “Immediate cancelation of all ongoing mass Covid-19 vaccination campaigns should now become THE most acute health emergency of international concern.”
These dire warnings are from eminent scientists and doctors so concerned about the gravity of this experiment that they are willing to risk reputations and careers. They know they will be censored and targeted for challenging the narrative. And while their voices rarely make it past the gatekeepers controlling that narrative, half of Americans can still sense that something isn’t right here.
The federal government has now earmarked $1.5 BILLION for an ad campaign to convince “vaccine skeptics” to get their shots. In a major PR blitz, our tax dollars “will use TV, radio, and digital means to target young Americans, people of color, and Republicans who may be more likely to be hesitant or ambivalent about getting vaccinated.”
If those who are speaking out against all odds are correct, the fate of humankind rests not on our compliance, but on our refusal to participate. The most caring choice to protect ourselves, family, friends and community is to just say no.
There is a vast gulf between two camps: those who believe that lockdowns “save lives,” and those aware that these measures have had little if any impact on the spread of Covid and have caused far more death and destruction than the virus… those who believe the shots are our path to freedom, and those who agree with the doctors and scientists saying that this global medical experiment has to stop now.
The former trust mainstream propaganda; the latter do not. The former think that the powerful interests behind the narrative have our well-being at heart, are leading us with science, are telling us the truth. The latter, like CNA James Develon see the mounting wreckage and understand that we are being lied to.
The injection question just may pose the most critical choice of our lifetime.
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.
“My mom and I have been taking care of my aunt. When she got the shot [on February 15], she had just graduated from physical therapy because she was so strong and able to get up from being seated without using her hands for help, walk with a cane for an hour slowly, feed herself no problem, talk about memories. Since the 15th she has been dramatically declining, especially in the last five days… to where she now cannot walk at all, she can’t really control movement of her torso, cannot feed herself, cannot discern reality from hallucinations, and is incontinent and can get very angry. We had to make the difficult decision to have emts come yesterday morning to take her to the hospital (she had slithered to the floor and we could not get her up) and we insisted they admit her because we cannot care for her safely in this condition.”
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:
“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.”
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)
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.
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:
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).
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]
“Locke…is concerned about a Jefferson County group that may be spreading misinformation concerning the accuracy of the tests, claiming incorrectly that up to 90 percent of COVID-19 tests provide false positives.” [Peninsula Daily News, 2/7/21]
“Public naysaying on the spread of COVID-19 continued at Monday’s meeting of the board of county commissioners, with the public comment period being marked by more claims of false positive COVID-19 tests by some Jefferson County residents… ‘That kind of denialism is becoming more dangerous,’ Locke said.”[The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader, 2/3/21]
Who are these citizens being called dangerous by Jefferson County’s Health Officer, Dr. Thomas Locke? They are concerned citizens being censored by all media on the peninsula except the Port Townsend Free Press.
I am among them.
Dangerous Misinformation?
Over the past year, a group of local researchers has diligently examined data and analyzed information driving the global policies now devastating our world. Independent of our efforts, Stephen Schumacher was also deeply researching, coming to similar conclusions that much of the fear narrative being broadcast didn’t hold up to scrutiny.
In July 2020, Schumacher submitted a letter to the Port Townsend Leader citing statistics related to COVID-19 (Covid) lockdowns. His letter was withheld from publication for nearly a month, but eventually ran.
The following month, the Leader flatly refused to print his next letter. Unable to participate in the community opinion forum which “welcome[s] letters from our readers,” Schumacher then paid $500 to purchase ad space to share his information. A second ad, at the end of August, costing $550, warned about problems with the now-infamous discredited models Dr. Locke was citing to justify lockdowns. This was followed by two more ads regarding lockdowns in September and October.
In November, the Leader took censorship to the next level. After first accepting a paid ad about concerns over PCR tests, the publisher emailed Schumacher to inform him that they would not be running it. His ad featured a graph from a Harvard epidemiologist, and cited the Journal of the American Medical Association, the CDC, and other mainstream sources. In an email exchange asking why he was being censored, the publisher wrote, “We need to make decisions based on the best interest of our business.”
Was the payment Schumacher offered to exercise his right for freedom of expression insufficient when weighed against the newspaper’s role as a propaganda arm of Dr. Locke?
Schumacher took his rejected ad to the Peninsula Daily News. The PDN first agreed to accept his $530, then balked. The ad ultimately ran on Nov. 22. Several weeks later he attempted to buy ad space there a second time, but was told the publisher had rejected it. “When I asked if there was something specific I could have tweaked to make the ad acceptable, the answer was negative,” he said. “The content was verboten.”
PCR tests come into focus
While local censorship was ramping up, many scientists were expressing concerns that the PCR tests, responsible for exploding “case” counts and continued lockdowns, were not reliable. In some experts’ words, they are “not fit for purpose.” Most of this information was also being suppressed.
But on August 29, 2020, the New York Times published the story, “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.” It quoted Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Michael Mina: “from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold [Ct] of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles.”
Evidence mounted that cycle thresholds are critical, confirming the New York Times story.
In a September article in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a French team looked at more than 100 studies on PCR tests. All studies found that above 30 cycles “patients could not be contagious as the virus is not detected in culture above this value.” They then performed 3790 of their own tests, reporting similar findings—of the samples that tested positive after 35 PCR cycles, 97% were negative upon viral culture. And of samples testing positive after 37 or more cycles, 100% were culture negative.
The lack of PCR reliability was reinforced in November by an international group of experts who formally challenged these tests as a valid diagnostic tool for identifying Covid cases. In their extensive report—“External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results”—the authors contend that serious defects in the test have “led to worldwide misdiagnosis of infections.” They conclude that the test is “completely unreliable” and “unsuitable as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.”
In December, an Italian team documented that when the Covid PCR test is positive only at a high Ct value, the incidence of false positivity is at least 70%. Their article in the Journal of Clinical Virology warns that the detection of viral RNA at a high cycle threshold “needs to be interpreted with caution.”
Revised guidelines from the World Health Organization followed in January. All parties agree that beyond 30-35 cycles, the PCR test cannot reliably provide accurate identification of a Covid case, calling into question case figures worldwide.
Is this incontestable global consensus—that at high cycle thresholds PCR tests yield mostly false positives—the “misinformation” thatLocke speaks of in the PDN quote above?
As revealed by Annette Huenke in her Port TownsendFree Pressarticle, “Is Jefferson County Health Department Overstating COVID Case Numbers?,” the cycle threshold of the PCR test being used in Jefferson County is not 30 or 35 or even 40. It is 45. No scientist disputes that with a positive result at 45 Ct, the chance of infection is zero.
Our test results do not report the cycle count; they merely declare a binary positive or negative. Without the Ct information there is no way to judge viral load, or if the test simply picked up dead viral debris; if the person is contagious, or if the result is a false positive.
Locke has yet to disprove any of this information.
Censorship and Demonization: the New Normal
For several months I have been among the citizens writing to our county commissioners about this concern. In response, the commissioners repeatedly defer to their expert, Locke. He waves off any responsibility, passing the buck to state authorities—not my problem—while insulting the citizens bringing these issues to light.
Locke’s attacks have grown increasingly shrill and aggressive towards residents challenging his pronouncements. In a response to a brief request from Annette Huenke asking for data he had referenced in a weekly report broadcast on KPTZ, Locke concluded his email with:
“And no amount of data will convince people who are consumed by pandemic denialism and wish to rationalize their pseudoscientific, sociopathic beliefs.”
In addition to the “pandemic denialism” pejorative he has been using for months, the county’s Public Health Director is now calling citizens who ask relevant, important questions “sociopaths”. It is no wonder that increasing divisiveness is pervading our community.
Our voice is censored by all local media except this online publication. When some of us raised the issue with our county commissioners of free speech being denied by the mainstream press, Commissioner Greg Brotherton rationalized that it was important to have “a unified approach” in messaging the public. That is a euphemism for “official propaganda only.”
The newspapers not only refuse to investigate valid citizen concerns, they allow no right of rebuttal to Locke’s messaging and name-calling.
On February 10, I submitted this letter to theLeader:
To date, theLeader has not run my letter.
12/23/20 protest outside office of PT Leader
Nor has a letter about PCR tests from Dr. Robert Rennebohm been published, submitted a week prior to mine. An MD who has extensively researched Covid issues, Rennebohm stresses the importance of disclosing Ct values in reporting new Covid cases, underscoring the need for and responsibility of public health departments to change course:
“Medically, morally, and ethically—individuals with positive PCR tests, as well as physicians, epidemiologists, public policy makers, and the public—deserve to know, and need to know, the Ct value at which a SARS-CoV-2 PCR test is positive. Without Ct information, interpretation of the number of “new COVID cases,” “new COVID hospitalizations” and “new COVID deaths” is severely compromised, as is public policy and the care of individual patients.”
But not even a credentialed physician, one who I daresay has greater understanding of PCR’s uses and limitations than Locke, is permitted to offer a professional perspective in the Leader if it diverges from Jefferson County’s Public Health Director. Rather than requesting interviews or promoting healthy debate on an issue that is profoundly impacting every one of us, there is only the silencing of any viewpoint that does not support the official narrative. A “unified approach.”
Valid, scientifically confirmed concerns should generate robust public discussion in our community. Instead, county residents are deluged with one-sided information that is often inaccurate and falls significantly short of adequately educating the public. Area newspapers, the local radio station, and other media provide a bully pulpit for Locke to disseminate what many scientists around the world would argue is misinformation.
Reporting all sides of a story is the fundamental purpose of journalism, the recognition that a fully informed citizenry is the foundation of democracy. That has been suspended in our New Normal. Allowing diverse voices to engage in civil discourse is deemed dangerous.
Cycle threshold values are only a small part of the PCR story, the one that has gotten the most attention. Equally critical is the clear instruction—in accordance with the PCR test’s authorized labeling—that its use should be limited to symptomatic individuals… not inflicted across entire communities of people who, for the most part, are not sick.
On January 4, the Food and Drug Administration released “Risk of False Results with the Curative SARS-Cov-2 Test for COVID-19: FDA Safety Communication.” The FDA’s direction to healthcare providers, patients and caregivers is that PCR test use should be “limited to individuals within 14 days of COVID-19 symptoms onset.” Use on asymptomatic people or outside the two-week window was likely to produce false results, or at least inadequately interpretable results.
The story in Jefferson County
Of more than 18,700 tests administered in Jefferson County since March 3, 2020, over 300 cases have been identified as “positive” to date.
This includes symptomatic people—those with Covid symptoms like fever, body aches, and sore throat—who may have been tested within the 14-days-of-onset window.
It also includes people tested who had NO Covid symptoms—those who are in facilities or jobs that require testing; who go to the hospital for unrelated elective procedures; who are admitted to the ER after a heart attack, stroke, or accident; and those who ask to be tested out of fear, or curiosity—some of them getting multiple tests. None of these meet the criteria of showing symptoms in a 14-day window. Most of those tests are inadvisable and prone to false positives.
The only people with positive tests who can arguably be called legitimate cases are the first group—those who presented with Covid symptoms. As Dr. Tom Jefferson, the FDA and others have warned, PCR tests were not designed to be used randomly across general populations.
And these tests are not always reliable even in diagnosing symptomatic people. Without knowing the cycle threshold values of tests conducted, we have no clear data to identify true cases.
Over nearly a year, only two dozen of our Covid “cases” have been hospitalized. And even the people in that category likely included false positives. If a person was admitted to the ER due to a heart attack or stroke but tested positive for Covid, they were added to the county “case” tally and put in the Covid ward.
What is the real picture of Covid in our community? Of the 330 “cases” who received only a yes/no result from a PCR test that ran up to 45 cycles, how many test results were false positives? If the majority of people tested here were asymptomatic, how many of those with positive results were actually contagious?
Based on testing data the New York Times obtained from three states, only a tenth of the people counted as cases were true Covid positives; 90% were unnecessarily forced to isolate and submit to contact tracing. Jefferson County’s percentage of false positives may not be quite as high as those in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada. But without reviewing the Ct values of our test results, we simply do not know.
Why accurate case counts matter
In practical terms, being erroneously identified as a Covid case can have serious consequences. A false positive could result in your healthy teenager being quarantined for no reason, leading to suicidal ideation. Suicide rates have risen dramatically, especially among youth, since lockdowns were imposed.
Your own false positive might mean lost wages or damage to your business. Perhaps most harmful, though, is being stigmatized as a threat to other people’s safety. I know of people who felt perfectly healthy, but tested positive—likely false positives—and even after two weeks of quarantine, were treated like lepers by friends and co-workers afraid to be around them.
In a Daily Mail article, Dr. Tom Jefferson of the internationally acclaimed Cochrane Collaboration gives many examples of how people’s lives are being ruined by a similar testing regime in the UK:
“Last week I received an email from someone whose results have flip-flopped from positive to negative four times over two months, and another from a man who has been unable to see his elderly mother, isolated in a care home, because she continues to test positive week after week.” People, he says, “are at their wits’ end because they are testing positive for Covid-19 despite having recovered from their symptoms. Some never had symptoms in the first place but are still being told they have the virus long after any possible infection. They are anxious and confused. Their lives are on hold.”
At the extreme, being wrongly labeled a Covid case can kill you.
Say you are the person described earlier with no Covid symptoms and you have broken a bone. You are rushed to the ER and required to have a PCR test. A false positive result at a 45 cycle threshold places you in the Covid ward next to a contagious true-Covid-positive patient. Whereas your only actual medical issue is from your broken bone, you are now at risk of contracting Covid. And of dying— like the 80-year-old woman being counted as a Jefferson County Covid death. She was put in a Seattle hospital for complications due to surgery and is reported to have died from catching the virus there.
What has all this cost?
How much time, energy and resources have been spent for this massive testing program and the relentless propaganda campaign of ever-rising case numbers used to keep the public in fear?
What has been the true cost in Jefferson County? Much more than the money expended on 18,000+ tests and all the personnel involved. The impact on our community’s mental health, economic stability and social fabric is incalculable.
Dr. Tom Jefferson calls this deeply flawed testing program a “hugely expensive blunder”:
“I’d have to conclude that the official coronavirus figures have been grossly overstated, with all the damage that entails. Where appropriate we should carry out tests, but only in the context of symptoms, the date they first emerged, a history of recent contacts and any pre-existing medical conditions. I believe that Britain’s new-found testing mania is a retreat from properly conducted clinical medicine as well as from common sense. And that we are witnessing a triumph of herd thinking – an expensive one at that.”
Citizens have been terrorized week after week with alarming headlines about new case numbers, urging them to get their tests. Officials who have promoted this fear are deeply invested in the false story they have spun and the resources that have been wasted. No one wants to hear that they are responsible for such a massive error.
So the response is to shoot the messenger. Voices revealing the truth are censored, insulted, and vilified. In Jefferson County that is a coordinated effort between local media, the board of health, and our public health director.
We are now being told that censorship—the prohibition of free and open dialog—is justified. It’s for the greater good. These people are dangerous. And the more indefensible the narrative becomes, the more the censorship and attacks intensify.
PCR tests are being misused “to justify excessive measures such as the violation of a large number of constitutional rights,” writes Belgian physician, author and public health analyst Dr. Pascal Sacré. The assumption that a “positive RT-PCR test means being sick with Covid” is misleading, he says. Falsely equating positive tests with Covid cases is “the starting postulate, the premise of all official propaganda, which justifies all restrictive government measures: isolation, confinement, quarantine, mandatory masks, color codes by country and travel bans, tracking, social distances in companies, stores and even more importantly, in schools.” [source]
Are our leaders going to permit this misguided testing program to continue to fuel fear and inflict untold harm in our county? It is long past due for our local officials to put an end to this costly mistake.
