Front-page health coverage by The Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader returns this week with news that, “The third fatality to coronavirus in the county late last week happened at Jefferson Healthcare – the first coronavirus death at the facility. The patient had been critically ill, Locke said, but the coronavirus caused the man’s death. The resident, a man in his 60s, passed away Saturday. ‘COVID was, we believe, the cause of death. Had it not been for the COVID infection, that person would have likely survived,’ Locke said.” [“Locke” is Dr. Thomas Locke, Jefferson County’s Public Health Officer.]
That may be, but there’s room for doubt in the case of this already “critically ill” patient, given special CDC instructions “that COVID-19 be recorded as the primary cause of death even if the decedent had other chronic comorbidities. These special instructions exclusive to COVID-19 skewed death certificate results, effectively reclassifying many deaths from a variety of causes, now classified as COVID-19 deaths.”
Even if COVID-19 was the culprit here, this should actually be considered just the first COVID-19 death in the county, given that the other two supposed deaths were a 90+-year-old in hospice and an 80-year-old suffering from surgery complications in Seattle, who was infected in a hospital wide outbreak and hadn’t been near Jefferson County for two months. See “Jefferson County Still May Have No Deaths from Covid.”Port Townsend Free Press, 1/14/21.
The Leader article continued to say that “The death comes amid a week marked by a steady increase of coronavirus cases nationwide…. In Jefferson County, health officials said the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose by 11 over the weekend. Of the 11 new cases, six females and five males tested positive for the coronavirus. The total countywide number of positive COVID-19 tests in Jefferson County Monday was pegged at 374.”
This reporting confuses cases of the disease COVID-19 with positive test results for the virus SARS-CoV-2. Detection of a virus does not constitute a “case” of a disease in lieu of any symptoms, otherwise anyone testing positive for the HIV virus would also count as a full-blown case of AIDS. Moreover, given Jeffco’s unreasonably-high 45 Cycle Threshold for its PCR testing, most of these positive test results may well be false positives. See, “Is Jefferson County Health Department Overstating Covid Case Numbers?” Port Townsend Free Press, 1/25/21.
[Editor’s Note: Our condolences to the family of the deceased. As this death and other deaths being counted as “Covid deaths” are being used to justify restricting the lives and liberties of others it is appropriate to raise questions about whether it is, in fact, a death caused by Covid, and whether it should serve to bolster arguments for extending lockdowns and masking mandates.]
“Wow. You people at New Life Church go all out,” said Mike Johnson, who runs Port Townsend’s homeless shelter.
“That’s what Jesus does for us. We just want to spread it around,” replied Melannie Jackson, Executive Pastor of New Life Church as she delivered the days’ hot food and a special treat of “You are Loved,” “You Matter” and “One Day at a Time” cupcakes.
Why do people go out of their way to help the homeless? They don’t know the people they help, who may or may not be responsible for their circumstances in life. Some of the beneficiaries of these acts of kindness may not be the nicest people, or they may be sweethearts simply broken by the weight of a life they cannot shoulder.
The Christian churches that prepare hot meals for residents of the shelter do it because they believe Jesus loves them and wants them to share His love with others.
There are other reasons people help the homeless, other motivations and other agendas. We have a worsening housing affordability and homelessness crisis in Jefferson County that is fast becoming a miniature of Seattle’s situation. More public funds are being chased by groups for building projects, material and salaries. As Christopher Rufo observed in his excellent analysis of Seattle’s example, “Seattle Under Siege,” this creates a perverse incentive: those groups do better when things get worse. Things are getting worse in Seattle, though it annually pours more than $1 billion into the organizations that are supposed to be ending homelessness. That’s nearly $100,000 a year for every homeless individual man, woman and child on Settle’s streets. Yet there are many more people making less than that who are not homeless and hold jobs and build families. They have hard lives, health problems, addictions, and other vulnerabilities. But they have not let themselves or their loved ones join the ranks of the homeless.
Rufo divides the landscape of Seattle’s helpers into four groups. We have the same groups in Jefferson County. I am sure you will associate the names of local activists and officials with each of these categories:
The socialists. “Using homelessness as a symbol of ‘capitalism’s moral failure,’ the socialists hope to build support for their agenda of rent control, public housing, minimum-wage hikes, and punitive corporate taxation.”
The compassion brigades are “the moral crusaders of homelessness policy, the activists who put signs on their lawns that read: ‘In this house, we believe black lives matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal,’ and so on. They see compassion as the highest virtue; all else must be subordinated to it.”
The homeless-industrial complex are the social service providers who receive the staggering amounts of public funds dedicated to “ending homelessness.” Rufo writes, “When their policy ideas fail to deliver results, they repackage them, write a proposal using the latest buzzwords, and return for more funding. Homelessness might rise or fall, but the leaders of the homeless-industrial complex always get paid….Ultimately, the homeless-industrial complex is a creation of public incentives, constantly on the hunt for bigger contracts.”
The addiction evangelists are “the intellectual heirs of the 1960s counterculture: whereas the beats and hippies rejected bourgeois values but largely confined their efforts to culture—music, literature, photography, and poetry—the addiction evangelists have a more audacious goal: to capture political power and elevate addicts and street people into a protected class. They don’t want society simply to accept their choices; they want society to pay for them.”
Whatever their motivations and methods, whether they get another $100 million or only $1 million, these groups are not producing positive results for Seattle. That city is in a worse crisis every year even though these groups gain more power, influence and resources. None of what they do, Rufo writes, can end homelessness because homelessness is not caused by anything they address as the cause of the problem. It is necessary to quote Rufo at length:
“[T[he reality is that homelessness is a product of disaffiliation. For the past 70 years, sociologists, political scientists, and theologians have documented the slow atomization of society. As family and community bonds weaken, our most vulnerable citizens fall victim to the addiction, mental illness, isolation, poverty, and despair that almost always precipitate the final slide into homelessness. Alice Baum and Donald Burnes, who wrote the definitive book on homelessness in the early 1990s, put it this way:
Homelessness is a condition of disengagement from ordinary society—from family, friends, neighborhood, church, and community. . . . Poor people who have family ties, teenaged mothers who have support systems, mentally ill individuals who are able to maintain social and family relationships, alcoholics who are still connected to their friends and jobs, even drug addicts who manage to remain part of their community do not become homeless. Homelessness occurs when people no longer have relationships; they have drifted into isolation, often running away from the support networks they could count on in the past.”
Missing from the homelessness power and money map Rufo sees in Seattle are churches. They are there, working. They’ve always been at work. But with the annual billion dollars thrown by government at Seattle’s homelessness epidemic, churches seem to have been edged out of the picture, even though what they have to offer may more directly address the forces feeding Seattle’s crises on its streets and public spaces.
It Will Take More Than Cupcakes, or Socks
Food for Port Townsend’s homeless shelter is provided by four or five church groups. They prepare the meals off-site and for the time being just drop it off. There is little more they can do with Covid restrictions in place. The food is set out on tables and residents pretty much help themselves. Before all of the current restrictions, there was more interaction between the Christians and the residents. They made friends, stayed over night, brought residents to church services and classes, took them out for coffee, gave them rides, tried to find answers to their problems. I got to know some of the Shelter’s residents when Marica Reidel, former president of COAST, the coalition of churches supporting the Shelter, invited or brought them to Sunday services.
If what is behind our homelessness crisis is broken people and broken relationships (which comes first?), churches will tell you this is right up God’s alley. Jesus is in the business of fixing brokenness. The Holy Spirit can and will lead people to healing and wholeness.
Those are strange, perhaps offensive statements to many ears, and certainly not the words one hears in the meetings of elected officials or the task forces they have created. We live in a town that is not reluctant to show contempt for Christians and their faith, especially traditional and conservative Christians. One does not have to search long to find local officials mocking Christians on their social media.
But government can’t get it done. Exhibit 1: Seattle.
Our greatest homeless problems seem to be concentrated in the most unchurched cities and areas of this country. That is a reflection of the disaffiliation and disengagement Rufo cites as the driving force in Seattle’s out-of-control homelessness tragedy.
Government, and government-funded programs run by social service agencies, won’t fix the decades of disaffiliation and disengagement that have produced today’s homeless, mental illness and addiction tidal wave. Indeed, as many scholars have shown, government in many ways has created or exacerbated those problems. Vibrant, healthy, sound churches can do much more to address the problem of broken, isolated people than people on government contracts or payrolls.
It would be great if we had a mega-church or even a large church here that could support its own Adult and Teen Challenge Center, a highly successful organization that loudly proclaims its vision of “seeing all people freed from life-controlling issues through the power of Jesus Christ!” The organization has developed a less costly model for areas that cannot support a full residential center, a possibility that may be within reach of our local churches. An energetic Celebrate Recovery program–a Christ-centered 12-step recovery program–is sorely needed in Port Townsend (one has been going in Quilcene for a number of years). Our rural area would be perfect for something like Hope Farms, a residential recovery program for women, many of whom have been victims of rape, sexual abuse, and sex trafficking. These programs work.
The churches behind these programs will insist it is not them producing results. It is God working through them to transform lives. If we truly want to see progress in reducing homelessness and stemming the flow of new recruits to the streets, our secular society needs to put aside its antipathy and respect such statements.
In my limited experience, I’ve seen the benefits of Rescue Missions, a venerable ministry to the homeless operating in many cities. I remember Mark, a young man we found one morning on the loading dock at the back of our church in downtown Albuquerque. He was tweaking terribly. Meth had kept him awake for days. The church brought him in, washed and fed him, gave him some clothes and took him to the Rescue Mission a couple blocks away. I don’t recall exactly how he was enrolled so quickly in their program, but I remember what happened afterwards. He became part of our church family, participated in choir and helped with the weekly feeding of 400 people. The Rescue Mission’s residential program of rigorous Bible study, worship, prayer, life skills training and educational courses was demanding. But it worked. He defeated the streets and worked his way up through an entry level job at a high-rise hotel to be entrusted eventually with the entire operation.
It would be great if we had something like the efforts I’ve described here.
I’ve seen marriages saved, families kept intact, families reunited, children put on the right path, and friendships for life formed in churches. I know of suicides prevented, addictions overcome, and of the lonely and isolated finding a new family that loves them in churches. Government programs don’t and can’t do this. Government doesn’t love. The people you meet in church do because, as Pastor Jackson explained above, they believe Jesus loves them and they want to spread it around.
Revival
Disaffiliation and disengagement have risen as churches have declined. Some churches in the area have dropped their youth and children programs as they’ve failed to attract or keep young families. It may be a revival of healthy, doctrinally sound churches and greater collaboration among the faithful of different denominations that could be the answer to Port Townsend’s growing homelessness, addiction and suicide crises.
Take a look at Seattle. Don’t ever not learn from Seattle. We are still small enough, not yet locked into the errors of that troubled city, that we might still have a chance.
This is not to say government should wrap its arms around churches and fund them. That would be a death embrace. Dependency on government money and the strings that come with it would lead to churches being compromised and losing their truths and power. Look at what European governments have done to churches on that continent. But government can welcome and encourage churches in other ways and pull them more into their discussions and committees. Most churches already have food pantries, homeless outreach and Agape programs–unconditional gifting to help families pay utility bills, rent, buy medicine, etc. They could and should be at the table as respected partners.
Perhaps our small to medium-sized churches could pool resources, or jointly approach one of the national providers of the very successful Christian recovery programs. Or simply come together to buy a car for someone when the cost of the vehicle would exceed the reach of a single congregation.
The excitement about the Port Hadlock Community United Methodist Church welcoming a tiny homes village to its property is a wonderful development. County government showed a willingness to accommodate a unique experiment that did not precisely fit within existing land use regulations. City and county regulations, however, continue to stand in the way of churches doing more. Government could make it possible for churches to provide more services and material support for the homeless by loosening land use regulations. Many Port Townsend churches with large tracts of land are zoned out of doing multi-family or temporary housing. Perhaps a special zoning category for churches/religious organizations could unlock some of that land for very low income and residential recovery program development.
A Fifth Column
Alice Cooper once said that the most radical, rebellious thing he has ever done was become a Christian. Yes, that Alice Cooper.
In a disaffiliating, disengaged society that is producing our rising population of homeless, addicts and the hopeless, a Fifth Column of churches, working behind those enemy lines, sabotaging the forces that push people into despair, building and repairing the bonds that prevent the ups and downs of life from putting someone on the street, this secret weapon may be the only thing that will stem the tide. But it can’t be too secret. It can’t be secret at all.
There’s a lot happening in our local churches already. More is coming. There are many good people here who want to spread the love they profess they know from Jesus Christ. That is the reason they go “all out” for the homeless and others in physical and spiritual need. They’ve watched government try and fail. And it will continue to fail. For government is no substitute for the family and community or the fellowship and friendship of believers that can keep a person afloat in the roughest seas, or pull them out of the water when they are sinking to dark depths below.
(Disclosure: The conversation related at the start of this article came from announcements about the New Life Church homeless ministry. I am a member of that church. I do not intend to suggest that our congregation in any way is doing more or is any better than any other church family. We have much to learn and much, much more to do. Always.)
For years I have been making the Port Townsend to Coupeville ferry crossing often on a weekly basis. I call it the last great adventure on the west coast available to all. Wind, fog and tides often conspire to make the trip unpredictable.
Yes, it can be an adventure, but it has always been easy, even with the Wuhan virus, until two weeks ago when, on the Coupeville side, I pulled up in my vehicle and found an unfamiliar state employee in the ticket booth. He refused to scan my pre-paid card because I didn’t have a piece of fabric covering my mouth and nose.
I’m not asking for sympathy and I don’t feel the need to explain myself to anyone anymore. I do feel the need to shine a light on how we are being conditioned to give up our freedoms through dictates from state and federal government that are not laws, have not been debated by our political representatives, aren’t supported by scientific research even though the wording in the orders says they are, and often are based, if you bother to look, on nothing more than proclamations made on high by whomever the appointed “expert advisor” of the moment may be.
So what changed on the Port Townsend to Coupeville Ferry route other than the familiar friendly faces in the ticket booth?
You might remember a few months back, with the installation of the new occupant in the Oval Office, a flurry of executive orders. One of these was titled, Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing. It is a ponderous document ideal for curing insomnia and was pretty much forgotten by most of us as soon as it was signed on January 20. Unnoticed by many, under the authority established with the ruling, Washington State Ferries and the corresponding terminals were identified as part of the federal transportation system.
I read the order and noted that it requires all persons in Federal buildings or on Federal lands to wear masks, maintain physical distance, and other public health measures. Think about that for a moment, all Federal buildings, all Federal lands.
Besides the vast areas that this dictate covers, I will remind you that at the start of this national panic it was wear a mask if you can’t physically distance. Now the executive branch orders us to wear a mask and physically distance. Oh, and one other thing. There is no sunset clause. No end date. So unless someone else is installed as president in the next four to eight years and bothers to rescind this order, we can be required to wear masks forever anywhere the Federal Government and it’s petty tyrants have any influence.
This is only one example of how mass media marketing of China virus fear has been wildly successful in eliminating our freedoms. Think of all we have given up, most of us willingly; family, friends, health, fitness, education, income, jobs, travel, FDA approval of vaccines, and so much more that we have yet to comprehend, for a virus that has been proven to have a 99% plus survival rate,.
You may have thought that living way out on the Olympic Peninsula would insulate us from what happens in the other Washington. I offer my experience as evidence to the contrary.
I was eventually able to board the ferry, but only after a heated back and forth. I played by the rules and stated that health reasons preclude me from wearing a mask. The booth attendant stated that didn’t matter and refused to scan my ticket a second time. I repeated my statement. The attendant threatened to call law enforcement. I shifted my car into park to await the authorities. He made the call and the person on the other end of the line suggested he might scan my ticket from six feet away. He would not extend his scanner outside the confines of his booth. Upon stretching my arm out of my window as far as possible, the scanner read the ticket. I thanked him. He sent me off with the threat that if I persisted in not wearing a mask while seated in my car at the ticket booth, I could be charged with blocking a federal highway.
The whole experience was so completely ridiculous that it should be something to laugh about. It should be, but I am not laughing.
I leave you with this quote from Peter Skurkas writing for The American Thinker.
So today it’s “you shall wear a face mask.” What will the dictate be tomorrow? Perhaps the real story here is that the elites are conditioning Americans for proper behavior under a Harris/Biden administration. That behavior can be summed up in one word. Obey.
Hooray for the the Port Townsend Main Street Program! Live music downtown is back!
“Buskers on the Block” music series will bring musicians to play instruments and sing on PT’s streets. The series is part of PT Main Street’s “Love Where You Live Campaign.” The music started April 3 with reed instrument musician Jonathan Doyle and will continue through May, depending on weather. Locations will vary between Tyler Plaza, Haller Fountain area and Uptown. Main Street staff will be on hand with cloth masks for those who want them.
The lead photo was taken April 8 of Buck Ellard, a local favorite with an international following. During recent months, his live shows with Rodger “Crash” Bigelow at Mariner’s Cafe in Sequim have been live-streamed and draw viewers from Ireland, Australia and British Columbia. Buck is one of the best, if not the finest male vocalist on the Peninsula. He knows a thousand country songs. He will be back May 15.
April 10 saw “Fun with Key City Players.
Other musicians are scheduled to play as follows:
April 15 Christian Powers will perform an acoustic set of his originals—with elements of psych rock, modern indie and 60s-70s pop, accompanied by a bandmate.
April 17 Christian Powers will perform an acoustic set of his originals—with elements of psych rock, modern indie and 60s-70s pop, accompanied by a bandmate.
April 22 Flugelhorn Phil plays a variety of blues, jazz and soft rock songs (flugelhornphil.com)
April 24 Jack Dwyer is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and teacher based in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring classic and traditional American repertoire as well as original music.
April 29 Jonathan Doyle is saxophonist, clarinetist, jug blower, bass saxophonist, composer, and arranger.
Before Buskers on the Block, a group of musicians, including the author, had been meeting on the Wings Plaza at Tyler and Water every Saturday for the past month to share music. Those gatherings were part of the Freedom Protests against lockdowns.
Calls to police are up 38%. Mental health incidents are up 27%. “Simmer on that for a second,” City Manager John Mauro told City Council at its April 5, 2021, business meeting.
But not a question was raised, not a word of concern was uttered from any of the Councilors. Here’s the link to the video of his report (click on “City Manager Report” on the agenda to get there straightaway.)
There are rarely any questions for the City Manager when he includes in his reports to City Council the number of calls for police. At the April 5 meeting he belittled the attitude that Port Townsend places few demands on its police services. We don’t have crime here, seems to be the fantasy held by a good segment of the community. That’s the fantasy reflected in the naive Nhatt Nichols cartoons on the editorial page of The Leader. The reality is, as Mauro stated, there are about 158 calls to police between his reports to Council.
In its report to the City Council, entitled “21st Century Policing” the Port Townsend Police Department tallied an average of 6,411 calls for service for each of the years from 2017 to 2020. A 38% increase equates to an additional 2,436 calls annually for a police force already short on staff, with sometimes one officer responsible for the entire city. The “21st Century Policing” report was submitted at a time when City Council was examining cutting resources to the police department, even perhaps disarming officers, eliminating the school resource officer position and subjecting officers to other restrictions in their ability to protect and serve. (See our coverage here, here and here.) Council, fortunately for the citizens of Port Townsend, backed off. Good thing, as Port Townsend’s police are now needed more than ever in recent history. One may have to go back to the days of “Bloody Townsend” to find comparable levels of crime, substance abuse, addiction and severe social ills in this little town.
The Leader’s police log reporting, which usually selects only quaint incidents, shows a steady uptick of serious crimes, confrontations with transients and mental health crises. Many of the problems are concentrated in neighborhoods around the Fairgrounds where crime has increased tremendously. As reported here in a review of police reports for 2020 to the end of October, all sorts of crimes are being committed in the homeless/transit camp of the Fairgrounds, ranging from assaults to thefts to drug dealing. After our article was published a 20-year old woman was found by the campground manager face down, dead, cold as ice. In addition to the crimes there are the calls every week for one mental health or substance abuse crisis after another.
The latest information from sources in the campgrounds is that four drug dealers are now operating there. Our past information on the drug dealing was accurate. The name we had for the most active dealer turned out to be a friend of the dead woman. Other information passed on to one of the groups attempting to oversee the Fairgrounds included the name of one of the men later arrested for kidnapping and blinding another man against a backdrop of meth usage and dealing.
The Fairgrounds encampment is becoming a permanent feature of Port Townsend’s landscape.
The problems are not restricted to the Fairgrounds and nearby neighborhoods. Crime is up across the community. Even The Leader has been paying attention with front page coverage of incidents like the kidnapping and torture of a Port Townsend man and the invasion of our county by criminals from elsewhere. We are seeing more burglaries. There are more assaults. Mailboxes are no longer safe from theft (one man pilfered the contents of 50 mailboxes before he was caught). There is a growing perception that Port Townsend today is much less safe than it was a year ago.
Meth use is increasing. With the State Supreme Court’s legalization of possession, a tool police once had for getting addicts into some type of care is gone. Problems related to addiction are on the steady rise.
The famous “Port Townsend Vibe” is experiencing cancelling waves of fear, anxiety, anger and helplessness.
City Council is doing nothing. The City’s growing social ills are never on its agenda.
Port Townsend could barely handle its problems before. We have always lacked the resources and commitment from elected officials to address addiction, substance abuse, crime and mental illness. The problems have been dumped on police and ignored. We don’t have crime here.Port Townsend is not Port Angeles. We’re different. We’re better.
Calls to police are up 38% over last year; mental health incidents are up 27%. Simmer on that for a second.
“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.
