The first official COVID death in the US came at the end of February 2020. By April 1, 2020, the US was averaging more than 750 deaths per day. For the next two years, there were five spikes with death counts reaching thousands per day (peaking at 3,500 per day in January 2021). For two full years, COVID was the third leading cause of death in the USA (behind heart attacks and cancer).
However, the last real COVID death peak ended in February 2022. In 2022, deaths were a third of what they had been the prior two years–despite declining vaccinations. There was a mini-peak this past Winter, but since January 2023 COVID has completely withered. With its decline, the public has forgotten about this concern and the egregious excesses of public officials and media. We should not look away too quickly. We should learn valuable lessons from this three-year experience.
Lessons Learned (or not Learned)
During an average year, the flu kills about 140 people per day. The COVID death rate remained at least double that rate for almost three full years. However, as May 2023 ended, the COVID death rate stood about 65 per day, less than half the rate of an average flu.
Many were censored for making comparisons between COVID and the flu. The logic was that these comparisons discouraged vaccinations and contradicted the wisdom of “expert” government officials. We can’t have either, apparently. Yet, it turns out the comparisons are relevant.
Trump-censored-comparing-flu-deaths-to-COVID (October 6, 2020)
Both Facebook and Twitter censored a post from President Trump on Tuesday comparing the seasonal flu to COVID-19.
“Flu season is coming up!” started the president’s post, which was shared to both social media sites. “Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu. Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!”
President Trump was correct in 2020 and two-and-a-half years later I still agree with the original sentiment. You may disagree with his opinion, but his claim was factually correct and reasonable, certainly not worthy of censorship (unless you want to embarrass your opponent and use others’ suffering to promote your political goals). Is this how the debate for the most important issues of our time should be conducted?
The American public strongly supported vaccinations in 2021 (more than half in every single state fully vax’d during 2021). Many saw it as a way of doing their part. My wife and I were vaccinated, but we never vaccinated our kids. Vaccinations slowed dramatically in 2022 when folks realized the many problems with it. My wife and I became more skeptical as well and were never boosted.
Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology used in several COVID vaccines (i.e. someone who knows a bit about vaccines), noted problems in August 2021, just eight months after vaccines were introduced. covid-two-questions-answered-some-good-news-and-a-reason-for-pause. He told us they had little durability, our vaccine strategy was not targeted to the right individuals, and potential problems were being covered up. He was censored too, censored by social media cracker jack medical staffs.
I wrote earlier this year novak-djockovic-dr-redfiled-moderna-ceo-and-covid-cultists Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic was barred from playing in the US this past spring because he refused to be vaccinated. In 2023, when the public didn’t care any more, when COVID deaths were a fraction of what they had been, our government cracks down on vaccine policy for a handful of individuals? This restriction helped nobody and makes no sense.
During Monday Night Football last December, Buffalo Bills player, Damar Hamlin, nearly died from something totally unrelated to a football injury. His death was never officially linked to COVID vaccines and Hamlin himself didn’t make the connection, but so many other young healthy athletes had similar experiences last year. Hamlin survived because he received immediate medical attention; others did not. I shared concerns last fall (elusive-covid-truth-basic-data-tells-the-true-story) Months later, I listed case after case after case of young athletes dropping dead or collapsing vsafe-rising-excess-deaths-and-athletes-collapsing-what-does-it-all-mean. The excess deaths not explained by COVID itself were noticed around the entire world.
Deaths in the UK and Finland are up 9% in 2022, Hungary and Scotland are up 16%, Ireland is up 19%, Poland is up 22%, France is up 25%, Denmark is up 30%, , Netherlands is up 36%, and Germany is up 44% in 2022. Only one European country, Romania, is down (4%). New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and the USA are also up. Death numbers are up all over the world despite the decline of COVID. The vaccine is one commonality for all these countries.
Back in Summer 2021, the FDA issued a myocarditis warning for mRNA vaccines. Why didn’t we notice the FDA warning? Is myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart which can reduce ability to pump blood, something we should dismiss? It is just the cost of doing business with these new types of vaccines?
A new study published by JAMA Pediatrics found adolescents were seven times more likely to be hospitalized for myocarditis after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
Our pediatrician, initially sanguine with regard to the COVID vaccines, has become increasingly skeptical. In a 2023 newsletter, he quoted other doctors with similar concerns:
Link to newsletter: https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001xQbTsTOUeGCCuHBIaK9NoqSiCrtJi5d_kvi0-tJS-L8K1JEayZdxQWmPMtfopQ60MJ4FpkexhFqGUrTcYYKSxP-IEbqaboMe22l_ofG55c8%3D
booster dosing is probably best reserved for the people most likely to need protection against severe disease — specifically, older adults, people with multiple coexisting conditions that put them at high risk for serious illness, and those who are immunocompromised. In the meantime, I believe we should stop trying to prevent all symptomatic infections in healthy, young people by boosting them with vaccines containing mRNA from strains that might disappear a few months later.” (Offit P. 2023)
Dr. Vinay Prasad writes: “The average American will now only be tasked with getting a yearly unproven booster, and the primary series will be ignored. Kids and older Americans will have to get 2 doses of the bivalent shot and then placed on the perpetual booster train. Pfizer will keep earning billions. There is no talk of: Running randomized trials to ensure annual boosters actually lower severe disease in healthy young adults and kids; The risks of myocarditis from a perpetual booster strategy, which are disproportionately faced by young men who have the least (perhaps nothing) to gain; The fact that these vaccines will always be chasing the last variant; The fact these vaccines provide no benefit to others because they cannot stop spread; If one zooms out on all of human existence (8 billion people and 1 trillion human interactions a day) any and all vaccine programs cannot even slow spread. Eric Rubin of NEJM fame says exactly my position: “I think we need to raise the bar and require more evidence.””(Prasad V. 2023)
I posted too of VSAFE, a voluntary CDC program for the vaccinated. It provided some alarming numbers (link below has been deprecated)
V-SAFE, a CDC program which allowed volunteers to report on vaccination problems directly to the CDC. Patients registered with V-SAFE during vaccination. After 10 months of accumulated data, the CDC finally revealed the data results, and they are not so good. More than 7% of those registered reported problems to the CDC via V-SAFE. Why did the CDC not report these results sooner? Were they concerned it would discourage vaccinations?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on October 3 released new data revealing that 782,900 people reported seeking medical assistance, emergency care and/or hospitalization following the Covid-19 injection. Another 2.5 million people reported having to miss work, school or normal everyday activities because of a health event after receiving a Covid-19 injection. About 10 million people chose to enroll and participate in the V-safe program during the period from December 14, 2020, to July 31, 2022.
Remarkably, the V-SAFE results coincide with a similar finding from a Rasmussen study released recently:
This translates to 18 million Americans experiencing major vaccine side effects, many of them probably not even aware of what caused problems.
Yet, our government health agencies, CDC, FDA, and others still show little interest in investigating excess deaths or concerns raised by other medical professionals and empirical data. The lack of interest and concern suggests some deliberate resistance. In fact, they appear to be taking an active role in promoting the vaccines , as if they were in the pharma business themselves.
A few concerned government officials show it is difficult to be a conscientious objector these days.
source: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fda-officials-resign-covid/2021/09/01/id/1034608/
Two top Food and Drug Administration officials resigned Tuesday over the Biden administration’s announced plans to roll out COVID-19 booster shots before the agency had approved the inoculations, Politico reports.
Politico, which spoke to 11 current and former health officials, said the FDA “is facing a potential mutiny among its staff and outside vaccine advisers, several of whom feel cut out of key decisions and who view the plan to offer boosters to all adults as premature and unnecessary.”
One former senior FDA leader told Politico that Gruber and Krause were leaving because they felt that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been making vaccine decisions that should have been left to the FDA.
The CDC is still promoting COVID vaccines for school kids. As of May 1, 2023, just one month ago, they provided this guidance: “For the best protection, CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older.” As I have demonstrated repeatedly: kids are not impacted by COVID and were never the vector for spreading it. Three years after this fact became readily apparent, we get this nonsensical policy. What are they doing? Who are they trying to help?
Maskers today are an increasingly small minority. Following the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, the CDC recommended against masking, so Dr. Fauci initially recommended against the use of masks. Yet, early in the pandemic, he shifted to favoring masks. Numerous medical professionals questioned Fauci’s policy shift; it was never adequately defended by the doctor himself, but it was quite impactful. to-mask-or-not-that-is-the-question
Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford University, also a member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force along with Dr. Fauci said the following in an interview: “There is no good science on general population, widespread, in all circumstances, mask wearing.”
Dr. Ezekial Immanuel, former Biden medical advisor (and architect of Obamacare, by the way) was saying you really need to wear an N-95; cloth masks are not effective https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/11/ezekiel-emanuel-simple-cloth-masks-are-not-good-enough/.
He is joined in this opinion by Dr. Michael Osterholm, another former Biden advisor said the same thing: https://mnfan.org/2021/08/18/mn-dr-osterholm-cloth-face-coverings-arent-enough-to-combat-covid-only-n-95/.
A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, concerned about potential harms from masks, submitted six face masks to a lab for analysis. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. No viruses were detected on the masks, although the test is capable of detecting viruses.
The analysis detected the following 11 alarmingly dangerous pathogens on the masks.
From censored post from Evergreen, Oregon, doctors (posted 1/25/2021).
We wish masks worked.
But they don’t.
At least, not the cloth and surgical masks you see in the public arena. They litter the landscape and waterways. They are difficult for people with disabilities and small children. It promotes natural germaphobe tendencies and indoctrinates the young to see their fellow humankind as a sack of germs.
Dr. Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General tweeted, “Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing the general public from catching Coronavirus”
Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 minutes, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask”.
In April, the New England Journal of Medicine wrote: “we know that wearing a mask outside of health care facilities offers little, if any protection from infection”.
What changed? Well, it wasn’t the science.
Dr. Fauci and two CDC directors advocated masks for years. They told us: wear a mask, any mask. They told pre-schoolers to mask. They told us a mask was better than a vaccine (which turned out to be quite ironic). They told us for a while that two masks were better. Those disagreeing with them were ignored or censored.
Are the doctors I cite wrong and Dr. Fauci and his compatriots right instead? How reliable is Dr. Fauci, in any case? Last year, Dr. Fauci was deposed for eight hours during a Missouri COVID lawsuit against the federal government:
The Elusive COVID Truth: Basic Data Tells the True Story – Seek the Truth (seek-the-truth.com)
In eight hours of testimony, Dr. Fauci did not recall the facts in 174 instances. That’s more than 21 instances per hour. He couldn’t go more than a few minutes without having to be reminded of his own actions by the investigators themselves. Unbelievable. What exactly did this man remember?
Full deposition transcript: https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/135885afauci112322_full_redacted.pdf?sfvrsn=35f4a425_2
I do not have all the answers. I report facts and figures; I quote people who know the topic. I link to other news sources. I often simply ask questions such as: why after all the concerns raised and millions of reported problems was there no serious public discussion or government investigation? There could be simple explanations, yet instead we get dissembling.
Our government’s lack of a direct response to concerns like excess deaths and vaccine side effects is not necessarily an indication of guilt, but their unwillingness to even countenance a response makes their motives highly suspect. Their tendency to censorship does not speak well of their positions either. Most murderers are convicted on circumstantial evidence because the person who was there often cannot testify. There is a highly loaded circumstantial case against the government in this instance. Draw your own conclusions, but I see far too much evidence against government policy makers to acquit them.
Oh, the Incompetence of Them All
Dr. Fauci literally claimed he is science incarnate ‘Attacks on me are attacks on science’: Fauci blasts critics in fiery TV appearance (msn.com). We are to believe Dr. Fauci is the arbiter of all COVID truth? Dr. Fauci and his boss, NIH Director Francis Collins, acted with such hubris. They attacked others who proposed alternative strategies to their own. Why? covid-hope-or-fear-and-is-omicron-really-the-big-bad-wolf When science becomes a competition or something other than science, we are in the brave new world.
Collins labels three MDs from the prestigious universities Stanford, Harvard and Oxford as “fringe epidemiologists”. These three developed an alternative plan, the Great Barrington Declaration; it is a contradictory vision to what Fauci and Collins were selling, They, along with hundreds of other co-signers have since been censored by social media and publicly attacked for daring to challenge the government establishment’s view. Do you think Fauci, greatest of all doctors, and his kimosabe Collins were looking for the truth or were they simply looking to discredit rivals and promote their own message?
Dr. Drew on his show spoke with another doctor who highlighted a conversation with Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC director in 2020
Dr. Alexander asked: “How did the CDC decide upon the ‘six feet rule’ for social distancing?” This simple and direct question received a simple and direct answer: “There is no science . . . We made it up,” per Dr. Redfield.
Dr. Alexander added many more concerns throughout the podcast. He was joined by others who echoed his concerns cdc-director-science-is-made-up-yes-we-knew
The larger point made by Drs. Alexander and Victory, and echoed by Dr. Drew was that not a single COVID policy was effective: not lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, social distancing, vaccine mandates. Every government policy failed miserably. Dr. Alexander says the “CDC is one full year behind the science”. He adds (and the others concur): “The CDC has been an absolute failure,” and their “guidance has been wrong–repeatedly”.
My pediatrician said the following in a recent newsletter:
Poor quality messaging is eroding our confidence in the CDC. As noted in previous newsletters and a recent NY Times article, the messaging, among others, was that less than 10% of the Covid cases occur outdoors when the actual number is between 0.1% and 1%. They are misleading the public by a factor of 10 to 100. Not good for trust.
“Saying that less than 10 percent of Covid transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year. (The actual worldwide number is around 150.) It’s both true and deceiving.” (Leonhardt 2021)
We need to demand transparency and truth from our scientific leaders and health care policy makers. This kind of messaging erodes the public trust making mask mandates and vaccination requests less complied with as fear rises. They should state exact numbers and truth as known by today’s data. That can change and that is ok as we always plan to change our behavior based on the evidence at hand and not the fear based altered data sets.
Why does the CDC director advance such an obvious misdirection?
Two years ago, the CDC repeatedly made claims about the efficacy of the COVID vaccines on its website, claims dutifully echoed by media and politicians. When asked for supporting documents to validate the claim (in a FOIA request), the CDC said “a search of records failed to reveal any documents related to your request . . . this information is not collected”. What is this not medical malfeasance or an outright lie? covid-game-changer
It should have been a game changer, but it was not.
Dr. Fauci, science incarnate, and the CDC were also silent when we were told Ivermectin was “horse medicine” and we were fools for taking it. Ivermectin was winner of the Nobel prize for Medicine, on the list of the WHO’s 300 most effective medicines, and has been prescribed to humans billions of times the last 50 years are-we-surviving-covid-still. Many doctors advocated it as a treatment for COVID. Some doctors say it should not be used to treat COVID, but they needed an actual counter-argument, not: “Don’t take it because it is horse medicine”. Ivermectin is, in fact, used to treat both horses and humans, but they imply it is only for animals, a bald-face lie. Joe Rogan effectively shamed CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on this claim, but CNN never recanted. This weak argument coupled with personal testimonies of my own makes me believe we were lied to (for reasons I still cannot fathom).
This is a small sample of concerns I have highlighted in posts the last few years, which in turn is a small sample of all the problems noted. Were they incompetent or were they lying or both? What exactly was their game? We need to find out.
Where are We Headed?
In October 2021, I noted 22% of the employees in my sizeable government agency had not attested to being vaccinated. Our employer threatened to fire those who did not comply with the Biden administration’s vaccination policy. The mandate was unneeded and past its sell by date; the cynic in me believes it was imposed only to make us forget about the Afghanistan exit, one of the worst foreign policy failures in our nation’s history. I went up my chain of command and found a slough of executives who claimed they could do nothing to push back.
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Consider the impact to our country as a whole as tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of government employees along with military personnel, police officers, fire fighters, medical personnel, hospital workers, airline pilots and mechanics, truck drivers, dock workers, grocery store employees, and so many other essential workers are let go from their jobs.
At the start of the pandemic we were told these people were essential, and I think they are, but why are so many employers blithely letting them go now? Many have already been let go unfortunately. Others are still battling as I am. This is all unjust and immoral.
The courts intervened and the mandate died. Still, just one year ago, I asked in a post if life could ever return to normal. It appears COVID has finally faded away for most of us, but some issues linger. More importantly there needs to be justice, so the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
The mRNA technology in question with the COVID vaccine is being expanded. Should we be moving so quickly? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/05/1066274/whats-next-mrna-vaccines/
But while the first approved mRNA vaccines are for covid-19, similar vaccines are now being explored for a whole host of other diseases. Malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and Zika are just some of the potential targets. mRNA vaccines might also be used in cancer treatments tailored to individual people.
Moderna, which had never brought a product to market before its COVID vaccine (they failed many times previously), is now one of the leaders in this industry. A Federal government which has championed the Big Pharma fan club, is going to hold them accountable?
Still, some are pushing back.
The Missouri Attorney General sued the federal government over COVID policy (referenced above). A Florida grand jury has been empaneled to investigate COVID as well. https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2022-12-23/florida-supreme-court-impanels-grand-jury-on-covid-19-vaccines. Let’s see what they come up with.
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has been tireless in uncovering problems. https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/covid. Florida Senator Marco Rubio recently issued a report regarding the origins of of COVID. Rubio Publishes Vast COVID-19 Report: ‘Beijing Hid the Truth’ | RealClearPolitics
The UK is ending COVID primary vaccines as of June 30 (although they are still boosting and sometimes speaking out of both sides of their mouths). Dr. Campbell spoke of this recently: uk-stopping-covid-primary-vaccines. Denmark stopped vaccinating more than a year ago. Many other nations have limited vaccines to those over 30. Politics is not the ultimate driver for all nations. masks-come-off-deaths-plummet-denmakr-stops-vaccinating
The origins of COVID and how China has effectively manipulated our politicians (the Chinese call it “elitist capture”) is discussed by Buck Sexton and Peter Schweitzer: how-china-buys-off-our-elites. This is an provocative explanation for many of our problems.
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