by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THERE have been two startling revelations about the great COVID over-reach in the space of about a week, upholding claims previously dismissed as conspiracy theories and misinformation.
First, a peer-reviewed scientific study linked pandemic vaccines to a range of serious health disorders, and then the Queensland Supreme Court ruled that the vaccine mandates imposed on police and ambulance workers were unlawful.
- Vaccine promoters still insist that the risk is “very low”.
- Some still peddle the message that a six to seven times the chance of contracting a serious heart condition is “low”.
- But how low is “very low” and how “rare” is rare?
Both provide a welcome dose of reality after the worst days of lockdowns and vaccine roll-outs, when we were all indoctrinated with the message that the jabs were “perfectly safe and effective”.
Now we know for certain that they don’t prevent contraction or transmission of the virus and there’s an acknowledged chance they could kill or maim you.
PROMOTERS
Many of us have been aware of this for some time but, of course, vaccine promoters including Big Pharma and government bureaucrats still insist that the risk is “very low”.
The endlessly peddle that acknowledged disorders are “rare” and vaccines still provide the best means of protection against COVID.
But how low is “very low” and how “rare” is rare? Let’s look at the latest findings from the largest vaccine safety study to date, conducted by the Global Vaccine Data Network.
A research division of the World Health Organization (WHO), it reportedly looked at 99 million vaccinated individuals in six continents.
The study confirmed connections between the mRNA COVID vaccine produced by Pfizer and Moderna, and the vaccines produced by AstraZeneca, to the “rare conditions”.
Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) and pericarditis (swelling of the sac around the heart) were found with the mRNA vaccine.
More severe conditions were linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, which include Guillain-Barré syndrome, which causes the nerves to be attacked by the immune system.
The AstraZeneca vaccine has also been linked with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (a blood clot in the brain) and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (inflammation and swelling in the brain and spinal cord).
According to a report in Forbes.com: “While the side effects are serious, the chance of experiencing them is low. Some highlighted increases include a 6.1-fold increase in myocarditis from the second dose of the Moderna mRNA vaccine.
“Cases of pericarditis had a 6.9-fold increase as a result of the third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“There is a 2.5-times greater risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome from the AstraZeneca vaccine along with a 3.2-times greater risk of developing blood clots from the same vaccine.
“There is a 3.8-times greater risk of getting acute disseminated encephalomyelitis from the Moderna vaccine, and a 2.2-fold increase in the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“When choosing to get vaccinated, it is important to weigh the benefits and risks of the vaccine. Information like this makes it easier to make the right choice…”
Well thanks, but my wife and I made that choice a few years ago and we remain very glad we did, given there are some still trying to peddle the message that a six to seven times chance of contracting a serious heart condition is “low”.
Really? I’m reminded of the old Chubby Checker hit Limbo Rock, “How low can you go?”
Much lower than that, if you want to convince people the vaccines are safe – let alone effective.
SCEPTICISM
My own long-term scepticism possibly has links to my first job after leaving high school many moons ago, when I undertook a pharmacy apprenticeship in a busy regional pharmacy.
It was one of the last apprenticeships in that specialised field in Queensland before it became a full-time university course.
When I completed it after three years, I tossed it all in to take off on a round-Australia spearfishing adventure before deciding what I really wanted to do with the rest of my life. (Nothing like deep-water experiences with sharks to focus the mind.)
I already knew I didn’t want to finish a final year at university to become a fully-fledged pharmacist, even though I was already a qualified dispenser.
Why? Well, several reasons. I found much of the work involved scraping labels off bottles before pasting a new label on, counting pills and occasionally actually making and mixing potions from scratch, according to time-honoured formulae in a weighty tome, the British Pharmacopia.
Maybe it didn’t help when I was questioned by a detective when a patient died after taking a sleeping mixture I had dispensed.
I was later cleared after forensic tests showed the medicine contained the correct level of ingredients and the poor bloke had swallowed an overdose.
But possibly the last straw had something to do with a drug I’d dispensed many times to pregnant young women suffering morning sickness.
Finally, authorities woke up to the fact that the “cure” – thalidomide – was causing horrific birth defects. Sound familiar?
STUMPED
So I put pharmacy in the “been there, done that” basket and eventually – more by chance than design – stumbled into journalism. That’s another story.
Fast forward to February 2021, when the novel COVID vaccines were rolled out in Australia after being developed and approved in record time without any long-term human trials.
The fact that manufacturers were granted immunity from liability in any subsequent mishaps, rang a big alarm. Some had records of huge fines for past misdemeanours.
There were also experts – including highly qualified epidemiologists – sounding warning bells, particularly in Europe and the US.
Some adverse events might only become apparent months or even years after the jabs were administered, but that was dismissed as ratbag conspiracy theory, disinformation and misinformation.
Well, not any more.
And hopefully the Queensland Supreme court ruling that the vaccine mandates were unlawful – mainly because they didn’t take into account those workers’ “human rights” – will lead to justifiable and wide-ranging compensation payments.
As Rowan Dean wrote in The Spectator Australia: “The news, of course, is to be welcomed. It is the first crack in the dam wall and will hopefully be followed by significant class actions and further court cases…”
Here, here! And let’s hope that the issue does not become bogged down in appeals courts by a government with a guilty conscience and deep pockets.
Finally, my short-lived dispensing career was never a waste of time and it actually saved one of our young son’s lives when a pharmacist dispensed the wrong medication which I recognised as a potent heart drug that could have stopped his from beating!
Again, that’s another story.PC
My scepticism of conventional medicine began years ago when I kept hearing stores of how cures for cancer and other chronic diseases were being covered up. If the system was honest these cures would be put into mainstream medicine but there’s no incentive because natural cures can’t be patented and big pharma can’t profit from them, hence the suppression. There is a huge amount of propaganda out there in the real world on just about everything. But the thing that really cinched it for me was how they banned ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat covid despite its success in the Indian province of Utter Pradesh. So that was a red flag for me. Interestingly, Clive Palmer imported a whole heap of hydroxychloroquine into Australia for public use and the TGA promptly confiscated it. Clive is a good operator.
There is so much evidence piling up to support the claim that “the vaccines don’t prevent contraction or transmission and there’s an acknowledged chance they might kill or maim you”. Unfortunately within our own family circle we have seen a sudden heart attack death and a woman whose severely compromised condition has become noticeably worse after each of her three vaccines that her medicos told her were essential if she wanted to avoid covid.
Back in 2021 I noticed how the case numbers were always huge compared to actual deaths. And then for about six months we had no deaths at all from Tha Dreaded C in Australia.
When the vaccines were first announced I decided that I would be as far back in the queue as I could get. And even in those early days there were questions being raised about the shots. I kept moving myself further and further back in the queue.
Eventually my employer said No Jab, No Job. Fine by me, I said, and resigned.