Myocarditis with Ventricular Tachycardia Following Bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccination

May 22, 2023

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

The COVID-19 vaccines do not stop SARS-CoV-2 infection, transmission, nor do they reduce the severity of disease or prevent hospitalization or death. For that reason, the risks of heart damage, blood clots, and other cardiovascular events far outweigh the benefits. In the elderly with baseline heart disease, any degree of cardiovascular injury could be disastrous as published by Yamamoto et al in an 81 year old man after his fifth mRNA shot.

The authors report this man decompensated within a day of his fifth shot and required defibrillation, mechanical ventilation, and full life support measures for myocarditis which precipitated the cardiac arrest, conduction defects, and heart failure. He stayed in the hospital over a month.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/myocarditis-with-ventricular-tachycardia?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=122941229&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

https://www.cjcopen.ca/article/S2589-790X%2823%2900121-X/fulltext

Supreme Court justice tears into COVID lockdown and vaccine policies

May 20, 2023

  • Justice Neil Gorsuch labeled the avalanche of lockdown measures imposed during the pandemic as among ‘the greatest intrusions on civil liberties’
  • He said leaders at state and federal level issued emergency decrees ‘on a breathtaking scale’
  • Congress and state legislatures ‘too often fell silent’ as strict rules were laid down, he added

‘Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private,’ he wrote.

‘They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too.’

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Several studies have questioned the efficacy of lockdown in the US and internationally, indicating that in some cases the negative impacts outweighed the positives.

One review by an international team of economists found draconian shutdowns only reduced Covid mortality by 3 per cent in the UK, US and Europe in 2020.

The experts, from Johns Hopkins University in the US, Lund University in Sweden and the Danish think-tank the Center for Political Studies, said that equates to 6,000 fewer deaths in Europe and 4,000 fewer in the US.

But official data in the US has showed the country suffered nearly 300,000 more deaths than usual in more than two years of the pandemic that cannot be attributed to Covid.

Dr Coady Wing, a health policy expert from Indiana University, told DailyMail.com that these pandemic mandates kept people who needed care the most away from the doctor’s office – potentially costing thousands of lives.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12106351/Supreme-Court-justice-tears-COVID-lockdown-vaccine-policies.html

Dr. Bhakdi’s Legal Case – Doctors for COVID Ethics

May 8, 2023

Since 2020, Prof. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, a distinguished medical microbiologist, has informed the German and international public about the true nature of COVID-19 and the gene based-vaccines. During the past three years, he has written extensively on the subject and has been featured on several international news channels sharing his expertise.

From a period between mid 2021 to early 2022, four individuals led complaints with the German authorities against Prof. Bhakdi for statements he made comparing the COVID-19 vaccination program to 1930s and 1940s Germany. The complainants allege that such statements are a criminal offense.

Officials in Kiel, Germany, investigated the complaints made against Prof. Bhakdi. In November 2021, the Prosecutor’s Office in Kiel discontinued the case for lack of merit. Several weeks later, the case was reopened by The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the province of Schleswig-Holstein.

Prof. Bhakdi is currently facing two charges – one count of “incitement of the masses” and one count of “trivialization of the Holocaust.” His court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday May 23, 2023, at 9:00 CET at Amtsgericht Plön in Germany. If convicted, Prof. Bhakdi could be sentenced to two years in prison and a fine.

You can read more about Prof. Bhakdi’s background and view a detailed timeline of the case.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/dr-bhakdis-legal-case/

Breathe deep – by Alex Berenson

May 16, 2023

Aggressive use of ventilators may have killed some Covid patients, a new paper from Northwestern University researchers suggests.

Covid itself has a “relatively low mortality rate” compared to other respiratory illnesses, the researchers found after examining about 600 patients with severe pneumonia. Yet Covid patients remained intubated longer than other patients and developed secondary bacterial infections more often.

Those extra infections caused many deaths in Covid patients, the researchers wrote. More patients may have died from the bacterial infections than Covid itself.

The new finding is particularly troubling because media outlets and hospitals both pressed ventilator use for Covid patients in 2020, frequently claiming ventilator shortages were likely.

Read more here:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/breathe-deep?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Exclusive: Her Father Got COVID and Died — But She Believes the CDC, NIH and Hospital Protocols Are What Really Killed Him

May 16, 2023

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

When Ralph Marxen Jr. didn’t recover quickly from COVID-19, he landed in the hospital, where physicians ignored his family’s requests for ivermectin, vitamins and other treatments and instead subjected him to a rigid set of protocols that his daughter, Nicole Riggs, believes killed him.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ralph-marxen-jr-covid-hospital-death/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230516

NIH director nominee has 116 grants from Pfizer totaling over $290 million

May 16, 2023

So she’s the perfect choice to manage NIH—a WOMAN, comfortably in Pfizer’s pocket, and, as head of the National Cancer Institute, all for cancer patients getting jabbed-and-boosted.

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/nih-director-nominated-by-joe-biden?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The worst four minutes you’ll have today – by Alex Berenson

May 14, 2023

It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks.

On Twitter, this is called a “supercut,” a quick compilation of short takes from several different videos. It runs just under four minutes and has received 42 million views so far. It deserves more.

Make yourself watch it, painful as it is.

As you know, I generally think we are better off forgiving the vaccine fanatics for their hysteria in 2021. Yes, they tried to use state power to coerce us into giving up our most basic right – the right to choose what medicines we take. But they were scared, and they’d been told the jabs would save them.

That’s what I try to tell myself.

But seeing the venom here doesn’t make forgiveness easy. Especially since none of this people have even begun to apologize.

I am not exaggerating when I say seeing the video made me stomach sick. I don’t watch much cable news, so I was somewhat insulated from the venom – strange to say, since I was at the heart of it.

But though I knew at the time they hated me, I didn’t realize they hated every unvaccinated person just (okay, almost) as much. I always viewed the fight as a question of policy, driven by overconfidence in the effectiveness of the vaccines and the old question of individual freedom versus communitarian spirit.

Nah. They were afraid of us, and they hated us.

The oddest part of all is that so many of them still do. It was their god that failed.

But we’re the ones they blame.

We all lost friends. Most of us lost relatives too.

Not to Covid, of course. With some sad exceptions, almost no one lost anyone who wasn’t already over 75 or extremely overweight or ill to Covid.

We lost friends to the government and media-fed lockdown panic, and then to the rancor over the mRNAs.

They told us that we were selfish and stupid. That we didn’t understand science. Or vaccines. That we were risking our lives and theirs out of pure spite, or maybe fear of needles. That the government was right to make us choose between our jobs and an experimental biotechnology. That we shouldn’t be allowed in movie theaters or stores or restaurants or planes.

Then they stopped talking to us at all. They disinvited us from family gatherings and parties. They said our children couldn’t play with theirs. They looked away when they saw us on the street.

You may have reached out to some of them. I did. Not to convince them, that was impossible, but simply to say, Hey, I’m still the same person, I don’t want to fight about this, we don’t have to talk about it.

Except they wanted to talk about it. To vent. To let us know how immoral and wrong we were.

“Everyone in medicine thinks you’re a fool,” a person I considered a friend said to me, after he found out that I had suggested children should not get the jabs.

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About that.

(“Revise” is doing a lot of work there:)

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He said some other things, too.

By the way, did I mention I was a guest at his house when he told me off? I would have walked out, but we were with our kids, and I didn’t want to embarrass them.

I probably should have walked out.

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The anger at us peaked in the second half of 2021.

Some people were still scared of Covid in the second half of 2021. And a lot of people still thought the mRNAs worked. Why? I don’t know. It was obvious they had failed – not just to me, but to the vaccine companies and the government, which were pushing more and more shots, twisting the word “vaccine” beyond recognition.

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But it’s not the second half of 2021 anymore.

It’s May 2023. In the two years since we mRNA skeptics faced frantic abuse, the mRNA countries have had multiple Covid waves despite near complete vaccination of adults over 65. Countries like Canada and South Korea and Australia – where 99 percent of people over 70 were vaccinated by the beginning of 2022 – had more Covid deaths in 2022 than ever before.

(If this is vaccine success, I’d hate to see failure:)

SOURCE

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The bigger philosophical issue is that trying to destroy people and undo basic civil liberties protections over a respiratory virus was a titanic mistake – and would have been even if Covid had been significantly more dangerous than it was.

But let’s put that fact aside and just focus on nuts and bolts three years in.

At this point – how do I put this politely? – we can all agree that maybe the mRNAs were not the panacea that we were told.

And that maybe the hysteria around Covid was a little overdone.

But here’s the part that stuns me, the truly jaw-dropping aspect of where we are now: A lot of those people who got on their high horses two or three years ago, they won’t get off.

Forget apologizing and asking for our forgiveness. They’re still shunning us. They cannot possibly still believe they were right, so they must just be too afraid to admit the truth.

Which makes sense.

They were cowards from the beginning, hiding in their apartments and houses, behind their masks and face shields, following useless rules and rituals.

And when the miracle shot arrived, they were desperate for it to save them.

(VOGUE, Dec. 5, 2020: Self-described hypocondriac and Covid hysteric Molly Jong-Fast waits for a tiny little prick.)

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So. They were cowards.

Cowardice is forgivable.

And they were wrong.

Being wrong is forgivable.

But at this point their inability to admit the truth – if not to us, to themselves – that’s not forgivable.

Where I stand, as of May 1, 2023.

I no longer expect apologies from anyone. If my friends want to pretend the last three years didn’t happen, I am okay pretending. I will never really trust them again, unless they admit the truth or at least show some understanding of how wrong they were. But when you have long histories with people, and you know their flaws, and they know yours, you have to make allowances, just as they do for you.

What I am NOT willing to do any longer is suffer their disapproval.

I have quietly extended olive branches over the last few months to a number of folks. But what I’ve realized recently is my willingness to turn the other cheek has a sell-by date, and it is here. Three years in, anyone who still presumes to judge those of us who were proven right has shown himself to be not just a coward but a fool.

As my dad used to say, forever is a mighty long time. And I don’t have enough friends to lose them lightly.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/