The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong

Have Your Ears Been Ringing?

For as long as the COVID vaccines have been available, the CDC has received some complaints about ear-related problems. In a recent study, researchers reviewed 500 cases of screened patients and found that 61 of them (14.5 %) had reported one or more ear or hearing-related symptoms within four weeks of vaccination. That included 21 (5.0 %) with hearing loss, 26 (6.2 %) with tinnitus, 33 (7.9 %) with dizziness, and 19 (4.5 %) with vertigo.

“Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.” – Rorion Gracie

The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong.

The Impact of Vaccines on Mortality 

A large meta study of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) reported by vaccine manufacturers found that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines did not impact overall mortality.

As reported in the latest issue of the journal iScience, the two vaccines, both based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, protected against deaths from COVID-19. But that effect was offset by vaccinated trial participants being more likely to die from cardiovascular problems.

“In the RCTs with the longest possible blinded follow-up, mRNA vaccines had no effect on overall mortality despite protecting against some COVID-19 deaths. On the other hand, the adenovirus-vector vaccines were associated with lower overall mortality,” the researchers said.

The researchers compared the overall deaths in the vaccinated groups with the placebo groups. They also broke deaths down into different categories: those attributed to COVID-19, to cardiovascular problems, to other non-COVID-19 causes, to accidents, and to non-accident, non-COVID-19 causes.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, they found, were associated with lower COVID-19 mortality but higher cardiovascular and non-accident, non-COVID-19 mortality. There was no difference in overall mortality between the vaccinated and the placebo groups.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was associated with lower overall mortality and with lower non-COVID-19 mortality, with no effect on COVID-19 mortality. AstraZeneca’s shot, never authorized in the US but cleared in some other countries, performed well against overall mortality and other categories across several trials, except for one trial where slightly more vaccinated people died from non-COVID causes or non-accident, non-COVID-19 causes.

Interesting: The study was published ahead of peer review in 2022, but the authors struggled to find a journal that would accept the paper. Several rejected it without explaining why, causing a delay in publication.

Read more here.

The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong.

Another Validated Side Effect of the Vaccines 

JM, one of my trainers and physical therapists, sent me the link below on a study about the relationship between COVID vaccines and the incidence of retinal vascular occlusion (RVO).

RVO is basically what I had prior to my stroke. It is a malfunction of the retina due to a reduction in blood flow from a vein or artery that connects the heart to the eyes. Though it can be caused by many factors, health officials noted a significant rise in cases since the vaccine mandate for COVID.

Initially, the US government and the manufacturers of the vaccines denied the possibility of a connection. To determine the truth, NPJ Vaccines, a research and publishing group that studies vaccines, did an extensive review of all the available data. After looking at the results of several large studies and adjusting for variables, they calculated that vaccinated individuals have a “significantly” higher risk of experiencing RVO than unvaccinated people.”

Check out the full report here.

The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong.

The Craziest Part of the Propaganda 

As I hope you know by now, virtually every important statement that Fauci and crew told the press in 2020, 2021, and 2022 about COVID, including its origins, its infectiousness, and its deadliness, was false.

What irks me is that anyone with a touch of curiosity and modicum of common sense should have realized from the very beginning that the “facts” being reported could not possibly have been correct.

I explained all that way back at the beginning of the COVID scare. Even with the smattering of information we were given, it was easy to understand that the logic they were using was false and the arithmetic was impossibly wrong.

Looking back at those falsehoods now, it is clear that the greatest and most obviously intentional was the decision to exaggerate the mortality rate (by a factor of seven to nine times!) by instructing hospitals and doctors on how to report the deaths.

I must have mentioned this a dozen times in my blog. And every time I did, I expected to hear back from someone explaining why what I was saying was wrong. But that never happened. I was never challenged because, incredibly, it was true!

What am I talking about? The CDC mandate to classify anyone that died with COVID as having died from COVID.

Here’s a doctor explaining how he felt when he first got the directive.

The COVID Response: Are Vaccines Bad for the Brain? Or Is This Another Conspiracy Theory? 

One of the claims made against COVID vaccination is that it can cause a variety of mild to deadly brain problems.

I’ve already suffered three of the possible side effects. I had an ischemic stroke, an optic nerve problem, and hand tremors. (Which can be manifestations of MS.) And while I want to believe that they were caused by other things (smoking, inflammation, etc.), I have to recognize that they all manifested themselves after I got my mRNA vaccinations.

I’m not scared. And I’m not trying to scare you. But if you’ve had your shots and are experiencing any of the above – or other – symptoms (I know three people that recently came down with tinnitus), you may want to educate yourself on the arguments. Pro and con.

I’ve been reading bits and pieces on this subject since I first heard about it. Recently, I found this rather in-depth (for a layman) essay written by Colleen Huber. I know nothing about her. I’m recommending her essay because she doesn’t sound like a nut. She sounds like she understands what she’s saying. And because, although the content is somewhat technical, I was able to understand it pretty easily.

Click here.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Do We Need Stop-and-ID Laws?

Stop-and-frisk was a policy that was ruled legal in 1968. In Terry vs. Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled to allow police officers the flexibility to temporarily detain and search anyone they suspected of doing something illegal. However, in 2015, the Court put additional limits to the policy, saying that the police are not allowed to investigate civilians for any crime other than the one the citizen was detained for. If you’re stopped for a traffic violation, for example, cops can’t have a police dog check you or your car for evidence of drugs. Nor can they detain you longer than it takes to write you a ticket.

Because of the abuse of the “Terry” law, stop-and-frisk policies went largely out of practice. But some legal experts began saying that not only do cops not have the right to frisk you without a reasonable suspicion you’ve committed a crime, they can’t even demand to see your ID.

I mentioned police bullying tactics in my April 7 blog. Since then, I’ve been watching more of these stops on YouTube, and I see now that it’s a complicated situation.

Click here for an example of a “bad cop” approach.

Click here for an example of a “good cop” approach.

In the “bad cop” example, the cop begins politely. But the moment the “suspect” refuses to give his ID, the cop gets angry and loses control. He is so far gone that he either doesn’t hear or doesn’t listen to the suspect’s excuse for being there, and proceeds to assault the man in order to cuff him. What he did resulted in a $5 million lawsuit. And because it was taped by the officer’s camera, it is admissible as evidence. Which means that his response to this situation will cost his department money and may cost him his job.

In the “good cop” example, the officer understands the legal limits of what he can do. (It’s not illegal to look suspicious.) So, while we can applaud him for acting both politely and legally, we can also empathize with how frustrated he must feel in that he can’t do what he was called on to do – which is to find out if this guy is up to no good.

On the one hand, I think Fourth Amendment protection is essential and must be respected. On the other hand, I can see how, if refusing to provide IDs becomes the norm, the course of police work will be difficult. Eventually, if refusing to produce IDs in such situations becomes commonplace, cops will stop responding to calls about suspicious people. 911 operators will inform callers that police can be dispatched only if an actual crime is witnessed.

The COVID Response: What We got Wrong.

Have You Heard of Project Next Gen? 

Project Next Gen is a $5 billion government program advertised as “accelerating the development of new coronavirus vaccines and treatments, seeking to better protect against a still-mutating virus, as well as other coronaviruses that might threaten us in the future.”

The idea, they say, was inspired by Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” that rushed vaccines to the market in 2020. In this case, the Biden administration is “partnering” with private-sector pharmacological companies to “keep ahead of” coming mutations.

“It’s been very clear to us that the market on this is moving very slowly,” Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said. “There’s a lot that government can do, the administration can do, to speed up those tools… for the American people.”

(Translation: “We sold hundreds of millions of shots when they were mandatory. Now that they are not, all these damn skeptics are crashing sales. This project should allow us to make gobs of money the next time the mandates roll around.”)

The COVID Response: What We got Wrong.

The News You Didn’t See

Why Didn’t You Hear About This? 

This should have been breakthrough news. But you never heard about it because you get your news from the mainstream media.

At a congressional hearing on March 9, Dr. Redfield, the ex-director of the CDC, under oath, admitted that Fauci and the CDC knew that gain of function research was being conducted at the Wuhan lab. Not only that, but that the US government – including the DOD – knew about details of the leak that should have made it obvious to them that the lab-leak theory was not a conspiracy but a high probability.

Okay. Now you know. And by tomorrow, you can forget about it. Because if you mention it to anyone, they won’t believe you. And even if they do, they won’t care.

Click here.

On Top of It All, Wuhan Double-Charged Us! 

On CBS recently, Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator assigned to the story, admitted that the US was supporting the Wuhan lab. She added: “What I’ve found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research.”

From Meryl Nass:

“CBS News is here to tell us that not only did we fund the labs that were doing the COVID research that probably screwed up and released the virus that killed millions, but we got double-charged for it! The debate about COVID’s origins has zoomed past the pesky China issue and settled into a place we can all agree upon and enjoy: complaining about getting overcharged.”

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The School That Couldn’t Quit 

Nobody wears masks anymore in Florida. I mean nobody. In New Orleans, the mask-wearers are about one in 100. But during my long weekend in LA last week, that ratio seemed to be considerably higher. Maybe one in ten. And about the same percentage of stores and restaurants still require their employees to mask up. A few even ask customers to do it.

It makes me wonder: Is this a measure of something? And if so, what? Fear of dying? Political preference? Virtue signaling?

Interesting: There is a school in upstate New York that has taken this post-pandemic masking thing to a new level by mandating that their students wear masks outside!

Click here.

The COVID Response: What We got Wrong.

The CDC on Mortality Counts: “Okay, You Caught Us!” 

The CDC is finally adjusting its mortality count to correct for its absurdly disingenuous and misleading decision, at the beginning of the pandemic, to instruct hospitals and coroners to report any deaths that occur WITH COVID as deaths FROM COVID.

I’ve told you about a study that looked at past CDC mortality rates and recalibrated them, adjusting for this absurdity. That study estimated that the CDC exaggerated deaths from COVID by 70% to 90%!

Perhaps because they know “the truth will out,” the CDC has come out with new mortality rates of their own. The new numbers are about 40% less than they reported, or about half of what the study suggested. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another retroactive “adjustment” in a year or two, bringing the numbers down to what they should have been all along. We’ll see about that.

But even at the 40% adjustment, the COVID mortality rate comes to roughly 64,000 deaths per year. That’s not nothing. It’s like a very severe flu. But it pales in comparison to the top four ways to die in America:

* Heart Disease – about 700,000 per year

* Cancer – about 600,000

* Accidents – about 225,000

* Stroke (cardiovascular diseases) – about 160,000