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Do we get to admit George Floyd probably just OD’d now, or is that still off the table? It’s cool either way, just wondering where we stand on the public honesty stuff https://t.co/2UdS9VC6Qt
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And this is an even more extraordinary 30 seconds from @BillGates ... "We should have free speech, but if you're inciting violence, if you're causing people not to take vaccines, you know, where are those boundaries, that even the US, ahh, should have rules..."
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I cannot say this enough: They censored me, but they violated YOUR rights. They were desperate to ban me in August 2021 because they were planning Covid vaccine mandates, as @vijaya and @jack explicitly understood. Berenson v Biden isn't just about free speech. It's about you.
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Yep. Even after I won Berenson v Twitter (make no mistake, I won, a federal judge said my claims had merit and I got my account back and made OLD Twitter admit it should not have banned me), they still claimed I was a conspiracy theorist. The gaslighting IS the point.
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1/ My first #TwitterFiles report: how @scottgottliebmd - a top Pfizer board member - used the same Twitter lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid vaccines, INCLUDING FROM A FELLOW HEAD OF @US_FDA! Thanks @elonmusk for opening these files. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board
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2/ In August 2021, Gottlieb told Todd O'Boyle - a senior manager in Twitter's public policy department - that a tweet from @drgiroir claiming CORRECTLY that natural immunity was superior to vaccine immunity was "corrosive" and might "go viral."
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3/ Twitter put a misleading tag on the tweet, preventing it from being shared. Gottlieb then went after a tweet about Covid's low risk to kids from @justin_hart. Pfizer would soon win the okay for its mRNA shots for children, so keeping parents scared was crucial...
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@justin_hart 4/ In October 2022, @scottgottliebmd claimed on Twitter and CNBC that he was not trying to suppress debate on mRNA jabs. These files prove that Gottlieb - board member at a company that has made $70 billion on the shots - did just that. Full story here: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
As someone who has seen Alex Jones fans up close, allow me to answer for them: some are childish trolls who get off on the outrage that saying naughty things causes the rest are conspiracy nuts who still think Sandy Hook was fake, or at least aren’t sure it was real
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All those Covid jabs, and @StephenAtHome is healthier than ever! I won't tell him that post-mRNA peritonitis has shown up in case reports if you don't. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/show-canceled-stephen-colbert-recovers-200812768.html
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9600844/
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New Unreported Truths: in a new study, people who received three @moderna_tx Covid mRNA shots had a 71 percent higher risk of death than those who took three Pfizer shots, even after accounting for age and comorbidities. 71 percent higher risk of death. Spikevax that body!
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Source: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/another-major-study-shows-the-mrnas
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A firsthand account of the massacre at the rave. Never forget. This is what happens to Jews when they forget. -- So I went to work with my girlfriend Liron at the bar in the Nova’s party, the whole night and morning we were together. We had so much fun. There was a beautiful sunrise and we went towards our trailer to drink coffee and rest. Then the nightmare began- rockets started flying over our heads. The music was stopped and we waited for the situation to calm down so we could go home. Suddenly I get a phone call from a friend who says that she and everyone who’s started driving back home from the party is being shot. I ran to the police officers closest to me to ask them to go and reinforce the people in the vehicles, but then we realized that there’s so many terrorists in our area and they are very close to us. There was one big chaos. We went to hide in the police command room and we all sat down on the floor. Some people cried, some shouted, some had anxiety attacks and some were completely silent. I hugged everyone who cried and couldn’t catch their breath, and Liron helped the wounded while we were under attack. The noise of the gunshots began to get closer, the policemen stood in the doorway ready with their weapons and looked at each other with a frightened look and shouted to “storm!” They turned to us just before leaving the room and told us to “run and pray.” They came out and got shot one after the other. The terrorists fired bursts of gunfire at the room and for a moment there was shocking silence. We left the room running to the battlefield, and while I’m running I turned back and I saw Liron. She stayed there and didn’t come with us. We tried our best and ran as fast as possible until we reached some ambulance and hid behind it. The shots came from every direction. To our right, to our left, behind and in front of us. I saw someone yelling at us, “Come here, it’s safer.” I ran towards him, no one came with me. Me and him continued running together until we saw a vehicle approaching us. It was one of the party members who offered us to get into his car and try to escape with him. We got on his car and as soon as he started driving the terrorist started shooting at us. We made a U-turn and drove to the other way and we were shooted there as well. We returned back to the place we were at the beginning and suddenly the car’s wheel got stuck in the sand while we are still under fire. We ran out of the car until we noticed a hole in the ground. We entered inside, held hands and prayed. It was just the two of us, the guy who was driving the car disappeared. I told him "Do you know the stories of the Holocaust in which people pretended to be dead so they wouldn’t be noticed? This is what gonna happen to us." He covered us with sand and we were in silence for about an hour until we started hearing footsteps coming towards us and we prayed for a miracle. They found us. 8 terrorists in front of both of us. I closed my eyes tightly because I was sure they gonna shot us but then they grabbed us and lofted us from the ground. They took our phones and everything we had in our pockets. They announced in their walkie-talkie, ‘We have 2 more abductees.” One of the terrorists started talking to me in Arabic and I told him I can’t understand him. I didn’t shout, I didn’t went crazy, I became apathetic. He put his jacket on me while the rest of them was looking at me like I was a piece of meat because I was wearing a tank top. In one hand he holds my hand, and in the other hand he holds a missile. We started walking and I saw that they were looking on the floor for things like cigarettes and drinks. So I helped them. I didn’t want to resist. The guy who was with me didn’t stop crying and begging for his life. I tried to explain to him that he needs to stop crying, “It annoys them, stop crying and everything will be fine.” They had knives and hammers. I realized we were in danger. At first he listened to me but very quickly he returned to his initial and fell on his knees and again screamed and begged for his life. And then - he didn’t scream anymore. They murdered him in front of my eyes. I was left alone with them. One of them took a board and every few seconds hit me on the head. The other one was holding a knife and every few seconds approached me threateningly. It was important for them to humiliate me. The terrorist who held my hand shouted at them and “took me under his wing.” We started walking towards one of their cards and luckily their cars didn’t start. The threatening terrorist with the knife, the one who a moment ago murdered the guy who was with me, said to me “If you try to escape I’ll kill you like I killed your friend.” I remained standing and the terrorist who “took me under his wing” told me I can go. I didn’t know what to do and in one moment I just started running. I stole a glance back and saw that no weapon was pointed at me so I continued to run like crazy. I hid under the stage of the party and laid down next to 3 dead people. I smeared myself with the blood that dripped from one of the bodies next to me and pretended to be dead for 3 hours. 3 hours that felt like an eternity. 3 hours where terrorists pass by me and shoot everywhere and burn every possible piece of land, while rockets float above my head. For 3 hours I lie among corpses and wonder what will happen to me. And suddenly I started hearing people talk in Hebrew. I screamed loudly “HELP!”. These were the army soldiers, they came and took me to a trailer with paramedics, along with other survivors. In the background, the shooting continued, and in front of my eyes I saw difficult sights that I will spare you and will not describe here. So it’s true that they murdered my soul and I hope that one day I will be able to heal it. But Liron, remember Liron from the beginning go the story? My girlfriend. They killed her. They killed my hero and unfortunately no one will ever be able to return it to me in my lifetime.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
This is the CDC’s OWN data showing vaccinated and boosted people were MORE likely to be hospitalized with the new Omicron variant than unvaccinated people. MORE.
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Hey @CDCDirector - you want to shoot yourself with all the mRNA in the world, be my guest. But please don’t put your children at risk for your political masters. Your kids deserve better.
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Again, from @CDCgov’s OWN data: 1 million mRNA Covid shots for teens will prevent 0-1 Covid deaths and CAUSE 100,000-200,000 severe side effects. Yes, you read that right. https://t.co/GXpgIw3DvC
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@CDCgov The math: Moderna trial teen subjects had a 25% risk of Grade 3/4 adverse events if they received the shot, 5% for placebo. For Pfizer, the rates were about 11% and 2% (Pfizer is a lower dose; why the placebo rates were different IDK.) That's a gap of 0.09 to 0.2, x1MM shots
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I'm old enough to remember when the CEO of @merck - the best, most science-driven pharma company (a low bar), warned: "There are a lot of examples of vaccines in the past that have stimulated the immune system, but ultimately didn't confer protection." https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merck-ceo-ken-frazier-speaks-about-a-covid-cure-racism-and-why-leaders-need-to-walk-the-talk
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He said this, too: "What worries me the most is that the public is... so desperate to go back to normalcy, that they are pushing us to move things faster and faster. But ultimately, if you're going to use a vaccine in billions of people, you better know what that vaccine does.
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And this: "And unfortunately, there are some cases where it stimulated the immune system and not only it didn't confer protection, but actually helped the virus invade the cell because it was incomplete in terms of its immunogenic properties. We have to be very careful."
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And this: "Let me just give you one data point. In the last quarter century, there have only been seven truly new vaccines introduced globally at the clinical practice... Merck has four, the rest of the world has three."
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And finally this: 1/ "I think when people tell the public that there's going to be a vaccine by the end of 2020, for example, I think they do a grave disservice to the public. I think at the end of the day, we don't want to rush the vaccine before we've done rigorous science...
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2/ "We've seen in the past, for example, with the swine flu, that that vaccine did more harm than good. We don't have a great history of introducing vaccines quickly in the middle of a pandemic. We want to keep that in mind." Source, again: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merck-ceo-ken-frazier-speaks-about-a-covid-cure-racism-and-why-leaders-need-to-walk-the-talk
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For what it's worth, pharma executives and Wall Street analysts always viewed @merck with reverence (one reason the Vioxx scandal hit so hard) - and @pfizer as a slick, second-rate competitor, a marketing-driven machine that pushed me-too drugs.
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1/ There is just no easy way to say this: The recent UK and Euromomo death figures are frightening. In the last few weeks, deaths have surged to higher than any point since early 2021...
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2/ And those numbers are much worse than they seem. They follow a YEAR of high excess non-Covid deaths (not to mention earlier Covid waves in 2020 and 2021 which mostly targeted the very old and sick and should mean that deaths now are LOWER than normal)...
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3/ The weather can't be blamed. In fact, this winter has been very warm in Europe. There's efforts to blame delayed medical care or "long Covid" look sillier by the week; they do not fit the pattern of what we're seeing...
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4/ I take no pleasure in writing any of this. NONE. With the exception of my immediate family, almost everyone I know has had the mRNAs. But it is time to stop pretending that the obvious explanation is not the obvious explanation and start looking for underlying mechanisms...
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5/ We already know these shots are causing long-term immune system changes in a way no one predicted. What we don't know is what those changes may mean. We need to find out, instead of pretending they're not happening...
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6/ If deaths go back to normal in a few weeks, great. We STILL need to do this research - and lots of other work that we skipped in 2020. But at this point the media and government silence around these numbers is only going to feed conspiracy theories.
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I’m old enough to remember when vaccinators and their media acolytes - hey, @dwallacewells! - said a jab that caused serious side effects more than once in 1 million people was unacceptable, and 1 in 1,000 would be disastrous. It was two years ago. My, the rules have changed…
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But two years later, this story is stunning. The incredible arrogance of the vaccine fanatics is on full display. They truly believed the mRNAs had beaten Covid - they were mainly frustrated the jabs hadn’t had even FASTER development… https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html?fbclid=IwAR1P1Lqgy-Fqx3zChV1CQ104H9xDpXQIeQnk8UgtegeurP53plORdI6Jyb0
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And they basically proposed dropping (or preloading) ALL preclinical and early work AND running abbreviated pivotal Phase 3 trials for future shots/epidemics. They wanted approval in three to four months. These were some of the biggest names in virology - and they’d gone insane.
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Has anyone called them on what they were saying, given the incredible failure of the mRNAs? Has anyone even asked them why they were so overconfident? Seems like a good story, @dwallacewells…
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1/ For those of you who'd rather see the whole Gottlieb #TwitterFiles in a thread... here goes! On August 27, 2021, Dr. Scott Gottlieb - a Pfizer director with over 550,000 Twitter followers - saw a tweet he didn’t like, a tweet that might hurt sales of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines.
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2/The tweet explained correctly that natural immunity after Covid infection was superior to vaccine protection. It called on the White House to “follow the science” and exempt people with natural immunity from upcoming vaccine mandates.
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3/ It came not from an “anti-vaxxer” like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but from Dr. Brett Giroir, a physician who had briefly followed Gottlieb as the head of the Food & Drug Administration. Further, the tweet encouraged people who did not have natural immunity to “Get vaccinated!”
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4/ No matter. By suggesting some people might not need Covid vaccinations, the tweet could raise questions about the shots. Besides being former FDA commissioner, a CNBC contributor, and a prominent voice on Covid public policy, Gottlieb was a senior board member at Pfizer...
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5/ @Pfizer depended on mRNA jabs for almost half its $81 billion in sales in 2021 and paid Gottlieb $365,000 for his work that year.
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6/ Gottlieb stepped in, emailing Todd O’Boyle, a top lobbyist in Twitter’s Washington office who was also Twitter’s point of contact with the White House. The post was “corrosive,” Gottlieb wrote. He worried it would “end up going viral and driving news coverage.”
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7/ I found the email in a search of records I ran at Twitter last week - part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” effort to raise the veil on censorship decisions Twitter made before Musk bought the company in October.
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8/ I went into detail about my involvement at the Twitter Files in a Substack article yesterday. I plan more reporting on the files in the weeks to come. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/my-first-dive-into-the-twitter-files
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9/ Through Jira, an internal system Twitter used for managing complaints, O’Boyle forwarded Gottlieb’s email to the Twitter “Strategic Response” team. That group was responsible for handling concerns from the company’s most important employees and users.
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10/ “Please see this report from the former FDA commissioner,” O’Boyle wrote, failing to mention Gottlieb was a Pfizer director with a financial interest in pushing mRNA shots. A Strategic Response analyst quickly found the tweet did not violate any Twitter misinformation rules.
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11/ Yet Twitter wound up flagging @DrGiroir’s tweet anyway, putting a misleading tag on it and preventing almost anyone from seeing it. It remains tagged even though several large studies have confirmed the truth of Giroir’s words.
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12/ A week later, on Sept. 3, 2021, Gottlieb tried to strike again, complaining to O’Boyle about a tweet from Justin Hart. Hart is a lockdown and Covid vaccine skeptic with more than 100,000 Twitter followers.
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13/ “Sticks and stones may break my bones but a viral pathogen with a child mortality rate of <>0% has cost our children nearly three years of schooling,” Hart had written.
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14/ Why Gottlieb objected to Hart’s words is not clear, but the Pfizer shot would soon be approved for children 5 to 11, representing another massive market for Pfizer, if parents could be convinced Covid was a real threat to their kids.
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15/ O’Boyle referred to “former FDA Commissioner Gottlieb” when he forwarded the report, again ignoring Gottlieb’s current work for Pfizer. This time, though, Gottlieb’s complaint was so far afield that Twitter refused to act.
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16/ At the same time, Gottlieb was also pressing Twitter to act against me, as I disclosed on Substack on Oct. 13, 2022, drawing on documents that Twitter’s pre-Musk regime provided to me as part of my lawsuit against it. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/pfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb
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17/ Gottlieb’s action was part of a larger conspiracy that included the Biden White House and Andrew Slavitt, working publicly and privately to pressure Twitter until it had no choice but to ban me.
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18/ I will have more to say about my own case and will be suing the White House, Slavitt, Gottlieb, and Pfizer shortly.
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19/ The morning after I wrote that article, Gottlieb appeared on CNBC, the financial news channel where he is a contributor, and offered what at best was a seriously misleading explanation of his actions and his motives.
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20/ Gottlieb did not deny pressing Twitter on me - he could not, given the documents I had released. But in an interview with @JoeSquawk of @CNBC, Gottlieb said he had asked Twitter to act only bc he was concerned if tweets raised the threat of violence against vaccine advocates.
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@JoeSquawk @CNBC 21/ “The inability of these platforms to police direct threats, physical threats about people, that’s my concern about what’s going on in that ecosystem,” Gottlieb said.
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22/ "I'm unconcerned about debate being made,” Gottlieb told Kernan. “I'm concerned about physical threats being made for people's safety."
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23/ In a tweet that morning, Gottlieb doubled down, writing: Respectful debate and dialogue is one thing, and should be encouraged and protected. But there's no place for targeted harassment, and misleading dialogue..."
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24/ But Brett Giroir’s tweet about natural immunity was the definition of “respectful debate and dialogue.” And in his own email to Todd O’Boyle, Gottlieb did not raise any security concerns about it. He simply complained that it might wind up “driving news coverage."
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25/ Gottlieb is not just a Pfizer board member. He is on the board’s executive committee and the head of its regulatory and compliance committee, overseeing “compliance with laws, regulations, and internal procedures applicable to pharmaceutical sales and marketing activities.”
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26/ Pfizer has a long history of violating drug industry laws and ethics rules. In 2009, it agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in American history, for fraudulently marketing several drugs. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
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27/ In 1996, it conducted a clinical trial of an antibiotic in Nigeria in which 11 children died and which became the inspiration for John le Carre’s novel The Constant Gardener. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/did-pfizer-bribe-its-way-out-of-criminal-charges-in-nigeria/68495/
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28/ So how will Pfizer react to the black-and-white proof from Twitter’s records that one of its most powerful board members secretly tried to suppress debate on the mRNA jabs that have has been by far its best-selling product since 2020?
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29/ And will CNBC continue to let Gottlieb use it to mislead the public? END Full story also available on Substack: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board
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1/ I realize talking about this stinks. I realize many (perhaps most) people who got the mRNAs are aware that they were deceived - even if they will never admit it. They have no plans to get more or let their kids have the shots and just want to forget that 2021 ever happened...
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2/ But we can't, in part because the hard core of mRNA fanatics in the public health bureaucracy will not stop pushing the shots - and in part because the mandates last year must NEVER be repeated, and that means letting people know the severity of the risk forced on them...
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3/ And I can talk about the stunning rise in all-cause mortality over and over - but unfortunately, one individual story is likely to have much more impact. (Which is exactly why the vaccine advocates constantly highlighted the deaths of unvaccinated people last year.)
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4/ I'm sorry if Grant Wohl's family prefers no one discuss what might have caused his death. But he was a public figure and publicly pro-mRNA shot and his wife is a huge jab advocate. Trying to shame/silence those of us raising serious questions about mRNA safety will not fly...
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5/ Especially since mRNA advocates have spent far too much time finger-wagging and too little actually investigating potential issues around the vaccines for almost two years now. So, no, I will not stop trying to figure out how risky these novel biological products really are...
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6/ I just wish some of the people who spent 2021 trying to force them into the arms of BILLIONS of people would join me in that investigation. One might even say they have an obligation to do so.
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We are way past that point. The all-cause mortality numbers in the mRNA countries this year are stunning. They are so stunning they almost have to be ignored, because the question they raise likely has a very dangerous answer.
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THREAD 19-year-old Simone Scott was excited to get her second dose of @moderna_tx’s #Covid vaccine on May 1. Now her mother Valerie Kraimer is arranging her funeral. https://t.co/BOAwSynrFz
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Simone, a first-year Northwestern University student, suffered a case of apparent myocarditis-induced heart failure on Sunday, May 16. Despite extraordinary measures to save her, including a heart transplant, she died Friday morning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
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Now her parents are struggling to understand what happened to Simone – and why they had no idea the Covid vaccines might cause myocarditis. “I lost my only daughter,” Kraimer said Sunday night. “I never thought I’d have to give up my daughter for the greater good of society.”
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Doctors appear to have repeatedly missed signals as Simone’s condition worsened in the two weeks following her second shot – before she abruptly crashed. In mid-May, Israel was reporting high rates of cases of mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis in young people.
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But in the United States, vaccinations had just been opened for 12-15 year-olds - and @cdcgov played down the myocarditis risk in young people. In a statement May 17, the day after Simone died, the CDC reported that it had found “relatively few reports of myocarditis to date...”
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Simone’s physicians still have not confirmed that her vaccine caused her heart failure. But despite nearly a month of intense investigation, including an pathological examination of her heart after its removal in the transplant, they have offered no other explanation.
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“My fear is that we’ll never know what happened to Simone,” her father, Kevin Scott, said Sunday night. “[The vaccine] is a coincidence that is too big to ignore.” “I do suspect it was the vaccine,” Kraimer said. “If it wasn’t direct, it played a role.”
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Simone had been a healthy young woman, her only notable illnesses a bout of pneumonia when she was an infant and a second in high school. She told her mother in sixth grade she wanted to go to Northwestern. Six years later she applied early to the university and was accepted.
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“She was very, very disciplined," Kraimer said. That discipline extended to her attitude toward Covid. She always wore masks and followed Northwestern’s sometimes onerous rules about testing when the school allowed its first-year students on campus in January.
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Despite its Covid restrictions, the school was everything she hoped, her mother said. She produced stories for the school’s in-house television network and quickly made friends. “She was a Wildcat [the Northwestern mascot] through and through,” Kraimer said. “She bled purple.”
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And when Illinois opened vaccinations to younger people, she quickly made an appointment. “She took it upon herself to get vaccinated,” Kevin Scott said. But she suffered serious short-term side effects after her first dose April 3 and never fully recovered, her parents said.
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Throughout April she had a cough and and felt fatigued. Simone checked in with her mother, who lived near Cincinnati, frequently. Kraimer asked her to go to a doctor. But neither Simone nor her mother considered whether the vaccine might be behind her symptoms, Kraimer said.
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“We thought it was either allegories or a sinus infection.” So on May 1, as scheduled, Simone received her second Moderna vaccination. This time she had fewer immediate side effects.
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But when she flew back to Ohio to surprise her mother for Mother’s Day, Sunday May 9, Kraimer noticed she seemed tired. And Simone told her mother she’d had repeated nosebleeds. Kraimer told her she needed to make an appointment with a doctor.
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Back in Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, she did. But the visit was virtual and Simone forgot to mention that she’d noticed swelling the day before in her lymph nodes. The physician told her she probably had allergies.
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The next day, she had a low fever and went to the student health clinic. Tests for Sars-Cov-2, flu, and other viruses were negative. A doctor noted Simone’s heartbeat was irregular but discharged her, telling her to go to the emergency room if the problem worsened, Kraimer said.
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The following day she’d developed a sore throat. She went back to the clinic. By now Kraimer was worried enough to insist her daugher FaceTime the visit. Simone was told she might have a viral infection, given an anti-viral prescription, and again sent back to her dorm room.
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By Friday night she was suffering severe fatigue. Still, her parents assumed she was simply rundown and sick, especially since doctors had now seen her three times in three days. “People do get sick, and you get some rest, and you sleep, and you get through it,” Kraimer said.
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But everything changed Sunday, May 16. Simone texted her father she was too dizzy to get out of bed or eat. Her mother packed a bag and began the drive from Ohio to Illinois. Her dad called campus police and asked them to check on her. After initially refusing, the police did.
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They found Simone unable to walk and called an ambulance to take her to nearby North Shore Hospital. Kraimer arrived there that night. When she explained who she was there to see, she was escorted into a waiting room. “That’s when I knew things were not right,” she said.
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A doctor appeared, telling her that her daughter had gone into heart failure as she was being transported to the hospital and needed immediate surgery. “They said her heart was not functioning and they needed to insert a balloon pump to get it working.”
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Doctors almost immediately diagnosed Simone with myocarditis - heart inflammation, often caused by viral infection. "They did at that point suspect that it was myocarditis," Kraimer said. "They were thinking it was a virus that had attacked her heart."
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But Simone's implant failed to restore her heart function. The next day, she was placed on ECMO, a heart-lung bypass. Nearly a month of increasingly desperate medical procedures followed.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
On May 20, with a transplant looming, Simone was moved to Northwestern Memorial, the university’s primary teaching hospital. She was sedated most of the time, but doctors sometimes lightened the sedation enough for her to text her parents. “Am I going home with you?” she asked.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
On Sunday, May 23, Simone’s physicians told her parents that her heart did not seem to be recovering on its own and a transplant was her best option. “We didn’t have much choice,” Kraimer said. She had the transplant that night. Ultimately, her new heart did begin to pump.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
But her lungs had been severely damaged, and the immunosuppressive drugs necessary for her to avoid rejecting the transplant led to severe lung infections. After a few hopeful days, her prognosis dimmed.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Her parents never completely lost hope. But on the morning of Friday, June 11, her doctors told them that they could no longer control her blood pressure and that they should come to say goodbye. At 11:19 a.m., Simone Scott died. She was 19.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Kraimer and Simone's father repeatedly asked whether the hospital intended to report the case to VAERS, the federal system to report vaccine side effects. Doctors did not seem particularly interested in doing so for most of the time Simone was there, Kraimer said.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
“We kept asking if they did and nobody could tell us if they did,” Kraimer said. “It was just a runaround.” Finally, the day before Simone died, a physician’s assistant promised to report the case.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
With their daughter gone, Simone's parents are now hoping that her story will – at the least – raise awareness of the potential for post-Covid vaccine myocarditis. “I never knew that there was a risk for something as serious as this,” Kraimer said. “I would have wanted to.”
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
In the meantime, they are left to mourn the loss of their only child. On May 12, four days before Simone collapsed, Northwestern required all its students – with very limited exceptions – to be vaccinated for the fall 2021 term. END
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
1/ In 2008, the @federalreserve began an unprecedented bailout of Wall Street and banks. The bailout was supposed to be temporary. Except that the Fed's balance sheet - basically money it has created to backstop banks - is now nine times - or $8 trillion -more than it was then...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
2/ $8 trillion is an unfathomably large number - $23,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States, four months of GDP. And whenever the Fed even tries to unwind it, to get the banks off the backstop, Wall Street goes berserk...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
3/ For a while, no one except a few populists (mostly on the left, though increasingly on the right too) paid much attention to this incredible subsidy to the richest people in the world - on Wall Street and Silicon Valley -which both feasted on cheap capital...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
4/ Why? Because it didn't seem to matter to the real economy. Why? Because inflation was still low. And as long as inflation was still low, the Fed could brush off complaints it was worsening inequality...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
5/ And encouraging systemic risk-taking by flooding banks with too much cheap capital. But the bill always comes due. Always. And it’s due now. The core US inflation rate exploded in 2021 and despite what the White House wants to pretend there is little sign it’s retreating.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
6/ So the Fed is FINALLY trying to cut its balance sheet and raise rates - to pull money out of the system since inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Only it's stuck. Banks are so addicted to cheap cash that even the Fed's relatively small moves so far have caused a crisis...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
7/ A crisis that has led the Fed not just to stop its efforts to restore balance to the system BUT TO REVERSE THEM BY OFFERING YET ANOTHER SUBSIDY TO BANKS, this time for bonds ruined by interest rates: "These assets will be valued at par." https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230312a.htm
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
8/ Again the Fed is giving banks a bailout for short-term stability, just like it did in 2008. Only we are 15 YEARS ON and the bailout hasn't gone away. And the only people who benefit in the long run are the superrich, who can take advantage of the economic distortions here.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
9/ Where and how does all this end? I don't know. But it WILL end. Even the Fed cannot prop up the banking industry forever.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
MEDICINE IN AMERICA IS BROKEN, BROKEN, BROKEN nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
A tragedy in three acts 1) Medicare’s decision to reimburse doctors for procedures performed outside hospitals led to a proliferation of outpatient clinics...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
2) Before, doctors working in a hospital pocketed only a slice of what insurers paid, with the hospital getting the rest to cover overhead costs. Doctors who owned clinics could now collect the entire payment...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
3) A decade ago, there were virtually no clinics to treat peripheral artery disease. Today, there are about 800, according to an industry trade group.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
1/ This is ridiculous and disgusting, though not quite for the reason all the wokester sport reporters admit. What's really happening: College football generates massive windfall profits for the top 50 schools - up to $100 million a year - because the players are not paid...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
2/ The RIGHT thing to do would be to privatize the programs, acknowledge they have nothing to do with amateur athletics, and pay the (predominantly black) players openly - as other professional athletes are played. But that cash windfall has to go somewhere...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
3/ And the biggest direct beneficiary of it, aside from (mostly white) football coaches and administrators, is (mostly white, upper-middle class) female college athletes. This has been the case for a long time - we make poor black kids play for free to enrich everyone else...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
4/ But now the money for the top programs has gotten so big that it has created a Darwinian struggle to align the top programs (I suspect one secret part of this is that legal sports books know interest is much higher in low-line competitive games, and that fuels TV interest)...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
5/ So the top college programs are creating national leagues. Which works for football, where the games are played once-weekly, but is impossible for all other athletics programs. But they're all yoked together because the leagues want to divert football revenue.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Because it’s useless to them and we don’t give quasi-experimental biotechnologies to children for no reason? Is that an okay reason? Because that’s the one I’m going with for MY kids. By the way, do you have kids?
@19joho - Jonathan Howard MD
The vaccine doesn’t cause myocarditis in kids under 12. So now, you’ll have a completely different reason to leave unvaccinated babies vulnerable to covid What will it be?
@louisaclary - Louisa Clary
Wow! It is going to be a propaganda war this fall on our children. Get ready. Kids do not need harmful shots causing myocarditis when they can recover just fine from Covid!
@19joho - Jonathan Howard MD
@CovidDataReport - Covid Report
Bivalent COVID Shot Extends Benefit in Youngest Kids https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/105956
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Folks, it’s this simple. If Covid vaccines worked, they would have worked. We wouldn’t be talking about any of this. It all would have ended two years ago. The shots are patently ineffective. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. Or a health bureaucrat. But I repeat myself.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
To be clear: We don’t have immunity. mRNAs are useless if not worse against Omicron. IgG4 class switching is real. Masks don’t work. Lockdowns will never happen again. Test and trace lol As long as the virus stays this mild, none of this matters. Let’s hope it stays this mild
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Speaking of SARS-Cov-2 mutations, didya ever notice that once mass jab campaigns collapsed, the rate of major new variants slowed way down? Almost like giving a virus a supercharged antibody target in a billion-plus human hosts wasn’t the best idea ever. Just spitballing here.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
@fitterhappierAJ - AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD
The public was repeatedly told by scientists who claimed there was an adequate immune memory response from infection that infection would contribute to herd immunity, and that protection from infection would be lifelong, similar to sars1. Now all those people are walking back…
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
1/ mRNA fanatics ALWAYS offer a false choice: the mRNAs or no Covid jabs. Nope. That wasn't the choice, We picked mRNAs over supposedly weaker vaccines based on older, simpler, cheaper technology. We did so without head-to-head trials. It's now clear we made a terrible mistake.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
2/ Countries that used old-style vaccines, including China, have had comparable or better outcomes than the mRNA countries. WITHOUT the long-term risks, especially the immune system rewiring the mRNAs cause. We fell for the shiny new thing. Let's hope we don't fall too far.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Hey, remember when Uncle Joe said your choice to get injected with a novel biological agent was no longer your choice? I sure do. Sep. 9, 2021. "This is not about freedom or personal choice." Yep, his actual words. Good times! Berenson v. Biden.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
My mask infects you, your mask infects me
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
One hilarious detail from the Massachusetts school study: during the Delta wave, kids were actually MORE likely to transmit infections if both of them were wearing masks than if neither was. Because masks work! https://t.co/v3RXGfSV31
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
A new study on school Covid transmission is out. For fall 2021, researchers looked at 34 schools with 18,000 students. They found at most 44 in-school infections, including staff. You read that right. 18,000 students. 34 schools. 44 Covid cases. NEVER CLOSE SCHOOLS AGAIN.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
SOURCE: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2807905
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
One hilarious detail from the Massachusetts school study: during the Delta wave, kids were actually MORE likely to transmit infections if both of them were wearing masks than if neither was. Because masks work!
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
It's now clear flu and Covid jabs can't pass clinical trials with properly long safety windows. Flu jabs would fail on efficacy, mRNAs on safety (maybe efficacy now too, based on their failure against variants). Lucky pharma, those trials have never been run. And never will be.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Not this extremely well-designed paper, which showed ZERO decrease in influenza deaths or hospitalizations in England from flu shots: "No evidence indicated that vaccination reduced hospitalizations or mortality among elderly persons." https://acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-3075?_ga=2.114195335.1018164567.1690725746-1383712439.1690725746…
@anish_koka - Anish Koka, MD
I’d be curious to hear what the recommendation for the annual flu vaccine is based on cc @gadboit
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Without randomized data showing people have lower severe disease (and for your age) this is not only unacceptable, it is bad medicine and unethical. No one will comply. It is sad to be a CDC director living in Pfizer's pocket.
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
New CDC Director Mandy Cohen: “We anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot and you get your annual COVID shot.” I was literally suspended from Twitter for predicting this back in 2021. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/07/27/cdc-director-covid-shot-annual-
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Doctors tried to make a vagina out of a colon. Sounds like a bad joke, except the patient died horribly. What has happened to medicine? Very soon we will look at these trans surgeries the way we now view lobotomies for depression, as a shocking violation of the Hippocratic Oath
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Look, aside from the censorship, the sweetheart plea deal to keep his corrupt crackhead son out of prison, the prosecution of his top rival, and the imprisoning of whistleblowers, Uncle Joe could NOT be more committed to the rule of law, people. So shut up or he’ll arrest you!
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
@TracyBethHoeg - Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD
Unreal to check my email about what's trending in @NEJM & see our article is #1 most viewed🤯. I mean, I agree, the boosted having a 20x lower non covid mortality rate than the non-boosted not being disclosed in such an influential study of the 1st booster published in NEJM…
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
“No hospitalizations and no deaths” He didn’t just lie about the lab leak. Or masks Or remdesivir He lied about the most important fact of all. Never forget. And never forgive until he admits the truth.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
The pivotal clinical trial for the @pfizer #Covid vaccine shows it does nothing to reduce the overall risk of death. ZERO. 15 patients who received the vaccine died; 14 who received placebo died. The end. The trial blind is broken now. This is all the data we will ever have.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
1/ This happened. In the United States of America. In 2020. A government official told you how many people you could meet, whether your business could operate, whether you had to hide your face under a mask. Not for a day or a week, for months (almost a year in some states).
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
2/ For what? A glorified flu? I know everyone wants to forget what happened, but we have not begun to take stock of what we allowed - encouraged! - our governments to do. And what happened in 2021 was worse, though at least the Supreme Court finally stepped in.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Hey, Dr. Spencer, funny story: know what mortality risk doctors faced during Covid - compared to the average American? Average people had 13 TIMES the excess death rate as doctors in active practice. So please, spare us your profiles in courage.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
SOURCE: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2800889
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Everything wrong with looong Covid in one looong thread (how did @camidoma even have the energy to write it? It must have taken so many spoons!) You want to know why the USA now spends $4 trillion a year on medical care, look no further. Imma share some highlights: https://t.co/A74OO3bECr
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
"I’m 30, generally healthy aside from episodic migraines with aura and depression, 4 times vaxxed, and I took Paxlovid..." That's a G, $400 for the jabs plus $800 for the cold medicine. (She's 30 and skinny, zero risk.) "Migraines with aura and depression" is your next clue...
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
"[No] full-on fever and I wasn’t about to pass out but I was EXTREMELY sick. If my oxygen levels hadn’t stayed 95% and above, I would have gone to the hospital." Wait, you didn't have a fever/dizziness but you almost went to the ER? Also, why were you checking your O2 levels?
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
"After 7 days of hell (and a 5-day long panic attack), I finally tested negative again." No further comment required.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
"It was around 3.5 months in when my (now former) doctor told me this was “all in my mind, ” I needed to “push through”, “take an antidepressant”, and “go back to work” after refusing to sign my short term disability paperwork." My doctor told me the truth, so I fired him/her.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
"I now have good doctors who believe me and my STD went through... I’m a little over 6 months into #LongCovid now. I think I’m making improvements... but it’s hard to tell with so many flare-ups." And now I'm on disability! Your tax and insurance dollars at work.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
BTW, STD in this case is "short-term disability." The other kind might actually have been more useful, as it would mean she's getting some S, which I suspect would cure most cases of long Covid.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Shall we recall some of @CDCDirector's greatest hits? I think we shall! March 29, 2021: Dr. W warns of a feeling of "impending doom" (I believe Metamucil is good for that) and adds, "Right now, I'm scared." Exactly how a leader should sound! https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/29/982302294/cdc-director-fears-impending-doom-if-u-s-opens-too-quickly
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
@CDCDirector And on the same day (THE SAME DAY!), Rochelle gives us the good news that "Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick." No comment needed. (Except, maybe, then why was she so scared?) https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-3-29-21-n1262442
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
On April 27, 2021, our public health chieftainess had more good news: The jabs don't cause myocarditis. The inflammation is all in your head, people. NOT YOUR HEART. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-has-not-seen-link-between-heart-inflammation-covid-19-vaccines-2021-04-27/
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@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
June 18: Okay, maybe they DO cause myocarditis, but whatevs - it's "mild," people! Mild, especially if it's not your kid's heart. https://t.co/aBh2nakwuy
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Another day, another side effect: looks like the mRNAs might make you go blind. Lucky @pfizer’s got that no-refund policy!
@tlowdon - Don Wolt
Large Scale Study (in "Nature"): The cumulative incidence of retinal vascular occlusion was significantly higher in the [CoV2] vaccinated cohort compared to the unvaccinated cohort, at both 2 years and 12 weeks after vaccination. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00661-7
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Our public health betters said mRNA side effects were temporary but the protection would last forever. $100 billion and three billion jabs later, turns out to be the other way around. Oops!
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
@lapublichealth - which has a budget of $1 billion and 4,000 employees - now recommends up to six mRNA Covid vaccines a year for Los Angeles County's 10 million residents. SIX. The only good news is that no one is listening to any of this. https://t.co/0s6vjTsnG7
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
So the public health people are all trying to pretend 2020 didn’t happen? That we didn’t lock down or close schools or travel quarantine or mandate masks or test-n-trace? Of course they are. Because they know, and we know, that EVERYTHING they forced on us proved useless…
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
It was trillion-dollar theater with us as both the actors and audience, and ending with the ultimate theater, “vaccines” that never had a chance of working in the long run. So no, we can’t let them forget. Never again. We’d be better off with NO public health at all than this.
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Remember drive-through Covid tests? Could anything have been stupider than pretending we could track and trace an endemic airborne virus? How many billions of dollars did we waste? How many hours? How many gallons of gas? Is anyone ever going to be held accountable?
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: all-cause deaths in a place that used tons of mRNA and had a relatively light Covid outbreak in 2020/21 are running FAR above normal. The difference: this time the place is in the US. Oregon, to be precise. Maybe now the media will notice?
@AlexBerenson - Alex Berenson
3 billion mRNA Covid shots: $100 billion 1 million extra deaths in the last year: priceless. Here’s Germany, which in December 2022 had its worst two weeks for deaths since Covid began. Because mRNA works!
