The vaccines were experimental. Millions could have been spared the risk if we had been willing to recognize the inherent superiority of innate immunity in the young, and natural immunity in the recovered. There are safe prophylactics against covid that weren't used because repurposed drugs are unprofitable and experimental treatments with EUAs are.
In 1940 we would have used the empty dorms and hotels to house low-risk volunteers who would contract the virus and isolate inside the self-contained "bubble". After they recovered, they would actually be the 'firebreaks' that the 'experts' told us vaccines would be. As an additional benefit, we would have gotten reams of information about the percentage of people were even susceptible in the first place. The best part is that it would be totally voluntary.
Instead, the 'experts' blew up our entire society and ignored the (massive amounts of) data that undermined their "everybody is at risk" narrative that enabled the lockdowns and the mandates in the first place.
Which really gave us all the data we needed to know. Young and fit people don't have much to worry about, not everybody catches the virus to begin with, and IFR is actually pretty low.
100% planned and executed as an agenda, and is STILL executing because all the same players are in all the same positions STILL. ZERO accountability ANYwhere to be seen...
It's not short, and it's not concise, but it is a detailed analysis of everything that went into deciding how best to handle the situation with the points and counterpoints considered. it also discusses the decisions impact on my family, moving across country to ensure our children could remain in school, and, while it doesn't go into detail, touches on the career impact making a decision like this has (there was a time when I couldn't attend my board dinners in NY because I was not "vaccinated.")
These are real world decisions with real world impacts made in what I believe were a meticulous fashion to do what was best for me personally and for my family as a whole. It may, at least, give people with a different view a more detailed perspective of what 'the other side' (we're all on the same side - unless you root for the Sackler's) considered in making the decision they made.
And, Brad, there was an unholy amount of $$$ in the mRNA vax. If there were another good drug, they could not approve the EUA in the US. So, guess what they declared? That no other drugs were effective against C19. You are surprised, right? And, I think the data shows that after drugs, even Vitamin D (not a drug) we’re at least somewhat effective.
If I understand correctly, Pfizer and Moderna have made more $$$ from mRNA than any other drug ever. I mean profit.
We of course now know *how ineffective the mRNA is. It does not stop infection (they said it would, but technically the data said 95% protection -- which turned out to reduce very significantly very quickly). On reduced hospitalization, there was never an end-point on the original study (what? Why?). Certainly we know it does not stop hospitalization (proxy for severe illness). The data on reduced hospitalization is muddied. Observational, not good, unconfounded studies. Healthy vaccinee bias. So, maybe it reduces it some.
Death? Nope, the vaccine does not stop death from C19. Again, unclear whether and how much it MIGHT reduce death.
Side effects? To me, this is most damning. They did not study it well. At all. The “system” suppressed reporting of side effects. We now have some data on many bad side effects. In this regard, mRNA appears to be the worst “vaccine” ever.
In the US the support for side effects studies is lame. This is a travesty!!!
And a patient needs summary estimates of probable side effects to compare to probable benefits. And they give $### mice studies!
We have very bad data on excess deaths in high mRNA countries. This suggests that the vaccine is worse than no vaccine. But I am not sure that is solid proof of that thesis.
Sorry Brad. I probably said a lot you already know.
The people are quite clearly rejecting the shots, but that isn't going to stop Big Pharma and their lackies in government from doing everything they can to push the jabs anyway. Notice how nobody on the campaign trail is talking about the jabs and how mandates were wrong?
Don't underestimate him. This guy is an old-school liberal firebrand, and he's coming for the deep state. He has a large, enthusiastic, and very real following among disaffected Democrats, he doesn't play by their rules, and he won't fold like Bernie.
I don't underestimate HIM, I simply know the rules by which the DNC plays. The primaries are technically private events run by private organizations, so they can use whatever rules -- or change those rules -- whenever they want.
RFK could literally have every primary vote in the country, and the DNC could give the nomination to Gavin Newsom. The only price they would pay is political.
Not so sure he isn't Deep State himself. He is certainly a Green New Dealer. And that is pure Deep State control attempts. If he were really anti--establishment, he would point out the fallacies of that crap also
I don’t think think RFK Jr has TDS. He wanted to work for Trump on the vaccine safety issue. I think he just realizes Trump is a clown and a paper tiger.
They’re not freaking out about Trump. They’re indicting him for 3 reasons: 1 because they want him to beat DeSantis in the primaries because Trump is so easy to beat in the general election. 2 if they’re lucky enough to get a conviction before the election, they can get him off the ballot in most states and he won’t be able to win. 3 even if he somehow wins the general election they all know he’s a paper tiger who won’t do any of the stuff he says. He didn’t build a wall, he didn’t even make a serious effort to build a wall. He only shut down the government AFTER the democrats got the house back. If he was serious about building a wall he would’ve shut down the government during his first 2 years while the republicans had the house. Instead he ran interference for the establishment republicans because Trump is an establishment guy. He also dumped lots of drug dealers and violent felons out on the streets by passing the first step act, a law that was so far left even Obama didn’t propose going that far. Now Trump is running against crime as if he was never president! Trump expanded the swamp and busted the budget caps that were negotiated by the republican house during Obama’s presidency. He expanded the swamp instead of draining it. Trump appointment many neocons, establishment RINOs and swamp creatures, for example: Mattis, Kelly, Tillerson and worst of all Bolton. Then of course the covid stuff. Trump was horrendous on covid. Month after month after month he kept supporting lockdowns, while tweeting against them. That’s Trump’s MO always taking both sides of every issue. Trump funded school closures (while tweeting against them) as late as December 2020, while DeSantis had all the Florida schools open in September 2020. And absolutely the worst thing of all OPERATION WARP SPEED. That’s Trump’s precious baby, the miracle jabs. He calls them his vaccines, he says they’re bigly they’re yuge, they’re great, they’re perfect, they’re miracle vaccines. He told Brett Bair on fox news a couple months ago that he has a democrat friend who told him he deserves more credit for the vaccines and that they saved 100,000,000 lives. Even more disgusting is Trump said he didn’t have a bad reaction to the jabs so they must be safe. Absolutely sick and disgusting that they call this scumbag a populist. He spits on the vaccine injured by claiming they don’t exist. Meanwhile DeSantis is fighting for the vaccine injured by summoning a grand jury which is currently investigating Pfizer for fraud.
Ah! My mistake! I have heard him say that mask mandates are never going to be a thing again. Does he talk about the jabs as well? I've never heard any interviews about it.
DeSantis was outspoken against the jab mandates in summer 2021 while Trump was dodging the question. He recently said in a speech that Florida protected informed consent and we will never again let warp speed trump informed consent.
Oh I forgot the best part, a few months ago DeSantis requested the Florida Supreme Court to summon a grand jury to investigate Pfizer for fraud. I think the investigation is still underway. I’m not sure if the fraud allegations are related to vaccine injuries, or lack of efficacy in stopping transmission, or possibly both.
What does it say about our society that people will line up to receive a jab that not only has no long term safety record but does have a long list of immediate adverse events? Lemmings
it means they rely on the mainstream media (Wash Post, CNN, NYT, etc) for their news. They don't hear the real safety data. Based on the conversation I had with a group of friends, they expect to get COVID vaccines every year like the flu shot and they assume that is good.
Getting a flu shot every year also makes little sense. The evidence for flu vaccine efficacy is very weak. Although the covid shots are clearly more dangerous.
So in Jan 2021 you knew all of the above? Everything that Alex has written in the last two years you and all of those accusing those of us who lined up for initial jabs to be lemmings? believing what the president and the entire government and medical community were telling us? But you had superior insights?
Some of us did. I studied virology and immunology. I said I would not take the vaccines because we have no long term data. I was also concerned about injecting the mRNA to produce the very protein that causes the pathology. But, I was shouting against the wind.
We lost some friends because we were not vaccinated.
I heard the shouting from both sides. My dental hygienist (of all people - not to diss hygienists, but why wasn't this coming from my PCP?) expressed strong objections to the jab in early 2021. She said many of these things - no long term data, RCTs, dying with COVID as opposed to dying from COVID, deceptions in the data on infections & hospitalizations, mRNA technology has issues, the issues with masking, etc. Based on her reservations and those of others, I postponed getting the jab. Then I got COVID in June 2021 - my attending doctor when I was hospitalized from COVID told me specifically to NOT get the jab - he thought it had the potential to do more harm to me than good. It's still on my discharge instructions. I was already in the "skeptical & cautious" camp, but there were other things that happened while I was hospitalized that pushed me 100% into the "we are being lied to - by multiple people and institutions" camp. Even with the COVID brain fog.
Those who spoke with these reservations (and more) were systematically pushed out of the public debate, so all we heard was the government propaganda & their shills. Simple things like sealing the data for 50 years, and Congress granting big pharma immunity from lawsuits made it much worse, and it should have been obvious.
2020 - Gov Cuomo crying on TV about ventilators and lack of beds. For the ventilators, Trump said Cuomo had the chance to order them in 2015 and refused. Cuomo denied it and the media fact checked it, bashing Trump.
Trump dispatches the USS Confort to NYC, and it treats less than 200 patients while it's there. The Javitts center is converted to a 2500 bed field hospital, and treated 1091 patients the whole time it was open, and peaked at about 140 beds in use at any one time. It closed May 2020. They were already over playing their hand in mid-2020 and we knew it.
So yes, by early 2021, many people like you and Alex were screaming about the potential for issues and lack of data & transparency. Masks, 6' distancing, contact spread precautions, etc were all being questioned for months. Government officials were proven to have hyped their situations far higher than reality.
I should have been more skeptical, and that lesson was learned - hard. Everyone who took the jab Jan-May 2021: Why weren't you more skeptical in light of a year of gaslighting? I don't ask this as an accusation, but as an opportunity to reflect on what you, at the time, knew, believed, where you got your information from, and what you dismissed. As I look back now, all the signs were there.
I didn't know anything about this is Jan 2021. But some things weren't making sense.
Everybody has to be locked down. But marching in BLM protests, not a problem? Covid is deadly. But we allow people to cross our borders into the country without screening them? Big box stores stay open. But mom and pop retail establishments and churches can't? Covid is the 2nd coming of the Black Death. But nothing tells me healthy people are dying from it? The kicker -everybody has to lock down, but Gavin Newsom and a group of his cronies dine unmasked at the French Laundry? And Obama has a big birthday celebration at his home on Martha's vineyard? NJ Gov Murphy dining out in NYC while his state across the river is locked down?
And the stories about things like a motorcycle accident fatality that was attributed to Covid? This is a partial list.
I can't prove the 2020 election was stolen. But there's a lot of questions about it nobody wants to answer. Same thing with the vax in early 2021. A lot of things just didn't look right. I made the excuse to my F&F, other people needed the vax worse than me (despite me being 65 yo and having the full list of old people's diseases; i.e. co-morbidities). Waited until more was known. Best decision of my life.
"More than 1.6 million people completed post-vax surveys between Dec 14, 2020, and Jan 13, 2021" -- with list of percentage of people who experienced side effects.
Injection site pain: 70.9%
Fatigue: 33.5%
Headache: 29.5%
Muscle Pain: 22.9%
Chills: 11.6%
Fever: 11.4%
Injection site swelling: 10.8%
Joint Pain: 10.4%
Nausea: 8.9%
In fact, the side effects were so obvious so early that the press was forced to write "Actually, that means it's working" articles to re-assure the people who were experiencing adverse reactions.
Honestly, I didn't *know* anything, but from all the BS I observed during the months of 2020 leading up to the vaccine rollout, I was already quite skeptical. My husband and I have never, ever been ones to run out and buy the brand new car model/television/laptop/whatever that everyone can't wait to get his hands on, and we mostly felt the same way about the mRNA jabs. I said quite a bit during that fall of 2020 that I didn't fear covid, and I admitted that perhaps that was stupid of me. I also wasn't in a rush to get a rushed vaccine, and perhaps that was stupid as well, but I've never been one to get the annual flu shot either. I read an article about "vaccine mandates" in late 2020 (which, as I recall, was chalked up to "conspiracy theory") that struck a nerve, and I knew my family and I would at the very least wait for months before getting any shots. It's only in retrospect that I can see how correct my instincts were, but I know at the time my gut told me it was completely the right call, despite friends implying that only "stupid people" weren't getting the vaccine. There was just way too much propaganda, and maybe my senses were more highly-tuned to it.
Although I cannot say that I knew with certainty all of the above, I have a rule for myself that has served me well, and that is that I do not put any pharmaceutical product into my body that has not been in circulation for somewhere between 5-10 years, depending on the circumstances. As a dentist and nutritionist, I am trained in disease prevention, pharmaceuticals, and immunology. I suspected that these shortcomings would be the case, and tried to warn family and friends to proceed with caution, and hopefully wait a bit before jumping on the bandwagon, but some were living in such a fearful state(and looking for a simple way out vs improving their overall health through diet and lifestyle changes to boost their immune system), that they went ahead anyway. Fortunately, most have now realized that these jabs are basically worthless and possibly harmful, so have stopped getting boosted.
I only had to know NOT to trust government mouthpieces and previously-heavily-fined Big Pharma and the corrupt alphabet legacy media, ALL shilling in lockstep for a completely untested-for-safety experimental shot that was fast-tracked in mere months, when real vaccines take 3-5 YEARS before being made available to the general public...but only if safe and effective.
I didn't have to know "all of the above", no. I only needed to have common f'n sense. Thankfully, I did, and still do.
Additionally, Joseph, I think our society has been primed over the decades to worship vaccines…another reason you are not a lemming, their propaganda just worked really well. I’m not anti vax (but I think the anti vaxxers are on to something), but before covid19, I was often dismayed by hospitals requiring RNs and employees to get a flu shot when we know they don’t prevent transmission. Some of us who work at hospitals but are not employed by the hospitals would be told we were altruistic if we voluntarily got a flu shot, because we care for vulnerable elderly people… that’s actually dumb because if you get a mild respiratory infection that you don’t recognize and work through, you can transmit whether you had a flu shot or not. Unfortunately you have to not trust anything from government or media, they may get something right, but verify for yourself before trusting.
I knew…mainly because I saw BS from the beginning. Media and government advising us to “stay home, stay safe” when we know fresh air and exercise are good for wellness and immunity. Then advising masks when we in healthcare know they serve a purpose in certain instances, but not in the general public for a respiratory virus. When talk of working on a vaccine started, I read some papers about attempts to develop vaccines for prior similar viruses like SARS, but they failed because of (I can’t remember the term) animals in trials get sicker ad dying after viral exposure after vaccination. I do not criticize those who took the initial jabs, the propaganda campaign was real and very powerful, and many intelligent people including those in healthcare fell for it. You should be able to trust organizations like CDC, government, and health officials, but they let you down. You are not a lemming. People like me, who raised questions and fought back early on were low key or blatantly threatened, so we were forced to spread information by word of mouth… much less powerful and effective.
I did. Actually, it was pretty clear from the trial data in late 2020, at least what they released. These were never going to be vaccines, they make your body a spike protein factory with no off switch. The mRNA tech was and is not ready. Moderna had been trying to make a therapeutic for 10 years and had to back off because they found that repeated shots had too many side effects. They even had to change their name from Moderna Therapeutics to Moderna so they could focus on vaccines, which in theory would only be one shot. Hah!!
On the Fox News show, The Five, one of the co-hosts Harold Ford Jr., a former Democrat Representative, said he was going to get his 7th shot soon. 7th!!! I don't know what people are thinking.
Pfizer’s random controlled trial results alone should dissuade anyone from taking it: more people died in the vaccine group than in the control group. And each group had about 22,000 people.
Not to mention, the big takeaway from the results was just how few people actually got sick from covid in the first place. (In the trials, you had to actually have symptoms to count)
Wasn't the placebo group forced to constantly test for the dreaded COVID and the vaccinated group didn't unless they had obvious symptoms ? (Another bias purposely introduced into their bogus trial.)
Not sure about inside the trials, but that was definitely the case later on after the mandates came down. Force the unvaxxed to test and then point to the increased ratio as 'proof' of the dangers of being unvaxxed.
And IINM, Pfizer then put the real jabs into the control group, thus destroying any chance of being able to evaluate their poison shots against a control group.
As a doctor, what has defied all logic about the COVID mRNA vaxx is WHAT they picked the mRNA to signal for production. They chose the SPIKE protein, which is the pathogenic portion of virus...and then put it into our own cellular machinery to produce. This seems to only be due to one of two possibilities..
#1-Incredible stupidity
#2-Intention to harm
SURELY there is another portion of the virus that is unique but harmless that could have been directed by cellular machinery to produce.
INSTEAD they picked SPIKE....and our cells did a great job producing it...This spike protein also seems to have some uncanny affinity for cardiac cells WITHOUT the rest of the virus.
WHY would we play Russian Roulette like this?
Either they are colossally stupid or this was intentional....maybe not in a 'we want to kill you' way, but also maybe intentional in a 'let's see what happens' way....you know, mad scientist bullshit.
It was very early on that the Salk Institute published research indicating the spike protein was the dangerous part of the virus, and they thought it was literally tearing up the cardiovascular system as the virus circulated in the blood. There was a bit of discussion in the Salk Institute's internal magazine publication -- they talked about "anchorase," I think, which is part of the stuff that anchors the spike to the surface of the cells, or something like that. They sounded kind of on-edge about it but those voices never rose up and you never heard about the study in the general press. This was from the summer of 2021. Here's something on it:
'“A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease,” says Assistant Research Professor Uri Manor, who is co-senior author of the study. “That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings.”'
As a layperson, I always thought that NFL players flopping over dead on the field would wake people up. It might yet. Here's my latest effort on that front:
My daughter changed her major to allied health because the jab was required for clinicals - no exceptions, if you can imagine that. California, of course. She can finish nursing in saner times or at a saner place. She took a tough stand and we’re proud of her for that. With what we new then and what we clearly see now she made the absolute correct decision and she knows that.
"As one person emailed me, if you’re a Republican, making agencies and the Justice Department creatures of the White House is a wonderful idea, as long as you plan to win every Presidential election for eternity."
I can give that statement some different interpretations- NONE of them lead to a concept of the government bureaucracy being under the control or even under the influence of the public. They do whatever the hell they want. In theory, they're constrained by what the legislature allows through its lawmaking. In reality, they often go beyond what the law allows. To reign them in requires going to court. They have unlimited legal resources, so fighting them in court requires a LOT of $. And staying power. If after years of litigation they lose, there’s no penalty for them. They merely have to stop violating the law. So what do they lose by trying?
Few will even make the effort, so there’s immutable creeping expansion of government power. Over US.
I'm constantly reminded of this from every direction. In Dr. McCullough's Substack today, about a lawsuit brought by some doctors harmed by the FDA’s pronouncements on Ivermectin, he wrote about a couple of legal arguments made by the FDA:
“The FDA says that Courts have no business in reviewing anything they say or do!.
“The FDA asserts that the only recourse that US citizens have about even egregious errors and deceptions by the FDA is through the “political process.” Astounding!”
But Berenson is all good with this. He WANTS the Deep State to be unconstrained. Heaven forbid a President Trump should bring it to heel.
From his Substack writings, he thinks a lot of what the FDA/CDC has done since the Covid outbreak is wrong. Yet from what he wrote, he’s opposed to the exercise of any control by elected officials that would make them stop doing wrong. Can anyone resolve this conflict for me?
I don't know what's in Berenson's heart. Me playing amateur psychologist, it seems there is a limit to how far his reasoning can carry him before his progressive side overcomes and his feelings win out. He hates Trump, and for him that overrides all else.
I’m not here as an antagonist troll. Berenson does a lot of good work. That’s why I pay my money to subscribe. But I don’t allow him to do my thinking for me. There’s a lot he’s just plain wrong about.
I appreciate both Alex's 10 points (useful) and also the points you are making. I believe that going to Schedule F will just introduce a new set of problems and, while agreeing with most of your points, will be a double disaster (if it can get any worse) when the wrong people are filling the Schedule F slots...in that respect, Alex's point about "it had better stay Republican" is correct. These kinds of absurdly partisan actions were the reason the civil service was created to begin with -- so it all comes full cycle. I realize that the entire government is stuffed with progressive Democrats so the noticeable changes would come from a Republican administration, but when it shifted back it would be, I expect, even worse than now if that can be imagined.
I have only been able to devise one scenario that would fix the problem irrespective of the mechanics of organization: All governmental liability shields should be removed, especially the one that allows government actors to be completely exculpated from any personal liability. They know they can do what they like and it will never have any personal effect and any defense will be paid for by the people suing them. This is broken in every possible way. And I mean this not only for the bureaucrats, but also for the members of Congress -- if corporate CEOs can be held personally liable for what their companies do (and they are under many state and Federal laws) then certainly people taking extorted money from us should have at least an equal degree of care and be subject to similar, personal penalties when they do not show such care.
The only pushback to this I ever hear is "well then people will not want cushy and risk-free jobs doing nothing for the government". Well that is music to my ears. So perhaps we will have a double win.
Agree completely. Qualified immunity for government employees must be eradicated. Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated. Behavior with consequences gets changed.
"All governmental liability shields should be removed, especially the one that allows government actors to be completely exculpated from any personal liability. They know they can do what they like and it will never have any personal effect and any defense will be paid for by the people suing them. This is broken in every possible way. And I mean this not only for the bureaucrats, but also for the members of Congress -- if corporate CEOs can be held personally liable for what their companies do (and they are under many state and Federal laws) then certainly people taking extorted money from us should have at least an equal degree of care and be subject to similar, personal penalties when they do not show such care." This resonates with me and then I wonder about the police being too worried to do their jobs for fear that someone will bring suit. When I say that I am not saying that any police never make mistakes or that there are no bad actors among the police. I just recognize it's not as nice and neat as I wish it to be.
Agree completely that Alex is both often wrong and often correct. It just depends on what his writing about. I've gotten to the point that I tell myself, "I'm not going to read his post," but often read it anyway, unless the word "Trump" appears in the post title. I've been reading the substack posts of William Briggs - a scientist that covers logical fallacies. Based on Briggs essays, I often remind myself not to be misled by the "Expert's Fallacy." Just because Alex is an expert in the Deathvaxx and government censorship, doesn't make him an expert in everything, especially politics.
Alex is annoying? Not in the slightest even when he is critical of Trump. Alex is unfailingly polite in those criticisms and even being a huge MAGA supporter as I am I can acknowledge room for improvement by Mr. Trump.
I'll agree with you on Trump. I voted for him, and will again, but he does a lot that I wish he wouldn't do.
I cannot agree with you on Berenson always being polite. His treatment of Dr. Malone on live television is one of the rudest things I've ever seen. I've seen him mocking and taunting his SS subscribers when he (mistakenly) thought he had slam-dunk proof ivermectin was a failure.
Thank you for this. I've been putting off going through a thousand or so covid substack emails to do just this for any remotely curious friend or family member.
Now the last task will be to attach an actual reference to each bullet point.
Tell them about the NFL players. 11 active NFL down to things like pericarditis, ruptured artery, stroke, cardiac arrest and the like. I have to update this article because the 11th just happened a couple days ago at a NY Giants practice where Tommy Sweeney mysteriously collapsed.
I'm in an industry that was mandated and we have had a bunch of strokes, heart attacks, aortic dissections and myocarditis in the last year and a half and no one wants to address it.
What I don't understand is, where are all the lawsuits? Had I been mandated to get some jab that caused heart issues such as these, I'd find the best lawyer I could find.
Thank you for this and to the woman who wrote you: "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie" ~Mark Twain. I've had zero success with my family members, but I pass them curated new information - and tell them if I don't and something happens, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Truth.
Twain's quote may be the inspiration for Thomas Sowell's (IINM) observation, "You cannot reason someone out of a position he didn't reason himself into."
1. The FDA tried to seal the Pfizer clinical results for 75 years. A federal judge overruled them . Their data disclosed that 1223 deaths occurred and over 1500 different adverse reactions had occurred out of a clinical test group of about 40,000 people. (Neither Safe Nor Effective-pages 39-40-Dr. Colleen Huber)
2. On August 31, 2021, the two top vaccine regulators at the FDA retired suddenly. (Reuters)
5. The amount spent on healthcare in the U. S. is twice that of any other nation. The U. S. longevity is 64th in the world. (Previously supplied graph by Alex Berenson)
Your first item should maybe be Alex's first item.
I might also add, as reasons to NOT get jabbed,
"The definition of 'vaccine' was changed because the mRNA jabs don't do what true vaccines do. The definition of 'vaccine failure' was also changed, to 'vaccine breakthrough', because Big Pharma and its government shills didn't want the word "failure" to be associated with the jabs. And the definition of 'natural immunity' was changed because Big Pharma and its government shills didn't want the unjabbed-but-Covid-recovered to be able to avoid the jab mandates."
So, basically, the mRNA injections aren't fully tested, and what testing they've done has not had encouraging results. To that we can add that once you've been injected with ANY vaccine, it's too late to change your mind.
Fauci ,Walensky, Gruber- all quit-- the people RESPONSIBLE for govt administration and tracking the long term safety and efficacy are nowhere to be found. tell your daughter research sudden death in young vaccinated Young people many are dropping dead left and right from ODD health ailments ( Charlbi Dean, Gwen casten....)NOBODY IS TRACKING LONG TERM EFFECTS!
Good stuff Alex - but you need foot-notes, citations to detailed articles - for each of these things. Nobody will believe any of it without the background information... now many of them won't belive even WITH that - but I'd like to have your sources to back up those statements. I can find them myself with a lot of digging - but since you seem to already have them - help me out here :-)
I would have expected one of the 10 items, especially #5, to point to the dangerous side effects prevalent amoung younger people, like myocarditis amoung young men and the not-so-minor effects on the menstrual process in young women.
The vaccines were experimental. Millions could have been spared the risk if we had been willing to recognize the inherent superiority of innate immunity in the young, and natural immunity in the recovered. There are safe prophylactics against covid that weren't used because repurposed drugs are unprofitable and experimental treatments with EUAs are.
In 1940 we would have used the empty dorms and hotels to house low-risk volunteers who would contract the virus and isolate inside the self-contained "bubble". After they recovered, they would actually be the 'firebreaks' that the 'experts' told us vaccines would be. As an additional benefit, we would have gotten reams of information about the percentage of people were even susceptible in the first place. The best part is that it would be totally voluntary.
Instead, the 'experts' blew up our entire society and ignored the (massive amounts of) data that undermined their "everybody is at risk" narrative that enabled the lockdowns and the mandates in the first place.
We actually had this early in the covid scam, on the cruise ship.
Which really gave us all the data we needed to know. Young and fit people don't have much to worry about, not everybody catches the virus to begin with, and IFR is actually pretty low.
Well said. It was a massive, coordinated attack.
100% planned and executed as an agenda, and is STILL executing because all the same players are in all the same positions STILL. ZERO accountability ANYwhere to be seen...
I've never heard of that protocol. Very interesting and makes a ton of sense.
I'd invite those interested in the topic of how/why people made the decision they made regarding the "vaccine" to read this piece - https://butthedatasays.substack.com/p/why-the-public-always-loses-in-public?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
It's not short, and it's not concise, but it is a detailed analysis of everything that went into deciding how best to handle the situation with the points and counterpoints considered. it also discusses the decisions impact on my family, moving across country to ensure our children could remain in school, and, while it doesn't go into detail, touches on the career impact making a decision like this has (there was a time when I couldn't attend my board dinners in NY because I was not "vaccinated.")
These are real world decisions with real world impacts made in what I believe were a meticulous fashion to do what was best for me personally and for my family as a whole. It may, at least, give people with a different view a more detailed perspective of what 'the other side' (we're all on the same side - unless you root for the Sackler's) considered in making the decision they made.
And, Brad, there was an unholy amount of $$$ in the mRNA vax. If there were another good drug, they could not approve the EUA in the US. So, guess what they declared? That no other drugs were effective against C19. You are surprised, right? And, I think the data shows that after drugs, even Vitamin D (not a drug) we’re at least somewhat effective.
If I understand correctly, Pfizer and Moderna have made more $$$ from mRNA than any other drug ever. I mean profit.
We of course now know *how ineffective the mRNA is. It does not stop infection (they said it would, but technically the data said 95% protection -- which turned out to reduce very significantly very quickly). On reduced hospitalization, there was never an end-point on the original study (what? Why?). Certainly we know it does not stop hospitalization (proxy for severe illness). The data on reduced hospitalization is muddied. Observational, not good, unconfounded studies. Healthy vaccinee bias. So, maybe it reduces it some.
Death? Nope, the vaccine does not stop death from C19. Again, unclear whether and how much it MIGHT reduce death.
Side effects? To me, this is most damning. They did not study it well. At all. The “system” suppressed reporting of side effects. We now have some data on many bad side effects. In this regard, mRNA appears to be the worst “vaccine” ever.
In the US the support for side effects studies is lame. This is a travesty!!!
And a patient needs summary estimates of probable side effects to compare to probable benefits. And they give $### mice studies!
We have very bad data on excess deaths in high mRNA countries. This suggests that the vaccine is worse than no vaccine. But I am not sure that is solid proof of that thesis.
Sorry Brad. I probably said a lot you already know.
Well said!
The people are quite clearly rejecting the shots, but that isn't going to stop Big Pharma and their lackies in government from doing everything they can to push the jabs anyway. Notice how nobody on the campaign trail is talking about the jabs and how mandates were wrong?
Aren't you forgetting RFK, Jr.?
I am because the democrats will never in a million years allow him anywhere near the nomination. (To save democracy, of course)
Don't underestimate him. This guy is an old-school liberal firebrand, and he's coming for the deep state. He has a large, enthusiastic, and very real following among disaffected Democrats, he doesn't play by their rules, and he won't fold like Bernie.
I don't underestimate HIM, I simply know the rules by which the DNC plays. The primaries are technically private events run by private organizations, so they can use whatever rules -- or change those rules -- whenever they want.
RFK could literally have every primary vote in the country, and the DNC could give the nomination to Gavin Newsom. The only price they would pay is political.
true. They stole the nomination from Bernie twice and no liberal batted an eye.
I think it cost them a lot of their base. At some point that's going to matter.
That might be a very steep price.
Not so sure he isn't Deep State himself. He is certainly a Green New Dealer. And that is pure Deep State control attempts. If he were really anti--establishment, he would point out the fallacies of that crap also
I think RFK Jr has recently said the green agenda is being used against us.
I follow him and have not seen that.
RFKjr is a joke.
His power would come from running has an independent, but he won't do it because.
TDS
Let the Democrat establishment ignore him at their peril.
No
They are doing exactly the right thing, ignoring him.
His TDS trumps his humanity.
I don’t think think RFK Jr has TDS. He wanted to work for Trump on the vaccine safety issue. I think he just realizes Trump is a clown and a paper tiger.
The uniparty and the globalist are freaking out over a "clown" and "paper tiger" ?
He would be treated like Zelenski if they belived that.
They’re not freaking out about Trump. They’re indicting him for 3 reasons: 1 because they want him to beat DeSantis in the primaries because Trump is so easy to beat in the general election. 2 if they’re lucky enough to get a conviction before the election, they can get him off the ballot in most states and he won’t be able to win. 3 even if he somehow wins the general election they all know he’s a paper tiger who won’t do any of the stuff he says. He didn’t build a wall, he didn’t even make a serious effort to build a wall. He only shut down the government AFTER the democrats got the house back. If he was serious about building a wall he would’ve shut down the government during his first 2 years while the republicans had the house. Instead he ran interference for the establishment republicans because Trump is an establishment guy. He also dumped lots of drug dealers and violent felons out on the streets by passing the first step act, a law that was so far left even Obama didn’t propose going that far. Now Trump is running against crime as if he was never president! Trump expanded the swamp and busted the budget caps that were negotiated by the republican house during Obama’s presidency. He expanded the swamp instead of draining it. Trump appointment many neocons, establishment RINOs and swamp creatures, for example: Mattis, Kelly, Tillerson and worst of all Bolton. Then of course the covid stuff. Trump was horrendous on covid. Month after month after month he kept supporting lockdowns, while tweeting against them. That’s Trump’s MO always taking both sides of every issue. Trump funded school closures (while tweeting against them) as late as December 2020, while DeSantis had all the Florida schools open in September 2020. And absolutely the worst thing of all OPERATION WARP SPEED. That’s Trump’s precious baby, the miracle jabs. He calls them his vaccines, he says they’re bigly they’re yuge, they’re great, they’re perfect, they’re miracle vaccines. He told Brett Bair on fox news a couple months ago that he has a democrat friend who told him he deserves more credit for the vaccines and that they saved 100,000,000 lives. Even more disgusting is Trump said he didn’t have a bad reaction to the jabs so they must be safe. Absolutely sick and disgusting that they call this scumbag a populist. He spits on the vaccine injured by claiming they don’t exist. Meanwhile DeSantis is fighting for the vaccine injured by summoning a grand jury which is currently investigating Pfizer for fraud.
Well DeSantis said mandates were bad. But yes, in general, you are correct
He said lockdowns were bad (IIRC), and he had to jam it in really quick. The subject was never even approached the rest of the night.
oh you are only referring to the debate? I wasn't
Ah! My mistake! I have heard him say that mask mandates are never going to be a thing again. Does he talk about the jabs as well? I've never heard any interviews about it.
DeSantis was outspoken against the jab mandates in summer 2021 while Trump was dodging the question. He recently said in a speech that Florida protected informed consent and we will never again let warp speed trump informed consent.
Oh I forgot the best part, a few months ago DeSantis requested the Florida Supreme Court to summon a grand jury to investigate Pfizer for fraud. I think the investigation is still underway. I’m not sure if the fraud allegations are related to vaccine injuries, or lack of efficacy in stopping transmission, or possibly both.
Ron Desantis is. He also has litigation ongoing currently in the state of Florida
What does it say about our society that people will line up to receive a jab that not only has no long term safety record but does have a long list of immediate adverse events? Lemmings
it means they rely on the mainstream media (Wash Post, CNN, NYT, etc) for their news. They don't hear the real safety data. Based on the conversation I had with a group of friends, they expect to get COVID vaccines every year like the flu shot and they assume that is good.
Getting a flu shot every year also makes little sense. The evidence for flu vaccine efficacy is very weak. Although the covid shots are clearly more dangerous.
Over 42% of American adults have obesity, while about 30.7% are overweight.
Does that strike you as a society that values its health?
Zero critical thought... SHEEP
Many that line up are in line to die from too many clot shots. Lots of buffoons in our society.
So in Jan 2021 you knew all of the above? Everything that Alex has written in the last two years you and all of those accusing those of us who lined up for initial jabs to be lemmings? believing what the president and the entire government and medical community were telling us? But you had superior insights?
Some of us did. I studied virology and immunology. I said I would not take the vaccines because we have no long term data. I was also concerned about injecting the mRNA to produce the very protein that causes the pathology. But, I was shouting against the wind.
We lost some friends because we were not vaccinated.
I heard the shouting from both sides. My dental hygienist (of all people - not to diss hygienists, but why wasn't this coming from my PCP?) expressed strong objections to the jab in early 2021. She said many of these things - no long term data, RCTs, dying with COVID as opposed to dying from COVID, deceptions in the data on infections & hospitalizations, mRNA technology has issues, the issues with masking, etc. Based on her reservations and those of others, I postponed getting the jab. Then I got COVID in June 2021 - my attending doctor when I was hospitalized from COVID told me specifically to NOT get the jab - he thought it had the potential to do more harm to me than good. It's still on my discharge instructions. I was already in the "skeptical & cautious" camp, but there were other things that happened while I was hospitalized that pushed me 100% into the "we are being lied to - by multiple people and institutions" camp. Even with the COVID brain fog.
Those who spoke with these reservations (and more) were systematically pushed out of the public debate, so all we heard was the government propaganda & their shills. Simple things like sealing the data for 50 years, and Congress granting big pharma immunity from lawsuits made it much worse, and it should have been obvious.
2020 - Gov Cuomo crying on TV about ventilators and lack of beds. For the ventilators, Trump said Cuomo had the chance to order them in 2015 and refused. Cuomo denied it and the media fact checked it, bashing Trump.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-misleading-ventilator-counter-punch-at-cuomo/
Later, it's revealed that NY didn't need that many after all, and was giving them to other states.
https://news.yahoo.com/ventilator-shortage-wasn-t-212614058.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-response-ventilators-trump-administration-handled-potential-shortage-deftly/ (look at the date)
Trump dispatches the USS Confort to NYC, and it treats less than 200 patients while it's there. The Javitts center is converted to a 2500 bed field hospital, and treated 1091 patients the whole time it was open, and peaked at about 140 beds in use at any one time. It closed May 2020. They were already over playing their hand in mid-2020 and we knew it.
So yes, by early 2021, many people like you and Alex were screaming about the potential for issues and lack of data & transparency. Masks, 6' distancing, contact spread precautions, etc were all being questioned for months. Government officials were proven to have hyped their situations far higher than reality.
I should have been more skeptical, and that lesson was learned - hard. Everyone who took the jab Jan-May 2021: Why weren't you more skeptical in light of a year of gaslighting? I don't ask this as an accusation, but as an opportunity to reflect on what you, at the time, knew, believed, where you got your information from, and what you dismissed. As I look back now, all the signs were there.
I didn't know anything about this is Jan 2021. But some things weren't making sense.
Everybody has to be locked down. But marching in BLM protests, not a problem? Covid is deadly. But we allow people to cross our borders into the country without screening them? Big box stores stay open. But mom and pop retail establishments and churches can't? Covid is the 2nd coming of the Black Death. But nothing tells me healthy people are dying from it? The kicker -everybody has to lock down, but Gavin Newsom and a group of his cronies dine unmasked at the French Laundry? And Obama has a big birthday celebration at his home on Martha's vineyard? NJ Gov Murphy dining out in NYC while his state across the river is locked down?
And the stories about things like a motorcycle accident fatality that was attributed to Covid? This is a partial list.
I can't prove the 2020 election was stolen. But there's a lot of questions about it nobody wants to answer. Same thing with the vax in early 2021. A lot of things just didn't look right. I made the excuse to my F&F, other people needed the vax worse than me (despite me being 65 yo and having the full list of old people's diseases; i.e. co-morbidities). Waited until more was known. Best decision of my life.
That information was available basically immediately -- long before my age group was eligible to get jabbed.
https://imgur.com/a/J2pvqan
"More than 1.6 million people completed post-vax surveys between Dec 14, 2020, and Jan 13, 2021" -- with list of percentage of people who experienced side effects.
Injection site pain: 70.9%
Fatigue: 33.5%
Headache: 29.5%
Muscle Pain: 22.9%
Chills: 11.6%
Fever: 11.4%
Injection site swelling: 10.8%
Joint Pain: 10.4%
Nausea: 8.9%
In fact, the side effects were so obvious so early that the press was forced to write "Actually, that means it's working" articles to re-assure the people who were experiencing adverse reactions.
One word. Thalidomide.
Correct.
Simple deductive or inductive reasoning yielded the same conclusion- the vaccines weren't proven to be safe, or effective.
No superior insights required.
Honestly, I didn't *know* anything, but from all the BS I observed during the months of 2020 leading up to the vaccine rollout, I was already quite skeptical. My husband and I have never, ever been ones to run out and buy the brand new car model/television/laptop/whatever that everyone can't wait to get his hands on, and we mostly felt the same way about the mRNA jabs. I said quite a bit during that fall of 2020 that I didn't fear covid, and I admitted that perhaps that was stupid of me. I also wasn't in a rush to get a rushed vaccine, and perhaps that was stupid as well, but I've never been one to get the annual flu shot either. I read an article about "vaccine mandates" in late 2020 (which, as I recall, was chalked up to "conspiracy theory") that struck a nerve, and I knew my family and I would at the very least wait for months before getting any shots. It's only in retrospect that I can see how correct my instincts were, but I know at the time my gut told me it was completely the right call, despite friends implying that only "stupid people" weren't getting the vaccine. There was just way too much propaganda, and maybe my senses were more highly-tuned to it.
Some of us learned the hard way, years ago, to have a healthy skepticism of public health proclamations regarding vaccines.
Although I cannot say that I knew with certainty all of the above, I have a rule for myself that has served me well, and that is that I do not put any pharmaceutical product into my body that has not been in circulation for somewhere between 5-10 years, depending on the circumstances. As a dentist and nutritionist, I am trained in disease prevention, pharmaceuticals, and immunology. I suspected that these shortcomings would be the case, and tried to warn family and friends to proceed with caution, and hopefully wait a bit before jumping on the bandwagon, but some were living in such a fearful state(and looking for a simple way out vs improving their overall health through diet and lifestyle changes to boost their immune system), that they went ahead anyway. Fortunately, most have now realized that these jabs are basically worthless and possibly harmful, so have stopped getting boosted.
I didn't have to know "all of the above".
I only had to know NOT to trust government mouthpieces and previously-heavily-fined Big Pharma and the corrupt alphabet legacy media, ALL shilling in lockstep for a completely untested-for-safety experimental shot that was fast-tracked in mere months, when real vaccines take 3-5 YEARS before being made available to the general public...but only if safe and effective.
I didn't have to know "all of the above", no. I only needed to have common f'n sense. Thankfully, I did, and still do.
Additionally, Joseph, I think our society has been primed over the decades to worship vaccines…another reason you are not a lemming, their propaganda just worked really well. I’m not anti vax (but I think the anti vaxxers are on to something), but before covid19, I was often dismayed by hospitals requiring RNs and employees to get a flu shot when we know they don’t prevent transmission. Some of us who work at hospitals but are not employed by the hospitals would be told we were altruistic if we voluntarily got a flu shot, because we care for vulnerable elderly people… that’s actually dumb because if you get a mild respiratory infection that you don’t recognize and work through, you can transmit whether you had a flu shot or not. Unfortunately you have to not trust anything from government or media, they may get something right, but verify for yourself before trusting.
I knew…mainly because I saw BS from the beginning. Media and government advising us to “stay home, stay safe” when we know fresh air and exercise are good for wellness and immunity. Then advising masks when we in healthcare know they serve a purpose in certain instances, but not in the general public for a respiratory virus. When talk of working on a vaccine started, I read some papers about attempts to develop vaccines for prior similar viruses like SARS, but they failed because of (I can’t remember the term) animals in trials get sicker ad dying after viral exposure after vaccination. I do not criticize those who took the initial jabs, the propaganda campaign was real and very powerful, and many intelligent people including those in healthcare fell for it. You should be able to trust organizations like CDC, government, and health officials, but they let you down. You are not a lemming. People like me, who raised questions and fought back early on were low key or blatantly threatened, so we were forced to spread information by word of mouth… much less powerful and effective.
I did. Actually, it was pretty clear from the trial data in late 2020, at least what they released. These were never going to be vaccines, they make your body a spike protein factory with no off switch. The mRNA tech was and is not ready. Moderna had been trying to make a therapeutic for 10 years and had to back off because they found that repeated shots had too many side effects. They even had to change their name from Moderna Therapeutics to Moderna so they could focus on vaccines, which in theory would only be one shot. Hah!!
On the Fox News show, The Five, one of the co-hosts Harold Ford Jr., a former Democrat Representative, said he was going to get his 7th shot soon. 7th!!! I don't know what people are thinking.
He's probably lying and faking it like a whole lot of them.
I thought about that but then I saw his co-host's reactions. They were stunned.
that's what frightened me and saddened me the most, how quickly people did what they were told from bureaucrats
Pfizer’s random controlled trial results alone should dissuade anyone from taking it: more people died in the vaccine group than in the control group. And each group had about 22,000 people.
Not to mention, the big takeaway from the results was just how few people actually got sick from covid in the first place. (In the trials, you had to actually have symptoms to count)
Wasn't the placebo group forced to constantly test for the dreaded COVID and the vaccinated group didn't unless they had obvious symptoms ? (Another bias purposely introduced into their bogus trial.)
Not sure about inside the trials, but that was definitely the case later on after the mandates came down. Force the unvaxxed to test and then point to the increased ratio as 'proof' of the dangers of being unvaxxed.
And IINM, Pfizer then put the real jabs into the control group, thus destroying any chance of being able to evaluate their poison shots against a control group.
As a doctor, what has defied all logic about the COVID mRNA vaxx is WHAT they picked the mRNA to signal for production. They chose the SPIKE protein, which is the pathogenic portion of virus...and then put it into our own cellular machinery to produce. This seems to only be due to one of two possibilities..
#1-Incredible stupidity
#2-Intention to harm
SURELY there is another portion of the virus that is unique but harmless that could have been directed by cellular machinery to produce.
INSTEAD they picked SPIKE....and our cells did a great job producing it...This spike protein also seems to have some uncanny affinity for cardiac cells WITHOUT the rest of the virus.
WHY would we play Russian Roulette like this?
Either they are colossally stupid or this was intentional....maybe not in a 'we want to kill you' way, but also maybe intentional in a 'let's see what happens' way....you know, mad scientist bullshit.
It was very early on that the Salk Institute published research indicating the spike protein was the dangerous part of the virus, and they thought it was literally tearing up the cardiovascular system as the virus circulated in the blood. There was a bit of discussion in the Salk Institute's internal magazine publication -- they talked about "anchorase," I think, which is part of the stuff that anchors the spike to the surface of the cells, or something like that. They sounded kind of on-edge about it but those voices never rose up and you never heard about the study in the general press. This was from the summer of 2021. Here's something on it:
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-novel-coronavirus-spike-protein-plays-additional-key-role-in-illness/
It's pretty damning.
'“A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease,” says Assistant Research Professor Uri Manor, who is co-senior author of the study. “That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings.”'
As a layperson, I always thought that NFL players flopping over dead on the field would wake people up. It might yet. Here's my latest effort on that front:
The NFL are Falling Down
falling down, falling down
https://www.thechadrabbit.com/p/the-nfl-are-falling-down
Cheers
Thanks for the Salk link.
We are the long term clinical trial.
I think I know the answer to that.....
My daughter changed her major to allied health because the jab was required for clinicals - no exceptions, if you can imagine that. California, of course. She can finish nursing in saner times or at a saner place. She took a tough stand and we’re proud of her for that. With what we new then and what we clearly see now she made the absolute correct decision and she knows that.
Good on her, and good on you for supporting her.
I have spent thousands helping my children, the ones that aren't sheep, to avoid the jab.
Still fighting the last war. I'm not angry anymore, but I'm incensed at what Berenson wrote in his recent Substack: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-the-coming-radicalism-of-donald
Here's his money-shot:
"As one person emailed me, if you’re a Republican, making agencies and the Justice Department creatures of the White House is a wonderful idea, as long as you plan to win every Presidential election for eternity."
I can give that statement some different interpretations- NONE of them lead to a concept of the government bureaucracy being under the control or even under the influence of the public. They do whatever the hell they want. In theory, they're constrained by what the legislature allows through its lawmaking. In reality, they often go beyond what the law allows. To reign them in requires going to court. They have unlimited legal resources, so fighting them in court requires a LOT of $. And staying power. If after years of litigation they lose, there’s no penalty for them. They merely have to stop violating the law. So what do they lose by trying?
Few will even make the effort, so there’s immutable creeping expansion of government power. Over US.
I'm constantly reminded of this from every direction. In Dr. McCullough's Substack today, about a lawsuit brought by some doctors harmed by the FDA’s pronouncements on Ivermectin, he wrote about a couple of legal arguments made by the FDA:
“The FDA says that Courts have no business in reviewing anything they say or do!.
“The FDA asserts that the only recourse that US citizens have about even egregious errors and deceptions by the FDA is through the “political process.” Astounding!”
(The FDA Can Say (and Do) Anything It Wants - https://tinyurl.com/2fy8nf2f)
But Berenson is all good with this. He WANTS the Deep State to be unconstrained. Heaven forbid a President Trump should bring it to heel.
From his Substack writings, he thinks a lot of what the FDA/CDC has done since the Covid outbreak is wrong. Yet from what he wrote, he’s opposed to the exercise of any control by elected officials that would make them stop doing wrong. Can anyone resolve this conflict for me?
I don't know what's in Berenson's heart. Me playing amateur psychologist, it seems there is a limit to how far his reasoning can carry him before his progressive side overcomes and his feelings win out. He hates Trump, and for him that overrides all else.
I’m not here as an antagonist troll. Berenson does a lot of good work. That’s why I pay my money to subscribe. But I don’t allow him to do my thinking for me. There’s a lot he’s just plain wrong about.
I appreciate both Alex's 10 points (useful) and also the points you are making. I believe that going to Schedule F will just introduce a new set of problems and, while agreeing with most of your points, will be a double disaster (if it can get any worse) when the wrong people are filling the Schedule F slots...in that respect, Alex's point about "it had better stay Republican" is correct. These kinds of absurdly partisan actions were the reason the civil service was created to begin with -- so it all comes full cycle. I realize that the entire government is stuffed with progressive Democrats so the noticeable changes would come from a Republican administration, but when it shifted back it would be, I expect, even worse than now if that can be imagined.
I have only been able to devise one scenario that would fix the problem irrespective of the mechanics of organization: All governmental liability shields should be removed, especially the one that allows government actors to be completely exculpated from any personal liability. They know they can do what they like and it will never have any personal effect and any defense will be paid for by the people suing them. This is broken in every possible way. And I mean this not only for the bureaucrats, but also for the members of Congress -- if corporate CEOs can be held personally liable for what their companies do (and they are under many state and Federal laws) then certainly people taking extorted money from us should have at least an equal degree of care and be subject to similar, personal penalties when they do not show such care.
The only pushback to this I ever hear is "well then people will not want cushy and risk-free jobs doing nothing for the government". Well that is music to my ears. So perhaps we will have a double win.
Agree completely. Qualified immunity for government employees must be eradicated. Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated. Behavior with consequences gets changed.
"All governmental liability shields should be removed, especially the one that allows government actors to be completely exculpated from any personal liability. They know they can do what they like and it will never have any personal effect and any defense will be paid for by the people suing them. This is broken in every possible way. And I mean this not only for the bureaucrats, but also for the members of Congress -- if corporate CEOs can be held personally liable for what their companies do (and they are under many state and Federal laws) then certainly people taking extorted money from us should have at least an equal degree of care and be subject to similar, personal penalties when they do not show such care." This resonates with me and then I wonder about the police being too worried to do their jobs for fear that someone will bring suit. When I say that I am not saying that any police never make mistakes or that there are no bad actors among the police. I just recognize it's not as nice and neat as I wish it to be.
Agree completely that Alex is both often wrong and often correct. It just depends on what his writing about. I've gotten to the point that I tell myself, "I'm not going to read his post," but often read it anyway, unless the word "Trump" appears in the post title. I've been reading the substack posts of William Briggs - a scientist that covers logical fallacies. Based on Briggs essays, I often remind myself not to be misled by the "Expert's Fallacy." Just because Alex is an expert in the Deathvaxx and government censorship, doesn't make him an expert in everything, especially politics.
Alex is 80% annoying and 100% effective.
Alex is annoying? Not in the slightest even when he is critical of Trump. Alex is unfailingly polite in those criticisms and even being a huge MAGA supporter as I am I can acknowledge room for improvement by Mr. Trump.
I'll agree with you on Trump. I voted for him, and will again, but he does a lot that I wish he wouldn't do.
I cannot agree with you on Berenson always being polite. His treatment of Dr. Malone on live television is one of the rudest things I've ever seen. I've seen him mocking and taunting his SS subscribers when he (mistakenly) thought he had slam-dunk proof ivermectin was a failure.
Ah... good memory. I do have to agree with your points. Thanks for the reminder. I'll go with overall Alex does more good than snark.
To each his own
Agencies ARE supposed to be under the Chief Executive, as they are part of the
Executive Branch. Hellllooooo, Alex.
Thank you for this. I've been putting off going through a thousand or so covid substack emails to do just this for any remotely curious friend or family member.
Now the last task will be to attach an actual reference to each bullet point.
Tell them about the NFL players. 11 active NFL down to things like pericarditis, ruptured artery, stroke, cardiac arrest and the like. I have to update this article because the 11th just happened a couple days ago at a NY Giants practice where Tommy Sweeney mysteriously collapsed.
The NFL are Falling Down
falling down, falling down
https://www.thechadrabbit.com/p/the-nfl-are-falling-down
I'm in an industry that was mandated and we have had a bunch of strokes, heart attacks, aortic dissections and myocarditis in the last year and a half and no one wants to address it.
What I don't understand is, where are all the lawsuits? Had I been mandated to get some jab that caused heart issues such as these, I'd find the best lawyer I could find.
the lawyers want no part, yet.
Yes. that is exactly the response we all will get to these 10 points "That's just Alex's opinion. where are the references?"
"Source!?"
Thank you for this and to the woman who wrote you: "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie" ~Mark Twain. I've had zero success with my family members, but I pass them curated new information - and tell them if I don't and something happens, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Truth.
Twain's quote may be the inspiration for Thomas Sowell's (IINM) observation, "You cannot reason someone out of a position he didn't reason himself into."
Great list. But please add six things.
1. The FDA tried to seal the Pfizer clinical results for 75 years. A federal judge overruled them . Their data disclosed that 1223 deaths occurred and over 1500 different adverse reactions had occurred out of a clinical test group of about 40,000 people. (Neither Safe Nor Effective-pages 39-40-Dr. Colleen Huber)
2. On August 31, 2021, the two top vaccine regulators at the FDA retired suddenly. (Reuters)
3. Pfizer materials identify the vaccine as modRNA not mRNA. (Modified mRNA-Based Vaccines Against Coronavirus Disease 2019-Aline Yen Wang-National Library of Medicine) and https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-utilizes-nucleoside-modified/
4. The FDA could not authorize the vaccines for Emergency Usage unless all other treatments for Covid were declared inadequate, non approved and not available. https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explained.
5. The amount spent on healthcare in the U. S. is twice that of any other nation. The U. S. longevity is 64th in the world. (Previously supplied graph by Alex Berenson)
6 Biden declared by mandate that up to 100 million people in the U. S. (Except illegal immigrants) had to take the vaccine whether they wanted to or not. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-mandates-vaccines. html https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-utilizes-nucleoside-modified/
Okay. Now line up and take those boosters.
Your first item should maybe be Alex's first item.
I might also add, as reasons to NOT get jabbed,
"The definition of 'vaccine' was changed because the mRNA jabs don't do what true vaccines do. The definition of 'vaccine failure' was also changed, to 'vaccine breakthrough', because Big Pharma and its government shills didn't want the word "failure" to be associated with the jabs. And the definition of 'natural immunity' was changed because Big Pharma and its government shills didn't want the unjabbed-but-Covid-recovered to be able to avoid the jab mandates."
So true. No. 7, 8 & 9.
You have to just be plain stupid to consider injecting this stuff into a human body. Yeah right "safe and effective"
So, basically, the mRNA injections aren't fully tested, and what testing they've done has not had encouraging results. To that we can add that once you've been injected with ANY vaccine, it's too late to change your mind.
Fauci ,Walensky, Gruber- all quit-- the people RESPONSIBLE for govt administration and tracking the long term safety and efficacy are nowhere to be found. tell your daughter research sudden death in young vaccinated Young people many are dropping dead left and right from ODD health ailments ( Charlbi Dean, Gwen casten....)NOBODY IS TRACKING LONG TERM EFFECTS!
Good stuff Alex - but you need foot-notes, citations to detailed articles - for each of these things. Nobody will believe any of it without the background information... now many of them won't belive even WITH that - but I'd like to have your sources to back up those statements. I can find them myself with a lot of digging - but since you seem to already have them - help me out here :-)
It's no use.
A horse is just as dead if it won't drink the water.
I would have expected one of the 10 items, especially #5, to point to the dangerous side effects prevalent amoung younger people, like myocarditis amoung young men and the not-so-minor effects on the menstrual process in young women.
Excellent summary. Please do for 2-10 what you did for #1. As a public service and a thank you to your loyal paying subscribers.