Rules are for thee, not for me

The cardiac arrest suffered by Bronny James brings back bad memories - and highlights the falsity of reporting around the mRNAs

We do not know if Bronny James - Lebron James’s 18-year-old son, whose heart briefly stopped as he played basketball in Los Angeles on Monday - received a Covid jab.

We may never know.

I wish Bronny James’s vaccination status weren’t even an issue. He’s a young man who’s seriously injured. Mostly, we should be rooting for him to heal - as, fortunately, he seems to be. And, yes, young athletes suffered cardiac arrest before the mRNAs.

But the question is unavoidable, because reporting on the Covid shots has become so dishonest. Raising questions about this injury is a way to talk about all the proven mRNA-related heart damage the media and health authorities will not talk about.

The question of James’s vaccine status is also a backdoor reminder of the ugly hypocrisy of 2021. Health bureaucrats and Democratic politicians forced mRNA jabs on tens of millions of Americans at low risk from Covid - while offering loopholes to wealthy entertainers and athletes.

As an astute reader emailed last night about the dilemma that LeBron James faces in deciding what to disclose about Bronny’s vaccine status:

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(TELLING YOU WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE. AND WHAT I DON’T.)

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The reader is right. We may never know.

However, if Bronny was jabbed, and the shots caused heart damage that led to his cardiac arrest, they may - emphasis on may - have left evidence at the cellular level.

In other words, proving a link is unlikely, but it may not be impossible. And no one can doubt that if LeBron James wants the question explored, it will be. (Which doesn’t necessarily mean the James family would disclose the answer.)

But was Bronny James jabbed at all?

Chasing a public answer to that question dredges up ugly memories.

By fall 2021, nearly all universities - including the University of Southern California, where James is going this fall - mandated jabs for students. They did so despite 18 months of evidence that Covid was barely a cold for healthy young adults, as well as growing proof of the myocarditis risks of the mRNAs.

But James was not in college in 2021 or 2022. He was a student at Sierra Canyon, a private high school in the San Fernando Valley, on the north side of Los Angeles. Sierra Canyon is known for having many celebrity children, including Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and an elite basketball team.

No state has required high school or younger students to be Covid jabbed, though California tried. On Oct. 1, 2021, governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state would require the vaccine for students as soon as the Food and Drug Administration fully approved it for children and teenagers. In the face of parental resistance and very low Covid jab rates for kids under 12, Newsom eventually backed off.

Similarly, the Los Angeles public school district announced its own mandate, but it was never actually imposed.

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But the story does not end there.

Elite private high schools in Los Angeles and nationally imposed their own Covid jab mandates. Those were not dead letters. The schools aggressively enforced them. Harvard-Westlake, which is considered the top private school in Los Angeles, announced a mandate for staff and students in August 2021, months before Newsom’s order.

In this, Harvard-Westlake was only reflecting the mood of the wealthy parents who pay its mid-five-figure annual tuition (and often donate even more).

As I saw for myself on repeated trips to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California elites, particularly in Hollywood, were terrified of Covid and hugely pro-mRNA.

Yet, for whatever reason, Sierra Canyon does not seem to have required the jabs. As far as I can determine, the school didn’t publicly announce a mandate, and its publicly available materials do not reveal one, though they do mention jab requirements on a few specific occasions, such as a trip to visit East Coast colleges.

Then there’s the Sierra Canyon basketball team, which traveled extensively during the winter of 2021 and 2022, including to Hawaii - which at the time had a vaccinate-or-test mandate - and Chicago. The latter trip is particularly interesting. On Saturday, Feb. 5, the team played at Wintrust Arena, a 10,000-seat indoor stadium in downtown Chicago.

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(Remember that time thousands of people turned out to watch you play high school sports? Yeah, me neither.)

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On Dec. 21, 2021, with Omicron cases rising and blue state vaccine hysteria peaking, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot had announced a new jab mandate.

As of Jan. 3, restaurants, gyms, bars, and “entertainment venues” would need to require proof of vaccination. In the press conference announcing the mandate, Lightfoot was properly apocalyptic.

“Our future is gonna depend upon whether or not [unvaccinated people] stop being hesitant and get the vaccine,” she said.

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(STOP LAUGHING AT LORI LIGHTFOOT AND SUBSCRIBE)

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As an entertainment venue, Wintrust was subject to the rule, which covered everyone. Rich and poor alike had the right to sleep under bridges and carry vaccine cards.

Except it didn’t, not quite.

Along with exceptions for voting, and using the bathroom (for no more than 10 minutes!), Chicago’s rule exempted “nonresident performing artist[s]” and "nonresident professional athlete[s].” As well as the “nonresident individual[s]” accompanying them. (Somebody’s gotta carry the shoes and guitars.)

Bronny wasn’t a professional athlete, though.

Which is why another exemption might have come in handy. The city said the rule specifically did not apply to:

• An individual 18 years of age or younger who enters a covered location to participate in an activity organized by a school or after-school program offered by any pre-kindergarten through grade twelve public or non-public school

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The exemption might almost have been crafted with traveling high school basketball teams in mind.

In any case, the net result is that the public record offers no proof that Bronny James received a Covid vaccine. Or that he didn’t. Or that the shot he might or might not have received raised his cardiac arrest risk.

And in the elite media, mentioning those possibilities is verboten, even though everyone is thinking them. Anyone who does so is not just a conspiracy theorist but a bad person.

Since Bronny’s injury became public yesterday, we have been subject to endless stories about just how normal it is for healthy young athletes to have their hearts stop. They come in different flavors, but they all have the same grainy aftertaste: don’t blame the miracle jabs.

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But the reality that mRNA-fueled myocarditis has likely killed hundreds of young people worldwide (a conservative estimate, because it includes only cardiac deaths in the weeks after the shot), that’s not a conspiracy theory.

That’s just a fact the media and Centers for Disease Control won’t admit.

Welcome to journalism and public health in 2023.