A couple of you have raised questions like this, so I want to explain why I am pushing these stories about the heart - or undisclosed - problems that top professional athletes are suffering.
The writer is correct. These are stories. Even if the players are confirmed to be vaccinated, each case is an N of 1.
Why should we care?
All kinds of reasons.
Maybe most importantly, stories matter.
We know - not think, know - that Covid vaccines can cause serious heart complications in many young men. The potential for heart inflammation significant enough to lead to hospitalization is probably somewhere between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 6,000 men under 30. Israeli doctors offered this estimate six months ago, and it has held up nicely.
If anything, these estimates may underestimate the risk, because not all cases of side effects are sent to VAERS, the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, or similar European databases. We don’t know what percentage are reported, and frankly cannot even make a good guess - maybe as many as 50 percent for unusual and serious problems that are receiving a lot of attention (such as lethal clotting disorders in young women), as few as 10 percent for more routine side effects.
So a significant number of healthy young men are suffering serious side effects after being vaccinated - far more than are at serious risk from Covid.
Remember, three weeks ago, the New York Times - not Fox News, the New York Times - wrote that “for children without a serious medical condition, the danger of severe Covid is so low as to be difficult to quantify.” (Severe basically translates into “requiring hospitalization” - and the risk for adults under 30 is little different than for children and teens.)
But many people still have no idea just how tiny Covid’s risks are to young adults or children.
Why?
Because the people pushing extreme measures against Covid have pushed the news media to write about the tiny number of children and young adults who become very sick or die, usually without acknowledging their underlying health conditions. Sometimes these efforts have backfired badly, as last month, when the top public health official for the Canadian province of Alberta was forced to admit that a 14-year-old she had claimed died of Covid actually died of brain cancer.
Yet these efforts continue.
Why?
Because the people pressing them know that stories and symbols can defeat data. They have counted on this fact, and the aid of the media, since the very beginning of the epidemic. Britain’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies wrote on March 22, 2020:
A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group… The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging. [emphasis in original]
The effort to keep people frightened is almost certainly why public health authorities have pushed so hard for masks, despite their obvious and repeatedly proven uselessness (I know I am going to have address the ridiculous Bangladeshi paper one day, and I will). Masks spell emergency.
It’s also probably why they they tried to keep people inside for most of 2020, long after researchers proved Covid was almost never was transmitted outside.
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So stories matter. And I now receive multiple stories a week about young people who have had heart crises following Covid vaccination. But people don’t always want to go on the record, and getting information about potential underlying and confounding health factors can be difficult.
Besides, the vaccine fanatics can always point to the fact that about 190 million Americans have now been fully vaccinated. Yes, some people are getting sick or dying after being vaccinated, but with a such a large number, cases are to be expected.
Those concerns don’t apply to professional athletes. The sample size is extremely small. The National Basketball Association has fewer than 500 players, and the National Football League about 1,700; all the top European soccer leagues combined have a similar number. That’s perhaps 4,000 men in all. Even including major college football and second-tier European soccer leagues, the pool is under 20,000.
These players are extraordinary athletes who at the top level are paid millions and not infrequently tens of millions of dollars a year to stay fit and healthy. Yes, even the offensive linemen. If a notable number of them are having cardiac issues post-vaccination, that’s a very bad sign for the rest of us.
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But we have other crucial reasons to play attention to this issue.
The media is essentially refusing to cover these cases or even ask questions when teams and coaches do not disclose relevant information. The obfuscation is part of a much larger pattern around Covid.
What has happened? Teams have traditionally disclosed substantive information about player injuries. Fans pay high prices to attend games, and huge amounts of money are bet on them; the presumption has been that people have the right to know if and why players aren’t going to be available, within certain narrow limits.
Worse, in several recent cases, athletes have not merely been held out of games but collapsed on the field of play, in full view of fans, many of whom are children. Those moments are frightening, anyone watching them is entitled to a clear explanation of what has happened, and, if possible, the underlying reasons why. This statement wouldn’t even have been controversial in the pre-Covid/pre-Covid-vaccine days.
When Hank Gathers, a college basketball player, collapsed on the court in 1990 and died two hours later, his death was exhaustively covered. (Gathers turned out to have cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle.) In fact, Gathers’ death was still being written about more than thirty years later.
Yet as with so much else, Covid has thrown long-established journalistic norms out the window.
Even to demand more information about individual cases - much less to suggest a pattern - is to raise questions about the vaccines.
And if you are a reporter for a elite media organization, you’d best think twice before you raise questions about the vaccines. To do so to commit journalistic harakiri. If you’re a really bad boy, you may even be shut out of social media - and lose a huge portion of your audience in one fell swoop.
Newsflash, folks:
ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY, ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE UNDER 50, HAS JUMPED THIS YEAR ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.
No one knows why. No one is even trying to explain why. NO ONE IS EVEN DISCUSSING THIS. And now some of the healthiest young men in the world are collapsing before our eyes.
If those cases don’t get our attention, I don’t know what will.
You're the last big-time journalist with any balls. I would say turn off the lights on your way out, but I'm optimistic that the opposite will happen, and that in time your example will be the one young journos want to follow. Keep fighting that good fight, man. God knows we need someone to.
Most don’t even know that Sen. Ron Johnson is having a hearing right now on vaccine injuries and mandates. Let’s see if any info from it makes the news.
I subscribe and pay for Alex Berenson's content because he covers things like the cardiac complications in young vaccinated men. I can't get this information anywhere else and I am glad Alex provides it in detail!
I am more than capable of sorting out your opinions from the facts you offer because the differences are quite clear. Please do not change a thing you are doing.
The reporting of heart problems in young men is most CERTAINLY being under-reported.
Case in point: a friend's two brothers, both in their mid-20's, took the Pfizer vaccine together. Four days later, within two hours of each other, both had heart attacks and were taken to the hospital. The doctors in both cases refused to say the vaccine was at fault; the nurses told them the vaccine was obviously the culprit.
So, both of their cases weren't reported as vaccine-related injuries. And yet, there is no other explanation why two healthy men in their mid-20's would have heart attacks four days after vaccination.
My friend won't say anything publicly, but she and her family won't touch the vaccines moving forward no matter what.
It is stories like hers that drive me crazy about what's happening...
We have a daughter and 2 sons ages 23-27, right in this danger zone. They’re healthy, athletic - all have had the vax and did okay, thankfully. (Their pharmacist mother/dentist dad didn’t do sufficient research, never dreaming of the possibility of the evil we are seeing 🙈)
Anyway, these stories will convince them in ways no chart ever could - if even these elite athletes are having issues, then maybe mom and dad are onto something!
So thank you, Alex, for all your stories and charts. I felt like a person in the desert that found an oasis (cliché I know, but so true) when I stumbled upon substack and my “people”!
As Stalin is reported to have said, ”A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
We need the human stories to reach the hearts; we need the data to reach the minds. Both are essential to advancing the cause of resistance to tyranny.
Alex, this was the perfect answer to your reader’s comment. As a recently retired airline pilot, I can tell you that these sort of cardiac events are happening to commercial pilots and happening, not in sporting events, but during flight with hundreds of lives at risk. The installed Resident’s administration, including officials at the FAA, know these events are happening, and are doing everything possible to keep them secret. It’s one thing to see an elite athlete experience an event ( as horrible as that is) but quite another to have these events occur to professionals who have a flight physical every 6 months and an EKG once a year. Having had 42 years of flight physicals myself, I know the FAA is exceptionally strict on pilots with heart issues. That they are turning a blind eye to the jab-related heart issues in the cockpit tells us all about the level of evil the government/pharma cabal will employ to support the “safe and effective” narrative. This is a topic on which I wish you’d turn your investigative powers. If the traveling public knew what was happening behind the cockpit door, it might well be a decisive blow to the vax/passport/social credit system/tyranny runaway train.
I think it's also important to realize that these sports (basketball and soccer, especially) REQUIRE amazing cardiovascular power. Most armchair athletes NEVER hit their maximum HR, whereas these guys/gals do so routinely.
I have spoken to people who have felt "off" since the vaccines ("not as energetic", "tired") and this may be subtle CV issue that would not be obvious in non-athletes.
The only way to truly test anything (system/engine/machine) is to test it under FULL LOAD - that's what a "stress test" is meant to do. The athletes are doing stress tests for a living.
It should be obvious to everyone why these stories are worth sharing. The story of Covid, the lockdown, mail in votes, and now the vaccines are the script from a really bad B movie. None of it has been believable from the start. Nobody can stay on script. They are awful actors even with the complicit media covering up their blunders.
These are data, not just anecdotes. We have a more or less fixed population: professional athletes in the 2021 season. This population is young, healthy, well looked after by the best medical staff. They're also heavily vaccinated. I would argue one can get a rough idea of the near-term risk of vaccine injuries in young males by tracking all these events and dividing by the relevant denominator. Very rare for apex athletes to just keel over on the field, be disabled by heart issues.
The important thing here is that the entire population in question is visible to the public. You can't pull a starter from his season without the public noticing. It's practically a natural experiment, with the 2019 season as the control. How many pro/college athletes got heart inflammation in 2019? Guessing none. So we're talking about an incidence of like 1 in 2k, 1 in 1k, maybe even worse. It's an *insane* level of risk, relative to any normal vaccine.
My wife's best friend and the maid of honor at our wedding died in her sleep in April a few days after the second Pfizer jab. "Sudden Cardiac Failure" they said, and we reported it to VAERS.
As you might imagine, I am not getting vaccinated, and I have been outspoken against vaccinating our kids here in Berkeley, CA. I am loud and easy to find so yesterday I was interviewed briefly by San Jose Mercury News reporter John Woolfolk for a piece on the FDA approval for 5-11 year olds. I shared with him our story and why, if it comes to it, we will be relocating to Florida to avoid the forthcoming mandate for our kids in this state. He was very taken by our story. He said he would be running it up the flag pole with the editors at the Merc as it warranted a story all of its own. I let him know I had zero confidence that I would hear from him again, and told him he should be careful. I reminded him what happened to Gary Webb when he tried to discover the truth around a controversial topic.
I have taken to forwarding him Alex's substack articles. I imagine it is only a matter of time before he asks me to stop. I believe it is hard to be a state stenographer AND get confronted with difficult contradictory information.
We are no doubt headed full speed at a disaster. People are blinding by fear of covid, when in fact it's the vaccine that poses the greatest risk. How many suspicious deaths will they cover up until they can no longer deny as the vaccine being the cause? 100k? 1 million? Millions? I don't know, but if you truly love children, don't treat them like mice, please don't.
If I may add, I remember what happened with HIV/AIDs in the early 1980s. Governments around the world at the time did not want the story to come out as many fine young men around the world were developing rare cancers and other lethal diseases that no one could explain. The media for whatever reason were complicit in hiding the story. But then one famous man, a handsome actor that most everyone over 30 years old had known and enjoyed watching in film, came onto the daytime television show of his dear friend, looking so haggard and emaciated that no one at first believed it was him. That man was Rock Hudson, on the Doris Day Show. And just by that one appearance where he explained that he had a disease that was ravishing a large group of men across the country and around the world, did the social consciousness of this terrible disease finally come to the surface in a very public way.
Sometimes it only takes one person's story to change the world. Rock Hudson's story did that for HIV/AIDs...who's story will it be that exposes the dangers of the Covid "vaccines" that governments have spent a huge amount of time and money to develop the propaganda that these virtually un-tested and potentially dangerous drugs are "safe and effective"?
That's why these individual stories matter, because one day its going to be someone like Rock Hudson, a person who so many know and love, who will prove to the world that the governments and media have been lying about these drugs from even before the day they were introduced. And that's when this vaccine nonsense, with all of its offshoots that are ripping apart societies with mandates and prohibitions, will finally be exposed for the fraud that it is.
Alex - While it's sad that there are so many who fail to see the bigger picture, even some who read your posts, it's reassuring that you're able to crystalize this particular issue.
Why would anyone question Alex on this? Athletes are the fittest among everyone on the planet. If their bodies aren't up to fending off the dangers of the vaccine, how can we expect ours to be? And we need to know this.
Some thoughts: The MRNA vaccines train the body to synthesize the spike protein, which is now known to be a serious toxin that can cause blood clots anywhere in the body. When using a toxin for medical purposes, the most important thing is to *control*the*dose*. Lots of medicines are toxic or fatal if too much is given, but can be beneficial at a lower, carefully-controlled dose.
Too me, this is the fatal flaw of these "vaccines": the amount of spike protein produced depends in large part on the health and vitality of the individual receiving the jab. My hypothesis is that healthy, strong individuals will likely produce *more* of the spike protein after receiving the jab than less-healthy and/or elderly folks will. And that higher dose of spike protein would be more likely to have severe or fatal consequences.
I don't know if this has ever been tested. But if I'm right, it could be part of the reason we're seeing so many serious events in top athletes, airline pilots, military men, etc. We know that the risk of myocarditis, for example, is highest in younger men - could this be why? It sure would be nice if someone would research this ...
I have 3 well informed Children, all at the top of their game in the USN. All have been on top of this pandemic (election flu) from the start. All 3 are going to be separated from the Navy, due to the brass not accepting any religious waivers. (Well unless you are Muslim). But my daughters and Son are model sailors and all very much want to serve.
A bit of a side, but very relevant: They do to their physical abilities and excellent fitness and leadership roles proctor the PRT for their respective units. Yesterday due to the lack of exercise the troops have had with lock downs and isolation. None of Her new sailors passed the test.
The threats to health in the military are not Covid-19. It is SUICIDE AND ALCOHOL.
There were 800 suicides to 30 Covid related deaths prior to the mandated vaccine.
Now it's 850 Covid to 70 with the increase being among vaccinated sailors.
I am sad that the Navy is making some terrible choices. But it's not like it's the first time.
Official's are politicians 05 to 09 and E7 and above.
If major damage is being done to some is minor damage being done to many? If so, will that minor damage have a long-term effect, perhaps becoming more visible with passage of time, on the vitality of the afflicted? What might regular D-dimer tests of athletes reveal? That test detects the presence of blood clots, including those that are small, numerous, and dispersed.
If, as seems likely, elevated mortality in younger age cohorts reflects cardiac events caused by the vaccine, we would expect reports of corresponding incidents in the press. This is above all why these stories are important. The mortality data suggests these events are occurring at a fairly high rate. We ought to be able to see them. And we do.
Alex - you crystalized here why my wife and I are obstinate in our refusal so far to be injected. We just feel that the entire world is being manipulated into getting experimental drugs poured into our bodies without any proof that they will vaccinate us - in the traditional sense of the word - from this virus.
With public service announcements every five minutes on the radio program we listen to, telling us that the injections are "safe and effective" to the constant drum beat of the media pushing every covid death story as unnecessary and avoidable, it feels like we're living in a Orwellian future. None of this, of course, makes sense - the theater of wearing masks into restaurants - the already injected fearing us who haven't been - the people driving alone in cars wearing masks - it's all bizarre.
Keep writing, Alex. You and a few like you are the only calm voices in a crazy world.
Humanist Fauci and Pfizer's marketing rep, CDC, know full well that the vax kills healthy people. They told us this would be the outcome, it's just that most people don't know how to interpret viper-speak. When they say, "the benefits outweigh the risks" (and that is what they say), they do NOT mean the the risks to a single individual are very small, they mean that for society as a whole (they think) the larger population will see some benefit even though a (relatively) few individuals will die. This is just a fact that they accept and factor in -- being the ungodly humanists that they are -- and they think we should just accept too (for the "greater good").
Thank you for being one of the lone voices in the wilderness speaking the unspeakable, Alex. It’s probably small comfort but, someday, you will be vindicated in your refusal to follow the official narrative. I wish so many young lives weren’t being sacrificed or forever altered as we wait to get to that day.
If you post anything about the low Covid stats in kids, even citing exact CDC numbers with the relevant link, social media will remove it. A narrative is definitely being pushed. It is creepy and scary to me. I feel most sympathetic toward kids in foster care, as I doubt they will have a choice about getting the shot.
The relentless narrative that feels cultish, lack of curiosity by the media and lack of forthrightness and transparency from our institutions, is likely why many are holding out. It is often what isn't being reported that is most important. The key is take in information, but to make one's own decision. After all, each of us will enjoy or suffer the consequences of our health choices.
Totally agree with you. Much to my disappointment (even though we know this about human nature), most people's actions and decisions are highly driven by anecdotal stories vs. the data, which is how we got into this mess in the first place. No reasonable person looking at the data would have been worried about Covid, unless you were elderly or had many underlying conditions (which is a hair on fire emergency in the first place). And they would certainly not be worried about kids and Covid. But yet, I know people who mask their children outside still and can't wait for the vaccine for their little children. I know (sadly too many) people who refused to see grandparents for A YEAR for fear of killing them (I mean honestly, my parents and my in-laws are in their 70s, how can you waste a year not seeing them?), and who refuse to hang out with other adults indoors...
ALEX - it was extremely patient of you to explain why you are letting us know about these news stories. I found it totally bothersome that someone emailed you and DOESN'T like knowing about the famous people that are (potentially) having health problems because of the vaccine! NO ONE ELSE IS EVEN ASKING ABOUT THESE SITUATIONS. What planet is that emailer on? We have a complete suppression of the stories. This is anything but fear-mongering. We are trying to get the word out to save people's lives.
Please keep doing this work. Don't let that emailer get under your skin.
I want to know!!! The news' suppression means some of these athlete's/celebrities experiences are never even translated into English articles. You are doing the legwork (through many of your world-wide followers) to report what is happening.
I agree, Alex. The email writer is wrong. At this point, we need to ditch being circumspect. The propagandized majority is the reason we're still in this nightmare (the government could not withstand pushback from an actual majority of the country). We need to report it all. To hell with being "moderate."
These are the type of stories that matter the most to me because I am running out of time to convince my 17 y.o. (6'2" track Junior Olympian) and my 19 y.o. fit/healthy (6' tall daughter) to postpone the jabs UNTIL next year. My hope? To see the mandates halted and vax passports deemed illegal and obsolete in light of the thousands of vax injuries and faulty clinical trials. They - like many other young and ambitious people - are feeling pressured to get jabbed (against their will) in order to compete in sports, or to travel, go to concerts/theater, etc. In the prime of their lives and with perfect health, they are Big Pharma's sacrificial lambs. People at zero risk of serious covid illness. I am FURIOUS and hope that more stories like this one come out. THANKS for your journalistic INTEGRITY, Alex! Keep exposing the real cost of this corrupt and failed public health policy.
"It's cheap and beneath your usual excellent standards." - Do you think he still thinks that after this excellent rebuttal? This is an incredibly well reasoned response. And we are now a little smarter having read it.
Alex, I'd like to wholeheartedly support what you have said and encourage you to continue in the same vein.
I work in health and fitness and have an intense interest in how athletes fair. This is for two reasons:
Just as diabetics are the "petri dish" for the effects of high blood sugar and the resultant insulin spikes (I'm talking type 2), athletes are the petri dish for the adverse effects of the vaccine.
I don't want to see ANY athletes or ANY person hurt by these experimental-untested-new-tech-bioactive vaccines. But since people are being jabbed indiscriminately and the people responsible are not taking notice, we need to see data and examples that will wake them up.
An athlete shows the adverse effects in more pronounced fashion (potentially the result of inflammatory conditions from the spike protein integrated with cells and being attacked by the immune system, or simply impairing cell function)
Put bad oil in an old Corolla that you use to potter to the shops and you may not see the effect for years. But put the bad oil in a Ferrari and try to do 200mph and you'll quickly see a problem.
Again, I don't want to see ANYONE hurt. But the jabs unfortunately are in many people and we need to see them stopped before more people are also hurt now, or in the future.
Just as diabetics provide a window into the effects of sugar in the blood in a magnified fashion, (inflammation and other comorbidities), and these effects can be extrapolated to other non-diabetics to show the long-term effects of the sugars (diabetes being one of the outcome as the insulin receptors fade)
Athletes possibly provide a window into the future for everyone. If there is cell damage or auto-immune-type processes, then age or high physical demands will likely compound the conditions, just as the effects of high blood sugar compound.
Please continue your brilliant reoprting style and range of coverage.
It highlights all the factors (and facts) that we need to know - and those mandating this poisonous rampage need to know to stop the madness.
Add to this the fact that the "vaccines" (term used loosely) only "work" for a few months, as well as reduce the likelihood of full immunity down the track, as well as therefore reduce the chances for herd immunity, as well as producing "hotter" strains because they are leaky, as well as the immediate risks of Adverse Events (MUCH higher than reported) as well as the long-term risks..... and considering that none of these risks are necessary because the vaccines are not necessary for most people..... and it is all sheer madness.
We could (should) just use the vaccs (though I'd strongly suggest NOT mRNA.... stick to traditional vacc technolgoy) on those at risk (the aged and those with high comorbidities) and leave the majority to develop natural immunity.
Thanks again for your great work and content. I just bought "Unreported Truths' and "Pandemia" and imagine I will not be able to read them fast enough.
The horrifying thing is that for many of the True Believers - I won't say most, but I would say it is a large minority - these adverse events won't make a bit of difference. Nor will reports of heart attacks and strokes at the local kindergarten. Deaths and debilitating injuries from the injections will just be seen as a price worth paying. I don't know what can break a mass psychosis, but I hope someone else does.
I absolutely agree with what Alex has written here. There is so much censorship going on and such a push to paint the shots as completely benign, it is important to have every death/injury reported. A lot of my friends are very unaware. VAERS is very under reported, we don't know by how much exactly. Everyone should know that what people are being coerced into is possibly dangerous.
These are some of the only stories the media cannot suppress. Imagine living in a blue suburb and your kid gets shortness of breath and chest pain from the vaccine. It's the last thing the media would cover. The doctor will tell you it's genes or stress. Your neighbors would never talk to you again if you even suggest it is related to the Pfizer. You are screwed. At least the media is forced to cover these star athletes collapsing in some nominal way.
Is it possible that people who are exceptionally healthy are MORE likely to have negative effects from the vaccine? Is it possible that the strong immune system that young, healthy people have reacts more strongly - and perhaps unexpectedly - to the vaccine such that they are at greater risk from the vaccine than the average person?
Alex is well grounded in writing about the pro athletes. High visibility counts in our society. Low visibility is buried. Wonder how many high school athletes are having heart issues?
Very well written response Alex. I used to often say it's going to take one famous person having a major vaccine reaction for people to wake up to the safety of this particular vaccine, but now seeing how they respond to these potential cases I would say it's going to take several and they'll have to be so obvious no one can deny it.
Why athletes matter
You're the last big-time journalist with any balls. I would say turn off the lights on your way out, but I'm optimistic that the opposite will happen, and that in time your example will be the one young journos want to follow. Keep fighting that good fight, man. God knows we need someone to.
Most don’t even know that Sen. Ron Johnson is having a hearing right now on vaccine injuries and mandates. Let’s see if any info from it makes the news.
I subscribe and pay for Alex Berenson's content because he covers things like the cardiac complications in young vaccinated men. I can't get this information anywhere else and I am glad Alex provides it in detail!
I am more than capable of sorting out your opinions from the facts you offer because the differences are quite clear. Please do not change a thing you are doing.
Bravo, Alex! It is concerning that someone who follows your work doesn't see the importance of these stories
The reporting of heart problems in young men is most CERTAINLY being under-reported.
Case in point: a friend's two brothers, both in their mid-20's, took the Pfizer vaccine together. Four days later, within two hours of each other, both had heart attacks and were taken to the hospital. The doctors in both cases refused to say the vaccine was at fault; the nurses told them the vaccine was obviously the culprit.
So, both of their cases weren't reported as vaccine-related injuries. And yet, there is no other explanation why two healthy men in their mid-20's would have heart attacks four days after vaccination.
My friend won't say anything publicly, but she and her family won't touch the vaccines moving forward no matter what.
It is stories like hers that drive me crazy about what's happening...
We have a daughter and 2 sons ages 23-27, right in this danger zone. They’re healthy, athletic - all have had the vax and did okay, thankfully. (Their pharmacist mother/dentist dad didn’t do sufficient research, never dreaming of the possibility of the evil we are seeing 🙈)
Anyway, these stories will convince them in ways no chart ever could - if even these elite athletes are having issues, then maybe mom and dad are onto something!
So thank you, Alex, for all your stories and charts. I felt like a person in the desert that found an oasis (cliché I know, but so true) when I stumbled upon substack and my “people”!
As Stalin is reported to have said, ”A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
We need the human stories to reach the hearts; we need the data to reach the minds. Both are essential to advancing the cause of resistance to tyranny.
I honestly feel the tide is turning. Thanks to you and others like you. I don't know where we would be without independent journalists.
Alex, this was the perfect answer to your reader’s comment. As a recently retired airline pilot, I can tell you that these sort of cardiac events are happening to commercial pilots and happening, not in sporting events, but during flight with hundreds of lives at risk. The installed Resident’s administration, including officials at the FAA, know these events are happening, and are doing everything possible to keep them secret. It’s one thing to see an elite athlete experience an event ( as horrible as that is) but quite another to have these events occur to professionals who have a flight physical every 6 months and an EKG once a year. Having had 42 years of flight physicals myself, I know the FAA is exceptionally strict on pilots with heart issues. That they are turning a blind eye to the jab-related heart issues in the cockpit tells us all about the level of evil the government/pharma cabal will employ to support the “safe and effective” narrative. This is a topic on which I wish you’d turn your investigative powers. If the traveling public knew what was happening behind the cockpit door, it might well be a decisive blow to the vax/passport/social credit system/tyranny runaway train.
I think it's also important to realize that these sports (basketball and soccer, especially) REQUIRE amazing cardiovascular power. Most armchair athletes NEVER hit their maximum HR, whereas these guys/gals do so routinely.
I have spoken to people who have felt "off" since the vaccines ("not as energetic", "tired") and this may be subtle CV issue that would not be obvious in non-athletes.
The only way to truly test anything (system/engine/machine) is to test it under FULL LOAD - that's what a "stress test" is meant to do. The athletes are doing stress tests for a living.
Somewhere a Pharma exec is thinking, “I knew we should’ve given athletes the placebo.”
It should be obvious to everyone why these stories are worth sharing. The story of Covid, the lockdown, mail in votes, and now the vaccines are the script from a really bad B movie. None of it has been believable from the start. Nobody can stay on script. They are awful actors even with the complicit media covering up their blunders.
These are data, not just anecdotes. We have a more or less fixed population: professional athletes in the 2021 season. This population is young, healthy, well looked after by the best medical staff. They're also heavily vaccinated. I would argue one can get a rough idea of the near-term risk of vaccine injuries in young males by tracking all these events and dividing by the relevant denominator. Very rare for apex athletes to just keel over on the field, be disabled by heart issues.
The important thing here is that the entire population in question is visible to the public. You can't pull a starter from his season without the public noticing. It's practically a natural experiment, with the 2019 season as the control. How many pro/college athletes got heart inflammation in 2019? Guessing none. So we're talking about an incidence of like 1 in 2k, 1 in 1k, maybe even worse. It's an *insane* level of risk, relative to any normal vaccine.
I question the mental acumen of the individual who objects to hearing about vaccinated athletes who suffer from complications.
My wife's best friend and the maid of honor at our wedding died in her sleep in April a few days after the second Pfizer jab. "Sudden Cardiac Failure" they said, and we reported it to VAERS.
As you might imagine, I am not getting vaccinated, and I have been outspoken against vaccinating our kids here in Berkeley, CA. I am loud and easy to find so yesterday I was interviewed briefly by San Jose Mercury News reporter John Woolfolk for a piece on the FDA approval for 5-11 year olds. I shared with him our story and why, if it comes to it, we will be relocating to Florida to avoid the forthcoming mandate for our kids in this state. He was very taken by our story. He said he would be running it up the flag pole with the editors at the Merc as it warranted a story all of its own. I let him know I had zero confidence that I would hear from him again, and told him he should be careful. I reminded him what happened to Gary Webb when he tried to discover the truth around a controversial topic.
I have taken to forwarding him Alex's substack articles. I imagine it is only a matter of time before he asks me to stop. I believe it is hard to be a state stenographer AND get confronted with difficult contradictory information.
We are no doubt headed full speed at a disaster. People are blinding by fear of covid, when in fact it's the vaccine that poses the greatest risk. How many suspicious deaths will they cover up until they can no longer deny as the vaccine being the cause? 100k? 1 million? Millions? I don't know, but if you truly love children, don't treat them like mice, please don't.
If I may add, I remember what happened with HIV/AIDs in the early 1980s. Governments around the world at the time did not want the story to come out as many fine young men around the world were developing rare cancers and other lethal diseases that no one could explain. The media for whatever reason were complicit in hiding the story. But then one famous man, a handsome actor that most everyone over 30 years old had known and enjoyed watching in film, came onto the daytime television show of his dear friend, looking so haggard and emaciated that no one at first believed it was him. That man was Rock Hudson, on the Doris Day Show. And just by that one appearance where he explained that he had a disease that was ravishing a large group of men across the country and around the world, did the social consciousness of this terrible disease finally come to the surface in a very public way.
Sometimes it only takes one person's story to change the world. Rock Hudson's story did that for HIV/AIDs...who's story will it be that exposes the dangers of the Covid "vaccines" that governments have spent a huge amount of time and money to develop the propaganda that these virtually un-tested and potentially dangerous drugs are "safe and effective"?
That's why these individual stories matter, because one day its going to be someone like Rock Hudson, a person who so many know and love, who will prove to the world that the governments and media have been lying about these drugs from even before the day they were introduced. And that's when this vaccine nonsense, with all of its offshoots that are ripping apart societies with mandates and prohibitions, will finally be exposed for the fraud that it is.
Alex - While it's sad that there are so many who fail to see the bigger picture, even some who read your posts, it's reassuring that you're able to crystalize this particular issue.
It slays me that the "Take the damn jab" crowd values human life so little that they see these casualties as just the price we have to pay.
It matters because of visibility. Hospitals and doctors are covering up vaccine injuries -- people have gone on record with their stories.
You can't cover up Sergio Aguero or Christian Eriksen collapsing on the field.
Please also write about athletes who refuse like Joshua Kimmich, a start player of Germany's biggest soccer club Bayern München:
https://apnews.com/1837e92d0b5d0bc96095aaab8619acb6
Why would anyone question Alex on this? Athletes are the fittest among everyone on the planet. If their bodies aren't up to fending off the dangers of the vaccine, how can we expect ours to be? And we need to know this.
Some thoughts: The MRNA vaccines train the body to synthesize the spike protein, which is now known to be a serious toxin that can cause blood clots anywhere in the body. When using a toxin for medical purposes, the most important thing is to *control*the*dose*. Lots of medicines are toxic or fatal if too much is given, but can be beneficial at a lower, carefully-controlled dose.
Too me, this is the fatal flaw of these "vaccines": the amount of spike protein produced depends in large part on the health and vitality of the individual receiving the jab. My hypothesis is that healthy, strong individuals will likely produce *more* of the spike protein after receiving the jab than less-healthy and/or elderly folks will. And that higher dose of spike protein would be more likely to have severe or fatal consequences.
I don't know if this has ever been tested. But if I'm right, it could be part of the reason we're seeing so many serious events in top athletes, airline pilots, military men, etc. We know that the risk of myocarditis, for example, is highest in younger men - could this be why? It sure would be nice if someone would research this ...
Fantastic post, well explained and supported rational. Bravo, stories do matter.
I have 3 well informed Children, all at the top of their game in the USN. All have been on top of this pandemic (election flu) from the start. All 3 are going to be separated from the Navy, due to the brass not accepting any religious waivers. (Well unless you are Muslim). But my daughters and Son are model sailors and all very much want to serve.
A bit of a side, but very relevant: They do to their physical abilities and excellent fitness and leadership roles proctor the PRT for their respective units. Yesterday due to the lack of exercise the troops have had with lock downs and isolation. None of Her new sailors passed the test.
The threats to health in the military are not Covid-19. It is SUICIDE AND ALCOHOL.
There were 800 suicides to 30 Covid related deaths prior to the mandated vaccine.
Now it's 850 Covid to 70 with the increase being among vaccinated sailors.
I am sad that the Navy is making some terrible choices. But it's not like it's the first time.
Official's are politicians 05 to 09 and E7 and above.
Anchors Aweigh!
If major damage is being done to some is minor damage being done to many? If so, will that minor damage have a long-term effect, perhaps becoming more visible with passage of time, on the vitality of the afflicted? What might regular D-dimer tests of athletes reveal? That test detects the presence of blood clots, including those that are small, numerous, and dispersed.
The last point is the most important. It's much harder to hide athlete (or celebrity) vaccine injuries and deaths like they can with random people.
If, as seems likely, elevated mortality in younger age cohorts reflects cardiac events caused by the vaccine, we would expect reports of corresponding incidents in the press. This is above all why these stories are important. The mortality data suggests these events are occurring at a fairly high rate. We ought to be able to see them. And we do.
Alex - you crystalized here why my wife and I are obstinate in our refusal so far to be injected. We just feel that the entire world is being manipulated into getting experimental drugs poured into our bodies without any proof that they will vaccinate us - in the traditional sense of the word - from this virus.
With public service announcements every five minutes on the radio program we listen to, telling us that the injections are "safe and effective" to the constant drum beat of the media pushing every covid death story as unnecessary and avoidable, it feels like we're living in a Orwellian future. None of this, of course, makes sense - the theater of wearing masks into restaurants - the already injected fearing us who haven't been - the people driving alone in cars wearing masks - it's all bizarre.
Keep writing, Alex. You and a few like you are the only calm voices in a crazy world.
Can't wait until November 30th.
Humanist Fauci and Pfizer's marketing rep, CDC, know full well that the vax kills healthy people. They told us this would be the outcome, it's just that most people don't know how to interpret viper-speak. When they say, "the benefits outweigh the risks" (and that is what they say), they do NOT mean the the risks to a single individual are very small, they mean that for society as a whole (they think) the larger population will see some benefit even though a (relatively) few individuals will die. This is just a fact that they accept and factor in -- being the ungodly humanists that they are -- and they think we should just accept too (for the "greater good").
Thank you for being one of the lone voices in the wilderness speaking the unspeakable, Alex. It’s probably small comfort but, someday, you will be vindicated in your refusal to follow the official narrative. I wish so many young lives weren’t being sacrificed or forever altered as we wait to get to that day.
If you post anything about the low Covid stats in kids, even citing exact CDC numbers with the relevant link, social media will remove it. A narrative is definitely being pushed. It is creepy and scary to me. I feel most sympathetic toward kids in foster care, as I doubt they will have a choice about getting the shot.
The relentless narrative that feels cultish, lack of curiosity by the media and lack of forthrightness and transparency from our institutions, is likely why many are holding out. It is often what isn't being reported that is most important. The key is take in information, but to make one's own decision. After all, each of us will enjoy or suffer the consequences of our health choices.
Totally agree with you. Much to my disappointment (even though we know this about human nature), most people's actions and decisions are highly driven by anecdotal stories vs. the data, which is how we got into this mess in the first place. No reasonable person looking at the data would have been worried about Covid, unless you were elderly or had many underlying conditions (which is a hair on fire emergency in the first place). And they would certainly not be worried about kids and Covid. But yet, I know people who mask their children outside still and can't wait for the vaccine for their little children. I know (sadly too many) people who refused to see grandparents for A YEAR for fear of killing them (I mean honestly, my parents and my in-laws are in their 70s, how can you waste a year not seeing them?), and who refuse to hang out with other adults indoors...
ALEX - it was extremely patient of you to explain why you are letting us know about these news stories. I found it totally bothersome that someone emailed you and DOESN'T like knowing about the famous people that are (potentially) having health problems because of the vaccine! NO ONE ELSE IS EVEN ASKING ABOUT THESE SITUATIONS. What planet is that emailer on? We have a complete suppression of the stories. This is anything but fear-mongering. We are trying to get the word out to save people's lives.
Please keep doing this work. Don't let that emailer get under your skin.
I want to know!!! The news' suppression means some of these athlete's/celebrities experiences are never even translated into English articles. You are doing the legwork (through many of your world-wide followers) to report what is happening.
There is a HUGE difference with presenting an N of 1 to push a lie and presenting an N of 1 to raise awareness of a problem.
I agree, Alex. The email writer is wrong. At this point, we need to ditch being circumspect. The propagandized majority is the reason we're still in this nightmare (the government could not withstand pushback from an actual majority of the country). We need to report it all. To hell with being "moderate."
These are the type of stories that matter the most to me because I am running out of time to convince my 17 y.o. (6'2" track Junior Olympian) and my 19 y.o. fit/healthy (6' tall daughter) to postpone the jabs UNTIL next year. My hope? To see the mandates halted and vax passports deemed illegal and obsolete in light of the thousands of vax injuries and faulty clinical trials. They - like many other young and ambitious people - are feeling pressured to get jabbed (against their will) in order to compete in sports, or to travel, go to concerts/theater, etc. In the prime of their lives and with perfect health, they are Big Pharma's sacrificial lambs. People at zero risk of serious covid illness. I am FURIOUS and hope that more stories like this one come out. THANKS for your journalistic INTEGRITY, Alex! Keep exposing the real cost of this corrupt and failed public health policy.
"It's cheap and beneath your usual excellent standards." - Do you think he still thinks that after this excellent rebuttal? This is an incredibly well reasoned response. And we are now a little smarter having read it.
Alex, I'd like to wholeheartedly support what you have said and encourage you to continue in the same vein.
I work in health and fitness and have an intense interest in how athletes fair. This is for two reasons:
Just as diabetics are the "petri dish" for the effects of high blood sugar and the resultant insulin spikes (I'm talking type 2), athletes are the petri dish for the adverse effects of the vaccine.
I don't want to see ANY athletes or ANY person hurt by these experimental-untested-new-tech-bioactive vaccines. But since people are being jabbed indiscriminately and the people responsible are not taking notice, we need to see data and examples that will wake them up.
An athlete shows the adverse effects in more pronounced fashion (potentially the result of inflammatory conditions from the spike protein integrated with cells and being attacked by the immune system, or simply impairing cell function)
Put bad oil in an old Corolla that you use to potter to the shops and you may not see the effect for years. But put the bad oil in a Ferrari and try to do 200mph and you'll quickly see a problem.
Again, I don't want to see ANYONE hurt. But the jabs unfortunately are in many people and we need to see them stopped before more people are also hurt now, or in the future.
Just as diabetics provide a window into the effects of sugar in the blood in a magnified fashion, (inflammation and other comorbidities), and these effects can be extrapolated to other non-diabetics to show the long-term effects of the sugars (diabetes being one of the outcome as the insulin receptors fade)
Athletes possibly provide a window into the future for everyone. If there is cell damage or auto-immune-type processes, then age or high physical demands will likely compound the conditions, just as the effects of high blood sugar compound.
Please continue your brilliant reoprting style and range of coverage.
It highlights all the factors (and facts) that we need to know - and those mandating this poisonous rampage need to know to stop the madness.
Add to this the fact that the "vaccines" (term used loosely) only "work" for a few months, as well as reduce the likelihood of full immunity down the track, as well as therefore reduce the chances for herd immunity, as well as producing "hotter" strains because they are leaky, as well as the immediate risks of Adverse Events (MUCH higher than reported) as well as the long-term risks..... and considering that none of these risks are necessary because the vaccines are not necessary for most people..... and it is all sheer madness.
We could (should) just use the vaccs (though I'd strongly suggest NOT mRNA.... stick to traditional vacc technolgoy) on those at risk (the aged and those with high comorbidities) and leave the majority to develop natural immunity.
Thanks again for your great work and content. I just bought "Unreported Truths' and "Pandemia" and imagine I will not be able to read them fast enough.
Don’t forget Brandon Goodwin, a guard for the Atlanta Hawks, who lost his season due to blood clots after taking the vax.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/10/15/player-says-nba-muzzled-him-after-he-got-blood-clots-from-covid-vaccine-that-took-him-out-for-season-1149030/
The horrifying thing is that for many of the True Believers - I won't say most, but I would say it is a large minority - these adverse events won't make a bit of difference. Nor will reports of heart attacks and strokes at the local kindergarten. Deaths and debilitating injuries from the injections will just be seen as a price worth paying. I don't know what can break a mass psychosis, but I hope someone else does.
I absolutely agree with what Alex has written here. There is so much censorship going on and such a push to paint the shots as completely benign, it is important to have every death/injury reported. A lot of my friends are very unaware. VAERS is very under reported, we don't know by how much exactly. Everyone should know that what people are being coerced into is possibly dangerous.
These are some of the only stories the media cannot suppress. Imagine living in a blue suburb and your kid gets shortness of breath and chest pain from the vaccine. It's the last thing the media would cover. The doctor will tell you it's genes or stress. Your neighbors would never talk to you again if you even suggest it is related to the Pfizer. You are screwed. At least the media is forced to cover these star athletes collapsing in some nominal way.
Is it possible that people who are exceptionally healthy are MORE likely to have negative effects from the vaccine? Is it possible that the strong immune system that young, healthy people have reacts more strongly - and perhaps unexpectedly - to the vaccine such that they are at greater risk from the vaccine than the average person?
Keep sharing the stories
Luke Willson (Former NFL tight end) got pericarditis over the summer. Amost died. Of course I have my suspicions.
Another NFL player on the Jets (Vinny something) nearly died from rare blood clots over the summer. Had to have his spleen removed.
I have my suspicions.
I agree with the stories about athletes. Keep them coming and it just might be what wakes someone up.
Alex is well grounded in writing about the pro athletes. High visibility counts in our society. Low visibility is buried. Wonder how many high school athletes are having heart issues?
Very well written response Alex. I used to often say it's going to take one famous person having a major vaccine reaction for people to wake up to the safety of this particular vaccine, but now seeing how they respond to these potential cases I would say it's going to take several and they'll have to be so obvious no one can deny it.