Prophetic last words: “The stuff I’ve been going through in my brain–ugh”
By Dorothy Kupcha Leland
March 24, 2023
Popular San Francisco radio host Jeffrey “JV” Vandergrift often spoke on the air about his struggles with Lyme disease. On February 23, on what turned out to be his last appearance on his WILD 94.9 radio show, he gave the following alarming update:
“The stuff I’ve been going through in my brain that they’re trying to figure out. Ugh,” he said. He added that doctors told him they believed something might have “reignited old infections.” Then he added, “The body and the pain and all that stuff, I can handle. What it’s doing to my brain I could never describe to you.”
The next day, JV was reported missing from his San Francisco home. Shortly thereafter, his wife Natasha–also a WILD 94.9 radio host–posted the following on social media: “The amount of compassion for the physical torture J has been going through for the past 2 years has been overwhelming. I have been in so much pain and fear and I know all of you have been so scared and concerned for JV as well.” At that time, she said the family had reason to believe that “he will not be coming back.”
Sadly, on March 22, a month after JV disappeared, his body was found in the water near San Francisco’s Pier 39. Here is how his heartbroken colleagues at the WILD 94.9 broke the news to their listeners.
This Sunday, March 26, a screening of the Lyme documentary The Quiet Epidemic will be held at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater. While JV was still missing, the filmmakers had already planned to dedicate this event to JV. At that time, they posted the following on social media:
“JV was a supporter of The Quiet Epidemic and was in touch with our team. It’s incredibly sad that we won’t have a chance to meet him. We hold him and his loved ones in our hearts as we continue pushing our story and cause out into the world. This screening is dedicated to JV, his family, friends, 94.9 family, and listeners.”
I never knew JV and never listened to his show. But I hear elements of his story from countless people throughout the US–in fact throughout the world–who are being held hostage by an insidious disease that has invaded their bodies and brains.
To make matters worse, the medical establishment and government health officials have failed to act on this serious threat to physical and mental health.
In memory of JV and every other person suffering like he did, we must do our best to change this. The time is now.
Pfizer, CDC Withheld Evidence of Myocarditis After COVID Shots, New Documents Reveal
Pfizer and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withheld evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations were causing myocarditis, according documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act request to the CDC, and documents leaked this week to Project Veritas.
Pfizer and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withheld evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations led to an increased risk of myocarditis, especially in young males, according to two sets of documents made public this week.
Confidential Pfizer documents leaked Thursday by Project Veritas show the company had “evidence that suggests patients who receive a COVID-19 vaccine are at an increased risk of myocarditis.”
And heavily redacted CDC documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate the agency provided an undercounted figure of post-COVID-19-vaccination myocarditis cases to Israel’s Ministry of Health in early 2021.
The latest revelations come as Germany, Japan and other governments are raising questions about the significant numbers of severe adverse events recorded in individuals following administration of the COVID-19 vaccines.
According to researchers at the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, or it may result directly from a toxic effect such as a toxin or a virus.
Severe myocarditis can permanently damage the heart muscle, possibly causing heart failure.
Internal documents contradict Pfizer claim of ‘low incidence of myocarditis’
An internal Pfizer document leaked to Project Veritas on Thursday, updated Feb. 11, 2022, and authored by eight scientists in Pfizer’s Drug Safety Research & Development division, indicates that the drugmaker was aware of a connection between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and higher incidence rates of myocarditis within two weeks of vaccination — particularly following the second dose of the primary series.
“There is evidence that suggests patients who receive a COVID-19 vaccine are at an increased risk of myocarditis,” the document read.
“Onset was typically within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (from Pfizer or Moderna), and cases have occurred more often after the second dose than the first dose.”
Pfizer cited CDC data to make this determination.
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
If it weren’t for these FOIA requests this and other damning information wouldn’t see the light of day. Corrupt public health is an expert at hiding inconvenient information it doesn’t want the public to see.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enlisted McDonald’s to promote its COVID-19 public health education campaign
McDonald’s produces and promotes some of the unhealthiest ultraprocessed food on the planet — food that likely played a role in making COVID-19 outcomes worse
The joint initiative debuted May 2021 and included use of a McDonald’s billboard in Times Square to promote COVID-19 shots, and HHS promotional material on its hot McCafé cups and McDelivery seal stickers
The packaging including imaging and text promoting HHS’ We Can Do This initiative, which is intended to “increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and reinforce basic prevention measures”
By naming McDonald’s and other junk food giants as partners in the fight against a pandemic, health officials further normalized the consumption of foods that lead to chronic disease and premature death
In 2021, the Biden Administration called for COVID “misinformants” to be removed from all social media platforms and deemed these perps terrorists, despite government agencies being the worst offenders. The irony of the Administration partnering, that same year, with McDonald’s to “provide trusted, independent information on COVID-19 vaccines“ is palpable. Source
Public health just entered a new low, it that’s even possible.
During the pandemic, many of the largest cities in the United States introduced vaccine mandates. Their goal? To increase the number of people being vaccinated, thereby limiting the spread of COVID-19.
In “Indoor Vaccine Mandates in US Cities, Vaccination Behavior, and COVID-19 Outcomes,” Vitor Melo, Elijah Neilson, and Dorothy Kemboi question the efficacy of these efforts in nine cities that implemented the mandates: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC.
Intended and Unintended Effects of Indoor Vaccine Mandates
City vaccine mandates were arguably among the most restrictive and polarizing regulations ever enacted in the United States. Millions of people were prevented from entering restaurants, bars, gyms, theaters, sports arenas, and other public indoor areas without proof of COVID-19 vaccination. The mandates negatively affected unvaccinated individuals and businesses that were not allowed to serve unvaccinated customers.
In New York City, for example:
More than 90 percent of restaurants reported having customer-related challenges, such as losing customers who objected to the mandate.
Three-quarters of restaurants reported staff-related challenges because of the city’s vaccine mandate.
1,430 city workers were fired for failing to comply with the mandate.
Previous research has shown that similar country-level mandates increased vaccine uptake substantially. However, city-level mandates are easier to evade than country-level mandates because it is generally easier to travel to a neighboring city that does not have a mandate than to cross national borders.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Most supporters of the regulations claim that the benefits associated with the increase in vaccination rates as a result of the mandate—and its implied reduction in the spread of COVID-19—outweigh the costs of its disruptions. However, the authors find that indoor vaccine mandates had no significant impact on COVID-19 vaccine uptake, cases, or deaths across all nine cities that implemented the policy.
Key Takeaway
Public health restrictions and regulations were widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic, and so understanding their consequences is essential. The authors find that city-level mandates had smaller effect on vaccine uptake (and consequently on COVID-19 cases and deaths) than nationwide mandates— and thus failed to achieve their intended objectives.
We now know that instituting indoor vaccine mandates was almost certainly counterproductive. May that lesson not be soon forgotten. ~ Vitor Melo, study author
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**Comment**
This paper ignores a key fact: the experimental gene therapy injections do not stop infection or transmission and are linked to more reports of adverse reactions and death than any other vaccines in the history of VAERS, making all of this null and void. In fact, according to a peer-reviewed study from Michigan State University the news is far worse: 278,000 Americans died of reactions to the jabs, in thefirst year alone. An investigative journalist, using Our World in Data, estimates that the shots have caused 7.5 million deaths globally in addition to 27 million severe injuries.
Sadly, many lost their jobs, were needlessly attacked by friends and family, took their own lives, and suffered in other ways for refusing the clot shots.
But the “vaccine” madness hasn’t ended.
On March 23, 2023 a commanding majority including 10 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Court, sitting en banc, affirmed the preliminary injection against Biden’s mandate for all federal workers to get the COVID shot. While the mandate has been lifted in the military, Biden has not repealed it for federal workers. Foreign travelers are also under still under the mandate.
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic is not allowed into the U.S. for a match because he hasn’t been “vaccinated” for COVID, despite having recovered from the virus in 2020. His request for an exemption was refused, and he was famously deported from Australia in 2022 for the same reason. This should prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is all COVID theatre as natural immunity has finally, albeit late, been recognized as superior to “vaccines.” Further proving the lunacy, if Djokovic enters the country via boat, no COVID test or “vaccination” is required; however, if he takes an airplane – the jab is required. Explain that one.
Plus the Biden has declared the COVID ‘pandemic’ to be over but we are all forced to sit around until the magical date of May 11. That’s another one that defies explanation.
Stanford Virality Project Exposed: True COVID Info Censored on Social Media
“Robby Soave elaborates on a new information as part of the Twitter Files, which unveil additional censor campaign to restrict Covid-19-related content. #covid#freespeech#taibbi.
And speaking of censorship and Taibbi, we now have proof that DHS’s CISA partnered with a censorship consortium called EIP to illegally censor Americans. During the 2020 election, EIP & CISA worked with GEC and ISAC to police political wrongthink on social media. In 2/21, EIP rebranded itself the Virality Project and went on to censor COVID narratives that didn’t align with the government narrative. They targeted people giving 1st hand accounts of “vaccine” injuries, and negative thoughts about “vaccine” passports, as well as censored jokes and satirical memes.
We are warned this will only get worse unless Congress stops it, because in the past three years the government has granted more than 500 contracts and/or grants aimed at tackling “misinformation.”
Virality Project Helped Ban Inconvenient Facts About COVID
The Virality Projectis a coalition of research entities focused on supporting real-time information exchange between the research community, public health officials, government agencies, civil society organizations and social media platforms. Their objective is to detect, analyze and respond to incidents of COVID-19 vaccine “disinformation” across online ecosystems and ultimately mitigate the impact of narratives which supposedly would undermine the public’s confidence in the safety of these processes in the United States.”
This Project led by Stanford University describes itself in terms that seem to be a near confession to conspiracy: note that “government agencies” are included in the “real-time information and exchange, then add the fact that many NGO’s and social media firms have financial ties to the US government, and mix in the First Amendment’s prohibition of restrictions on lawful speech. The result? Yet another sign of our rights being infringed by the COVID-19 regime.
Using the tax-payer’s dime, CDC and HHS offered $1 Million for research to create a tool to predict ‘Vaccine’ ‘Misinformation’ trends. A single applicant will receive an award ranging from $400,000 to $500,000 to develop “a forecasting model that aims to identify potential misinformation on vaccines and how it will affect people as it spreads on social media,” according to Fox News. The funding comes amid ongoing lawsuits challenging other federal government attempts to fight “misinformation” on constitutional grounds.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the conflicts of interest here. The government has patents on vaccines, including the COVID clot shot, and now it’s giving tax dollars for research to counter and shut down all dissenting opinions that dare to threaten profits they stand to gain. Government scientists also receive secret, undisclosed royalty payments. It’s a handy-dandy relationship where corrupt agencies win and the taxpayer loses.
Again, this public health monopoly must be destroyed. Research institutions, industry, and government have no business working together.
The OspC outer-surface lipoprotein is essential for the Lyme disease spirochete’s initial phase of vertebrate infection. Bacteria within the midguts of unfed ticks do not express OspC but produce high levels when ticks begin to ingest blood. Lyme disease spirochetes cease production of OspC within 1 to 2 weeks of vertebrate infection, and bacteria that fail to downregulate OspC are cleared by host antibodies. Thus, tight regulation of OspC levels is critical for survival of Lyme borreliae and, therefore, an attractive target for development of novel treatment strategies. Previous studies determined that a DNA region 5′ of the ospC promoter, the ospC operator, is required for control of OspC production. Hypothesizing that the ospC operator may bind a regulatory factor, DNA affinity pulldown was performed and identified binding by the Gac protein. Gac is encoded by the C-terminal domain of the gyrA open reading frame from an internal promoter, ribosome-binding site, and initiation codon. Our analyses determined that Gac exhibits a greater affinity for ospC operator and promoter DNAs than for other tested borrelial sequences. In vitro and in vivo analyses demonstrated that Gac is a transcriptional repressor of ospC. These results constitute a substantial advance to our understanding of the mechanisms by which the Lyme disease spirochete controls production of OspC.
IMPORTANCE
Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato requires its surface-exposed OspC protein in order to establish infection in humans and other vertebrate hosts. Bacteria that either do not produce OspC during transmission or fail to repress OspC after infection is established are rapidly cleared by the host. Herein, we identified a borrelial protein, Gac, that exhibits preferential affinity to the ospC promoter and 5′ adjacent DNA. A combination of biochemical analyses and investigations of genetically manipulated bacteria demonstrated that Gac is a transcriptional repressor of ospC. This is a substantial advance toward understanding how the Lyme disease spirochete controls production of the essential OspC virulence factor and identifies a novel target for preventative and curative therapies.
Borreliella (syn. Borrelia) burgdorferi is a spirochete bacterium that causes tick-borne Lyme disease. Along its lifecycle B. burgdorferi develops several pleomorphic forms with unclear biological and medical relevance. Surprisingly, these morphotypes have never been compared at the global transcriptome level. To fill this void, we grew B. burgdorferi spirochete, round body, bleb, and biofilm-dominated cultures and recovered their transcriptomes by RNAseq profiling. We found that round bodies share similar expression profiles with spirochetes, despite their morphological differences. This sharply contrasts to blebs and biofilms that showed unique transcriptomes, profoundly distinct from spirochetes and round bodies. To better characterize differentially expressed genes in non-spirochete morphotypes, we performed functional, positional, and evolutionary enrichment analyses. Our results suggest that spirochete to round body transition relies on the delicate regulation of a relatively small number of highly conserved genes, which are located on the main chromosome and involved in translation. In contrast, spirochete to bleb or biofilm transition includes substantial reshaping of transcription profiles towards plasmids-residing and evolutionary young genes, which originated in the ancestor of Borreliaceae. Despite their abundance the function of these Borreliaceae-specific genes is largely unknown. However, many known Lyme disease virulence genes implicated in immune evasion and tissue adhesion originated in this evolutionary period. Taken together, these regularities point to the possibility that bleb and biofilm morphotypes might be important in the dissemination and persistence of B. burgdorferi inside the mammalian host. On the other hand, they prioritize the large pool of unstudied Borreliaceae-specific genes for functional characterization because this subset likely contains undiscovered Lyme disease pathogenesis genes.
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**Comment**
And herein lies the age-old problem: unstudied Borreliaceae-specific genes that have not been functionally characterized, and undiscovered Lyme disease pathogenesis genes. Everything else hinges on these unknowns.
COVID has shown the world what Lyme/MSIDS patients have been facing, only they have been in this hideous time-warp for over 40 years. Researchers are smart – they know they must cow-tow to the NIAID mafia overlord to get research funding, which means they must espouse the accepted narrative that Lyme is a simple nuisance cured with a couple weeks of a mono-therapy that hasn’t worked from the get-go.
Nobody seems to care but sick patients and a handful of ethical researchers who feverishly attempt to move a 40 year old needle that’s covered with an inch of rust. When dissenting research finally does come out, it is retracted for flimsy reasons, in this case due to testing methods, but my educated guess is the research simply couldn’t stand because it revealed too much truth. This is quite ironic considering the COVID ‘pandemic’ only occurred due to faulty testing insisted upon & patented by corrupt public health which quietly had to withdraw its EUA because it can’t distinguish between COVID and the regular flu. Monopolizing medicine/disease is the CDC & FDA‘s MO and this includes testing, as virtually everything else spawns off of testing. Control testing and you control the entire paradigm from research to drugs.
“JV was a supporter of The Quiet Epidemic and was in touch with our team. It’s incredibly sad that we won’t have a chance to meet him. We hold him and his loved ones in our hearts as we continue pushing our story and cause out into the world. This screening is dedicated to JV, his family, friends, 94.9 family, and listeners.”
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 