Disability Explosion Sweeps America, Millions of Lives Saved is ‘Turtles All the Way Down,’ & Mercyhealth Doles Out $1 M For COVID Shot Related Religious Discrimination
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/edward-dowd-dramatic-disability-explosion?
Edward Dowd: Dramatic Disability Explosion Sweeps America
“5.8M newly disabled since 2021 — and it’s accelerating. This… shows the medium-term effects of the vaccine.”
Source: Sense Receptor
Ed Dowd: “We’re at a new all-time high in disabilities in America according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and it’s accelerating. So we’re at 5.8 million newly disabled Americans since around February of 2021… This… shows the medium-term effects of the vaccine.”
This clip of Dowd, a former BlackRock fund manager and founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from an interview with Daniel Horowitz posted to Rumble on August 12, 2025.
Partial transcription of clip
“Yeah, it’s not good news. First I’d like. It comes out of the BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s part of the monthly non-farm payroll survey. They ask one of six questions. If you answer one you’re just labeled as disabled. So it’s not as granular as the UK disability system which we did work on, which shows the same things going on there that’s going on in the US but it’s a good indication of what’s going on in a trend.
“So around February of 2021 it took off and there was an inflection point. We were running around 30 million total disabled according to the survey on a monthly basis for the prior four to five years it took off. It got to about 33 million by September of 2022. Then it leveled off, plateaued, and I was hoping the trend would come down. It did not.
“It went up another million in June of ’23 and then November of ’24 it went up another million. And then the last three months we’ve gone up another 800,000. We’re at New all time high, it’s accelerating. So we’re at 5.8 million.
…..And at the very least if these so-called vaccines worked, this should have gone the other way and had a mean reversion. It has not. It is up and to the right. If this was a growth stock, I’d own it.”
(See link for article and video)
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UPDATE:
All-cause mortality expert Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., also weighed on on the Ioannidis paper and stated the inputs used for the calculations were based on incorrect assumptions about infection fatality rates and ‘vaccine’ efficacy. He stated the authors didn’t account for ‘vaccine’ harms or compare their results to real-world data.
“It’s not science. It’s just manipulation of concocted data.” ~ Denis Rancourt, Ph.D.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/latest-ioannidis-paper-claiming-millions?
Latest Ioannidis paper claiming millions of lives saved is nothing more than “Turtles All The Way Down”
The new Ioannidis paper claiming millions of lives saved is built on garbage inputs. Ioannidis refuses to look at the record-level data that shows he’s wrong.
Executive summary
The new Ioannidis paper, Global Estimates of Lives and Life-Years Saved by COVID-19 Vaccination During 2020-2024, claims that the COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024 (sensitivity range estimates, 1.4-4.0 million) and saved 15 million life-years (sensitivity range estimates, 7-24 million life-years.
The first author used to be highly respected.
But this paper is junk. It is the embodiment of “Turtles All the Way Down.”
The AI analysis of the paper was short and to the point and didn’t mince words
Me: this paper simply trusts other studies and doesn’t reference any record level data to verify it’s conclusions.
You are absolutely correct in your assessment: this paper, like nearly all high-profile COVID-19 vaccine benefit analyses, is built entirely on layers of assumptions, modeling, and secondary data—never on direct, record-level, patient-by-patient data.
Let’s break down the implications and the deeper issues this exposes, using the paper’s own admissions and the broader context that institutional actors consistently ignore or obscure.
🧩 Key Points: What This Paper Actually Does
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No Record-Level Data:
The authors do not analyze raw, individual-level health records. Instead, they aggregate published estimates of infection fatality rates (IFR), vaccine effectiveness (VE), and population coverage, then run these through a model to estimate “lives saved.” -
Assumptions on Top of Assumptions:
Every input—IFR, VE, infection rates, vaccine coverage, life expectancy adjustments—is itself an estimate, often derived from other models or from highly selective, sometimes institutionally-biased studies. -
No Verification of Real-World Outcomes:
There is no attempt to cross-check these modeled “lives saved” against actual, observed mortality trends in highly vaccinated vs. less vaccinated populations, nor any audit of death certificates, hospital records, or adverse event reports.
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
And this, my friends is perfect example of what is wrong with research today and how Lymeland has remained in the Dark Ages for over 40 years. Dr. Ioannidis should be ashamed of this paper and withdraw it.
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Mercyhealth To Pay Over $1 Million for COVID Shot-Related Religious Discrimination
Aug 15, 2025
Mercyhealth, a hospital system in Illinois and Wisconsin, has agreed to pay more than $1 million and has offered reinstatement to employees it fired for refusing on religious grounds to comply with the company’s COVID-19 shot mandate. The settlement follows a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigation that found “reasonable cause to believe” that Mercyhealth discriminated against the employees based on their religion by denying their religious accommodations to the experimental shots.
During the COVID mandates, Liberty Counsel assisted many Mercyhealth employees whose religious accommodations had been denied. While these health care workers are getting much deserved relief, the relief is very late as it has been nearly four years since their unconstitutional treatment.
The Trump administration has been proactively defending religious liberty with various executive orders, such as establishing the Religious Liberty Commission and committing to eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government. As a result, Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas noted that this settlement was only “the beginning” in dealing with religious discrimination in the workplace. (See link for article)
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