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If Public Health Cared About Public Health & Research Ethics & Vaccinologist Paul Offit Won’t Be Getting Any More COVID Shots

**UPDATE April, 2023**

This article also points out how medical doctors were bribed by insurance companies to push the experimental, fast-tracked, gene-therapy injections.  The deck has been perfectly stacked from the beginning against an unsuspecting public.  

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/if-public-health-cared-about-public?

If Public Health Cared About Public Health and Research Ethics…

You would not have seen these during the push for mass vaccination.

James Lyons-Weiler
 
 

It only takes a little searching on Pubmed or Google to find factors associated with severe COVID-19.

Remember when the master wizards of Public Health decided to appeal to Americans to vaccinate for the “reward” of

Hamburgers?

(Watch comedian Jim Breuer dismantle de Blasio’s free french fries if you get the jab)

That’s former Mayor de Blasio, who evidently will now be teaching “Public Health” at Harvard University.

Or, remember when they tried to incentivize Americans to vaccinate with doughnuts?

And beer?

Michigan, California and few other states encouraged gambling as an incentive to vaccinate:

How about some participation in a nice, healthy sex trade practice (hey, they’re masked at least!)?

No, seriously, Toronto actually did this.

Even Larry Flynt got into the craze… want to get a vaccine at his joint?

These incentives were the brainchild of Public Health and the Biden Administration:

Here at Popular Rationalism, we prefer to stick with the Science:

“Several hundred studies provide powerful evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a strong linear risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes, with recent studies suggesting ~5-10% higher risk for COVID-19 hospitalisation per every kg/m2 higher BMI.”

The review says nothing about the effects of lap dances or gambling on the risk of severe COVID-19.

However, it’s worth pointing out that incentives for research are unethical.

See HHS’s

Attachment A – Addressing Ethical Concerns Offers of Payment to Research Participants

“OHRP FAQs  currently define undue influence as potentially occurring ‘through an offer of an excessive or inappropriate reward or other overture in order to obtain compliance.’”

The vaccines only had Emergency Use Authorization. Everyone who gave such incentives is guilty of “offering an excessive or inappropriate reward or other overture” to get people to comply with participation in human subjects research.

And never, ever forget the cruelty that took place under the guise of ‘public health’.

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**Comment**

I must also add the nonstop ads pushed by celebrities, politicians, film/cartoons, etc. as well as the fact our own government (HHS) coughed up $1 BILLION to promote the shots.

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/is-paul-offit-a-sitting-duck-for?

Is Paul Offit a Sitting Duck for ADE?

Read his position on why he won’t be taking the bivalent “booster”. CDC’s data suggests he might be in a group of people who could be in trouble. Let’s hope not.

 
James Lyons-Weiler

According to MedPage Today, Dr. Paul Offit of Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, a well-known vaccine zealot and well-known apologist for aluminum toxicity against evidence, has decided that he’s had enough of COVID-19 vaccines. He won’t be getting another booster or the updated, bivalent vaccine. Yes, you read that right.

Medpage Today quotes him thusly:

“I have received three doses of the ancestral strain vaccine and contracted a mild case of COVID in May. As a result, all the evidence suggests that I have high frequencies of virus-specific memory B and T cells, which should protect me against severe disease this winter.”

Offit continues:

“I do not plan to get another dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines until it is clear that people who have been primed, boosted, and naturally infected are nonetheless at high risk of serious illness when encountering the virus.”

Here’s the question:

How do you tell the difference between vaccine failure and disease enhancement, as in antibody-dependent enhancement? Answer: with vaccine failure, you get asymptomatic disease.

With ADE, you get severe illness.

When Offit sees the data from CDC, he is going to find that people who have been primed and boosted may be susceptible to increased risk of hospitalization if they are infected with newer variants, due to ADE.

According to CDC, as of Sep. 07, 108,953,688 Americans had received a booster, or 48.6 percent of the country’s fully vaccinated population.

Also according to CDC, 75.5% of adult Americans have been “fully vaccinated”.

According to math, 48.6%  of 75.5% = 36.69% are, at this time, boosted

The reports that 44% of those hospitalized were boosted (e.g., WebMd citing CDC data) does not bode well for the booster program, and here’s why:

At COVID-19 vaccine program effectiveness = 0, the rate would be 36.7% of the hospitalized were boosted. But instead, it’s 44%. HIGHER than expected.

This implies negative effectiveness.

This is the full report with the concerning results that support negative effectiveness of boosting.

I’m not sure yet how those who also, like Offit, had a SARS-CoV-2 infection will fare, and will of course I hope everyone, injected or not, does well this winter, I suspect many will not. Perhaps (and I hope) Offit’s immunity from the SARS-CoV-2 infection will have provided him with diverse B- and T-cells to antigens other than the spike protein.

It seems likely given Omicron’s R0 (ease of spread) that nearly everyone who has been vaccinated likely by now has also had an infection. This “silent boosting” in the vaccinated via natural infection was reported years ago by Japanese medical researchers in Japan.

Here’s Dr. Vinay Prasad discussing some of the problem. He does a good job calling out a doctor (Robert Califf, Commissioner of Food and Drugs of the FDA) for claiming on Twitter that the bivalent vaccine will protect people with zero data from humans in the second sentence of Califf’s tweet.

But Prasad does not seem to recognize the implications of CDC’s data showing negative effectiveness; he thinks Califf’s first sentence is a-ok. And he reports Offit’s refusal of the bivalent booster near the end, too, providing 11 reasons why an annual COVID-19 “booster” is not like an annual flu shot.

NB: I need everyone on Twitter to Tweet this with #BringBackJack. Let Califf and Twitter know that by shutting down my account, they have activated the masses.

NB2: The artwork used in this Substack article involves a doctor duck image. In no way is this meant to imply anything about Dr. Offit other than the potential self-imposed risk of ADE implied by the title of this article.

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**Comment**

Prasad states that the first reason the COVID shot is not like the flu vaccine is due to the COVID shot being more reactogenic or causes more reactions/adverse effects. While this statement isn’t false, it by omission makes you believe the flu vaccine doesn’t cause negative reactions. That would be a false belief.

I have sat across the table from twenty year old Lyme/MSIDS patients who were doing fine, had their infections under control, got the flu vaccine and then everything went to hell in a hand basket.

Vaccines can serve as triggers to reactivate latent infections. Patients NEED to know this and contemplate the risk. But, due to politics, few doctors are honest enough to truly give informed consent.

But, you are now duly warned.

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Lyme Disease: ‘I Can’t Stop Taking Antibiotics, Otherwise I’ll be Bedridden Very Quickly’

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2022/08/29/lyme-disease-one-small-tick-bite-with-many-complicated-consequences/

Lyme disease: ‘I can’t stop taking antibiotics, otherwise I’ll be bedridden very quickly’

Two experiences of the illness outline the difficulty in getting a diagnosis and the severity of symptoms

Manus Biggs experienced severe neurological disorders including vision impairment as a result of Lyme disease

Mark Hilliard
Mon Aug 29 2022

Sometime after Dr Manus Biggs contracted Lyme disease, he began noticing just how many ticks, the tiny creatures that carry the crippling pathogen, were nesting in the grass surrounding his Galway home.

In 2018 a small bite from one of these parasitic arachnids caused him to develop a chronic form of the condition and thus begin a grueling battle with symptoms that endure to this day.

“[It was] either in my back garden or in the local woods. But I have been bitten by ticks I’d say five or six times at least,” he says. “After I became more aware of the situation I couldn’t go out into the garden really without finding a tick on my shoe or on my T-shirt, whatever it might be …[It] is getting worse and worse. My garden was teeming with them.”

But for Biggs the true epiphany of his near five-year experience with the disease, including a regimen of heavy antibiotics and other treatments, has been about the medical understanding of the illness, research and treatments, going right to the core of accepted western medical practice.

Awareness of ticks and the risk of the bacteria they carry is not new — in some parts of the countryside warning signs guide walkers away from infested undergrowth, while parents routinely scan their children for attachments after a day playing outside.

The first symptom Biggs noticed was tiredness, something he dismissed as the rigors of his work at NUI Galway where, as an associate professor in biomedical engineering, he leads a team developing advanced medical technology.

A key problem is the difficulty in diagnosis — one GP assured him he did not have the disease, that there was ‘no point pursuing this’

However, sometime later he suffered a bout of Lyme related meningitis. His condition deteriorated: exhaustion, weakness, severe neurological disorders including vision impairment and communication issues left him housebound and often bedridden.

However, subsequent HSE testing confirmed the illness after six months. At the same time, he received positive results from a German lab. By this stage he was very ill.

A specialist neurologist asked him if he had been tested for Lyme disease and started him on a course of IV antibiotics which got him back on his feet. However, once this hospital treatment ended, he declined rapidly.

“It’s very aggressive. The cessation at all of therapy just leads to disaster,” he says, listing symptoms from extreme dizziness to problems processing sound and light.

Another specialist doctor began prescribing antibiotics. Today he takes three kinds twice a day which prevent replication of the bacteria but does not kill it, something he likens to a “net on top of a passive wild boar”. His own experiments have allowed him to refine a model of treatment that appears to keep the illness at bay.

“Now the position I’m in is that I can’t stop taking antibiotics, otherwise I’ll be bedridden very quickly. So essentially it’s a prophylactic therapy, I take huge amounts of high dose antibiotics and that’s still ongoing.

“I’m stuck in a position of anxiety because there’s always that sword of Damocles hanging over me.” By this he means the possibility of having to stop the medication in the event of a negative response.

The effectiveness of the antibiotics has led him to question medical orthodoxy, even though he knows this provokes a backlash. He came around to the belief, contrary to various studies, that Lyme disease is a persistent infection that requires more research and therapies than just simple antibiotic treatment.

“The realization of that really impacted my worldview in some respects; my educational foundation taught me to accept that a significant body of published work which reports the same conclusions cannot be refuted,” he says. “Unfortunately, I have been exposed to the reality that a lot of scientific studies, even those published in the most reputable journals, can be incomplete or just plain wrong.”

As Biggs continues his battle against the illness, thousands of kilometres away in Montreal, Irishman Dermot O’Sullivan (30) is hoping his is now behind him.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • In O’Sullivan’s case, he initially thought he was having a reaction to the COVID shot, but he developed breathlessness and a large red rash on his chest.
  • Then, his heart rate was very low but a monitor tracking it found the rate would dip and climb, setting off an alarm.
  • An ID doc suspected Lyme and confirmed this through testing.
  • The patient developed complete heart block, was put on IV antibiotics, and was told he might need a pacemaker.
  • He was monitored in the hospital by getting a blood test once a week that eventually looked good where all the inflammation and presence of infection were gone.
  • He continued IV antibiotics for two more weeks after leaving the hospital.
How can the outcome of two patients with the same disease be so different?

That is the million dollar question and why mainstream medicine and research will NEVER be able to solve this with their current allopathic mindset of one drug for one disease.  What is not discussed in this article at all is the existence of coinfections which makes cases more severe and for a longer duration.

The other important factor is the fact Biggs has been bitten by ticks numerous times.  When you read the work of experienced Lyme literate doctors you find out there are factors that amplify the problem:

  1. Multiple bites
  2. Active Lyme arthritis with a high sedimentation rate
  3. Heart murmurs
  4. Hormonally active women

IV’s give much higher blood levels of drugs than orals, and that the following variables necessitated IV treatment:

  1. Spinal tap shows high inflammation (high protein)
  2. High Sed rate and synovitis (inflammation of synovial membrane)
  3. People sick for more than 1 year
  4. Age over 60
  5. Acute carditis
  6. Immune deficiency
  7. Those who used immunosuppressants
  8. Failed oral treatment

Another important topic that isn’t discussed is the blow-back these infections can cause.  It is nearly impossible to decipher the difference between active infection and the blow-back or damage they can cause.  Mainstream calls this “Post treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome”  PTLDS and throws everyone into this four-cornered box.  The problem of course is that some truly are still fighting active infection(s) and require MORE antimicrobials.

A agree with this interview about PTLDS because the term doesn’t distinguish between the two groups (those with infection and those with blowback).  Further, until public health and mainstream medicine admit that some can still be actively infected after the “accepted”, brief, but unscientific monotherapy, patients will not get the help they need.

This problem has been ignored for over 40 years.  Polly Murray (RIP), the Connecticut woman in the 70’s who was astute enough to notice everyone in her town was sick with a similar looking illness, complained about this in her book “The Widening Circle,” but nothing’s changed.  She also explains how all of these patients, including her entire family improved when put back on antibiotics.  The ‘powers that be’ wouldn’t listen then and they aren’t listening now.

Some things never change.

There is hope; however.  Unfortunately Lyme/MSIDS is not slowing down.  It’s just a matter of time before more and more become infected and have to travel down this pot-hole riddled road.  They will find out for themselves that the “accepted science” doesn’t match reality, which BTW appears to be the “new norm,” and hopefully the COVID debacle is waking up even more people from a deep slumber of denial.  While Lyme advocates rejoice over a “historic increase in Lyme funding,” this will only line the pockets of a heavily entrenched Cabal that’s been doing the “accepted and approved” research on Lyme since it began.

But don’t take my word for it.  Listen to Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, the “discoverer” of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) the causative agent of Lyme (although there are many more strains and some yet unidentified):

http://

Nov. 2014

Excerpts from interview with Willy Burgdorferi, Ph.D.

Dr. Willy Burgdorfer “inocuating” Ornithodoros ticks, May 1954 (Rocky Mountain Laboratories Historical Collection/Nicholas J. Kramis)  Source  Image is public domain

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Tonight: “Lyme Brain & Fibro Fog” With Dr. Rawls

Join Dr. Bill Rawls for a LIVE WEBINAR + Q&A TONIGHT at 8pm EDT as he explains what causes the neurological symptoms and brain fog that often accompany chronic Lyme disease and fibromyalgia.

Dr. Rawls will also share natural remedies for long-lasting relief.

Some of the things discussed in this webinar will be:

  • Why cognitive symptoms like confusion, short-term memory loss, anxiety, anger, and depression are so common in chronic illness patients such as those with Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and Long COVID
  • How microbes, inflammation, and immune dysfunction disrupt cognitive function
  • The best herbs and natural remedies for restoring and protecting brain health
  • Diet tips and other lifestyle factors that help ease symptoms
  • Numerous insights during the LIVE Q&A with Dr. Rawls

Join us, and bring your questions! Plus, we will announce a free gift and drawing for webinar attendees.
Reserve Your Seat Now »

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Despite The ‘Pandemic’ Being Over & Companies Dropping “Vaccine” Mandates, Wisconsin Healthcare Workers With Religious, Medical Exemptions Must Get Novavax COVID Shot or Lose Job

The COVID dominoes have started to fall.  This is seen clearly by the onslaught of world leaders who are suddenly trying to distance themselves from a botched COVID approach including Biden declaring suddenly that the ‘pandemic’ is over.

It appears a few haven’t gotten the memo. 

Despite many companies dropping “vaccine” mandates, and a summary judgement declaring a mayor’s “vaccine” mandate illegal, Wisconsin healthcare workers who had religious or medical exemptions must now get the Novavax COVID shot or lose their jobs.

Some media outlets claimed Novavax — made with recombinant moth-cell-based nanoparticle technology, the problematic surfactant polysorbate 80 and a never-before-approved nanoparticulate adjuvant called Matrix-M — is “free of side effects.”

However, the day after the FDA issued its Novavax authorization, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) updated its product information for the Novavax shot to disclose “new” side effects.

The EMA’s list of side effects included “severe allergic reaction [anaphylaxis] and unusual or decreased feeling in the skin” (called paresthesia and hypoesthesia, respectively).

In addition, the EMA said it would assess myocarditis and pericarditis as Novavax side effects — safety signals that also were on display in the FDA’s briefing document on Novavax.

And in clinical trials, older adults who received the Novavax vaccine experienced an increased incidence of hypertension compared to those in the placebo group.  Source

So utilizing fetal cells isn’t the only problem here. 

Dr. Meryl Nass states that there are safety concerns over Matrix-M, and the toxic spike protein – both adjuvants used in Novavax.  Others are concerned about heart inflammation, blood clots, and the fact it was also designed for use against the original COVID strain, not Omicron or other variants dominant today.  

The hospital in question is Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin which operates 11 hospitals and more than 45 health centers and clinics throughout the midwest and employs more than 2,000 physicians.

The hospital said in a statement:

“Froedtert Health requires staff and providers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a federal requirement that is monitored for compliance. We join many other health systems around southeast Wisconsin and the U.S. that have made vaccination a condition of employment.

“The Novavax vaccination for COVID-19 is now available. This protein-based vaccination option eliminates conflicts for those staff with religious or medical exemptions caused by mRNA-based vaccines and other concerns.

“Since those staff are now eligible for a vaccination that does not conflict with their religious beliefs or medical situation, their exemption will expire. This affects a small percentage of staff with a vaccine exemption. Eligible staff continue to be exempt from a COVID-19 vaccine for religious and medical reasons.

“Froedtert Health respects the right of staff and providers to engage in activity protected by state and federal law.”

The key point here is that hospitals have chosen money over people due to the CARES Act giving hospitals financial kickbacks for complying with federal dictates despite science to the contrary, as well through ignoring individual medical freedom and informed consent. These brutal dictates have kept people from effective COVID treatment, forced them into isolation without any say in their healthcare, and into using toxic, expensive FDA approved drugs and treatments.

Hospitals have become modern day killing fields.

Unscientific mandates have forced medical workers, the military, children who want to attend many schools, and many workers to be “vaccinated” with a mRNA gene therapy injection which doesn’t stop infection, transmission, severe hospitalization or death and has been linked to more adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.

A side effect of forcing health care employees, despite their health status and beliefs, to be “vaccinated” is staffing shortages due to workers leaving in droves. It has also caused some workers to start up their own medical care facilities and consulting companies that don’t accept federal funding. 

Good for them and us.

Having to go outside mainstream medicine is not new to Lyme/MSIDS patients due to the politicization which interferes with patients getting proper help. The exact same politicization exists with COVID and doctors who treat outside the box of corrupt public health are ostracized, banned, censored, and persecuted.

Time to break the public health monopoly.  Do not give the CDC one more dime.

The best way to fight this tyranny is with your feet and with your voice.  Support independent doctors, avoid hospitals if you can, and vote for those who actually care about patients – not Big Pharma and politics as usual.  Patients deserve the ability to partner with their practitioners for the best health care and this partnership is an individualized one not a government, top down “one size fits all” allopathic paradigm.

Act now before private medicine is completely absorbed into the statist-corporate complex.

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Biden Declares ‘Pandemic’ is Over & “Zero COVID” NZ Prime Minister Pulls a Sunak and Suddenly Does An About Face

**UPDATE**

This 15 min video goes through the chronology and how unscientific lockdowns came to rule the land and how they haven’t worked to deter COVID in any way; however, they have caused untold damage like suicides, lack of education, mental health issues, etc.

The COVID Dominoes Have Started to Fall

Similarly to mainstream media which follows a singular script, suddenly world leaders are reading off the same teleprompter proving the naked absurdity of global public health.

In an interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, President Biden said the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” in the United States, despite conflicting messaging from Fauci, HHS, and Reuters, who all stand to gain by keeping the ‘plandemic’ going.  As pointed out in this article, since the whole PCR debacle is still with us and the CDC has yet to issue an adjustment factor for false positives the actual number of real COVID cases is still unknown.The same thing is true for deaths due to the whole “died with” vs “died from” debacle. The Office of Inspector General (IG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report concluding the FDA overused Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) resulting in faulty COVID tests reaching the market that otherwise might not have.  One such test is the “free” at-home antigen test which has the toxic chemical sodium azide in it which is colorless, tasteless, and odorless and which is used as a propellant in airbags and in pest control.

COVID ends as it began: as a political ploy.

The question that needs to be answered is “if it’s over, why the continued emergency,” and why the continued mandates?

Biden’s declaration is right on the heels of the admission by CDC director Walensky stating the organization kinda botched the COVID response. Despite the admission; however, she wants more tax dollars. And the organization is getting more.  A lot more.  There’s been a 356.9% increase in funding relative to 2022 to the tune of $39 BILLION.

But Biden and Walensky aren’t alone.  Recently former UK chancellor Rishi Sunak is attempting to distance himself from the ‘plandemic’ debacle by stating he disagreed with his government’s COVID response from the beginning.  He was promptly and soundly called out on this fabrication by his countrymen.  Neil Oliver stated it simply:

“Sunack squeaks that he was on the right side of history but powerless.  What absolute twaddle.  He was arguably the second most powerful figure in government. By his own admission he went along with all that was done to us.” 

Then, there’s the lockdown happy New Zealander Prime Minister Rita Panahi suddenly doing an about face as well after some ugly poll numbers and protests.

https://thehighwire.com/videos/covid-zero-new-zealand-abandons-restrictions/  Video Here (Approx. 4 Min)

Mandates Ending in New Zealand

Next to China, New Zealand’s Covid restrictions have been some of the most authoritarian and inhumane in the world. A once confident Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, had no problem dividing her people and has now suddenly switched to supporting individual choice. Are people buying it?

Please, don’t buy it.

Oliver gives this important warning:

“The COVID and lockdown double act is expendable. They’ve rung all the juice they are ever going to get out of that rotten fruit and now it’s ready to be cast aside. Or maybe it will just go on the back burner while other fresher concoctions are brought forward.  Either way, someone somewhere seems to have decided it’s time to move on.

This article goes over the fresher concoctions currently being rolled out – all of which are huge money and power grabs.

It appears they haven’t quite rung all the juice out of the COVID ‘plandemic’  as the government and employers continue to mandate EUA injections that don’t stop transmission, infection, severe hospitalization or even death but are linked to more adverse events and death than another other vaccine in the history of VAERS.

Let us never forget the thousands that have been fired and bullied over refusing to get an experimental gene therapy injection.

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Former nurse Tawny Buettner gives emotional speech about losing her job due to “vaccine” mandate

Sept. 14, 2022

Buettner was a nurse for 13 years in the cardiovascular care unit where she took care of children with myocarditis after the COVID shots. She states that these reactions were not being reported to VAERS. She states it was an unspoken thing that they were not allowed to talk openly about it in the unit.

“I am the face of your misinformation, Nathan. I am the one who lost my career in pediatric, cardiovascular ICU care.” ~ Nurse Tawny Buettner

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