Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category

Chronic Lyme & the CDC

https://www.globallymealliance.org/blog/chronic-lyme-is-getting-more-validation?

Chronic Lyme is Getting More Validation

byJennifer Crystal October 23, 2023

The narrative around chronic Lyme disease is shifting, bringing more validation to those who have been battling for recognition of their illness. Despite the progress, there is still work to be done.

The narrative around chronic Lyme disease is shifting. If you have chronic Lyme, you might read that sentence and roll your eyes. I understand if you do. For decades, Lyme warriors have been battling doctors, friends, family members, insurance companies, and the government for validation of their illness. For validation of themselves.

Yes, of themselves. Chronic Lyme is not, in fact, an identity, as was erroneously and hurtfully purported in a 2019 New York Magazine “The Cut” article that made the rounds again this summer. As I explain in my recent “What it Means to Live with Chronic Lyme Disease” blog post, chronic Lyme is a clinical diagnosis of persistent Lyme disease symptoms that must be made by a medical doctor. It is not a diagnosis of exclusion, a chosen diagnosis, or a chosen identity. No one wants to be a Lyme warrior, but when they’ve been sick for months or years due to delayed diagnosed, complications with co-infections, immune dysregulation, treatment-resistant infection, or other factors, Lyme disease does become part of their identity. Thus, when their illness is denied, it feels like part of themselves is denied.

I continued to sometimes wrestle this denial even after I found Lyme literate doctors, my friends and family became Lyme literate, and I twice achieved remission. I still had to fight for validation from insurance companies, new doctors, and, often, the general public, whose narrative about Lyme had trickled down from what they heard from the government or in the news. Chronic Lyme was still a contentious term, one that I had to be careful to avoid depending on my audience. In articles, the term was often written in quotation marks, suggesting that it wasn’t real. Articles like the one in “The Cut” and others debated the veracity of the illness.

This was a reality for so long that many people don’t realize is changing. I was upset when “The Cut” article got shared on social media again this summer, because it’s old, fake news. In 2023, chronic Lyme hasn’t fully gained the acceptance the Lyme community would like, but the needle is absolutely shifting.

Take, for example, the recent Boston Globe article “Chronic Lyme Disease Research Gets Big Boost.” The title alone is cause for celebration, especially from a publication that has previously run articles questioning chronic Lyme or using alternate terms for it. (In fact, my first big Lyme-related publication was an op-ed in response to a Boston Globe piece almost a decade ago). In “Chronic Lyme Get a Big Boost,” the word chronic is not in quotation marks. It’s just stated as a name of a disease that desperately needs—and is finally getting—research attention. The article goes on not to question chronic Lyme, but to discuss its possible causes, which are being studied by the NIH.

While the article does loop chronic Lyme patients under the Post Treatment Lyme Disease umbrella—when the inverse is actually true—it doesn’t use the PTLD term exclusively, but instead uses liberally and without question the terms chronic Lyme and long Lyme. The article quotes, “In announcing the new grants, the NIH said it hopes that broadening scientific understanding of what causes chronic Lyme might help researchers decipher similar mysteries with other infection-associated chronic illnesses, like long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis, formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome.” Thanks to long COVID, other long-haul illnesses like chronic Lyme are finally getting the attention and validation they’ve needed for too long.

A big part of the chronic Lyme debate has always been whether Lyme can cause persistent infection following a short course of treatment. Over the years, we’ve watched the science catch up to the lived experience of chronic Lyme infection. And while we haven’t heard a definitive “chronic Lyme is caused by chronic infection” from important stakeholders, we are hearing that infection is one of the possible causes of chronic Lyme, and that researchers are studying other causes like altered neural pathways, immune dysregulation and chronic inflammation.

To me, there are two important shifts here: the first is that chronic infection is being accepted as a legitimate cause of persistent symptoms. The second is that the other options are not necessarily being considered instead of persistent infection—when for years the pat line was, “chronic Lyme infection doesn’t exist, so it must be something else”—but possibly in addition to infection. In other words, the causes of chronic Lyme disease are probably not mutually exclusive.

This is evident in the updated wording on the CDC website, which says, “The state of the science related to the persistent symptoms associated with Lyme disease is limited, emerging, and unsettled. Additional research is needed to better understand how to treat, manage, and support people with persistent symptoms associated with Lyme disease.” While the CDC isn’t using the term chronic Lyme, they are validating the experience as well as the need for better research to understand it. Again, the needle is moving in the right direction.

With Lyme treatment and recovery, everything happens in baby steps (sometimes forward and sometimes backwards). We want to get immediately better, but when you’ve been sick for a long time, there isn’t a quick fix. We appreciate little progress as we work towards a larger goal of wellness. When it comes to validation of chronic Lyme disease, I similarly appreciate the progress that is being made, knowing there is still distance to be covered. I believe we Lyme warriors have reason to hope.

***

Writer
By Jennifer Crystal

https://www.globallymealliance.org/news/the-long-shadow-of-lyme-infection-cdc-update-sparks-new-conversation

Chronic and Persistent Lyme Symptoms: CDC Update Underscores Progress

by Global Lyme Alliance on October 30, 2023

The CDC’s update on Lyme infections is a shift in tone on the long-lasting symptoms and challenges faced by individuals. As acceptance of ‘long COVID’ and the concept of persistent illnesses grows in familiarity, the CDC’s update on Lyme disease is no exception.

In the evolving landscape of post-infection ailments, the CDC’s recent update delves into persistent symptoms following Lyme infections. This exploration underscores a crucial reality: infections can cast a long shadow, leaving individuals with enduring symptoms that debunk conventional CDC timelines, persisting for weeks, months, or even longer, despite what is deemed ‘appropriate’ treatment.

The CDC’s goes on to list disease agents or co-infections associated with chronic symptoms, including Borrelia burgdorferi, Campylobacter, Chikungunya virus, Coxiella burnetii, Dengue virus, Ebola virus, Epstein Barr virus, Enterovirus, Poliovirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), and West Nile virus. What’s striking is the challenge faced by many: identifying the specific infection triggering these persistent symptoms. For some, the initial infection might have gone unnoticed, leading to a diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

This update holds broader significance. For years, the medical community, including the CDC, resisted acknowledging the chronic nature of Lyme disease. Even after distancing itself from the IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines, which denied the existence of chronic Lyme, the CDC remained cautious in recognizing persistent Lyme symptoms. However, the arrival of COVID-19 shifted the paradigm dramatically.

The pandemic brought forth a wave of ‘long COVID’ cases, characterized by symptoms like debilitating fatigue and cognitive fog—symptoms strikingly similar to those endured by individuals with persistent Lyme disease, ME/CFS, and other chronic conditions. A 2022 CDC survey revealed the staggering scale of long COVID’s impact: nearly 18 million Americans wrestled with it since the pandemic began, with almost 9 million still affected at the time of the survey.

Perhaps ‘long COVID’ forced the hand of the CDC to shift its language around Lyme disease.  Nevertheless, this is not an admission of chronic Lyme, but it is an acknowledgement of chronic illness and symptoms that interplay with a Lyme diagnosis. This update underscores progress, acknowledging the enduring impact of infections. Yet, it serves as a stark reminder of the long road ahead in the fight for recognition and understanding of chronic Lyme disease. While the CDC’s step towards recognizing persistent symptoms is notable, the battle for acknowledging and addressing chronic Lyme disease at the CDC is far from over.

To see the updated webpage on the CDC’s website, click here

_____________

**Comment**

I do not share the same optimism as the authors of these articles, and I write about my reasons in the comment section of this article.

In short, the CDC is such an abject, conflict riddled organization that abandoned science so long ago, it should be completely disbanded.  Any statements it makes should not only be taken with a grain of salt – you should do the exact opposite.

If their brazen, continued illegal handling of COVID didn’t prove this, nothing will.

This institutionally biased agency has manipulated, ignored, and hidden data for its own purposes, insists upon using its own faulty tests, cherry picks and destroys inconvenient data, owns patents on virtually every aspect of disease, and actually purchased, monitored, and used your cell phone data.  Source

For some reason people still want to believe in this evil agency when it has done nothing to help patients.  And when I say nothing, I mean nothing. In fact, it has been the direct cause of patient suffering for over 40 years.  Did you know it began in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service (MHS) which then morphed into the Public Health Service (PHS) in 1902 that sprayed for mosquitoes with DDT during WWII.  What started as 400 employees mushroomed to 15-16 thousand.  Did you know that it was behind the Tuskagee Experiment before changing its name to the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) which then became the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?  The agency’s initial focus was on tropical and subtropical diseases.

Did you know it is not a true government agency due to vast amounts of private funding it funnels through the CDC Foundation?
No matter how many times this agency changes its name, it remains the same evil, corrupt agency.

I also question the entire premise of “Long-COVID.”  Until the “vaccinated” are separated from the unvaccinated – nobody will ever get a true picture of anything.  “Long-COVID” could very well be a bait and switch to distract from all the adverse reactions from the gene therapy injections that are riddled with so many problems it’s hard to keep up with them all.  ‘The powers that be’ definitely need a scape-goat and “Long-COVID” fits the bill perfectly.

I’m so done with the CDC and you should be too.  

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Viruses

More COVID Shot Bad News: Cumulative Cardiotoxicity, 1 in 3 Suffer Neurological Effects, & DNA Contamination Could Reach Fetus

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/concerns-over-cumulative-cardiotoxicity?

Concerns over Cumulative Cardiotoxicity with mRNA Injection

Troponin Measurements Before and After 4th Shot Give Clues

PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
OCT 31, 2023

The field of pharmacovigilance and drug safety is loaded with regulatory structure and milestones. One of the exercises a new drug must go through is “cumulative toxicity” testing. If a drug is harmful, one dose may not be enough to bring out a side effect. However after 5 or more does, many times problems will emerge. It is usual and customary to count all adverse events for 30 days after a drug is stopped because it may have accumulated in the body or have induced lingering effects.

We have learned COVID-19 vaccines are very long lasting in the body, and since the start of the worldwide mass vaccination campaign, our public health agency sponsors have never mentioned cumulative toxicity as a concern.

Levi et al published an analysis in the European Journal of Heart Failure that appeared to make the COVID-19 vaccines look “safe.” But on the surface there are problems. 324 healthcare workers had cardiac troponin (test for cardiac damage) blood testing before and after the 4th injection. The authors focus on one unfortunate soul who had chest pain, a pathologic rise in troponin, and had to undergo more blood testing, ECG’s, echocardiography, and cardiac MRI. One out of 324 is far to many to have this problem with a routine vaccination!

What authors may have revealed in the cohort is cumulative cardiotoxicity. These patients were ~147 days after the last shot. Among healthy persons, we should be concerned over troponin elevated BEFORE the fourth shot.  (See link for article)

______________

Important points:

  • as many as 14.81% cumulatively sustained damage from shots 3 and 4
  • all small prospective cohort studies have found one or more cases indicating cardiac damage: Mansanguan, Beurgin, and now Levi
  • 75% of people in the U.S. took one or more shots

______________

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/nearly-1-in-3-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-suffered-neurological-side-effects-study

Nearly 1 in 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Suffered Neurological Side Effects: Study

The people included in the study suffered from headaches, tremors, muscle spasms, insomnia, sleepiness, vertigo, and difficulty in concentration.

10/30/2023

Almost a third of individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine suffered from neurological complications including tremors, insomnia, and muscle spasms, according to a recent study published in the journal Vaccines.

The study analyzed 19,096 people who received COVID-19 vaccines in Italy in July 2021, out of which 15,368 had taken the Pfizer vaccine, 2,077 had taken the Moderna version, and 1,651 took the AstraZeneca version.

While both Pfizer and Moderna are mRNA vaccines, AstraZeneca, being an adenovirus vaccine, uses a different mechanism to trigger the immune response.

The study found that about 31.2 percent of vaccinated individuals developed post-vaccination neurological complications, particularly among those injected with the AstraZeneca jab. Different vaccines had a different “neurological risk profile.”  (See link for article)

_______________

Important points:

  • females faced an “increased risk of developing neurological complications”
  • a primary female sex steroid called estradiol triggers a specific immunity process to produce “antibodies against infections.”
  • “Caution should be used when administering COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable people, such as to those who suffer from allergies,” the study stated. “We strongly believe that our findings are relevant for public health regarding the safety of vaccines in a large cohort.”
If you are a Lyme/MSIDS patient YOU ARE VULNERABLE.

______________

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccine-dna-pregnant-mother-fetus/?

DNA Contamination in Pfizer Shots Could Transfer From Pregnant Mom to Fetus, Experts Suggest

According to a panel of experts, led by Steve Kirsch, regulators are ignoring proof that Pfizer intentionally concealed the presence of contaminants in its COVID-19 vaccines. Those contaminants could threaten unborn babies whose mothers receive the vaccine, the experts said in a recent video.

Category:

Activism, Heart Issues, Pregnancy, vaccines, Viruses

Vaccine Awareness Week: ‘Great Awakening Underway’

https://www.vaccineawarenessweek.org/?wix-vod-video

Vaccine Awareness Week

Oct. 29-Nov. 4

In the top link you will learn the story of Barbara Loe Fisher’s (and other’s) journey to safeguard vaccine safety and champion informed consent.  In short, her bright, healthy two and a half year old son suffered a reaction to his fourth DPT shot.  Instead of accepting what happened to her son she joined with other parents of DPT injured children and then co-authored a book on pertussis and the pertussis vaccine that was the first major critique of the U.S. mass vaccination system.  Forty one years ago she began the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) to help parents obtain referenced information on vaccine history, science, policy, law and ethics to facilitate educated vaccine decision making and encourage active citizen participation in the public policymaking and legislative process

She has been a voice of reason and compassion in the vaccine safety debate, defining and defending the human right to informed consent to vaccination.

NVIC has operated a Vaccine Reaction Registry since 1982 and provides a public forum for reporting of vaccine reactions and failures on The International Memorial for Vaccine Victims and the Vaccine Failure Wall. On the Cry for Vaccine Freedom Wall, NVIC provides a public forum for describing first person experiences of harassment and sanctions by physicians, government officials and employers when Americans attempt to exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination.

  • NVIC also maintains an up-to-date list with links to vaccine laws, requirements and exemptions, for all 50 states.
  • It also publishes two free digital periodicals – the monthly NVIC Newsletter and weekly journal newspaper, The Vaccine Reaction emailed to more than 65,000 subscribers.
  • NVIC’s publication program also features vaccine information guides, brochures, posters, and in-depth special reports downloadable from the Ask 8 Information Kiosk and many may be ordered in print form by contacting us.
  • NVIC operates a free online advocacy communications network, the NVIC Advocacy Portal, to educate and empower citizens at the grassroots level in every state to secure and defend informed consent protections in U.S. vaccine policies and laws.
  • Every day, NVIC serves many new followers on Twitter, MeWe, Gab, Minds, Telegram, and Rumble.
  • NVIC produces vaccine education video briefs and longer written referenced video commentaries. NVIC provides downloadable podcasts of longer commentaries on Sound Cloud, iTunes and through NVIC.org.
  • Check out the NVIC website for much, much more.

Over the past 40 years, Barbara has seen a disturbing shift in public conversations about vaccination, health and autonomy, especially since the declaration of a coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Parents of vaccine injured children and anyone defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccine decisions are being demonized, persecuted, sanctioned and censored in the digital public square. Her voice and the information that NVIC researches and publishes online has been scrubbed from social media platforms and is being stifled by Internet search engines. While NVIC has faced persecution for 15 years, go here and read an important article on how there’s been a new concerted effort to control information about vaccines and countering vaccine hesitancy.  The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is itself a hate group and has discredited and demonized anyone who questions vaccines. It has been publicly called out for blatantly lying to create false narrative.

‘Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative Dynamics Around COVID-19 Vaccines,’ by the Virality Project, put out by the Stanford International Observatory, the NYU Center for Social Media Politics, the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public and Graphika found weaponization against its citizens by the government as the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and more, joined with businesses and institutions in society, particularly universities, to create what is known as ‘the censorship industrial complex,’ or ‘the disinformation industrial complex.’

Fisher will present a report to the U.S. House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, CISA, and Big Tech against Americans.  She urges everyone to share this report with friends and family.  She also states the NVIC has been ghosted and would appreciate donations.

14th Annual Vaccine Awareness Week

October 29 – November 4, 2023

Sunday, Oct. 29

A video interview with Dr. Joe Mercola and NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher will kick off VAW week

Wednesday, Nov. 1

A special report about the silencing of NVIC’s voice in the digital public square will be published and accompanied by Barbara’s video commentary.

Thursday, Nov. 2

NVIC’s 2023 Annual State Vaccine Legislation Report will be published.

Friday, Nov. 3

The featured film Plandemic 2 will be shown on the Mercola.com website.

Dr. Mercola is generously matching the first $100,000 in donations to NVIC during this event. Your Donation Can Make Twice the Difference

Your donation is making a real difference! Thanks to your support for NVIC’s work, we can:

1. ADVOCATE to make vaccine safety and the legal right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination a national priority.

2.  DEFEND freedom of thought, speech and conscience and other civil liberties in America. 

3.  CALL for more and better quality science to anchor public health policies and laws 

4.  RESEARCH AND PUBLISH well referenced information on vaccine science, policy, law and ethics to empower individuals to make educated decisions about vaccination and health.

5.  ORGANIZE grassroots support for securing strong informed consent protections in state and federal government vaccine policies and laws. 

Every contribution brings us one step closer to living in a world where everyone can make informed vaccination decisions voluntarily without fear of being coerced or punished by anyone for the decision made. Together, we’re creating a brighter and healthier future. Thank you for being a part of this vital mission.

Since 2010, NVIC and Mercola.com have co-sponsored Vaccine Awareness Week to prioritize vaccine safety and informed consent in the U.S. Join us in spreading vital information on vaccines and informed consent during this critical time in our nation’s history.

Committed to transparency and accountability

NVIC has a small staff of part time employees and volunteers who operate the organization on a day-to-day basis. NVIC has an independent audit conducted every year and is a highly rated non-profit charity committed to transparency and accountability. More information about NVIC can be obtained on GuideStar.

For more:

Category:

Activism, vaccines

CDC Now Lists Lyme As Infection That Can Cause Chronic Symptoms – Don’t Expect Much From This

https://www.lymedisease.org/cdc-chronic-lyme-iaccpac/

CDC now lists Lyme as infection that can cause chronic symptoms

A new page on the CDC website is headlined Chronic Symptoms Following Infections.

It goes on to say: “Infections can sometimes leave people with symptoms that last for weeks to months or longer, even after appropriate treatment.”

(I quibble with their use of “appropriate.” But I’ll leave that alone for now.)

Look what the CDC web page says next–and notice what’s at the top of the list:

Some disease agents that have been linked to chronic symptoms

Some people with chronic symptoms following infections may not know which infection triggered the symptoms, or even recognize that they had an infection before their chronic symptoms began. People with chronic symptoms and unknown preceding infection may be diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

Why is this significant?

For years, the CDC and others in the medical establishment have been loathe to acknowledge that Lyme disease can turn chronic.

For a long time, the agency openly endorsed the IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines, which flatly deny that chronic Lyme exists. Even when the CDC removed the link to the IDSA guidelines from their website and softened some language, there was little support for the concept of persistent symptoms of Lyme disease.

Then along came COVID…

COVID-19 changed all that. Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, so many people began experiencing long-term symptoms of the illness that the term “long COVID” entered the national lexicon. Among the most prominent symptoms of long COVID were debilitating fatigue and brain fog–two symptoms also common in people with persistent Lyme disease, ME/CFS, and a host of other chronic conditions.

According to a 2022 CDC survey, nearly 18 million Americans have suffered from long COVID at some point since the pandemic began, and almost 9 million did at the time of the survey.

Those numbers were too big to ignore–and it opened the door for looking at other chronic conditions that shared symptoms with long COVID.

In June 2023, the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), brought together high-level health officials, academic researchers, and knowledgeable patient advocates to look at the question of “infection-associated chronic illnesss.”

And just this past week, patient advocates that have joined IACCPAC–the Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions Patient Advocacy Coalition–held an online webinar introducing the coalition and its goals.

These are the groups currently involved in IACCPAC:

LymeDisease.org’s Lorraine Johnson was among the panelists at the IACCPAC workshop. She emphasized that patients can’t wait for decades-long studies to determine which treatments are best. It’s essential to accelerate research now.

The various conditions listed above are different in many ways, but they share many unique challenges. By working together, we’ll be able to accomplish things that are much harder to do individually.

I believe things are starting to shift. Stay tuned.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, President of LymeDisease.org. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide, and of Finding Resilience: A Teen’s Journey Through Lyme Disease. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

_______________

**Comment**

The only reason the CDC changes anything is if it benefits their bottom-line and their vested interests. Admitting diseases can be “chronic,” “persistent,” or “long haul” will assist their “vaccine” narrative – particularly using the mRNA platform.  Rather than finding safe, cheap, repurposed drugs to help patients, or accurate testing, it will all be used for lucrative “vaccine” research and development.

I don’t expect much to happen from this, other than many Lyme advocates will continue to support government agencies that have only gas-lit and ignored patient suffering.

If you click on the Lyme link, it leads you here with the infamously biased title Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.  While it at least states that some experts believe it’s an auto-immune response while others hypothesize that PTLDS is from persistent but difficult to detect infection, while yet others believe it’s due to other causes unrelated to Borrelia burgdorferi infection, here’s the kicker: 

Studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that long-term outcomes are no better for patients who received additional prolonged antibiotic treatment than for patients who received placebo. Long-term antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease has been associated with serious, sometimes deadly complications, as described in the links below.  Patients with PTLDS usually get better over time, but it can take many months to feel completely well.

This right here means nothing is going to change. While long-term antibiotics may not be the answer for every Lyme/MSIDS patient, they saved my life, my husband’s life, and the lives of countless others, but due to this unchanging threatening verbiage – no mainstream doctor will dare to prescribe the very thing that could save lives.

I’m not a negative person, but I am a realist.  A pig with lip-stick on is still a pig.

Don’t expect much from this other than gad-loads of money continuing to be spent on the wrong things – including “climate change.”

Just like Fauci told the government NOT to do autopsies on COVID deaths, and just like they made it illegal to analyze what was in the COVID injections, the very thing that could end the Lyme wars are chronic Lyme post-mortem studies, but mark my words: these will not be done.

Category:

Activism, Lyme

There’s Hope: People Starting to Question the COVID Narrative & Nobody Wants The Clot Shots

https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/starting-to-question-the-covid-narrative?

Starting to question the Covid narrative?

When you are ready, the World Council for Health is here for you

OCT 27, 2023
By Dr. Tess Lawrie

At some point you may decide to act on the nagging thoughts that won’t go away and start exploring. Once you start on this journey it will become impossible to un-know what you find out.

It is nearly four years now since the arrival of a Covid 19 – a watershed event that ruptured society along new fault lines. Governments around the World agreed on a common response and we were subjected to lockdowns, masks, and inoculations to combat a deadly virus. We were encouraged to comply with official guidelines by appealing to our virtuous natures: our respect for authority, trust in professionals, sense of responsibility, compassion for the vulnerable, and willingness to sacrifice our individual needs for the ‘greater good’.

While most people went along with what the World Health Organization decreed through national governments, a variety of experts and many others were skeptical, expressing concern about the draconian and unscientific measures imposed and their likely impacts on all aspects of human life. Despite their honorable intentions, dissident voices were roundly criticized for being selfish, uncaring, and a danger to society.

For these sceptics, most of the official guidelines made no sense at all. But instead of their well-researched concerns being taken seriously and debated, they were quickly denounced. The Covid caravan kept rumbling along, ignoring contradictory evidence and ethical concerns.  (See link for article).  This article was co-written by Alice Ashwell, Charlie Efford and Tess Lawrie.

_____________

The World Council for Health (WCH) is one of a number of communities of people whose lives were turned upside-down by the Covid crisis. We have all seen many things we cannot ‘un-see’, and have been learning, growing, and becoming stronger together as we pursue our mission to empower health, freedom, and sovereignty.

We would love you to join our community, which you can do by signing up to our newsletter and participating in our regular Monday Better Way Live livestreams, where we keep up to date with the latest developments relating to our mission.

The WCH website and Substack are full of empowering resources to help you navigate these challenging times, improve your general health, heal from Covid-related injuries, and participate in campaigns that aim to create ‘a better way’ for all of us.

_____________

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/cdc-oct-meeting/

ACIP Annual Review Was a Bust

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met October 25-26, 2023, for their annual review of the childhood and adult schedules, as well as updates on changes to come.

Much of the discussion revolved around how complicated the schedule is because it’s growing so quickly. Chair Grace Lee made the comment,

“I can see we’re going to need a bigger refrigerator for all the vaccines.” And Matt Daley observed, we’re “going to run into the situation where we can’t fit the schedule on one page.”

Top takeaways:

  1. The schedules are now for “vaccines and other immunizing agents,” because of the addition of nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody, aimed at preventing RSV in infants. This is an unwelcome expansion of what can go on the table.
  2. The Mpox vaccine was put on the childhood schedule, even though the vaccine is not licensed for children. It is recommended for use in at-risk adolescents at the age of 18, with acknowledgement that the recommendation could change once data from trials in 12-18-year-olds is available. The committee voted for federal purchases of the Mpox vaccine through the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. Mpox is the second non-licensed, EUA vaccine added to the schedule. This addition is notable for School-based Health Centers (SBHCs) as well, as the addition to the schedule would trigger the ability for children to be given the drug without parental knowledge or consent.
  3. The Adult Immunization Schedule is expanding in tandem with the childhood schedule, and the drumbeat for a “Vaccines for Adults” financing program to mirror VFC sounded loudly throughout the two days.
  4. The RSV vaccine was added to both the adult and childhood schedules for pregnant mothers, but as of publication, RSV is not covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. People anticipate that it will be, but since RSV vaccines will be new to “vaccine court,” additional regulatory steps must be taken.
  5. Expect meningococcal (“meningitis”) vaccine recommendations to mutate as Pfizer’s new “pentavalent” vaccine was licensed. Though the ACIP wasn’t in lockstep yet about how to recommend three different meningococcal shots (one with five strains, one with four, and one with only one), they did all agree an update was necessary and that Pfizer’s new product should be paid for by taxpayers through VFC.
  6. Immunization manufacturers have a blank check for adding to the schedule on a rolling basis, as a new addendum has been added as a placeholder for anticipated changes or additions to the schedule. (We know the GBS vaccine for pregnant mothers is very close to the end of the pipeline.)
  7. A common talking point through many presentations were the shortcomings of “commercialization” through sales of the drugs directly from manufacturers, rather than a public health program of massive purchases and subsequent distribution. In other words, the government claims they’re better at getting people to take vaccines than the private sector is. Let’s keep an eye on where the rubber meets the road on this: Will we see an acceleration of public-private partnerships? Will the government become more of a market player as stock prices drop from their astronomical COVID heights?
  8. There was considerable discussion about the rush for the ACIP to publish recommendations after the FDA grants a new or expanded license. The 21st Century Cures Act mandates that the ACIP move along quickly, but one of the members also made a telling comment about the role of the ACIP in comparison to the practice of medicine: “No recommendation means people will have to make up what they’re going to do with no guidance.” That mentality reflects the fact that the “practice” of medicine (with the federal government at the helm) has become following directions, rather than individualized and thoughtful care.
  9. Injury claims in the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for COVID products are at 12,233; 9,221 of which are from the jab.
  10. Saved the best updates for last: As the number of recommended shots in pregnancy increases, uptake decreases. To address that, multiple presentations cited new propoganda statistics about how safe and effective flu shots during pregnancy are.
  11. The government’s National Immunization Survey showed 7.1% of adults and 2.1% of children self-reported getting the new 2023-2024 COVID shot. These numbers are higher than reality, because the data comes from people who are willing to answer a government survey, giving a very slanted picture.

If you’re feeling gloom and doom, be uplifted by the comment made by David Kimberlin from the American Academy of Pediatrics, who was stuttering in disbelief at the low numbers of people vaccinated with the latest COVID shot and the high number of people who say they don’t plan on it for themselves or their children. 

“Um… Two percent of children have received the current version of the vaccine, and 40% of parents say they’re not going to get their children vaccinated. Seven percent of adults have received the current vaccine; forty percent or so say they’re not going to get vaccinated. Uh, this is…I don’t even really have words for this…I-I-I-I-I appreciate everything that, you know, the AAP is doing, that-that ACIP is doing, CDC and so forth to, to make recommendations, but the recommendations are not being heard.”

Category:

Activism, vaccines, Viruses