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Sloppy Studies; Lawsuits, Legislation over Vaccine Mandates

Alleged Faking and Frenzy on Pfizer Study

A Pfizer researcher has blown the whistle on the sloppy, helter-skelter practices at a contractor called Ventavia during the COVID vaccine trial. The British Medical Journal reports regional director Brook Jackson's revelations:

  • Falsifying data
  • Employing inadequately trained vaccinators
  • Delay in following up on adverse events
  • Overwhelmed staff
  • Possible unblinding of participants

Jackson reported the problems to the FDA, who never investigated them. Jackson was fired. 

Vendors Lied: Volunteers Wrecked

Meantime, researchers "did everything in their power to hide what happened" to Maddie de Garay, a trial participant. At age 12, Maddie participated in the Pfizer trial and received two doses of the vaccine. According to Maddie's mother, Stephanie de Garay,

  • Trials have participants use an app to report specific adverse reactions, but the app doesn't have a way to report other reactions. Other reactions are reported to the study doctor, leaving room for reporting error and bias. 
  • Within 12 hours of receiving the second dose, Maddie developed nausea, electric shocks, pain, numbness, severe chest pain, tachycardia, and extreme dizziness. She went on to spend 63 days in the hospital. Now, Maddie cannot walk, needs a tube for feeding, has constant pain in her stomach, and can't feel her legs. The FDA emergency use authorization for 12-15 year olds makes no mention of any of her reactions, but rather describes her reaction as a stomach ache. 
  • Pfizer, the CDC and the FDA have never contacted the de Garays.

AstraZenica also whitewashed their research. Brianne Dressen had such a severe reaction that she was removed from the trial--but the New England Journal of Medicine article on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine says only that there were patients who "withdrew," that "no new vaccine-related safety signals were identified," and that "serious adverse events will be recorded from the time of signed informed consent through day 730." The report does not include Dressen's reactions, which she says have upended her life.

"Here's your proper informed consent," says Dressen. "If you get COVID, you will get medical help. But I'm afraid to tell you, if you have [a reaction], you are on your own. The government won't help you. The drug companies won't help you. Your medical teams will have no idea what to do with you. Financially, you will be on your own. You will be completely on your own."

This is the sad but entirely predictable outcome from the same medical industry that gave us the diabesity epidemic, that mostly doesn't treat thyroid problems, that sent people to prison for made-up crimes that existed only in recovered memories, that gave out opioids like M&Ms, and that can't solve something as basic as heartburn without drugs. 

The vaccine victims need to build a website with a forum that can't be deplatformed (as Facebook has done to them), start looking for answers to their own problems, and forget about fighting city hall. Some in the low-carb community have been fighting for ten years just to change the dietary guidelines from my-plate-of-metabolic-syndrome to something less toxic, to no avail. If it were me, the first thing I'd try would be krill oil. When my dog suffered from an overdose of ivermectin--which the vet said couldn't possibly be harming her (sound familiar?)--a joint medication with krill oil helped her. Looking at that in writing, it seems like a long shot and maybe it is, but that is what I would try. Oh--and if Maddie is on soy-based TPN, it might be a good idea to find an alternative.

Feds Sued

Today, OSHA issued its emergency order, begun two months ago and taking effect in another two months. It's a good thing OSHA isn't in charge of real emergencies. 

Governors and attorneys general, on the other hand, were johnny on the spot in filing lawsuits to stop the mandates and the emergency they would create. Indiana alone filed three. Our senator Mike Braun is leading an effort to nullify the order, but things will more likely be settled in court. The mandate requires unvaccinated people to wear a mask indoors unless they're in an office with walls and a door, which I don't have anymore. Having had to lie down before after standing and wearing a mask for 20 minutes or so, I don't think I'd be physically able to comply. There's a carve-out for people working from home, so that's what I'd have to ask my employer for if this disaster comes to pass. With the shortage of health care workers and now glass vials, weekly testing isn't likely to be a real-world option.  Hopefully, enough of our clients will stay in business to provide me with full-time work. 

This reminds me of a Thomas Sowell quote I read today: "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."

And another quote: "I'm going off the rails on a crazy train." -Ozzy Osbourne

Sources:

BMJ 2021;375:n2635

Sen. Johnson Expert Panel on Federal Vaccine Mandates, November 1, 2021, 2:28:00. 

Ibid, 2:39:34.


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