A Midwestern Doctor

The Risks and Benefits of Vaccines

From looking into this question at length, much as is in the case for the COVID vaccines, I have concluded that for many of the widely used vaccines:

•Many of the benefits attributed to a vaccine (e.g., preventing the disease, preventing transmission of it, or preventing severe complications of it) are much less than the public (or the medical field) is led to believe.

•Many of the justifications used to justify vaccination are based on historical realities that no longer apply today.

•In cases where a vaccine actually “works” natural selection will quickly make the vaccine stop working.

•Side effects from vaccination are so frequent and varied that any assessment of a vaccine’s risks will inevitably miss many of the actual problems vaccination entails.

In short, I feel a very high bar must be met for vaccination, but as we saw with COVID-19, it often is not.

To accurately determine the risks and benefits of a vaccine, you need to consider all of the following

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To accurately determine the risks and benefits of a vaccine, you need to consider all of the following:

Disease Risk

If you review the vaccine schedule, very few of the diseases in it have both a significant likelihood that you will get them and a significant likelihood that they will develop into a severe condition. Many of the diseases believed to fall into this category are no longer an issue in the United States (e.g., polio or smallpox). Unfortunately, people who look at this question are often fixated on the past presentations of the disease when it was far more pathogenic or when we did not have a way to treat it. Let’s now look at some of the specific questions one might ask to evaluate this question.

 How likely is it for a person to get the disease?

Some diseases we vaccinate against are incredibly rare (e.g., tetanus or polio) while others are now non-existent (e.g., diphtheria).

How likely is the disease to cause a negligible, minor, moderate, severe, or fatal complication?

It is very important to distinguish between these categories because, for most infections, the risk of catching it and then subsequently getting a severe case of the condition is extremely low. For example, a Neisseria meningitidis infection (which can cause septic meningitis) is really bad and can progress very quickly, but also very rare for people to develop (one in ten people are asymptomatic Neisseria meningitidis carriers whereas approximately one in a million get septic meningitis from it each year).

Likewise, we vaccinate everyone against chickenpox despite the fact it almost never causes issues (e.g., only 1 in 100,000 children who get it die from it, many of whom are individuals with pre-existing immune suppression).

How likely is it that the severity of the disease can be improved with an existing medical treatment?

Most of the infections we vaccinate against (e.g., pertussis) are very easy to treat. Unfortunately, the focus is always on vaccinating against the disease rather than providing treatment for it (especially if the treatment is something more unorthodox than an antibiotic). In the case of COVID-19, while severe complications represent the minority of cases, they (and the more minor ones) can in most cases easily be prevented by early outpatient treatment. Unfortunately, the Federal government has refused to sanction effective treatments for COVID-19 and instead keeps pushing an endless number of unsafe and ineffective boosters for the disease.

How likely is it that you will have access to the necessary treatment before you get seriously ill?

While I have many criticisms of the vaccine approach, I have to acknowledge that this area is one of the strongest arguments for it. With rapidly progressing diseases, those in isolated areas, those unable to recognize their need to seek medical care, and those of limited economic means, often cannot get the necessary treatment for the disease before it is too late to prevent a severe complication. Hence, if the disease can be “prevented” through mass immunization, it mitigates the unfortunate circumstances that arise when care for a dangerous infection is not immediately available.

Vaccine Efficacy

How likely is the vaccine to be effective in preventing the disease, and does the presence of vaccine antibodies correlate with a decreased risk of the disease?

Many vaccines fail to do one or both of these. COVID-19 has provided the greatest red pill in history on this topic, especially since successive COVID-19 vaccines, despite increasing antibody levels, actually increase your risk of catching the disease.

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How long does the vaccine’s protection last following immunization?

Many vaccines suffer from declining immunity, hence needing repeated boosters, which re-expose the recipient to the vaccine’s risks. COVID-19 again has provided the greatest red pill in history on this topic, as immunity from it wanes approximately three months after the most recent injection. Many other vaccines also suffer from this issue, which must be taken into account when assessing their risk to benefit ratio.

To illustrate, if something has a 10% chance of injuring you and only protects you for 3 months after which point it must be taken again, it’s hard to justify taking it, whereas if something has a 10% chance of injuring you but it protects you for life, the justification is stronger. Unfortunately, many vaccines that only provide temporary immunity are marketed in a manner that implies they provide permanent immunity (e.g., this is what was initially done with the COVID-19 vaccines).

How likely will it be for the vaccine to prevent you from getting the disease when you need to be protected?

The hepatitis B vaccine is routinely given at birth, and then twice more very early in life. This is nonsensical for two reasons. First, at the time of birth, infants lack an immune system that can mount a proper antibody response to the vaccine. Second, hepatitis B is spread by blood-to-blood contact (e.g., sharing heroin needles or having unprotected sex), both things are very unlikely to happen in early childhood. This is important because the hepatitis B vaccine typically only lasts for around 6-7 years (estimates vary). The best explanation I have seen for why the vaccine is given immediately following birth (despite being completely unjustifiable) is that it habituates parents to come in for regular well-child vaccination visits starting at two months of age.

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Vaccine Side Effects

An explosion of chronic illness (particularly of neurological and autoimmune nature) in our society has paralleled the mass vaccination of society. This has been most apparent at three times in history: the period of the smallpox vaccines, after 1986 when Congress passed legislation to shield manufacturers from liability for producing dangerous vaccines (which led to a rapid increase in the number of childhood vaccinations and no motivation to ensure their safety), and following the COVID-19 vaccines. In each case, we’ve tragically become acclimated to an increase in baseline levels of chronic illness which never existed in the past, and we have simply assumed that the current disease burden is normal, when in reality it is not.

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Does the vaccine priming your immune system to target one pathogen reduce its ability to respond to other pathogens or cancerous cells within the body?

Off-target immunity is a frequent but under-appreciated consequence of vaccination (discussed further here). As far as I know, the worst offender in this regard has been the COVID-19 vaccines, which have been linked to an explosion of cancers and unusual diseases typically only seen in immune-suppressed individuals.

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Does the vaccine cause the immune system to attack the body and give rise to chronic illnesses?

All vaccines work by provoking the immune system to go into overdrive to attack the vaccine antigen that is present. The downside to this is that it typically also causes the immune system to attack other proteins in the vicinity (e.g., a mice study showed that mice develop allergies to pollen that is in the air at the time of their vaccination). Autoimmunity is especially likely to happen if the vaccine shares antigen sequences with human tissue (homologies) and contains a very strong adjuvant (the vaccine component that stimulates the immune system). Before the COVID-19 vaccines (which have a remarkable number of homologies with human tissue), Gardasil (the HPV vaccine) was the greatest offender here as it had to use a very strong adjuvant and had homologies to human tissue.

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Via https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-are-the-risks-and-benefits-of

By Jim Hoft

It’s been nearly four years since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election after several days of locked rooms, late-night ballot deliveries, and triple-counting ballots.

On November 18, 2020, The Gateway Pundit first posted the impossible numbers that swung the election to Old Joe.

Mysterious late-night ballot drops in every battleground state swung the election to Joe Biden. And subsequent ballot drops in perfect ratios of ballots to Trump and Biden solidified the results.

Wisconsin:

Michigan:

Every 2020 battleground state followed this same pattern.

The Gateway Pundit called this phenomenon the “Drop and Roll.”

No election expert has ever explained this because they cannot explain it without raising the likely possibility of fraud.

Following the election, The Gateway Pundit published several reports on how the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and the American people.

The numbers don’t lie.
The election was stolen.

On November 18, 2020, just days after the election, TGP put our findings in an easy-to-follow video titled “The Drop and Roll.”

We are reposting it so you can enjoy it again.
Please pass it on!

This video has over 3.6 million views so far on Rumble.

And here is the video on YouTube — although people are having trouble seeing it for some reason. The YouTube video is hidden from the public (It’s Google after all!) and has 284,000 views.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/never-forget-not-single-election-expert-has-been/

Steve Kirsch

Executive summary

One person has died from measles in the last 10 years. Is this a sign that everyone who has not been infected or vaccinated for measles should get vaccinated?

According to all health authorities the answer is yes.

According to your friendly neighborhood misinformation superspreader (me), the answer is a big NO.

Why? Because you’re more likely to die or be seriously injured for life from these shots than benefit from them.

Here’s how the math works out today

Today, the math is obvious: even if the vaccine is 100% effective, we’d save 1 life every 10 years. But in 10 years, injecting 3M kids a year, even with a 1 in 1M death rate from the vaccine (which would be unbelievably safe), we’d have 30 deaths from the vaccine and 1 from the disease. So it’s a no-brainer today to avoid the shots. The same argument can be made for morbidity since if we just look at autism alone, there’s no question. But “science” isn’t able to make this very obvious association and none of the scientists are willing to be publicly challenged.

The math will be different 70 years from now. Should you get it then?

Let’s look at another scenario. Suppose we stop vaccinating kids tomorrow. Then in around 70 years, most everyone will be unvaccinated and we’ll probably have more measles deaths because the NIH will still never let people know about any early treatment with repurposed drugs.

So we should end up with somewhere around 450 deaths a year which is what it was before we had a measles vaccine.

So you have roughly a 1 in a million chance of dying from the measles each year, but your probability of dying from the shot, assuming it is AMAZINGLY safe at 1 death per million, is about the same. It’s a wash.

Generally, you only want to risk a medical intervention when you are absolutely certain that the benefits way outweigh the risks.

Is the MMR vaccine safe?

The health authorities are nearly completely blind to any of the risks associated with any vaccine.

For example, there is plenty of evidence that COVID vaccine kills around 1 person per 1,000 injected, yet the vaccine is deemed as perfectly safe with not a single death ascribed to any of the mRNA vaccines.

That doesn’t inspire confidence in the medical community that they cannot detect a signal of 1 death per 1,000.

There is a precautionary principle of medicine that says basically if something is unknown, the safest thing to do is assume the worst.

VAERS tells us there were 92 deaths in the last 10 years associated with the MMR vaccine. That’s just 9 deaths a year, i.e., around 3 deaths per M kids vaccinated a year.

But VAERS is at least 40 times under reported so to be safe, let’s pick an underreporting factor (URF) of 100. So, at worst 900 potential deaths a year on around 3M vaccinations a year (since 3M new babies are born a year a year and 99% of them get the shots). So we’re looking at up to 300 deaths per M vaccinations which is 300X worse than we assumed in the calculations above.

Could I be putting people in harm’s way by advising against the measles vaccine? NO! Here’s how I know that

I know a pediatric clinic in the US that has not vaccinated kids for 25 years with any vaccine and they have absolutely NO REGRETS; the kids there are far healthier than pretty much any other clinic in the US.

How is that possible if the authorities are telling you the truth? It’s a real life clinical trial that shows that people have been gaslit into believing all the vaccine scare tactics.

Summary

Today, there is absolutely no question that nobody should be getting the MMR vaccine.

If we immediately ceased giving the MMR vaccine, and the death toll per year climbed above 1,000 deaths per year, then, and only then, should we even consider changing that guidance.

I doubt that day will ever come. And if it does, it’s highly unlikely to come within the next 30 years.

I am not anti-vax. If there is a breakthrough new technology which creates a truly SAFE vaccine, then none of this applies. A safe vaccine with no downsides is a NO BRAINER. The problem is that nobody has figured out how to create such a vaccine and prove that it is safe.

Bottom line: Just say NO to the MMR. It’s just not worth the risk.

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Via https://kirschsubstack.com/p/measles-vaccine-math

Google’s hastily rolled out AI Overview feature is disastrously broken, returning searches claiming that people should spread glue on pizzas, eat rocks, and that it’s safe for pregnant women to smoke cigarettes.

The Verge reports that Google is scrambling to manually disable the AI Overview feature for certain searches after users found it giving our some truly bizarre advice, and information that is just made up nonsense.

Apparently cockroaches are so named because they live in penis holes.
Smoking is recommended when pregnant, who would have known?

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Via https://modernity.news/2024/05/28/googles-woke-ai-is-hilariously-but-frighteningly-broken/

Dr Meryl Nass

Governor Landry signs SB133, which goes into effect immediately

Here’s the bill:

https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376456

It is very like a model resolution I drafted, based on the best of existing bills and resolutions, in late 2023. But the Louisianans had the brilliant idea to add the WEF and the UN to their bill.

Here is a press release about it:

For immediate release

May 28, 2024

Contact: 

                  Joe Gebbia, Founder and CEO

                  State Shield

                  joe@state-shield.org 

Governor Landry and the Louisiana Legislature Say “NO” to the World Health Organization

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed SB 133 into law this week. SB 133 is a legislative measure affirming that neither the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, nor any other unelected international body has jurisdiction to override the will of the people of Louisiana.   Senator Thomas A. Pressly sponsored the bill along with Sen. Valarie Hodges and Rep. Kathy Edmonston, addressing the threat head-on.

This action is particularly timely, as the World Health Assembly is meeting Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss a proposed Pandemic Treaty and amended International Health Regulations.  These proposed agreements would dramatically increase the authority of the World Health Organization over federal and state public health policy and grant WHO broad powers to dictate healthcare policy, threaten our rights to be free from international mandates, and endanger the sovereignty of every state in our nation.

With Governor Landry’s signature, Louisiana becomes the first state in our nation to reject the authority of the WHO over state healthcare policy and reassert Louisiana’s rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to manage its own public health system.

“State laws should be made by our state’s elected officials, not international organizations. The Louisiana Legislature and Governor Landry recognize the importance of sovereignty on behalf of Louisiana,” Sen. Pressly said.

State Shield congratulates these Louisiana leaders for their bold action to keep unelected, international bureaucracies out of Louisiana’s business.  The measure represents a loud cry for freedom from imposed mandates and sends the federal government a much-needed reminder that it has no right to surrender our freedom of choice over healthcare decisions to an unelected international organization such as the WHO.

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Via https://merylnass.substack.com/p/today-louisiana-became-the-first?

Episode 25:  What Mummies Tell Us

The History of Ancient Egypt

Professor Robert Brier

Film Review

The process of mummification changed over time in ancient Egypt. Old Kingdom (2618-2181 BC) mummies were coated with plaster and painted with facial features with no attempt to preserve the bodies.* Archeologists found a sarcophagus of Hetafarus, the wife of the first pyramid builder Snefaru, under a paving stone adjacent to the Great Pyramid. Her sarcophagus was empty, as her descendants buried her mummy in the tomb of her husband Snefaru, along with a cnoptic chest divided into four sections for her internal organs (lungs, liver, kidneys and intestines).

Archeologists found a cache of pharaoh mummies (including Tuthmosis I and II, amnd Ramses the Great) in 1880 that had been disturbed during tomb robberies and ordered repaired and reburied during the 21st Dynasty. From studying these mummies, they learned that brain removal began during the 18th dynasty, with embalmers pouring molten resin into the empty skull to cauterize any remaining tissue.

In most mummies, the small incision to remove the viscera was on the left side of the abdomen to facilitate removal of the descending colon. During the 21st Dynasty, embalmers began dehydrating and replacing abominal organs with small cnopitc amulets of the sons of Horus (to protect them from grave robbers). They also began making skin incisions on mummy faces, arms and armpits and stuffing them with rags to make them look less gaunt.

*Some 16th century Vietnamese mummies were lacquered and painted.

**Once Egyptian embalmers began preserving the body itself, they would preserve the organs in separate cnoptic jars with lids carved to represent the four sons of Horus (who guarded the organs).

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/1492791/1492851

For example, an intelligence contractor once exploited data reaped from dating app Grindr to track movements of gay US government employees. RTB data has also been used by anti-abortion groups to track women who visit Planned Parenthood clinics in the US. More positively, RTB data has helped construct a dossier on child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s associates, tracing smartphone device owners who visited his private island to addresses in the US and other countries.

‘Personal Attributes’

As Haines’ framework notes, “commercial entities are collecting and aggregating unprecedented amounts of personal data” presently, “from a variety of sources.” This includes “cell phones, cars, household appliances, and other personal devices.” This information is then made available “to a diverse set of purchasers, including for-profit and nonprofit entities, foreign adversaries, and domestic and transnational organizations.” The US “intelligence community”, the Director admits, routinely avails itself of the opportunity to “access, collect, and process” this CAI.

CAI is routinely used “in pursuit of mission imperatives, and the information often provides critical intelligence value,” Haines claims. Yet, “these datasets can reveal sensitive and intimate personal details and activities,” she concedes. The admitted wealth of data the CIA et al can access on private citizens via third party brokers is nothing short of disturbing. For example:

Furthermore, CAI can include “data that captures the sensitive activities” of target individuals and groups. “Sensitive activities” are defined as any “that over an extended period of time establish a pattern of life; reveal personal affiliations, preferences, or identifiers; facilitate prediction of future acts; enable targeting activities; reveal the exercise of individual rights and freedoms.” Terrifying stuff – but Haines’ framework offers little to no clear guidance on how the purchase and use of CAI by US intelligence agencies will be restricted.

‘Geolocate Individuals’

The document claims “additional clarity” will protect citizen privacy, although none is offered in its contents. Disquietingly too, spy agencies themselves are tasked with formulating “safeguards that are tailored to the sensitivity” of CAI they collect, and produce annual reports on their use of this data. There is no requirement for intelligence services to delete any old purchased data under any circumstances – even if it was erroneously collected – and most concerningly of all, no restrictions on what information can and can’t be purchased.

This is particularly concerning, given it is clear certain smartphone apps have been willing to take directions from private intelligence firms and data brokers on what information to collect on their users, which is then passed via the third parties to US spying entities. It has been confirmed that MuslimPro, which offers a daily prayer calendar and a compass pointing towards Mecca, surreptitiously started tracking users’ locations at the direct request of a broker, which subsequently sold this information on to government clients.

Other brokers predominantly, or exclusively, serve state organisations. This includes Babel Street – an “AI-enabled data-to-knowledge company” – which provides US agencies including the DEA, ICE, IRS, Secret Service, and Treasury Department with location data, and “integrated communications” firm Barbaricum. A $5.5 million contract the company was awarded by ICE in 2020 refers to its ability to “geolocate individuals beyond standard geotagging,” “monitor and analyze all social media activities” across every platform, including “foreign/dark web/deep web social media networks in REAL-TIME [emphasis in original],” while producing “psychological profiles” of targets.

Elsewhere, the contract refers to how Barbaricum can create “psychological profiles” of targets, and “identify whether a user has deleted messages and provide content from deleted accounts and/or deleted messages.” Prior to publication of the Director of National Intelligence’s “policy framework”, the extent of CAI spying activities by US spies was unknown. It was necessary for independent researchers and campaign groups to piece together a rough outline from limited publicly available records.

Now, the same agencies that used and abused private user data with total impunity for years are being granted responsibility for crafting their own internal policies for what is and isn’t acceptable to intercept, analyse, exploit, and act upon. Foxes guarding hen houses has never ended well.

[…]Via https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/cia-targeting-smartphone-app-data

Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP

Simon Kent

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Sunday launched a new financing mechanism seeking $7 billion in donations it claims can be quickly deployed without strings attached.
Fresh staffing hires for the Geneva, Switzerland-based organization are at the top of the to-do list once funds are secured, adding to the 8,000-plus already on the

The call for funding contributions came as the W.H.O. begins its annual meeting on Monday with government ministers and health bureaucrats hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic in the devastating wake of coronavirus.

It follows the W.H.O.’s comprehensive failure to secure a global treaty on future pandemic responses after two years of closed-door meetings, as Breitbart News reported.

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The supranational U.N. subsidiary has traditionally relied on commitments from its 194 member states to fund operations, but claims these monies are apportioned to specific projects with stringent conditions.

W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said commitment increases would contribute $4 billion to the agency’s budget of $11.1 billion over the four years through 2028.

“The Investment Round aims to mobilize the other $7 billion,” Tedros told attendees at the glittering launch event in Geneva, according to a statement.

The agency will solicit both public and private donors including foundations.

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“Instead of waiting for it to come in over the course of four years—not knowing when it will come, or (how) much will come at any one time—the Investment Round aims to secure that funding up front,” the Ethiopian public health official said.

“This will allow us to make longer-term plans and hire the people we need to implement those plans on more secure contracts.”

A meeting will be held in November to secure the funds, with the W.H.O. and countries already sponsoring the new initiative pushing before then to reach the $7 billion goal.

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Via https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/27/send-money-w-h-o-seeks-7-billion-boost-as-it-plans-to-reinforce-pandemic-readiness/