As of July 30th, Openvaers.com, an organization that monitors the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) online database, published the following adverse events (to the COVID vaccines) have been reported to the CDC:
- 12,366 deaths
- 46,036 hospitalizations
- 68,040 urgent care visits
- 4,759 cases of anaphylaxis
- 4,044 cases of Bell's palsy
- 14,251 permanently disabled
If you don’t
think vaccines are one of the great achievements of Western Civilization, just
take a walk through a 19th-century cemetery and witness the reality of the
human condition before them. However,
the COVID vaccine is not a traditional vaccine. It is, instead, a huge
experiment that can have major negative consequences and that our institutions
are nevertheless trying to make mandatory.
In the
pre-ethicist days of 1796, Edwin Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with
cowpox on his hunch that milkmaids seldom suffered the scourge of smallpox that
had plagued man since antiquity. Later he inoculated the boy with actual
smallpox, and his hunch was vindicated. From then on, vaccinations have been a
godsend, although not without some notable exceptions including the Cutter Incident, where 200,000
children received the live poliovirus. Unfortunately, the new mRNA vaccines may
prove another ne exception.
It’s not that mRNA vaccines are inherently bad. They’re not. In
fact, they are an extraordinary achievement in molecular biology. However, if
not for mass censorship, it would be stunningly clear that the COVID vaccines
have been causing an unacceptable level of adverse reactions, especially for a virus with a death rate of only .5%.
There’s a reason
why new vaccine approval usually takes a decade or more. The immune system is complicated, highly
variable between individuals, and in delicate balance. Immunocompromised
individuals can succumb to any microbe, but equally devastating is an
overactive immune system that can cause autoimmune diseases, including deadly
Guillain-Barré Syndrome which the FDA just quietly posted to their website is
associated with the Janssen vaccine. It should be no surprise that vaccines can
engender adverse reactions as they alter that delicate balance by design.
That’s why
rigorous testing is essential for any vaccine, and even then, every individual
must weigh the risks versus benefits, just as they would for any approved
medical treatment. But the COVID vaccines are not approved, and there are
specific laws governing
unapproved vaccines, requiring:ArAppropriate
conditions designed to ensure … individuals ... are informed
(II) ... benefits
and risks of such use ...
(III) option to accept or refuse administration of
the product, of the “consequences,” if any, of refusing ...
The argument that the
law sanctions mandated “consequences” for refusal is meritless. An option to
refuse is no such option if the “consequence” requires the sacrifice of your
firstborn. Whenever a statute has seemingly conflicting language, courts are
required to “interpret in a way that makes them compatible, not
contradictory.” Here, the
“consequences” must be read to be the medical “consequences” from not taking
the experimental treatment, not arbitrary “consequences” that public or private
actors impose that undermine your right to refuse.
Fauci has been
busy not informing
Americans of their options. Instead, he states “there should be more“ vaccine
mandates and anyone objecting is “dangerous and extreme.” And while the
world is reporting stunning benefits from ivermectin -- “Ivermectin obliterates 97 percent of Delhi cases” -- any
mention of it in America is branded misinformation.
Jen Psaki, who
knows nothing of federal law or the First Amendment, admits the government is
conspiring with social media to censor speech: “we’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread
disinformation“ and the “White House has proposed robust enforcement strategies.” They’re
doing a pretty good job because Satoshi Omura, Nobel Prize winner for
his work on Ivermectin, was censored from
YouTube for daring to discuss his work.
What’s worse is
that these vaccines are not just experimental; mRNA vaccines are a radical
departure from traditional vaccines. Any vaccine rushed to market with
Emergency Use Authorization would be called experimental; the COVID vaccines
truly need a more alarming designation, say, “super” experimental?
The mechanisms of
an ordinary vaccine are relatively simple. A virus is attenuated so it can no
longer cause disease but your immune system still mounts a response. Upon
injection, the body’s professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) engulf the
attenuated virus, chew it up, and present fragments (antigens) on the
MHCII-complex on the cell membrane. No ordinary tissue is involved, just the
APCs. When your body’s helper T-cells recognize the antigen, a complex cascade
of immune interactions activates B-cells to make neutralizing antibodies highly
specific to the antigen. Some of both the B and T-cells convert to memory
cells, so the next time the same virus is encountered, the response can be much
stronger and quicker.
In contrast,
there is nothing simple about the “super” experimental mRNA vaccines. Instead
of an attenuated virus, the new vaccines wrap mRNA-1273 (a modified
version of the virus’s own genetic instructions for manufacturing spike
protein, the protein responsible for viral entry into the cell) with
phospholipids, which self-assemble into a nanoparticle (mRNA-LNP) with the ability
to enter the cell. Importantly, the mRNA-LNP is designed to preferentially
target APCs. Once inside, the mRNA uses the cells’ own machinery to manufacture
spike protein. The APC chews up the spike protein and presents it just like
before. What could go wrong?
Targeting
mRNA-LNP to APCs is in its infancy. Most of the testing has been done in vitro,
but studies have found
little correlation with in vivo results. An in vivo study showed this targeting
to be only 66% effective, so a full third of the mRNA-LNP is winding up in
ordinary tissue. The consequences are very significant as the immune response
in an ordinary cell is completely different from an APC.
When an ordinary
cell is infected, it similarly translates the mRNA into spike protein, chops it
up, but displays it on the MHCI-complex. MHCI, unlike MHCII, binds and
activates cytotoxic T-cells (TC) which release chemicals to destroy the cell.
Additionally, the antigen on the MHCI binds to antibodies, circulating after
the first shot, which triggers the complement system to destabilize the cell
membrane until osmotic pressure causes it to burst. The result is thousands of
spike proteins manufactured inside spill out free to invade other cells. Once
inside, the cell will do the same, chop it up, present it, and await TC and
complement-induced death — more tissue damage.
Studies have
shown that the spike protein itself has neurotoxic effects outside of
the cell as well as causing clotting in the bloodstream. Using the spike
protein for the antigen is what one researcher calls the “big mistake.” There is
evidence the spike protein not only crosses the blood-brain
barrier but is also preferentially absorbed by ACE2 expressive
tissue including the heart, kidneys, ovaries, and arteries.
In a traditional
vaccine, the dose is the dose but, here, the dose is dependent on highly
variable cellular uptake of the mRNA-LNP, translation mechanisms from mRNA to
protein, and the lifetime of the mRNA-LNP. Ordinary mRNA has a half-life of only a
few minutes in the cell, and in that time the mRNA can make 10 to 100 spike
proteins. But mRNA-1273 has been significantly modified to persist in the
body 8-10 hours and
have a 10-fold increase in
translatability. Depending upon the individual, the dose of manufactured spike
protein can be enormous.
It should be no
wonder CDC’s VAERS site reports
over 1000 cases of myocarditis, 600 miscarriages, 15,000 allergic reactions,
and 5,000 deaths. What is a wonder is why the government is illegally colluding
with Big Tech to suppress any word of this from getting out.
These problems
are not insurmountable and will no doubt be improved. A change as simple as
modifying the mRNA to express only a portion of the spike protein could
dramatically reduce adverse reactions. Yet, even now, for older age groups
where the disease is far more lethal, they still offer benefits that can
outweigh the risks.
However, for
healthy children and young adults, as well as the COVID recovered, where there
is nearly no risk of death and only a
minuscule chance of hospitalization, promoting these
“super” experimental and potentially deadly vaccines in their current form is
profoundly ill-advised.
Huck Davenport
is a pseudonym.
IMAGE: Vaccination. Pxfuel.
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