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The bad consequences to the bad COVID policies in 2020 continue to pile up

Lysenko with Stalin
Trofim Lysenko (on the left), preaching to Stalin as he destroyed
Soviet plant research by persecuting anyone who disagreed with him,
thus causing famines that killed millions. He is now the role model for
today’s entire government health community.

Three stories this week illustrate once again that not only did none of the governmental actions imposed by our “betters” during the COVID panic in 2020 work, they are now resulting in long term harm across large populations.

First there was a study of 1.7 million children that found a marked increase in serious heart problems in children who got the jab.

Their research confirmed a large body of evidence showing links between the COVID-19 shots and myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly in adolescents. The research also confirmed that even in 2021, when the vaccine was first authorized for children and teens, that age group did not face a high risk for COVID-19-related serious outcomes, including death or the need for emergency care, hospitalization or critical care.

You can read the paper here [pdf]. Fortunately, the study also found no deaths in either group from these heart conditions, and that new heart ailments among the jabbed children were rare. Nonetheless, the study found solid evidence that the jab caused some harm while doing little to prevent COVID. As noted in the first link:

“This study clearly shows that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine provides almost no benefit to children and adolescents, but does increase their risk of myocarditis and pericarditis,” said Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense. “It begs the question: Why does the CDC continue to recommend these unlicensed shots for kids? Where is the data they use to support their statement that the benefits of these vaccines outweigh the risks?”

This first study was then supplemented by the results of a second study, which confirmed once again what has been known for almost a century, that masks are not only useless in blocking respiratory viruses like COVID, in children they do harm.

The highest quality evidence available for masking children for COVID-19 or other viral respiratory infections has failed to find a beneficial impact against transmission. Mechanistic studies showing reduced viral transmission from use of face masks and respirators have not translated to real world effectiveness.

Identified harms of masking include negative effects on communication and components of speech and language, ability to learn and comprehend, emotional and trust development, physical discomfort, and reduction in time and intensity of exercise.

The study covered all these issues in detail, and was blunt in its condemnation of the actions of American health officials, noting for example that the CDC’s “child masking recommendations deviated substantially from international guidelines.” Those guidelines were once again based on decades of research that showed masks as useless in these matters, and potentially harmful. Yet even now “the CDC continues to recommend masks for children down to age two in certain settings, and this is in the absence of strategies for exiting these restrictions.” And it maintains these recommendations lacking any scientific research to justify them.

In other words, to the CDC data is irrelevant. All that matters is its power to order people around.

The third study comes out of South Korea. It found that excess death skyrocketed after it mandated that its entire population get jabbed.

South Korea’s almost universally Covid-vaccinated population has suffered a staggering five-fold surge in excess deaths since Covid mRNA shots were rolled out for public use.

The paper’s data was even more shocking.

[E]xcess deaths were estimated at 0.3% for 2020, 4.0% for 2021, and 20.7% for 2022.

The paper noted that the large increase in excess deaths was mostly among the young, in their 20s, and attributed this increase to many factors, conveniently omiting any mention of the jab. As noted at the first link,

Interestingly, however, the researchers did not mention Covid “vaccines” once in their report, despite the previous correlation. The link should be investigated.

It will not, however, due to insidious pandemic politics involving government, academia, and industry. A fear of a backlash from promoting “vaccine hesitancy” possibly superseded credible, and urgently needed scientific inquiry.


“WE ARE NEVER WRONG!”

All in all, the data continues to show two things. First, the response to COVID by academia and the government and prompted by emotion, panic, and a great deal of unrelative political motives was an unmitigated disaster. Second, there is a marked reluctance to face this reality by those same academics and government officials, because they themselves promoted these bad policies, and to recognize these awful consequences would require them to admit they were terribly terribly wrong, and were obviously wrong from day one.

Such an admission of error by our modern intellectual community is forbidden. They are never wrong, ever, and if you dare question them you are either “racist” or advocating “conspiracy theories.”

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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.

 

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2 comments

  • F

    Many of the academics and government officials who pushed and promoted the harmful COVID policies were not simply wrong, but LYING.

  • M. Murcek

    Not much harm no foul. If only “not much harm” was the rule….

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