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Pfizer hired over 2400 new employees during their testing period just to handle the expected adverse events reporting requirements.

That is how many adverse events they were documenting during their testing of the mRNA Spike protein “Vaccine”.

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The definition of a vaccine:

“A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.”

Vaccines do not have to be 100% preventative of all symptoms or infection on all people to be a “vaccine”.

Vaccines that don’t work well on some older people (far below 100% because they have very poor immune systems) are still “vaccines”.

Any substance that enhances immune response by the method described in the definition is a vaccine….it may or may not be safe and effective.

Flu shots are vaccines by all modern medical terminology, but they are far from 100% effective.

The Wuhan flu vaccines work by enhancing immunity…that is the only thing they CAN do, they can do nothing else!
They do not kill the virus directly. If given after infection they have no or little effect because they only work by enhancing the hosts own immune system before infection, per the definition. This is the most critical point. Let me repeat it:

The Wuhan flu vaccines work by enhancing immunity…that is the only thing they CAN do, they can do nothing else!
They do not kill the virus directly. If given after infection they have no or little effect because they only work by enhancing the hosts own immune system before infection, per the definition.

They are vaccines, and they are not 100% preventative, and they might not even be safe for many people.
I consider therapeutics to be remedial, not preventative…but that may not be the broadest definition.

A covid vaccine (see definition above) that reduces death and hospitalization by 80 or 90% is still an effective vaccine. If you were a high risk person and would rather have gotten very sick(even deathly sick) and gone to the hospital and relied on therapeutics to save your life from the original or delta covid variant, so be it.

It is true that therapeutics are getting better and the new variants are getting much less dangerous so vaccines are becoming pointless for all but a few.

However, all the silly semantical games about the “true” definition of a “vaccine” simply avoid the point of RZ’s recent post[ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/update-on-the-lie-that-was-covid/ ]
that the vaccines DO work, is the reported conclusion of 44 papers
“…vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death…the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people…”

see also
and here:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/09/covid-19-vaccines-protect-against-severe-illness-during-delta
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2582

AND the mandates were outrageous and unnecessary.

AND the number of people in the U.S. mortally threatened (ie needing hospitalization) of covid was only about 4 in 1000 per year. And the number of covid-19 induced deaths about half of that (0.2% of the population)…hardly an existential crisis warranting the egregious devastation of an economy, personal finances, private businesses, education, and the social health and happiness of entire societies.

This is not a “CORRUPT” number as DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ARE NOT EASILY FAKED OR CORRUPTED AND ARE VERY ACCURATE.

550,000/36,000=15 …ROUGHLY.

As to attribution, the increasing difference of total deaths/month from the recent decadal norm started sharply in about March 2020 at the time of the great china-covid infection increase and increased to about 550,000/year above the norm roughly. What else was the cause? Were the elderly and weak dying at an increased 550,000 per year rate since march 2020 by coincidence?

One possible correction is related in this plot of the CDC’s “estimate” of Covid caused deaths [see: https://wmbriggs.com/post/38241/ ] which purports to reduce the number of covid related deaths from this excess…But are these estimates reliable? It is better to use total deaths versus total deaths because it is difficult to ascertain cause when multiple diseases are acting together, especially in the elderly and infirmed.

However, EVEN if you accept this plot above (which reduces “Covid” deaths by about 140,000/year) and use the more accurate 664,000 death/year year over year total death increase (see above), you can calculate (664,000-140,000)/36,000= 14.55 increased lethality, which is still ROUGHLY 15 times as lethal than “normal” flu season!!

It does not matter that many of these people had other diseases or were elderly and weak BECAUSE this is the same group that dies of “normal” flu. The approximate 2 week lagging correlation of death rate spikes with known infection rate spikes is again hardly coincidental and FURTHER INDICATION OF THE CAUSE/EFFECT RELATION OF COVID-19 TO THESE DEATHS. Whether this is a flu virus or not, it was roughly 15 times as lethal as the “normal” flu.

I originally held a view (or hope) of “normal” flu like death rates, but the facts would not support it. Covid clearly caused more death (~15 times) than the average flu season, and warranted special consideration. The continuing claim that it was comparable to the normal flu season is ridiculous.

In the reference link sited by RZ:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/covid-19-the-unwarranted-panic/

is the quote “This is a death rate[in S. Korea] of 0.9%, higher than the flu’s 0.1% but not horribly so.”
Thus, an early confirmation from RZ himself that Covid-19 was roughly a factor of 9 worse than “common” flu viruses, and not “quite comparable to the ORDINARY flu”.
THUS THE EXTRAORDINARY NATURE OF THE COVID VIRUS WAS NOT UNEXPECTED EARLY ON.

And even though the lethality of the covid virus has dropped considerably in the past years, it is still apparently about 10 times as lethal as “normal” flu. see:

“The COVID-19 situation continues to change, sometimes rapidly. Doctors and scientists are working to estimate the mortality rate of COVID-19. At present, it is thought to be substantially higher (possibly 10 times or more) than that of most strains of the flu.”
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu

And
“U.S. far from normal with Covid deaths 10 times higher than seasonal respiratory viruses, report says”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/us-far-from-normal-with-covid-deaths-10-times-higher-than-flu-rsv-report.html

I do NOT find fault with THIS statement because GENERALLY very few people were at high risk of severe reaction or death in the first place. However, remember from RZ’s own recent post [ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/update-on-the-lie-that-was-covid/ ] the included reported conclusion of 44 papers

“…vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death…the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people…”
I do not agree with RZ that these results are “very uncertain”…they are fairly robust for the high risk groups, IMO.

Also see here:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/09/covid-19-vaccines-protect-against-severe-illness-during-delta
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2582

A covid vaccine (or whatever you may want to call it) that reduces death and hospitalization by 80 or 90% in high risk groups is still a very effective vaccine for that group. If you were a high risk person and would rather have gotten very sick(even deathly sick) and gone to the hospital and relied on therapeutics to save your life from the original or delta covid variant, so be it.

The Covid virus was roughly 15 times as lethal as “normal” flu and the vaccines were a very effective protection for some high risk people. No more and no less. It had also been deadly for some…especially among healthy people with overactive(?) immune responces.

AND the mandates were outrageous and unnecessary.

AND the number of people in the U.S. mortally threatened (ie needing hospitalization) of covid was only about 4 in 1000 per year. And the number of covid-19 induced deaths about half of that (0.2% of the population)…hardly an existential crisis warranting the egregious devastation of an economy, personal finances, private businesses, education, and the social health and happiness of entire societies

Swine flu, anyone else remember that? Remember the push to get vaccinated against it? Remember what the vaccines were (mRNA based)? Remember the side effects and the 60 Minutes story on them?
Lots of similarities.

“Forcing people to get vaccinated” is a bad idea and is an overreach of authority. Especially when the jabs are not actually approved or fully vetted from a medical point of view.

“Stay at home if you are sick” Gee, that was standard practice pretty much everywhere for anyone born before about 1980. Stay in bed, plenty of rest, fluids, limit interaction with the rest of the family. Toss in chicken soup and outside in fresh air and sunshine and you got over it.

Except that as the faux vaccines were first being released to the public, a year and a half ago, many of the same people mandating them recently had at that time warned that they were ineffective and unsafe. They turned out to be right on that count, but they continue to advocate mandates anyway.

“very few vaccinated individuals were hospitalized.”

It is so much better to be long-term hospitalized from a vaxxine-related stroke than short-term hospitalized from Wuhan flu. Or is it better to undergo a few days of inconvenience rather than a lifetime of paralysis?

very few vaccinated individuals were hospitalized. Fewer died from covid. That is a big deal. And very politically appealing.

on masks, there has been no seasonal flu the last two years. I guess you can argue that is because of limited travel from China. But also logical to say that masking in public has greatly reduced the spread of the flu.

Not to be dense and missing something, but isn’t it clear that many more of the covid hospitalized were those who were not vaccinated? Yeah, the vaccine harmed more than a few people. But from the perspective of a Fauci, there will be a lot less serious sickness and death if everyone is forced to be vaccinated.

Icepilot: Yeah, I saw that but forgot to bookmark it. It goes in the hopper for reference in the future.

See also NY Times and WaPo on a laptop formerly owned by a Board Member of a Ukrainian Gas Company………Hunter ! OOps!