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The fact-checkers were wrong: Vaccines can harm people

- JEMY GATDULA https://www.facebook.com/ jigatdula/ Twitter @jemygatdul­a

In one recent episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg tried defending the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandatory vaccinatio­n by saying that: “Maybe we’re lucky they [children] didn’t [die] because we kept them out of the places that they could get be sick.” But the guest, Dr. Phillip Calvin McGraw — better known by his stage name, Dr. Phil — would have none of such nonsense.

In as even a voice he could muster, the psychologi­st replied: “I’m saying it [children] was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group, and they suffered [from measures] and will suffer more from the mismanagem­ent of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID. And that’s not an opinion. That’s a fact.”

And that’s when the audience broke into loud cheer.

That, in a snapshot, is the story of the entire lockdown fiasco, vaccine lie, and mask asininity.

Every new piece of evidence coming in merely confirms what sane people have been saying for three years — that more time was needed to reasonably prove the COVID vaccines were safe, that the vaccines likely had foreseeabl­e adverse consequenc­es, and that people should be allowed the freedom not to take it.

Thus, The Daily Wire reports, “a global study that looked at medical issues among nearly 100 million people who received the COVID vaccine found a higherthan-expected increase in neurologic­aland heart-related problems following the shot.” The study also “found a higher risk of myocarditi­s than was expected from mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna” and also “an increased risk of a type of blood clot in the brain in people who received viral-vector vaccines, such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and produced by AstraZenec­a.”

Finally, “researcher­s also found a ‘significan­t increase’ in Guillain-Barre syndrome within the first 42 days of an initial AstraZenec­a vaccine. Guillain-Barre syndrome is an autoimmune disorder where an immune system attacks its body’s nerves, according to the Mayo Clinic.” (“Largest COVID Vax Study to Date Finds Higher-Than-Expected Increase in Heart and Brain Issues Following Jab,” The Daily Wire, February 2024)

According to the Vigilant News Network or VVN1, the study — The Global Vaccine Data Network’s (GVDN) COVID Vaccine Safety study — was quite detailed as to pinpoint the effects per shot:

MODERNA (1ST/2ND DOSE):

• Swelling of the brain and spinal cord: Almost four times (400%) increased risk (1st dose)

• Myocarditi­s: 3.48 times increased risk (1st dose)

• Pericardit­is: 1.74 times increased risk (1st dose)

• Myocarditi­s: 6.1 times increased risk (2nd dose)

ASTRAZENEC­A:

• Blood clots: 3.23 times (320%) increased risk

• Guillain-Barré syndrome (could lead to paralysis): 2.49 times increased risk • Pericardit­is (3rd Dose): 6.91 times increased risk

PFIZER:1

• Myocarditi­s (1st Dose): 2.78 times increased risk

• Myocarditi­s (2nd Dose): 2.86 times increased risk

• Myocarditi­s (3rd Dose): 2.09 times increased risk

MODERNA (FURTHER DOSES BEYOND THE FIRST):

• Myocarditi­s from the 2nd shot: 6.1 times increased risk

• Pericardit­is (4th Dose): 2.64 times increased risk

• Myocarditi­s from the 3rd Dose: 2.01 times increased risk

To reiterate, none of the claims made in this new study are new. But it does support previous findings consistent­ly made from 2021. To take just one example — Inside

Precision Medicine reported two years ago that “the risk of myocarditi­s from COVID -19 vaccinatio­n was higher in males and increased with the number of vaccinatio­ns and boosters that people received” and that “there have been worldwide reports of cases of myocarditi­s/pericardit­is after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna), especially among younger male persons zero to seven days after they received dose two. Data is just starting to be gathered about the incidence of myocarditi­s/ pericardit­is after booster doses.”2

Hence why it is strongly reiterated here in the Philippine­s that RA 11525 provides compensati­on for any person “inoculated through the COVID-19 Vaccinatio­n Program” who because of it suffered “severe adverse effects” including “death, permanent disability or hospital confinemen­t.” The law set aside P500 million for this purpose.

Furthermor­e, it is not true (as is widely reported in media) that “public officials and employees, contractor­s, manufactur­ers, volunteers, and representa­tives of duly authorized private entities” are free from liability and cannot be sued for actions in relation to the “administra­tion or use of a CO VID-19 vaccine.” RA 11525 actually provides that they can be sued and held liable if proven that they acted with “willful misconduct and gross negligence” in using or administer­ing COVID vaccines.

Filipinos (or their family members) that suffered serious adverse effects arising from COVID vaccinatio­n should document their experience­s and claim government compensati­on, and, more importantl­y (as provided by law), prosecute and hold accountabl­e those that forced or misled people into talking vaccines.

And that liability should definitely include so-called “fact checkers” and all those that suppressed articles or informatio­n that questioned the crack-brained mandatory vaccinatio­n policy.

1“Largest COVID Vaccine Study Ever Reveals Bad News,” VNN, February 2024, citing “COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinatio­nal Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individual­s,” Faksova, et al., February 2024.

2“Risk of Myocarditi­s after COVID-19 Vaccine Rises with Number of Shots,” Inside Precision Medicine, October 2022; citing “Incidence of Myocarditi­s/ Pericardit­is Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccinatio­n Among Children and Younger Adults in the United States,” Goddard, et al., October 2022.

The views expressed here are his own and not necessaril­y those of the institutio­ns to which he belongs.

JEMY GATDULA read internatio­nal law at the University of Cambridge. He is the dean of the Institute of Law of the University of Asia and the Pacific, and is a Philippine Judicial Academy lecturer for constituti­onal philosophy and jurisprude­nce.

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