Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 53

[ecosophia]

As we move into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

(Yes, the change in image theme reflects that; the earlier sequence served its purpose. With a nod to El Gato Malo (1, 2, 3), the posts to come will be headed by thoughtful memes relevant to the Covid mess. Yes, I'll take nominations -- you can post links in the thread.)

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 

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Re: RATHER REMARKABLE

[(Anonymous)]

In case any forumistas missed it, last week's forum included this transcript:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/192877.html?thread=32992365#cmt32992365

‘The People’s Testaments’ Episode 44: Active Duty Air Force Major Suffers Injury After Coerced Vaccination
July 19, 2022
Major Tony McCartney
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/the-peoples-testaments/O1vXhxNxOG

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT (TWO EXCERPTS) made for this forum

FIRST EXCERPT
(2:42)

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: Did you want to volunteer to take the vaccine when it first became available?

TONY MCCARTNEY: I didn't because I had already contracted covid in December of 2020, so I already had natural immunity. I was reading some really interesting studies about natural immunity, its durability, and its validity, like it has been with so many other diseases. So it was really confusing to me that they were still encouraging people who already had natural immunity from fighting the actual virus to go get the vaccine.

And then I started hearing some rumors about issues, especially with young athletic males, with myocarditis and pericarditis, and I found that concerning. And then a family member of mine, a brother actually, ended up getting two shots of Moderna and nearly fainted in the hours following, had full-body convulsions for 24 hours, and then also had a pounding heart that was uncomfortable bordering on painful. So I found that pretty concerning.

And that really pushed my decision towards, this is all risk and no benefit, as somebody who is already naturally immune, I don't want to get the covid vaccine.

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: Seems like a pretty sound decision to make based on the information that you had. What ultimately made you decide to take the vaccine? The injection, I should call it.

TONY MCCARTNEY: So, it's interesting because initially my Air Force leadership had agreed to allow me to separate sooner, I already had established an separation date in place, I'd already decided that I wanted to separate from the Air Force in early 2021 and I had set a separation date for March of this year. My leadership had agreed that that was fine and that they could support me separating prior to the 1 November deadline for the Air Force. However, that made its way up to our commanding general level, four star level, and he did not agree with that course of action. So instead I was issued a letter of reprimand and I was also immediately ordered to get the vaccine that day, directly from the general.

[SCREEN SHOWS THE SEPT 24, 2021 LETTER FROM THE COMMANDER, JOINT BASE LANGLY-EUSTIS VA, "MEMORANDUM FOR MAJOR ANTONIO B. MCCARTNEY SUBJECT: ORDER TO RECEIVE MANDATORY COVID-19 VACCINE" WITH THE FOLLOWING TEXT HIGHLIGHTED: "Upon receipt of this letter, you will immediately report to the 633 MDG to receive your first vaccination dose and then, by close of business the same day, provide proof to ACC/CCQ of your first vaccination" and also, further down in the same letter, highlighted text: "Additionally, failure to comply with any part of this order may result in adverse administrative and/or punitive action to include nonjudicial punishment"]

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: Wow. And what was your initial response when that happened?

TONY MCCARTNEY: Well, my initial response was that it was kind of crazy and to me ridiculous. You know, I was, it was basically, I had to do another risk assessment. Like I said before, all risk, no benefit as someone who is naturally immune. Well now, at this time, because it's very early on there's even greater risks because there was a threat up to dishonorable discharge.

[SCREEN SHOWS LETTER WITH THE FOLLOWING TEXT HIGHLIGHTED: "You subsequently refused your initial vaccination and willfully failed to comply with a lawful order." "You are hereby counseled!" "Your conduct is unacceptable and further deviation may result in more severe administrative action or non-judicial punishment"]

Because there wasn't any legislation that had come down, it was too slow to come down to stop those kinds of threats from happening early on. So that was what I was facing was, now I've either got to risk my health or I've got to risk, you know, becoming the equivalent of a felon.

A dishonorable discharge carries penalties equivalent to being a felon on the record. That changed my risk calculus a bit, and so, you know, I talked about it with some people close to me and came to the conclusion, OK, probably the best thing for me to do now is get these vaccines and get out of the Air Force so that I can't be coerced into doing these kinds of things that I don't want to do.

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: And did you try to submit a medical or religious exemption, because I know many people have and they were denied. Did you have that experience as well?

TONY MCCARTNEY: Yes. So almost a month prior to the date that I was ordered, I had started the process of a medical exemption because, specifically because I was concerned about heart issues, just because I'd had a couple experiences in the past where I had some chest pain during periods of time when I was doing a lot of heavy cardio, like during rest and recovery periods sometimes I would feel discomfort there and had been medically analyzed in the past for that. So I pursued a medical waiver for that purpose, and of course it was denied because virtually all medical waivers are denied by the Air Force and by the DOD at large, as I'm sure you're aware.

[SCREEN SHOWS LETTER DENYING MEDICAL EXEMPTION with this text highlighted: "At this time, the member DOES NOT MEET criteria for a medical temporary exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine"]

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: Yeah, I've heard. And you actually found a doctor that was willing to write a medical exemption for you?

TONY MCCARTNEY: No. The process was, they would have a doctor that would listen to your rationale for why you want to pursue medical exemption, and then it was denied. In every case that I'm aware of.

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: Yeah, that's pretty much been my experience as well, speaking to a lot of different members of the military, there is virtually no exemptions is what I've been told, so it's not surprising to me.

So you decide you're going to take this injection even though everything inside of you is saying that this is not something that you want or need. So you go to get the injection. Is there an informed consent conversation? Like, did anyone go over the health risks associated with this injection and what you might possibly be dealing with as a result of making this decision?

TONY MCCARTNEY: No. And at the time I don't believe the packet for Pfizer even existed yet where they enumerate the different risks associated with their vaccine, so that didn't occur, and in fact, the waiver form that they wanted me to sign, it was actually prepopulated and said in there that, you know, I've been briefed, I don't have any concerns. So I told them that I did have concerns, that I didn't want to receive this vaccine, I'm not doing it of my own volition, it's because I'm being directly ordered by a four star general and that's the only reason I'm getting it. So I actually detailed that as a note, handwritten note on the piece of paper, before I signed it.

STEPHANIE LOCRICCHO: And what was the response when you said this to them? Did they assure you that the vaccine is safe, and that everything will be fine, did they validate any of your concerns?

TONY MCCARTNEY: Actually, to the contrary. It's kind of interesting. So the people that administer vaccines on most military installations are usually more junior enlisted individuals, and one of them confided in me that they didn't really want to get the vaccine either,
but they were also forced to get it, of course, like everyone was. So, I mean, that wasn't uncommon, you know, this wasn't something that young healthy people in the military were jumping at the opportunity to get, for at least a large percentage of service members that I encountered.

(9:33) END OF FIRST EXCERPT

[Post-injection Tony McCartney experienced heart inflammation, tinnitus, brain fog, myalgia, bruising and a host of other symptoms]

SECOND EXCERPT
(25:55)
TONY MCCARTNEY: Well, you know, I'm thankful that I got the opportunity to talk to you. What I've been observing is a lot of people on active duty are scared to share their stories, sometimes even amongst each other, because they're afraid of being labeled an anti-vaxxer or any kind of repercussions that could come their way. And speaking out publicly is a bridge too far for a lot of people on active duty right now because they're afraid of the reprisal that will come from their leadership if they do that.

So I'm in a little bit of a unique position because I'm recently separated, I no longer fall under those same authorities. So a big part of why I agreed to talk to you is to try to speak on their behalf because there are a lot of military members, and different vaccine-injured groups that I've been a part of, and also people that have religious reasons still fighting to not be forced against their will to get these vaccines. So you know, I'd like, I'm trying to speak out on their behalf as well and help everyone recognize that there are a lot of people that have gone through what I've gone through, there are a lot that have gone through much worse than what I've gone through. And there are still people fighting those mandates to this day.

(27:10) END OF SECOND EXCERPT