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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 65

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.
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With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Disease trends
Meanwhile, other seasonal illnesses are getting off to a roaring start, especially RSV with flu cases rising fast. https://syndromictrends.com/
Last week someone posted some data from the mRNA vaccine trials indicating that they may increase RSV incidence in children - which could well be contributing to the current wave, or especially to the more severe cases ending up in pediatric hospitals. RSV is an interesting virus in that multiple attempts to vaccinate against it in the past have resulted in worsened illness, in one case raising hospitalization rates from 5% to 80% (https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/89/4/422/198849). So it is clear that tweaks to infant/childhood immunity can worsen this virus, and it remains to be seen whether the current covid mRNA vaccination is one of those tweaks.
(News flash: Pfizer is developing a new whiz-bang RSV vaccine [although not mRNA] that is specifically given to pregnant women and could be approved by the end of the year, and that is of course totally safe and effective. More starfish-corn possibilities... https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-11-01/strong-rsv-vaccine-data-lifts-hopes)
Overall, it looks to me like - unless we have some real surprises - the spike protein-vascular damage-blood clotting-sudden death-neurological issues-autoimmunity-excess mortality-"let's call it long covid" story of delayed vax toxicity exacerbated by negative efficacy is going to be predominant over acute infectious disease concerns this winter season, with no obvious signs yet of GVB's oft-predicted ADE disaster.
Re: Disease trends
The latest round of the virus is indeed subsiding and had in my country only a somewhat higher rate of hospital admissions that the previous wave (at first I thought the difference was larger but at the crest of the waves the difference was not that big).
Your assessment in the last paragraph seems seems spot on. It seems to me that issues surrounding weakened overall immunity and disability could also be asking for attention this winter in addition to your list.
It's strange this slow moving fiasco and people getting their sanity back one by one like Ben Shapiro this week. And yet I'm a bit unnerved still, like from the stories of the strange bloodclots or dying brain tissue. So much doesn't make sense still but perhaps I'm just picking up on some astral crud or something. Only time will tell...
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-01 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Disease trends
(Anonymous) 2022-11-02 08:20 am (UTC)(link)https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651
Open AccessCase Report
A Case Report: Multifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination against COVID-19
by Michael Mörz
Institute of Pathology ’Georg Schmorl’, The Municipal Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Friedrichstrasse 41, 01067 Dresden, Germany
Academic Editor: Sung Ryul Shim
Vaccines 2022, 10(10), 1651; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10101651
Received: 31 August 2022 / Revised: 25 September 2022 / Accepted: 27 September 2022 / Published: 1 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adverse Events of COVID-19 Vaccines)
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Abstract
The current report presents the case of a 76-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who died three weeks after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccination. The patient was first vaccinated in May 2021 with the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vector vaccine, followed by two doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in July and December 2021. The family of the deceased requested an autopsy due to ambiguous clinical signs before death. PD was confirmed by post-mortem examinations. Furthermore, signs of aspiration pneumonia and systemic arteriosclerosis were evident. However, histopathological analyses of the brain uncovered previously unsuspected findings, including acute vasculitis (predominantly lymphocytic) as well as multifocal necrotizing encephalitis of unknown etiology with pronounced inflammation including glial and lymphocytic reaction. In the heart, signs of chronic cardiomyopathy as well as mild acute lympho-histiocytic myocarditis and vasculitis were present. Although there was no history of COVID-19 for this patient, immunohistochemistry for SARS-CoV-2 antigens (spike and nucleocapsid proteins) was performed. Surprisingly, only spike protein but no nucleocapsid protein could be detected within the foci of inflammation in both the brain and the heart, particularly in the endothelial cells of small blood vessels. Since no nucleocapsid protein could be detected, the presence of spike protein must be ascribed to vaccination rather than to viral infection. The findings corroborate previous reports of encephalitis and myocarditis caused by gene-based COVID-19 vaccines. View Full-Text
Keywords: COVID-19 vaccination; necrotizing encephalitis; myocarditis; detection of spike protein; detection of nucleocapsid protein; autopsy
Re: Disease trends
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-07 12:06 am (UTC)(link)Charles Mackay 1812–89
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
What we are seeing is entirely normal. The question that remains is was it a simple case of mass hysteria, or was it a cynical trial run to see how much totalitarianism the public would accept? And this determination is confused by the mass media being financially rewarded for spreading panic.
I live outside the range of broadcast TV, and outside of the reach of cable as well. It's satellite or nothing, and I've chosen nothing. I seem to be less panicked than my TV watching friends.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-02 09:39 am (UTC)(link)Re: Disease trends
Seems to fit in the idea I shared from a Twitter thread a few weeks ago suggesting that these new variants may have slightly to somewhat compromised overall transmitability for immune evasion of 'popular' antibodies. They've definitely favoured the elderly this time here in the UK - a change from all other 'waves'.
Just read this from Rintrah btw - what d'ya think? https://www.rintrah.nl/how-to-turn-sars-cov-2-into-an-aids-virus/
Re: Disease trends
I don't think that's what we're seeing. We might have a lot of RSV at the moment, but by and large most of the vaccinated and multi-infected people I know aren't catching bugs much more than usual. Instead, *some* people are experiencing drastic immune failure while *most* seem unaffected.
This seems more like a semi-stochastic process, along the lines of the development of allergy or autoimmunity. I might hypothesize that it is some sort of central tolerance disruption (e.g. general downregulation of immunity in response to a perceived autoimmune attack on the heart or other systems following vaccination and/or infection). It might also involve reactivation of dormant viruses like EBV which then trigger inflammation and immune dysfunction.