Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 216

[ecosophia]

We are now into the fifth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary all these years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health remain anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; new revelations are leaking out about just how bad the Covid vaccines are for human health; and the story continues to unfold.

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 and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. 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 wholly owned 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 plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.

5. 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. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

7. Please don't post LLM ("AI") generated text. This is a place for human beings to talk to other human beings, not for the regurgitation of machine-generated text. Also, please don't discuss large language models (the technology popularly and inaccurately called "artificial intelligence" these days) except as they bear directly on the Covid phenomenon. Here again, my finger is hovering over the delete button. 

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Exclusive: OSHA Admits It Told Healthcare Employers Not to Report COVID Vaccine Injuries

After a whistleblower alerted The Defender, an OSHA spokesperson confirmed an internal directive telling healthcare employers not to report or track COVID-19 vaccine injuries. OSHA removed the policy from its website after inquiries from The Defender. Critics said the directive concealed the scope of vaccine injuries and made it difficult for injured workers to obtain workers’ compensation or disability benefits.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/exclusive-osha-admits-healthcare-employers-told-not-to-report-covid-vaccine-injuries/

well i cant say i am surprised

[(Anonymous)]

Devastating COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effect Confirmed by New Data: Study

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/devastating-covid-19-vaccine-side-effect-confirmed-new/

i wonder if anyone will ever be held accountable?
so much is coming out now.. we have all this evidence and sen johnson has all these hearings.. but it seems it never goes anywhere

[(Anonymous)]

I hope your visit to the dentist was totally routine and boring!

Thanks for the awesome meme. Trust the science indeed! 😂

Valerie

[ecosophia]

Just an exam and cleaning -- thanks for asking. I haven't been to a dentist in many years; during Sara's long illness we spent as little money as possible, and saved up so that we wouldn't be ruined financially if she had to go to a hospital. So my teeth are in fairly bad shape, and will need quite a bit of work. This visit was untraumatic, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Federally funded researchers bury results on COVID vaccine effect on liver, kidney risks in youth

NIH-funded study of "long COVID" and reinfection hides findings on risks stratified by vaccination status deep in a supplement, contradicting researchers' conclusions and media narrative that vaccines are the answer.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/federally-funded-researchers-bury-results-covid-vaccine-effect-liver

posted yesterday but i just saw it now

[(Anonymous)]

Don't get a root canal or any mercury fillings. I am looking at having to spend a lot of money to get my 'silver' fillings removed.

On topic

"The Unsettling Scientific Silence on Aluminum Adjuvants

A powerful point from Bret Weinstein highlights a critical failure in our public health dialogue: the refusal to properly study the systemic effects of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines.

The core of his argument is not anti-vaccine; it is pro-science. He states that if injecting aluminum into muscle is safe, that is "a scientifically easy thing to establish." The fact that this foundational work remains conspicuously undone is a glaring red flag.

So, what is an adjuvant? For the public, it's an additive designed to put the immune system on "high alert" so it reacts strongly to the vaccine's target antigen.

But therein lies the potential danger. The alarm sounded by the aluminum is non-specific. The immune system knows it's under threat, but it doesn't know from what. This is a radical biological intervention.

Weinstein, as an evolutionary biologist, posits a crucial question: Is this chronic, misdirected immune activation connected to the epidemic of modern ailments we see in younger generations?

Could it be a driver of the proliferating allergies? Is it a factor in the rise of serious, sometimes fatal, autoimmune conditions like asthma?

We simply do not know. These questions have not been properly investigated.

The conclusion is inescapable: even if a vaccine is beneficial for the specific disease it targets, the net impact on a person's lifelong health could very well be negative. We are making a massive, population-scale bet without the necessary data."

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1975586856860270664

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think dentists even do metal fillings any more. It's all resin, i.e., plastic. I've had a bunch of root canals due to infected roots, and a row of plastic front teeth. Oral surgery does a root canal on your purse as well, I'm here to tell you. But best of luck with the dental repairs; dental problems can undermine your health pretty badly.

OT: but parallel - there was an excerpt from Self magazine on my computer about a strong,athletic woman with devastating backaches who found out by accident they were due to having one leg a bit shorter than the other (which I also have) and fixed it with inserts in her shoes - heel lifts in her case; shoe pads (cheap, sold in every drugstore) in mine. And none of the doctors and other experts she saw ever considered that.

Back to the Cooties - residents here who wanted the shots were stymied by the State of Florida! But they could get them is their doctor prescribed them, and IIRC, the original state ruling made an exception for the aged, who could get them easily, and our on-site health clinic was quite ready to prescribe the shots.

The Grey Badger

what a meme...

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,
This meme hits home for me. My mother's gynecologist recommended that she start smoking for stress relief. While she eventually quit, she died of COPD.

I feel deeply grateful to everyone here and elsewhere on the internet who have helped me learn how to improve my health with various alternative approaches. A bright spot in the Covid hell for me.

JMG, thanks for providing this space.

[(Anonymous)]

BREAKING: Freedom Convoy organizers sentenced to 18-month house arrest for role in protests

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have received 18 months of house arrest, along with a curfew and 100 hours of community service, for organizing the peaceful 2022 protest against COVID mandates.

https://assets.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-freedom-convoy-organizers-sentenced-to-18-month-house-arrest-for-role-in-protests/


well that is better than jail time at least!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this!

At least Chris Barber will be able to run his business from home - and I assume that his magnificent truck "Big Red" has been spared from being decommissioned. Looks like Tamara won't be playing guitar and singing at any gigs for a while; good thing that she performed a couple weekends back at the Universal Ostrich farm in central BC!

Just the same, any punishment for 'mischief' in an enviably peaceful protest is insane.

Honk honk!

Ron M

Astral storm

[(Anonymous)]

Off topic so delete if you so choose.
Has anyone been having difficulty sleeping? The last two nights have been extremely rough. Astral storm would be my best description of it. Vivid imagery and powerful energy. This afternoon two other people told me that they tossed and turned all night. Anyone else?

Kevin Andersen

Re: Astral storm

[(Anonymous)]

It's the full Moon, it's harder to sleep during the full moon, and also it may be hitting a significant point on your natal chart.

Dubious Medical Professionals

[(Anonymous)]

Great meme for this week's post, JMG!

It immediately reminded me of my home town where the richest family of them all (and there were a lot of rich families - a legacy of the 19th century) had made their fortune in the late 19th / early 20th centuries by selling patented Pink Pills for Pale People. What were the medicinal ingredients? It was a secret: nothing! But there were plenty of dubious ingredients, I'll tell you! Still, that didn't stop people from buying these pills like they were going out of style. Also, the family mansion was the location where Canada's longest serving prime minister (William Lyon Mackenzie King) used to regularly attend seances to speak with his mother and get political advice from his mentor, Sir Wilfred Laurier, from the other side of the veil. But that's another story! :)

Ron M

CDC Says COVID-19 Vaccination Now Up To Each Individual

[causticus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-says-covid-19-vaccination-now-each-individual

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer broadly recommends COVID-19 vaccination. The agency now says that each person should take a range of factors into account, and consult with their doctor, before receiving a shot.

“Informed consent is back,” Jim O'Neill, the CDC’s acting director, said in a statement on Oct. 6 after accepting advice from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel. “CDC’s 2022 blanket recommendation for perpetual COVID-19 boosters deterred health care providers from talking about the risks and benefits of vaccination for the individual patient or parent. That changes today.”

The official term for the updated posture is shared clinical decision-making. Under other tiers, vaccination is recommended for everyone or everyone in a certain age or risk group.

“Shared clinical decision-making recommendations are individually based and informed by a decision process between the health care provider and the patient or parent/guardian,” the CDC states on its website.

The CDC for years recommended virtually all people aged 6 months and older receive a COVID-19 vaccine, along with updated versions on an annual basis."

Re: CDC Says COVID-19 Vaccination Now Up To Each Individual

[(Anonymous)]

Please now do the same for all other vaccines like the TDAP / DTAP and MMR vaccines.

Sam Hyde Sketch

[(Anonymous)]

Alt-right comedian Sam Hyde did this hilarious sketch about doctors (the doctor is covered in big pharma logo patches like a NASCAR driver and gloats about getting a BMW for his points after getting another girl hooked on a pill) I know JMG doesn't do video, but this is funny. The intro is almost a minute long and not really part of the sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZJY2OLO8Q

Re: Sam Hyde Sketch

[(Anonymous)]

i found it to be more horrifying than hilarious.

Maybe it just hits to close to home with its doctor portrayed as a greedy, sadistic clown doing his job as a pill pusher excited by the harm he does because it means more business.

[(Anonymous)]

just wanted to share this meme
i hope it works..

https://nerv.8kun.top/file_store/affe4486ae0eb7cb7ad95e3440b6678c478e5a8866a647c3da2795b3d8397bf2.jpg

Gut Changes Persist Years After Stopping Certain Medications

[(Anonymous)]

I just ran across a study that describes that gut changes may persist years after stopping certain medications. From the article:
"We identified carryover and additive effects on the gut microbiome for a range of antibiotics and non-antibiotic medications, such as benzodiazepine derivatives, antidepressants and glucocorticoids, among others. These findings highlight a collateral effect of diverse drug classes on the gut microbiome, which warrants accounting for long-term medication usage history when assessing disease-microbiome associations."

Here's the link: https://journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.1128/msystems.00541-25

Interestingly I was told by someone at FLCCC that IVM does not affect the gut microbiome. I also understand that chlorine dioxide does not affect the gut microbiome either.

Re: Gut Changes Persist Years After Stopping Certain Medications

[stubborn_ass]

If there are some spikes hiding out in your gut, doing moderate dose VIM (like 2X basic dose) is likely to cause you to have loose stools for a day or two, as it gets cleaned out. But otherwise no real change in the gut biome.

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a little "are you kidding me?" medical experience I just had the other day...

I got recruited to drive an older (retired but not elderly) relative to the doctor. She couldn't drive herself due to an injury, she's in a knee brace and walking with a cane, mobile but can't drive right now - would I mind? Sure, I'll drive her. Turns out she is going in for blood work and her annual flu shot. I didn't argue about the flu shot; she knows I don't get them, but she believes in them and it's not my business. Whatever. We get there, and they put us both in the room - she asks me to stick with her, because she's awkward with the cane, I'm holding her purse, holding doors, etc.

So that's how I wind up in the room with someone at a doctor's practice I have literally nothing to do with.

NP comes in, asks her a bunch of questions, I'm just sitting quietly, they go over the flu shot, what type of flu shot, she's over 50 so she gets this one and not that one, blah blah. Out of nowhere, the NP turns to me and says "And would you like a flu shot?"

I was taken aback, but managed a prompt "no thank you!" Relative chimes in about how I don't get them, I mutter something about how "I never get the flu shot and I never get a bad flu", and we move on.

But it shocked me. WTF? I'm NOT THE PATIENT, I don't have an appointment, this is not my doctor (or NP), I'm just here as a driver and purse-holder, they literally don't even know my name, and yet - no chance to push a flu shot on people can be missed, apparently!

I thought, but didn't say, "Wow - flu shots must be really lucrative, huh?" because it wasn't worth starting something. But sheesh! The medical profession really is just pharma sales.

[weilong]

To give the NP the benefit of the doubt, he/she probably thinks that the flu shot is an unalloyed good, so naturally everybody would want one.

The issue that I keep coming back to in situations like this is that it seems as if the medical professional must either be corrupt (pushing drugs for profit) or ignorant (doesn't understand the costs/benefits of the drug). Neither of those options encourages me to trust them.

[(Anonymous)]

here is an article i just saw posted by dr mary tally bowden:
https://xcancel.com/MdBreathe/status/1976273781330149522#m

it is from 2022, but i did not know this!
did anyone else, because i must have missed it:

How Pfizer used AI and supercomputers to design COVID-19 vaccine, tablet
Everything from molecular structure to freezer distribution involved ML, says tech chief

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/22/pfizer_nvidia_ai/

thats crazy to me..

[(Anonymous)]

There is a theory that the whole covid operation was planned using AI. I am inclined to be sceptical of this theory, but then I recall all of the weirdness surrounding the covid situation, like one of those AI generated video from a few years ago with the weird distorted faces.

There were a lot of people (politicians, celebrities, etc) who engaged in some really unhinged and crazy behaviour. This could have been because they were genuinely afraid of the virus, but maybe it was because of the AI generated nature of the situation that had been imposed upon them.

[(Anonymous)]

Circumcision ‘highly likely’ linked to autism, RFK Jr. says in wild new Tylenol claim

https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/tylenol-used-after-circumcision-highly-likely-linked-to-autism-rfk-jr/

ok, well..
i am not sure what to make of this one..

[fredsmith11]

When you've observed medical/political shenanigans for long enough, the lesson is always watch what people do, not what they say.

Even so-called good guys like RFk Jr can be turned, or be long-term sleepers (agents), who are rolled out when the time is right (think Le Carré novels). Most of the current crop of EU politicians are WEF-types who have been groomed from a young age and then placed into their positions.

My take on Tylenol is it's a distraction from vaccines, which are a sacred cow/money machine that must be protected at all costs.

The recent easing on COVID jabs by the CDC is a local, tactical retreat in a larger war, not a change of heart on vaccines in general

Alliance Of Indigenous Nations

[frittermywig]

Dr. Joseph Sansone, a Florida-based psychotherapist and prominent member of Team Reality, is reporting tonight that Alliance Of Indigenous Nations International Tribunal issued an order that "mRNA nanoparticle injections, are in fact biological and technological weapons of mass destruction." https://www.josephsansone.com/p/exclusive-breaking-news-alliance

Ron M., (or others with knowledge) can you shed any light on this? Is it significant?

Alliance of Indigenous Nations Declaration: mRNA Particles are WMDs

[(Anonymous)]

Almost hot off the press!

On October 8, 2025, the Alliance of Indigenous Nations (AIN)'s International Tribunal has issued an Order and Declaration stating that “mRNA nanoparticle injections are in fact biological and technological weapons of mass destruction.”

This is a healthy slap in the face of the Government of Canada, because in December 2024, it formally acknowledged the Alliance of Indigenous Nations, its Treaty, and its International Tribunal, which is a judicial body composed of judges from every continent. Further, Canada has affirmed that its relationship with the AIN exists on a Nation-to-Nation basis, thereby recognizing the Tribunal as a sovereign legal authority under Indigenous and international law.

The AIN's declaration aligns with Minnesota Bill HF3219, which classifies mRNA injections and related products as weapons of mass destruction under Section 609.712, prohibiting their possession or distribution within the state.

This is historic, as it is the first recognized international tribunal that has formally named the C-19 mRNA injections as weapons of mass destruction: this therefore places the burden squarely on world governments, public health agencies, and courts of law to respond.

Let's see how it shakes out.

For the full article - which includes a link to the full declaration - go here: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-worlds-first-international

Talk about a "feel good Friday"!

Ron M

Re: Alliance of Indigenous Nations Declaration: mRNA Particles are WMDs

[frittermywig]

Thanks very much for your insights on this one, Ron!

Polymyalgia rheumatica/giant cell arteritis

[(Anonymous)]

Has there been any discussion here of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)/giant cell arteritis (GCA) possibly being related to COVID or the jabs?

[(Anonymous)]

Pfizer Left COVID-19 Vaccine Data Out Of Submissions To FDA, Documents Show

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/pfizer-left-covid-19-vaccine-data-out-submissions-fda-documents-show

its all coming to light

[(Anonymous)]

UPDATE: President Trump Announces Major Deal with Drugmaker AstraZeneca, Including $50 BILLION Investment

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/update-president-trump-announces-major-deal-drugmaker-astrazeneca/

more jobs anyway..

[(Anonymous)]

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/cdc-covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-recommendation-00599151

its all somewhat confusing

[(Anonymous)]

a substack from chris bray:

The Public Debate About Covid-19 Vaccines Ended During the Biden Years, and Healthcare Professionals Led the Withdrawal

https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/the-public-debate-about-covid-19

[(Anonymous)]

New Covid strains 'hitting earlier in year'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4qgxn2dlwo

it seems ppl are just going to keep getting boosted every year now

[(Anonymous)]

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year
The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-gets-covid-vaccine-flu-shot-medical-exam-walter-reed-rcna236998

ed dowd weighs in:

Two possibilities:

1) Trump didn’t get a real Covid booster.

2) He is a dumbass.

https://xcancel.com/DowdEdward/status/1976927593103605911#m

[(Anonymous)]

Well I think Trump has shown time and again that he's a dumbass when it comes to the "vaccine" spell. But he's brilliant in some other respects.

It's perfectly possible to be both brilliant and dumbass. It so happens that I recently finished reading Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton—- a prime example of a US politician who was at once extremely brilliant and majorly dumbass.

My main sense is, dang, we really are in very serious trouble here. The vaccine spell has some bodacious mojo.