18 Reasons Not to Get a COVID Vaccine

Below is an excellent article written by Christian Elliot. He summarizes, quite well, the logical reasons for NOT getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

Among the notable reasons is that the vaccine manufacturers have played fast and loose with their data. Basically, they massaged the data to show a beneficial outcome for the vaccines that without the massaging would not be shown.

Fore example, Elliot explains mysterious “data gaps” in both the Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna vaccine studies. There is no data regarding the duration of the alleged protection imparted by the COVID-19 vaccines. Both Pfizer and Moderna revealed in their reports to the FDA the following about their vaccines: “As the interim and final analyses have a limited length of follow-up, it is not possible to assess sustained efficacy over a period longer than 2 months.”

You read that correctly. The vaccine manufacturers have no idea if the vaccines are effective beyond two months.

More surprisingly, Elliot reveals that both Moderna and Pfizer have concealed the raw data from their trials. Indeed, as I pointed out in a separate blog, the Moderna study did not begin measuring the efficacy of the Moderna vaccine until after 14 days had passed. That allowed Moderna to ignore the symptoms of COVID-19 that were caused by the vaccine within that 14 day period.

Elliot further explains the significance of an article from Peter Doshi, Associate Editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Doshi reveals that “[a]ccording to FDA’s report on Pfizer’s vaccine, there were ‘3410 total cases of suspected, but unconfirmed covid-19 in the overall study population, 1594 occurred in the vaccine group vs. 1816 in the placebo group.’” Doshi explains how those numbers render the alleged 95% efficacy of the vaccine downright deceptive. Pfizer would argue that there was no confirmatory PCR test for those study patients with suspected COVID-19 and thus their COVID-19 symptoms should be ignored. But Doshi argues that “[w]ith 20 times more suspected than confirmed cases, this category of disease cannot be ignored simply because there was no positive PCR test result.” With those dates included, the efficacy of the vaccine on a relative risk measurement would be reduced to only 19% instead of the reported 95%.

Something that Doshi does not mention is the significance of the group of suspected COVID-19 cases that happened within 7 days of the vaccinations that were not included in the measure of effectiveness. The FDA report of the Pfizer data revealed that “[s]uspected COVID-19 cases that occurred within 7 days after any vaccination were 409 in the vaccine group vs. 287 in the placebo group.”

That is notable because the Pfizer vaccine study did not measure effectiveness until 7 days after the second dose. The FDA report of the Pfizer trial reveals: “The protocol-specified 2-dose vaccination regimen was highly effective in preventing PCR confirmed COVID-19 occurring at least 7 days after completion of the vaccination regimen.” That 7 day delay effectively excluded the pesky suspected COVID-19 cases that happened within 7 days after the vaccine regimen and they did not have to go through the awkward task of explaining why they did not count them. They just moved the measuring date 7 days out and the problem was solved. As mentioned earlier, Moderna did the same thing in their study, only they waited full 14 days before measuring efficacy.

Elliot also extrapolates, as I did in an earlier blog article, that the VAERS data only reports approximately 1% of all adverse events from vaccines. Elliot concludes that as of March 26, 2021, the actual deaths caused by the COVID-19 vaccines are actually “somewhere around 110,00 to 220,000,” instead of the 2,249 reported deaths in the VAERS database.

All of that carnage is being caused by a vaccine that has now been proven NOT to prevent the spread of the alleged COVID-19 virus and has been proven NOT to stop the virus from infecting a vaccinated person. All of that, of course, assumes the germ theory of the spread of the virus is true, which is very much in dispute.

Below the text of the article by Christian Elliot:

A few friends have asked my thoughts [on] the covid jab(s) so I thought it was time to write an article on the topic.

All my friends had not heard most of the details I shared, so I figured you might appreciate hearing some of what I told them.

Knowing how contentious this issue is, part of me would rather just write about something else, but I feel like the discussion/news is so one-sided that I should speak up.

As I always strive to do, I promise to do my best to be level-headed and non-hysterical.

I’m not here to pick a fight with anyone, just to walk you through some of what I’ve read, my lingering questions, and explain why I can’t make sense of these covid vaccines.

 
 
 

THREE GROUND RULES FOR DISCUSSION

If you care to engage on this topic with me, excellent.

Here are the rules…

I am more than happy to correspond with you if…

  1. You are respectful and treat me the way you would want to be treated.

  2. You ask genuinely thoughtful questions about what makes sense to you.

  3. You make your points using sound logic and don’t hide behind links or the word “science.”

If you do respond, and you break any of those rules, your comments will be ignored/deleted.

With that out of the way, let me say this…

I don’t know everything, but so far no one has been able to answer the objections below.

So here are the reasons I’m opting out of the covid vaccine.

#1: VACCINE MAKERS ARE IMMUNE FROM LIABILITY

The only industry in the world that bears no liability for injuries or deaths resulting from their products, are vaccine makers.

First established in 1986 with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, and reinforced by the PREP Act, vaccine makers cannot be sued, even if they are shown to be negligent.

The covid-vaccine makers are allowed to create a one-size-fits-all product, with no testing on sub-populations (i.e. people with specific health conditions), and yet they are unwilling to accept any responsibility for any adverse events or deaths their products cause.

If a company is not willing to stand behind their product as safe, especially one they rushed to market and skipped animal trials on, I am not willing to take a chance on their product.

No liability. No trust.

Here’s why…

#2: THE CHECKERED PAST OF THE VACCINE COMPANIES

The four major companies who are making these covid vaccines are/have either:

  1. Never brought a vaccine to market before covid (Moderna and Johnson & Johnson).

  2. Are serial felons (Pfizer, and Astra Zeneca).

  3. Are both (Johnson & Johnson).

Moderna had been trying to “Modernize our RNA” (thus the company name)–for years, but had never successfully brought ANY product to market–how nice for them to get a major cash infusion from the government to keep trying.

In fact, all major vaccine makers (save Moderna) have paid out tens of billions of dollars in damages for other products they brought to market when then knew those product would cause injuries and death–see Vioxx, Bextra, Celebrex, Thalidomide, and Opioids as a few examples.

 
If drug companies willfully choose to put harmful products in the market, when they can be sued, why would we trust any product where they have NO liability?
 

In case it hasn’t sunk in, let me reiterated…3 of the 4 covid vaccine makers have been sued for products they brought to market even though they knew injuries and deaths would result.

Let me reiterate this point:

 
Given the free pass from liability, and the checkered past of these companies, why would we assume that all their vaccines are safe and made completely above board?
 

Where else in life would we trust someone with that kind of reputation?

To me that makes as much sense as expecting a remorseless, abusive, unfaithful lover to become a different person because a judge said deep down they are a good person.

No. I don’t trust trust them.

No liability. No trust.

Here’s another reason why I don’t trust them.

#3: THE UGLY HISTORY OF ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CORONAVIRUS VACCINES

In the 1960s, attempts to make a coronavirus vaccine killed children in human trials, in the 21st century (not making the mistake of skipping animal trials this time), attempts to make similar vaccines sickened or killed ALL of the ferrets in animal trials.

All of them.

We’re talking giving them liver disease and hepatitis among other problems.

In both instances mentioned above, the children and the animals produced beautiful antibody responses after being vaccinated.

They manufacturers thought they hit the jackpot.

The problem came when the children and animals were exposed to the wild version of the virus.

When that happened, an unexplained phenomenon called Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) also known as Vaccine Enhanced Disease (VED) occurred where the immune system produced a “cytokine storm” (i.e. overwhelmingly attacked the body), and the children/animals died.

 
The vaccine makers have no data to suggest their rushed vaccines have overcome that problem.
 

In other words, never before had the gene-therapy technology that is mRNA vaccines been safely brought to market, but hey, since they had billions of dollars in government funding, I’m sure they figured that out.

Except they don’t know if they have…

#4: THE “DATA GAPS” SUBMITTED TO THE FDA BY THE VACCINE MAKERS

When vaccine makers submitted their papers to the FDA for the Emergency Use Authorization (Note: An EUA is not the same as a full FDA approval), among the many “Data Gaps” they reported was that they have nothing in their trials to suggest they overcame that pesky problem of Vaccine Enhanced Disease.

They simply don’t know–i.e. they have no idea if the vaccines they’ve made will also produce the same cytokine storm (and deaths) as previous attempts at such products.

As Joseph Mercola points out…

Previous attempts to develop an mRNA-based drug using lipid nanoparticles failed and had to be abandoned because when the dose was too low, the drug had no effect, and when dosed too high, the drug became too toxic. An obvious question is: What has changed that now makes this technology safe enough for mass use?”

If that’s not alarming enough, here are other gaps in the data–i.e. there is no data to suggest safety or efficacy regarding:

  • Anyone younger than age 18 or older than age 55

  • Pregnant or lactating mothers

  • Auto-immune conditions

  • Immunocompromised individuals

  • No data on transmission of covid

  • No data on preventing mortality from covid

  • No data on duration of protection from covid

Hard to believe right?

In case you think I’m making this up, or want to see the actual documents sent to the FDA by Pfizer and Moderna for their Emergency Use Authorization, you can check out this, or this respectively. The data gaps can be found starting with page 46 and 48 respectively.

For now let’s turn our eyes to the raw data the vaccine makers used to submit for emergency use authorization.

#5: NO ACCESS TO THE RAW DATA FROM THE TRIALS

Would you like to see the raw data that produced the “90% and 95% effective” claims touted in the news?

Me too…

But they won’t let us see that data.

As pointed out in the BMJ, something about the Pfizer and Moderna efficacy claims smells really funny.

 
There were “3,410 total cases of suspected, but unconfirmed covid-19 in the overall study population, 1,594 occurred in the vaccine group vs. 1,816 in the placebo group.”
 

Wait…what?

Did they fail to do science in their scientific study by not verifying a major variable?

Could they not test those “suspected but unconfirmed” cases to find out if they had covid?

Apparently not.

Why not test all 3,410 participants for the sake of accuracy?

We can only guess they didn’t test because it would mess up their “90-95% effective” claims?

Where’s the FDA?

Would it not be prudent for the FDA, to expect (demand) that the vaccine makers test people who have “covid-like symptoms,” and release their raw data so outside, third-parties could examine how the manufacturers justified the numbers?

I mean it’s only every citizen of the world we’re trying to get to take these experimental products…

Why did the FDA not require that? Isn’t that the entire purpose of the FDA anyway?

Good question.

Foxes guarding the hen house?

Seems like it.

No liability. No trust.

#6: NO LONG-TERM SAFETY TESTING

Obviously, with products that have only been on the market a few months, we have no long-term safety data.

In other words, we have no idea what this product will do in the body months or years from now–for ANY population.

Given all the risks above (risks that ALL pharmaceutical products have), would it not be prudent to wait to see if the worst-case scenarios have indeed been avoided?

Would it not make sense to want to fill those pesky “data gaps” before we try to give this to every man, woman, and child on the planet?

Well…that would make sense, but to have that data, they need to test it on people, which leads me to my next point…

#7: NO INFORMED CONSENT

What most who are taking the vaccine don’t know is that because these products are still in clinical trials, anyone who gets the shot is now part of the clinical trial.

They are part of the experiment.

Those (like me) who do not take it, are part of the control group.

Time will tell how this experiment works out.

But, you may be asking, if the vaccines are causing harm, wouldn’t we be seeing that all over the news?

Surely the FDA would step in and pause the distribution?

Well, if the adverse events reporting system was working, maybe things would be different.

#8: UNDER-REPORTING OF ADVERSE REACTIONS AND DEATH

According to a study done by Harvard (at the commission of our own government), less than 1% of all adverse reactions to vaccines are actually submitted to the National Vaccine Adverse Events Reports System (VAERS) – read page 6 at the link above.

While the problems with VAERS have not been fixed (as you can read about this letter to the CDC), at the time off this writing VEARS still reports over 2,200 deaths from the current covid vaccines, as well as close to 60,000 adverse reactions.

 
“VAERS data released today showed 50,861 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines, including 2,249 deaths and 7,726 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and March 26, 2021.”
 

And those numbers don’t include (what is currently) 578 cases of Bell’s Palsy.

If those numbers are still only 1% of the total adverse reactions (or .8 to 2% of what this study published recently in the JAMA found), you can do the math, but that equates to somewhere around 110,00 to 220,000 deaths from the vaccines to date, and a ridiculous number of adverse reactions.

Bet you didn’t see that on the news.

That death number would currently still be lower than the 424,000 deaths from medical errors that happen every year (which you probably also don’t hear about), but we are not even six months into the rollout of these vaccines yet.

If you want a deeper dive into the problems with the VAERS reporting system, you can check this out, or check this out.

But then there’s my next point, which could be argued makes these covid vaccines seem pointless…

#9: THE VACCINES DO NOT STOP TRANSMISSION OR INFECTION

Wait, what?

Aren’t these vaccines supposed to be what we’ve been waiting for to “go back to normal”?

Nope.

Why do you think we’re getting all these conflicting messages about needing to practice social distancing and wear masks AFTER we get a vaccine?

 
The reason is because these vaccines were never designed to stop transmission OR infection.
 

If you don’t believe me, I refer you again to the papers submitted to the FDA I linked to above.

The primary endpoint (what the vaccines are meant to accomplish) is to lower your symptoms.

Sounds like just about every other drug on the market right?

That’s it…lowering your symptoms is the big payoff we’ve been waiting for.

Does that seem completely pointless to anyone but me?

  1. It can’t stop us from spreading the virus.

  2. It can’t stop the virus from infecting us once we have it.

  3. To get the vaccine is to accept all the risk of these experimental products and the best it might do is lower symptoms?

Heck, there are plenty of other things I can do to lower my symptoms that don’t involve taking what appears to be a really risky product?

Now for the next logical question:

 
If we’re worried about asymptomatic spreaders, would the vaccine not make it more likely that we are creating asymptomatic spread?
 

If it indeed reduces symptoms, anyone who gets it might not even know they are sick and thus they are more likely to spread the virus, right?

For what it’s worth, I’ve heard many people say the side effects of the vaccine (especially the second dose) are worse than catching covid.

I can’t make sense of that either.

Take the risk.

Get no protection.

Suffer through the vaccine side-effects.

Keep wearing your mask and social distancing…

And continue to be able to spread the virus.

What?

It gets worse.

#10: PEOPLE ARE CATCHING COVID AFTER BEING FULLY VACCINATED

Talk about a bummer.

You get vaccinated and you still catch covid.

In reality, this phenomenon is probably happening everywhere, but those are the ones making the news now.

Given the reasons above (and what’s below), maybe this doesn’t surprise you, but bummer if you thought the vaccine was a shield to keep you safe.

It’s not.

That was never the point.

If 66% of healthcare workers are going to delay or skip the vaccine…maybe they aren’t wowed by the rushed science either.

Maybe they are watching the shady way deaths and cases are being reported…

#11: THE OVERALL DEATH RATE FROM COVID

According the the CDC’s own numbers, covid has a 99.74% survival rate.

Why would I take a risk on a product, that doesn’t stop infection or transmission, to help me overcome a cold that has a .26% chance of killing me–actually in my age range is has about a .1% chance of killing me (and .01% chance of killing my kids), but let’s not split hairs here.

With a bar (death rate) that low, we will be in lockdown every year…i.e. forever.

But wait, what about the 500,000 plus deaths, that’s alarming right?

I’m glad you asked.

#12: THE BLOATED COVID DEATH NUMBERS

Something smells really funny about this one.

Never before in the history of death certificates has our own government changed how deaths are reported.

Why now, are we reporting everyone who dies with covid in their body, as having died of covid, rather than the co-morbidities that actually took their life?

Until covid, all coronaviruses (common colds) were never listed as the primary cause of death when someone died of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, auto-immune conditions, or any other major co-morbidity.

The disease was listed as the cause of death, and a confounding factor like flu or pneumonia was listed on a separate line.

To bloat the number even more, both the W.H.O. and the C.D.C. changed their guidelines such that those who are suspected or probable (but were never confirmed) of having died of covid, are also included in the death numbers.

Seriously?

If we are going to do that then should we not go back and change the numbers of all past cold and flu seasons so we can compare apples to apples when it comes to death rates?

According to the CDCs own numbers, (scroll down to the section “Comorbidities and other conditions”) only 6% of the deaths being attributed to covid are instances where covid seems to be the only issue at hand.

In other words, reduce the death numbers you see on the news by 94% and you have what is likely the real numbers of deaths from just covid.

Even if the former CDC director is correct and covid-19 was lab-enhanced virus, a .26% death rate is still in line with the viral death rate that circles the planet ever year.

Then there’s this Fauci guy.

I’d really love to trust him, but besides the fact that he hasn’t treated one covid patient…and you should probably know…

#13: FAUCI AND SIX OTHERS AT NIAID OWN PATENTS IN THE MODERNA VACCINE

Thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act, government workers are allowed to file patents on any research they do using tax payer funding.

Tony Fauci owns over 1,000 patents, including patents being used on the Moderna vaccine…which he approved government funding for.

Does anyone else see this as a MAJOR conflict of interest, or criminal even?

And then there’s this pesky problem…

#14: THE VIRUS CONTINUES TO MUTATE

Not only does the virus (like all viruses) continue to mutate, but according to world-renown vaccine developer Geert Vanden Bossche (who you’ll meet below if you don’t know him) it’s mutating about every 10 hours.

How in the world are we going to keep creating vaccines to keep up with that level of mutation?

We’re not.

Might that also explain why fully vaccinated people are continuing to catch covid?

Why, given that natural immunity has never ultimately failed humanity, do we suddenly not trust it?

Why, if I ask questions like the above, or post links like what you find above, will my thoughts be deleted from all major social media platforms?

That brings me to the next troubling problem I have with these vaccines.

#16: CENSORSHIP…AND THE COMPLETE ABSENCE OF SCIENTIFIC DEBATE

I can’t help but get snarky here, so humor me.

How did you enjoy all those nationally and globally-televised, robust debates put on by public health officials, and broadcast simultaneously on every major news station?

Wasn’t it great hearing from the best minds in medicine, virology, epidemiology, economics, and vaccinology from all over the world as they vigorously and respectfully debated things like:

  • Lockdowns

  • Mask wearing

  • Social-distancing

  • Vaccine efficacy and safety trials

  • How to screen for susceptibility to vaccine injury

  • Therapeutics, (i.e. non-vaccine treatment options)

Wasn’t it great seeing public health officials (who never treated anyone with covid) have their “science” questioned.

Wasn’t it great seeing the FDA panel publicly grill the vaccine makers in prime time as they stood in the hot-seat of tough questions about products of which they have no liability?

Oh, wait…you didn’t see those debates?

No, you didn’t…because they never happened.

What happened instead was heavy-handed censorship of all but one narrative.

Ironically, Mark Zuckerberg can question vaccine safety, but I can’t?

Hypocrite?

When did the first amendment become a suggestion?

It’s the FIRST amendment Mark–the one our founders thought was most important.

With so much at stake, why are we fed only one narrative…shouldn’t many perspectives be heard and professionally debated?

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SCIENCE?

What has happened to the scientific method of always challenging our assumptions?

What happened to lively debate in this country, or at least in Western society?

Why did anyone who disagrees with the WHO, or the CDC get censored so heavily?

Is the science of public health a religion now, or is science supposed to be about debate?

If someone says “the science is settled” that’s how I know I’m dealing with someone who is closed minded.

By definition science (especially biological science) is never settled.

If it was, it would be dogma, not science.

OK, before I get too worked up, let me say this…

I WANT TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN

I really do.

If lockdowns work, I want to do my part and stay home.

If masks work, I want to wear them.

If social distancing is effective, I want to comply.

But, if there is evidence they don’t, I want to hear that evidence too.

If highly-credentialed scientists have different opinions, I want to know what they think?

I want a chance to hear their arguments and make up my own mind.

I don’t think I’m the smartest person in the world, but I think I can think.

Maybe I’m weird, but if someone is censored, then I REALLY want to hear what they think.

Don’t you?

To all my friends who don’t have a problem with censorship, will you have the same opinion when what you think is censored?

Is censorship not the technique of dictators, tyrants, and greedy, power-hungry people?

Is it not a sign that those who are doing the censoring know it’s the only way to win?

 
What if a man who spent his entire life developing vaccines was willing to put his entire reputation on the line and call on all global leaders to immediately stop the covid vaccines because of problems with the science?
 

What if he pleaded for an open-scientific debate on a global stage?

Would you want to hear what he has to say?

Would you want to see the debate he’s asking for?

#17: THE WORLD’S LEADING VACCINOLOGIST IS SOUNDING THE ALARM…

Here is what may be the biggest reason this covid vaccine doesn’t make sense to me.

When someone who is very pro-vaccine, who has spent his entire professional career overseeing the development of vaccines, is shouting from the mountaintops that we have a major problem, I think the man should be heard.

In case you missed it, and in case you care to watch it, here is Geert Vanden Bossche, explaining:

  1. Why the covid vaccine may be putting so much pressure on the virus that we are accelerating it’s ability to mutate and become more deadly.

  2. Why the covid vaccines may be creating vaccine-resistant viruses (similar to anti-biotic resistant bacteria).

  3. Why, because of previous problems with Antibody Dependent Enhancement, we may be looking at a mass casualty event in the next few months/years.

 
 

If half of what he says comes true, these vaccines could be the worst invention of all time.

If you don’t like his science, take it up with him.

I’m just the messenger.

But I can also speak to covid personally.

#18: I ALREADY HAD COVID

I didn’t enjoy it.

It was a nasty cold for two days:

  • Unrelenting butt/low-back aches

  • Very low energy.

  • Low-grade fever.

It was weird not being able to smell anything for a couple days.

A week later, coffee still tasted a little “off.”

But I survived.

Now it appears (as it always has) that I have beautiful, natural, life-long immunity

…not something likely to wear off in a few months if I get the vaccine.

In my body, and my household, covid is over.

In fact, now that I’ve had it, there is evidence the covid vaccine might actually be more dangerous for me.

That is not a risk I’m willing to take.

IN SUMMARY

The above are just my reasons for not wanting the vaccine.

Maybe my reasons make sense to you, maybe they don’t.

Whatever does makes sense to you, hopefully we can still be friends.

I for one think there’s a lot more that we have in common that what separates us.

  • We all want to live in a world of freedom.

  • We all want to do our part to help others and to live well.

  • We all want the right to express our opinions without fearing we’ll be censored or viciously attacked.

  • We all deserve to have the access to the facts so we can make informed decisions.

Agree or disagree with me; I’ll treat you no differently.

You’re a human just as worthy of love and respect as anyone else.

For that I salute you, and I truly wish you all the best.

I hope you found this helpful.

If so, feel free to share.

If not, feel free to (kindly) let me know what didn’t make sense to you and I’d be happy to hear your thoughts too.

Stay curious and stay humble.

Until next time,

Christian


April 8, 2021, NBC news report graphic showing COVID-19 infections of people who have been vaccinated in the states of Washington, South Carolina, and Minnesota.

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Bill Gates Used a Stand-In to Pretend to be Him Getting a COVID-19 Vaccination

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Authoritative Study Shows Zero Transmission of COVID-19 by Asymptomatic Carriers

Portuguese Court of Appeals Rules that PCR Test is Unreliable in Detecting SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

The New Antigen Test for COVID-19 is Just as Unreliable as the PCR Test

New Study Confirms the VAERS System is Only Reporting Approximately 1% of Anaphylaxis from COVID-19 Vaccines

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How Moderna Rigged Its COVID-19 Vaccine Trials To Falsely Show Effectiveness

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13 thoughts on “18 Reasons Not to Get a COVID Vaccine

  1. In today’s edition of JAMA, there was an interesting opinion piece worth sharing, titled, “COVID-19 in 2021-Continuing Uncertainty” (April 13, 2021 (JAMA 325(14): 1389-90)), written by Dr. Carlos del Rio the current Emery Director of Infectious Diseases.

    In response to the question, “Do Vaccines Protect Against Infection and Prevent Transmission?”, the author states, “Having COVID-19 vaccines that prevent infection and transmission will be critical to stopping the pandemic, but there is not yet clear evidence that this occurs….It would be unusual if the vaccines did not prevent infection, but the extent of protection is unknown.”

    So, he admits that there is no evidence that COVID-19 prevents neither infection nor transmission. And yet, in response to another question, “Which Vaccine is Best and How Should They Be Deployed?”, he answered, “Initially the answer is that they should receive whichever vaccine is available when they become eligible.”

    He also writes in conclusion, “Social gatherings, sporting events, and other community activities will undoubtedly resume but some restrictions will continue depending on evidence of community spread, the proportion of individuals vaccinated, and other factors that will need to be monitored regularly as individuals, institutions, and governments all perform calculation to balance competing risks.”

    As a subscriber of JAMA for the past few years, I have recently declined the offer to renew my subscription, for several reasons.

    The most obvious reason is that JAMA does not offer any analysis whatsoever. There is more critical analysis of the medical literature on this current website than in a JAMA subscription that charges an incredible annual fee. One does not have to read a journal that costs a few hundred dollars a year to read about how everything is “safe and effective”, and how impressive the vaccines are, when in fact in the same article quoted, the most questions cannot be answered.

    The author admits that the COVID-19 vaccines are useless, but then states that almost all vaccines have been effective in the past. They are not proven to be effective, but we should all grab the first one they can get, and that of course “some restrictions will continue depending on evidence of community spread, the proportion of individuals vaccinated, and other factors that will need to be monitored regularly as individuals, institutions, and governments all perform calculations to balance competing risks.”

    In the end, the past year of JAMA, Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine publications has been a treasure trove of research that does not support the conclusions made. The conclusion is always the same, which is that stated above by Dr. del Rio. Pertaining to COVID-19, in almost every article, no conclusions are made that contradicts statements made by the NIH/NIAID/CDC or WHO. No matter what the study or the data, vaccines and physical barriers of all kinds are either proven to be needed, implied that they are needed, or cannot be discounted as an essential tool for prevention, and that we should use continue to use them for the time being.

    There is no logic in an article that admits that an intervention lacks data to show effectiveness, then immediately addresses that vaccine hesitancy is an issue that needs study. Even with data in support of the author’s hypothesis, using the guidelines for evidence-based medicine, it is always very difficult to make a definitive, affirmative statement on treatment effectiveness based off of most studies other than a randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled trials. Even with these types of studies, study populations and methodology are often very difficult to control.

    In the case of COVID-19, as shown on this site and others, the literature on COVID-19 vaccines is of low quality design. This is a serious issue that will not be discussed on JAMA, Lancet, NEJM, Science, and Nature. A 1-2% absolute rate reduction, masquerading as having a 95% vaccine effectiveness (and really a relative rate reduction) which is based on a diagnostic test with 97% false positive accuracy and short follow-up, says that the results are meaningless at best, unhelpful if they are treated as valid.

    How and why these conclusions are allowed to be published and then cited in defense of vaccines would only be evident to readers of alternative sites such as these.

    One last consideration as to why this author is submitting this opinion article, is that it is his turn this week, to support the agenda. How could one expect a novel insight into the issue of vaccination when they stand to lose so much grant funding?

    Dr. del Rio reports receiving grants from NIH/NIAID Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit. On the “NIH reporter” (http // reporter.nih.gov/search/BZf7LOINf0mW6chl-2ncfA/projects?projects=Active) , which allows one to view active and past grant funding, as well as the recipient and amount of funding, shows that del Rio has received between just under 15 million dollars in NIH grant funding. 15 million is an exceptional amount of grant funding, and he has received the majority of it in 2020 and 2021.

  2. Thank you for the wonderful piece. In regards to sharing with friends lockstepping to get the “vax”, it is fruitless, I have tried and have sine given up. Just waiting for the mass casualty event scheduled for Fall of 2021

  3. Excellent well-written article. Very insightful. Instead of knee-jerking, dressing up as someone over 60, running people over, or line hopping, I’m trying to get educated on what gets injected in my body.

  4. Thank you for taking your time and sharing your research! This whole pandemic seemed off from the start. I tried to ignore any thought of a conspiracy theory, I tried to believe that no way would world governments, doctors, medical specialists, and news networks, etc., not tell the whole truth. I mean, injecting the vaccine into everyone serves what purpose? To what end? No matter what I tried view as logical – events and what we are being told do not make sense. Thank you again!

  5. EXCELLENT! Shout this from the roof tops. Please, get the word out. We cannot let the “experts” lie to us anymore.

  6. This is the most insightful article I have read yet. I have been hesitant in getting the vaccine and this just gave me many reasons not to get it that I could not explain before. I had my doubts into the quick development off the vaccines and the pressure by the government and the like to get the jab asap. No thank you. I will wait and see what the long-term results will be.

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