Thoughts on this safety signal announced by the CDC
Today the CDC announced a safety signal picked up on its Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) system related to strokes from clotting in the brain. The usual characters are making their usual ruckus. So much noise coming from both edges that it’s hard to find the truth in the middle. I think it’s a huge moment, but potentially not even because of the safety signal itself. Let's drill down into this…
The reason I think it’s such a big deal is because of the level of mainstream coverage this has picked up. This was the top of CNN.com a couple hours ago:
And I saw similar headlines all over the place.
It’s sad that I’d feel this way, but after the last two years I was legitimately stunned to see these headlines. A lot of couching in the articles’ language, but headlines this front-and-center are going to move the needle bigtime. I expect this to really accelerate national discussion, even if this particular stroke signal doesn't pan out to be very material.
Like the more familiar VAERS system, the VSD is like a 30,000ft-view warning system. It isn't meant to prove connections. It’s meant to notify of data abnormalities, potential safety signals (occurences of adverse events in a time period after vaccination). The signal tells them where to look closer. In this case, they did look and they confirmed the abnormality. People over 65 were having a higher % of these strokes in the first weeks after mRNA vaccination than in later weeks. We're talking a very small number. 130 out of 550k. Doesn’t minimize the issue, but it’s important to note and relevant to the safety signal. This is the classic type of thing these systems were designed to flag. Here’s the actual advisory if you want to read:
It does appear they’ve already done a decent job looking elsewhere and not seen the data duplicated:
As awful as they’ve been, I have no reason to disbelieve them on that. If this were of a severe magnitude, it would likely be showing on all of those. Some of the other outlets completely spinning it away like it’s nothing are disgusting. Check out this headline…
It IS a big deal that necessitates further investigation, especially since we don’t have strong data on the benefit of bivalent booster post-infection and we have people facing mandates. Yes, this triggered with 65+, but strokes and concerns of clotting are a mega concern. However, there’s a strong chance this particular signal will prove not to have been a massive sign/something we find in other data sets. Having said all of that…
I return to the idea of this being a big moment because of the big coverage. This isn’t the first warning like this. The below was from the FDA in July of 2021…
But most people never heard that back then, or even know of it now. That bottom part pisses me off. A safety signal from 7/13/21 will have it’s info released “early 2023”. Really? How many people will take bivalent boosters in that interim? It’s despicable where the focus is in our public-health apparatus. But I disgress…
The key point is, that got no fanfare and this is on the top of CNN. Why? One of two reasons: either coverage is changing because energy/tone of the masses is changing (i.e. they know they can’t hold this ‘pretend everything doesn’t exist’-line much longer), or this specific story is bigger than we realize and this was the first drip. It is surreal to see that as a cover story on what I call Truman Show-outlets. It’s been two years of such slanted coverage that it was shocking to see this story so prominent.
I’ve been someone writing a long time about concern of vax injuries if we vaccinated healthy people at a population scale. Simple logic dictated there would be some, the question was merely scope. Even the CDC itself put out numbers of anticipated myocarditis if we vaccinated the entire 5-11 pediatric population, which was 28 million. That’s because Joe had ordered 28 million doses before they even had approval (emergency use-only approval, that is). The number was a few thousand, but you never saw that on airwaves - only “safe and effective”. One doctor I followed broke down that % risk vs % hospitalization decrease in healthy kids from real-world data sets and showed that the risk from these shots was higher than the benefit. And that doesn’t even take into account post-infection healthy kids, of which most are. That doctor was later silenced on Twitter, of course. And now we know why and how. Our federal government worked hand-in-hand with Big Tech to ban people and silence speech they knew going in was truthful.
“Vaccine hesitancy content”
And we talk about myocarditis a lot, because it’s known with vaccines and we have documented cases, but that’s not the only concern. Not at all. We have known cases of MIS-C from the vax, a serious inflammatory reaction. A study came out warning about that in 2020, but no one cared.
These two headlines would later drop on the same day in 2022 when we had news of MIS-C happening post-vax and nothing but spectulation of it being caused by COVID.
The “experts” want us panicked about the speculative one while we “aren’t worried” about the real-life vax-driven cases? Holy shit. And both articles would, of course, steer parents towards giving their kids more shots. They molded the “experts” and fear like clay and used it in both directions at the same time. Just hideous. This is how dirty the information environment has been throughout, only recently can we even bring up realities that don’t support needles on all without being attacked from every direction. Now it's just from a few directions. This manipulative and suppressive information environment has not been serving our health, it has been directly working against our health at every instance that our health got in the way of deploying COVID shots. It sounds cruel, but that’s where we are and where we've been. The entire discussion shoud have been one of NECESSITY. Instead, necessity became no factor at all. It is very cruel.
And so my gut tells me this story may be what finally blows the lid off this boiling pot. Regardless of what comes from this signal, headlines like that are going to lead to a lot of discussion. And there are a lot of Americans who are still entirely in the dark. This may prove to be quite an accelerant on the impending collapse. It’s always been impending. Those who don’t realize that (who haven’t accepted that) are fooling themselves. We have always had smoking-gun receipts. We're just yet to have national discourse about them. It's coming soon.