cardiomyopathy problems

 the nuances in this talk suggest that early in the epidemic, the original Covid killed people, but the vaccines were mainly given to high risk folks, so it probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

But now that covid has evolved into a disease that is similar to influenza, which mainly kills people who are old or frail, there is a big debate among health care personnel if the side effects of the vaccine are worse than the disease, especially for young people who are at low risk for severe complications or death.

This is why many question the policy that insists that young people receive repeated booster shots, especially now that data is now being released that shows that the complication rate, although low, is higher after second etc. boosters.

If there is an immune problem here, repeated booster shots would increase the risk of developing the problem.

Much of this has been denied or ignored in the past, which is why it is disturbing that a study done over a year ago in Taiwan on the Moderna (mRNA) vaccine showed a one percent problem of cardiac problems, but what was disturbing is that this study showed the rate of this complication was worse after the secojnd dose. 

italics mine.

So why wait a year to allow this study to be published?

the BMJ did a study last year, which showed a very low incidence of myocarditis aftere a single shot, so there should have been a "heads up" to officials that booster shots might add to toxicity/autoimmune problems, and that this needed to be monitored closely. 

The increased toxicity after repeated doses might be why the news is reporting so many sudden cardiac deaths this year, whereas they were rare last year: it might be becaause the rate seems to be higher after numerous doses, if the Taiwan study is correct.

Dr. C previously reported a study of autopsies from Germany that showed evidence of myocarditis in those who died of sudden death post covid vaccine..

Sigh.

It is important to note that the success of the various vaccines against the original more lethal covid strain probably saved hundreds of thousands of people.

And it also should be noted that in the past, we often had short shut downs of meetings, schools, and churches during influenza epidemics, although usually this was a done by local authorities where the disease was causing problems.

So, early in the covid epidemic, it was needed.

 But prolonged economic and school shutdowns was probably not needed, after the vaccines were given to the elders and high risk patients, which would have been three months after the vaccines were released.

and the elephant in the room: The hysteria about masks while readmitting infectious covid patients back into nursing home, which in one estimate caused 20 thousand lives lost in Pennsylvania alone when this policy was implemented by now Surgeon General Doctor Levine.

Here in the Philippines, masking is not a problem because mask use is common for TB and influenza prevention (where we use masks stop the spittle emitted when coughing or talking), but in the US, the policy was politicized into a sign of obedience to obey the science.

That, and the censorship of stories in the social media, are only now coming to light, which will in the long run increase mistrust of the medical establishment.

That is why some people noted that despite the propaganda, these policies might have more to do with politics than with science: 

  the demonstrations that were allowed at the peak of the epicemic, even though it was known that covid was more highly fatal in minority communities where these occurred.

It's almost as if the public health authorities decided that the covid virus would not infect people in the BLM demonstrations, but would kill you if you went to church, Mardi Gras, a Trump ralley, or the motorcycle ralley in Sturgis.

This is absurd, of course.

And like the failure of the CDC to shut down the raves and parties that spread monkey pox, it shows how PC politics has infiltrated the US government public health establishment.

In summary:

The problems of side effects should have be given a headsup much earlier.

For example, I got the AZ British vaccine, which was found to cause blood clots, especially in the young. I even did a blog post about the risk, which was higher in the young than in we elders. So some countries banned this vaccine except for elders, where the risk of clots was lower and the risk of death was higher.

but the mRNA vaccine had been found to give the best protection against even the later strains of covid, hence the push to give repeated boosters of the mRNA vaccine.

This makes sense to the frail and elderly, but you know, things have changed: The vaccines don't work well against the omicron strains, but these newer strains have a low mortality. 

Giving a vaccine with significant side effects to those at low risk against a weakened strain of covid that doesn't kill is simply a bad decision.

In the meanwhile, China is being confronted with a new version that is even less fatal and more infectious than the omicron. And the Sinovax, which didn't work very well against the original covid, doesn't work at all against this strain. So of course China has opened their airports and is allowing their people to spread it all over the world.

Happy Chinese new year, y'all.

as for the Philippines: Despite a push, they are having to throw out lots of expensive vaccine doses because people are just not willing to get boosters.

With Chinese new year coming this week, and with China allowing people to travel outside the country, we will probably get an outbreak of this latest mild omicron strain. 

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update: Discussion of stroke, including the problems of the AZ vaccine which was known to cause blood clots.