I no longer practice, and maybe because so few Filipinos got boosters for covid, and many got various vaccines, the problem of side effects after covid shots has not gotten a lot of publicity, except on conspiracy websites, although enough athletes have died from cardiomyopathy in the USA for that problem to be noted.
But I was not aware of the neurological problems that could be vaccine related.
Is this a coverup?
Those reports of government censoring opinions on twitter that silenced the ordinary discussion of possible problems suggest that the conspiracy theories might be partly true.
And that is a big scandal.
I know about the myocarditis problem (was the teenager down the street who was found dead die of covid myocarditis or Bangungot, a common cause of sudden death in young men here? Who know?) Ditto for strokes (blood clots) which are common here.
but now should we worry about neurological disease?
yes, docs know covid can cause neurological problems, but what about the vaccine? how common is this side effect? and which problem?
now we are getting into the nexus of infection/ immune response problems.
Covid can infect the brain, but both covid and the vaccine could cause an immune response that causes neurological syndromes. this CDC article notes " J&J/Janssen COVID-19 might be associated with a slight increase in the number of GB cases, but not the other vaccines." But not a lot of reports on other neurologic symptoms associated with the vaccine (athough long covid etc is seen with the disease itself).
And faced with what was thought to be a very fatal disease they kept quiet because the cost/benefit ratio suggested it was worth it. You have to remember that the original covid killed not only the old, but young and middle age people. It was terrible, not just like the flu, but a major pneumonia.
but when omicron came, it did not cause the typical pneumonia that killed people (the high risk still died, but deaths similar to those from colds and flu).
But two problems here: One, the death rate from omicron varients is low and now there is herd immunity, and two, there is a push to give it to low risk folks even after the omicron varient caused immunity.
Giving shots to those who probably won't die of the disease means you pay more attention to side effects.
Now I am old enough to remember that there were a few cases of Guillan Barre syndrome after the swine flu vaccine back in the 1970s resulted in that campaign being stopped, and probably led to the loss of the election for President Ford. The scandal was because the expected epidemic of swine flu never happened, so the people receiving the shot essentially didn't need it.
the numbers came to estimating one person out of 100 thousand getting the vaccine got GB syndrome (but remember 45 million got this shot).
But the covid vaccine problem discussed in the video reminds me of women with Chronic fatigue syndrome, post viral pneumonia symptomes, fibromyalgia, etc.
A lot of these problems make one think: Neurotic females. which is why a lot of them ended up in my office: I gave them sympathy.
But is it all in their heads? I ache all the time, and have for years. A lot of these women had a mildly positive lupus test, but not high enough to diagnose lupus, but makes one wonder about a mild autoimmune problem... so are these post vaccine problem a similar syndrome? And is it more common after the shots?
But the film suggests otherwise: the symptoms are not aches and pains but actual weakness. Again it suggests and autoimmune problem, so makes one wonder about the vaccine. Ditto for those cases of Bell's palsy, another common neurological problem.
So could one have an epidemic of hundreds of thousands of people sick that is ignored by the medical community? Remember: When you don't read about it in the medical literature, doctors figure it might be coincidence or a rare problem.
But the neurological symptoms reminded me of another huge epidemic that got little publicity: That of Gulf War Syndrome that disabled possibly a quarter million soldiers who served there... A lot of these guys ended up not able to work and were so disgusted by the VA medical system that told them it was all in their head that they simply grit their teeth and lived with the problem.
there was a worry that it might have been associated with the vaccines given to soldiers, heavy metal toxins, or the medicine used to stop you from dying from nerve gas.
But essentially it was government policy to ignore the problem. Because they might be libable? Because compensating those injured results in more attention to the symptoms (rewarding the sick) than stressing recovery (if you recover, you don't get rewarded).
We see this all the time, and call it the green poultice syndrome: So docs often won't do back surgery until the lawsuit (the green poultice) is settled, knowing that people just won't get better until this is done.
Yes, I am cynical. It's not fraud by the way: it's a coping mechanism. often subconscious, not deliberate fraud.
But it harms those with real medical problems that could be helped, and the over cynical approach to those who are sick results in loss of confidence in the medical system.
Military.com report on that the Guld War Syndrome epidemic, only recently has been shown to be from exposure to Sadam Hussein's nerve gas.
After nearly 30 years of trying to prove a theory -- that an environmental toxin was responsible for sickening roughly 250,000 U.S. troops who served in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War -- Dr. Robert Haley says new research confirms that sarin nerve gas caused Gulf War Illness. Following the Gulf War, nearly one-third of all who deployed reported unexplained chronic symptoms such as rashes, fatigue, gastrointestinal and digestive issues, brain "fog," neuropathy, and muscle and joint pain.
Federal agencies spent years broadly dismissing the idea that troops may have been suffering from exposure to chemical agents, with many veterans experiencing symptoms sent to mental health providers.
italics mine.
Friends who served there noted that the poison gas alarms went off all the time, but few took the prevention medicine or put on protective gear because no one seemed to be affected.
Sarin is usually deadly, but lead researcher Dr Robert Haley said the gas that soldiers were exposed to in Iraq was diluted, and so not fatal. "But it was enough to make people ill if they were genetically predisposed to illness from it." Dr Haley said the key to whether somebody fell ill was a gene known as PON1, which plays an important role in breaking down toxic chemicals in the body. His team found veterans with a less effective version of the PON1 gene were more likely to become sick.
The scandal in this is not that such things happen: it was war, after all... but that the government (US and UK) kept pushing the idea that all of these problems were PTSS or similar psychiatric problems, so essentially the victims were not helped.
similar problems of course are seen after every war, but the neurological problems of GWS were not. Agent Orange problems after VietNam were also pretty well ignored, and in post GWII and Afghanistan, and even in 911 responders, there are also those who have similar problems, often caused by burn pits, toxic exposure, traumatic brain injuries from IEDs etc.
What was different with covid problems were deliberately censored in the social media by government officials. Free Press 12, 2022: How twitter rigged the covid debate.
which is why even Dr. C, whose reports on covid and the success of using the vaccine early in the epidemic made him a popular Youtube expert, has now turned on the medical establishment for their betrayal of science.
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