In today’s column our friend John Anthony, The Truth Monster, explains how COVID was used to keep a nation on edge.
In 2021 Americans lined up by the 10’s of thousands for a ‘vaccine’ to end the COVID-19 crisis. But why? The mRNA shots had a long history of weak performance, dangerous side effects, a meager 2-month trial, and a lackluster history…
The Product
MRNA was discovered in the 1960’s and first delivered into cells in the 1970’s. It took another 20 years to test it on mice. In 2013 it was tested for use in rabies, but caused fevers, injection site reactions, and enough systemic side effects that the public refused a shot that made them feel terrible with minimal benefits. In the final nail, cheaper products that worked better were readily available.
It was tried on cancers and held promise because it could personalize treatments. But in the end, it failed. Tumors don’t react the way viruses do. When an mRNA shot told the immune system "go after this" it ran into a wall of tumor-mediated immune evasion. In the late stage trials mRNA proved ineffective. The cancer patients were already frail and a shot that induced fevers and inflammation was guaranteed unsuccessful.
In other words, mRNA shots failed because they could not meet safety nor efficacy standards when there were better alternatives.
Then Came COVID-19
Today we know that in terms of infection mortality rates, COVID-19 was no worse than a bad flu. Even in Brazil with its deteriorated healthcare system it showed a rate similar to the flu.
As for competitive products, Dr. Fauci and the FDA eliminated any consideration of hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin, though both products were already safe, inexpensive, and ultimately proved superior to the jabs. (The FDA’s Emergency Use Guidelines (EUA) forbid designating a new drug for emergency use if any effective alternatives already exist.
From the FDA’s 2017 Emergency Use Authorization of Medical Products and Related Authorities - Guidance for Industry and Other Stakeholders:
“For FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition.”
Once the FDA removed any alternatives, the path to acceptance was cleared.
Manufacturing Fear
The death count exaggerations were the real driver of the COVID fear that convinced millions to roll up their sleeves. Every day newscasters displayed 100’s and 1,000’s of COVID deaths. There seemed to be no cure and people were terrified.
But by October 2020, word already escaped the death figures were being manipulated. A study in Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law revealed that COVID death tolls were exaggerated by more than 16x. It all hinged on an April 2020 update of guidance for completing death certificates involving COVID.
With regard to completing death certificates, the study claims in the old:
“2003 guidelines, the highest COVID-19 could be listed in the presence of an established comorbidity would be on the lowest used line at the bottom of Part I as an initiating factor or, more correctly, in Part II as an infection that contributed to death. However, on March 24, 2020 the CDC elected to forgo this trusted method of cause of death recording in favor of recording comorbidities in Part 2, so COVID-19 could be listed exclusively in Part 1.”
The authors of the study compared the COVID-19 death toll under the new CDC counting system with that of the old system.
“Through Aug. 23, 2020, 161,392 COVID-19 deaths were reported using the new CDC guidelines versus only 9,684 using the 2003 guidelines.”
In other words, the reported number of fatalities would have been 16.7 times lower using the old system.
Immediately the speech wagons circled. Notably, FactCheck.org ran a lengthy defense focusing on the legality of the change. The editors interviewed Dr. James Gill, then President of the National Association of Medical Examiners who made clear, “The death certification process has not been changed by the CDC. I still fill out death certificates the way I have been doing it for over 20 years.”
But FactCheck.org and Dr. Gill’s comments were undermined by the guidance document itself which goes out of its way encouraging examiners to use COVID as a cause.
From the updated guidance here:
"In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID-19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as 'probable' or 'presumed.'"
and here:
”For decedents who had a previous SARSCoV-2 infection and were diagnosed with a post-COVID-19 condition, the certifier may consider the possibility that the death was due to long-term complications of COVID-19, even if the original infection occurred months or years before death.”
and here:
“Ideally, testing for COVID-19 should be conducted, but it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate without this confirmation if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty.”
This guidance document effectively decoupled COVID-19 death certification from laboratory confirmation. A death could be counted as a COVID-19 death based purely on clinical suspicion.
The Final Nail
If that’s not sufficient evidence the deaths were exaggerated, in April of 2020, less than a month following the CDC’s death certificate guidance changes, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health at the time clarified the death certificates in a public statement:
“If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death.”
Then Dr. Ezike left no doubt:
“So, everyone who’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.”
Summing It Up
People rushed to get the COVID shots because they were told they could die if they didn’t. Our own government infused the fear, cleared the drug for mass use, eliminated any alternative treatments, and sustained the lies.
As for mRNA, it was always a technology that held promise but never quite delivered. “Safe and effective” was nothing more than a marketing mantra affixed to a product that up until then had never proven to be either.
