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People always seem to need something new, or at least those who consider it important to educate the public think this. Hence, we replace great children’s stories, remake movies, and desperately seek to excite people with something that seems more ‘now.’ Fashions change sometimes for good reasons, and knowledge does expand, but the danger in all this is forgetting the most fundamental truths because they seem a bit old, out-of-date.

The world of Covid, or post-Covid angst, is no different. The public, most of whom took a number of vaccine doses because governments convinced or coerced them to do so, are now confronted with ‘bombshell’ reports that will ‘change everything,’ to convince them of their error. 

These are then duly refuted (often based on far less evidence) by the other (e.g. pro-vaccination) camp. Updated information is of course important, as informed consent is our main bulwark against medical fascism. However, the scientific and public health community does itself a disservice if it hypes information based on novelty rather than depth.

An attractive story suggested by recurrent breaking news around Covid vaccines (e.g., DNA contamination, integration into host DNA, cancer links) is that we are just discovering unpredictable risks of this quite new and clever class of pharmaceuticals. Under this narrative, the public was not deceived, but simply paid the price of not having had sufficient taxes purloined beforehand to pay the public health industry to be better prepared. The risk of this approach is excusing the deliberate abrogation of basic responsibility, ethics, and decency by the health professions and our governments in the entire act of mass Covid vaccination. 

Let us rewind to the end of 2020 and early 2021, what was known, proven, and non-controversial. Irrespective of the important data coming out now, this is what the public most needs to understand, so that they stop trusting medical professionals and public health authorities until the wrong is acknowledged and dealt with.

Designing a Drug to Do What “It Won’t”

Modified RNA (mRNA) had not been used on a mass level in humans before. Normal mRNA (messenger RNA or ribonucleic acid) in our bodies is a copy of a segment of our own DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid; our genes) that our cells use to manufacture proteins. Such proteins are then used within the cell or excreted (for example, into the blood as albumin, or cell walls as keratin [our hair]). 

This mRNA only lasts hours or days. The mRNA vaccines are modified (one of four bases, uridine, is replaced by pseudouridine). This makes them persist longer than our own mRNA, so that they can produce more protein over a much longer period. Studies have shown that this works, with modified RNA and spike protein detectable weeks or months after injection. 

These were not shocking revelations but intended outcomes of drug design. The problem is that the public was told, in 2020 and 2021, that the vaccines act like their own mRNA and rapidly break down. This sounds safer. The public was deliberately misinformed, an unquestionable breach of basic informed consent, to make them more likely to agree to be vaccinated. 

When we want a drug to disseminate quickly throughout the body, we often inject it into a muscle. We do this with hydrocortisone to treat allergic reactions, or penicillin to ensure that it spreads quickly to wherever an infection is. Muscles have a lot of tiny blood and lymph vessels that carry injected material to the large vessels from where it is pumped through the body in the bloodstream. 

While the lipid nanoparticles enclosing the mRNA vaccines are designed to enter cells quickly, it is inevitable that quite a lot will go far beyond the muscle. Before the Covid vaccines were approved, studies by Pfizer/BioNTech, and presumably by Moderna, using the same lipid but enclosing a fluorescent marker, showed just that. About 25% or so left the muscle and went around the body, as any competent doctor or pharmacist would expect.

They concentrate particularly in the ovaries, adrenal glands, liver, and testes, but also enter the brain. We would expect them to enter breast milk, and cross the placenta into a fetus because that is how they are designed. The lipid particle easily crosses cell membranes. So, the mRNA vaccines disseminated all around the body as expected. The public was told they stay in the arm, but this was, of course, always known to be false. The lie was intended to convince people, who might be worried by the thought of the mRNA spreading throughout their bodies or to their unborn baby, to take the injections anyway.

Seeking a Lasting Impact on Women and Children

Spike protein, the protein produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and by the cells of someone injected with an mRNA Covid vaccine, is considered a contributor to severe illness in some Covid patients. It is a foreign protein, and the body recognizes it as such. This is the basis of the whole approach of mRNA vaccines. The mRNA enters cells and produces the spike protein. This is transported to the cell surface, and our immune system recognizes those cells as foreign, or dangerous, and kills them with antibodies or T-cells.

This is how we normally get rid of virus infections. We may lose a few cells, such as in the lining of the respiratory tract, that are usually rapidly replaced. Local inflammation where the cells are targeted can also kill nearby cells. Some of the spike protein will also be released by cells and spread throughout the body, and may produce a more generalized inflammatory response.

Some viruses enter cells in the body that are not replaced, such as in the nervous system, and these infections can produce lasting harm. This is why our bodies are designed to eliminate most viruses within the respiratory tract, or the gut lining, before they pass around the body. Making our entire body produce a foreign protein is somewhat equivalent to a systemic virus infection affecting all our organs (pretty unusual) or a generalized autoimmune disease (when our immune system attacks our own cells).

The modified RNA vaccines work the same way. They induce an autoimmune response – by design – convincing the body to attack and kill some of its own cells. They do this for an indeterminate amount of time, with indeterminate intensity in terms of spike protein production, as the persistence of the modified RNA and the amount that spreads to cells throughout the body will vary from person to person. This therefore carries inherent risks of killing cells we would prefer to keep, and may cause a generalized inflammatory response. The inflammatory response is probably one of the reasons why people often feel particularly sick after an mRNA Covid vaccine.

As noted, cells that produce spike protein are not expected to survive. If nerve cells produce it in the brain, for instance, they will probably be lost and not replaced. This raises an interesting question regarding the vaccination of young women and girls, because they are born with a fixed number of ova. Each month during their fertile years, a few of these are activated, and one usually matures and is released. When they run out of ova, they go through menopause and are infertile. So, the number of ova, to some extent, determines the total period of a woman’s fertility.

Covid mRNA vaccines are expected to concentrate in the ovaries (because the nanoparticles that carry them are known to). If the RNA enters the ova directly and if they actively produce the spike protein, they will be killed. As they are not very metabolically active, the probability of this will vary. If the modified RNA enters other cells around the ova, they will cause those cells to be killed, and the local inflammatory response associated with cell death may also kill the nearby ova. This is expected to some extent, as it is the way the body works. In some women, it may be absolutely minimal, in some, it may be substantial. We will know in 20 to 30 years whether a lot of women lose their fertility much earlier than they used to.

As the Covid vaccines will cross the placenta, we expect the same in the developing fetus. Inflammation and cell death in rapidly growing organs in a fetus is intrinsically dangerous, and this is why we are normally extremely reluctant to try any new therapies on pregnant women. It normally takes years of real-time experience in other adults before we consider even doing a trial. Same with young children. Healthy young children and pregnant women were at extremely low risk from acute Covid, as we knew in early 2020. Not zero, but close to that, especially in healthy children. 

The reason why many medical professionals and our regulatory bodies allowed mRNA vaccines to be given to pregnant women and children without good data is a mystery to many. It is a good question for people to directly ask the medical practitioners who prescribed it, noting the information above that the manufacturers themselves should agree with. 

Asking questions is often a good idea. Certainly, the messaging that it is safe in pregnancy was not based on any good evidence, because we did not know in humans, and the actual Phase 3 trials by Pfizer and Moderna avoided addressing that question. We only knew, from Pfizer/BioNTech’s data on rats, that it greatly increased both failure to become pregnant and a wide range of fetal malformations, compared to unvaccinated rats from the same batch. 

Animal studies showing reduced fertility or deformed babies would normally lead to more trials, but they didn’t. Why? That is a question for Pfizer, Moderna, and our regulatory agencies. It seems, from the Australian Therapeutic Drug Administration’s (TGA) report, that such genotoxicity and carcinogenicity studies (for DNA mutations and cancer) were cut short or ignored because the TGA did not think they would last very long (though, as noted above, they were designed to). The name of the products was also changed from ‘genetic therapeutics’ (which generally require such studies) to ‘vaccines’ (which don’t). Science can be quite special.

Lots of Other Things Informed Consent Would Have Been Bothered by

Some vaccine advocates will say the vaccine was important to stop long-Covid. This is complicated. Post-viral syndromes exist, and undoubtedly they do after acute Covid. Being very sick, as many people with Covid and severe comorbidities were, also knocks the stuffing out of you and can take months to recover from. It is possible a specific Covid-related syndrome also causes ‘long-Covid,’ though a number of studies suggest it may not be entirely organic, or may be short and recovery relatively rapid.

For those who are convinced that a major long-Covid disease is a significant problem, the probable mechanisms are interesting to contemplate. Spike protein is directly harmful to cells, and detectable in the blood in Covid patients, so this is a likely candidate. In which case, injecting with long-persisting RNA to make cells throughout the body produce spike protein in much higher concentrations would be expected to cause a more severe form of this. Perhaps that is why ‘long-Covid’ is considered so common, and people on disability support are rapidly increasing in number. Certainly, the onus is on those who consider long-Covid a major problem, and a reason to push vaccination, to explain how causing disseminated, prolonged spike protein production and cell death throughout the body makes this less of a problem.

There are, of course, other issues. The SV40 segment in some Pfizer batches is known to promote incorporation into a person’s DNA, and this can occasionally happen from RNA anyway – even if rare. Much of our own genome is the result of such incorporation over millions of years. So, when people in positions of influence said that it cannot happen, they were of course were not telling the truth. We just hope it is not very common. 

The spike protein is also produced in fragments because the RNA sequence may vary – this is a manufacturing problem that is hard to overcome. We don’t know the problems this may or may not cause. We normally study such ‘pharmacokinetic’ properties of drugs closely, as off-target products can do more harm than help. But again, as the TGA noted, reclassifying them as ‘vaccines’ removed the requirement for such studies.

Original cell cultures used in mRNA vaccine development were taken from live fetal tissue, from abortions where the baby is cut up even before it is dead, to improve the chance of success. Some people mind this, and some don’t. People were told the vaccines did not come from abortions to convince more people to be injected, even if they might think the dismemberment of unborn babies repulsive or wrong.

And, of course, the narrative on blocking transmission. That was never serious, and no one had good evidence that it might be. Dr Anthony Fauci explained in 2023 why he always knew it was never likely at all. But lots of people who would not take the vaccine for themselves could be convinced to take it to protect other people, like grandma. It was seen as acceptable to lie to these people and trick them by playing on their sense of decency. They were tricked into giving misinformed consent to get more injections into their arms.

More Things to Wonder about

The point here is that, whatever new data is coming out on Covid vaccines, the public was systematically misled, misinformed, and lied to by our public health agencies. This is not controversial – they simply were. We can wonder at the lack of interest in the excess deaths in the vaccinated group over the unvaccinated in the 6-month Pfizer trial published in 2021, and the lack of any detectable benefit on mortality in the equivalent Moderna trial. We can wonder at the secrecy around the commitment of hundreds of billions of public funds in pre-purchase commitments, sometimes negotiated by text message, and how the people who did this are still in power. 

We can really wonder why there is so little solid data on overall mortality and disability of vaccinated versus unvaccinated people, when this is such an obvious thing for our governments to check. Human biology is complex and variable – lots of people (clearly) had plenty of injections and are (and almost certainly will be) fine. Lots of others probably will not be so fine. This is why, back in the days of medical ethics, we were supposed to be informed and given a choice. We really should wonder why that changed, and why doctors agreed to go along with it (such things have happened before).

This Really Should Be Sufficient

The point is, new ‘bombshell’ studies and ‘never the same again’ publications, while important, are not necessary to explain the enormity of the straight lies foisted upon the public by our authorities over the past few years. 

We don’t need new inquiries; we just need to act like adults. We all know that putting on a mask at a café door to take it off at the table was never adult behavior. We know that being lied to repeatedly, and then pretending we weren’t, is not adult either. At least, not the type of adult most people aspire to be. There comes a time when we all need to face what is in front of us.

Big money really has enormous power over what we think and do. Far more than we ever could have imagined a few short years ago. But when this has become really obvious, we need to stop finding excuses and stop waiting for more revelations. At a bare minimum, we need to stop believing those who are funded to lie.

David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. David is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.

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