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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

The US medical system has had systemic flaws for decades. When large profits are involved the rush to collect that revenue will have collateral damage.

The patient must take responsibility for their care. You never know when your healthcare provider needs a new car or boat (advice from doctors I know personally).

DuPont did a study of hospital safety in the 1990's to explore whether we could sell them our safety services. I saw the results of this study. The number of deaths caused by easily preventable causes was about 100,000 per year.

My wife's cousin who is an ICU nurse has intervened at least 5 times with relatives hospital care to prevent serious errors by staff that could have resulted in death. The human error rate in medical care is unacceptable.

The hospital/clinic system in my area lost most of their clients' medical data when they converted to databases. My wife and I had to help them with gaps in their information when we were recently in their office. Somehow their billing information was intact.

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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

The liability waiver is all the evidence one should really need. But more importantly, notice how they don't change course no matter the effectiveness of the vaccines at stopping the spread? It's obvious to anyone who studies political operations that Covid/Vaccines are being used to keep certain societies on a never ending cycle of cases, vaccines, boosters, masks and lockdowns. None of which will ever eradicate Covid, which is the point. Ivermectin threatens this cycle and so it must be destroyed. This cycle will never end until the people rise up to stop it.

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I think there is a real intention to hide or at least „play“ with statistics by public agencies.

I report you my last concerning observation.

Since this summer I have been following the development of the total excess mortality in the countries plotted by Euromomo. The reason for this has been discussed here and in other blogs extensively: absolute (or relative) mortality is a "strong" and reliable statistic, since the event "died" is difficult to be falsified and leaves no room for interpretation (unlike Covid cases, Covid symptoms, died with or because of Covid, etc.)

Now: Euromomo plots this excess mortality here every week

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#excess-mortality

I noticed that the curve of excess mortality for the age group 0-14 has become significantly different last week (Bullettin from week 47) compared to the previous Bullettins (week 46 and earlier).

Source (compare the data in the quoted tweets):

https://twitter.com/Gigi82776430/status/1463922971026853893

In particular, the curve in 2021 looks different (it is lower) and even more astonishingly, the curve from 2017 (it is significantly higher) has changed drastically.

Now regarding the curve of 2021: I could expect the curve 2021 to change (in relation to the reference year 2016), because the data did not converge yet (for example due to delay in reception/communication of data by the countries). But assuming that the reference data (from 2016) are fixed (since it was a long time ago), I would expect the corrections to be only in the up direction (since some deaths in the last few weeks may have been reported later), but not to “down” (except that people could resuscitate in 2021 in the meanwhile). And that was the first thing which was very strange to me.

Regarding 2017: that's even stranger, since the data from 2017 and the reference (2016) should be more or less frozen in 2021, as both are data from long time ago. But 2017 changed a lot respect to 2016 (it increased)! The only reason to see this change could be that in week 47 2021 some country reported (with delay) 200 more deaths aged 0-14 related to 2017. And this would be very strange as well.

Then I continued my investigation and found the following.

The last bullettins of 2021 always involved 25 or 26 countries. Source:

https://euromomo.eu/bulletins/2021-46/

Suddenly 29 countries were involved in last week's bullettin of week 47. Source:

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

Now, that could possibly explain that the curves have been changing a bit also related to statistics of long time ago. But realistically speaking, with only 3 countries added to 29, the mortality rate of 2017 and 2021 changed way too much compared to 2016.

E.g. in 2017 we ended up accordingly to the Bullettin KW47 at +500 deaths compared to 2016, while in the Bullettin KW46 we were at +300. So that means that these 3 countries give a plus 40% of excess deaths out of 29 countries. This sounds not realistic to me, and in the best case, they would be as outliers identified, and not added like this in the statistics.

Also because, to be honest, the timing seems to me rather suspect: in week 47 (last week) the EMA recommended approval of vaccination for children aged 5 to 11, that is, a part of this age group!

Source:

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/comirnaty-covid-19-vaccine-ema-recommends-approval-children-aged-5-11

So this change of curves (2021 seems not so bad anymore, in particular compared to 2017 for example) could not alarm all people who want to get informed online, on what happened with first vaccine shots.

Also because with a good eye we can see how the curves of excess mortality for the age of 0-14 show no COVID waves at all (no first, second or third wave, that means this age group is not affected by CoVID), and up to the Bullettin KW46 there was a monotonously rising trend in 2021, that suddenly starts at week 22, and you know what: that's exactly the week where the vaccinations for the age group 12-15 were allowed, that is, the other part of this age group!

Source:

https://ema.europa.eu/en/news/first-covid-19-vaccine-approved-children-aged-12-15-eu

Before that, the curve was sinking or rather flat.

Another concern point: the trend from 2021 for this age group (but also for 15-44) from week 22 looks also very strange to me due to the fact that for other years in summer the curves are rather flat (this also happens approximately for other age groups, probably because the variance plays a role only duiring the flu seasons), but not in 2021. And until week 47 this trend was even monotonically increasing in this time of year.

So, something strange is going on.

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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

When I was in the Navy, one of my duty stations was Great Lakes, the Navy’s boot camp. I worked in recruit in processing where we were giving 100’s of immunizations a day. As expected there was a lot of training on vaccines. One of my responsibilities was having a VAERS account to report any vaccine reactions that happened. The Navy took (takes) safety very seriously. During my time there I may have filed a couple of reports. As I moved around to different duty stations in leadership roles I kept my VAERS access. What I mean to say is that VAERS was an important and respected data sharing tool way back before the pandemic.

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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Public health has always been this bad. Only a minority of activists and journalists covered it. Covid has brought a gigantic enough spotlight on it to get ordinary folks interested in it beyond news headlines.

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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

I've been slow to accept Kirsch's arguments about a URF of 41. I just can't believe it. Still can't. I mean if its 41 then that 18000 would be 738,000. That's nuts. Not sure there is enough excess mortality in the Our World Data for that. Read Jessica Rose's paper on pharmacovigilance and she has it at 31..that would be 500,000. I can't help it, that seems too crazy to be true. I've been painfully listening to the Avi Kirsch debate from June. I'm 1 hour in but have some questions for you or this comment board. What was the story of the lag in data? At 50 minutes in Avi noted the trial proved the vaccines work because of less death in the experimental arm...this was in June..since then the numbers have flipped for all cause mortality...has that proven Kirsch right?

I'll say this, from the bit I've heard of Avi and Yerri, I'm sympathetic with their disbelief as I didn't get how VAERS was supposed to work, but I'm also shocked. It was June and Kirsch was asking doesn't the CDC owe it to us to be transparent about deaths. And Avi honestly indicated, 'well we just don't know yet.' But it was June. 6 months into a vaccine program, its crazy the CDC has nothing on this. Even if your camp is wrong about all this, then that is on the CDC too. By not doing their job they left a vacuum. Thanks for filling it in.

I'll keep reading and trying to fully accept where the evidence brings me.

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Yeah. All of it's crazy. I hold fast to the idea that VAERS is the way (at least one of the ways) that we're going to be able to nail them. There have been so many revelations from it to date, the lack of pharmacovigilanceness being the main one. It is, to me, like a beautiful reflection - as a matter of fact, this whole stupid COVID thing - is like a beautiful reflection of all of our uglinesses and all of the inherent flaws that indeed ARE our systems. As that green guy (can't remember his name) who thought he was god in the last X-men movie said: "All will be revealed." It scares how well I can relate to that guy. But I still like Gene the most. She's the coolest.

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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

"One VAERS report (#1669577) describes 726 deaths"

OMG.

Why can't we just have, for every death in this country, a date of death, cause of death, and dates of any covid vaccines administered? It seems the least these psychopaths who want to coercively inject the world could do.

Instead, we're in Plato's cave interpreting shadows of overlapping, confounding, realities, dealing with obviously BS-ery like "fully vaccinated only counts >14 after injection", etc.

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Since there the entries are uploaded on behalf of the CDC, who can trust the database? It is safe to assume to the following re VAERS:

1. There is a deliberate lag

2. There is editing

3. Not all entries/reports have been or will be posted to VAERS

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Typo: missing a "NOT"?

"One of the stories Albert told me, and that neither of us know fully what to make of yet, is that the number of reporting gaps is ten times larger in 2021 than in years past. Does this represent reports held back or removed? Does this represent the proportionality of mistakes made in filling out reports? Given the messy nature of VAERS, understanding all details and definitions is crucial to making valuable use of the information. ***What's the point of a public facing database if the contents are [NOT] well defined?***"

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One of the elephants-in-the-room that no one is focusing on, in regards to reporting, is the fact that most medical records have been completely digitized. With EMR's and corollary medical claim filing systems, the information is there for all to see and investigate. Dates and initial treatment details will be part of both systems, as well as, all encounters subsequent to vaccinations (or any other treatment), or death.

Reporting adverse events should be a mandatory, add-on program for all EMR's and medical claim processing software.

We've all be forced to pay for these systems (through taxes), we now need to demand that these systems be used to identify all of possible iatrogenic injuries and deaths.

But we need to be careful as most of the players in this realm reap excessive financial benefit for crappy software.

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The incompetence described may actually be scarier than what is in the formulation.

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I'd also been reading the individual reports on openVAERS and noticed how many were of wrong size dose, expired vaccine, giving flu vaccine instead of covid by accident. If the people giving the shots are as dumb as some of the college students I taught last in 2019, anything is possible.

I personally know at least 7 people who had serious weird side effects from the shots. Only one, a sister, reported it to VAERS, because the VA docs who shot her up with the JJ crap wouldn't do it. The rest are just too passive or uninterested to bother. One of my uncles died of a surprise cancer no one knew he had until he went to the ER with a stomach ache a few months after the shots. No one interested in exploring a connection, they're stricken with grief and resigned to it.

I believe VAERS is reporting the very tippy top of the iceberg.

BTW are the details attributed to the various manufacturers' potions ratioed anywhere to total number given of each? Percentage-wise which manufacturer kills the most based on VAERS data? openVAERS doesn't say

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Thank you for sharing the fruits of your discussion with A.B. I had no idea multiple patients were being filed into a single report, although it makes sense that a busy HCP would not have time to individually file hundreds of reports. VAERS should have been built to accommodate that.

As for administrative errors, it seems possible that the majority of people making them don't even realize it-- or, once realizing it, that there is a powerful incentive NOT to file if no one has noticed. The people doing it intentionally (such as the pharmacy in VA administering diluted adult doses to children) certainly weren't planning to report themselves. And yet: given the significant difference between a dose of Moderna or a dose of Pfizer, or between the dose of Pfizer given to an 11 year old vs. a 12 year old, one almost thinks that there is a shrugging "who knows" kind of attitude towards this kind of mistake because they're still figuring out dosing! Certainly I am curious about the effect of vaccinating with an expired product (one that has been at the wrong temperature for too long). Their main assertion seems to be that this is useless and a person requires re-vaccination, but what underlies the belief that re-vaccination under such circumstances is safe?

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>> ...And why don't health regulators seem to care to find out?

Wait, I know this one. Give me a minute.

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one thing we can be sure of, most ae's are never reported. "why bother", "not causal" "too much hassle"" yeah I'll get to it" are some of the reasons.

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