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.
My wife suggested that I mention my graduate statics course.
We studied how medical researchers frequently reached the wrong conclusion from their research by analyzing articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
We then studied how genius Bell Laboratories was in their statistical approach to designing the phone system.
The message I gathered was that the phone company would have gone out of business if their phone system design was wrong, but doctors can stay in business by routinely making poor choices.
I keep saying that it will be engineers that either save medicine, or probably more aptly, save us all from the "practice of medicine."
There are a number of engineers who are probably experts in certain areas of medicine all because when they asked their doctors about root cause for their illness, they got the proverbial shoulder shrug.
Most patients don't find that unsettling or lacking of merit and accept band aid solutions for complex problems.
I managed practices but refuse to subject myself to their overpriced meddling.
Well Holly it wouldn't hurt. I'm a retired statistician from the University of Wisconsin system. Did 34 years of research at the university and another 10 in private consulting. Worked with a wide audience including medical professionals. It pains me that so very few actually understand anything about the mathematical underpinnings of statistics. I hate to paint all with a broad brush but it's, for the most part, true. So most, and I mean with very few exceptions, are clueless and perhaps 98% of the research published is rubbish. Full of statistical abuse. They just throw it into the computer and out comes a thousand p values. Cut, paste and publish. Is it any wonder doctor mistakes are responsible for 250,000 deaths a year?
My guess is that most doctors are rewarded for excellent memorization skills. The ones I found to be better than the average at understanding how things work are the pathologists.
Check out medical school curriculum and textbooks. The books are written at the undergraduate level. Maybe junior/senior. Of course they pile it on very heavy with a lot of memorization but it's not at all the same a graduate training in a science. Take, for example, the sophomoric way efficacy is calculated. A high school kid could have come up with that. The whole notion that "randomized experiments" are the gold standard is being terribly abused. There's no accounting for those subjects that "never" will catch the infection or those that will "always" catch the infection. Nor is there accounting for the many dozens of confounding factors. It's just a change in rate. So what. It doesn't scale properly thus hiding the underlying information. For instance when the infection rates for placebo and control are extremely small as is the case with these covid vaccines. This same predicament applies to flu vaccines. If one looks at the absolute difference in rates, i.e. the percent the vaccine actually helps, it's so small as to make it meaningless.
I love how they just calculated the vaccine safety for young children when they did not have enough data to know if it was safe. Why bother with small trials that would only show catastrophic side effects when they are just going to calculate the hazard in the end? It was only theater from the beginning.
There is so much that is wrong with how COVID has been handled it is ridiculous. We should know so much more about what is happening through better data collection and quality trials of dietary supplements, early treatment drugs, nitric oxide, and engineered solutions. People should also be told more about the hazards of any treatment.
I just recently found out that particles of the size used in the mRNA vaccines are hazardous in the body period.
Allowing the continuation of gain of function research (bioweapon by another name) is beyond my understanding as well.
I will never forget when my wife was pregnant he said a C-section raised a persons IQ by about 2 points. I said that is interesting. The IQ test standard deviation is about 15. That sample size must have been huge. Could you bring the study in for our next visit? I will calculate the sample size needed to discern that small improvement.
It was about 100 times bigger than the study. Odd how the results suggested a more dangerous procedure for the patient and more money in their pockets.
Malcolm Kendrick MD in his books "Doctoring Data" and "The Cholesterol Con" talked at great length the misrepresentation of the facts regarding the safety/efficacy of medicines and treatments.
I'm a former economist by trade, the sloppy data analytics in covid studies across the board is horrifying. Medical researchers know just enough to be dangerous, and they certainly don't know how to apply their analysis of carefully controlled data to real world data. Worse, people believe the white coat, especially when they're scared, no questions asked.
My wife filled out a complaint form recently for our doctor who treated here poorly.
I ended up talking to the person from the hospital/clinic system. I told her about our experiences with some their incompetent staff who nearly killed my wife from a simple wound along with friends comments who have weekly experience with their staff. My summary statement to her was that I would not have bothered to have filled out the form because I do not believe I can fix stupid. I would rather find a medical service provider I did not have to train myself.
This is probably where DPC medical practice would be worth pursuing as they can't afford to make such mistakes.
And quite honestly, the fact that the medical records, after conversion were so incomplete, makes me think there were more than a few bugs in the conversion process that possibly co-mingled records. That will never be fixed and there isn't a field that pops up on every page to say, "please read note XXX about medical record errors"
All the more reason, if you can afford it, to find a DPC physician.
Not sure any doctor is good at avoiding the persuasion techniques and corruption that proliferate their profession.
My current view is I will keep a medical professional with admitting privileges in my local (rural, limited options) system and access to the paywall protected products when needed. While I maintain vigilance and plot the course of my own health options.
Anecdote here: a friend of mine is a nurse who worked on a cardiac floor. She was off for a few days then coming back to work, had to give a patient OTC cough medicine. She offered him a couple of teaspoon's-worth in a little medicine cup. He said "what is this! This isn't the right amount!" She asked him what he thought was the right dose. That turned out to be about 6-8oz, offered in a small drinking glass. The nurse or CNA who'd taken care of him in her absence had been giving the poor guy a cup full each time. Lucky it was just Robitussin.
Couldn't agree more with your statement - managed practices starting back in 80's, when software was not in most offices.
Garbage-in-garbage-out accurately describes most software endeavors in the medical field, partly due to the lack of awareness (but easily manipulated by crafty sales people) of those with checkbooks.
Participated in a couple of software integrations/upgrades, and all I can say is the level of stupidity in administrators was matched by the lack of morality in the purveyors of said software as they charged Maserati prices for Yugo products.
One of my doctor friends who is the chief medical officer in a large hospital and teaches at a major university told me the software they were required to use did not track much of the data he knew was needed for success. He believed it was a scam run through the agencies that controls them.
Oh yeah. Saw an 8 figure software program purchased to solve a known billing bug (claims routed incorrectly), something that could have been solved faster, cheaper using staff and simple reporting.
It's become one giant fleecing scam of the public. The Ponzi scheme of all Ponzi schemes.
If more people do as you and I suggest, to get healthy and remove oneself from the sick-care system, it would quickly collapse due to the very precarious financial footing the whole lot subsists upon.
I have not removed myself from their system, but I certainly take their advice with a grain of salt. There are times you need access and have to participate in their pricey paywall system. Fortunately the cost part of it is not an issue for me. I fleeced many doctors when I was working.
COVID has exposed the systems flaws to be more serious than cynical me thought existed.
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.
I am more concerned about the prevalence of NDA's in many businesses and the government. People are being forced to keep their mouths shut about a lot of horrific human behavior because of those things.
A friend of mine was involved with the US Treasury in trying to clean up the mess of the financial collapse from mortgage loans, because she was fired for refusing to issue the fake AAA bonds. She can never talk about it all because the feds made her sign an NDA. This happens now across the board so the sociopaths can cover their tracks easier.
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
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).
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:
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!
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!
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.
I just read your post. Exciting to see a new Substacker. "They" are getting sloppy with record keeping, don't they know about Substackers, or don't they care?
MSM will cherry pick.
Good sleuthing, look forward to further posts Joe.
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.
It was important and respected among some parties. It was completely unknown among others. Most physicians I've talked to had never heard of it prior to 2021, and when I conducted a Twitter test to see how many people correctly knew the requirements not a single doctor or nurse answered correctly (some physicians like Brian Tyson answered correctly for *their* position, but the rules are different for different people).
I suspect VAERS is overtaxed at the moment, it used to be more geared toward pediatricians and military personnel. Suddenly now there's a LOT more cases to report, with so many vaxxes given daily.
It's the doctors who are overtaxed, and that's part of the intentional design flaw of the system. The best way to rule people is to leave them with no additional remaining energy at the end of the day.
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.
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.
Denis - as per usual, I appreciate your contributions to the conversation.
I read your recent post about vaccines btw, and I did want to add one thought to your decision tree about vaccines. You mentioned your risk of myocarditis for your age group, but I think the unknown risk here is heart attacks or other cv sudden death. This will be inordinately difficult to ever determine, even if the cdc decided to look at it.
Vioxx took 5 years right?
Also just wanted to share this - my family made the choice to remain unvaxxed (despite work mandates and social pressure).
Sure enough we ALL got COVID last month! 46, 45, 15, 12.
It was scary to get sick because I spent the whole time trying to calm my fears of the mocking and vilification that would occur if I was hospitalized (never worried about the boys - they had predictably mild symptoms). I actually wasn't that sick but worried that my family would be persecuted if I died.
It shouldn't be like this. People should be able to choose what they believe is best for their family without facing shaming.
Anyway - happy ending is that we all tested positive for antibodies and my 15 yo is even getting exempted from weekly basketball testing because of that! What an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
I'm happy it worked out for you. The shaming is just wrong because there are going to be people who get hurt on all sides of each decision. Life is cruel.
Our neighbors have it right now. Which naturally has us a bit spooked. Their boys are 2 years older than our two. So I'd guess 7 and 9. The one was doing cartwheels on the front yard. I'm sure they'll be fine. The other aspect of this is we've become so concerned about even getting exposed and while I keep saying out loud for myself, we're all going to get it, have to accept that, its going to take us awhile to truly accept that.
My husband and I aren't vaxxed, we're old farts, and we got it in September when the fully vaxxed college kids brought Delta into our fair City. On a deep level I accepted we were eventually going to get it. What was consoling for me was the knowledge of fully vaxxed friends ending up in the hospital with it shortly before. By the time we got it we knew the crappy shots were no help. I had the horse paste on hand. We both used it to follow the Zelenko protocol for geezers. We're fine now.
My wife and I are also OF and are the real exception being 75 here in our senior community in sout Florida. Both work to keep our immune systems strong, exercise and have the horse paste like you when at higher risk or in case we have symptoms. Just silent now when most people here constantly blabbering about their shots and boosters. I actually feel safer now taking our preventive supplements the more we read about these adverse reactions and mass hypnosis. We also have great family support except a few of the grandkids who drank the coolaid.
My kid went into kidney failure from safely harmful and effectively dangerous childhood vaccines at age 6. The stabs she received should have been the 12 to 18 month toddler vaccines. They were delayed. She was hospitalized 12 weeks post jabs with a whole host of issues beginning almost immediately.
I was told multiple times, Coincidence.
Not reported to vaers.
As the Harvard Lazarus study shows, the rate of more severe vaccine injury is actually 1 in 40 regardless of jab. Robert F Kennedy interview with Tucker Carlson in mod late Nov on lbry is quite to the point
The 31 and 41 numbers are on myocarditis, and the 18000 (now 19000) includes foreign reports. The domestic is closer to 10,000. It is unclear whether the death URF should be higher or lower than for serious AEs. It's a not obvious question, and changes depending on how many people whose reports are listed in VAERS are counted as dead.
But several hundred thousand doesn't mean all are causal. A German pathologist found 30% to 40% of post-vaccination deaths to be caused by the vaccines. What's 30% of 738,000? That's in the ballpark of my other analyses.
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.
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.
It's a feature, not a flaw. "These people" want us in Plato's cave, piecing together boys of evidence all over the place, connecting distilled data points with red string. This is how we are marginalized as tinfoil hat brigade.
Correct. The wrong way to view much of this is as a puzzle to be solved. We just need to document and communicate enough to make that as clear as possible to as many people as possible to see if we can help them save themselves.
The correct way is to interpret all this, along with the lack of substance from public health officials as meaning that public health is entirely captured as an institution (there's more to it, but the basics are all that is necessary for primary first steps).
"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?***"
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.
EMRs don't record treatment in other facilities, which is how hospitals get away with the ridiculous claim that they're overrun with unvaxxed sick people. Their patient records don't reflect patient vax given elsewhere,and hospital usually doesn't ask. I had this experience also at CVS, a pharmacist "helpfully" informed me my tetanus was out of date, though I'd had it relatively recently with injury treatment at ER. 🤡
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
I'd say these never should have been outside of the physician's office. You should have to go through your medical history with a provider and then get prescribed the jab. Letting anyone waltz into a Walmart and be jabbed by whomever is cleared to work on that site is a large part of the problem.
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?
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.
My wife suggested that I mention my graduate statics course.
We studied how medical researchers frequently reached the wrong conclusion from their research by analyzing articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
We then studied how genius Bell Laboratories was in their statistical approach to designing the phone system.
The message I gathered was that the phone company would have gone out of business if their phone system design was wrong, but doctors can stay in business by routinely making poor choices.
I keep saying that it will be engineers that either save medicine, or probably more aptly, save us all from the "practice of medicine."
There are a number of engineers who are probably experts in certain areas of medicine all because when they asked their doctors about root cause for their illness, they got the proverbial shoulder shrug.
Most patients don't find that unsettling or lacking of merit and accept band aid solutions for complex problems.
I managed practices but refuse to subject myself to their overpriced meddling.
Well Holly it wouldn't hurt. I'm a retired statistician from the University of Wisconsin system. Did 34 years of research at the university and another 10 in private consulting. Worked with a wide audience including medical professionals. It pains me that so very few actually understand anything about the mathematical underpinnings of statistics. I hate to paint all with a broad brush but it's, for the most part, true. So most, and I mean with very few exceptions, are clueless and perhaps 98% of the research published is rubbish. Full of statistical abuse. They just throw it into the computer and out comes a thousand p values. Cut, paste and publish. Is it any wonder doctor mistakes are responsible for 250,000 deaths a year?
My guess is that most doctors are rewarded for excellent memorization skills. The ones I found to be better than the average at understanding how things work are the pathologists.
Check out medical school curriculum and textbooks. The books are written at the undergraduate level. Maybe junior/senior. Of course they pile it on very heavy with a lot of memorization but it's not at all the same a graduate training in a science. Take, for example, the sophomoric way efficacy is calculated. A high school kid could have come up with that. The whole notion that "randomized experiments" are the gold standard is being terribly abused. There's no accounting for those subjects that "never" will catch the infection or those that will "always" catch the infection. Nor is there accounting for the many dozens of confounding factors. It's just a change in rate. So what. It doesn't scale properly thus hiding the underlying information. For instance when the infection rates for placebo and control are extremely small as is the case with these covid vaccines. This same predicament applies to flu vaccines. If one looks at the absolute difference in rates, i.e. the percent the vaccine actually helps, it's so small as to make it meaningless.
I love how they just calculated the vaccine safety for young children when they did not have enough data to know if it was safe. Why bother with small trials that would only show catastrophic side effects when they are just going to calculate the hazard in the end? It was only theater from the beginning.
There is so much that is wrong with how COVID has been handled it is ridiculous. We should know so much more about what is happening through better data collection and quality trials of dietary supplements, early treatment drugs, nitric oxide, and engineered solutions. People should also be told more about the hazards of any treatment.
I just recently found out that particles of the size used in the mRNA vaccines are hazardous in the body period.
Allowing the continuation of gain of function research (bioweapon by another name) is beyond my understanding as well.
I will never forget when my wife was pregnant he said a C-section raised a persons IQ by about 2 points. I said that is interesting. The IQ test standard deviation is about 15. That sample size must have been huge. Could you bring the study in for our next visit? I will calculate the sample size needed to discern that small improvement.
It was about 100 times bigger than the study. Odd how the results suggested a more dangerous procedure for the patient and more money in their pockets.
Malcolm Kendrick MD in his books "Doctoring Data" and "The Cholesterol Con" talked at great length the misrepresentation of the facts regarding the safety/efficacy of medicines and treatments.
I'm a former economist by trade, the sloppy data analytics in covid studies across the board is horrifying. Medical researchers know just enough to be dangerous, and they certainly don't know how to apply their analysis of carefully controlled data to real world data. Worse, people believe the white coat, especially when they're scared, no questions asked.
Holly - I adore and admire Malcom
For a second there I thought the doc said a C section could raise the MOTHER'S IQ by a few points...
Yes, whose IQ? I guess that a low IQ person would agree with the doctor. So to disagree makes you smart.
My wife filled out a complaint form recently for our doctor who treated here poorly.
I ended up talking to the person from the hospital/clinic system. I told her about our experiences with some their incompetent staff who nearly killed my wife from a simple wound along with friends comments who have weekly experience with their staff. My summary statement to her was that I would not have bothered to have filled out the form because I do not believe I can fix stupid. I would rather find a medical service provider I did not have to train myself.
This is probably where DPC medical practice would be worth pursuing as they can't afford to make such mistakes.
And quite honestly, the fact that the medical records, after conversion were so incomplete, makes me think there were more than a few bugs in the conversion process that possibly co-mingled records. That will never be fixed and there isn't a field that pops up on every page to say, "please read note XXX about medical record errors"
All the more reason, if you can afford it, to find a DPC physician.
Good points.
Not sure any doctor is good at avoiding the persuasion techniques and corruption that proliferate their profession.
My current view is I will keep a medical professional with admitting privileges in my local (rural, limited options) system and access to the paywall protected products when needed. While I maintain vigilance and plot the course of my own health options.
Anecdote here: a friend of mine is a nurse who worked on a cardiac floor. She was off for a few days then coming back to work, had to give a patient OTC cough medicine. She offered him a couple of teaspoon's-worth in a little medicine cup. He said "what is this! This isn't the right amount!" She asked him what he thought was the right dose. That turned out to be about 6-8oz, offered in a small drinking glass. The nurse or CNA who'd taken care of him in her absence had been giving the poor guy a cup full each time. Lucky it was just Robitussin.
I think stories like this abound.
Robotripping your patent all day, that one way to keep him from pushing the help button.
Couldn't agree more with your statement - managed practices starting back in 80's, when software was not in most offices.
Garbage-in-garbage-out accurately describes most software endeavors in the medical field, partly due to the lack of awareness (but easily manipulated by crafty sales people) of those with checkbooks.
Participated in a couple of software integrations/upgrades, and all I can say is the level of stupidity in administrators was matched by the lack of morality in the purveyors of said software as they charged Maserati prices for Yugo products.
One of my doctor friends who is the chief medical officer in a large hospital and teaches at a major university told me the software they were required to use did not track much of the data he knew was needed for success. He believed it was a scam run through the agencies that controls them.
Oh yeah. Saw an 8 figure software program purchased to solve a known billing bug (claims routed incorrectly), something that could have been solved faster, cheaper using staff and simple reporting.
It's become one giant fleecing scam of the public. The Ponzi scheme of all Ponzi schemes.
If more people do as you and I suggest, to get healthy and remove oneself from the sick-care system, it would quickly collapse due to the very precarious financial footing the whole lot subsists upon.
I have not removed myself from their system, but I certainly take their advice with a grain of salt. There are times you need access and have to participate in their pricey paywall system. Fortunately the cost part of it is not an issue for me. I fleeced many doctors when I was working.
COVID has exposed the systems flaws to be more serious than cynical me thought existed.
Corrections: six figure program. Am sure they are probably 8 figures now but care not to add to the flood of misinformation.
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.
I am more concerned about the prevalence of NDA's in many businesses and the government. People are being forced to keep their mouths shut about a lot of horrific human behavior because of those things.
A friend of mine was involved with the US Treasury in trying to clean up the mess of the financial collapse from mortgage loans, because she was fired for refusing to issue the fake AAA bonds. She can never talk about it all because the feds made her sign an NDA. This happens now across the board so the sociopaths can cover their tracks easier.
A liability waiver points in several directions: an out of control legal system, an out of control medical system or as here in America, both.
https://www.pandata.org/informed-consent/
They want us to be on the hook for their flawed vaccines
And the people seem to want that as well. Unfortunately.
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.
Which were the "new countries" added Joe?
I appreciate your post and the work you have put into it.
I do not know, as I did not save the report the previous weeks.
Joe, this would be good on your substack blog.
Here it is! https://joejoejoe.substack.com/p/strange-data-from-europe
I just read your post. Exciting to see a new Substacker. "They" are getting sloppy with record keeping, don't they know about Substackers, or don't they care?
MSM will cherry pick.
Good sleuthing, look forward to further posts Joe.
Good idea :)
Rewriting history online is quicker than burning books.
I mean 2021!
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.
It was important and respected among some parties. It was completely unknown among others. Most physicians I've talked to had never heard of it prior to 2021, and when I conducted a Twitter test to see how many people correctly knew the requirements not a single doctor or nurse answered correctly (some physicians like Brian Tyson answered correctly for *their* position, but the rules are different for different people).
I suspect VAERS is overtaxed at the moment, it used to be more geared toward pediatricians and military personnel. Suddenly now there's a LOT more cases to report, with so many vaxxes given daily.
It's the doctors who are overtaxed, and that's part of the intentional design flaw of the system. The best way to rule people is to leave them with no additional remaining energy at the end of the day.
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.
I think you're right. Covid seems to have given some Americans a reason to live, an enemy to fight. Now we're awake and alive.
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.
Denis - as per usual, I appreciate your contributions to the conversation.
I read your recent post about vaccines btw, and I did want to add one thought to your decision tree about vaccines. You mentioned your risk of myocarditis for your age group, but I think the unknown risk here is heart attacks or other cv sudden death. This will be inordinately difficult to ever determine, even if the cdc decided to look at it.
Vioxx took 5 years right?
Also just wanted to share this - my family made the choice to remain unvaxxed (despite work mandates and social pressure).
Sure enough we ALL got COVID last month! 46, 45, 15, 12.
It was scary to get sick because I spent the whole time trying to calm my fears of the mocking and vilification that would occur if I was hospitalized (never worried about the boys - they had predictably mild symptoms). I actually wasn't that sick but worried that my family would be persecuted if I died.
It shouldn't be like this. People should be able to choose what they believe is best for their family without facing shaming.
Anyway - happy ending is that we all tested positive for antibodies and my 15 yo is even getting exempted from weekly basketball testing because of that! What an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
I'm happy it worked out for you. The shaming is just wrong because there are going to be people who get hurt on all sides of each decision. Life is cruel.
Our neighbors have it right now. Which naturally has us a bit spooked. Their boys are 2 years older than our two. So I'd guess 7 and 9. The one was doing cartwheels on the front yard. I'm sure they'll be fine. The other aspect of this is we've become so concerned about even getting exposed and while I keep saying out loud for myself, we're all going to get it, have to accept that, its going to take us awhile to truly accept that.
My husband and I aren't vaxxed, we're old farts, and we got it in September when the fully vaxxed college kids brought Delta into our fair City. On a deep level I accepted we were eventually going to get it. What was consoling for me was the knowledge of fully vaxxed friends ending up in the hospital with it shortly before. By the time we got it we knew the crappy shots were no help. I had the horse paste on hand. We both used it to follow the Zelenko protocol for geezers. We're fine now.
My wife and I are also OF and are the real exception being 75 here in our senior community in sout Florida. Both work to keep our immune systems strong, exercise and have the horse paste like you when at higher risk or in case we have symptoms. Just silent now when most people here constantly blabbering about their shots and boosters. I actually feel safer now taking our preventive supplements the more we read about these adverse reactions and mass hypnosis. We also have great family support except a few of the grandkids who drank the coolaid.
Lucky you having access to the horse paste. Unavailable in NZ, and a crime to import it.
Glad you came through it so well.
My kid went into kidney failure from safely harmful and effectively dangerous childhood vaccines at age 6. The stabs she received should have been the 12 to 18 month toddler vaccines. They were delayed. She was hospitalized 12 weeks post jabs with a whole host of issues beginning almost immediately.
I was told multiple times, Coincidence.
Not reported to vaers.
As the Harvard Lazarus study shows, the rate of more severe vaccine injury is actually 1 in 40 regardless of jab. Robert F Kennedy interview with Tucker Carlson in mod late Nov on lbry is quite to the point
You as an individual can report this. I'm so sorry!!
The 31 and 41 numbers are on myocarditis, and the 18000 (now 19000) includes foreign reports. The domestic is closer to 10,000. It is unclear whether the death URF should be higher or lower than for serious AEs. It's a not obvious question, and changes depending on how many people whose reports are listed in VAERS are counted as dead.
But several hundred thousand doesn't mean all are causal. A German pathologist found 30% to 40% of post-vaccination deaths to be caused by the vaccines. What's 30% of 738,000? That's in the ballpark of my other analyses.
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.
How come VAERS hasn't been taken down? Are we still in the charade of accountability stage?
I guess that is better than gloves off, mask removed, proudly evil stage.
"It scares *me..." :)
"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.
It's a feature, not a flaw. "These people" want us in Plato's cave, piecing together boys of evidence all over the place, connecting distilled data points with red string. This is how we are marginalized as tinfoil hat brigade.
Correct. The wrong way to view much of this is as a puzzle to be solved. We just need to document and communicate enough to make that as clear as possible to as many people as possible to see if we can help them save themselves.
The correct way is to interpret all this, along with the lack of substance from public health officials as meaning that public health is entirely captured as an institution (there's more to it, but the basics are all that is necessary for primary first steps).
It ties up our energy also.
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
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?***"
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.
EMRs don't record treatment in other facilities, which is how hospitals get away with the ridiculous claim that they're overrun with unvaxxed sick people. Their patient records don't reflect patient vax given elsewhere,and hospital usually doesn't ask. I had this experience also at CVS, a pharmacist "helpfully" informed me my tetanus was out of date, though I'd had it relatively recently with injury treatment at ER. 🤡
The incompetence described may actually be scarier than what is in the formulation.
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
I'd say these never should have been outside of the physician's office. You should have to go through your medical history with a provider and then get prescribed the jab. Letting anyone waltz into a Walmart and be jabbed by whomever is cleared to work on that site is a large part of the problem.
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?
>> ...And why don't health regulators seem to care to find out?
Wait, I know this one. Give me a minute.
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.
Mostly I don't know how or I don't know I can
not in my experience. Mostly " I cant be bothered and besides it would be antivax"