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Unheard Concerns: Thousands blame COVID-19 vaccine for hearing problems Tinnitus sufferers explain sudden onset after shot.

More than 10,000 Americans have reported tinnitus as a possible side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, and some are now questioning why the FDA and CDC are not taking a deeper look into their claims about hearing problems.

“It’s a constant high pitch string,” Robert Edmonds told ABC15 during a July visit to Phoenix for tinnitus-related medical care. Tinnitus is a ringing or buzzing noise in one or both ears that may be constant or come and go. It is often associated with hearing loss.

How does this compare to previous years? Have a look.

For anyone who’s interested in tip toeing through the VAERS reports.  Hit the red “search vaers” button, type “tinnitus” into the symptom slot and hit search.

And for those who like to dump all over the VAERS reports here’s a detailed paper just for you. 

Contrary to claims that most of these reports are made by lay-people and are hence clinically unreliable, we identified health service employees as the reporter in at least 67%. The sample contains only people vaccinated early in the programme, and hence is made up primarily of those who are elderly or with significant health conditions. Despite this, there were only 14% of the cases for which a vaccine reaction could be ruled out as a contributing factor in their death.

h/t Jean Marc Benoit

Take Your Vitamins

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This actually goes way beyond Covid. There are a whole bunch of reasons why you should probably be taking vitamin D.

Article cited in the video here.  For those who don’t have a lot of time give it a quick look.

A couple of things that stand out for me. First is finding out that the relationship between sun exposure and melanoma seems to be the opposite of what we’ve been told. Second is how much vitamin D you’d actually have to take before overdosing on it. Basically an insane amount that normal people are highly unlikely to get to. Anyone who says this stuff is dangerous is lying.

The fact that public health officials either ignore, or poo poo vitamin D supplementation at this point pretty much proves that they’re more like Jill Biden doctors than real ones.

Remember when…

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… they used to take pretty much everyone’s tonsils out?

In this study of almost 1.2 million children, of whom 17 460 had adenoidectomy, 11 830 tonsillectomy, and 31 377 adenotonsillectomy, surgeries were associated with increased long-term risks of respiratory, infectious, and allergic diseases. Although rigorous controls for confounding were used where such data were available, it is possible these effects could not be fully accounted for. Our results suggest it is important to consider long-term risks when making decisions to perform tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy.

Not 100%, but….

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In what seems to be a remarkable turn of events, the CBC actually ran this story  without attempting to hide a whole lot.

The cases are linked to a three-on-three league for men over the age of 50, who had been playing at the rink for several years. All are considered breakthrough infections because they were among fully vaccinated people, the health unit said.

“I’m still trying to figure out how this all sort of happened.”

The medical authorities may have a lot of “figuring” to do over the next few months. Perhaps they could start by walking back the widely accepted but absolutely false idea that vaccination means you cannot spread Covid. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that since last spring I’d be considering early retirement.

Vitamin D-day

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Thought this was pretty interesting, taking vitamin D supplements can reduce mortality from all causes.

Meanwhile another study from Israel shows that 1 in 4 COVID patients hospitalized while vitamin D deficient die.

“This study is important because of the results, because of the fact that it uses data from before admission, and also because we were careful to isolate all factors like age and diabetes,” Dror said. “We saw that vitamin D deficiency is an independent factor that significantly influences the status of the patient.”

Dror added that the fact that such a large proportion of patients were vitamin D-deficient in Israel, despite the abundance of sunshine, highlights the value of people around the world monitoring and potentially boosting their levels.

“New Diseases”

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Alex Berenson has just posted a few pages from his upcoming book. The chapter is about “Long Covid” but what he says about a number of other new illnesses is quite interesting.

I for one had no idea that my life time accumulation of work related aches and pains could be easily diagnosed as fibromyalgia. Had I gone the pill popper route to deal with this who knows how many different pain meds I might be on.

The vaccines are “working”….

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A vaccine proclaimed as 98% effective combined with a mass vaccination program was supposed to allow a return to normal existence. Judging by what is now happening in the UK, the window for normal existence may be closing rapidly, less than 4 months after most restrictions were lifted.

The culprit? That could never be a vaccine whose effectiveness was deliberately oversold to the public. Rather, the problem arose when the failings were not covered up with the permanent imposition of a bewildering myriad of restrictions on normality. The vaccination program is starting to resemble an inept worker whom the authorities must “protect” from the consequences of his own incompetence, instead of demanding accountability:

“We have the vaccines and we know which public health protections are effective … but the government has removed all public health protections to protect the vaccination programme.”

 

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