Wightman was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a rare condition that affects the nervous system, just days after his first and only dose of the vaccine. The condition can cause paralysis, muscle weakness, and even death.
Wightman, who worked as a pilot and real estate agent prior to his diagnosis, has spent the last year unable to work. He can’t travel far on his own. But the hardest thing is sitting on the sidelines, unable to do physical activities with his kids, he says.
“Playing soccer with the kids in the yard. My oldest is big into baseball, and one of my favourite things to do is just play catch in the yard, and I can’t do that. That’s hard,” he said.
Please Tase ‘Em, Bro
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Australia, of course: The number of triple vaccinated people being struck down by debilitating long Covid has been revealed, amid calls for fourth booster jabs to keep Victorians out of hospital.
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Preprint: Vaccines against the coronavirus may impair the body’s ability to produce a key type of antibody, thus potentially limiting the immune system’s defenses against mutated strains of the virus, a new study suggests.
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el gato malo- comparing covid maps of the US
if vaccines stop covid spread, then why is all the covid spread in the highest vaxxed counties? and why are severe cases rising most in the most vaccinated?
i keep saying i am really hoping to be wrong about this, but the evidence is really piling up and it looks more and more inescapable to conclude that the covid vaccines have broken herd immunity formation both for spread and increasingly for severity. the CDC data on this is so definitionally rigged and slanted by using inaccurate denominators as to render it unfit to draw clinical conclusions from and the society level data is increasing revealing this.
and so we land here: right where nobody wanted to but that so many warned we would.
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Sheldon Yakiwchuk- Boosters – Criminally Negligent Homicide or Pre-Meditated Murder?
But of course, we already knew that the vaccines couldn’t stop COVID transmission…and yet we still persisted with the Vaccine Mandates on Travel, Employment, Employment Insurance and Leaving Canada…because, “SCIENCE”.
What we are seeing now is that the Hospitalizations, in a time when mortality was historically less than half of what it is currently, is in our Boosted Communities. It has been a persistent trend, mentioned in previous substacks where as of the most recent Data from May 16th, 2022, the boosted now make up more than 50% of the Current Hospitalizations, in a period where Vaccinated from one dose to 3 make up 81% of the current hospitalizations.
Links in this piece are also worthwhile. Particularly, this one.
Thankfully He Was Vaccinated
Otherwise it could have been a lot worse.
PJ Media- Mad Vax, Yo: Buffalo Shooter Was a Left-Leaning COVID Nazi, Wore Hazmat Suit to School
Lets Review
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Sheldon Yakiwchuk- A year in review Thread.
Alberta currently has 77% of it’s population “Fully Vaccinated and 37.6% boosted – predominantly in High Risk or most vulnerable populations of the province. How’s this working out?
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A really moving story.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1524115383661252610
Baby Boosters
eugyppius- The Booster Campaign Has Been A Stupid Thing
el gato malo- none of the “experts” really believed this #4,291
el gato malo- blaming the victim
The HighWire with Del Bigtree- Geert Vanden Bossche predicts a coming catastrophe
Mark Steyn- The Vax Scandal
It’s Probably Nothing
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The Daily Sceptic- Vaccinated Hospitalised for Non-Covid Reasons at FIVE Times the Rate of the Unvaccinated, U.K. Government Data Show
The UKHSA has at long last published raw data on hospitalisation rates by vaccine status, for those infected with Covid as well as those that aren’t. The results are very concerning, showing significantly higher A&E admission rates in the vaccinated for reasons other than Covid, and much less difference in admission rates for symptomatic Covid in the vaccinated vs unvaccinated than suggested by the estimates of vaccine effectiveness published by the UKHSA.
Pandemic of the Vaccinated
Quit clogging up our hospital system and stealing beds from the people who really need them.
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Brannon’s War Room- Dr. Wolf: COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy
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Teasing Out Causality
A hard look at the covid vaccines VAERS reports.
Jessica Rose- The Bradford Hill Criteria – ‘cuz the cowards of Causation denial need complete conversion
The 10 Bradford Hill Criteria. The World Health Organization (WHO) requires that only 5 are satisfied to show evidence of causation. I will use 10.
What Government Does Best
They knew what they were doing. They knew what was going to happen. They did it anyways.
If the Canadian government had said "We're prepared to murder 200,000 people, to try and to slow the spread of a respiratory virus", would you have said yes to all the measures? pic.twitter.com/BLW6UWUmcp
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth_2) April 29, 2022
And the obsolete media covered it up.
Telegraph article he mentioned.
(Update, from Kate). I wrote this in March of 2021;
Make no mistake – epidemiologists were well aware that lockdowns would result in premature and unnecessary deaths from social distress and delayed access to health care and diagnosis. Those numbers will be in models that were never released to the public, but they will exist.
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Double masked.
Related: Former White House COVID adviser and assistant professor at McMaster University Dr. Paul Alexander says several top officials, including senior doctors and CEOs, were issued fake vaccine cards after refusing mRNA vaccines.
“All modellers are wrong, some are honest.”
Generally, that’s why I don’t write about theoretical models. They tend towards simplicity to the point of absurdity. The old quip that “some are useful” neglects the antipodal “most are not useful”, and, as we have seen with the coronavirus and climate change models, can blur or even obscure people’s world views to the point where they become dangerous, society-devouring fanatics.
But a couple people pointed out a paper from David Fisman titled Impact of population mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated subpopulations on infectious disease dynamics, so I decided to give it a read.
The paper points out that “[s]imple mathematical models can often provide important insights into the behaviour of complex communicable diseases systems”. The model is definitely simple, but the insights garnered from it are about as useful as a modeller playing tic-tac-toe with himself. […]
The results are obvious because their entire model is just overly complicated algebra: the vaccinated get infected at higher rates when unvaccinated are presented and unvaccinated do worse with unvaccinated. This model is so insightful that I had to double check the credentials of the modellers because I could have sworn they were 3rd year undergraduate students.
If you set up the model in the same way, but assume vaccine effectiveness is strictly negative, then you get the opposite result.
Colby Cosh: Oh, for happier times, when what appeared in CMAJ a few hours ago was mostly ignored all the way through instead of half-digested…
h/t Hob, LindaL
Two years down the drain
If you want to read an excellent synopsis of everything that went wrong with pandemic policy over the past two years, look no further than this analysis. I’ve not run across anything which so consistently ticks all the right boxes, one after the other. Every single paragraph hits it out of the park.
Especially in deep blue areas, any restriction or mandate instantly became the status quo, the null hypothesis: The Science™. It was like the children’s game King of the Hill. Rolling back any policy required proving that doing so would lead to no community transmission of COVID. Fail to prove a negative? Back down the hill you go.
As two Rutgers law professors said in this excellent essay in Tablet, discourse was “fostered by an elite culture whose overconfidence led to … undermining open discussion in a vain attempt to prove that complex questions could only have one universal and immutable answer.” The “overselling of policy … led them to religious like zeal and dogmatism about particular interventions.”
“Can We Stop Killing Old People?”
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BBC- Covid: Woman caught virus twice within record 20 days
A 31-year-old healthcare worker caught Covid twice within 20 days – the shortest-known gap between infections, Spanish researchers have claimed. Tests show the woman was infected with two different variants – Delta in late December and then Omicron in January.