Alex Berenson

2022-10-06 17:38:56 If you have 45 minutes to burn and want to hear more about social media censorship, Section 230, my lawsuit against Twitter and the coming suit against the White House, this interview with Robert Kennedy Jr is the place...

https://anchor.fm/rfkjr/episodes/Alex-Berenson-on-Wins-Against-Pharma-and-Tech-e1oqcsu Open / Comment

2022-10-04 21:42:12 Further, a new paper in Science Translational Medicine suggests anti-N antibodies are important to defeating Sars-Cov-2 (at least in mice).

Researchers that mice which produced both anti-N and anti-S antibodies had “better viral control [than those that had anti-S antibodies alone], including against the Omicron variant.”

This finding raises at least two crucial questions.

First, how much of a role has the increase in anti-nucleocapsid antibodies played in reducing the threat of Covid? Second, why are vaccinated people more likely to produce those antibodies when they are infected with Omicron than with Delta? What changed?

Put another way, is it the failure of the mRNAs to stop Omicron that ultimately defanged the coronavirus this summer? Could people who received inactivated virus vaccines have developed anti-nucleocapsid antibodies more readily? Could the gap help explain why Covid disappeared so much more quickly in countries like India?

To be clear, these are questions. At this point, I don’t have the answers, and neither does anyone else.

We’d be well-advised to find them as we consider what vaccines to use in the future. Because the real-world evidence from the natural experiment we ran suggests that the mRNAs came in far short of expectations.

But here’s one bet you can make with certainty: the public health bureaucrats and politicians who have obsessively promoted the mRNA shots for two years will be in no hurry to figure out the truth. (9/9) Open / Comment

2022-10-04 21:42:02 “N antibody levels are lower in individuals who acquire infection following 2 doses of vaccination.”

In countries that didn’t use the mRNAs, N-antibodies rose much more quickly as Delta spread in 2021. An Indian survey found that almost 40 percent of people had detectable N-antibodies by mid-2021, almost three times as many as in Britain at the time.

But just as they do not stop Omicron, the mRNAs also do not stop most people from developing anti-N antibodies after Omicron. Surveillance data from the United Kingdom shows that after barely rising for much of 2021 despite repeated waves of coronavirus infection, levels of anti-N antibodies soared in 2022.

(The red line measures the percentage of British blood donors found to have anti-N antibodies, produced by infection. The dark blue line shows the percentage with anti-spike-protein antibodies, produced primarily by vaccination. The big jump in the red line occurred after week 50 of 2021, as Omicron became dominant.)

SOURCE (8/9) Open / Comment

2022-09-06 19:42:48 "Medical-grade cannabis" and other stories
Weep for the youth

The Common Sense Substack has a hella sad and hella good piece about the somatic disorders that in some cases are actually killing healthy young women.

Turns out certain types of women won’t just compete with each other in all the usual ways, they will fight over who has the worst case of chronic fatigue syndrome or POTS or, now, Long Covid. TikTok and Snapchat and Instagram give these subgroups a chance to come together in terribly self-destructive way.

But one line in the piece, about Sophie Jacobson, a 22-year-old woman who has quit college and now spends her days watching cartoons and going to doctors, particularly struck me:

Most days she wakes up nauseous and has to vape some medical-grade marijuana [emphasis added] to work up an appetite….

Of course. Jacobson needs “medical-grade” cannabis to help get out of bed. Back in the day, we called that “waking and baking.”

But Jacobson is sick, see, and cannabis is her medicine. It seems to be working great, too - she is now wheelchair-bound much of the time.

If Jacobson had told the interviewer she needed a couple shots of “medical-grade” vodka every morning to start her day, the problem would have been obvious, but the cannabis industry and drug legalizers have sown such confusion over their preferred intoxicant that users and reporters can spout this nonsense with straight faces.

Tell Your Children.

Still a great piece, find it here:

https://www.commonsense.news/p/hurts-so-good?s=r& Open / Comment

2022-09-02 21:12:50 Just emailed this to a reporter I know

We’ll see if I get any response.

I am not hopeful.

Why are you so reluctant to believe [NOTE: I should have said “consider”] what is increasingly obvious?

The mRNAs have turned out to be a truly bad bet. The all-cause mortality and live birth data are the most important data we have, the only figures that are not susceptible to some form of political pressure, and they are increasingly screaming red.

I am prepared to agree that the mRNAs caused a moderate decrease in Covid mortality in 2021 (even netting out the post-first-dose increase in deaths in January 2021, which was real), but everything since July 2021 has gone the wrong way. They are useless against Omicron even on a completely unrealistic dosing schedule, and the fact that all-cause mortality has not returned to normal several months following the third dose as it did following the first two suggests that their toxicity is dose-dependent, no surprise, drug toxicity is almost always dose-dependent, and the body does not clear the mRNA very quickly, if at all.

There are other explanations for the rise in deaths and decline in births in the mRNA countries, sure; there are explanations other than smoking even now for the fact that lung cancer soared in the 20th century. But at some point the simplest and most coherent explanation becomes the one that is presumptively correct. We have reached that point. We need to proceed on the basis that the vaccines have toxicity that the short-term trials did not pick up (although they did offer hints).

They should be pulled for all but the people most vulnerable to Covid (those over 75 or with severe comorbidities); really, they should be pulled for those people too, but I would rather not argue about them. And governments worldwide should begin an independent investigation into the harms they may be causing and have caused.

One last question: We are approaching two years from the widespread rollout of the mRNAs. We are awash in them; hundreds of millions of doses sit unused in freezers in the United States and Europe. Why hasn't the largest country in the world, a country that could easily buy or make billions of doses, the country from which Sars-Cov-2 emerged, offered a single mRNA dose to its citizens? Open / Comment

2022-09-02 04:44:07 The physicians speculate - as other researchers have - that in chemically modifying the mRNA in their shots to make it harder for the immune system to destroy, Pfizer and Moderna may have produced a zombie vaccine that will not die.

No, that wasn’t exactly how they put it, but it’s what they meant:

A plausible hypothesis was that the stabilization of RNA by substituting methyl-pseudouridine for all the uridine nucleotides for BNT162b2 might result in long-time pro-duction of the encoded SP from any cells.

The potential persistence of vaccine mRNA and the spike protein it produces is particularly relevant as more and more jabbed patients report autoimmune crises such as unexpectedly developing Type 1 diabetes (generally diagnosed in childhood) shortly following vaccination.

But physicians cannot find what they won’t seek. Fortunately, international researchers appear to be willing to ask questions American physicians will not. (4/4) Open / Comment

2022-09-02 04:43:58 The doctors found the patient had varicella-zoster virus, which causes chickenpox. They treated him with 1 gram daily of valacyclovir, commonly used against herpes viruses, but found it only marginally effective. Raising the dosage to 3 grams a day ultimately defeated the lesions.

The physicians then decided that they should examine the lesions for evidence of spike protein, because the patient had become sick so soon after being vaccinated.

In taking this step, they deviated wildly from standard American medical procedure, which is to deny that mRNA shots can possibly cause any side effect.

And when the Japanese physicians looked for spike protein in the lesions… they found it:

Immunostaining with anti-coronavirus spike protein (SP) antibody revealed the SP expression in the intravesicular cells in the epidermis and endothelial cells of the inflamed vessels in the dermis… In addition, the SP was also found in the endothelial cells of venules in the subcutaneous fat tissue underlying the lesion. (3/4) Open / Comment

2022-09-02 04:43:47 (SUBSCRIBE NOW OR I’LL INCLUDE A PICTURE OF THE LESIONS. AHH, TOO LATE.) Open / Comment

2022-09-02 04:43:40 About that.

The CDC has now quietly removed its promise that your body “breaks down and gets rid of the mRNA soon after it is finished” with initially making spike protein.

(Original CDC language on the Wayback Machine here; current CDC position, as of July 15, here)

Meanwhile, scientists keep piling up evidence that the spike protein remains in the body for months, at least, and is far from benign.

The most recent finding comes from Japanese physicians reporting on a 64-year-old who developed persistent and painful skin lesions days after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine. (2/4) Open / Comment

2022-09-02 04:43:21 mRNA shots are the gift that keeps on giving

Physicians (not American, of course) find vaccine-generated coronavirus spike protein in skin lesions, months after vaccination

Remember when the Centers for Disease Control told you the mRNA in Covid vaccines didn’t last long in your cells?

Remember when fact-checkers at Reuters told you the coronavirus spike protein the vaccines make you produce isn’t dangerous? (1/4) Open / Comment