Should a therapeutic be effective? One would hope so. Otherwise, what’s the point in taking it? What if the negative side effects of taking this therapeutic outweighed the benefits? Then by simply doing a cost to benefit analysis, you wouldn’t take it.
Many of us have more questions about the novel coronavirus and its subsequent vaccines than we have answers to at this point. What science had set as standards for viruses and treatment of them in the past, changed with this virus. What science told us about the purpose of vaccines, changed as well.
There are over 220 known viruses that actually affect humans compared to the 380 trillion viruses known by biologists, according to a Scientific American article (Dec. 1, 2020). Some of the most lethal to humans in history have been: Marburg, Ebola, Hantavirus, Bird Flu, and Dengue. Although Covid-19 is very contagious, its fatality rate is relatively low in comparison. Viruses can mutate within their hosts. Once you accumulate enough mutations, you get a variant. When a variant is known to have new biologic capabilities, then you have a strain of the original virus. A great example of this is the annual flu virus (influenza). This is why the scientists are always guessing which strain will be circulated annually in order to create a vaccine to help immunity to it. Sometimes their predictions are inaccurate.
Vaccines are supposed to expose your body to the antigen (genetic material of the virus) that trains your immune system to fight the virus in the future. The basic idea is that your body has been given a chance to recognize the virus and is already equipped with antibodies to prevent you from getting sick. In the case of the novel coronavirus, as a new variant, scientists didn’t have the genetic material available to create a vaccine. So, they used two alternate paths. One introduced a synthetic substitute to act as an antigen. The other used mRNA technology, without inducing the disease. The goal in this is to teach your body’s cells how to make a protein that will trigger an immune response. As of 2022, it’s become obvious that these approaches weren’t successful at giving immunity to Covid-19. The narrative given to us from every public leader was initially: “Get the shot so you won’t get Covid.” It then changed to: “The vaccine will make you less sick.”
According to the CDC’s website, the symptoms of Covid-19 are: fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion, nausea, or diarrhea. As we’ve witnessed among our families, friends, and communities, the vaccine didn’t prevent people from getting Covid-19 and subsequently experiencing these symptoms.
Now that studies are coming out frequently from other countries, we’re getting a better look at what the vaccines are actually causing. Saudi researchers just published the results of a study including 1,000 children, aged 12-18 (Cureus Journal of Medical Science - Sept. 18, 2022). The study tracked the results of Covid shots from July 2021 to March 2022. More than half of these participants, 554, reported adverse reactions. Of these, 87.5% had pain at the site of injection, 84.5% reported fatigue, 69% experienced headaches, 67.5% had a fever, 39.7% had chills, 19.1% had nausea and vomiting. Aren’t these the same symptoms that the virus produces? Another finding in the study, was that patients who had previously had Covid, then were vaccinated, experienced 2.4 times the symptoms of those that hadn’t been vaccinated. What happened to herd immunity? Also, those that had two doses of the vaccine had 5.6 times the incidence of headaches. Other adverse effects reported in the study were menstrual disturbance, lymph node enlargement, and flu like symptoms. This is just one study amongst dozens of studies, from countries like: Isreal, Japan, and Germany. These symptoms pale in comparison to the more serious reports of myocarditis and infertility. ◆
