What the current media rhetoric isn’t telling you...

​​Vaccine manufacture Pfizer recently announced that its new, experimental and highly controversial mRNA vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data. Initial data that has not been peer-reviewed or published as a preliminary preprint. Health Minister Greg Hunt has stated that Australia is on track to roll out this COVID-19 vaccine well ahead of ‘schedule’ in March 2021.
 
According to Dr Michael Mosley in a report by the government-funded SBS, people in Australia are living in a “bubble if they believe they can return to any form of normalcy while unvaccinated”.
 
“The thing about Australia, you’re all naïve in the sense that you’re all vulnerable because none of you have natural immunity and if none of you are being vaccinated then you’re never going to be able to travel again because you’re going to be entering into a world where there’s still quite a lot of COVID around. If you find that acceptable rather than what might be a theoretical, miniscule risk from a vaccine then I think you’re looking at the world in completely the wrong way.”
 
Dr Mosley, what would you consider to be a “theoretical, miniscule risk from a vaccine”? According to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, nearly $4.5 billion has been paid out to those who have suffered adverse events as a result of vaccinations. And less than 1% of all adverse events from vaccines are reported, so this figure would be astronomically higher.
 
A report on the Sky News website stated that “vulnerable citizens will miss out on the first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine until the drug is deemed safe”. Deemed safe? Isn’t this why vaccine companies conduct ‘rigorous’ trials to determine if a vaccine is safe before they start injecting them into people? The report continues by saying that “the Therapeutic Goods Administration will not allow the elderly, children or pregnant women to receive the vaccine until research is conducted into potential side effects”. Potential side effects? Again, isn’t this what the trials are for? Or are we the guinea pigs in this experiment?
 
Experts are warning that the lack of data is ‘very concerning’. Aliasger K. Salem, chair of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Iowa, says that “as a scientist, you’d want to see actual data from a clinical trial to really know what the actual interpretation of the results are”. Several experts are concerned that the “public is getting an ‘incomplete picture’ about the vaccine’s success that doesn’t reveal critical information, such as which demographic groups it protected and whether it was from a mild or severe form of the virus”.
 
As associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Peter Doshi says, “All we have right now is a headline by Pfizer”.
 
A recent study found that “the antibodies developed after infection with… COVID-19 only last a very short time, meaning any future vaccine for the novel virus will be certifiably useless”. Researchers found that the antibodies created to destroy the virus waned within a few short weeks. After approximately two months, only 16.7% of patients still had any antibody response. According to Dr William Haseltine, “Not only do antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 fade, and perhaps fade quickly, studies have also shown that only 15 percent of those who test positive for antibodies make the neutralizing antibodies necessary to develop immunity in the first place. And not all of those who make neutralizing antibodies make them at high levels. Some of those infected make no antibodies at all.”
 
It gets worse. A study in the International Journal of Clinical Practice showed that “previous coronavirus vaccine efforts – for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – have revealed serious concern: The vaccines tend to trigger antibody-dependent enhancement”.
 
This means that rather than enhance your immunity against the infection, the “vaccine actually enhances the virus’ ability to enter and infect your cells, resulting in a more severe disease than had you not been vaccinated”. This is the exact opposite of what a vaccine is supposed to do. According to this data, we would be better off without a vaccine than with one.
 
Robert F. Kennedy Jr explains that in 2012 there were 30 promising candidates for a SARS vaccine. The four best candidates were given to ferrets, which are the closest analogue to human lung infections. “While the ferrets displayed robust antibody response, which is the metric used for vaccine licensing, once they were challenged with the wild virus, they all became severely ill and died.”
 
In the 1960’s, scientists developed an RSV vaccine and decided to skip animal trials and proceed directly to trials on humans. “The children developed a champion antibody response – robust, durable. It looked perfect (but when) the children were exposed to the wild virus; they all became sick. Two of them died. They abandoned the vaccine.”
 
Dr Mosley finishes by saying that “the cost of not being vaccinated is normally much, much worse, if you get COVID-19, your friends get it, your mother gets it, then the risk of long COVID (lasting symptoms) they are horrible, this is a horrible disease to get.”
 
There are no peer-reviewed studies that show ‘long COVID (lasting symptoms)’ exist. The overall survival rate of those that are diagnosed with COVID-19 is 99.4%. What we don’t know is what the adverse reactions are going to be, how severe they are going to be, and how many people are going to suffer temporarily or permanently from them.
 
Dr/documentary maker Mosley, we don’t appreciate you calling us naïve. We have the right to decide how we look after our bodies and our health. We don’t need you to tell us how to look at the world. Our bodies are designed to fight infection on their own with a strong immune system. And we certainly don’t want you guilting us into getting a new, experimental, highly controversial and rushed to market vaccine by suggesting that we are putting our friends and mother at risk if we don’t.
 
Where there is risk, there must be choice. It is our right to choose whether we take a vaccine, not the governments.
Vaccine manufacture Pfizer recently announced that its new, experimental and highly controversial mRNA vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data. Initial data that has not been peer-reviewed or published as a preliminary preprint. Health Minister Greg Hunt has stated that Australia is on track to roll out this COVID-19 vaccine well ahead of ‘schedule’ in March 2021.
 
According to Dr Michael Mosley in a report by the government-funded SBS, people in Australia are living in a “bubble if they believe they can return to any form of normalcy while unvaccinated”.
 
“The thing about Australia, you’re all naïve in the sense that you’re all vulnerable because none of you have natural immunity and if none of you are being vaccinated then you’re never going to be able to travel again because you’re going to be entering into a world where there’s still quite a lot of COVID around. If you find that acceptable rather than what might be a theoretical, miniscule risk from a vaccine then I think you’re looking at the world in completely the wrong way.”
 
Dr Mosley, what would you consider to be a “theoretical, miniscule risk from a vaccine”? According to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, nearly $4.5 billion has been paid out to those who have suffered adverse events as a result of vaccinations. And less than 1% of all adverse events from vaccines are reported, so this figure would be astronomically higher.
 
A report on the Sky News website stated that “vulnerable citizens will miss out on the first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine until the drug is deemed safe”. Deemed safe? Isn’t this why vaccine companies conduct ‘rigorous’ trials to determine if a vaccine is safe before they start injecting them into people? The report continues by saying that “the Therapeutic Goods Administration will not allow the elderly, children or pregnant women to receive the vaccine until research is conducted into potential side effects”. Potential side effects? Again, isn’t this what the trials are for? Or are we the guinea pigs in this experiment?
 
Experts are warning that the lack of data is ‘very concerning’. Aliasger K. Salem, chair of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Iowa, says that “as a scientist, you’d want to see actual data from a clinical trial to really know what the actual interpretation of the results are”. Several experts are concerned that the “public is getting an ‘incomplete picture’ about the vaccine’s success that doesn’t reveal critical information, such as which demographic groups it protected and whether it was from a mild or severe form of the virus”.
 
As associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Peter Doshi says, “All we have right now is a headline by Pfizer”.
 
A recent study found that “the antibodies developed after infection with… COVID-19 only last a very short time, meaning any future vaccine for the novel virus will be certifiably useless”. Researchers found that the antibodies created to destroy the virus waned within a few short weeks. After approximately two months, only 16.7% of patients still had any antibody response. According to Dr William Haseltine, “Not only do antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 fade, and perhaps fade quickly, studies have also shown that only 15 percent of those who test positive for antibodies make the neutralizing antibodies necessary to develop immunity in the first place. And not all of those who make neutralizing antibodies make them at high levels. Some of those infected make no antibodies at all.”
 
It gets worse. A study in the International Journal of Clinical Practice showed that “previous coronavirus vaccine efforts – for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – have revealed serious concern: The vaccines tend to trigger antibody-dependent enhancement”.
 
This means that rather than enhance your immunity against the infection, the “vaccine actually enhances the virus’ ability to enter and infect your cells, resulting in a more severe disease than had you not been vaccinated”. This is the exact opposite of what a vaccine is supposed to do. According to this data, we would be better off without a vaccine than with one.
 
Robert F. Kennedy Jr explains that in 2012 there were 30 promising candidates for a SARS vaccine. The four best candidates were given to ferrets, which are the closest analogue to human lung infections. “While the ferrets displayed robust antibody response, which is the metric used for vaccine licensing, once they were challenged with the wild virus, they all became severely ill and died.”
 
In the 1960’s, scientists developed an RSV vaccine and decided to skip animal trials and proceed directly to trials on humans. “The children developed a champion antibody response – robust, durable. It looked perfect (but when) the children were exposed to the wild virus; they all became sick. Two of them died. They abandoned the vaccine.”
 
Dr Mosley finishes by saying that “the cost of not being vaccinated is normally much, much worse, if you get COVID-19, your friends get it, your mother gets it, then the risk of long COVID (lasting symptoms) they are horrible, this is a horrible disease to get.”
 
There are no peer-reviewed studies that show ‘long COVID (lasting symptoms)’ exist. The overall survival rate of those that are diagnosed with COVID-19 is 99.4%. What we don’t know is what the adverse reactions are going to be, how severe they are going to be, and how many people are going to suffer temporarily or permanently from them.
 
Dr/documentary maker Mosley, we don’t appreciate you calling us naïve. We have the right to decide how we look after our bodies and our health. We don’t need you to tell us how to look at the world. Our bodies are designed to fight infection on their own with a strong immune system. And we certainly don’t want you guilting us into getting a new, experimental, highly controversial and rushed to market vaccine by suggesting that we are putting our friends and mother at risk if we don’t.
 
Where there is risk, there must be choice. It is our right to choose whether we take a vaccine, not the governments.

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