Original post by u/veganmark, copied and pasted below:
This is a slightly expanded version of a comment I previously posted at WotB. I am posting it as an essay so that it can be linked to.
As a biomedical scientist who is double-vaxxed (and just got a flu shot), and who has published ten papers in the biomedical literature pertinent to COVID, I can tell you that it is abundantly OBVIOUS to anyone who looks objectively at the available data that the current COVID mRNA and DNA vaccines are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. They cause cells throughout the body to make the COVID spike protein. While this made sense to the designers of the vaccines at the time - such vaccines result in antibodies that can impede interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with its cell surface receptor ACE2 - what they didn't know at the time is that the spike protein, in and of itself - absent the intact virus - is extremely toxic to the vascular system. I have put together just partial list of published studies documenting the toxicity this protein to vascular endothelium and the blood-brain barrier, as well as its activating effects on platelets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/qpmopq/here_is_a_partial_list_of_recent_studies_in_the/
In addition, reports of suspected adverse reactions to the vaccines posted to the VAERS pharmacovigilance system are through the roof. Note this careful analysis of the VAERS data:
https://www.skirsch.com/covid/Deaths.pdf
The most striking finding is that, among people aged 20-60, the rates of VAERS reports, per million doses, of thrombotic complications - most notably pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, and stroke - are over 200-fold higher (up to 450-fold higher) for the current COVID vaccines than for all other vaccines over the last decade. And this correlates perfectly with the known vasculotoxicity of the spike protein.
Moreover, the risk for myo/pericariditis associated with these vaccines in young males in now universally acknowledged; the CDC hasn't managed to cover this up because Israeli authorities reported on it.
The ability of these vaccines to reduce risk for death or serious outcomes in COVID must be acknowledged - albeit this protection declines notably over time. However, in healthy young people - especially children, in whom risk for serious COVID is quite low - and in those who have survived previous infection, the risk associated with vaccination is clearly greater than the potential protection from COVID.
The number of anecdotes worldwide of relatively young people dying suddenly and unexpectedly, or developing myo/pericarditis, following vaccination, is going through the roof. Here is an entire website devoted to citing these:
https://thecovidworld.com/
And here is a new clinical study in which all patients in a cardiovascular clinical practice were given a PULS cardiac test at regular intervals to determine their risk for acute coronary events; this measures biomarkers for inflamed soft coronary lesions apt to rupture and induce a heart attack. These markers were found to increase markedly for at least 2.5 months following the second COVID vaccination. This shows that, while severe complications after vaccination are not common, indices of inflammation increase in MOST people for a prolonged time – predicting doubling of risk for coronary events.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
And now published mortality data from the UK demonstrates that, in vaccinated people in the 60-69 age range, total mortality is dramatically elevated from the day of the first dose and 3 week after the second. After this, death risk falls, and is lower than that in the unvaccinated, presumably reflecting protection from lethal COVID. Likely, this means that the rate of spike protein production is sufficiently high during a "risk window" to trigger lethal events in vulnerable people - but that those who survive this period are at lower death risk than the unvaccinated.
https://twitter.com/HicksonMaike/status/1464337382916993028
The implementation of vaccine MANDATES is literally insane, inasmuch as the current vaccines do little or nothing to slow the spread of the delta variant. Getting vaccinated protects no one but yourself (if it doesn't directly kill or maim you.)
Furthermore, well tolerated ivermectin protocols can be employed that are at least as effective as vaccination for preventing COVID - and care zero health risk. In fact, every controlled study worldwide that has evaluated ivermectin for primary prophylaxis concludes that it works, and meta-analyses of both randomized controlled and total controlled studies conclude that it reduces risk by about 86%.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34145166/
I v m m e t a . c o m
(I am disguising the second URL, as the controllers of Reddit will not allow posting of essays that link to the most comprehensive compendium of controlled clinical studies evaluating ivermectin for prevention and treatment of COVID.)
I am taking ivermectin myself - 20 mg once weekly with a meal; I sure as hell am not going to take a booster.
Furthermore, for those who nonetheless become infected, multi-drug generic therapies can virtually eliminate risk for hospitalization or death if employed within a week of symptom onset:
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1454321681657384963
That the public is largely unaware of this evidence is traceable to the fact that our regulatory authorities - and the MSM and social media outlets which echo them - are in the pocket of Big Pharma, and totally dedicated to maximizing Big Pharma's profits on vaccines and the new expensive drugs that are in the offing. And they are aggressively censoring info that opposes the mainstream narrative. See this straightforward explanation:
https://odysee.com/@VSRF:d/Vaccine-Safety-Research-Foundation-TNI:e
there doesn't seem to be anything here