Great article but the focus on vaccine caused myocarditis vs infection caused myocarditis is not particularly relevant anymore as vaccinated people are getting infected at equal or higher rates than unvaccinated. If vaccination prevented infection, then the head to head comparison makes sense. But now it’s cumulative: you’re taking the risk of the vaccine induced myocarditis on top of the infection induced. It would also be worthwhile to look at rates of myocarditis after infection for unvaccinated vs vaccinated. And for what it’s worth, Alphonso Davies, as a three-time vaccinated, naturally recovered young male is an interesting case study.
In Quebec, the vaccine passport will include a mandatory 3rd dose by the summer. The passport will, in a few days, include hardware stores, which were once considered "essential" at the beginning of the pandemic. And there will be a mandatory "significant" tax for the unvaccinated to pay, probably next year, in 2023. What the fuck is going on, if you can pardon my language? 90% of the population is vaccinated already. This Omicron wave we are having now, the vast majority of COVID deaths are happening at home, not in long-term care, not in the hospital. That's weird. Is the same happening in British Columbia?
That brings the total to 3 young people, I personally know, who have been diagnosed with myocarditis/pericarditis after the vaccine. My circle of friends/family is not big enough for that to be statistically insignificant.
"Many in the media and medical establishment rightfully promote vaccination to prevent serious illness or death...."
I'd argue the Canadian Ontario data showing hospitalization of vaxies have blown from 25% to 75%, and ICU from 20% to 55% in the last 2-3 weeks.
If you are interested you could look into the Scotland government report - showing vaxies have become worse off (more prone) to catching, spreading, severe illness & death across the board. They had pretty looking stats before December 2021.
Best myocarditis hypothesis I've read goes like this: Peoples' anatomies vary slightly. Covid injections must be intramuscular, but a small percentage perforate a blood vessel near the deltoid. Blood vessels in young, lean, muscular males are largeish and close to the surface, so the percentage of inadvertent intravenous injections skews towards this cohort.
This could be avoided by the best practice of aspirating the injection to verify that a blood vessel wasn't hit. Alas, the injections are typically administered production-line style by untrained techs who are instructed to not aspirate.
This rhymes with most covid suppression tactics -- incompetence mixed with malice in equal measure. It should be clear by now that we're not going to vaccinate ourselves out of this, and that on balance, we're doing more harm than good; both on an individual level and population-wide. We're running out of immunologically naive people and risk entering into an infinite recursion of vaccinate/escape. I won't let my teenage son to be vaccinated, needless to say.
Excellent piece. An area I am concerned is those same young male at risk group, who got covid, and are now on the vaccine doses. As many colleges are forcing kids that have natural immunity into three shots.
A big part of the fallacious "fact-checking" of Joe Rogan's foray into the myocarditis from vaccine versus infection discussion is that comparing infection-caused myocarditis rates with vaccine-caused myocarditis rates is apples to oranges because not getting vaccinated does not ensure that a person does not get infected, nor does not getting vaccinated ensure that they do get infected. But getting vaccinated 100% ensures that the person will experience the risk of mycarditis from vaccination. So the right "apples to apples" comparison would be a population-level analysis between myocarditis cases among the "never vaccinated" and mycarditis cases among everyone else, broken down of course by demographics. I've never seen that study.
Congratulations on the article. It's like in Andersen's folktale "The Emperor's New Clothes". Someone has to come and say: Hey, the Emperor is wearing nothing at all, people are being fooled.
Exceptional well balanced thanks you. Take away is 15 to 24 should understand risk of vaccine higher than infection from Covid infection. What about 0-14, I am deeply concerned about mounting pressure to vaccinate my 8year old twins who are healthy.
This is f'ing fantastic, Rav. Well done. However, it's not clear to me why you didn't refer to the December 5, 2021 preprint study from Ontario (reviewed by Vinay Prassad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzVoS-1TIWI&t=38s&ab_channel=VinayPrasadMDMPH ), which indicated the rate of myocarditis can be as high as *777* per million in men 18-24 who receive two vaccine doses, significantly higher than the 1 in 2000 (or 500 per million per Clinton Condon's comment) referred to in the study by Katie Scharff you mentioned. Also, re the graph you included from the Nature Medicine article, if you include graphs from other publications that do not adequately label the x and y axes (no units for the y and no labels re brand, e.g., Moderna, for the x), may I suggest you provide that information in your article?
"We estimated extra myocarditis events to be between 1 and 10 per million persons in the month following vaccination, which was substantially lower than the 40 extra events per million persons observed following SARS-CoV-2 infection."
"Whilst myocarditis can be life-threatening, most vaccine-associated myocarditis events have been mild and self-limiting. The risk observed here is small and confined to the 7-day period following vaccination, whereas the lifetime risk of morbidity and mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection is substantial. Indeed, myocardial injury is very common in persons admitted to hospital with SARS-CoV-2 infection."
Great article but the focus on vaccine caused myocarditis vs infection caused myocarditis is not particularly relevant anymore as vaccinated people are getting infected at equal or higher rates than unvaccinated. If vaccination prevented infection, then the head to head comparison makes sense. But now it’s cumulative: you’re taking the risk of the vaccine induced myocarditis on top of the infection induced. It would also be worthwhile to look at rates of myocarditis after infection for unvaccinated vs vaccinated. And for what it’s worth, Alphonso Davies, as a three-time vaccinated, naturally recovered young male is an interesting case study.
In Quebec, the vaccine passport will include a mandatory 3rd dose by the summer. The passport will, in a few days, include hardware stores, which were once considered "essential" at the beginning of the pandemic. And there will be a mandatory "significant" tax for the unvaccinated to pay, probably next year, in 2023. What the fuck is going on, if you can pardon my language? 90% of the population is vaccinated already. This Omicron wave we are having now, the vast majority of COVID deaths are happening at home, not in long-term care, not in the hospital. That's weird. Is the same happening in British Columbia?
That brings the total to 3 young people, I personally know, who have been diagnosed with myocarditis/pericarditis after the vaccine. My circle of friends/family is not big enough for that to be statistically insignificant.
"Many in the media and medical establishment rightfully promote vaccination to prevent serious illness or death...."
I'd argue the Canadian Ontario data showing hospitalization of vaxies have blown from 25% to 75%, and ICU from 20% to 55% in the last 2-3 weeks.
If you are interested you could look into the Scotland government report - showing vaxies have become worse off (more prone) to catching, spreading, severe illness & death across the board. They had pretty looking stats before December 2021.
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data?fbclid=IwAR26nYBNjDrvooWNKDr3ifWVAcENjFrlEykSMAVbZu0x4ODIQ2Mz6Zs8D0w
https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11089/22-01-12-covid19-winter_publication_report.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2adisFI6xkeN_6nrYfdCufgtPo2B_Tj0hGyo1PRO3SZmUftoPnxQW7USI
When will the WEF show us their giant "lasers"
Best myocarditis hypothesis I've read goes like this: Peoples' anatomies vary slightly. Covid injections must be intramuscular, but a small percentage perforate a blood vessel near the deltoid. Blood vessels in young, lean, muscular males are largeish and close to the surface, so the percentage of inadvertent intravenous injections skews towards this cohort.
This could be avoided by the best practice of aspirating the injection to verify that a blood vessel wasn't hit. Alas, the injections are typically administered production-line style by untrained techs who are instructed to not aspirate.
This rhymes with most covid suppression tactics -- incompetence mixed with malice in equal measure. It should be clear by now that we're not going to vaccinate ourselves out of this, and that on balance, we're doing more harm than good; both on an individual level and population-wide. We're running out of immunologically naive people and risk entering into an infinite recursion of vaccinate/escape. I won't let my teenage son to be vaccinated, needless to say.
Excellent piece. An area I am concerned is those same young male at risk group, who got covid, and are now on the vaccine doses. As many colleges are forcing kids that have natural immunity into three shots.
A big part of the fallacious "fact-checking" of Joe Rogan's foray into the myocarditis from vaccine versus infection discussion is that comparing infection-caused myocarditis rates with vaccine-caused myocarditis rates is apples to oranges because not getting vaccinated does not ensure that a person does not get infected, nor does not getting vaccinated ensure that they do get infected. But getting vaccinated 100% ensures that the person will experience the risk of mycarditis from vaccination. So the right "apples to apples" comparison would be a population-level analysis between myocarditis cases among the "never vaccinated" and mycarditis cases among everyone else, broken down of course by demographics. I've never seen that study.
Congratulations on the article. It's like in Andersen's folktale "The Emperor's New Clothes". Someone has to come and say: Hey, the Emperor is wearing nothing at all, people are being fooled.
Exceptional well balanced thanks you. Take away is 15 to 24 should understand risk of vaccine higher than infection from Covid infection. What about 0-14, I am deeply concerned about mounting pressure to vaccinate my 8year old twins who are healthy.
Covid is FAKE. Please provide a study where the fake virus has been physically isolated. The VAXX bio weapons are of course real.
You are doing very important work. Please keep going.
This is f'ing fantastic, Rav. Well done. However, it's not clear to me why you didn't refer to the December 5, 2021 preprint study from Ontario (reviewed by Vinay Prassad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzVoS-1TIWI&t=38s&ab_channel=VinayPrasadMDMPH ), which indicated the rate of myocarditis can be as high as *777* per million in men 18-24 who receive two vaccine doses, significantly higher than the 1 in 2000 (or 500 per million per Clinton Condon's comment) referred to in the study by Katie Scharff you mentioned. Also, re the graph you included from the Nature Medicine article, if you include graphs from other publications that do not adequately label the x and y axes (no units for the y and no labels re brand, e.g., Moderna, for the x), may I suggest you provide that information in your article?
Great article. Completely agree with your conclusions. Just a minor note—1 in 2000 amounts to 500 per 1 million.
From the Oxford study you site:
"We estimated extra myocarditis events to be between 1 and 10 per million persons in the month following vaccination, which was substantially lower than the 40 extra events per million persons observed following SARS-CoV-2 infection."
"Whilst myocarditis can be life-threatening, most vaccine-associated myocarditis events have been mild and self-limiting. The risk observed here is small and confined to the 7-day period following vaccination, whereas the lifetime risk of morbidity and mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection is substantial. Indeed, myocardial injury is very common in persons admitted to hospital with SARS-CoV-2 infection."
Thank you for your service. You are a patriot!