Opinion: Are vaccine risks worth the cost?

Clark County Today Administrator Heidi Wetzler asks a very important question

The question I’d like to have answered regarding the global vaccine rollout is, “How many vaccine deaths are considered acceptable?” Can someone in charge please give me a number? Scientifically speaking, how many heart attacks, miscarriages, blood clots or neurological side effects are considered to be an appropriate trade-off for the value of the vaccines?  How about episodes of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, myocarditis, and life-threatening hospitalizations? How many of those who are now permanently disabled are deemed an acceptable price to pay to conquer this virus?  

I have received many emails from people who are looking to tell their stories of vaccine injuries. They are a silenced group. You’d think that doctors and scientists who are truly interested in the health and safety of their patients would be carefully investigating all of the potential vaccine-related side effects, then adding their findings to the rest of the world’s while continuing to actively weigh the benefits of the vaccines versus their risks. But the truth is, the immense pressure doctors are under to turn a blind eye to adverse events is real. Dr. Mollie James, a courageous ICU doctor in New York City recently decided to speak out regarding her personal experience. Here is an excerpt from her interview. 

“I feel pressured not to use VAERS and many of my colleagues confidently tell me the same,” Dr. James said exclusively to the Gateway Pundit. “They are scared of the politics, of being outed, shamed, and ridiculed. It’s easy for a Doctor to lose their admitting privileges somewhere, and many know if they report something as a vaccine side effect they could lose their job. I just can’t believe what I’m seeing over and over again, and I’ve decided to come forward because this is such a silent crisis of public health, people have to know how bad things are and they need to know the real risks of the COVID vaccine. Dr. James points to peer-reviewed studies and surveys that show the VAERS system is off by a factor of 100, and says this matches her own experiences. 

Dr. James estimated that in her intensive care unit in New York City, or ICU, with a major medical chain, she sees 30 percent or more who clearly have complications after having received the vaccine. “There is clearly an increased risk of strokes, heart attack, blood clots, autoimmune issues, arterial issues, and neurological issues associated with the vaccine that are not being tracked because politics is demanding that the vaccine be considered perfect. The risks go all the way up to death. People are suffering major adverse reactions and I have no doubt many are dying from these vaccines but we can’t discuss this openly without fear of political consequences. I have to speak out.” 

Adding credence to Dr. James’s testimony, Dr. Peter Doshi spoke out at recent FDA proceedings. He asked, “what is the FDA doing to ensure the people can speak freely, without fear of reprisal?” He shared that three medical boards, the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Pediatrics are all threatening sanctions or discipline against doctors who question the current line of thinking and protocol. 

The afore-mentioned assertion regarding the potential inaccuracy of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)  is bone chilling. Today there are 14,925 deaths reported to the system. If it is truly off by a factor of 100, then we are talking about 1.5 million deaths. The following data is taken from the OpenVAERS.com website and is current through Sept. 10.  

One of the many questions I have regarding the data reported to VAERS, is why the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine when it is reportedly responsible for 69 percent of all deaths? 

One reader recently sent me the following: “I had a heart attack after getting the Pfizer jab. I started a FB group asking if others had severe reactions to the vaccine. I wasn’t spreading any information. I only wanted to provide a place where people could share their experience, support each other and compare notes. I had thousands of people join in a couple of days and immediately received a warning from FB that if I continued to post “false” information I would be shut down. FB was removing them as FB saw fit. They would deny a post as partially false, and say the information wasn’t verified or proven. That doesn’t make it false. Such as VAERS numbers. The information from the VAERS official site was deemed “false.” Yeah, tell me again we are getting honest figures on who has suffered adverse effect and how many people have died. It would be easier to risk my life by getting my 2nd jab if I saw that it was working. But why would I go through risking another heart attack for something that isn’t working? How stupid would I be? 

Facebook has not only censored this person’s attempt at an information sharing group, but it has completely removed many other groups with memberships in the hundreds of thousands. Back in April and despite the First Amendment preventing lawmakers trying to silence citizens, Democrat Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) wrote a letter addressed to the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter, urging them to take more action against vaccine misinformation on their platforms. 

“For too long, social media platforms have failed to adequately protect Americans by not taking sufficient action to prevent the spread of vaccine disinformation online,” the senators wrote in the letter. “Despite your policies intended to prevent vaccine disinformation, many of these accounts continue to post content that reach millions of users, repeatedly violating your policies with impunity.” 

For starters, since when has it been the utterly subjective job of social media platforms to “protect Americans?” And secondly, I believe it’s the silencing of the harm being done by these vaccines, that is the true egregious disservice to humanity. If Facebook or Twitter were truly interested in protecting Americans, these stories of vaccine harm would stand. 

On Sept. 10, a Detroit news station – WXYZ-TV Channel 7 – put out a call on their Facebook page. They asked if anyone who had lost an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19 was willing to share their family’s story. The post brought hundreds of thousands of comments, and as I scanned them, I could only find stories of vaccine harm. Vaccine death. Many called for the news channel to actually do their job and report on THAT. To Channel 7 I say, shame on you and get out of the journalism business, if you ignore the overwhelmingly terrifying response to your post, and refuse to report on what is dangling in front of your face. 

A young man by the name of John Stokes, a Division 1 golfer at Tennessee State University, recently took to social media to chronicle his bout with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, following the Pfizer vaccine. While the fact that he will most likely have to sit out his senior season and may never fully recover is heart-breaking, his claim that he has had offers to buy the rights to his vaccine reaction story so he can’t share it, is in many ways, worse. While we are on the subject of myocarditis, 46 people have died of COVID in all branches of the military combined, and now over 80 military members have myocarditis after being given the vaccine. Why in the world would the federal government be mandating a vaccine to a group of people that has caused more harm than the virus it is protecting them from. When will people wake up? 

Over the weekend I listened to a podcast on YouTube put out by CannCon.locals.com. Of course, it has since been taken down since we apparently live in the era of state-run media. It gave voice to a local whistleblower from our very own Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver. She claimed, among other things, that there is active data suppression going on at her hospital. There is a widespread failure to report to VAERS, mandatory reporting conditions such as stroke, heart attack, bleeding conditions, multisystem inflammatory syndrome, and autoimmune and neurological disorders.  And on top of that, she also claimed that the Clark County Medical Examiner refuses to perform autopsies on those who have died with a “natural death designation.” 

Dr. Lee Merrit, an orthopedic doctor from Iowa recently suggested in an interview that, “If we were in a real pandemic, we would be doing pathology on those that die.” Now I’m not a doctor, but it does seem fairly obvious that in the interest of science, autopsies would be essential to gather information regarding those who have recently been vaccinated and subsequently have died due to a mandatory reporting condition.  

Another troubling bit of information to me is the way the CDC defines “unvaccinated.” People within 14 days of their first dose of the vaccine, are considered unvaccinated. This means if someone was hospitalized, admitted to ICU, required mechanical ventilation or died within two weeks of getting the jab they are being counted as “unvaccinated.”  It makes me question all of those hospitalization charts floating around on social media with the little people in the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” columns. How does this definition help if we are trying to honestly ascertain vaccine harm?  

I have received a healthy number of emails from vaccine reluctant nurses. I have always been particularly interested in their reasoning as they have a unique vantage point. They see the effects of illness from COVID as well as the side effects from the vaccines up close and this is the choice they make. Why isn’t anyone placing value on their professional opinions? They talk of the money being made by hospitals and clinics by administering this vaccine. Forty dollars per shot, 10 shots per hour, 9 hours per day and 30 days per month equals $108,000 per vaccine station. Add to that the tens of thousands the hospital receives for every patient put on a ventilator, as well as compensation for every COVID positive person. It’s no wonder we have ended up in this mess, created by financially incentivizing medical institutions in this way. The current system generates the grave conflicts of interest we are experiencing. The schmoozing of doctors by pharmaceutical companies is a $20-billion-dollar-a-year industry. And as long as main-stream media and big tech is funded by Big Pharma to the tune of $6 billion dollars per year, why would they bite the hand that feeds them and choose to report on stories of vaccine injuries or allow them on their platforms. 

If medical organizations are going to begin to earn the trust of the unvaccinated, this train wreck of dishonesty, censorship, and suppression of adverse vaccine-related events must stop. In 1976, the vaccination campaign for the Swine Flu was halted after 40 million vaccinations due to 500 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome and 53 deaths.  

Frankly, I find it demeaning to have the president tell the unvaccinated that “his patience is wearing thin.”  How about this, Mr. President. Our patience is wearing thin regarding the news blackout on vaccine safety data. Start by looking into the eyes of your citizens and tell us how many deaths are acceptable, stop intimidating and silencing doctors, allow all deaths and adverse events to be openly and honestly reported and then promise to disband the program, when that number is reached.