I have two separate injections to cover. The first has to do with flue vaccines. The title of the article provides the main thrust, but the content is complex beyond what I can evaluate. Except to suggest that the whole issue of vaccines for respiratory viruses generally—not just the mRNA injections for Covid—is nowhere near the clear cut just-do-it issue that the medical establishment pretends that it is:
Repeat Influenza Vaccination Linked To Higher Risk Of Infection: CDC Preprint
The first thing to say is that there are also reputable flu vaccine studies that reach the opposite conclusion. However, this particular study does appear to be quite large in scope and extended in time. Moreover, it is not the first time that this conclusion has been reached—studies going back all the way to the 1970s have raised similar questions:
A recent preprint co-authored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) U.S. Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Network Investigators finds that repeat annual influenza vaccines are associated with an increased risk of influenza infection.
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The study followed patients who had presented themselves with respiratory diseases at one of the designated clinics between the 2011 and 2019 seasons. Over 55,000 clinical visits were analyzed, and vaccine status was further examined.
Repeat vaccinees, when compared against non-repeat vaccinees, had a 10 percent increased risk of contracting the influenza type A H3N2 virus but not for influenza type B and influenza type A H1N1 variants.
Those who contracted influenza in prior seasons were more protected against infection if the current circulating variant was of the same subtype.
The article ends with a discussion of live versus non-live vaccines which illustrates the complexity of the whole concept of vaccination:
Biologist Alberto Rubio-Casillas at the University of Guadalajara told The Epoch Times in an email that different vaccines cause different nonspecific effects.
“That is, they not only prevent the vaccine-targeted disease but also reduce mortality from other infections. Vaccines apparently train the immune system in ways that reduce or enhance susceptibility to unrelated infections,” he said.
“All live-attenuated vaccines examined so far, including BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), measles virus, and oral polio vaccine (OPV), have beneficial nonspecific effects ... On the contrary, non-live vaccines induce negative nonspecific effects.”
Contrastingly, some studies have suggested that influenza vaccinations may also confer immunity against respiratory syncytial viruses.
Most authorized influenza vaccines now are non-live vaccines.
Live vaccines tend to generate longer and more effective immunity. However, they also tend to cause stronger immunological reactions that may not be effectively cleared by immunocompromised people or those with chronic health problems.
Of course, all that only scratches the surface of the whole risk/benefit debate, which is what this is all about.
Earlier in the week I came across reporting on new claims that the latest version of Covid could lead to a “pandemic of heart failure”. In fact, however, other commentators argue that this study actually raises questions about the mRNA injections. Zerohedge picked up this article by Paul Joseph Watson
'Experts' Say New COVID Strain Will Cause Global "Heart Failure Pandemic"
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson vis Modernity.news.
Scientists are warning that a new COVID strain will cause a global “heart failure pandemic,” prompting much skepticism.
After a brief summary of the study—which is more of a concept paper and admits there is no “conclusive clinical evidence”—Watson writes skeptically:
Health officials suggested people should be wary of gathering for New Year’s Eve celebrations, warning, yet again, that hospitals would be at risk of being stretched to breaking point.
Despite everything we’ve learned about the association between COVID vaccines and serious heart problems, it appears they’re now trying to re-brand the heart problems as being caused by COVID itself.
Oh well, guess we better take another round of the “100 per cent safe and effective” then!
Once the new booster is rolled out, expect another spate of healthy, professional sports stars suddenly collapsing in the middle of the field as a result of…checks notes… the JN.1 COVID strain.
Earlier in the week, Karl Denninger launched a full frontal assault on this scare study, exposing its dubious assumptions. I’m going to quote KD at some length, since this seems important:
Oh boy, this is a good one....
Covid-19 could trigger a 'heart failure pandemic', experts have warned, calling it a 'global healthcare risk'. The rise in Covid cases, especially due to the new strain known as JN.1, could lead to potential heart issues.
Scientists from Japan's top research institute, Riken, have issued a new report. They say the ACE2 receptors, which the coronavirus clings to within human cells, are 'very common' in the heart. This means many people who catch the virus may suffer from 'reduced cardiac function'.
Uh, no.
We've known this is flat-out bullshit for nearly everyone since 2021.
SARS-CoV-2 vRNA was detected in plasma of 100%, 52.6%, and 11.1% of ICU, non-ICU, and outpatients, respectively. Virions were detected in plasma pellets using electron tomography and immunostaining.
In other words if you wound up in the ICU with covid the virus was in your blood on a statistically-certain basis, …
From this, requiring nothing else, we can determine that there is a very strong correlation between viremia and getting screwed dead. We do not know what the odds of viremia are for someone who never went to the doctor, but it is reasonable to believe that you'd have to get it "worse" to go to the hospital (but not be admitted) than not, and you'd have to be have it objectively worse to be admitted than simply show up at the doctor's office or ER.
Since the virus enters through the respiratory passages and the heart is not directly connected to same, and thus something has to enter the circulation to get to the heart it is therefore deductively obvious that it is not possible for a person who did not suffer viremia to have the heart damaged by the virus since it never got there.
However, we changed the game in 2021 did we not?
We sure did.
What did we do that guarantees the spike protein will get into the circulation? We started jabbing people with a substance that is guaranteed, at least in part, to get into the circulation -- every single time. Further, we know it did every single time too despite the basic logic behind all injections because the Japanese found concentrations of it all over the body well-distant from the arm including the ovaries in women which have, as their only connection to the arm, the circulation.
Obviously the general public probably isn’t reading up on the technicalities of this. They hear sound bites on the news, or see sight (?) bites online. But the stats on mRNA uptake this respiratory virus season strongly suggest that the general public believes that it is being gaslighted by the medical and political establishment, and they’re not buying it any longer.
Masks are a helpful way to identify the deranged and mind-controlled members of the populace. Maybe our biggest problem is the alarming numbers of stupid people.
Almost every second post on twitter is a why-I-mask post, I was wondering what was up.