Anyone paying attention and who doubted or was skeptical about these big tech "gatekeepers" being highly selective as to what is allowed and about this selectivity stemming from an agenda can be skeptical no longer.
This is beyond despicable. So a Russian grandmother is fair game because of what the Russian government is doing? By this logic, the children of U.S. servicemen stationed abroad are fair game because of what the U.S. government does.
And there's more to that "94%" effectiveness rate.
Mainstream news websites excitedly announced back in late 2020 that Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna had reported initial efficacy results of 95% in their primary analysis (Pfizer/BioNTech) and 94.5% in an interim analysis (Moderna) for their mRNA vaccines.
BBC stated on 12/8/2020 that "The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is safe and effective, giving good protection, researchers have confirmed."
Yahoo Finance stated that "Pfizer’s vaccine is 95% effective in preventing COVID-19, while Moderna Inc said its vaccine has the same efficacy."
However, a scientific paper on the Pfizer and Moderna "vaccines" stated that absolute risk reduction stood at 0.7% and 1.1% respectively; the 90%+ statistics represented relative risk reduction.
The Canadian Covid Health Alliance says the same in a useful pdf presentation.
They don't see because they don't look.
I'm a relative latecomer to this particular thread, but several posters, including yourself and Coach Rip, have demonstrated they employ alternative sources which I happen to read often as well (Zerohedge, Unz, and others). It's difficult for me to state this about myself without sounding as if I'm bragging or boasting, but it was my habit of reading these sources daily which helped me to see through the bullcrap about Trump being a Russian agent and about Russiagate (and about how Biden stole the election).
I first saw the light when I watched a German doctor's YouTube video about how coronaviruses have always existed and about how this was nowhere as deadly and dangerous as the media said it was. Little by little I did my research and today I stand convinced this entire thing was a planned charade which has cost millions of lives, jobs, and businesses.
The frustrating part is that a lot of people we all know who are otherwise both decent and intelligent have been suckered by this hoax. And some of think we're the delusional ones.
In the fall, I had my first "confrontation" with friends about the vaccine. A married couple came over (I'm married as well) and the topic of vaccinations arose. When I told them my wife and I are not vaccinated, those friends were shocked. They asked why. I gave reasons, citing for example an article from the February 28, 2020 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, where Anthony Fauci's article (which he co-authored) named "Navigating The Uncharted," which states that If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.
They had no reply and when I said that it's problematic the pharmaceutical companies enjoy full legal immunity, the husband said "oh come on you know how litigious Americans are."
Later on, he texted me the case of someone who allegedly died from Covid-19 and told me to get vaccinated. By now I had had enough (because at my house, he had been borderline rude when I mentioned why I am skeptical) and politely told him not to send me any such stuff going forward.
In February, I got together with his wife as well as with a young single woman who is a good friend of myself and of the wife; the three of us went out for coffee. At the end of that meeting, with the young single woman waiting inside the wife's car (the two of us were still standing outside), the wife asked me about that text conversation. She said her husband had been taken aback and disappointed at my response because he cared about my well-being.
This conversation, which remained friendly until the end (in November, it had been the husband, not the wife, who had been dismissive of my skepticism), became the ONE time that in a one-on-one, face-to-face exchange, I went on a "tirade" listing in successive order why I am skeptical:
- The "vaccine" does not stop transmission
- The "vaccine" does not stop one from catching Covid-19
- The "vaccine" has needed boosters, which means immunity wanes
- In the history of medicine and science, every single previous effort to formulate and to distribute a truly safe and effective coronavirus vaccine has failed
- There have been myriad reports all over America of vaccine injuries, some of them horrifying, as well as deaths; and, big tech does not let anyone post this on their social media accounts
- There have been reports in the UK, Germany, and U.S. of excessive mortality rates among younger age ranges (not the type of people who'd get heart attacks) throughout 2021 which were NOT Covid-19 deaths
And finally, I said - "given all this, and given there is no health benefit, and given the powers that be pushed this on people to make them comply; if this "vaccine" is so safe that people lost jobs if they refused - why would I possibly want to take this vaccine, given it doesn't work to prevent Covid-19 and given there are so many problems?"
The wife, who has always been a respectful friend, had no reply and appeared to take me seriously. She said that as far as she and her husband were concerned, the health benefit was that if they get sick, who'd take care of their toddler kids while they recover? (Although I had just said the "vaccine" doesn't stop transmission....)
She also asked me if I knew anybody in person who had had complications. I told her a young woman I know went 5 months without menstruating. I forgot to tell her someone I know had heart problems and they are now permanent, and he can't play sports.
The point is that people do NOT want to know. They believe they are informed and educated on this issue; they trust politicians, the media, Fauci. And now, given so many did take the "vaccine," for them to honestly face evidence which shows the "vaccine" is useless at best and potentially very dangerous at worst will force them to conclude they were conned. They will be angry; their egos and pride will be damaged.
And more than a few of them, I speculate, think of people like me as irrational, stupid, ignorant, unthinking, unscientific conspiracy theorists.
I have no regrets about not taking it and will NEVER take it.
I don't write this lightly. A lot of my friends are vaccinated, as are people in my and in my wife's immediate families. If the warnings that these vaccines may cause long-term immunological deficiency and/or other serious health problems, the wife and husband and the young single woman (also vaccinated) and a lot of people I care about could be in serious trouble.
To end this long post: I recommend Rintrah.nl. This guy is a Dutch blogger who writes very thought-provoking posts about the pandemic, about other issues, and he often approaches the topics he writes about with a mixture of a solid grasp of the facts plus a strong understanding of human psychology. This particular entry talks about how the "vaccine's" effectiveness is an "unfalsifiable belief system."