The study, out on Wednesday, appears to have found NO extra long-term cardiovascular risks for most people infected with Covid. But the Cleveland Clinic, NIH, and the authors pretended the opposite.
I am SO tired of this nonstop dishonesty about EVERYTHING that the corrupt (of every stripe) continue blaring at the rest of us. This particular pustule of dishonesty appears to be cover for the COVID "vaccine"s role in causing cardiovascular damage and death in many thousands of victims.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-authors-of-a-big-new-paper
. . . The entire extra danger they found appears to have come only from the extreme risk suffered by about 2,000 people who were hospitalized with a Covid-19 infection. Those people were almost four times as likely to die or have heart attacks or strokes as the control group.
. . . Specifically, 350 of the non-hospitalized group had MACE events in three years, a rate of 4.3 percent. In contrast, 9,183 people in the control group of 217,730 suffered similar events, a rate of 4.2 percent.³
The authors did not disclose these facts anywhere in the paper. They are available only in the supplemental appendix. Even there they have to be reverse-engineered, as they are never provided openly.
In the paper itself, the authors briefly mentioned the doubled risk for the entire group of 10,000. They used the phrase “all levels of severity” to make it sound like the non-hospitalized group had double the risk, while the hospitalized group had four times.
This wording is canny: “all levels of severity” includes rather than excludes the hospitalized group, so authors are basically double-counting the hospitalized group’s risk to hide the lack of extra danger for everyone else.
The authors then spent the rest of the paper focusing on the hospitalized group, parsing its risk in many different ways.
But they never - never, not even in the supplemental data appendix - provided a risk ratio for the non-hospitalized patients.
This was scientific and medical malpractice. Roughly 98 percent of all adults, and 90-95 percent of adults over 60, who get Covid are healthy enough to recover without hospitalization. Their risk - or lack thereof — should have been clearly disclosed.
The authors appear to know just what they were doing. They began their conclusion: “Hospitalization for COVID-19 [emphasis added] represents a coronary artery disease risk equivalent…”
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So is this like the "vaccines cause autism" scenario, all tee'd up to be roundly debunked in the media so the truth can be hidden even deeper?
Yes.
May I onion-belt for a moment (a Grandpa Simpson reference)?
For about 15 years it was part of my duties to track zoonotic diseases (animal-human transmission) for the public university research center where I worked. Keeping an eye out for anything that might concern or interest our citizen stakeholders.
There was a list server called ProMED-mail where people worldwide reported stuff on infectious disease outbreaks they were seeing (both human and other species). I read it daily, it was a very active list server, highly regarded, with HUGE traffic. But I read my area, and outside of it, the best I could.
I can't remember what the topic was, but at one point around 2000 I realized something. The vast majority of content on the list server was people retransmitting stuff from media outlets.
I knew that but I didn't really...know it. Just one day I woke up, and it clicked--because I knew how Pharma PR works, and I knew how the MSM worked...and all of a sudden I saw that what I was reading as a reliable source on disease outbreaks...was mostly content by Pharma PR agencies...hiding behind the scenes. At that point in history the estimate was that something like 85% of "news" content was PR by hidden actors. I swear, when I realized this, my brain went BOING so loud it knocked over small children in the streets.
Then I saw that as I passed along things of potential interest, the university researchers and their big private sector sponsors were interested not because they were concerned about how to handle diseases...but how to make money around the disease-shepherding process. "Show me the grant money."
I knew this from before--I went through the whole HIV/AIDS thing among dissidents. But somehow, as part of my work, I forgot basic principles. Because the structure of my job pushed me in that direction. Because I was there to do good for our constituents.
Then I realized that everything was structured to keep good-doing out of the picture.
I changed careers. And became 50x more mistrustful of Pharma and Pharma-paid media.
Most people I worked with are still there. Still doing the same stuff, with masks n jabs n boosters.
Thanks for sharing. Medical disinfo, along with a large side of financial disinfo, was my entry path to the great awakening as well.
It wasn't my career, though, so kudos to you for ditching it completely. That takes commitment. The brainwashing is deep, very deep. Must've been one heck of a psychological trip to get to that point and come out of it with a plan of action.
Too bad you couldn't wake up the sleepers. As everyone on GAW knows, it's a tough job and sometimes dangerous; many don't even want to wake up. I'm very glad that RFK Jr joined the team; he's a good speaker.
Over time I've come to believe that nearly all diseases, the chronic ones in particular, are not merely shepherded but outright manufactured. The cures take a lot of time, and undoing the brainwashing is the biggest part for most.
Great comment.
Yeah, it was hard to ditch the good parts of what I was doing because it was so deeply embedded in what was hopelessly awful. I figure there was a little window that opened inside those powerful systems, for certain things to be moved forward--alternatives, options, new thinking--and we/I helped bring people together who could meet, take that, transform and root it, then move back outward with it. (The real world changers also eventually left...while the borg types stayed. There were grad students there--30 years ago--who are STILL with those programs, with various levels of jobs-for-life. Doing nothing. But the money keeps flowing. And living off the long-ago work of people much better than they could ever be--I don't mean me, but our innovative, hard working, brilliant citizen stakeholders, some of the best people I've ever met in my entire life.)
I think that's all any of us can do. It's almost a form of...transformative magic, or similar. Like the Traditionalist philosophers would say. And one can't chase the opportunity, the opportunity finds us...and if we can, we meet it.
But at the worldly juncture, yeah, it's hard to realize you're part of something you don't want to be, then eat the worldly consequences for stepping away.
Thank you for your understanding though.
I was trying to explain to someone gently the other day about the manufacturing of diseases. I'm just always so startled to learn that othewise seemingly intelligent people completely buy into the prevailing Pharma models/views/myths. But a paycheck's a powerful motive.
Living in Logan's Run seems nice until you're 29.
I'd love to add to the convo, but I don't have much else to say. Just to draw a deep breath and say "yup," and buy the next beer. Maybe GAW can get a booth at Trump's promised 250th USA birthday party. Cheers, fren 🍻
Yes, [they] will continue working to hide the truth right up to the end. What choice do they have?
Coding and reporting of illness has ALWAYS had primarily a manipulative/moneygrubbing motive. There were researchers at Johns Hopkins 15-30 years ago struggling to be heard on this, and they were drowned out by the more lucrative model of defining things in order to get research and treatment money.
No, hospitalized with a positive PCR test result. "Covid-19" has never been isolated from a "covid" patient.
If anyone knows of that having happened, let me know, because after nearly 5 years I and others have seen nothing but crappy methodology spun to scare people into handing over money and power to Pharma.
Ooh, GOOD POINT. And as many here surely recall, even Kary Mullis, the INVENTOR of the PCR test, made it very clear that the test WAS NOT a reliable test for viruses. It was theater designed to stoke fear and to herd millions into the medical system -- and in particular, to frighten people into getting the jabs.
Who's going to buy into this? The dumb ones are already dead.
Most people reading or watching the story on CNN and other news outlets will be swayed by the Big Names of "Cleveland Clinic", "The National Institutes of Health", and the Respected Scientists who conducted the study. Many will be somewhat skeptical and some -- most people on this board, I expect -- will assume some fuckery is involved.
But since the story doesn't specifically say anything about the jabs being safe, that thought will slide in under the radar: "Oh, so most of those sudden cardiac deaths and so on are from COVID, not the vaccine I took."
That's my take on it, anyway. And I'm certain that was the intent of most of the people involved in this project.
The PR firms they hire specialize in this sort of slithering. They do the work of their Father, the lord of lies.
You underestimate how many dumb ones there are.
Urite. What's left of my hope still gets in the way of logic.