UPDATED: Blood Clots And Beyond

UPDATE: Late (for me) yesterday evening, commenter Bebe criticized my suggestion of a linkage between the deaths of the unfortunate young mother in Grand Rapids and the blood clotting issues discussed by Sucharit Bhakdi. Here is Bebe's comment:

A subarachnoid hemorrhage is caused by weakness in a blood vessel, not a clot. 

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/subarachnoid-hemorrhage

It is not that unusual for a relatively young person to have one. Can be due to an aneurysm in the brain.

I had originally expressed skepticism that this young mother "had been susceptible to brain clotting and subsequent hemorrhaging."

My phrasing there was clumsy and didn't do justice to Bhakdi's expressed concerns. I'll respond to Bebe in two steps.

First, as I observed last night, there are studies that suggest a possible link betwen Covid the disease and 

"spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)" associated with Covid. So one would want to study any possibility that these novel gene based vaccines could also be a cause:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33371170/

"This study shows a series of 4 rare cases of SHA associated with COVID-19. The possible mechanisms underlying the involvement of SARSCoV-2 and SHA is yet to be fully understood."

Second, I should have noted that Bhakdi insists on a twofold action of the gene based vaccines in the vessels of the brain. The first is to trigger clotting, via the spike protein that the vaccines cause to be manufactured by the endothelial cells lining the vessels. The second is to trigger the lymphocytes to attack the endothelial cells themselves in the walls of the vessels (triggered by the presence of waste products from manufacture by those cells of spike proteins).

Bhakdi points out that a similar phenomenon occurs in the lungs.

The significance of this--as I surmise--is that Bhakdi agrees that when this happens in the lungs, this is a natural--albeit serious--progression of Covid the disease itself. Covid normally starts as an upper respiratory infection and, as such, isn't very serious. It becomes more serious if it progresses to the lungs, where the cells are not continually replaced (as in the nose and throat passages). The result is that permanent damage to the lungs can occur.

Bhakdi's great concern is that the gene based vaccines--all vaccines currently available--mimic the action of the disease but trigger a "super aggressive" immune response, leading to permanent damage in the lungs (which is serious but can be treated) and the brain vessels (where the damage to the vessels walls can be life threatening).

It is that second action--the attack on the cells of the vessel walls--that could be linked to SAH. If that were the case, the vaccines would, in their effects, be mimicing the disease itself, as the study I cited suggests.

As you'll see below, Bhakdi is very concerned that these gene injections will cause the genes to travel to areas of the body--and he focuses on the brain--that they would never normally travel to. There are other considerations, but this should suffice to justify the concern that SAH may be linked to the vaccines through an operation separate from clotting per se (although likely linked to clotting, as described).

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As promised, below is a 45 minute or so video of Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi being interviewed, with the primary focus being on blood clotting as a 'side effect' of the Covid vaccines. All four vaccines are discussed to one extent or another because Bhakdi maintains that--despite differences--they operate on the same principle. You may already be familiar with Bhakdi as the co-author of the book Corona: False Alarm? which came out in October, 2020.

What I've done is created a summary--not a transcript--of the interview, which I've appended below the video. While Bhakdi speaks very good English, it's not his native language. I find his speech in English to be a bit on the slow side because he visibly searches for words at times. You may find that the summary 1) gives you an idea of whether you'll be interested in the full video, and 2) allows you to refresh your recollection rather than scrolling through the video again. While this summary shouldn't be taken as a transcript (except when you see Bhakdi's words in ""), as the video went on I found myself hewing closer to his actual words.

I think you'll find that Bhakdi is very forthright--sometimes strikingly so. He's a scientist, but he's trying to communicate in a way that will be readily understandable

To set this up, however--and you'll see why I'm doing this as you get into the interview/summary--I'll first draw your attention to a tragic story that came out this morning:

35-year-old woman dies of brain hemorrhage 11 days after receiving J&J vaccine

The family of Anne VanGeest says the 35-year-old was healthy prior to being vaccinated, and that she died of complications from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

As I found out later, this poor woman was the mother of four children. I can readily accept that a woman with four children would have been pretty well exposed to the medical system--well enough that it would have become known if she had been susceptible to brain clotting and subsequent hemorrhaging.

UPDATED: New Non-Normal?

We know that our elite Masters hate normality, are trying to shut the normal down. This morning I came across a reference (Renowned scientist tells Laura Ingraham the Covid-19 vaccine is ‘downright dangerous’ and will send you ‘to your doom’) to a book I think I'll buy: Corona, False Alarm? You can read about the author at the following link--he seems to be a very eminent guy: Sucharit Bhakdi. 

Remarkably, last night Fox allowed Laura Ingraham to interview Bhakdi. He took the opportunity to state that Tony Fauci doesn't have a clue about immunology:

In his interview with Ingraham, Bhakdi described as “utter nonsense” Dr. Anthony Fauci’s claim earlier Wednesday during a live interview on The Story with Martha MacCallum on the Fox News Channel that 75% of Americans would need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to achieve herd immunity. Bhakdi added “Someone who says this has not the slightest inkling of the basics of immunology.”

Bhakdi also warns, without specifics because Laura cuts him off, that the vaccines are "downright dangerous."

It turns out, per Wikipedia, that Bhakdi's science has been totally debunked by a German journalistic fact-checking outfit and a guy who "has a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)." And who belongs to the Aspen Institute and writes for Foreign Policy. So, all things considered, I think I'll buy the book, which is half a year old by now. What can I lose?

In the meantime here's a transcript of an interview dating from 6 months ago that appeared on Peter Hitchens blog. Since it's basically just a transcript I took the liberty of pasting it in. I will add this caveat. Being a translation from German, and having some experience in this, the translation must be read with care and reflection. The English doesn't always have the same impact as the underlying German. The dry style of the speaker is also a factor. However, the major theme of Bhakdi in this interview runs more or less as follows: 

Covid is not a truly "novel" coronavirus. Rather, it now appears to be typical of the larger family of coronaviruses that are common to humans and other animals around the world (such as the common cold). Covid has similar characteristics and similar risks to these other coronaviruses and should not be treated as unique or unusually dangerous. Overreaction has done far more harm than the virus and the overreaction has been fueled by falsehoods and unscientific hysteria.

Has A Scientist Discovered What's Behind The Vax Blood Clot Problem?

I saw this news yesterday, referencing a behind-the-pay-wall WSJ article. Since the WSJ makes the first few paragraphs freely available, I guess I can republish those here. Since I've done posts on the vaccines, I feel that I have a responsibility to update.

Here's the down and dirty. We're talking about AstraZeneca and J&J, which are adenovirus medications.

The German scientist in question says that the clotting problem can be traced to a common preservative in the vaccine, EDTA:

In Germany, one researcher thinks he has found what is triggering the clots. Andreas Greinacher, a blood expert, and his team at the University of Greifswald believe so-called viral vector vaccines—which use modified harmless cold viruses, known as adenoviruses, to convey genetic material into vaccine recipients to fight the coronavirus—could cause an autoimmune response that leads to blood clots. According to Prof. Greinacher, that reaction could be tied to stray proteins and a preservative he has found in the AstraZeneca vaccine.

“Prof. Greinacher and his team has just begun examining Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine but has identified more than 1,000 proteins in AstraZeneca’s vaccine derived from human cells, as well as a preservative known as ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, or EDTA. Their hypothesis is that EDTA, which is common to drugs and other products, helps those proteins stray into the bloodstream, where they bind to a blood component called platelet factor 4, or PF4, forming complexes that activate the production of antibodies.

The inflammation caused by the vaccines, combined with the PF4 complexes, could trick the immune system into believing the body had been infected by bacteria, triggering an archaic defense mechanism that then runs out of control and causes clotting and bleeding.

A number of things to note.

Palmer And Bhakdi On The Pfizer Animal Study

I'm pasting in the introduction and conclusion of a paper by Michael Palmer and Sucharit Bhakdi for doctors4covidethics.org. The full 17 page paper can be found here. Thanks to the commenter who provided the link.

I would call particular attention to the conclusions regarding the possible effects of repeated injections.

The Pfizer mRNA vaccine: pharmacokinetics and toxicity

Michael Palmer, MD and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD

July 23rd, 2021

Abstract

We summarize the findings of an animal study which Pfizer submitted to the Japanese health authorities in 2020, and which pertained to the distribution and elimination of a model mRNA vaccine. We show that this study clearly presaged grave risks of blood clotting and other adverse effects. The failure to monitor and assess these risks in the subsequent clinical trials, and the grossly negligent review process in conjunction with the emergency use authorizations, have predictably resulted in an unprecedented medical disaster.

The Plan? What Plan?

Earlier today I asked whether The Plan is working. At the pandemic simulation games post you'll find some interesting information that points to high level coordination among both government and non-government entities across the entire spectrum of concerns--health, economics, finance, intelligence, etc.--working together to plan for "emergency" scenarios. The common factor--one might say the common assumption--in these simulation scenarios is the curtailment of civil liberties and the top down imposition of authoritarian controls. While one may suppose that planning for emergencies is a wise precaution, given that emergencies do occur, one might also be excused for wondering whether "emergencies" could be used as pretexts for putting such plans into operation. Given the lack of transparency in our supposed government by and for the people, one might be considered a fool for not considering that possibility.

At any rate, yesterday LifeSite published a piece by the premier anti-vaxxing outfit, Children's Health Defense (yes, that's full disclosure), that touches on similar issues but in an even wider context. What makes this piece valuable, in my view, is that it goes beyond drawing connections among influential state and non-state actors with well known agendas. It also presents a conceptual framework for those--at first glance, perhaps, rather disparate--agendas. Again, see what you think. Later today I'll be posting a summary of an interview with Sucharit Bhakdi, a quite eminent doctor, microbiologist and expert in the field of infectious diseases and immunology. What stands out in the interview, behind everything Bhakdi has to say from a technical standpoint about the "vaccines", is that Bhakdi is puzzled by the clear contravention of well known medical science in what's going on. The existence of an overriding "plan" for a "greater good" could help explain what is otherwise inexplicable to pure scientists--those not consumed with a transhumanist agenda. The overall framework is that of a "human operating system":

Covid: Good News, Bad News

The WSJ featured an article on Thursday by Marty Makary, a public health doctor at Johns Hopkins who has been heavily involved in tracking Covid cases:

We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April

Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news.

The article seems not to be behind the usual WSJ paywall, so check it out. Here's my take from it.

It appears that if you read between the lines, Makary is basically presenting the views of immunological and virological experts such as Michael Yeadon and Sucharit Bhakdi (and others). Makary is careful to avoid transgressing the established orthodoxy by suggesting that there isn't actually any real point in mass, coerced vaxxing. However, that is the logical conclusion of most of the data that he presents.

Here's the chart in which he presents that 77% drop in "cases" in the last six weeks--and please note that he doesn't discuss the fraught issue of how to determine what a "case" actually is. However, he does stipulate:

We Made A Big Mistake

There's a huge breaking story out tonight regarding vax safety.

You may--I hope--recall the name Dr. Byram Bridle. Bridle, a viral immunologist at the University of Guelph in Canada, featured in a very lengthy post from mid April (which still makes interesting reading): Vax Hesitancy--Reasonable Or Not? 

On May 29th Bridle gave a blockbuster interview, just eight minutes long, on Canadian radio, and that interview could be a game changer.

What Bridle and some colleagues did was to file the equivalent of a FOIA request with a Japanese regulatory agency that had done a "bio-distribution" study on the mRNA vaccines, i.e., Pfizer and Moderna. What a bio-distribution study tells you is where the vaccine travels in the body. That study, which Bridle had translated, was an eye opener.

LifeSite has a lengthy article on this whole development: Vaccine researcher admits ‘big mistake,’ says spike protein is dangerous ‘toxin’

‘Terrifying’ new research finds vaccine spike protein unexpectedly in bloodstream. The protein is linked to blood clots, heart and brain damage, and potential risks to nursing babies and fertility.

What I'll do is present some introductory material from the article, but then I'll provide what amounts to a full transcript of Bridle's radio interview. The interview is actually basically a monologue by Bridle, and it's well organized. Following the transcript will be a Youtube of the interview (audio only).

Before any of that, I want to point out that in the interview Bridle talks only about mRNA vaccines--Pfizer and Moderna. Many may be under the impression that side effects are a feature only of J&J and AstraZeneca. That is definitely not the case. In this regard (and others) Bridle is in complete agreement with Sucharit Bhakdi. In fact, the findings that Bridle relates in the interview confirm exactly what we presented Bhakdi stating in Blood Clots And Beyond.

So, with that we turn to the LifeSite article and offer these brief excerpts that will lead into the interview transcript. The entire article is worth checking out:

Robert Malone Endorses A Michael Yeadon's Interview

I'd more or less expected news today from the SCOTUS regarding the AZ election law case. No word yet, although we may yet hear. In the meantime ...

Some might wonder how Robert Malone tweeting out a Michael Yeadon interview qualifies as news. Here's why in a nutshell:

Robert W Malone, MD

@RWMaloneMD

Inventor of mRNA vaccines and RNA as a drug, Bench to Bedside vaccines and biologics consulting.

Malone is a very big name in the field of mRNA vaccines. He also happens to be an outspoken critic of the current run of vaccines as well as of the government agencies that are either not compiling or not releasing the data that would allow for truly valid risk assessments. For example:

CDC Attempts Damage Control Through The WaPo

Last night an article came out in the WaPo, presumably to complement the damaging admissions that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has made regarding the high viral loads that asymptomatic vaxxed persons are carrying--and presumably spreading. My impression last night hasn't been changed by anything I've seen this morning: this is damage control. For what it's worth, here's a link--and note the emphasis on "messaging" rather than on, say, "getting the data out":

‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe

The internal presentation shows that the agency thinks it is struggling to communicate on vaccine efficacy amid increased breakthrough infections

Note, too, that the key assertion in the messaging--that the Dread Delta is "likely more severe"--is ... likely not true, except in defined demographics. The real story that CDC doesn't want released is that these problems were likely caused by this ill considered gene therapy experiment. More on both points below, but issuing administrative diktats ordering people to participate in a medical experiment, but without the backing of scientific data, is in itself a form of messaging that speaks volumes.

Robert Malone has offered a series of tweets this morning that dissect the CDC narrative that's being peddled via the Bezos WaPo. I've taken the liberty of reformatting these tweets a bit for readability--including correcting some typos:

Briefly Noted: Totalitarians, Crazies, Covid

I'll do a bit of a selective news and views roundup for now. The common connecting theme is the Covid Regime and how it plays into the move toward totalitarian control that we saw discussed in Session 2 of the Doctors For Covid Ethics Symposium over the last two days.

1. First up is Tucker Carlson's piece last night: Schools are creating tribalism in our kids--Academic standards are in free-fall across the country. The title doesn't actually do justice to the wide ranging monologue. Tucker starts with masking, which makes a natural transition into other forms of totalitarian controls--as manifested, for example, in, yes, pronouns. The Irish have done a study on masks in school. Are you sitting down? They found that masks serve no benefit whatsoever--but do have significant downsides. So the Irish aren't going to use masks on kids. Meanwhile in the US, Tucker tells us of study touted by the NYT, claiming that examination of "one million students" shows that "masks work." Except that there was no control group in the "study" and the author wouldn't return phone calls or answer questions. 

Repeat after me: It's NOT about any kind of science an actual scientist would recognize. Scientism? Yeah, maybe that. Behavior modification--accustoming people to obeying arbitrary instructions from authority figures? Definitely. From there it's off to the schools and to the craziness in Australia--don't talk to your neighbors, but do inform on them! One part I especially liked was the government school teacher in Loudon County who resigned live last night--and urged parents to "flood private schools" with their children. Yes! If you love your kids, get them out of government schools.

Will all this craziness serve as a wake up call to semi-normals? Election 2022 will tell us.

UPDATED: Can You Grok This?

Reality is delivering hammer blows to the Covid Regime narrative. Yesterday we briefly noted Alex Berenson updating on the situation in Israel. Berenson's conclusion on the data from Israel?

Covid has now reached its Tet moment. Anyone looking hard at the data can see the stark limits of the vaccines. Unfortunately, that group includes very few journalists. Almost no one yesterday pointed out what Bennett was really saying.

And of course our governments appear committed to this course and cannot admit the truth.

What’s going to make them? And how long will it take?

Today, in his understated way, Dr. Robert Malone is on fire. To appreciate what Berenson, yesterday, and Malone, today, are getting at, first check out this retweet:

Briefly Noted: Covid Testing, 'Trust' In Science, More

Yesterday there were reports out that the CDC is phasing out the PCR test for use in Covid testing. The PCR test is what fueled the casedemic and is known to be an inappropriate tool. Its inventor, recently deceased, publicly stated that it isn't a diagnostic tool and only increases false positives. You can read all about those problems here: Why Is The CDC Quietly Abandoning The PCR Test For COVID? Key paragraph:

So, in summary, with regard to our current "casedemic", positive tests as they are counted today do not indicate a “case” of anything. They indicate that viral RNA was found in a nasal swab. It may be enough to make you sick, but according to the New York Times and their experts, probably won’t. And certainly not sufficient replication of the virus to make anyone else sick. But you will be sent home for ten days anyway, even if you never have a sniffle. And this is the number the media breathlessly reports... and is used to fearmonger mask mandates and lockdowns nationwide...

So what gives? Well ... there's this:

CDC Declares PCR Tests Must Go Immediately After George Soros, Bill Gates Buy COVID-19 Test Manufacturer

The CDC's decision could potentially increase the value of the company acquired by Bill Gates and George Soros

Forbes explains that Global Access Health (GAH) is a joint initiative between “The Soros Economic Development Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” and explains that Mologic Ltd is “best known today for the deep-nostril technology used to deliver rapid COVID-19 tests.” The partnership between Gates and Soros to buy this company was announced on Monday, July 19, and the CDC’s decision to phase out PCR tests was announced Saturday, July 24.

Over the weeked the WSJ ran an interview with science writer Matthew Ridley:

How Science Lost the Public’s Trust

From climate to Covid, politics and hubris have disconnected scientific institutions from the philosophy and method that ought to guide them.

The article, as usual, is behind a subscription wall, but Dr. Robert Malone helpfully provides the general idea. It's unexceptional, except that the growing distrust in science is increasingly spreading from a relative handfull of cognoscenti to the general public. Malone writes:

Is The Regime Panicking--And Should We?

Remember back toward the end of March when Rochelle Walensky, new head of CDC, expressed a sense of "impending doom" if the US "opened up" "too soon"? Well, yesterday, in recommending more masking--despite all the science against it--Walensky expressed something very like that sense of "impending doom". I quote here from Zerohedge:

“The largest concern that I think we in public health and science are worried about is that virus and the potential mutations. We have a very transmissible virus which has the potential to evade our vaccines in terms of how it protects us from severe disease and death,” Walensky said.

“Right now, fortunately, we are not there. These vaccines operate really well in protecting us from severe disease and death. But the big concern is the next variant that might emerge, just a few mutations potentially away, could potentially evade our vaccines.”

[ZH: Remember just a few weeks before she lifted the mask mandate, Walensky warned the world of a sense of "impending doom."]

Walensky advised that the threat of a variant that is immune to the current vaccines is the reason more Americans should be vaccinated in a bid to contain the virus and its mutations.

Ask yourself: How will wearing a mask stop mutations? Please--this is an insult to the intelligence of normal people.

Here's the real context in which to place Walensky's panicked blathering--and, as usual, this slipped release of truth into the debate is being suppressed today. But as I indicated yesterday, this very brief tweet was a complete BOMBSHELL:

“VACCINATED individuals could have higher levels of virus and infect others amid the surge of cases driven by the delta variant” pic.twitter.com/xjMtOXau5c

— Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 (@jason_meister) July 27, 2021

This is precisely the well known phenomenon of ADE--Antibody Dependent Enhancement--that is being described. It's precisely what eminent experts in the field of immunology and vaccinology have been frantically warning about for months. Walensky, Fauci, and the rest of the Zhou regime seem to be panicking and have nothing on offer but masks and injections of the very medication that's causing the ADE. This is the fear that's driving events now--but the regime is talking around these issues with nonsense about masks and getting people shot up, rather than giving us straight talk:

UPDATED: Covid Regime Update

Not much in the way of commentary seems necessary. Covid is the perfect way to introduce totalitarian control of the population. They start with disfavored demographics, then expand:

Irish government announces it will continue restrictions on Catholic sacraments

'It is advised that religious ceremonies such as Baptisms, First Holy Communions and Confirmations should not take place at this time. Further advice will follow on resumption of these ceremonies when it is safe to do so,' new advice published on the Irish government website on June 29 reads.

Don't call us, we'll call you?

Who's getting paid to do this?

White House Announces They Will Go Door to Door to Enhance National Vaccination Compliance

July 6, 2021 | Sundance

Comrade citizens, the COVID Ministry announced today they will assist your compliance for vaccinated status by visiting you in your home.  Prepare for the Jackboots to arrive on your doorstep to inquire about your vaccinated status.

The spokesperson for the regime made the compliance announcement earlier today during a press conference: “targeted community, by community, door-to-door outreach“.

These things never go away, so presumably when this is done some other task will be found that will involve "targeted community, by community, door-to-door outreach“.

Why Vaccinate Healthy People Who Aren't At Risk?

Good question, right? We know that only a tiny fraction of the population is actually at risk from Covid, so why inject them with mRNA from the virus? It doesn't seem like common sense, and to a lot of respectable scientists it doesn't seem like ... science. For example, Michael Yeadon, an acknowledged 30 year expert in the field, late of Pfizer, says:

There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I’ve never heard such nonsense talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease. You also don’t set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human subjects.

Yeadon is far from being a voice in the wilderness--at least not scientifically speaking. What's happening is that voices like his are being drowned out by a mass media cacophony: