My friend now is in Hospice
Fully Vaccinated Special Education instructor
A sad sad sad situation of a proud isolated angry cultured intelligent sensitive man who could not divorce his wife whom he parted from years ago, whose two adult children out of state have no time to talk or in the case of his daughter whom he idealized simply hang up. He was a gamblin’ man just like you then he sank so low that there was nothing that no one could do. Rilke tried. He wrote his poems and Mark studied them carefully though he did not learn German. Mark studied Jazz as well and no doubt many knowledgeable areas I know nothing of. He and I met ten years ago on Facebook. Over the passage of time we found much common ground. He was slated for cancer surgery but was fed poison chemo that de-hydrated him to near death. I visited him at his home and hung for three or four hours but did not call the Hospital to have him re-admitted. I saw him on a Saturday and he checked in to Hospital on Monday. We had talked of alt cancer treatment. 100% mainstream my man Mark. Armenian and not Teutonic but from Jersey in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s steeped in the American Way so naturally gravitates to the European as an escape.
Tonight after his reaching out I go to the post-Acute Hospice for a visit and bring poetry. Auden, Graves, and if I can locate my battered Leaves of Grass a bit of Whitman. And a biography on Thomas Merton. Mark was forced to choose his life or his job and he chose the job he hated because like me he is proud isolated angry cultured intelligent sensitive man. Mark stayed STRAIGHT. Since high school he worked. Mark did not go his own merry way, the wrong way to climb Mt. Improbable. The climb from the soul for most and maybe even for me is harder than staying the seasons on Cold Mountain, I won’t know till the summit hie up the hill if I was right or wrong, but I had no choice too and could not NORMALIZE no matter how intelligently I applied myself to do so. So I escaped the great killing by simply dropping out and climbing to the summit the wrong way because I deliberate not about my path trusting in my own lights to see the way I am to go as a cripple climbing El Capitan free style.
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Cancer
There has been limited analysis and data on cancers being caused by the COVID mRNA vaccines. Now comes a creative new analysis by Ronald Kostoff. The article title is: Are COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Cancer Rare Events?
Here is one statement that caught my attention: “Applying the URF [unreported fraction] of ~100 from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care study, and the 1/3 fraction from the autopsy results to the post-COVID-19 vaccine VAERS cancer-related numbers yields a total of about 83,000 cancer-related events post-COVID-19 vaccination (so far).”
Here are a few excerpts:
COVID-19 vaccine-induced cancer has been judged a “rare” event by the major promoters of these vaccines (caveat: these injections prevent neither infection nor viral transmission). To ascertain the frequency of COVID-19 vaccine-induced cancers, we have examined the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database for reports of cancers. Since cancers tend to have a long latency period, we have also addressed the issue of Early Warning Indicators that could identify COVID-19 vaccine-induced cancers on or over the horizon. Finally, we have compared cancers reported following COVID-19 vaccines with those reported following influenza vaccines for similar numbers of vaccine doses delivered.
While imperfect, VAERS is a reasonable system for identifying safety signals related to vaccines. One major VAERS deficiency is that only a small fraction of vaccine-related adverse events is reported to VAERS. A study by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, using electronic tracking, showed that “fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.” This is an average value over all adverse events; it may be far worse for cancer.
Before presenting the numbers, we need to define what is a cancer-related event reported in VAERS. Is it 1) a biomarker associated with the eventual emergence of cancer, 2) a group of biomarkers reflecting pre-clinical cancer, 3) a newly-diagnosed cancer, 4) a cancer that has been exacerbated, or 5) a cancer death? While all five are valid candidates, the present study concentrates on items 3) and 4).
This restriction to items 3) and 4) substantially under-reports the COVID-19 vaccine adverse events that may eventually result in cancer, because it excludes abnormalities in cancer risk biomarkers.
There were ~330 different cancer-related adverse events reported in VAERS for the COVID-19 vaccines, with ~2500 total number of events. Converting these VAERS entries to real-world numbers of COVID-19 vaccine-induced cancers requires three major assumptions, and some minor ones. The major assumptions are 1) the cancers reported in VAERS following the administration of COVID-19 vaccines is, in fact, caused in part or in whole by the COVID-19 vaccines, 2) the under-reporting factor (URF) to be used for cancer scale-up to real-world numbers can be approximated for very conservative estimation purposes by the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare URFs, and 3) the fraction of the VAERS entries to which the URF should be applied can be approximated by autopsy results for fraction of post-COVID-19 vaccine deaths that can be attributed to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Assumption 1) is based on mechanistic studies that show the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines (those distributed most widely in the USA) destroy the innate immune system, including those components that surveille and control the growth of cancers. One of the specific mechanisms demonstrated in very recent mechanistic studies (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798 and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36713457/) is that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines increase the fraction of IgG4 antibodies and decrease the fraction of IgG3 antibodies, and the effect increases as the number of vaccine doses increase. This IgG3/IgG4 ratio shift is favorable for increasing tolerance to allergens but can also support increased malignancy. Based on the above and many other recent study results, the question we should ask about the COVID-19 vaccines should not be i) why would we expect that these vaccines contribute to cancer development, but rather ii) why would we expect they would not contribute to cancer development, given their demonstrated destruction of those components of the innate immune system responsible for controlling the development of cancer! https://alethonews.com/2023/02/20/horrible-health-impacts-of-covid-vaccines-keep-worsening/
Interesting article. I learned this in the Army as a young man seeking a way to further my education. If you swim against the Tide, you will drown. If you swim with the tide, you may be washed to sea. If you swim near the banks, you have some degree of control in the matter. Good lesson to learn at 18 years old.