Uh, it appears that Brad Geyer and Jonathon Moseley, attorneys for #CapitolRiot Oath Keepers defendants Kelly Meggs and Kenneth Harrelson, have responded to a judge's denial of their request to file a 130-page brief by filing... 677 pages of documents.
Brad Geyer here regurgitates a popular anti-vax "fact" you might find on Facebook, but it's not true. Of the 312 million Pfizer vaccine doses that have been distributed in the U.S., ~257 million have been administered – leaving ~55 million doses available currently.
Again, false. Blatantly false. See above.
What Geyer is attempting to do is argue detainees at the DC Jail are unable to give informed consent to the vaccine. However, in his own brief, he says non-incarcerated citizens ALSO can't give informed consent because of a "steady stream of propaganda." So... why let them out?
Continues to be false.
Ah, the FDA and Pfizer are in cahoots to... ensure Moderna's profit margins, apparently. Also "vaccine corporatism."
Geyer invites the judge to "extrapolate" that, actually, maybe 2 million people have died from the COVID-19 vaccine. That would be more twice the number of people who've died in the U.S. from the virus – and all unreported!
The problem with VAERS is that it's self-reported. So the anti-vaccine crowd has been encouraging followers to mass report issues to try to skew the data. It comes with a huge asterisk normally, and is now essentially useless for COVID-19.
Geyer then goes into a long rant about the Nuremberg Code, which codified ethics for experimental medical procedures in the wake of Nazi war crimes. Another popular talking point among anti-vaxxers. usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
Geyer goes on to "cite" the work of Dr. David Bauer, a virologist at the Francis Crick Institute, who he claims has said the COVID-19 vaccine "decimates" the body's natural ability to fight viruses Except: False again. Here's Bauer responding to that: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Here we go: January 6 defendants are being treated liked Jews during the Holocaust, attorney Brad Geyer implies.
There's just a lot going on here.
The 270+ page document appended to the filing is apparently just a print-out of every COVID-19 vaccine-related reaction reported to VigiAccess, which is the WHO's version of VAERS (also self-reported, so the same issues apply, just at a grander scale).
Many of the other filings are print-outs of news articles about disruptions during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
Anyway, I'll update when Judge Mehta responds.
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