Thread by @holmanm

1/23 Thoughts on Covid Vaccine: First of all, up until this point there has never been a successful vaccine for coronaviruses in humans, due to a problem typical of coronavirus vaccine development called antibody dependent enhancement or ADE.

2/ In preliminary animal trials for previous coronavirus vaccines (SARS and MERS, for instance), animals were vaccinated and seemed to exhibit a robust antibody response, but upon exposure to the wild virus, they developed a paradoxical immune enhancement leading to severe

3/ organ inflammation (especially in their lungs), and they died. Paradoxical immune response in coronavirus vaccines has also taken place in human trials, which occurred during testing of the failed RSV vaccines of the 1950s. Alarmingly, there are some statistical indications

4/ of ADE in covid vaccine trials, but there is no way to know for sure because many key signifiers of ADE weren’t specifically addressed. Due to emergency protocol, the usual methodology of testing animals prior to humans was bypassed, limited animal testing occurred

5/ in parallel with humans, and the potential for ADE was not comprehensively assessed.Historical precedent would suggest, however, that ADE is a distinct possibility, and we may not know the true negative effects until years from now when vaccinated persons are exposed to

6/ SARS-CoV-2 or genetically similar versions of coronavirus.

Second, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines contain lipid nanoparticles that are “PEGylated”, meaning the nanoparticles are coated with PEG (polyethylene glycol).PEGs can lead to life threatening anaphylaxis or

7/ other conditions such as severe immune thrombocytopenia. Such reactions are already occurring during the initial vaccine rollout and PEGs are the most likely culprit. Approximately 72% of the US population have PEG antibodies, with 8% having extremely elevated levels

8/ putting them at risk for severe allergic reaction and/or future autoimmune disorders.These reactions were totally predictable, with many experts warning of the danger posed by PEG's yet participants with a history of severe allergic reaction were excluded from the trials,

9/ serving to obscure the actual negative impact PEGs will have now that these vaccines are being given to members of the public who have not been screened for PEG antibodies. Also, there is some worrying evidence suggesting that PEGs cross the blood-brain barrier and accumulate

10/ in the brain, possibly causing inflammation and/or autoimmune conditions, a fact gleaned from previous animal studies that featured PEGylated nanoparticles. Dissection of the animals in such studies found PEGs distributed across a spectrum of body tissues including

11/ microglial cells in the brain.

It is impossible to ascertain long term safety because of the foreshortened timeframe of Operation Warp Speed. Vaccines should be tested for multiple years to adequately assess their longterm effects

12/ Short term safety is questionable too, as much of the data is still unavailable, and the current reports on safety and efficacy essentially amount to self-reported press releases from these companies themselves.

12/ The efficacy number of 90% for Pfizer and 94% for Moderna

13/ is a statistical trick, reporting relative risk reduction instead of the real reduction of absolute risk. Also, the trials only assessed these vaccines’ ability to prevent mild symptoms and NOT their ability to prevent viral transmission.

14/ If they don’t prevent people from transmitting the virus (especially when safer, cheaper drugs like Ivermectin do) what’s the point?

Those getting vaccinated are essentially an extension of phase 3 of the trials. Because of the lack of long term safety assessment

15/ and the new nature of this technology, people are participating in a mass human experiment with no way of knowing for sure all the terrible long term health effects these could cause. Many problems from vaccines are known to have an incubatory period and do not manifest

16/ until much later on, which is why these need to be tested for multiple years to actually assess risk.
Also, there was a signature for many different problems seen in the various trials and initial rollout for these vaccines,

17/ problems that are concurrent with commonly documented vaccine injuries. Injuries that did occur in the various trials have included, but are not limited to, anaphylaxis, Bell’s palsy, transverse myelitis, petechia, multi-system inflammatory syndrome, encephalomyelitis,

18/ idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, and death. Perhaps most importantly, the movement toward potential vaccine mandates or other coercive policies violates humanity’s most universally accepted principles of human rights and medical ethics.

19/ * Regarding the reporting on the reduction of relative risk instead of absolute risk, in the phase 3 trial of the Pfizer vaccine, for example, 22,000 people were vaccinated and 22,000 were given placebo, for a total of 44,000 trial participants.

20/ Of those 44,000, just 170 were diagnosed as having covid-19 post-vaccination. Of those 170, it was reported that 8 received the vaccine and 162 received the placebo. From this ratio it was inferred that the vaccine would prevent 154 out of 162 from getting the disease

21/ for an efficacy of greater than 90%. But even as the British Medical Journal explained, “A relative risk reduction is being reported, not absolute risk reduction, which appears to be less than 1%”. How many of the hundreds of millions of people choosing to be vaccinated

22/ would make a different choice if they realized their absolute reduction in risk appears to be less than 1%? The supposed sterling efficacy touted by both Pfizer and Moderna are great for instilling confidence in their product, yet they were based on figures derived

23/ from only a small fraction of trial participants (just 0.38% of total participants in the Pfizer trial, and the same misleading statistical reporting seen in the Moderna trial as well). Please do the research and make an informed decision when considering the vaccine !