Since ppl are talking about the "other" shot lately, I want make 3 points that build on seasonal data from Chicago (graph below).
1) There is no bigger racket than the flu shot.
▪️Changes every year
▪️Uptake fairly high (in the U.S.)
▪️Kids were roped in to the operation
▪️Widely acknowledged to not work well for the elderly (including by the CDC's flu expert)
▪️No one questions whether it has adverse effects, whether it causes/worsens respiratory illness, or can be deadly
▪️ People equate "not working" with "they guessed the wrong strain this year"
Sounds like a cash cow, right?
Imagine it wasn't simply "not working" but making things worse?
Imagine you need a new platform because all your messing around with the shot since 2009 is getting out of hand but you can only hide it for so long.
Imagine people aren't scared of flu but you've got those universal flu shot goals and all that investment in pandemic planning?
What would you do?
2) Many things that have been "done with" SARS-CoV-2/COVID were already being done with influenza, on a smaller scale. It wasn't new on the scene in 2020.
That includes but is not limited to
▪️PCR testing
▪️labeling ICU hospitalizations as flu associated based on a test result
▪️tracking vaccination status
▪️influenza-positive pneumonia deaths
The idea that these practices in the COVID Era are mistakes, brand new to the people asked to apply them, etc. is incorrect.
You don't "suddenly" foist these things on state/local public health agencies, healthcare workers, etc. You till the soil and leverage preexisting systems and practices.
3) The COVID shot/boosters/combo shots are not the only injections in the 2020-2023 mix. There has been widespread use of sedatives (for "calming" care home residents and people in ambulances, for putting people on vents) AND the flu shot.
Where's all cause mortality by flu shot status, I wonder?
Where's all mortality by flu shot & COVID shot status?
It seems people who do good work trying to tease out COVID shot problems are either forgetting or ignoring the flu shot, as though it doesn't matter.
In my opinion, starting the timeline in March 2020 or December 2020 is a mistake.
Limiting one's view to Virus From Wuhan and COVID shots is also a mistake.
Data for the 2017-2018 season in Chicago (a "bad flu season")
▪️582 liberally-defined Flu-Associated ICU Hospitalizations
▪️10% of Flu-Associated ICU Hospitalizations Died
▪️Shot Status known for 60% of Flu-Associated ICU Hospitalizations
▪️50% of Flu-Associated ICU Hospitalizations with Known Shot Status Received the Flu Shot
▪️Flu shot status of Flu-associated deaths not given
▪️ No way of knowing flu shot status of the 40% for whom flu shot status wasn't reported
This should sound familiar.
I am NOT saying SARS-CoV-2 "is" influenza.
I'm saying the testing and data and counting/reporting frameworks are very similar to what had already been occurring with flu.
That's a big reason we did not see people who work inside hospitals, care homes, and health agencies doubt what they were being told to do.
Historically, “Flu shot failed this year” or “I got the flu shot but got flu anyway” hasn’t really done much to assail the flu shot’s uptake appreciably
Don’t people wonder how “bad” flu season would end up being if uptake were 5-10%?
To those who think the govt’s claims about the COVID shot are unique or something new under the sun, sorry to say, that is NOT the case.
Peter Doshi is undefeated on this topic. 🔥🔥🔥
BMJ, 2013 ⬇️
“Promotion of influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies today. Twenty years ago, in 1990, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United States. Today around 135 million doses of influenza vaccine annually enter the US market, with vaccinations administered in drug stores, supermarkets—even some drive-throughs. This enormous growth has not been fueled by popular demand but instead by a public health campaign that delivers a straightforward, who-in-their-right-mind-could-possibly-disagree message: influenza is a serious disease, we are all at risk of complications from influenza, the flu shot is virtually risk free, and vaccination saves lives. Through this lens, the lack of influenza vaccine availability for all 315 million US citizens seems to border on the unethical. Yet across the country, mandatory influenza vaccination policies have cropped up, particularly in healthcare facilities,1 precisely because not everyone wants the vaccination, and compulsion appears the only way to achieve high vaccination rates. Closer examination of influenza vaccine policies shows that although proponents employ the rhetoric of science, the studies underlying the policy are often of low quality, and do not substantiate officials’ claims. The vaccine might be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza appears overstated.” bmj.com/content/346/bm…
Imagine how many adverse events from flu shot were unreported as such due to
a) Doctor/nurse/patient resistance to seeing them as such
b) patients thinking of adverse events involving flu-like illness as “getting flu anyway”
The COVID racket is the flu racket on steroids.
Great example of how doctors are conditioned to think certain ways about drugs, shots, etc.
I am NOT saying the pathogen identified as SARS-CoV-2 is an influenza virus.
I AM saying the things we’ve seen with “COVID” were already being done with ILI/influenza.
The goal has long been “One Shot to Rule Them All”
Them = so-called seasonal respiratory pathogens
I also not suggesting influenza and The Flu Shot/Flu Surveillance Regime were the WHY of the COVID operation.
I'm saying it laid the groundwork significant portions of the HOW.
So, did anyone have concerns about ppl receiving
a flu shot in Sept 2020,
a COVID shot in Dec 2020/Jan 2021,
then a flu shot in Sept 2021,
then a COVID booster in Nov 2021,
followed by a COVID booster in April 2021,
& another flu shot in Sept 2022...
What people don’t realize is that the flu surveillance program WAS increasingly being used to attribute more pneumonia & influenza deaths to influenza — w/out compromising the flu shot reputation as an jab that maybe didn’t work great but wasn’t seen as harmful
Some observations about documents released by Sen Rand Paul on 30 October 2025 related to Ralph Baric
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1. It is unsurprising that someone with a CIA-affiliated email address reached out to Baric about a project on coronaviruses in September 2015.
U.S. flu surveillance/testing increased dramatically between 2015-2020, as did P&I cause of death attribution toward "I" influenza and use of code B34.2 · Coronavirus infection, unspecified
This doesn't mean Baric was in league with the CIA -- and it's certainly not a smoking gun on the "creation" of virus purported to have caused a pandemic.
It does point to a well-known coronavirus expert being tapped in the service of planned/strategic operations
2. That Baric would be asked to give a presentation to the ODNI about "the coronavirus" in late January 2020 is also unsurprising and evidence of nothing much.
The committee that classified and named SARS-CoV-2 (of which Baric was a member) had already made its decision about virus species and name and the WHO had endorsed a "blueprint" test.
Baric was very much in the news and fielding inquiries from reporters...as we would expect
Jay Bhattacharya needs to revisit this Oct 2020 article in light of ethics, civil rights, and what has and has not been established by good scientific evidence
"we must not let vulnerable people be exposed to the virus" is an untenable position
There was nothing from which the elderly needed to be "protected"
There was never a basis for claiming that "focused protection" reduced risk of illness and deaths (regardless of cause).
I reject the notion of a societal pact involving "not letting" people be exposed to a viral threat -- let alone one that was never proven to be a threat.
"We do not encourage intentionally exposing the non-vulnerable" was permission for all manner of idiocy for everyone else.
The New York City Office of the Medical Examiner (OCME) is - once again - delaying the release of public records.
A chronology of the correspondence... 🗓️📤📥
1/11 🧵
On 4 February 2025, I requested two sets of records from OCME:
▪️The agency's Biological Incident Fatality Surge Plan for managing In and out of Hospital Deaths
▪️ Daily hospital morgue census data entered into a survey activated in spring 2020
2/11
The agency replied w/acknowledgement in a timely fashion, on 11 Feb 2025, and said the next response would be by 5 May 2025.
I thanked the staffer and said I would be happy to receive any available records sooner.
"We are placing a moratorium on all federal recommendations, guidelines, etc. regarding vaccinating pregnant moms and children 'against' anything."
Start with the flu shot.
CDC Internet Panel data* show 🚩U.S. flu-shot rates in pregnant women rose from about 15% pre-2009 to 32–51% seasonal, 47% H1N1, and up to 66% combined in 2009–10. 🚩
Coverage peaked at 57.5% in 2019–20 🚩 then fell to about 47% during COVID and remains there.
Higher uptake is linked to doctor advice, access, and is greatest among older, educated, non-Hispanic White or Asian women.
*end-of-season estimates based on self-reported vaccination by women who were pregnant at any point between Oct-Jan of each season
Why speak only about the past when flu shot season is upon us?
Pre-natal visits in the fall and winter include pressure to get a flu shot.
In May 2021, Will County (IL) Public Health Dept shamefully leveraged the tragic death of 15-YO Dykota Morgan - and her parents' grief - for COVID shot propaganda that targeted African Americans
A review...
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Dykota, an athlete & artist from Bolingbrook (IL) died on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021.
Chicago-area media quickly reported it (which media typically do, and rightfully so, with unexpected child deaths)
National media picked up the story too.
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Dykota's parents' testimony is worth hearing for the sequence of events, which included treatment at two hospitals.
A tragedy, no matter the cause(s) and contributing factors.
The case should be investigated further and actual causes of death disclosed.