Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic remains a news item. Testimony given during a recent senate inquiry by former Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta exposes how Bolsonaro was aware of risking people’s lives to the point of death with his approach that ridiculed science. “I warned him systematically, with projections even,” Mandetta stated, as he explained that the fatality statistics prediction presented to Bolsonaro was close to the death toll in Brazil last year.

As the vaccine race started, Brazil engaged diplomatically with Russia, seeking to import the Sputnik V vaccine, which was authorised for use in Russia since August 2020. In April, Bolsonaro discussed purchasing the vaccine, with Russia acknowledging Brazil’s approach in a statement by the Kremlin. The statement noted Brazil’s approach towards Russia and the commitment by both countries to work towards a common goal in line with their strategic partnership. Registering the Sputnik V vaccine in Brazil was discussed, along with military, science and technological cooperation.

The Sputnik V vaccine is being used in 62 countries across the world, mostly sought by developing countries as these have been politically disadvantaged due to a lower threshold of diplomatic engagement. It is still pending official recognition by the World Health Organisation and the European Medicines Agency, yet a study by the leading health journal The Lancet, states that the Sputnik V vaccine has an efficacy rate of 91.6% after taking the first dose, in terms of preventing Covid19.

However, Brazil’s national health service agency, Anvisa, rejected the use of Sputnik V, citing a “lack of consistent and reliable data”, questions over vaccine production as well as Russia’s refusal, according to Anvisa, to allow Brazilian regulators to visit the vaccine production sites. Russia rejected the claims and described the decision as political, citing U.S. interference back in 2020 which advised Brazil to reject the Russian vaccine.

Meanwhile, Brazil has also reached deals with Israel, which Bolsonaro stated has “the real solution to treating COVID,” even though at the time of the announcement the anti-viral treatment had only been tested upon 35 people and not even reviewed in medical journals.

Adding to Brazil’s shambles is the lack of vaccines in the country, contrary to government propaganda which declared having secured 560 million doses. Having rejected Sputnik V, Brazil has now turned to the options used in the U.S. and the EU, notably AstraZeneca and Oxford, with Bolsonaro seeking deals to acquire surplus doses to make up for the country’s current shortages.

“We need to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and in line with this we would like to call on those countries with extra doses to share them with Brazil as soon as possible so we can also broaden our vaccination campaign and contain the pandemic at this critical time, and avoid the proliferation of new variants,” Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said during a WHO briefing.

Russia has been accused of vaccine diplomacy, a term which has not been used by the West in the case of Israel, for example, which reached an exclusive deal with Pfizer for unlimited vaccine supplies in return for sharing patient data with the company. The deal has enabled Israel to use its surplus of Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines to bolster diplomatic support in the international arena.

The Biden Administration is also in a position to enter the vaccine diplomacy contest, in a move that is designated to create obstacles for Russia and China, both of which have supplied developing countries with vaccines while world powers scrambled over acquiring doses to the detriment of other countries in the developing world.

Vaccine diplomacy is indeed a reality, and one that is severely mismanaged to the benefit of countries that boast allegiances. Russia has supplied vaccines to countries which the West would have turned a blind eye to. Additionally, Russia’s vaccine rollout was met with derision, while the complications arising from AstraZeneca, particularly, have not been subjected to the same political scrutiny. A game of double standards has emerged, in which Brazil might find itself floundering, as it might have well recognised given its recent diplomatic efforts at restoring relations and collaboration over vaccines procurement with Russia again.

After two weeks of suspended use of AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine due to unusual blood clots and some deaths perhaps linked to the vaccine, Denmark’s health agencies extended suspension for three more weeks. Norway and Sweden, the co-maker with England of AZ, followed suit. Four Norwegians and two Danes have died from cerebral blood clots shortly following vaccination.

Protestors at Astra Zeneca. Creative Commons photo.

At its March 25 news conference, Danish Medicines Agency spokesperson Tanja Erichsen said it was necessary to continue evaluating a possible connection between the vaccine and several dozens of vaccinated persons who developed blood clots with some deaths.

“We maintain that AstraZeneca is safe and effective…[However] it can’t be ruled out that there is a connection between the vaccines and the very rare blood clot cases,” Erichsen stated.

Health Authority Director Soeren Brostroem said, “We are still concerned” about possible links between the vaccine and many serious side effects. He added that although European Medicines Agency (EMA) regulators have cleared the vaccine for use, the Agency is still investigating data. EMA, however, has not recommended any suspension.

Denmark’s government announced on March 11, exactly one year from the first lockdown, that the AstraZeneca vaccine is temporarily suspended.

South Africa was the first to suspend the AZ vaccine, on February 8, because the trial of “about 2000 people, found such a low efficacy against mild and moderate disease, under 25%, that it would not meet minimal international standards for emergency use. But scientists are hopeful it might still prevent severe disease and death…”

When Denmark first suspended its use for two weeks, Norway, Iceland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Italy followed suit. Some suspended use of batches but not all of their AZ doses.

The countries that produce AZ vaccine, England and Sweden, did not suspend its use. After some days, however, Sweden joined in. As of this writing, most of the score of countries that had suspended AZ are again using it, because EMA still maintains that it is safe. Sweden resumed using AZ on March 25 but only for seniors over 65 given that serious side effects have not occurred in older people.  Finland and Iceland have taken the same position whereas Norway has followed Denmark’s extension for three more weeks.

Since the Danish suspension, 2000 reports of side effects have been made. Health workers will use these three weeks to explore causes.

“Many may wonder whether we are overcautious. You can say that…we have added precautionary principles, because the Danish people trust their health care system and we must live up to their trust,” Health Authority Director Soeren Brostroem said. “We are still concerned” about possible links between the vaccine and many serious side effects. He added that although European Medicines Agency (EMA) regulators have cleared the vaccine for use, the Agency is still investigating data. EMA, however, has not recommended any suspension.

All who wish to be vaccinated, including about 140,000 Danes who have taken the first dose of AstraZeneca, will get another vaccine if they wish, even if AZ is placed back in use. If AZ does not meet health safety requirements, the calendar for completing vaccinating all those who wish it might be put off by two to four weeks. The date for completion at this point is July 25.

Most of the 16% of Danes who have had one or both doses of vaccines have taken Pfizer or Moderna. At present, there are about one million AZ doses stored in refrigerators.

As of March 16, AstraZeneca said there had been 37 cases of blood clots related to the vaccine—“15 all of these cases have been diagnosed as deep vein thrombosis, while there have been 22 cases of pulmonary embolism so far”.

At that time, about 20 million Europeans, the majority Englanders, had taken one or two doses of the vaccine. It has been reported that at least seven people taking the AZ vaccine have died within a two-week period following injection.

EMA authorized AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease, on January 29, 2021. “This is a safe and effective vaccine. Its benefits in protecting people from COVID-19 with the associated risks of death and hospitalization outweigh the possible risks,” Emer Cooke, the EMA executive director, said at a news conference, March 18.

EMA’s new investigation uncovered a few “rare and unusual but very serious clotting disorders” that the committee is probing more closely, Cooke said. These include conditions such as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), in which clots form extensively throughout the body, and cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), a rare form of stroke.

EMA took only a few days to conclude again that AZ is safe enough, yet the agency has still not concluded its evaluation of the Sputnik V vaccine, which Russia sent data for approval on January 20. EMA began a preliminary “rolling review” on March 4.

While AZ is tested at 60-62% efficacy, The Lancet reported, on February 20, that Sputnik V is safe and efficacy is at 91.6%.

I asked EMA press office personnel in Amsterdam why it is taking so long for Sputnik V to be approved and what its thought are about the U.S. not using it. A medical media employee (who wished not to be quoted) replied that the EMA “does not speculate on considerations of the US FDA regarding the authorization of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.”

Regarding Sputnik V, the EMA press office person wrote that “EMA is assessing the vaccine’s compliance with the usual EU standards for efficacy, safety and quality. EMA is evaluating data as they become available to decide if the benefits outweigh the risks. The rolling review will continue until enough evidence is available for a formal marketing authorization application.”

It did not take long for EU to approve a vaccine by a totally unknown vaccine producer (Johnson & Johnson), which it did on March 11. J&J applied on February 15.

“The European Union approved the single-shot Johnson & Johnson [J&J] coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, the fourth jab to get the green light for the 27-nation bloc.”

“More safe and effective vaccines are coming to the market,’ EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a tweet.”

“How is it that a drug and household health product company, with no prior history in vaccine development, can develop and rush to market its first vaccine against a viral strain that was only identified 14 months ago?” wrote Children’s Health Defense the day following EMA approval of J&J vaccine.

“A review of J&J’s rap sheet over the past three decades presents a dire and contrary image that should lead us to question the company’s claims about its COVID-19 vaccine given the lucrative market the pandemic has created for the most aggressive medical corporations.”

“Similar to its equally over-sized competitors Glaxo, Merck and Pfizer, J&J too has had to pay out billions of dollars over the decades for civil settlements and criminal activities.  As the pharmaceutical giant receives applause across the mainstream media for the release and Emergency Use Authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, Brazil’s Public Prosecution Service started an investigation into J&J’s antitrust activities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for, “possible improper payments in its medical device industry.”

A quick review of how much J&J money has been sentenced to pay in fines, instead of jail sentences, and in restitution to customers for faulty products in the past three decades runs around $30 billion. One leading employee did receive a year imprisonment for corruption.

New research points to link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots in young people

Vaccine Deaths.com is a fact-based public education website published by Vaccine Deaths Features.LLC. Its news editors wrote on March 23: “Researchers at the Greifswald teaching hospital in northern Germany said Friday they’ve discovered how the Astra Zeneca vaccine could cause blood clots that could lead to rare thrombosis in the brain, public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk reported.”

Greinacher’s team analyzed 13 cases of cerebral blood clots in Germany. Twelve were women, almost all under the age of 55. “In four of the 12 patients, the team was able to isolate and identify the specific antibodies that provoked the immune reaction leading to the cerebral blood clots.”

While researchers are studying cases in Germany, a team at Oslo University Hospital, is investigating three cases of post-vaccination blood clots in Norway that occurred in healthcare workers under the age of 50. Chief physician Pål Andre Holme said they had likely identified antibodies triggered by the vaccine that caused an overreaction of the immune system leading to blood clots.

“Our theory is that this is a strong immune response that most likely comes after the vaccine,” Holme said. “There is no other thing than the vaccine that can explain this immune response.” This is the same theory that Greinacher and his colleagues have put forward in Germany.

Some U.S. vaccine experts remain cautious about the antibody theory and said high publicity of events could be causing more clinicians to report the condition than normal, making it appear related to the vaccine, according to Reuters.

“The U.S. experts also question why such events would occur only at increased rates with the AstraZeneca vaccine and not the vaccines by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc, Johnson & Johnson and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine—all of which are intended to produce antibodies aimed at the ‘spike’ portion of the coronavirus that it uses to enter cells,” wrote Reuters, March 20.

The next day, Italian prosecutors reported they were opening an investigation for “manslaughter” “following the death of a music teacher one day after receiving his shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine”.

Is EMA and Denmark Stalling on Russia’s Sputnik V Under U.S. Orders?

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The United States and some allies are “engaged in efforts to malign the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and to promote the more expensive mRNA vaccines produced by ‘western’ companies.”

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Global Affairs, “used diplomatic relations in the Americas region to mitigate efforts by states, including Cuba, Venezuela, and Russia…dissuade countries in the region from accepting aid from these ill-intentioned states. Examples including using OGA’s Health Attaché office to persuade Brazil to reject the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, and offering CDC technical assistance in lieu of Panama accepting an offer of Cuban doctors.”

The U.S. “Health and Human Services” wrote the above on page 47 of its 2020 annual report.

Russia does not discriminate in who gets to buy its vaccines. In fact, the investor and producer offer all countries to buy a license for its Sputnik V, which they can produce on their territory. Russia has also donated two million doses to Palestinians in the Gaza.

Sputnik V is based on a safe and tested human adenovirus vector platform. Using two different human adenoviral vectors is a unique approach that boosts the immune response and provides long lasting immunity. It does not need to be frozen for storage. It costs $10 per dose. Pfizer and Moderna cost twice to thrice that and need to be frozen. AZ has the advantage of simple refrigeration and costs less than the other vaccines.

“On January 18, 2021 mass vaccination of the citizens began in Russia…the first country in the world in which three of its own vaccines are registered and being used,” reported the Russian embassy in Copenhagen.

“Moreover, the vaccine protects 100 % against moderate or severe forms of the disease. To date, the vaccine has already been registered in 50 countries…The Russian Direct Investment Fund, which promotes the vaccine, has applied for registration of Sputnik V in the EU.

“Vaccination is being carried out in all 85 regions of [Russia]. Over four thousand vaccination points have been opened…at least 45% of Russians over 60 were vaccinated” [early March].

“The head of the European Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO), Hans Kluge has welcomed the results of the third phase of clinical examination of the ‘Sputnik V’.”

“There are no strong allergies caused by Sputnik V.”

Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told DR [Denmark Public Broadcasting company], February 25, that the corona virus could last for up to a decade. Denmark, she said, is “dependent on AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna delivering as agreed…It is problematic that the Americans, the British and the Israelis have vaccinated more.”

Why did Frederiksen then travel to Israel instead of travelling or phoning Moscow for direct aid? Israel does not produce vaccines, but Frederiksen returned from Israel stating there might be a possibility of starting a production of vaccines between the Zionist state, Austria and Denmark sometime in the future.

In Denmark (and generally in the EU), Sputnik V has been ignored or maligned. I have watched every one of the dozen news conference during this long period, as well as special news analysis program, and not once has any journalist, health agency spokesperson or government leader, including the prime minister, even mentioned Sputnik V.

Ironically, the right-wing Hungarian government is the first European country to break ranks and bought Sputnik V. It also uses China’s Sinopharm, as well as the three Western produced vaccines. Two other former Eastern European countries are doing the same, Slovakia and Republika Srpska (entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina). As of this writing, 55 nations are buying Russia’s Sputnik vaccine, and four of the heavies (Italy, France, Spain and even Germany) are discussing deals with the Russian producer.

Germany’s vaccination program director, Thomas Meretens, praised Sputnik V, despite the fact that EU commission president, Germany’s former defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, casts dispersions about Sputnik V.

On March 14, Mertens told Rheinische Post, “Russian scientists are very experienced in vaccines. Sputnik V is a very clever construct. As with AstraZeneca, we are talking about a viral vector vaccine, which is based on an adenovirus. But unlike AstraZeneca it uses two different viral vectors for the first and second doses. That’s very clever, because that way you can prevent a possible loss of efficacy that might arise through the immune response against the vector.”

On March 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Covid-19 vaccine producers are struggling for the global vaccine market. “We see how competitors behave in the global vaccine market worth $100 billion. They come, sell a small batch of their vaccine at a discount, on the condition that everything else will be purchased only from this producer,” President Putin said. Some producers compete unfairly, sell a small batch of vaccines at a lower price on the condition to be an exclusive supplier, Putin continued.

Strategic-Culture Foundation March 12 editorial stated: “The longer the delay in vaccinating the European population the greater the danger of new variants emerging, and hence the longer the delay in returning societies to pre-pandemic normalcy. Populations are becoming restive over protracted lockdowns. Economies and livelihoods have been wrecked by the pandemic. Millions of jobs have been lost.”

A viral pandemic has no ideology. It cannot succumb by practicing sinister nationalism, by making Russia or China the bogeymen who we all must fear and attempt to overturn by hook and crook. Russiaphobia practiced by U.S./allies is counterproductive and will backfire on us all.

The advanced industrial countries are now inoculating their populations with the Covid-19 vaccines. A Vaccine Tracker provided by Bloomberg indicates that of the following three countries, the UK’s rollout has been the most effective (36.03 doses per 100 people), followed by the US at 28.83 doses per 100 people (as one would expect, the US’s individual state variation is considerable—extending from North Dakota (36.84) to Georgia at 13.4), while the EU is far behind at 10.64 doses per 100 people.

The EU’s figure seems surprising. For example, Chile (32.92), Morocco (15.6), and Turkey (13.07) have done better.

The EU’s poor performance has been most visible on 2 fronts: (production and acquisition); and (2) distribution and roll-out.

Achieving co-ordination between the 27 EU member countries was going to be somewhat cumbersome from the start, despite a huge €1.8tn/$2.15tn pandemic recovery budget. The European Commission had to devise a bureaucratic framework for 27 countries, which resulted in a more unwieldy authorization-process before the vaccines could be administered. In addition, some countries had their own demanding regulations and paperwork to negotiate, while poor planning in others added to the delay.

While the UK signed its purchasing contracts with vaccine manufacturers quickly, for example, the EU’s slower-paced movement towards the authorizations required at member-nation and European Commission levels meant it was always going to acquire vaccines at a slower rate— it stood to reason that profit-minded manufacturers would begin working on the orders of those non-EU countries (not just the UK but also the US and others) which signed their purchasing contracts ahead of the EU.

Hence AstraZeneca told the EU that of its initial contracted batch of 80 million vaccines, only 31 million would materialize immediately. This was in addition to a glitch in the deliveries of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine– after Pfizer announced a temporary supply reduction, Italy reduced its daily administering of about 80,000 doses to fewer than 30,000.

Both AstraZeneca and Pfizer said at that time that operational issues at their plants were delaying production.

While Pfizer-BioNTech had initial operating problems, its vaccine had the most successful roll-out. The European Commission, under pressure from France which was desperate to succeed with its own vaccine prototype (it turned out to be a dud), “played safe” bureaucratically and divided its bets between several companies: Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson (as of last week). Johnson and Johnson’s first shipments will start in the second half of April, and the company has committed to delivering at least 200 million doses to the EU in 2021.

Dividing bets in this way then had to confront the problem that there are differing storage requirements for different vaccines– the AstraZeneca vaccine is less complicated in this regard, while the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine requires more complex ultracold storage.

In the end, however, those countries which went with Pfizer-BioNTech from the beginning were better served in launching their respective vaccination programmes.

The EU roll-out was also hampered because the European Medicines Agency (EMA) was slower than the US or UK regulators to authorize use of its first vaccine.

The primary consideration here for the EMA was the need for the 27 EU member-nations to avoid liability in case problems arose, and in order to give people in very disparate national cultures greater confidence that the deployed vaccines were safe.

Faced with these difficulties and impediments, several EU countries used a clause in the EMA rule book that permitted EU countries to purchase vaccines from manufacturers outside the EMA’s remit, such as Russia and China.

Countries on the EU’s periphery, from the former Soviet bloc, believe they have been left behind by Brussels.

Serbia has received 1 million doses of Chinese vaccines. Hungary is already doing so by ordering the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, and Italy has just signed a deal with Russia to produce 10 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine in Italy this year.

Perceptions of vaccine production and distribution in the EU are blurred by its contribution to the United Nations-sponsored COVAX roll-out. Intended, laudably, to provide vaccines for poorer countries, the EU exported 34 million doses last month under the auspices of the UN’s COVAX programme.

However, while subscribing to the COVAX programme can be seen as a gesture of international solidarity, the EU has also exported vaccines to rich countries, such as the UK and US, that have been much more successful than the EU in providing vaccines for their citizens.

The following countries have so far received vaccine shipments from the EU:

Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Japan, Kuwait, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay.

As “vaccine nationalism” takes root, critics argue that while exporting vaccines to relatively impoverished Ecuador and Colombia (say) can be justified, exporting them to Australia and the UK while the EU has lagged in providing vaccines for its own citizens is harder to explain.

The vaccine manufacturers with production facilities in the EU argue that they were under contract to produce vaccines for countries outside the EU (e.g., AstraZeneca for the UK), and that any attempt by Brussels to curb such exports would place them in breach of contract.

The EU has no alternative but to find other ways to get more vaccines for its members— this coming at a time when a third wave of the pandemic, associated with the spread of new variants of the Covid virus, is proceeding across much of Europe.

The infection rate in the EU is now at its highest level since the beginning of last month, with Italy, France, Germany and Poland seeing a surge in infection rates, and with Hungary and the Czech Republic also reporting high infection rates and fatalities from the virus (health authorities in these two countries are warning the current figures are likely to get worse in the next few weeks).

The story of the pandemic is clearly not over for the EU.

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The remarkable disappearance of the common cold is by far not the only oddity of the ongoing Covid-19 operation. In the face of massive, global evidence of death and harm that have apparently resulted from exposure to hastily marketed and properly untested Covid-19 vaccines, Western pharmaceutical conglomerates have resorted to a bold denialist narrative that should make most contemporary “genocide deniers” blush. Looking the public straight in the eye, they blandly assert that “adverse events” which are known to have everywhere followed vaccinations with great regularity and in close chronological sequence are coincidental and entirely unrelated to the previous injection of their products (and here).

There seem, however, to have been more than enough lethal outcomes shortly after vaccination to amply justify serious safety concerns. Here is a partial list of events and official explanations:

1. A 46-year-old man died a day after taking the covid vaccine – “No relation with corona vaccine”
2. A Northern California man died several hours after the covid vaccine – “My first inclination is that it’s probably not related to the vaccine”
3. 236 Brits died after covid jabs – but vaccines “didn’t play a role”
4. Woman dies from brain haemorrhage in Japan days after vaccine – “link uncertain”
5. 63-year-old man dies 2 days after covid-19 vaccination – “it’s too early to tell whether the jab was related to his death”
6. 56-year-old woman dies days after covid vaccine – “no link established so far”
7. Virginia woman dies shortly after receiving coronavirus vaccine – “no link has been found”
8. 88-year-old dies hours after covid vaccination in second such incident – “in both cases, medical professionals do not believe the deaths were connected to the vaccines”

We are told that these are mere coincidences from which no credible vaccine reliability conclusions may be drawn. Who, one might ask, could have come up with such a piece of egregious, counter-intuitive drivel? Clearly, only pharmaceutical company executives who also happen to be avid disciples of David Hume, and are thoroughly steeped in his “Inquiry concerning human understanding”.

Hume’s fundamental claim in sections VI and VII of his treatise is that, contrary to the common view of mankind, when it comes to causation experience does not tell us much. When events A and B regularly occur together, the fact that they appear constantly to be conjoined gives rise to the impression that whenever A occurs, B is bound to follow. For Hume, therefore, the statement “A is the cause of B” is equivalent to saying that because of their constant conjunction we are psychologically conditioned to imagine that one is the cause of the other. It follows that, according to Hume, the notion of causality arises from habit and is no more than a mental projection, not an objectively ascertainable fact. That should be music to vaccine manufacturers’ ears.

This is also a masterful sophism of undeniable plausibility, on par with the famous convolution “what happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object?” Yet, Hume’s critique of causality, subversive as it is of many basic assumptions of everyday life, technically is far from frivolous and it posed a serious intellectual challenge even to Kant. For all that, should we give Big Pharma a pass for the havoc it has played with thousands of human lives during the last couple of months? One should say not, though that would probably make the pharmaceutical industry very unhappy. With all due respect for eighteenth century Scottish empiricist philosophy, we must carefully reflect on the supposed “mental projection” in the vaccination > death and injury causality matrix, because our lives and health are at stake.

The way things stand in the real world, as opposed to the notional world of bourgeois philosophy, was compellingly described by British dissident physician Dr. Vernon Coleman who recently wrote that “No one knows how many people the vaccines are killing – or how many they will kill.” Still, Dr. Coleman presents ample data that should cause (pun intended) some deep pondering:

“Pfizer vaccine in the UK. Deaths and injuries include: strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages, Bell’s Palsy, nervous system disorders, immune system disorders, psychiatric disorders and blindness.

“Latest AstraZeneca deaths and injuries. As well as blindness, some of the many injuries include: strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages, sepsis, paralysis, Bell’s Palsy, deafness and covid-19.”

This is a rather grim catalogue of “coincidental” events that followed the intake of these vaccine products.

There follows a list of some of the particulars that Dr. Coleman has painstakingly gathered and documented:

1. Woman suffering from Bell’s Palsy after covid jab (short video)
2. 39-year-old woman dies after 4 days after second Moderna vaccine, autopsy ordered
3. 34 cases of spontaneous miscarriage and stillbirth reported after experimental mRNA vaccines
4. 9 European nations suspend experimental AstraZeneca covid vaccines due to fatal blood clots
5. Whistleblower reveals many pregnancy complications following experimental covid injections leaving a trail of devastated mothers
6. Whistleblower: 25% of residents in German nursing home died after Pfizer vaccine
7. 45-year-old man dies after getting second dose of covid-19 vaccine
8. Number of injuries to CDC after covid vaccines climbs by nearly 4,000 in one week
9. The second dose killed my dad and many others. Latest reports coming in (video)
10. Man in Greece died 8 minutes after vaccination against covid-19
11. A 60-year-old woman dies hours after taking second covid-19 vaccine
12. 67-year-old dies days after second dose of covid vaccine
13. CA woman gets covid vaccine then suddenly dies of something else
14. 59-year-old health worker dies hours after covid vaccine
15. One-third of all deaths reported to CDC after covid vaccines occurred within 48 hours of vaccination
16. Volume 1: Social media posts about covid-19 vaccine deaths and severe injuries (video)
17. 22 elderly with dementia dead in 1 week after the experimental mRNA covid injection in the Netherlands
18. Covid vaccine side effect – tremors, my life is upside down – Angela Lynn Story (video)
19. Covid-19 vaccine effects on my army husband’s heart (video)
20. Nurse develops Bell’s Palsy after receiving covid jab (video)
21. A 28-year-old mother from Winconsin is brain dead after the second dose of the covid injection
22. 58-year-old woman dies hours after getting first dose of Pfizer vaccine
23. 46 nursing home residents in Spain die within one month of getting covid vaccine
24. Video of woman injured by covid vaccine
25. 36-year-old doctor dies after second dose of covid vaccine
26. German nursing home whistleblower says elderly are dying after covid vaccine
27. ‘They’re dropping like flies’ – Courageous nursing home CNA speaks out.
28. Short video showing that many people in Israel are dying after the covid jab
29. Man drops dead in New York 25 minutes after receiving vaccine
30. FDA and CDC officials are investigating 36 cases – including one death – of immune thrombocytopenia
31. Gibraltar: January ends with 71 dead in one month (vaccination rollout began on the 10th January 2021)
32. Miscarriages and stillbirth shortly after being given the covid vaccine
33. 19-year-old hospitalised with heart inflammation after covid vaccine
34. 39-year-old nurse aide dies within 48 hours of receiving the covid jab
35. Seniors dying of covid vaccine labelled as natural causes
36. Californian dies hours after receiving covid vaccine as investigation into the cause of death gets underway.
37. Covid infects 35 vaccinated staff and residents at care home
38. Vaccine injury video deleted from facebook (Warning: disturbing video)
39. X-ray technician dies two days after getting the second dose of the covid vaccine
40. 22 residents dead in three weeks in Basingstoke nursing home – ‘It is understood the outbreak started as residents began to have their coronavirus vaccines…’
41. A 41-year-old Portuguese mother of two who worked in paediatrics died at a hospital in Porto just two days after being vaccinated against covid-19
42. Norway is investigating the deaths of two nursing home residents who died after being vaccinated against covid-19
43. Chinese health experts call to suspend the use of mRNA-based covid-19 vaccines following the deaths of 23 elderly people in Norway.
44. In Florida, U.S., a doctor died after suffering a stroke after receiving a covid-19 vaccination.
45. A 32-year-old medical doctor suffered seizures and was paralysed after receiving the covid-19 vaccine.
46. A 46-year-old healthcare worker dies 24 hours after receiving the covid-19 vaccine but government says death is not related to the jab
47. German specialists are looking into the deaths of 10 people who died after being vaccinated against covid-19
48. Norway warns frail patients over 80 of vaccine risks after deaths
49. Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination
50. Doctors in California call for urgent halt of moderna vaccines after many fall sick
51. Two people in India die after receiving the covid jab
52. Coronavirus vaccine put on hold as volunteer suffers serious adverse reaction
53. California pause some covid vaccinations after reactions
54. Baseball legend dies of ‘undisclosed cause’ 18 days after receiving covid vaccine
55. Woman injured by vaccine (Warning: disturbing video)
56. Mother seriously injured by covid vaccine (Warning disturbing video).

Whether these “adverse events” constitute a sufficient refutation of Hume’s otherwise very cogent critique of causality must be left to the reader to judge. (It seems, by the way, that major Western vaccine manufacturers are engaged in a macabre competition as to whose product is the most harmful.) And it might be noted that in conditions of global media Gleichschaltung it must be assumed that these are but partial data, disparate facts that randomly slipped through the filters when the gatekeepers weren’t watching.

So how much more that should be of vital interest to everybody has been left unreported out there?