David Craig, on March 2nd, 2024weekend blog
Roll up, roll up your sleeve for the mystery jab
(with apologies to the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour)
A few weeks ago, I got an sms message from my local NHS surgery offering me a jab commonly given to infants and those of more mature years – the pneumococcal vaccine. From what little I understand, giving such jabs is a very lucrative source of income for many GP surgeries. According to (the not always accurate) Wikipedia: “Pneumococcal vaccines are vaccines against the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. Their use can prevent some cases of pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis. There are two types of pneumococcal vaccines: conjugate vaccines and polysaccharide vaccines.”
A member of my family got their pneumococcal vaccine about a year ago and recently had to be hospitalised in an isolation ward with a severe case of meningitis – one of the diseases which the wonderful pneumococcal jab should have given protection against. The person is still slowly recovering their balance and hearing more than a month after being discharged from hospital.
I had to have the two AZ vaccines as I wanted to travel, especially so I could escape prison Britain and sit in the sun enjoying all kinds of pleasures during all the disastrous Chinese lab-leaked plague lockdowns. The AZ supposed ‘miracle vaccine’ was eventually withdrawn, I think, because of the many vaccine-related injuries so well reported by the brilliant Mark Steyn until Ofcom forced him off air for some trivial mistake he made in one report.
Fortunately, I didn’t get any of the mRNA ‘death vaccine’ boosters. So I still haven’t made the decision whether to have the proposed pneumococcal jab as I have more than slightly lost faith in our politicised, giant-pharma-controlled medical establishment.
Fancy the RSV jab?
There’s another jab often offered to infants and people of my age group – the RSV vaccine. Wikipedia informs us: “A respiratory syncytial virus vaccine, or RSV vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against respiratory syncytial virus. RSV affects an estimated 64 million people and causes 160,000 deaths worldwide each year. The RSV vaccines Arexvy, and Abrysvo, are approved for medical use in the United States.”
I have the impression that the pneumococcal and RSV vaccines are somewhat similar in function and the groups to whom these vaccines are offered (though please correct me if I am wrong). So, I noticed the folowing on-line article (in red below) which I rather doubt will be reported in any of the UK vaccine-pushing mainstream media:
Health officials are investigating whether there’s a link between two new RSV vaccines and cases of a rare nervous system disorder in older US adults.�The inquiry is based on fewer than two dozen cases seen among more than 9.5 million vaccine recipients, health officials said on Thursday. And the available information is too limited to establish whether the shots caused the illnesses, they added.
But the numbers are higher than expected and officials are gathering more information to determine if the vaccines are causing the problem. The data was presented at a meeting of an expert panel that provides vaccine policy advice to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most people fully recover from the syndrome, but some have permanent nerve damage. Guillain-Barre can occur in people after they are infected with a virus, but in some instances, cases have been linked to vaccinations.
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of cold-like symptoms but it can be dangerous for infants and the elderly.
Last year, the CDC signed off on a recommendation made by the advisory panel, aimed at Americans age 60 and older. It was for a single dose of RSV vaccine. There were two options, one made by Pfizer and the other by GSK.�The CDC said that patients should talk to their doctors about the vaccines and then decide whether to get it.
‘Potential increased risk’
Officials were aware that instances of Guillain-Barre had been identified in clinical trials done before the shots were approved for sale, and that different systems were watching for signs of problems.
At a meeting of the expert panel on Thursday, CDC officials presented an analysis of the reports taken in by those systems.
About two-thirds of the cases occurred in people who got a version of the vaccine made by Pfizer, called Abrysvo. But officials are also doing follow-up tracking in people who got Arexvy, made by GSK.
About two cases of Guillain-Barre might be seen in every 1 million people who receive a vaccine, health officials estimate. A CDC analysis found the the GSK rate was lower than that, but 4.6 cases per million were reported in recipients of the Pfizer shot.
Data from the US Food and Drug Administration also showed an above-expected number of Guillain-Barre cases being reported in RSV vaccine recipients, with more among Pfizer shot recipients.
�Taken together, these data suggest a potential increased risk� in RSV vaccine recipients 60 and older that must be explored, said Dr Tom Shimabukuro, a CDC vaccine safety monitoring official.
Officials from GSK and Pfizer made brief statements during the meeting, noting that sorting out a safety signal is complicated.
�Pfizer is committed to the continuous monitoring and evaluation of the safety of Abrysvo� and is conducting four safety studies to look into the possibility of vaccine-related GBS, said Reema Mehta, a Pfizer vice president.
As usual, those involved in pushing the vaccine claim that: “the benefits of vaccination outweigh the possible risks”:
CDC officials also presented estimates that the vaccines have prevented thousands of hospitalisations and hundreds of deaths from RSV and that current data indicates the benefits of vaccination outweigh the possible risks.
Oh dear, it’s Pfizer again. Aren’t Pfizer the company which spent possibly millions on lawyers to try to keep the results of the clinical trials for their supposed Covid vaccine blocked for 75 years? Here’s the Pfizer mass-murdering boss – sorry, Freudian slip there, I meant wonderful, selfless, humanitarianmodern saint – with apparently one of his best chums, the� EU’s fragrant and always immacculately-coiffed Ursula fond of Lying, an eager buyer of billions of somewhat dubious and questionable ‘vaccines’:
As for the claim: “current data indicates the benefits of vaccination outweigh the possible risks,”�I seem to remember we’ve heard that story before. So I won’t be rolling up my sleeve again for the RSV or pneumococcal ‘vaccines’ any time soon.
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In my 20 years working in one of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (I qualified as a mature student, 20 years later than the usual) I encountered only ONE case of Guillaume-Barre syndrome and together with my fellow professionals was keen to see this syndrome, of which we had had heard, expressed in a living individual. Fortunately this patient eventually made a full recovery, but this is not invariably the case. People can die if/when their respiratory muscles are affected, or can be permanently disabled. It’s a very nasty affliction. Now, thanks evidently to the “safe and effective” it is not uncommon. As for the pneumonia jab, personally I was pleased to receive it several years ago (prior the scamdemic) and also the shingles jab when I attained the qualifying age, having seen so many older people in effect permanently disabled from this re-activation of their childhood chicken pox. A personal friend died from shingles, since the residual pain and loss of sight (it got the nerves to her head, including an eye) lead to depression, lack of activity and death. Of course, my pneumonia and shingles jabs were of the traditional variety, not mRNA. What is being used now I do not know but, like you, I would be hesitant and want to know exactly what was being pushed into my arm. Absence of trust prevented me from trotting along in the Autumn last year for my customary ‘flu jab. The tragedy of the faux fax is that the damage and deaths it has undoubtedly caused have destroyed public confidence in the traditional vaccines which have done so much to eradicate disability and deaths from smallpox, diphtheria, measles, polio from the world. Not forgetting rubella which, acquired in crucial stages of pregnancy, results in blindness, deafness and other disabilities in babies, disabilities which will be with them for the rest of their lives. Mumps in a boy can, if it migrates to his reproductive organs, mean that he will never be able to father children. Public trust is everything in medicine, and thanbks to the vax it has been eroded, possibly irreversibly. Thank you Big Pharma!
There is only one way to make a decision about the pneumonia jab and that is to find the results of the randomised control trial and see what it says. Failing that tell your GP that he must provide a consent form and that should tell you the benefits and risks.
My understanding of vaccines for respiratory transmitted virus is that none of them work very well because the virus has to be attacked in the airways and the antibodies that vaccines generate do not get there. This is why there is research on vaccines given by nasal sprays. All the traditional vaccines do is to reduce the symptoms. They don’t stop transmission. There is one virus, and I don’t remember which, where vaccines work better and that is because it passes from the lungs into the body more quickly and then the vaccines can get to work.