covid vaccination

[Dr. Jeff]

Hi @everyone!

I am starting a separate thread for this discussion so it doesn't get lost in the covid thread. That thread shares many of the resources and information from 2020 regarding the early months of the pandemic and is probably worth scanning if you haven't already done so:

Your Pets, Flu and COVID-19 ?

Hi everyone- The country is being wracked by the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease of 2019) pandemic. This forum thread is to help put it in context using reliable and useful information from the WHO, CDC and doctors in private practice. This situation should not be taken lightly so please follow...

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However, all the info. doesn't address the BIG question nowadays about getting vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 (or not). I have my own opinions, which I am happy to share, but more germane may be those of highly esteemed MDs, NDs, etc. who treat patients with covid every day.

The detailed info. from them is dense reading, but worthwhile, so I will share it below. Before I do so, however, here are a few of my thoughts which might provide some helpful context:

Fatal Viruses And One Health

Did you know that there’s nothing “special” about this virus? The virus itself does not cause serious illness, it's our body's reaction that does.

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Do Pets Get Covid-19? - Holistic Actions!

Can My Pet Get the SARS Virus and Develop the Covid-19 Dis-ease? Nowadays, veterinarians are often asked whether pets can get Covid-19. The short answer is yes, they can contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, so far none have developed serious symptoms or died of Covid-19. Regardless, there are...

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Internal Balance: Can It Beat The Virus?

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[Dr. Jeff]

Here's one of the detailed articles I mentioned above. This one's from world-renowned human ND and homeopath Andre´ Saine:

An update on COVID-19 prevention

André Saine, N.D.
February 12, 2021

Since the availability of the COVID-19 vaccines, I have been asked two or three
times a day by patients: “Should I get the vaccine?”

My answer has been consistently the following:

Do your own thinking, but first inform yourself.

Infectious diseases specialists and especially public health agencies are not as
worried about COVID-19 as they are about SARS (severe acute respiratory
syndrome) or MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), because of the
considerably greater mortality rate associated with SARS and MERS vs. COVID19.
The mortality rate from COVID-19 is reported to be 2.5% on average, which is
based on the number of diagnosed cases. However, the true mortality rate is
about 10 times less, as they are about ten times more people that actually have
antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 (the name of the virus associated with the
current COVID-19 pandemic) than there were cases diagnosed with COVID-19
before vaccination was introduced.1

Therefore, the true mortality rate from COVID-19 is closer to 0.25%, which is
slightly higher than the mortality rate from influenza, which is about 0.14%.
Importantly, SARS was associated with an average mortality rate of 14.5% and
was above 50% in people over 64,2 and MERS was associated with a mortality
rate of 35%.3

But even with a true mortality rate of 0.25%, COVID-19 remains a formidable
disease to tackle, first, because its virus is new to the human species, which
means it could remain endemic for a long time, and second, because it has a
relatively high transmission rate or reproductive number (R0), which is around
2.25 compared to 1.28 for influenza,4 1.8 for SARS and less than 1 for MERS.5
With a world population of 7.8 billion, and assuming that every human being will
eventually come in contact with SARS-CoV-2, a 0.25% mortality rate could lead
to up to 20 million deaths around the globe. However, these estimates are
inherently unreliable, as the course of an epidemic can change for the better or
the worse depending on many factors, including mutation of the virus, as it is
the case in the current pandemic.

After the outbreaks of SARS in 2002-2003 and MERS in 2012, great efforts
were made to develop vaccines to protect against coronaviruses, but now
eighteen years later there are still no vaccines for SARS or MERS,6 which raises a
very poignant question, why?

One of the main reasons is that no vaccine was found to be safe in animal
experiments. Four different types of vaccines for humans, including an rDNA type, were
tested in many different animal models, including mice, ferrets and other small
animals, and as well in rhesus macaques and other non-human primates. As a
whole, the animals took the vaccines relatively well with the development of the
anticipated antibodies.

However, when the animals in any of the animal models where challenged by
other viruses, including an influenza virus or one of the benign cororaviruses, all
the vaccinated animal models with each of the vaccines developed a prominent
eosinophilic lung infiltration, which was absent in all the control groups.7 One of
the research teams summarized their conclusions, “Caution in proceeding to
application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”8

This lung affection suggested a state of hypersensitivity that is reminiscent of a
vaccine-enhanced disease, which is an immune reaction that was also found in
young children who had been given an inactivated respiratory syncytial virus
(RSV) vaccine. 9 The children took the vaccine well and 91% had a four or greater
fold rise in antibodies. However, at the time of a naturally-occurring RSV
infection, 80% of the RSV vaccine recipients required hospitalization mostly with
3 pneumonia and broncholitis, and two children died. These findings suggested
that the “virus and serum antibody interact to produce severe illness.”10 “The
conclusion from that experience was clear; RSV lung disease was enhanced by
the prior vaccination. … In addition to the RSV experience, concern for an
inappropriate response among persons vaccinated with a SARS-CoV vaccine
emanated from experiences with coronavirus infections and disease in animals
that included enhanced disease among infected animals vaccinated earlier with a
coronavirus vaccine.”11

First, caution is necessary, as there are no long-term safety studies for any of
the currently offered COVID-19 vaccines.

Moreover, it is important to understand that many vaccines will change immunity
by making people potentially more susceptible to other infectious agents or to
the ones targeted by the vaccines, as was seen in the RSV vaccine experience.
As a rule, it is very difficult to assess the overall risk and benefit balance
associated with any single vaccine, as there are almost no prospective studies of
the overall health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations, including
offspring.

Scientists and organizations that have been critical about the safety of vaccines
have asked agencies, such as the CDC and the World Health Organization, to do
controlled studies with vaccines in order to be able to see the overall health
outcome of vaccinated versus unvaccinated groups. The industry is, of course,
not interested in conducting such research, and health agencies refuse to
mandate such research, supposedly for ethical reasons.

But this paternalistic and unscientific attitude of health agencies seems strange,
as if they had already pre-decided the outcome and with a form of circular logic
(if A, then B and if B, then A): even though it would be unethical to give a
vaccine that causes more harm than good, we still give the vaccine even though
we don’t really know its overall effects on a population, because it has never
been tested, as we think it is unethical to test it.
This is a very unfortunate stance in order to be able to resolve a scientific
question regarding potential harm to our species. However, there are actually a
4 few experiments, which give a glimpse of the great value of comparing the
overall outcome of vaccinated versus unvaccinated groups.

In a “natural experiment,” a group of researchers looked retrospectively at a
migrant population of Guinea-Bissau in which a portion of the children had been
vaccinated and another portion had not been vaccinated due to the difficulty of
meeting all the members of the tribe at their proper age. The researchers found
that children who had randomly received DTP (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus)
vaccinations early in life when compared with children who had not received
these vaccinations had in actuality a 10-times higher mortality rate than the
non-vaccinated children.

Researchers of this unplanned randomized trial concluded, “All currently available
evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes
than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis. Though a vaccine protects
children against the target disease it may simultaneously increase susceptibility
to unrelated infections.”12

In a rare, planned double-blind study with vaccines that was conducted in Japan
for an influenza vaccine, children who received the trivalent inactivated influenza
vaccine (TIV) were compared with children who had received a placebo. Over the
following 9 months, TIV recipients had a 4.4 increased risk of virologicallyconfirmed non-influenza infections. The authors concluded, “Being protected against influenza, TIV recipients may lack temporary non-specific immunity that protected against other respiratory viruses.”13

This phenomenon is called virus interference, which is when a vaccine increases
protection against a target virus but increases susceptibility to other viral
agents.

Another instance of this phenomenon was reported in a study that had been
submitted for publication before the advent of the current COVID-19 pandemic,
but was published in its midst in April 2020. It was reported that the 2017 and
2018 influenza recipients among the US Department of Defense personnel had a
significantly higher (p<0.01) susceptibility to coronaviruses and human
metapneumovirus when compared to unvaccinated individuals.14
5

Here is another example of this phenomenon: children in Guinea-Bissau who
received the H1N1-influenza vaccine became more susceptible to other
unrelated infections.15

As one of the golden rules of medicine is primum non nocere (physician, above
all, do not harm), physicians have a moral obligation to make sure that their
diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic interventions don’t cause further harm.
Incidentally, this golden rule has been shrugged off for centuries by physicians of
the conventional school of medicine, which obliges physicians to use even great
scrutiny in assessing all conventional medical practices, which includes vaccines.
Homeopathic physicians have a remarkable advantage over all other physicians
to make more intelligent decisions regarding vaccination for their patients. First,
because it is relatively easy to treat patients affected with infectious diseases
even the most virulent ones in the most handicapped patients (including COVID19 in elderly persons with co-morbidities), when the pull power of natural interventions are adequately used;16 and second, that we can use our remedies preventatively to protect populations during epidemics with a very high degree
of efficacy, and this without doing any harm.

Since the beginning of the current pandemic, we have systematically been using
Bryonia as a prophylactic remedy against COVID-19.

We estimate this to be about 1000 patients and members of their families and
friends who have been taking Bryonia weekly, biweekly or monthly (depending on
the potency used and the exposure and sensitivity of each individual person). As
far as we know, there is a very small minority of people who have taken Bryonia
regularly, and have become sick, testing positive for COVID-19. In each instance,
the person had a relatively mild, and easily treated (with homeopathy) case.
Also we have had maybe about a dozen patients who had symptoms similar to
COVID-19 (i.e., cold or flu-like symptoms with loss of taste or smell) who were
either not tested for COVID-19 or tested negative.

Homeoprophylaxis, prevention by using homeopathic remedies, offers an average
of 98% protection rate across the board, which is comparable or even better
6 than most conventional immunizations, but is of course devoid of short- and
long-term side effects and is low in cost.

Another advantage of homeoprophylaxis is that the small percentage of people
who do fall sick to the target disease despite taking the preventative
homeopathic remedy tend, as a rule, to develop a mild case of the disease.
It is interesting to note that many of the people who fell sick with what looked
like COVID-19, despite having properly taken Bryonia preventatively, recovered
quickly by simply taking Bryonia more often or in a higher potency.
Moreover, we have about 15 families in which only some members took Bryonia
while others who live in the same house didn’t care to take the prophylactic
remedy. So far, very few of the members of these families who took Bryonia
tested positive to COVID-19 when there were one or more members of the
household testing positive. For instance, in one family, we had a woman of about
60 years old who regularly took Bryonia since the spring. Her husband fell sick
and tested positive for COVID-19. Some days later her brother who also lives in
the same house fell sick and tested positive for COVID-19. Neither her husband
nor brother had taken Bryonia for protection. However, they both began to
recover quickly when Bryonia was given to them. The husband (who is not my
patient) insisted to talk to me on the phone afterward. He said, “I was quite sick
and bedridden with COVID, and I believe Bryonia saved my life.”

I hope that an upcoming book on the risks and benefits of vaccination that I am
currently writing will provide everyone with tools to make intelligent decisions
about vaccination. This book will examine the benefits of vaccines and some of
the short- and long-term side effects of the oldest vaccine and of a newly
developed vaccine; how vested interests have muddled the discussion and have
been able to globally influence decisions regarding vaccination. It is, in fact, hard
to trust anybody when billions of dollars are at stake and so it is then better to
stick with the science.

The book will also examine in detail the current controversy about measles
vaccination; present a historical perspective of the different paradigms in
medicine and the prophylactic and therapeutic potential and raison-d’être of
7 alternative medicine; present the position taken by some of the leading
homeopathic practitioners regarding vaccination from Hahnemann onward.
I am currently completing a chapter on homeoprophylaxis, which will focus on
the prevention of scarlet fever with Belladonna, first reported by Hahnemann in
1801. Itwas put to the test in numerous countries and for many decades
afterward by prominent and public health physicians of the conventional school
of medicine, but without acknowledging and more likely not knowing that that
they were actually applying a homeopathic principle in their attempt to save
lives in their respective populations.

Scarlet fever was also chosen as an example to look at homeoprophylaxis
because no vaccine exists in conventional medicine to protect against it, and it
has recently begun to re-emerge in different parts of the world.17 Even with
antibiotics, scarlet fever can carry a very high mortality rate approaching 50%
when it turns malignant,18 and whose victims would meet modern-day clinical
definitions of invasive group A streptococcus (GAS) infection with streptococcal
toxic shock syndrome.19

It is unfortunate that physicians of the conventional school of medicine have
stopped using homeoprophylaxis as GAS is still among the top ten infectious
causes of human mortality, with more than 500,000 deaths annually. In addition
to this persistently high disease burden especially in low-resource countries, an
unprecedented global resurgence of scarlet fever and severe invasive group A
streptococcal infections has been seen in the past few decades around the
world.20

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[Dr. Jeff]

Here's another excellent and detailed article from Dr. Ronald Whitmont. He's an excellent MD homeopath in NY:

COVID-19

There has been an incredible amount of information published recently on the current COVID-19 pandemic and I have spent months synthesizing as much as possible to present a coherent understanding of this virus. Every day new information appears. What follows is the most up-to-date information I could find. I apologize for the lengthy delay, as many of you have either written or called requesting guidance in this matter.

Disclaimer: What follows is an extraction of a much larger paper that I hope to publish soon. This is NOT medical advice, nor it should not be taken as instruction about what to do.

The Bottom Line: I do not recommend either of the two available vaccines at this time, but everyone's health and susceptibility is different, and each person must make their own decision regarding whether the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for them, or not. At this stage, the vaccine has not been mandated, but there is a good chance that it will either be mandated, or that the social and societal pressures will become so great that for all intents and purposes it will be the same as a formal legal mandate. Only time will tell.

The COVID-19 pandemic itself is an example of how conventional medicine has insidiously destroyed the microbiome and weakened the immune system of an entire generation, making it more vulnerable to, among other things, a mutated respiratory virus. Not discussed in any forums: conventional treatments created the "perfect storm" of environmental, microbiome and immune system dysfunction that combined to weaken resistance and increase susceptibility to this virus. The "inconvenient truth" about conventional medicine, as important as it is in many conditions and circumstances, is that it is deadly harmful when overused, which is precisely what has been demonstrated by the current pandemic.

The immune system overreaction, aka cytokine storm, is believed to be the final common pathway leading to death from COVID-19, SARS, MERS and many other epidemic infectious diseases. This immune system hyper-reaction is more likely when the microbiome is disrupted (dysbiotic) and the immune system is dysfunctional: both common side effects of conventional medical treatment contributing to the risk of developing chronic inflammatory conditions, the comorbidities of COVID-19.

At least 24% of conventional medicines negatively impact the microbiome[1] leading to chronic dysbiosis and chronic inflammation. A host of chronic inflammatory,[2],[3] autoimmune[4],[5] and neoplastic[6],[7] conditions plague modern societies using these drugs and Americans consume more of them, per capita, than any other country thus imparting the highest burden of chronic inflammatory disease anywhere in the world.[8],[9] Since comorbid chronic inflammatory diseases are risk factors that worsen outcome from COVID-19, and because Americans suffer from more of these conditions, and use more immune suppressing and microbiome damaging medications than the rest of the world, it shouldn't be surprising that US death rates from SARS-CoV-2 are among the highest.[10] According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):

"the US has experienced more deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) than any other country and has one of the highest cumulative per capita death rates.[11]

Data from the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic provides direct evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is only part of the problem (since 82% of people are already somewhat resistant to it) and that conventional medical treatments are what make a subset of the population more susceptible. Treatments that impair the immune system response and trigger rebound hyper-inflammation and immune cytokine storms are as responsible for complications as the coronavirus itself.[12]

Conventional medical care offers many powerful benefits and holds an important place in the management of many emergent, traumatic and surgical illnesses, but it appears to be largely ineffective and frequently harmful in the long-term management of many acute and chronic illnesses, particularly COVID-19. Interestingly, the COVID-19 pandemic does provide a very unique opportunity to understand some of the limitations of conventional medicine from a public health perspective.

Just like many other modern medical crises (antibiotic resistance, the opioid epidemic, and the epidemic of chronic inflammatory illness) the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be iatrogenic (caused by medicine or physicians). In other words, the current pandemic may be the indirect result of the overutilization of conventional allopathic medical treatments that damage the microbiome, the ecology of the environment and the immune system, resulting in greater susceptibility to this and a great many other illnesses.[13] Many conventional medical treatments increase susceptibility to comorbid conditions, as noted above, allowing the SARS-CoV-2 virus to act much more destructively.

Most of the comorbidities making COVID-19 more deadly are iatrogenic. These chronic inflammatory illnesses are overtly associated with 94% of all COVID deaths,[14] while the remaining deaths, in otherwise "healthy" individuals, are likely related either to a genetic predisposition or the overuse of conventional drugs (i.e., NSAID's and antipyretics) that are frequently used to manage symptoms of infection but increase the odds of developing adverse events.[15] The overwhelming majority of healthy people (82%) suffer only mild or moderately from COVID-19, or not at all (45%).[16] Healthy young children have essentially a 0% risk of dying from COVID-19, while 93% of college age young adults,[17] 88% of pregnant women, and 96% of prisoners[18] appear to be completely immune, most never even developing symptoms from the virus.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not deadly in spite of conventional care; it appears to be deadly because of it.

Let me repeat that: The COVID-19 pandemic is not deadly in spite of conventional care; it appears to be deadly because of it. Many conventional treatments are associated with a dysfunctional immune-inflammatory response that contributes to a worsened outcome.[19] As late as October 2020, peer-reviewed guidelines in conventional medical journals indicated that "There are no [conventional medical] evidence-based treatments for COVID-19 that are appropriate for use,"[20],[21] but even worse, conventional treatments studied in clinical trials increase the risk of developing complications[22],[23] and the likelihood of dying or suffering from chronic post-COVID sequelae ("long COVID"),[24] which appears to result from "a dysfunctional immune-inflammatory response,"is precisely what conventional medications produce.[25]

The risk of developing an immune system hyperreaction (aka, a "cytokine storm" [26]) and dying from COVID-19 is much greater when conventional drugs are used, or if one already suffers from a chronic inflammatory comorbidity caused by or treated with conventional drugs.[27]

Many conventional medical treatments, which provide short-term symptomatic relief by suppressing the immune mediated inflammatory response, increase the risk of developing rebound uncontrolled hyper-inflammation, which leads toward a cytokine storm. Additionally, these drugs can block the connection between the innate and the adaptive immune systems, thus preventing the smooth transition to permanent adaptive immunity.[28] Further, many of these medications damage the microbiome[29] and dysregulate the immune system thereby increasing susceptibility to COVID-19 and other infections. It is no coincidence that these conventional medical interventions have not only proven to be inefficacious but are associated with an increased risk of death in pandemics.[30]

Many expect that a vaccine will stop COVID-19, but none of the vaccines currently in the pipeline have even been tested to find out if they will prevent infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[31]

"None of the trials currently under way are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths. Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus."[32]

Even manufacturers who boast a 90% or greater efficacy rate have not shown a reduction in symptomatic, asymptomatic, severe, or non-severe infections or burden of disease (BOD) since their primary endpoint in phase 3 clinical trials was only to prevent seroconversion. Clinical trials have not been completed, but FDA agreed to provide temporary emergency approval until they are (another 18 months at least.) The clinical trials required by the FDA for emergency approval only required "minimal phase 3 success criteria."[33] In other words, none of the vaccines were evaluated for risk or severity of illness, only the risk of testing positive for the virus. No determination has yet been made whether these vaccines will prevent illness or transmission, reduce complications or prevent death above or beyond placebo treatment.

Experts at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) raised serious concerns that many cases of illness following vaccination, not testing positive for COVID-19, were excluded from the study, skewing the results in favor of the vaccines, when these may have been serologic negative cases and evidence of vaccine failure.[34]

These vaccines were rushed to market without any form of FDA site inspection,[35] even as widespread reports described the emergence new mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. No clinical trial has addressed whether new mutations will even affect vaccine efficacy or not (perhaps because the true efficacy will not be known until trials are completed in another 18 months). As all viruses mutate, which SARS-CoV-2 has already done many times, and will continue to do, there is a known tendency to become less lethal and more benign with each subsequent adaptation.[36] Viruses are under constant evolutionary pressure, not only to advance from one species to another, but to adapt benignly to their hosts and develop a commensal relationship that increases longevity of both species.

This ability to constantly mutate and adapt increases the risk that vaccines, if they are not produced fast enough, will be obsolete before they can be administered. This is precisely why the Cuban Ministry of Health approved the emergency use of a homeopathic immunization in 2007 against epidemic leptospirosis. Not only was the campaign effective in preventing disease, but the homeopathic product was produced rapidly, safely and inexpensively and was distributed to over 2.5 million people in a short period of time.[37] This type of program is a model of rapid targeting, development and deployment using a safe and effective modality to effectively prevents and treat illness without imposing new risks of harm. It was an example that probably terrified the modern vaccine industry since the product did not utilize advanced technology, could not be patented and did not generate billions of dollars in revenue.

As vaccination against other epidemic diseases, like influenza, has clearly demonstrated: most vaccines don't work well in the elderly or infirm populations,[38] which is precisely the demographic at highest risk from COVID-19. It is unlikely that vaccines will generate immunity in this population without multiple doses, which may significantly increase the risk of allergic reactions.

Additionally, since 82% of the untreated population is already relatively immune from serious adverse reactions to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the vaccine may not even prevent transmission, it is likely those who are most vulnerable will continue to be so. Even if the vaccine does generate an immune response, no vaccine has ever been associated with durable permanent immunity, or even come close to the long-lasting immunity produced by actual infection, which is "substantial" and durable in the case of COVID-19.[39],[40]

Since immunity from all vaccines inevitably wanes with time, future waves of this and other viruses in a vaccinated population are still likely to be costly and damaging. This phenomenon has already been demonstrated by many current childhood vaccination programs: as the vaccinated population ages and immunity wanes, childhood diseases become more devastating if it is contracted by those who are older.[41] If natural illness and the resulting long-term or permanent immunity is allowed to develop, then protection tends to be more durable.

An important consideration is that the existing program of overusing vaccines to prevent routine infections in the US may be one of the factors already contributing to the excess death rate from COVID-19. The US vaccine schedule is heavier than those in any other country and many of these vaccines are associated with increased risk of chronic illness[42] while others, like the influenza vaccine, are known to increase susceptibility to a wide range of acute infections, including coronaviruses.[43] Interestingly, health care workers are some of the most heavily vaccinated adults in the US, and they appear to be extremely susceptible to complications from the SARS-CoV-2 virus,[44] suggesting a link between vaccination and immune system susceptibility.[45]

All of the vaccines currently approved for use against COVID-19 in the US utilize a relatively new (mRNA) technology designed to provoke protein synthesis by genetically modifying existing cellular machinery in a fashion similar to the way that real viruses act. Preliminary testing of coronavirus vaccines for SARS-CoV infections revealed that both vaccine hypersensitivity reactions as well as adverse histopathologic lung changes can occur in vaccinated individuals, increasing the risk of greater disease severity and death in those who subsequently encountered either the actual virus or a vaccine re-challenge,[46] leading researchers to suggest that:

"Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated."[47]

The COVID-19 vaccines are essentially man-made "Frankenviruses" that use a lipid nanoparticle membrane bound together by a synthetic adjuvant, polyethylene glycol (PEG), a relative of ethylene glycol (the main poisonous ingredient in automobile antifreeze[48]) instead of a phospholipid or protein coat that surrounds most natural viruses:

"The main difference between ethylene glycol and polyethylene glycol is that ethylene glycol has a fixed value for molecular weight whereas polyethylene glycol has no fixed value for molecular weight."[49]

PEG has never been utilized in a vaccine before, but it is so far, associated with a 24-fold increased risk of severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) already seen in many COVID-19 vaccine recipients.[50]
The COVID-19 vaccines, once injected, indiscriminately bind to and "infect" random human cells, hijacking the protein synthesis machinery and forcing then to produce viral proteins until the mRNA is degraded. These vaccines mimic the way actual viruses behave, but unlike natural viruses that bind only to specific receptors in certain cells, these man-made viruses have the potential to take control of any cell including those in the vital organs like the heart, liver, kidneys or eyes, which would then become a target of the immune system. Training the immune system to react to any of these vital tissues could lead to catastrophic long-term side effects that may not be evident until many months or years later.

Since genetic and chemical information is continually traded and shared between virtually all cells within the human organism and the human microbiome as part of a complex messaging system,[51] genetically engineered information can enter this pool with unforeseen, unintentional and unstudied side effects.

Incorporating genetically engineered information into other species of bacteria and viruses in the human microbiome and virome[52] could create a de novo genetic breeding program similar to what is seen when antibiotics select resistant organisms or "super bugs" that share or trade genetic information for resistance. Monkeying with the genome with this heretofore untested and unproven technology may open up an entirely new and unprecedented frontier of medical terrorism by creating new genetically modified organisms (GMO's) capable of affecting the body in unforeseen ways, entering the microbiome and dispersing freely in the environment. This unregulated trial without adequate safety studies is reminiscent of other failed experiments that have led to other environmental and health disasters. Safety testing is not an area that can or should be skipped or overlooked since these changes can have long lasting ramifications with unknown and unpredictable consequences across the entire ecosystem, not restricted to their intended use. Just like "Silent Spring:"

"We stand now where two roads diverge...The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster." [53]

No one knows exactly what the long-term effects on the microbiome, the environment or the human immune system will develop from these vaccines because they have been fast-tracked without time to consider either short or long-term safety and efficacy.[54]

Additionally, after spending billions of dollars to rapidly develop several COVID-19 vaccines at "warp speed," the world is facing an unprecedented ethical dilemma: will otherwise healthy people, at low risk of illness be directly mandated or indirectly pressured to take an unproven, untested medical product that even the US supreme court ruled in 2010 in BRUESEWITZ ET AL. v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., ET AL., to be "unavoidably unsafe"? [55]

Vaccinating otherwise healthy individuals, already at low risk of complications from COVID-19, with an untested, unproven vaccine capable of inducing significant environmental and immune system havoc is inadvisable, unnecessary and reckless. This not only increases risk of exposure to chemicals, toxins, adjuvants,[56] viral and genetic contaminants in the vaccines,[57], [58] but increases the risk of promoting chronic immune stimulation and hyperinflammation,[59] particularly in women who are more susceptible.[60] Mandating this vaccine for everyone, including healthy people, rather than offering it to those at highest risk, would be a mistake, a gross corruption of the democratic process, a violation of the Nuremburg Codes[61] and a flagrant violation and neglect of the principles of "informed consent."[62]

The COVID-19 pandemic desperately begs to be studied in relation to the long-term effects of using conventional allopathic medicines and vaccines. Failure to heed these connections, or to explore the relationship between what preceded this pandemic and what follows, may mean the difference between environmentally based health and man-made provoked chronic illness. Pandemics may become more prolonged and commonplace as environmental and microbiome destruction, mass extinctions, and climate changes accelerate under this pernicious system.

The vaccine decision is not an easy one. Many scientific and ethical questions remain unaddressed and unanswered.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Ronald D. Whitmont, MD


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[Dr. Jeff]

Here the recommendations from public health (MPH) naturopath, homeopath Paul Herscu and his naturopath wonderful wife Amy Rothenberg:


1. Please get tested for the virus before being vaccinated to ensure you are not actively ill with COVID-19. To be sick and also to take the vaccine may be too much unnecessary stress on your body and may overburden your immune system.

2. Here are reasonable steps to take based on basic naturopathic concepts, and mirror what we do on the other side of the equation, to support an optimally functioning immune system, should a person be exposed to the virus. We want an immune response to the vaccine, while limiting harm. Here’s what we suggest:

a. Take probiotics and if your diet allows, eat cultured/fermented foods (think here, yogurt, kefir, miso, sauerkraut, etc.) in the weeks before and after your vaccine. Research shows that people who have a robust and diverse microbiome seem to fare better with vaccines, and vaccines seem to work better and their impact last longer. This makes sense when you consider the ecosystem within which the immune system works.

b. Include prebiotic foods in your diet. In order for probiotics and probiotic food and drink to work best, they need prebiotics on board. You don’t need another supplement here, just be mindful of including insoluble fiber foods in your diet. Prebiotics are indigestible by human enzymes. They function as essential food for probiotics, which in turn help support optimal digestion as well as enhanced immunity; studies have shown this helps with response to vaccination.

c. Include nutritional supplementation with Vitamins D (5,000 IU), E (400 IU), C (1-2,000 mg), the mineral zinc (15 mg with 1-2 mg copper), and essential fatty acids, like fish oil, for an optimal immune resiliency. We would say for the two weeks before and then afterward, this plan would be recommended for most people. Beyond that, please work with your own health care provider for more long-range plans.

Paul's vaccine thoughts and recommendations for 2021 are here:

A Broader Conversation About Vaccines - Part #5

2019 Novel Coronavirus (CoVID-19): Part XXI 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV (first named); COVID-2019 (later named disease); SARS-C...

paulherscuepidemics.blogspot.com

His vaccine series of 4 great articles start here:

Get the First Series of Shots! (Conversation About Vaccines - Part #1)

2019 Novel Coronavirus (CoVID-19): Part XVII 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV (first named); COVID-2019 (later named disease); SARS-CoV-2...

paulherscuepidemics.blogspot.com

 

[Julie W.]

Thank you for sharing this information.

 

[Dr. Jeff]

YW Julie, and thanks for your super nice phone message!

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Here's a 21 minute conversation I had today with long time clients and friends who asked my personal opinions about the vaccine.

Spoiler alert-I referred them to this thread and Dr. Herscu's vaccination discussion (above) which merges the current urgent public health need with vitality, balance and homeopathy:

Also, here's a about more about the typical vaccine approval process:

The 5 stages of COVID-19 vaccine development: What you need to know about how a clinical trial works

Johnson & Johnson just announced the launch of a Phase 3 clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. But what does this step in the process really mean? We asked two experts whose job it is to test vaccines to help demystify the clinical trial process—step by step.

www.jnj.com

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Here's an even deeper-dive into the science of the mRNA vaccines:

mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

mRNA vaccines represent a promising alternative to conventional vaccine approaches, but their application has been hampered by instability and delivery issues. Here, Pardi and colleagues discuss recent advances in mRNA vaccine technology, assess mRNA vaccines currently in development for cancer...

www.nature.com

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Below is Dr. Jean's wonderful article about pre and post vaccine practices.

Preventing Vaccine Adverse Effects | Little Big Cat - Dr. Jean Hofve

By Jean Hofve, DVM For our pets, the rabies vaccine is a legal requirement. There are similar requirements for a variety of vaccines for children entering school, and there is concern that vaccination against “swine flu” may soon become mandatory for all U.S. residents. Here are suggestions on...

littlebigcat.com

The only modification I would make is that rather than routine use of Thuja after vaccination, ideally, individualize remedies that optimize homeostasis both before and after vaccination.

Dr. Lisa Samet has a few webinars in your member area that address covid and vaccination.

She can be reached at:

Lisa Samet: Holistic Medical Care | Lisa Samet, Naturopath

Learn more about Lisa Samet's life, as well as about her training and work in holistic medical care, for patients with all type of chronic and acute diseases.

www.lisasamet.com

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Thanks @Dr. Sara for sharing this video from a vaccine insider:

 

[Julie W.]

Seems like everyone has vaccine fever.
Everyone is so excited get the vaccine.

 

[Dr. Jean Hofve]

As a "high-risk" person, I got my initial COVID vaccine (Moderna) a few weeks ago. I used my protocol, and seemed fine. A week later, I developed a hot, swollen, extremely itchy nodule over the vaccine site. I used my Vaccine Detox flower remedy and it went away in 24 hours. We shall see what happens when I get the next one on April 6!

I am not so convinced of the vaccine's safety or efficacy, especially when we are facing more new variant cases now than from the original. But I suspect that proof of vaccination will be required in the not too distant future for things like travel, admission to certain venues, etc. Getting vaccines that I can handle with immune support and healthy lifestyle, versus having life become a giant pain in the ***--well the vaccine seems like a better tradeoff!

 

[CarolL]

Was privileged to see Dr Pitcairn video regarding history of vaccinations, beginning with smallpox.
Amazing. My take was that we have not learned a darn thing, or most likely, just don’t want to?
Money blinds so many of our society decisions I am afraid.
Trying best to listen, read, understand all my pea brain can take in.

 

[Dr. Jean Hofve]

I saw Dr. Pitcairn's vaccine lecture when I was still in vet school. Very, very enlightening. You're so right about money controlling everything! The COVID situation is different, though. In the cases he shows, the disease was already waning on its own when vaccines were introduced, while this virus is still accelerating. And there is data to show that vaccines are helping. It will be interesting to follow this topic and see what shakes out--in a year or two or so! I am prone to bad vaccine reactions (the 3-shot rabies series, required in vet school, was disastrous!), but now that I have the protocol (and I agree with Dr. Jeff that an individualized remedy is better than shotgunning Thuja on everyone, but we don't all have that opportunity) I am pretty confident that my body can handle it. You guys will be the first to know if it doesn't!

 

[CarolL]

Oh Dr Jean, I certainly wish you an all good, totally healthy experience with the vaccine! My note came out of emotion of recently seeing Pitcairn video. I have distant family and best friend who have the vaccine. Keep to myself any thoughts I have of what I read or hear.. Concern of virus and so much else is on everyone’s shoulders.
I keep trying to understand all of it while hoping to keep healthy myself.
I will never say never!
Live in Maryland where we saw the numbers lowering in January. Not sure why. Somewhat like the numbers of smallpox as vaccine was arriving?? Not sure I “got”/understood all of Pitcairn. I am no doctor or scientist, as one distant family member reminded me awhile back!
Wishing you good health (and some good wealth!). And for all of us!

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Here is Dr. Pitcairn's older (pre-pandemic) vaccine article:

Dr. Pitcairn asks if You Should Get Your Pet Vaccinated and Answers Questions about Vaccinosis

Let’s look at the vaccine question from my perspective as a practitioner of homeopathic medicine. Not from the allopathic model that assumes vaccines to be useful and safe with occasional aberrations. Most of us are aware that vaccine-caused diseases — such as immune disorders, bleeding...

www.homevet.com

 

[Julie W.]

Zoo animals are getting experimental coronavirus vaccines

 

[Dr. Jeff]

As of now the vaccine will probably be limited to zoos, ferrets, and mink farms...

 

[Julie W.]

Oravax to commence trials of oral Covid-19 vaccine in Israel

Oravax is set to initiate trials of oral Covid-19 vaccine in Israel with the study protocol approved by the IRB at Ichilov Hospital.

www.clinicaltrialsarena.com

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Thanks so much Julie for posting a link about what we discussed in our call earlier today. ?

Here's the one I mentioned that Amy sent:

Israeli company begins clinical trials of an ORAL COVID-19 vaccine