If you folks want to liven stuff up we can discuss the mRNA vaccines for covid. Normally like nearingsfault I spend my time on other places focused on homesteading and low energy living so I don't come around here much. But I know a discussion on permies about the vaccine would quickly turn pretty messy and also just not be allowed.
So I've been having fatigue, every single day now, for over a year. Not "I can't get out of bed" fatigue levels but I only ever have about 60-80% of my previous energy levels. I always have dark circles under my eyes. This is all constant no matter how well I sleep, how healthy my diet is, and how healthy my social life is. I have lower stress than I used to as I'm more organized than I used to be.
Nothing radical has changed in my life in the past year. So suffice to say it's quite frustrating.
I was originally leaning towards long covid as the culprit. And although I was sad, I wasn't angry or anything. Covid is just doing what viruses do. It was only recently that I decided to get some professional help with this. I tried contacting my family doctor, but on the days I tried calling the line was busy for the entire hour and a half that I tried to get through. So I tried calling my city's naturopath who my mom and sister go to regularly.
During our consultation, we talked about all the possible factors: sleep, diet, exercise, etc. When she'd gotten the gist that I'm quite healthy in all these areas, she suggested blood tests to find out what's going on. She asked if I thought anything not covered might be the culprit, and I suggested long covid. She said, "Yes that could be possible, but have you considered the covid vaccine?" I thought, oh no I am paying out of pocket to talk with an anti vaxxer? I said no I hadn't thought of that, and she mentioned they'd been seeing a lot of issues coming from the covid vaccines recently.
When I hung up I was still not really considering the vaccines as a factor, and I had lost a bit of respect for her for suggesting it.
But then I went on Youtube and went to Dr. John Campbell's channel. You folks might remember him from the beginning of the pandemic. He makes research based videos on all sorts of covid related stuff such as masks, different variants of covid, studies on vitamin d and ivermectin etc. I had noticed over recent months that his videos were still popping up in my feed, and I was wondering what he had so much to say about. Covid is ongoing yes, but it seems to be a new variant once in a while when it comes to news.
What he has been talking about is new data coming out about the mRNA vaccines. He made a video about this paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428332/ here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYR1wz-Cf_M&t=6s&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbellThe paper is a reanalysis of the data from the original phase III trials for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. What they found is that for every 800 vaccine recipients, there is one serious adverse event of special interest (SAESI). These SAESIs are listed in the paper, but some include arthritis, pericarditis/myocarditis, and coagulation disorders.
If you don't feel like reading the paper, here is a letter from the authors of the paper addressing the medical community.
https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/why-we-question-the-safety-of-covid I like this quote, "Consider a 1 in 800 risk of a serious adverse reaction in the context of other vaccines. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was withdrawn after it was associated with Guillain-Barre Syndrome at a rate of approximately 1 in 100,000. In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine Rotashield was withdrawn following reports of intussusception in about 1 or 2 in 10,000. As widely acknowledged, COVID vaccines prevent hospitalizations, and the clinical trials estimated that between 225 and 625 hospitalizations were prevented per million vaccinated persons. But these benefits are likely to be concentrated among vaccinees who are elderly or have chronic illnesses. It is less clear which groups are at risk for serious adverse vaccine reactions.
Those at low risk for hospitalization may still be at risk of serious vaccine reactions. "
They end their paper by saying that to do proper risk-benefit analysis, they need participant level data such as age and sex of the vaccinees. However Pfizer and Moderna have refused to make these data public.
The second video I'd like to share is this one about the immunology of mRNA vaccines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMyERFBdB4E&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbellIn this one John talks with Robert Clancy about how the vaccines work, and what can go wrong. This was sort of the 'holy ****' video for me. Now if you don't have 35 minutes to watch the conversation it's alright, I took notes. Yeah I'm a nerd, shoot me. They are attached. But please do watch the video if you can.
Now for me personally, I don't really care if my fatigue is caused by long covid or if it's a side effect of the vaccine. I just want to improve and get back to how I used to be, or at least closer to it. But big picture, it seems to me that these mRNA vaccines are not only not ready for the world stage, they never should have made it past initial testing.
I've shared this with my family just so they're aware, but I haven't shared it anywhere else until now because I don't want to be labelled an anti vaxxer - I promise I'm not! It isn't a good label to have as a young guy about to enter the job market. Anyways, this may liven discussion up here.
I could see in the next few years reparations needing to be paid out for the damages caused by the rapid rollout of these vaccines.