The tragedies of censorship
Lives were lost because known COVID vaccine harms were covered up.
The following article is an excerpt from the new book, Kids and COVID: Costly Mistakes That Must Never Happen Again, by NICE Ideas advisor, Dr. Liz Mumper
During the covid crisis, millions of people worldwide listened to the drumbeat from America’s so-called trusted experts, insisting that experimental vaccines were the only way out of the pandemic and that these vaccines were unquestionably “safe and effective.”
We were told that side effects were exceedingly rare, and that the surges of previously unheard-of heart conditions and deaths in our healthiest young people were “coincidences” that had nothing to do with the vaccines.
It was the epitome of gaslighting. “Don’t believe your lying eyes.”
But many of us were not even aware of those injuries and deaths. Why? Because mainstream and online media outlets were censoring true news.
Roughly half of America saw report after report of athletes dropping on the field, people collapsing on TV or at a podium, developing myocarditis, tremors, paralysis, and most bizarrely, babies having heart attacks after vaccination.
The other half of us heard and saw nothing but “safe and effective” messaging, and happy, dancing syringes. We were told to ignore those “anti-vax conspiracy theorists.”
In this excerpt, Dr. Mumper exposes the truths that were hidden, not just from millions of us who followed mainstream and online media, but from the very doctors and other healthcare practitioners around the world that we trusted with our lives.
The facts are shocking.
Censoring Reports of Adverse Effects from COVID Injections
(Excerpt from Dr. Mumper’s new book, Kids and COVID: Costly Mistakes That Must Never Happen Again.)
It took numerous filings of Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover the extent to which adverse side effects from COVID novel technology products were censored.
Important safety signals for myocarditis, blood clots, menstrual abnormalities, and Bell’s palsy were detected soon after the vaccines rolled out, but not shared with the pubic.16
How information about myocarditis as a side effect of COVID injections were managed by government agencies.
On April 26, 2021, Rochelle Walensky, CDC director, told the public in press conferences that the CDC had not detected any safety signals for myocarditis in their databases.17
On April 26, 2021, Rochelle Walensky, CDC director, told the public in press conferences that the CDC had not detected any safety signals for myocarditis in their databases.17
Let’s look more closely at the timeline of what the CDC knew about myocarditis with the shots and when they knew it. My thanks again to Zachary Stieber of the Epoch Times for putting together this timeline.
Evidence emerged that the CDC withheld statistically significant myocarditis signals for three months, during which time millions of people received the vaccines.18
In fact, on September 22, 2020 (before the injections were distributed), the CDC identified myocarditis as a condition of special interest; on October 30, 2020, so did the FDA.
Israel saw the cardiac risk signals and alerted the CDC in early 2021.
There was a flurry of communication between Israel and the CDC in February through April of 2021.
The Israelis reported a teenager hospitalized for myocarditis after the Pfizer injection on February 1.
By February 18, a myocarditis signal was triggered in the VAERS system using the Proportional Reporting Ratio.
On February 19, the Fisher’s Exact Test triggered another safety signal for myocarditis in VAERS.
By February 28, Israeli officials had privately alerted the CDC to large numbers of myocarditis reports in young people after Pfizer jabs.
March 20, 2021, the first postvaccination myocarditis case report was published; a second case report followed on March 31, 2021, the same day a previously health twenty-two-year-old woman died of postvaccination myocarditis.
By April 2021, 158 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were reported to VAERS.
In early 2021, after COVID vaccines were mandated for the military, myocarditis cases spiked in soldiers.
On April 12, 2021, US military officials briefed the CDC on postvaccination myocarditis cases.19
Yet, Dr. Walensky told the press and therefore the public that there were “no signals of myocarditis” on April 26, 2021!20
A Population Blinded by One-sided Reporting
Dr. Peter McCullough has written extensively about myocarditis after the novel COVID shots. He got censored while Dr. Walensky got CNN interviews.
McCullough noted a publication documenting YouTube’s censorship of people attempting to report their adverse reactions from the COVID injections.21
Yee Man Margaret Ng and colleagues analyzed YouTube’s COVID-19 content and concluded they were successful in wiping out content reporting side effects and replacing it with pro-vaccine comments.22
Given that these experimental injections generated more VAERS reports than all other vaccine side effect reports combined for the past thirty years ... and that 7.7 percent of vaccine recipients in the first 10 million people to use the V-safe app had to seek medical care after their COVID shot ... does it really serve the public interest to shut down public discussion of these very real medical complications?
Fauci’s Proclamations Went Outside His Expertise
I was uncomfortable with the folk hero status that Dr. Fauci achieved during the early days of COVID. His proclamations did not make sense to me.
As a pediatrician vested in prevention, the idea of advising people to “stay home until your lips turn blue then go to the Emergency Room” seemed absurd.
As time went on, it became clear that Fauci misled the public about important issues like the value of natural immunity, the efficacy of repurposed medications, and COVID injections’ inability to block transmission of the virus.23,24,25,26
Less-Draconian Options Ignored
In my opinion, by presenting a vaccine as the only way out of the pandemic and pushing for lockdowns and school closures, he ignored other reasonable options.
By advocating censorship of those who advocated traditional public health measures instead of lockdowns and isolation, Fauci ignored the known literature about social determinants of health and well-being.
Children Suffered in As-Yet-Uncounted Ways
Speaking on behalf of American children, COVID countermeasures advocated by Fauci and exported to other countries adversely affected kids’ development, academic progress, and mental health.27,28,29
A Brown University ongoing longitudinal study of child neurodevelopment examined general childhood cognitive scores in 2020 and 2021 versus the preceding decade, 2011–2019. They discovered that:
“[C]hildren born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic. Moreover, we find that males and children in lower socioeconomic families have been most affected. Results highlight that even in the absence of direct SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 illness, the environmental changes associated COVID-19 pandemic is significantly and negatively affecting infant and child development.” 30
It is imperative that we learn from our past and do better for our children in the future.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
How should social media monitor content?
Should the government be able to instruct Big Tech to take down medical information from doctors and other health care providers who do not work for the government?
Do you think the CDC has preserved its reputation as a source of truthful health information?
Were you surprised that what the government called “misinformation” could actually be true?
Do you think it is ethical for the CDC to withhold information about a potentially fatal heart complication in the name of fighting vaccine hesitancy?
RESOURCES
16 MD Peter McCullough. "YouTube Is Wiping Safety Content on COVID-19 Vaccines." Courageous Discourse, September 19, 2023.
17 Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials, by The White House.
“CDC Says It Has Seen No 'Signals' Linking COVID Vaccines and Myocarditis”
18 Zachary Stieber. "EXCLUSIVE: CDC Finds Hundreds of Safety Signals for Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines." The Epoch Times, January 3, 2023.
19 Ibid.
20 Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials, by The White House.
21 MD Peter McCullough. "YouTube Is Wiping Safety Content on COVID-19 Vaccines." Courageous Discourse, September 19, 2023.
22 Yee Man Margaret Ng, Katherine Hoffmann Pham, and Miguel Luengo-Oroz, "Exploring YouTube’s Recommendation System in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccines: Computational and Comparative Analysis of Video Trajectories," J Med Internet Res, 25 no. (2023): p. e49061, doi: 10.2196/49061.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10506664/
23 Forbes Breaking News. Jim Jordan Resumes Attacks On Dr. Fauci Over COVID-19 Origins, Mask Guidance. July 28, 2021; Available from:
24 PBS NewsHour. Widely cited hydroxychloroquine study is ‘flawed’, Fauci tells hearing. Available from:
25 Lori Weintz. "The Duplicitous Dr. Fauci and His Backpedaling." Brownstone Institute, October 30, 2022.
https://brownstone.org/articles/duplicitous-fauci-backpedaling/
26 Eric Boehm. "Anthony Fauci Says Don't Blame Him for COVID Lockdowns and School Closures." Reason, April 25, 2023.
27 Ellen Barry. "Many Teens Report Emotional and Physical Abuse by Parents During Lockdown." New York Times, March 31, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/health/covid-mental-health-teens.html
28 O.o.t.U.S.S.G. The U.S. Public Health Service, Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community, by M.D. Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, M.B.A., U.S. Surgeon General. 2023.
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf
29 Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve Hanke, A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality II. 2023, medRxiv
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.23294845v1
30 Sean Cl Deoni, Jennifer Beauchemin, Alexandra Volpe, and Viren D’Sa, The COVID-19 Pandemic and Early Child Cognitive Development: A Comparison of Development in Children Born During the Pandemic and Historical References. 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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