The Patriot Post® · NYT Peddles Anti-Vax 'Misinformation'

By Douglas Andrews ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/106732-nyt-peddles-anti-vax-misinformation-2024-05-13

But the virus is worse.

That’s the intellectually lazy fallback response folks often get when they raise questions about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.

But is it? Is the vaccine worse than the virus? Is the cure worse than the disease? For some, the answer is an unequivocal “Yes.” The National Institutes of Health tells us that COVID mRNA vaccine-induced myocarditis is a real thing, especially among men of an average age of 21, right around the peak of their athletic lives. So, a virus that feels like a common cold to otherwise healthy young people, or a heart attack. Is the former really worse than the latter?

The truth is that “the virus is worse” only applies to at-risk groups. COVID was never a mortal threat to healthy young people. And yet, our federal government pushed the vaccine on them. College students, in many cases, were forced to take the vaccine as a precondition for being on campus. And federal employees, including our nation’s warriors, were forced to take the vaccine under threat of being kicked out of the service. Yes, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin officially rescinded the vaccine mandate last January, but only after congressional Republicans forced his hand — too late for thousands of patriotic warriors who’d already been kicked out and forced to find new careers.

This question about the safety of the COVID vaccine is not an academic exercise. The Johnson & Johnson version of the vaccine has already been banned in the U.S., while the much more prevalent (and experimental) mRNA versions of the vaccine are still readily available and, indeed, being pushed to all of us. As The Daily Wire reported last February, the CDC now recommends “that children between six months and 15 months old receive a two-dose or three-dose primary series and booster; from 18 months to adulthood, children should likewise receive the primary series and boosters, according to the agency.” They’re talking about span-of-life coverage for the mRNA vaccine here.

We mention all this because of a recent New York Times article titled: “Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?” Here’s how the Times describes one vaccine victim:

Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.

She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.

True, Zimmerman got the now-banned Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but what vaccine did Dr. Gregory Poland get? Poland is the editor-in-chief of — we kid you not — the journal Vaccine, and, in the Times’s paraphrase, he says that “a loud whooshing sound in his ears had accompanied every moment since his first shot, but that his entreaties to colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore the phenomenon, tinnitus, had led nowhere.”

The Times treads far more lightly on incidences of mRNA vaccine harm. Could there be a political or financial reason for this? It’s hard to say. But in any case, as for the Times’s newfound awareness of vaccine victimhood, after the legacy media had mostly sneered at cases of vaccine reluctance and questions of vaccine safety raised by everyday Americans, we can only say, as John McClane famously said in “Die Hard,” “Welcome to the party, pal.”

If we could take a trip down memory lane, we’d see New York Times headlines such as “Despite Outbreak Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots”; “Inside the White House-Facebook Rift Over Vaccine Misinformation”; “Citing Misinformation, Florida Health Official Call for Halt to Covid Vaccines”; and “No, Athletes Are Not Dying from Covid-19 Vaccines.”

The issue is as urgent as ever, given that a massive global study of nearly 100 million people who’d gotten the COVID vaccine were found to have a higher-than-expected increase in neurological- and heart-related problems after getting the stick. As The Daily Wire reports: “The Global Vaccine Data Network’s COVID Vaccine Safety study, which was the largest safety research conducted on COVID vaccines to date, found a higher risk of myocarditis than was expected from mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna, Bloomberg reported. The study also found an increased risk of a type of blood clot in the brain in people who received viral-vector vaccines, such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and produced by AstraZeneca.”

It’s not just the Times, though. Remember CNN’s disgraced Chris Cuomo? Remember his nightly comedy schtick with his even-more-disgraced older brother, Andrew? And remember the nightly sneer-fests with Don Lemon? It turns out that Chris is now an Ivermectin fan.

“I am taking … a regular dose … of Ivermectin,” Cuomo now says. “Ivermectin was the bogeyman early on in COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. The real question is, why?” He added, “The entire clinical community knew that Ivermectin couldn’t hurt you. They knew it. How do I know? Because now I am doing nothing but talking to these clinicians.”

I guess it’s time to welcome Chris to the party, too.

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