By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker
The COVID pandemic has resulted in widespread infection and vaccination throughout the United States. According to data from USAFacts, more than 81% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
96.4% of Americans have COVID antibodies in their blood, indicating previous infection. Most of these two groups overlap, and all vaccinated people should have COVID antibodies in their blood, as the vaccine prompts the body to produce spike proteins to elicit an immune response and facilitate antibody production.
The issue is that mRNA vaccines lack an off switch, meaning that vaccinated individuals may produce spike protein for weeks, months, or even years without any way to control that effect. In contrast, natural COVID infection includes an off switch, as the immune system will eventually clear the virus, similar to what happens with the flu or a cold.
This lack of an “off switch” is called “spikeopathy” and was summarized in a 2023 paper in Biomedicines.
Spike protein pathogenicity, termed ‘spikeopathy’, whether from the SARS-CoV-2 virus or produced by vaccine gene codes, akin to a ‘synthetic virus’, is increasingly understood in terms of molecular biology and pathophysiology. Pharmacokinetic transfection through body tissues distant from the injection site by lipid-nanoparticles or viral-vector carriers means that ‘spikeopathy’ can affect many organs. The inflammatory properties of the nanoparticles used to ferry mRNA; N1-methylpseudouridine employed to prolong synthetic mRNA function; the widespread biodistribution of the mRNA and DNA codes and translated spike proteins, and autoimmunity via human production of foreign proteins, contribute to harmful effects.
This extensive exposure to the virus and the vaccines has led to reports of persistent symptoms following infection (commonly referred to as “long COVID”) and, in many cases, adverse events following vaccination.
Given the overlap in certain reported symptoms, especially neurological ones, it is essential to differentiate between long COVID and vaccine-related injuries to ensure accurate diagnosis, treatment, and public health messaging.
My question is whether COVID vaccine injuries are labeled as “long COVID.” This is one of many legitimate scientific questions that health authorities are “curiously incurious” about.
Remember how the seasonal flu, or influenza, disappeared during the 2020-2021 season? Were flu cases mistakenly or deliberately mislabeled as COVID?
The COVID PCR test was excessively sensitive, falsely “diagnosing” many people who carried only a few viral fragments in their noses as “COVID cases,” as the New York Times surprisingly and intrepidly reported.
What if a similar mislabeling is now happening, labeling vaccine injuries as “long COVID” to prevent questioning or challenging the “safe and effective” mantra?
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