Real-time Science responding rapidly in the field
versus the slow molasses creep of the bureaucracy - "following" science over two years out of date!
(Note: an addition gleaned from Joe Martino at the PULSE now appears in bold near the bottom of this post - Added on August 27, 2022)
I recently discovered the Canadian Covid Care Alliance, which is an alliance of over 600 medical and legal professionals, mostly university research scientists, specialty physicians, retired heads of university faculties, plus about 1000 other concerned and interested citizens. A number of committed volunteers are helping establish communication plans for the hugely important work being compiled by those who work in the field daily -- work that is NOT making its way to the Canadian public quickly enough. Work that has life & death implications.
Just to list a few, the Alliance consists of biochemists, cardiologists, computational biologists, epidemiologists, fetal and maternal health specialists, immunologists, microbiologists, pathologists, pediatric neurologists, pulmonologists, vaccinologists, and virologists, alongside of pharmacists, risk management experts, clinical professors in areas ranging from dentistry to surgery to international public health policy - consummate professionals who are also creators of Knowledge Banks, editors of professional journals, and authors of hundreds of academic research articles (I mean per person for those working in academia).
To get an idea of their range and scope, take a peek at the signatories of this recent letter to the University of Toronto in response to the U of T’s rash and unscientific plan to mandate the third shot for all students living in residence (this change coming after everyone has already paid tuition and residence fees….!)
A number of these first class physicians, academics, researchers, etc. were involved in putting together the CCCA’s #StopTheShots for Kids campaign which you can find here: https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/media-resources/stop-the-shots/
As part of the #StopTheShots material, Calgary pediatric neurologist, Dr. Eric Payne, can be heard discussing a number of aspects he is following re: the vaccine products and children. Trained in Canada but with a Masters’ in Public Health from Harvard, he worked for 6 years at the Mayo Clinic before relocating to Alberta. A longer discussion with him can be heard here in unedited form.
When the members of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance talk about their work and that of colleagues around the world, I am blown away. They link up with each other directly (on Zoom) by means of weekly Science Round Tables to share and discuss their findings. And they collaborate through their various online postings, brainstorming solutions as problems are identified. I recently made my way through a Substack post written by computational biologist Dr. Jessica Rose who, while looking at the statistical end of the various international vaccine injury reporting systems, is also using her expertise in biology to understand the culprits behind the data. She points at the creepy structures being discovered by embalmers and pathologists in the veins and arteries of the deceased, in particular only in those confirmed to have taken one or more doses of Covid-19 vaccine products if not days then many months prior to their demise. What is super cool is to follow Dr. Rose's hypothesizing about the nature of these rubbery items. As she shares her findings, she cross references biological processes involved in a condition called amyloidosis with images she has received from pathologists like Dr. Ryan Cole (whose unique vantage point on COVID and COVID VAX injuries, is the end of life perspective). Now Dr. Rose is in the throes of developing a hypothesis re: a possible connection to particular elements of the vaccine products. She is also looking closely at prion-like characteristics of the spike proteins and their possible connections to Alzheimer's disease, ALS, and other neurological diseases. Meanwhile, readers following her posts chime up with their insights from their various vantage points, enriching the discussion, driving collective knowledge-creation forward.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/lets-tag-team-this-until-everybody/comment/7100910
Thanks to the transparency of the internet (when censorship-free platforms like Substack and Rumble are used) I, as a layperson, can experience the circular scientific process unfolding in real time. I can view OBSERVATION --> QUESTIONING --> HYPOTHESIZING --> and when the time is right, as a reader/listener, I will hear of the EXPERIMENTING (likely in collaboration with those who hold the smoking guns.. the pathologists, alongside of biochemists, neurologist etc. etc.) and the cycle will most certainly continue around to ANALYSIS and CONCLUSIONS which will then most certainly ALSO BE QUESTIONED launching the cycle over and over, gently moving COVID insights further and further along. The circular interpretation of the Scientific Method contrasts sharply with the lineal interpretation preferred by all who want a full stop at the foregone conclusion —> the answer to the question is (and can only always be) Covid-19 vaccination.
I, as a lay person, for the small annual membership fee of $50, can JOIN IN as an observer of this cyclic view of the Scientific Process!! Every Wednesday night I can log in as Canadian scientists, medical professionals and lay people alike can hear as the Canadian and international researchers share their data, present their working hypotheses, confer with colleagues and grow everyone's understanding jointly.
What these evidence-based medical and scientific professionals have amassed in terms of knowledge is truly amazing. By means of Wednesday night Science Tables or the similar Monday night ScienceAlive talks for the ‘Teens and Twenties’ made possible through the Youth Engagement Committee of the CCCA, for example, a BC neurologist can pose questions of an Ontario immunologist and open up new insights into something he is working on and vice versa. Some of the work of these scientists has been published in academic journals for dissemination among academic readership. Other articles are waiting in line to go through the process, which includes time in pre-print collections. Yet others are being rejected from some journals known to be implicated with Big Pharma funding somewhere along the way. A few months ago, in a cross border partnership Canadian Dr. Rose and US Dr. McCullough's article was accepted for publication but then withdrawn when the editorial board likely caught wind of the implications of announcing details of severe cardiac damage post vax. Findings that contradict the optimistic “safe and effective” narrative are considered particularly egregious by those social media corporations high on the Pfizer/Moderna investment chain. Corporate armies of “fact checkers” operate following a long list of COVID factoids from early 2020. Because this is not updated, almost every basic proven 2022 COVID fact can now be flagged as mis/disinformation. See an analysis last updated this past April here. Apparently human “fact checkers” will soon be replaced by AI algorithms that can stop a post before it is even posted if some of the folk at the World Economic Forum have their way. To work around the disturbing, Orwellian level of censorship confronting evidence-based science, many practically-minded and committed people are working on building alternate organizations these days, for example the World Council for Health and a range of new uncensored media organizations.
Most Canadians appear not to know which of their favorite mainstream news organizations subscribe to “ ‘Truth’ in Journalism” initiatives. They are unaware that as a result of this partnership between their trusted news source and social media vaccine investors, they are missing out on actual evidence-based findings gleaned directly from research being undertaken by first-rate scientists. Unaware Canadians are left with what may have been true to some extent as long as it was based on DATA IN CONTEXT (i.e. some degree of efficacy of X vaccine product in X situation given X variables for X patients). But without the context, data alone is not information. See: Data, Information, Evidence, and Knowledge: A Proposal for Health Informatics and Data Science here. Giving someone “information” that is no longer true, or not true within X context, with the purposeful intent of luring that person away from another possible interpretation (one that is more grounded in reality) - that is what mainstream media has been doing at least since the start of COVID: promulgating MISINFORMATION while actively suppressing life-saving knowledge. As a result, lives have been lost, front-line workers have been burnt out, unnecessary losses have been inflicted upon an unsuspecting population. It is no wonder that recent surveys on the levels of trust Canadians have in mainstream media and on their thoughts re: a mandatory third shot this fall indicate that increasingly more Canadians are coming to the realization that “you can’t believe everything you are being told.”
This definite one-sided focus on the foregone conclusion (vaccines are the only answer, and tadaaa…… they are “safe and effective”!!!) has also blinded our public health officials along with those who advise them to the disconnect between their policy work and the findings in the field. Particularly, the most altruistic and self-sacrificing and idealistic among us have been very receptive to messaging like “take one for the team” or “taking the vaccine is the key to keeping EVERYONE safe.”
Layered on top of all this comes the problem of "Regulatory Capture." This is what it is called when those who are charged with regulating the safety of pharma products on behalf of the population end up closing their eyes to major performance flaws for various reasons, most of which can be traced along the money trail back to Big Pharma. A further explanation of this phenomenon is found here with reference to the FDA, yet the problem also exists at the level of the CDC, the World Health Organization, etc. People who were already concerned about what amounts to blatant bribery, corruption and the ‘revolving door syndrome’ between the regulators and BigBiz before COVID-19 reared its head will applaud when hearing about the grass-roots initiative to replace the WHO with a totally new structure. The World Council for Health is comprised of folk whose aim is to make regulatory capture or undue BigPharma lobbying in health related institutions a thing of the past. See here.)
Contrast the leading edge work and its transparent rapid responses carried out daily by professional scientists in the field as described above with the obfuscation and slow creeping molasses pace coming out of the various provincial and territorial ministries. The folks behind all the glitzy repetitive and jingoistic marketing campaigns to "roll up those sleeves" for a "needle in every arm" to "flatten the curve" and “get back to normal” have most likely not even heard of the court ordered release of Pfizer's trial data, around 80,000 pages a month for the past 6 months (data that Pfizer AND THE FDA) wanted hidden for 70 years). Much has already been written and reported on this in censorship-free platforms, yet even in mid August 2022, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) shows nothing relevant for this keyword search: "Pfizer data release 2022" at all!! :-( However, the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency list over 300 documents from Pfizer alone. See https://phmpt.org/. This data reveals how Pfizer's optimistic efficacy rates were nothing but a sham — simple mathematical sleights of hand. Meanwhile, Albertans read this on their government’s own webpages: Thanks to worldwide collaboration, COVID-19 vaccines were developed quickly without compromising safety by building on decades of research on these vaccine technologies. Every approved vaccine has met Health Canada's strict standards for safety, quality and effectiveness. Nothing can be further from the truth.
To her and our detriment, Dr. Theresa Tam rejected the offer made in February 2022 by members of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance to meet collaboratively to go over existing data in support of the "official" position. While provincial and territorial public health staff work with the big picture — population trends, statistical modelling, they (likely) do not have the clinical experience treating actual patients with COVID-19 and appear to be unaware of the three phase progression of this illness, with each phase having a particular treatment regimen. I write this after reviewing the list of over 60 documents generated by Alberta’s Scientific Advisory Group since early 2020. Using the “Find” feature within those documents whose titles appear to relate directly to patient care, looking for the main characteristic of the second stage of COVID illness (‘cytokine storm’) reveals only one hit: Laboratory evaluation has found lymphopenia in 63% of patients and a cytokine storm profile in those who are critically ill (Zhang, 2020). As this data was presented in a commentary article, it has limited applicability. My questions: what prevented the authors of that April 2020 document from looking for other types of publications (in PubMED) on the key characteristic of COVID-19 illness that could potentially have “more applicability” ?Granted, little was available in the published literature just 4 months into the declared pandemic, so even a “commentary article” might be worth its weight in gold. Why brush it aside? And then… WHAT PREVENTED ANYONE FROM SEARCHING FOR MORE INFORMATION about this key feature of COVID-19 IN THE OVER TWO YEARS SINCE THEN? Had someone looked back just two months later, in June of 2020, there would have been plenty of advice in articles with titles like Cytokine storm intervention in the early stages of COVID-19 pneumonia.
It is clear that bureaucratic structures, budgetary timelines, the scheduling of ‘deliverables’ such as these reports collude to prevent anyone from continually updating the information provided to the policy makers. The advisors that advise AHS come from a wide range of backgrounds, but many have actual day jobs on top of their advisory duties. Day jobs that for the most part do not include treating COVID-19 patients. The SAG methodology as outlined here gives no indication that direct, real time liaising with active researchers world-wide whose eyes and ears are on the field 24/7 is part of their process.
Preprints, primary literature, secondary literature, and grey literature from reputable sources are eligible for inclusion in the evidence summary. Literature based on the author’s opinion (such as commentaries, opinion letters, and editorials) are not excluded automatically but must balance the body of evidence with the research question. Articles from non-academic sources (such as news reports, blog posts, or social media sources) are generally not eligible for inclusion but may be important as context for the topic.
Hello…. blog posts from Canadian scientists, real-time reporting...hop onto Substack and start following Dr. Jessica Rose and Dr. Byram Bridle for starters!! From there you will find plenty of links to published articles that can be included in your deliberations but that seem to miss your selection criteria. Better yet, contact them. Talk to them. Bypass the months, maybe years of delay waiting for their work to reach the publication stage, which may be never when some censor with an out-of-date key word list pulls out the red pencil! If those who pull together the data to be reviewed in committees such as the SAG, are not aware of who the main players in Canadian Covid science and care are, the valuable work of the CCCA members and their networks of evidence-based practitioners goes unnoticed by policy makers. If they limit their scope to only ‘traditional’ sources, they are missing out on the leading edge work pulled together on new platforms like that of the World Council for Health. So far this might be the only place that already has information on the eight categories of post Covid Injection Syndrome disease (pCoIS). Eight, because spike protein travelling in the blood vessels is quickly transported from head to toe and settles and does its damage anywhere along any transportation corridor. While the SAG has provided a document on Post-Covid illness (last updated July 2021) nothing appears to have been posted about symptoms arising post Covid vaccine even those these products have been in circulation for over 18 months.
One cannot assume that those whose careers focused the processes and procedures for setting up vaccination clinics for routine childhood vaccines would automatically understand the biology behind COVID-19 vaccine injuries and how a protective coating of the ACE-2 receptors, like that offered by certain antimalarial drugs, can reduce the number of places in the body where SARS-CoV-2 can take hold. Especially since their only contact with voices pointing out vaccine harm over the years, such as Robert Kennedy Jr. or Dr. Andrew Wakefield have been long been tinged with pejorative slander (“anti-vaxxer” and the like) by organizations that we are now finding out invest heavily in BigPharma.
In a field full of fast moving developments with life or death repercussions we cannot afford to have the data cited by policymakers referring to outdated hopes and wishes. In January 2021 we heard enthusiastic numbers about antibody production levels etc. seen at the START of the vax rollout in Israel. That enthusiasm was short-lived. Yet many an official document updated to a 2022 date, still pulls most of its references from stats originating in studies from early 2021. Too much has happened since then. Too many people have died or been injured for life. Too many pathology reports have been written. When life insurance professionals report their worry that the body count of American 18 to 44 year olds is hitting Vietnam war-like proportions; when the little local cemetery has 3 commemorative plaques for those who passed in 2020 (the year we faced ‘deadly COVID’ while waiting for ‘protection’ from vaccines) and when that number jumps to 13 in 2021 (the year the vax rollout really got underway) shouldn’t that give pause for thought? Especially if the pattern is repeated in cemeteries across the land…
And yet the propaganda machine goes on: “Vaccines for children protect not only them but the people around them! There have been robust testing processes so you can be sure they are safe and effective.” You’d want to force anyone who says that to spend an hour on the BC Vaccine Injuries Telegram Page to see how protective and safe and effective these toxins are!!
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen
This quote perfectly describes the work within the public health bureaucracies, as does "While we dither, people die."
Having previously worked within bureaucratic structures myself, I believe I understand some of the constraints that annual budget cycles and the separation into office silos can have in overall cross-department, cross-committee communication and workflow. See the section on "Following the Science" in the Compilation of Letters and Research Evidence as of October 2021 posted here. See also this flow chart indicating how information from scientists in the field (such as members of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance) can be completely missed by policy makers and societal leaders, while at the same time, a growing swath of Canadians is fully aware of the implications of their daily process of scientific discovery and new learning. (Look for "Following the Information Trail" is on page 14 of the first section accessed by clicking on the image.)
I understand that there are certain limits inherent in bureaucratic structures but with 2 1/2 years since the beginning of the declared pandemic, I (like a growing segment of Canadians) am livid to hear the reckless and baseless statements coming out of Public Health Ontario pushing vaccination for the 5 to 11 year olds (here) and that Alberta Health Services has NOT updated its page of Covid myths this entire time. Already June 2021, I noted, and tried to share with any relevant parties, that those advising BC's Health Ministry were out of the loop on the work in the field, unaware because of non-specialists making decisions around publication types instead of substantive information, feeding the advisors certain documents and not others. Imagine the possibilities if censorship, regulatory capture, the money trail and the Orwellian psychological conditioning of the altruistic and the compassionate had NOT SUPRESSED the KNOWLEDGE that via early treatment provided at home, the majority of people with COVID-19 could have recovered before their illness progressed to the third stage. If Truth was not billed as MISINFORMATION. If those with expertise and experience, working day in and day out with COVID-19 patients, in the early development of vaccines, looking at the biochemical processes of each stage of the illness, aware of international evidence-based policies on the ground etc. had been invited with open arms instead of being shunned, shamed and sidelined.
The silence from the offices of policy makers, politicians (both in government and in opposition) from AHS departments, from members of the provincial Scientific Advisory Group, from NACI, from those at the PHAC in Ottawa was deafening. Perhaps it is understandable that the office assistants did not seem to see a need to respond to a single lay person like me, but it is more than disturbing to see that many of the real experts in the field, like a number of the members of the CCCA, have been smear campaigned, made to look like conspiracy theorists, have been deplatformed, have had their licenses to practice removed, their research grants cut back and have outright been fired.
All the while, ordinary Canadians had no idea of what was going on.
We can empathize with those upon whom the role of guardians of public health was conferred at the start of the declared pandemic, blindsiding them with its magnitude.
They have been relying on what were once strong institutions, such as the CDC. Investigative journalist Joe Martino at the PULSE, in his contribution to our “collective sense making,” looks back at how quietly the CDC is removing statements from their website as they realize the science in the field is changing. Recently, the claim used to censor many a scientist who provided evidence to the contrary, that vaccine generated spike protein only remains in the body for a short time, was removed without fanfare. How will science advisors who do not continually return to the same webpages even become aware of changes if they are not themselves regular followers of COVID-19 related news? For how long can science advisors be pardoned for not being up in their fields? We noted yesterday that Ontario’s Science Table is being disbanded. Finally perhaps someone is taking note that non-Covid specialists might not have been the right folks to have as “jab whisperers” in the ears of policy makers!
It is now over half way through 2022 people!! It can’t take folks 24 months to still not notice what is going on… that statements on provincial websites to show how “safe and effective” the vax is, have for months linked to charts that show the MAJORITY of those in hospital, ICU or deceased were VAXINATED, multiple times. I wouldn’t leave my car at the mechanic’s shop for 24 months only to find he still has not fixed a basic thing and allowed the problems to keep getting worse! Why put up with this from our own Public Health Offices?
Once upon a time, COVID-19 “vaccines” were hailed as a SOLUTION. They were really just a HYPOTHESIS as there was insufficient EXPERIMENTATION and zero ANALYSIS. Yet their safety was a FOREGONE CONCLUSION - and backed with manipulated data. One manipulation was to declare 12 year old Maddie de Garay as having only “abdominal pain” post vaccination, when her participation in the trial left her wheelchair bound, unable to move or swallow.
Or 19 year old Simone Scott whose 2nd Moderna shot ended up forcing her to have emergency heart surgery from which she did not recover. To add insult to injury, the report on her case was first mislabeled, and then removed altogether. See folks — that is how “safe” something is… if injury reports are “softened” or eliminated altogether.
Even those with close ties to the folks who run the US data monitoring system, like US vaccine safety advocate Steve Kirsch, are unable to get straight answers on the percentage of physicians’ reports that are rejected and of the best estimates on the scale of underreporting (i.e. injuries that occur and are never documented) and so can only estimate the true scale of the problem. The Canadian reporting system is so fraught with reports being rejected on technicalities, that an alternate, independent system was founded by concerned citizens and medical professionals. See: https://www.caers.info/adverse-events-reference-guide.
It is clear that everyone from Dr. Tam, Public Health Canada, the Prime Minister’s Office, the federal Ministry of Health on down, if they want to back up their claims that they are “following science” needs to get on board with following where scientists lead - along the circular view of the Scientific Method…back around the cycle again and again. No stopping at foregone, unanalyzed conclusions here!! There has been enough QUESTIONING, OBSERVING and ANALYSING done on the vaccine products to come to a NEW CONCLUSION —> #StopTheShots for kids, teens, young adults, mature adults, the elderly. Full Stop.
The CDC, in its latest proclamation, did not quite go that far (too many $$$ at stake) but they have now said that there is no difference in recommendations for the vaxxed and the unvaxxed - negating all the efforts that were put in place to demonize the noncompliant we saw over this past fall and winter.
The next step is for Canadian Public Health officers to work with the Scientists in the Field and draft a response… nothing less than this is acceptable:
Sorry guys, between the slick marketing and the overall schmooze, we were led by BigPharma to let Hope override Evidence and we urged y'all to take the shot. At the time, it seemed like the best (and only option) but hey folks we are really sorry. It has come to our attention that some unforeseen reactions are going on with this product that are increasingly concerning to us. So we are going to put a temporary hold on the authorization. It is our duty to recommend pre-emptive D-dimer and troponin level testing at this point in time for all who did step up - just in case you are one of those who is reacting in an unusual way to these products. We are working on a new information campaign to inform Canadians how to keep safe without the use of these products….
Any hopes provincial/territorial ministries will think of doing this?
While we hold our breath, we can look up a number of the informative and easily readable resources provided by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance.
Take a peek at your leisure:
#StopTheShots; Covid Kid Facts; Possible Risks; Dispelling the Myth of the Pandemic of the Unvaccinated; Omicron Variant explained; Dr. Pelech on Immunity; Viral Immunologist explains Key C-19 Concepts; Erosion of Trust; Informed Consent; Statement of Non-Compliance with Vaccine Mandates; Nasal Spray Reduces Covid Severity; Most Adults have Pre-Existing Antibodies; C-19 Vaccines and D-Dimer levels etc.
Let’s all Follow the Science as it was meant to be done, permitting our experts to do their job. In fact, EXPECTING them to QUESTION - appreciating their ANALYSIS - thanking them when through their continuous and rigorous work we need to face the errors of our hasty conclusions. Let’s be grateful to them for their commitment - even if their resulting messages shatter our well-nurtured narrative.
Human lives are worth it.