{"id":103766,"date":"2023-04-29T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103766"},"modified":"2023-04-22T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T12:20:29","slug":"29-05-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103766","title":{"rendered":"The Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CLAYTON FOX<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A growing number of scientists are sounding the alarm about the risks of both COVID and its cures.<\/strong><\/span>
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Those raising evidence-based concerns about the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines are often labeled purveyors of misinformation, and derided as anti-scientific conspiracy theorists and paranoid kooks. Or worse. Bill Kristol tweeted in late 2021 that, \u201cthere is blood on the hands in 2021 of the unvaccinated and especially their enablers and encouragers who know better.\u201d However, there are a number of prominent scientists, doctors, and independent researchers who are wary of both COVID infection and the vaccines. Many of these figures are worried about one particular piece of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: the spike protein, which allows the virus to enter your cells, and which was chosen to be the featured element used in the Moderna, Pfizer, J&J, and AstraZeneca vaccines. The available evidence shows that COVID, especially in light of new forms of treatment, is not as acutely deadly as once feared, and while mortality attributable to the COVID vaccines has not been definitively characterized, it is likely relatively rare. But some scientists are concerned by the potential effects of repeated exposure to the spike protein, and therefore the advisability of further boosters that contain it, given that we are going to be frequently reexposed to the circulating virus. Those voicing these concerns, however, have been subjected to censorship, ostracization, and damaging attacks on their reputations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Take, for example, evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein. On his DarkHorse\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0on June 21, 2021, Weinstein sat down with mRNA pioneer Dr. Robert Malone (COVID-vaccinated) and Silicon Valley inventor turned COVID investigator Steve Kirsch (COVID-vaccinated) to discuss the potential dangers of the vaccines rapidly being distributed around the country and across the world. The focus? The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, which is produced when the mRNA from the vaccines enters your cells.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By June 21, 2021, Weinstein felt there was enough evidence to demonstrate that the spike was \u201ccytotoxic\u201d (toxic to cells) and asked for Malone\u2019s take. Malone not only concurred but said he had already warned the FDA about that potential risk \u201cmonths and months and months ago.\u201d On June 3, 2021, according to an email provided to Tablet, Malone contacted Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA\u2019s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, regarding his concerns about \u201ccirculating spike protein, and the associated implications.\u201d Malone said on the podcast that his contacts inside the FDA ultimately felt that his evidence wasn\u2019t strong enough to prove that the spike alone was \u201cbiologically active.\u201d Dr. Marks has not responded to Tablet\u2019s requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not one week after Weinstein\u2019s podcast, as the concept of a toxic spike protein spread across the internet, the new\u00a0fact-checking police<\/a>\u00a0leapt into action. Reuters\u00a0wrote<\/a>, \u201cPosts are sharing the false statement that the spike protein in COVID-19 vaccines is cytotoxic, suggesting that it kills or damages cells. There is no evidence to support this,\u201d and quoted a couple of experts. The fact check deemed Weinstein\u2019s claim \u201cfalse,\u201d just as it had once done with the assertion that COVID-19 was likely created in a laboratory. As it turns out, the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is now considered extremely toxic to many human systems\u2014a\u00a0conclusion<\/a>\u00a0reached<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0paper<\/a>. Evidence to support this has also been found in tissue samples from\u00a0deceased COVID patients<\/a>, and those who were suspected to have died\u00a0due to complications from vaccination<\/a>, as well as those with\u00a0post-vaccination myocarditis<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Every virus, like every organism, is made up of proteins, which are in turn made up of complex chains of amino acids. These are the microstructures of life itself. Coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 are composed of four main types of proteins: envelope, membrane, nucleocapsid, and spike. The spike protein\u2019s primary role is to help the virus attach to cells, gain entry, and propagate itself. To begin with, the ruthless efficiency of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein makes it an extremely dangerous bit of biology. But also, this spike is itself a pathogen. This assessment is not breaking news; researchers who studied past human coronaviruses, especially SARS, noted that the spike protein can cause inflammation and increase disease severity. In fact, a 2005\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0in the prestigious\u00a0Nature Medicine<\/em>\u00a0journal proved that the spike protein of SARS, due to its effects on the now-famous ACE2 receptor, can \u201ccause severe and often lethal lung failure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the SARS-CoV-2 version makes those past spikes look simple by comparison. Dr. Paul Marik, the founder and chief scientific officer of the\u00a0Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance<\/a>, and the second-most-published<\/a>\u00a0critical care physician in the world, told Tablet that the only substance he\u2019s aware of as toxic as the SARS-CoV-2 spike is cyanide. \u201cCyanide kills you quickly, spike kills you over a prolonged period of time. It\u2019s truly astonishing the things it does.\u201d Marik thinks that spike is the primary driver of COVID\u2019s virulence, which he saw firsthand while treating severely ill patients during the first wave of the pandemic. \u201cIt is the most vicious disease I have ever seen. People have said this is like the flu, and it\u2019s no big deal. Let me tell you \u2026 It is an extremely evil disease. It\u2019s difficult to treat. It responds poorly and it kills people slowly over time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Veteran viral pathologist Dr. Gerard Nuovo, a retired professor at Ohio State University and an active researcher of COVID-19, was similarly shocked after looking at tissue samples from people who died from the illness. \u201cI said to myself, I have never seen a fatal viral infection with so much viral protein in the target organ, which as you know is the lung.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are some of the things that the spike protein has been found to have the potential to do. In the cardiovascular system: One segment of spike\u00a0can signal the cells of blood vessels<\/a>\u00a0in the lungs to grow, causing \u201cthickened\u201d vessel walls typical of pulmonary hypertension, a condition that makes it harder for the heart to pump blood into the lungs; that\u00a0same fragment, S1, can damage the cells<\/a>\u00a0which line the\u00a0inside of every blood vessel<\/a>\u00a0in the body\u00a0including the lungs<\/a>; can\u00a0damage the cells in your heart<\/a>\u00a0which work in concert with those cells; can\u00a0cause the heart to become fibrotic<\/a>; and can, says this 2022 paper, even\u00a0contribute to the development of myocarditis<\/a>, an inflammatory condition of the heart muscle which weakens it, and can cause sudden death in recovered patients. The Cleveland Clinic estimates that the survival rate for myocarditis is 80% after one year and 50% after five.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the blood:\u00a0Spike can deform our clotting cells<\/a>\u2014or platelets\u2014sometimes irreversibly\u00a0activating them<\/a>; it binds to\u00a0blood clotting proteins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0creates clots<\/a>\u00a0that are \u201cstructurally abnormal\u201d; it can cause microclots from red blood cells clumping together that deplete blood oxygen levels. David Scheim, an independent researcher who co-authored\u00a0a study<\/a>\u00a0published in December 2022 about those microclots with a team from France\u2019s famed M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e Infection Institute in Marseille, told Tablet that their experiment revealed the red blood cell clumping \u201cis actually visible [to the naked eye], it forms a film so you don\u2019t even need a microscope, you just add the spike to a suspension of red blood cells and you see this clumping.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the brain: The S1 fragment of spike has been shown to\u00a0move straight across<\/a>\u00a0the blood brain barrier, the all-important gatekeeper of the brain, in humanized mice. Once it\u2019s in, the spike can\u00a0damage cells that line the walls of blood vessels<\/a>\u00a0in the brain, lead to\u00a0memory loss<\/a>, or\u00a0disrupt the mitochondria<\/a>\u00a0of similar brain blood vessel cells, potentially triggering \u201ca more severe form of stroke.\u201d Perhaps more ominously,\u00a0certain sequences<\/a>\u00a0on the S1 portion of the spike are able to bind to amyloid proteins that have been known to cause severe neurological disease. The proteins that spike is able to bind are related to the development of Alzheimer\u2019s,\u00a0Parkinson\u2019s<\/a>, and\u00a0Creutzfeldt-Jacob<\/a>, an irreversible, and fatal brain disease. Additionally, the\u00a0spike itself<\/a>\u00a0may be considered an amyloid, a misfolded protein that can grow and form fibrous plaques. Think of the 1958 horror classic\u00a0The Blob<\/em>, but at a cellular level.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cyanide kills you quickly, spike kills you over a prolonged period of time. It\u2019s truly astonishing the things it does.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, spike can contribute to cardiovascular damage, brain damage, blood clots, autoimmunity<\/a>, cell deformation, and\u00a0cell-to-cell fusion<\/a>. As Walter Chesnut, an\u00a0independent researcher<\/a>, has previously written, \u201cIt is a Swiss Army Knife of death.\u201d Chesnut co-authored an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 with a group of scientists, doctors, and journalists that included Luc Montagnier (who won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of HIV) outlining what may tie together all of the spike\u2019s nasty effects. They theorized that spike preys on our DNA, and that repeated exposure will\u00a0prematurely age us<\/a>, leading to earlier death by natural causes. \u201cSpike is spike. The more the worse,\u201d Chesnut told Tablet.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Chesnut and Montagnier et al. hypothesis that spike protein can accelerate biological aging is still novel, and not widely accepted. Professor Masfique Mehedi, a microbiologist and virologist who has studied Ebola at the prestigious Rocky Mountain Laboratories, and whose work shows that COVID spike can enter the nucleus of our cells, told Tablet that their hypothesis may be \u201cpremature.\u201d There is, however, mounting evidence that the larger idea that vaccine-induced spike could be harming people is worth taking seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 is not precisely identical to the spike used in the vaccines, though they are very similar. First of all, at any given point in time, the wild-type spike is mutating (e.g., omicron) with unknown consequences, whereas the vaccine spikes are predetermined. But the design of the vaccine spike was deliberately altered from the original in at least two key ways: to increase stability, and to \u201clock\u201d the protein in its \u201cprefusion\u201d shape, in the hopes that it would teach our immune system to recognize and neutralize the virus\u2019s spike before it has a chance to bind to our cells.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One argument against the spike protein hypothesis of vaccine injury\u2014meaning the notion that exposure to the spike protein is the main cause of the vaccine\u2019s potentially severe side effects\u2014is that due to the changes locking the spike in its prefusion shape, it can\u2019t cause the damage alleged. However, many of the examples provided above of spike-related pathologies don\u2019t require cell-binding, but rather just require exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Because of how dangerous it is, some believe that it\u2019s a secondary question where the spike is coming from, COVID or the treatments for COVID\u2014all that really matters is that it\u2019s coming into contact with your cells. \u201cThe more spike, the greater the risk. So if you have COVID and get vaccinated, you have a greater risk, if you are vaccinated and you get COVID, you have a greater risk,\u201d Marik said. In February 2023, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado seemed to\u00a0affirm<\/a>\u00a0Marik\u2019s contention. After assessing a small group of patients with myocarditis, they concluded: \u201cThese observations suggest that myocardial injury during COVID-19 or after mRNA vaccination may be produced by the same Spike protein\u2013based mechanism, which may be amenable to preventative or therapeutic strategies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A second argument against the hypothesis is that there simply isn\u2019t enough spike released into the blood after vaccination to cause the kinds of issues we\u2019ve seen in COVID patients. \u201cThe low doses of the spike protein in the vaccine, in our experiments anyway, didn\u2019t cause any recognizable damage,\u201d Dr. Nuovo told Tablet. Nonetheless, Nuovo abstained from getting his third vaccine dose because \u201cthe initial vaccine data showed that people who didn\u2019t get the booster were still very well protected against severe COVID, and the second point was I didn\u2019t see the point of introducing more spike protein into my body if there was no benefit to be coming from it \u2026 because the spike protein per se does have some toxicity associated with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is another way that the vaccines might be causing harm. Due to FOIA requests from Judicial Watch and others, we now know that the vaccine material travels beyond the upper arm muscle\u00a0throughout the body<\/a>, in spite of the CDC\u2019s\u00a0web page<\/a>\u00a0maintaining the 2020 narrative that it stays put. Because the vaccines were designed to express the full-length spike protein in our cells, some researchers like professor Mehedi worry that the vaccines could be inducing a major attack of the immune system against healthy cells throughout the body. \u201cAn unfortunate & unimaginable detrimental consequence \u2026 face[d] by everyone who took it due to a poor and unacceptable design by the low-grade researchers and opportunistic makers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That kind of candor is hard to come by when the price for expressing an idea or trying to test a theory can be the destruction of one\u2019s career and social life, as happened to numerous researchers and scientists, including Marik. For his views on COVID treatment in the ICU, like not wanting to use the\u00a0highly<\/a>\u00a0toxic<\/a>\u00a0antiviral<\/a>\u00a0drug remdesivir, and probably for his stated viewpoint on the spike protein and vaccines, Marik was suspended from his role as ICU director of Sentara General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, in late 2021. He resigned from his role as professor at East Virginia Medical School shortly after. Marik says his colleagues no longer talk to him. \u201cNot a single one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet, the data has a way of piling up, even if many in science, media, and government have avoided acknowledging its implications: By October of last year there had been\u00a0at least<\/a>\u00a01,250 studies published in medical journals documenting events as disparate as Bell\u2019s palsy, multiple sclerosis, central venous thrombosis, encephalitis, inflammatory bowel disease,\u00a0myocarditis<\/a>, etc. after vaccination. For one awful example, take\u00a0this recent case report<\/a>\u00a0from Tokushima University in Japan documenting the \u201cfatal multi organ inflammation\u201d of a 14-year-old girl after her booster. Then there are the adverse event-monitoring systems, the joint-run CDC\/FDA VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) being the most notable. As of March 31, 2023, there have been over 1.5 million adverse events\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in the system, with nearly 200,000 involving hospitalization. While VAERS is a very imperfect system, with some critics claiming massive underreporting and others, overreporting, there is a clear signal that injuries are occurring. German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said in a March 2023\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0that the rate of \u201cserious vaccination damage\u201d may be as high as 1 in 10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Defining the ultimate numbers of how many people are being affected by various side effects is a difficult task, but looking at the original trial data does give some context. Last September, a team of researchers, including two from UCLA, one from Stanford, and one editor of the\u00a0British Medical Journal<\/em>,\u00a0published a study<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Vaccine<\/em>\u00a0titled, \u201cSerious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults,\u201d which reviewed the Pfizer and Moderna trial data. While the investigators note that their study was hampered by their lack of access to the raw data, which the companies have not made available, they concluded that, \u201cThe excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is too early to say definitively if these vaccine injuries are caused by the spike protein (or the\u00a0proprietary lipid nanoparticles<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0fragmented, low-quality mRNA<\/a>\u00a0or something else) but there is certainly enough evidence to consider this as a possibility. And yet the doctors and scientists who have been trying to raise significant questions have been often ignored, bullied, or silenced.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bret Weinstein\u2019s podcast was demonetized on YouTube. Walter Chesnut was removed from Twitter for half of 2022. A peer-reviewed\u00a0paper<\/a>, which concluded that the spike protein can actually damage our DNA\u2019s ability to repair itself\u2014not all that distant from what Chesnut is now proposing\u2014was retracted by the journal\u00a0Viruses<\/em>,\u00a0though the explanation<\/a>\u00a0seemed at least as political as purely scientific. Indeed, in working on this piece, Microsoft Word even prevented me from opening the link to Chesnut and Montagnier\u2019s\u00a0France Soir\u00a0<\/em>article about the aging hypothesis, stating in its pop-up warning, \u201cconclusions related to vaccine safety are not validated and lacked experimental support.\u201d The state of California\u00a0passed a law<\/a>\u00a0last year that essentially muzzles doctors from offering a dissenting opinion on the \u201ccontemporary scientific consensus\u201d on COVID. Professor Mehedi, who is more concerned about the vaccines turning the immune system against our cells than about spike, told Tablet that doubts he\u2019s raised about the vaccine design and the subsequent potential for damage are simply ignored by his fellow scientists. \u201cNobody listen[s] to me, even,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cWe are not critical thinkers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The COVID epoch is still very young. SARS-CoV-2 most likely didn\u2019t exist before 2019; mRNA tech has been in the works for 30 years, but it had never been deployed widely in humans until 2021. The Moderna vaccine was designed in two days, with the company\u2019s CEO, Steph\u00e1ne Bancel,\u00a0telling<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, \u201cthis is not a complicated virus.\u201d The vaccine\u2019s adverse events, meanwhile, have been studied for only about two years now, and have been downplayed by our public health apparatus and media. There are immunologists who believe that repeated exposure to SARS-CoV-2 could be extremely detrimental to our basic immune function over time, and others who believe the vaccine can cause similar devastation to our defenses, both potentially explaining the reemergence of rare latent viral syndromes and fungal infections now emerging around the world. We don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t know. In fact, we\u2019re just starting to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clayton Fox<\/strong> writes Tablet\u2019s daily newsletter, The Scroll, alongside Sean Cooper and Jacob Siegel. He has written independently for Tablet, Real Clear Investigations, Brownstone Institute, American Theatre Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine and The American Conservative. Follow him on Twitter @clayfoxwriter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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