I've avoided talking about this for some time, because I'm not quite sure what to say about it. We all know, by now, that the First Presidency released a statement about Covid vaccines, masks and other Covid-related issues. The statement is pretty remarkable, in particular because almost everything it says is wrong, including the claim that we are actually fighting a war against a deadly pandemic (the number of deaths in the UK, for instance, fell 2.3% through 2020 relative to 2019. When there's a deadly pandemic killing people off in vast numbers, you don't actually have fewer deaths than you do in a year where there isn't a "deadly" "pandemic." That's just one data point among many which I've researched recently. Another interesting correllary is that the total deaths in the UK is up significantly since the "vaccines" have started being administered. 2021 is on track to be 12% higher number of deaths since 2020, thanks to this miraculous "vaccine." Although it might be higher, since the number is actually trending upwards.
Because of this bizarre and strange statement, which I honestly can't make heads or tails of, I've had to practice a good deal of what Elder Uchtdorf told us to do a few years ago: don't doubt what you know, doubt your doubts. What I know is that President Nelson is a prophet of God, and I sustain him and the rest of the Brethren as prophets, seers and revelators. I see a number of people talking openly about what is essentially apostasy. I am certainly not willing to do that. But I don't know how this can be an inspired statement either. In other words, I don't know what to think. Maybe that the Lord is trying to teach us all patience over here on the Right. Maybe that we need to separate the wheat from the tares among us on the Right. After all, wasn't Abraham commanded to sacrifice Isaac before he was commanded not to?
Doubt your doubts. Don't doubt what you know.
Anyway, this was published as long ago as 2020. Data from the UK, Australia, Israel and other highly "vaccinated" countries strongly suggests that the risk warned about here of ADE is actually very real and its effects are showing up very markedly in hospital admissions of "vaccinated" people with very serious cases of Delta variant relative to unvaccinated people. Anyway, read this for yourself. I wonder if President Nelson had read this if he would have been quite so eager to send out the statement that he did.
From the International Journal of Clinical Practice:
Patient comprehension is a critical part of meeting medical ethics standards of informed consent in study designs. The aim of the study was to determine if sufficient literature exists to require clinicians to disclose the specific risk that COVID-19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus.
Published literature was reviewed to identify preclinical and clinical evidence that COVID-19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus. Clinical trial protocols for COVID-19 vaccines were reviewed to determine if risks were properly disclosed.
COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV (i.e. other coronavirus variants) have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.
Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.
I may (or may not) have more to say about the Covid-19 hoax—i.e., the disease is, of course, real and potentially very serious for a subset of people who might contract it, but the idea that it's a serious "global pandemic" is clearly a hoax; it's nothing like the Spanish Flu of 1918, and rather bears a remarkable resemblance to the Hong Kong flu of 1968-9 in terms of its numbers and impact. For those old enough to remember the Hong Kong flu... almost certainly you actually don't remember it at all. But I probably won't. While I appreciate this venue as a way to discuss personal "journaling" type things, my struggle with a poorly thought out statement from the First Presidency and what to make of it is hardly likely to be a series of faith-promoting posts.
I'm also not entirely sure what this means, but I note that the uptick in percentage vaccinated in Utah is pretty flat on either end of that statement, and is pretty flat overall after its initial surge. Now, granted, not everyone in Utah is a member of the Church, but even so, it appears that the statement has had little if any impact on the undecided or unvaccinated, and obviously it has little impact on those who already chose to get the vaccine. And I don't mean to present that as if I think its a good or a bad thing either one, merely that it's "a thing."
And ironically, the Presidency's statement comes at a time when the vaccine effectiveness narrative is starting to crumble. Not because of the data, which was always available, but because some media sources—mainstream sources—are breaking ranks and starting to point out just the barest fringe of what the data says.
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