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Marago's avatar

Great article. Thank you!

Longevity in my family. Maternal grandmother one of 17 children born in the 1800’s. No vaccines, only naturopathic doctor. No prescription meds. Retired from work at age 95. Lived into her 103rd year. Her only child, my mother, was happily married to my dad. After retirement, she did lap swimming 3 times a week. Played golf regularly with my dad; they square-danced all over the State where they lived. My mom, happy, friendly, not over weight, never sick, healthy eating, non-smoker, occasional glass of wine. In 1987 my mom out of “kindness to others” felt it best to get a flu shot. She had never had a flu shot.

Within 24 hours she got sick — upper respiratory virus she could not get over. Weeks passed. Her health severely declined. Diagnosed with Leukemia, and she died within four months at 69 years old. Our family absolutely shocked!

I’ve never had a flu shot and never ever will. I had the mumps, measles, chicken pox.

I can count on one hand the “vaccines”/shots in my lifetime. I’m never sick.

Unfortunately it seems that in our day and age, strong natural immunity is down played—heck, no $’s there for big Pharma.

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Zade's avatar
Sep 5Edited

Really awful about your poor Mom! I'm so sorry. It's murder.

I do genealogy for my family. I've found records here and in England going back beyond the 1500s for my Mom's family. Struck by how long they lived. Into their 80s not rare, some into their 90s. Big families too, lots of kids. All my life I'd accepted the baloney about how much healthier and longer-lived we are than our ancestors. I'm not seeing it.

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Marago— Thanks for sharing that, and many condolences on the loss of your mother.

A close friend of mine got Guillain Barré shortly after taking a flu shot. It was brutal. Was able to walk again but after more than 10 years has never fully recovered. I also know someone who has suffered chronic, terrible eczema after taking some shots to travel some 15 years ago.

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SF Med's avatar

RFK jr has approved funding for a new universal Flu/Covid vaccine. Clinical trials in 2026, with targeted FDA approval in 2029.

From the HHS website: (link below)

“Our commitment is clear: every innovation in vaccine development must be grounded in gold standard science and transparency, and subjected to the highest standards of safety and efficacy testing,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"This initiative represents a decisive shift toward transparency, effectiveness, and comprehensive preparedness, funding the NIH’s in-house development of universal influenza and coronavirus vaccines, including candidates BPL-1357 and BPL-24910. These vaccines aim to provide broad-spectrum protection against multiple strains of pandemic-prone viruses like H5N1 avian influenza and coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and MERS-CoV."

Link: https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-nih-announces-generation-gold-standard.html

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Frank Coombs's avatar

WHY DOES ANYONE "NEED' A FLU SHOT???? OR A COVID VAXXX???? WHY does a newborn "NEED" a Hep-B vAXX IF THE MOTHER DOES NOT CARRY THE INFECTION??A $10 lab test in the Maternity Ward will reveal if the Mother carries HEP-B?

IF NO HEP-B in mother - NO NEED TO VAXX newborn????????????????????

HEP-B VAXX is a Big PHARMA SCAM. Ditto Flu VAXX?? Ditto COVID VAXX?????

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lakegirl's avatar

Exactly! Since 1986, when pharma got their liability removed, vaccines have been hurled upon the poor babies. My kids, '82-'90, had 7 or so vaccines in first year now they get 42??? The tiny little bodies cannot and do not need all this poison in them.

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SF Med's avatar

It's criminal.

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SF Med's avatar

Correct

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George Solverson's avatar

Maybe the clinical trails will not be corrupted this time, and will scientifically demonstrate the risk of disease provocation and off-target immune suppression from the vaccine? Following the Covid vaccine disaster, it will be a tough sell to trust the next great vaccine scheme from the gubment.

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Kika's avatar

"gold standard science and transparency...blah blah". Hey Bobby, we're not talking about financial markets here ...... or is he?

Lots of fine sounding words, same old agenda. Bobby, I believe, is a member of the Scavenger Club.

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SF Med's avatar

Seems they are trying to win our trust in vaccines back by white washing these new RFK jr vaccines.

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Kika's avatar

A patient cured is a customer lost.

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Steven D Epstein -- Influencer's avatar

Gee, that sounds like an objective controlled study.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

I recently watched a video clip on X from a Dr. talking about OAS. I realized it’s the reason I suddenly became allergic to almonds, pistachios and pecans. ( I’ve had a walnut allergy since I was very young.) I had a T dap booster in 2003. The only reason I got it is because I’m a hairdresser and was worried about getting tetanus from cutting myself with my shears. This was before I knew you had to be in a barnyard with a puncture wound in order to get tetanus. At that time I lived surrounded by almond, walnut and pistachio orchards. I am convinced this is why I suddenly became allergic to the other nuts as well as walnuts. The only other vaccines I remember, getting were the polio sugar cube,and smallpox. I don’t recall getting MMR. We moved about the time I would’ve received it and I don’t remember going to the doctor after that and getting any shots.

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Huldah1776's avatar

I got blood poisoning from slicing my thumb on a meat slicer. went to hospital when the track got to my elbow. Doc said if I had waited one more day I would be dead.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

Oh yeah…probably lots of bacteria on the meat slicer.

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Atlandea's avatar

So much of this article applies to my now deceased husband (March 14, 2025) He developed mild lung fibrosis as a result of being a decorated first responder at 9/11 for 30 days in the immediate aftermath of the towers having been dustified.

He got 2 pfizer jabs in March 2021 and then in April 2022 we both got some sort of cold, upper respiratory disease, or maybe Omicron. Once that happened his fibrosis went into overdrive until Thanksgiving of 2022 when he could not breath and landed in the hospital for 9 days. He never recovered, got worse and worse and by May of 2023 the World Trade Center Health Program paid for his double lung transplant. By that time it was unclear how much longer he would make it. Once he got the transplant he had every kind of complication including several infections and one that the very busy transplant team had never seen - Mycobacterium Fortuitum in his PLEURAL FLUID! The hospital really wanted us to believe that the infection came from the shower or other water source. ARGGG

"•A 1957 paper showed that in mice who had had a multi-month infection of Mycobacterium fortuitum, intraperitoneal injection of killed BCG or pertussis vaccine converted their latent or chronic infection into an acute and sometimes fatal disease. One of the researcher’s most common observations was the appearance of a large microbial population in the liver, whereas in normal mice, M. fortuitum is rapidly cleared from the liver.

"Note: I believe this observation is very important because many chronic disease states are associated with blood sludging (stasis) in the liver, something that both vaccination and certain infections (e.g., malaria) frequently trigger throughout the body. Data like this, in turn, begin to illustrate why a significant overlap between blood sludging, immune suppression, and autoimmunity is frequently observed."

He was already in bad shape but the highly specialized 3 antibiotics to treat the mycobacterium (one was injected) nearly did him or likely contributed to his death a few months later. Yes, by then it was clear that he had blood sludging but the transplant team would not/could not address that.

So much of the article resonates with me: "Initially, I suspected this was due to a hyper-inflammatory process. This was because many of the complications of COVID-19 are due to the immune system’s response to the virus rather than the virus itself (e.g., in hospitalized patients, as the disease progresses, the viral load often drops, but despite the virus being eliminated, the patients become more ill and the illness becomes more FIBROTIC in nature)."

Lastley: "Despite an abundance of literature (e.g., that which I cited in this section) showing that vaccination could be immunosuppressive, "

Clearly after the covid clot shot his immune system was destroyed. Nothing we did, and we tried everything we could, was ever going to arrest the damage of the clot shot and allow him to ever have a life again. The world lost a real life hero. An Incident Commander who over the years saved many lives.

One more thing about a double lung transplant. Once the transplant was done we were handed a list of medications that included so many that were not necessary and which contributed to his kidney's going bad at the end. Things like fossamax, cholesterol meds, anti reflux meds, low dosages of profilactic antibiotics 3 days a week and on and on. It was a teaching hospital and the dr's that rotated through his care were clueless. They never had any advice on how to build up his health even though we asked. They would simply say drink more protein drinks..... this was St Joseph's in Phoenix.

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A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

Thank you for sharing this; I pinned your comment.

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Atlandea— Condolences on the loss of your husband. What a terrible way to go, I cannot imagine. Thank you for sharing his story.

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Denise's avatar

Deepest condolences on all you and your husband went through. I honor him for the hero he was during 9/11. Nothing can change what did happen but telling your story may help many, many more in similar circumstances. You are both courageous.

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ginger_contrarian's avatar

Thank you for sharing and very sorry for your loss. Terrible tragedy and worse care. Its maddening. I am also vax injured. You might be interested in Dr Sabine Hazan’s work on the microbiome and how the shots along with antibiotics contributed to the complications.

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William Sherman's avatar

AMD - are you a single person or a group of experts/writers? I ask because the volume of fantastic, well-written, accessible information you produce, over a wide range of medical subjects, is incredible! I am in awe, sir, and I salute - and thank - you! I have learned so much from your writings. So whether it is a singular you or a group, you are doing a magnificent service for we your readers and, through us, the world at large.

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Atlandea's avatar

some hints in previous articles lead me to believe AMD is a very special woman.

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Mary L.'s avatar

Yes she is!!! Level headed and well researched articles. God bless and protect you AMD, you are a treasure!

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kiwistrawberry's avatar

How do you know? :)

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Mary L.'s avatar

Dr mercola said in an interview with Jimmy Dore that “she” writes articles for his newsletter. Might have misspoken but might not have…

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Vinu Arumugham #MAHA's avatar

Injected vaccines are an inappropriate route of antigen exposure for most diseases and invoke an inappropriate immune response.

Injected vaccines are the worst mistake in medicine

https://zenodo.org/records/15844676

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Lindsay Moore's avatar

Because vaccines are an envelope full of poison and your body is trying to detox from the poisonous injection. There is no such thing as a safe or effective vaccine. Now dig into the lie of germ theory, and it gets even worse.

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Ellasquared's avatar

Amen! I have to say all disease is man-made through a toxic exposure of one kind or another, not from the •microbes• in nature

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Crixcyon's avatar

After reading "What Really Makes You Ill" I'll confirm that germ theory is 100% lies.

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Lindsay Moore's avatar

Great read!

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Huldah1776's avatar

parasites. I was looking at microscopic single cell buggers in a video. YUMMY!

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Dr Dennis Kinnane OMD LAc RPh's avatar

When I was at Pharmacy school at Purdue University in the 1960s there was no question about vaccines causing the illness. We were taught that the whole point of a vaccine is to create a very mild form of the illness and that this would elicit the body to produce antibodies, which could be called up in an immune response Should the body be challenged with the pathogen again later on.

In fact, if you didn’t get some sort of a response to the vaccine, it was thought it had not “taken“! There was no hiding it, but I was in Pharmacy school not Medical school and in Pharmacy school it was far more realistic about the medications that we were creating. So I don’t know when this nonsense started about no side effects of vaccines but there was no notion of such a thing back in the 1960s!

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Crixcyon's avatar

Anti-bodies...I wonder does the body have an anti-body for all 1,000,000 viruses, bacteria, pathogens, fungus's, etc it might encounter? How would it make an anti-body if it was never exposed to the germ? So being exposed to some novel virus the body would have no immunity and would be infected and die. There is no immune system because you do not need it.

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Mouzer's avatar

Broadly speaking, the first line of defense, innate immunity, acts within minutes to hours when a new pathogen enters the body. This function of the immune system uses receptors that detect common patterns and other factors that a new pathogen has in common with others.

Adaptive immunity is a tailored response that can take days to become fully active because the immune system must generate antigen-specific factors. After the infection some B and T cells remember the pathogen ensuring a rapid response from the innate system if it is encountered again. For example, the covid virus is part of a virus family that many people have encountered before as a cold.

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Free Mind Paradigm's avatar

I know someone (I got permission to share this story by the way) who, shortly after getting the first MMR shot as an infant, caught rubella at a time when it had been eliminated from the US. This is how I know that it was from the vaccine, as nothing else could have exposed him to that virus. Doctors also confirmed that it was indeed a case of rubella.

He later regressed into autism, but thankfully is doing very well now as an adult on the high-functioning end of the spectrum. I am by no means implying that this particular incident caused his autism, as there could have been a myriad of other factors that may have had a role.

This was one of the incidents that woke me up to the vaccine issue long before it was discussed in the mainstream.

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Deb Nance's avatar

Pharmaceutical companies love vaccines because they are cheap to manufacture. It's the bargain basement of medicine. It's full of junk.

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MSB's avatar

Plus if you can convince a government to buy them for children plus mandate them, as well as give you indemnity from liability, you're laughing all the way to the bank.

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MSB's avatar

Thanks so much, I'd not seen that before.

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Katherine's avatar

🎯

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Dawn Ceylong's avatar

So the whole concept is terrible!!

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Cafe Comments by Lauri Harris's avatar

Why do people get the disease they are being vaccinated against? Well, because after diligently avoiding the disease, they go line up to have someone inject the disease or a portion of the disease past their body’s external defenses and into their body. Then their immune system has to fight the disease that came in like a trojan horse.

How did the public ever fall for lining up to get a dose of disease and call that making people healthier? Oh, right, dissenters silenced and propaganda repeated the tall tales of success while hiding any horrifying outcomes.

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Lisa N Mellinger's avatar

Mainly because they interfere with the natural process of the immune system. All.vaccines do this, including the ones people carelessly put into their animals!!!

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Geoffrey Newton's avatar

Thank you for your research and diligence. Saving lives by casting light into darkness is a virtue that has its own rewards.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

For 64 years I have been into studying health. it is very simple and it won't put money into deep pockets. Hippocrates the Father of Medicine had the answers 2400 years ago...eat the right natural unprocessed foods and follow a healthy lifestyle...avoid toxins, such as drugs and medicine; and you will stay well. The only thing that belongs in the Creator-designed bloodstream are unprocessed foods. They nourish the organs, glands and cells...and any other man-made substances would harm them. Mankind survived for eons of time by simply eating unprocessed food. This should be common knowledge.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Vaccines cause issues but the original antigenic sin and other viral theories ignore the elephant in the room.

Vaccines have toxic ingredients and allergens. The COVID shots have PEG which many are allergic to!

The LNPs are hard to eliminate and lead to clogging up things (zeta potential issues).

Past vaccines have nano aluminum, preservatives, and carrier oils.

The viral or igg etc theories of why shots injure people make many forget that injecting crap in the body leads to sickness!

Re: Chetty

What if it wasn't the spike but from the previous year flu shot?

We forget that other vaccines like flu and other shots can do this and have done this. My father got COVID like symptoms in 2018... Years ago when I heard Chetty in an interview, I realized it was almost identical to what he had!

He got a lot of coughing in the first phase. The cough cleared up and then a few days later he was complaining of low energy despite being able to breathe fine. He ended up going to the hospital as we felt he could pass out.

Hospital found his oxygen levels very low.

They treated him with steroids and he was fine since.

After the event, I asked my father if he changed his prescriptions or got any shots. BINGO, THE FREAKING FLU SHOT A MONTH BEFORE!

https://northerntracey213875959.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/anaphylaxis-the-real-bio-weapon/

Sorry, but it's not spike protein.... If it happened years before COVID!! Oh and 2018 was a really bad "flu" year. How much you wanna bet it was the flu shot? What about COVID times.... People were getting the crap flu shots "to be safe"

Why do you and others ignore that other vaccines have caused this allergic issue?

"one of the most interesting models I came across to treat COVID-19 came from Shankara Chetty, a South African doctor who concluded the body was forming an allergic response to the spike protein, which in turn necessitated either eliminating the virus early on (so this would not happen) or treating it as an allergy once the second phase began. Given that this worked for 7,000 people and his model matched what many of us observed, I found this theory quite compelling."

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A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

I know people who got severely ill with COVID who'd never gotten the flu shot. That said, at the very start when COVID was in Europe before it hit the USA, alternative clinicians noticed those who got the most ill had gotten that years flu shot.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

I didn't know my dad got the flu shot until I asked him and he had to check. If they were your patients, it may not be in their records. That's how they counted many who were suffering covid shot issues in 2021 as "unvaccinated". (The news was saying something like 90% were unvaccinated 😂)

I know nobody who got severely ill from COVID and I commuted into a big city working at a big building back then. But then, I worked with mostly young and middle aged people which were in good shape. It wasn't until 2021 that I heard of people there getting really sick with COVID.

The stats speak for themselves. Before the shots severe COVID was mostly among the elderly or those with multiple issues. Hmmm, the biggest uptake of flu shots is in seniors.

In 2020, the average age of death from COVID was around life expectancy and with at least 2 comorbidities. Did they really get ill because of COVID or because of their age and conditions?

Perhaps it was the flu shots given in addition to the age/conditions.

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SF Med's avatar

2019 Flu shot is the most likely covid culprit.

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George's avatar

I recall reading about older adults in Italy having a bad time with COVID in 2020.

The Italian government was blaming it on the quadrivalent flu vaccine given in 2019.

They were threatening to sue the Vax manufacturers for the costs and deaths.

The news stories did not continue and the government went quiet about there initial claims. I cannot find these news stories any more using Google searches. I did find "fact check" articles that always deny any negative information on vaccine effectiveness.

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SF Med's avatar

You might be able to find the news stories using a different search engine.

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Sheri Weinstein's avatar

Great article and I have tried to explain these concepts to my patients as I have witnessed everything you describe when it comes to the vaccines.

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A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

:(

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David Marazzo's avatar

I have a question no professional medical, or biology expert has asked or answered in a public forum to my knowledge. Doctors in general, Anthony Mengele Fauci included, say natural immunity is superior to any vaxxination. If that is the case, why are doctors and researchers so heavily invested in vaxxinations? Is it that good people have been tricked, misled, and propagandized into the vaxxine cult? Is it good intentions or greed? We know where good intentions lead.

I question anyone who favors vaxxinations and/or mRNA jabs. When mRNA will cause the renewal of my cells back to when I was born let me know. Until then don’t try to inject my grandchildren with it. That pisses me off.

If .0003134 might die from an alleged virus, why not figure out how to treat the cause or physical frailty of the body instead of making the whole population susceptible to manmade toxins through universal vaxxcinations? More harm is done by medical intervention than not. As the guy said, prove me wrong!

Before he died, didn’t Dr. Nonas Sulk say his vaxxinations for polio did not stop polio? Wasn’t polio caused by insecticide or some other poison created by our great chemists and chemical industry? Maybe DDT was the cause? No more DDT and now no more polio. Humm…

How many suffered Alzheimer’s before aluminum became part of all vaxxinations (because it is cheaper than other adjutants). Does the use of aluminum cooking pots after WWII have a bearing on this, now, prevalent dis-ease?

Why has it taken till now for our brilliant doctors and politicians to wake up to the debilitating effects of adding fluoride to our water supply? Didn’t the Germans know about this in 1936. I, a poorly educated high school dropout, knew fluoride, sugar, and vaxxinations were toxins when I was twenty. That was 58 years ago. Where have you all been?

Seems the better minds have been knowingly diverted into Malthusian ideas by those who plan depopulation. Why are those who possess the highest IQs so easily propagandize?

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