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Information is more freely accessible than it has ever been. If the CDC et al are willing to lie in this modern era with facts right in front of people, who kn

Information is more freely accessible than it has ever been. If the CDC et al are willing to lie in this modern era with facts right in front of people, who knows what shenanigans they were up to in the 1950's, or really any decade other than the last 2. Some guy in a lab coat wrote down he did a clinical trial somewhere in the 3rd world, and the government just takes his word for it. Then when you have a whistle blower like on the Pfizer trials, who claims patients were unblinded and side effects weren't accurately recorded, people just slap the old 'conspiracy' label on it. Before 2021, most people didn't even know VAERS and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program even existed. Now the CDC is telling us the reporting system they manage is inaccurate. Okay, so what have they been doing for the last 40 years? They finally admitted that the vaccines are affecting some women's cycles, but downplayed it by saying 'on average it's about 1 day shorter between cycles.' That doesn't sound like much, but many women have a very short window of time from conception to implantation before their period starts, and that would be more than enough time to render those women unable to carry a baby. It's lunacy.

Fomite 4y ago
The inaccuracy of the VAERS system has been known for the entirety of my career - it's not meant to be accurate, it's meant to be permissive, because there are other systems that are much narrower but also more accurate. People discovering things because they start paying attention doesn't make them new.
- linuxftw 4y ago
  > Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. Do you think VAERS functions adequately in this capacity? Which vaccines have had safety signals that lead to rescinding the license, or otherwise limiting use? Or is the FDA batting 1000?
  - Fomite 4y ago
    VAERS (along with other systems) has helped pick up and prompt investigations for both the J&J COVID-19 vaccine and investigating myocarditis in adolescent males for the mRNA vaccine. VAERS is also important for monitoring the rotavirus vaccines - it was one of the data sources that pulled the RotaShield vaccine off the market due to increased risk of intussusception in 1999.
    - native_samples 4y ago
      Sadly the CDC has just admitted it has never looked at VAERS for COVID vaccines. At all. Ever. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-covid-vaccine-safety/ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-covid-... "Since CDC officials stated publicly that “COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring is the most robust in U.S. history,” I had assumed that at the very least, CDC officials were monitoring VAERS using the methods they described in a briefing document posted on the CDC website in January 2021 (and updated in February 2022, with minor changes) [PRRs]. I was wrong." This had to be forced out of them with a FOIA request but their response to the request (for documents related to VAERS analysis of COVID vaccines) says: "no PRRs were conducted by the CDC. Furthermore data mining is outside the the agencies purview, staff suggest you enquire with the FDA" The CDC run VAERS but have never actually done any data mining on it, despite telling the public that the monitoring of COVID vaccines was the most robust in history. Which means that statement they gave is either a lie, or it's true and VAERS has actually never been used to detect safety signals.
      - linuxftw 4y ago
        CHD and ICAN have produced a bevy of FOIA requests that have utterly destroyed CDC's and FDA's credibility for anyone that has been interested enough to look into the topic. There was a FOIA request a few years ago (can't remember the name of the organization, search engines have buried these type of results) that the agency in charge of post-license safety review of vaccines has never conducted a single review since the law passed in the 80s or early 90s.

Fomite 4y ago

The inaccuracy of the VAERS system has been known for the entirety of my career - it's not meant to be accurate, it's meant to be permissive, because there are other systems that are much narrower but also more accurate. People discovering things because they start paying attention doesn't make them new.

linuxftw 4y ago
> Established in 1990, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in U.S.-licensed vaccines. Do you think VAERS functions adequately in this capacity? Which vaccines have had safety signals that lead to rescinding the license, or otherwise limiting use? Or is the FDA batting 1000?
- Fomite 4y ago
  VAERS (along with other systems) has helped pick up and prompt investigations for both the J&J COVID-19 vaccine and investigating myocarditis in adolescent males for the mRNA vaccine. VAERS is also important for monitoring the rotavirus vaccines - it was one of the data sources that pulled the RotaShield vaccine off the market due to increased risk of intussusception in 1999.
  - native_samples 4y ago
    Sadly the CDC has just admitted it has never looked at VAERS for COVID vaccines. At all. Ever. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-covid-vaccine-safety/ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-covid-... "Since CDC officials stated publicly that “COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring is the most robust in U.S. history,” I had assumed that at the very least, CDC officials were monitoring VAERS using the methods they described in a briefing document posted on the CDC website in January 2021 (and updated in February 2022, with minor changes) [PRRs]. I was wrong." This had to be forced out of them with a FOIA request but their response to the request (for documents related to VAERS analysis of COVID vaccines) says: "no PRRs were conducted by the CDC. Furthermore data mining is outside the the agencies purview, staff suggest you enquire with the FDA" The CDC run VAERS but have never actually done any data mining on it, despite telling the public that the monitoring of COVID vaccines was the most robust in history. Which means that statement they gave is either a lie, or it's true and VAERS has actually never been used to detect safety signals.
    - linuxftw 4y ago
      CHD and ICAN have produced a bevy of FOIA requests that have utterly destroyed CDC's and FDA's credibility for anyone that has been interested enough to look into the topic. There was a FOIA request a few years ago (can't remember the name of the organization, search engines have buried these type of results) that the agency in charge of post-license safety review of vaccines has never conducted a single review since the law passed in the 80s or early 90s.