The Folly of Posting False Adverse Effects of Vaccines News By Brian Simpson
There is never a need to post false news about the adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccines, or for that matter, to post false news about anything. Keep to the facts. False claims are easily discredited, and may break the law. What I have in mind here are false statistics, like totally exaggerated death statistics. As far as I can see, there must be debate permitted about the scientific research that is uncovering issues with say, the spike proteins, since, suppression, as was done with the Covid origins issue, will come unstuck in the end. So, keep honest, keep to the facts, and have a critical scientific faculty about everything. We need to see how this all unfolds. In our blog reports, we all try our best to be objective, with an open mind, allowing readers to make up their own mind. Of course, a free thinking population could well be thought criminals in themselves!
“Australia’s national medicines regulator is considering referring social media posts it deems vaccine “misinformation” to police over fears they could be in breach of the criminal code.
The move comes after comments appeared below a federal politician’s post on Facebook addressing vaccinations and coronavirus.
The comments falsely claimed coronavirus vaccines have caused 210 deaths, citing the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) weekly vaccine safety report from 27 May.
SBS News reports the actual TGA listing said: “Apart from the single Australian case in which death was linked to TTS [Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome or blood clots], COVID-19 vaccines have not been found to cause death.”
The TGA said in a statement some social media posts masquerading as official government health sources and promoting misinformation are “particularly concerning.”
The body said such actions could be a criminal offence, attracting a maximum penalty of two years in jail, and it was considering referring the matter to the Australian Federal Police (AFP). It continued:
The alleged posting particularly of the false information of the death counter from ‘COVID-19 vaccines’ with the Department’s and TGA’s apparent endorsement is particularly concerning.
The risk of such misinformation, in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, poses an unacceptable threat to Australians.
Labor lawmaker Julian Hill, who was reponsible for the initial post, said he was concerned by some of the comments attacking vaccines and their history of use in combating coronavirus.
Hill recounted there had been some 25,000 comments, “many of them incredibly worrying, downright dangerous and crazy stuff.”
“We need to make sure they’re [Australians are] getting proper information from credible sources – be that the Health Department or their doctor. Not believing stuff that is fake but actually looks real,” he said.
“That is the real concern. That people who are cautious and who are trying to work out what is right for them may actually believe this crazy stuff, which is being spread, which looks official.”
Facebook told SBS it had reviewed and removed certain comments from Hill’s initial post that violated the company’s misinformation policy.
The company said it had recently launched more options on the comment controls to restrict the audience members who can comment on posts — and was committed to actively removing misinformation on its platform.
“In fact, we’ve removed more than 18 million pieces of harmful COVID-19 misinformation and added warning labels to more than 167 million pieces of additional COVID-19 content.”
Breitbart News confirmed last month Facebook is working to censor vaccine concerns across its platform.”
While policing open lies and misinformation is important, there needs to be open investigation of the science of adverse effects, because if there are hidden problems with certain vaccines, which we all know have been produced in record time, there could be enormous medial costs in the future. It is in society’s interest not to suppress debate, produced by health authority data such as this:
“Cases of heart inflammation in people who received a COVID-19 vaccine have been recorded in states across the country, U.S. health officials say.
Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming have each seen one case while Illinois and Arizona have seen two each, health officials told The Epoch Times in emails. Idaho has recorded three, and Texas officials are aware of 10 cases.
Connecticut previously reported 18 instances of post-vaccination myocarditis. There have also been cases in Oregon and Washington state.
The total number of cases is at least 57.
The number was reached from answers The Epoch Times received after contacting the health departments of every state and a review of publicly available information.
It includes Washington state, where officials told reporters in a briefing on Thursday that they’ve received more than a dozen reports of post-vaccination myocarditis from health providers.
There are indications that the number could be higher.
One hundred fifty-five case reports have been submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a database run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration.
Critics note that system is a passive one, allowing anybody to submit a report. But health providers and others are encouraged by authorities, including the CDC, to submit case reports to the system. The actual number of case reports is likely higher than the reported figure of adverse events, because some patients do not submit reports or have reports submitted on their behalf, according to past statements about the VAERS system.
VAERS “is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem, but is especially useful for detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse event reporting that might indicate a possible safety problem with a vaccine,” health officials say on the system’s website.
The CDC announced recently that it is investigating cases of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, that have cropped up in people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
The agency’s Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group found rates of myocarditis in the window following vaccination do not differ from expected baseline rates, but group members were planning to investigate medical records of potential cases that are reported to VAERS.
The CDC did not list a number of cases. It described them as “relatively few” and “mild.” But at least 25 of the cases have required hospitalization, health officials told The Epoch Times.
No deaths have resulted from the cases. One death attributed to myocarditis was reported to VAERS in Texas. A spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services told The Epoch Times that the agency “can’t address individual VAERS reports.”
Myocarditis can occur from COVID-19 itself. The condition in rare cases leads to a heart transplant. It is the third most serious safety problem identified following vaccination, after anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction), and blood clots in conjunction with low blood platelet levels.
Officials are still recommending that people, including children, get a COVID-19 vaccine despite the adverse events because, they say, the benefits outweigh the risks.
“CDC and IDPH continue to recommend people 12 years and older get vaccinated,” a spokesperson with the Illinois Department of Public Health told The Epoch Times.”
People have a right to know about this.
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