Bronny James’s cardiac arrest has again raised the issue of how rare or frequent cardiac injury is in the aftermath of receiving an mRNA vaccine, especially among young males. Last Tuesday was the two-year anniversary of an incident during a bicycle race in Belgium, which might have already settled the issue had it been more widely known.
On August 15th, 2021, Yarno van Herck, a rising star of the Acrog-Tormans cycling team, began having shooting pains in his chest during a junior-division race in the Flemish town of Vorselaar. Van Herck would fight through the pain to somehow make it to the finish line. But after the race, his parents would rush him to the hospital, where he would be diagnosed with myocarditis and admitted to intensive care.
Yarno van Herck was 15 years old at the time. Two days earlier, he had received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Dramatic footage of the young cyclist in obvious distress and incapable of responding to a reporter’s questions can be viewed here from the Flemish regional broadcaster RTV.
But what makes the incident particularly significant is that van Herck was the third member of the Acrog-Tormans junior squad to develop heart problems in the immediate aftermath of COVID-19 vaccination in a period of just three weeks. The summer of 2021 was, of course, the summer of the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines to younger age groups.
According to the team’s sporting director Jef Robert, three weeks before the Vorselaar incident, van Herck’s then 17 year-old teammate, Joppe Erpels, developed severe heart problems one day after a race and likewise just two days after being vaccinated against COVID-19. Erpels would also be admitted to intensive care. Indeed, his condition was so serious that, according to Robert, there were fears for the young man’s life.
A third team member, Xander Verhagen, developed heart problems while training just one day after being administered a COVID-19 vaccine. The then 17 year-old Verhagen was able to avoid hospitalisation and recover at home.
At the time, the Acrog-Tormans junior squad consisted of just 80 cyclists. According to Jef Robert, all of them were vaccinated. Three out of 80 gives a rate of cardiac events in the aftermath of vaccination of greater than one in 27!
It is worth recalling in this connection that a Thai cohort study of cardiovascular effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in adolescents uncovered five confirmed or suspected cases of myocarditis and two confirmed cases of pericarditis in a sample of just 301 vaccinees. Moreover, a closer look at the data (see below) reveals that all of the cases involved males. 202 of the study participants were male.
This gives a rate of incidence of myocarditis among male participants of around one in 40 and of myocarditis or pericarditis of around one in 29.
Happily, Yarno van Herck made a relatively quick and remarkable comeback from his heart problems. Just two months after the dramatic events in Vorselaar, he not only resumed racing, but even made it onto the podium with a second-place finish. Xander Verhagen appears also to have quickly resumed racing. However, a search of Belgian cycling sites does not turn up any evidence that Joppe Erpels has returned to competitive cycling.
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Once they allowed climate change nonsense in, others were bound to follow. Home schooling is the only way.
Which is why they are trying to stop it under the pretence of caring about children who are no longer attending school post lockdowns.
And taxing private schools though maybe many are no better in this regard
Or Free Schools
Stop children from harming animals is certainy a much more laudable goal than get children to castrate themselves chemically. So, if Stonewall is present in schools, which it is, why shouldn’t PETA as well? I completely agree with the general direction of travel of this article but specifically, it seems very much like a call for bolting the stable door after the horse has been set on fire.
No organisation agitating for societal change to further some agenda has any place in children’s education.
It’s wearisome reading all the “time to do this, time we did that” articles – Government holds power because it has the monopoly on violence.
If people understood that, they would realise “time to do this, time to do that” wish-list is futile. The ONLY solution is to remove Government’s monopoly on violence. See history starting with the barons ganging up on King John.
Isn’t having a nominal monologue on violence fundamental to a government? I’m very much in favour of strict limits on what it’s agreed a government can do, but surely it needs to be able to pass and enforce laws?
Voters need to wake up. We have the parliament we voted for. Flavours of big state socialism.
I could get down with this type of sedate violence. Coming to a canal near you!
https://x.com/NotFarLeftAtAll/status/1915334714082152886
Lol. I know Eddie Hall has a tank but I’ve not seen a tank boat. Our town has 4 rivers and lots of people living on boats so could be a good option for us.
Brilliant!
Monologue? I’ll assume you mean monopoly.
Monopoly on violence is fundamental to government assuming you want a brutal tyranny that cannot be stopped.
You are very much in favour of strict limits on what it is agreed a government can do. Did we agree government could put us all under house arrest, stop us from going about our normal lives to “protect” granny? Have we agreed to pay more and more for electricity and not be allowed to heat our homes as we wish or drive the cars we want?
And in the event all do not agree how do you stop government imposing its will on those who don’t agree when it has a monopoly on violence?
Yes monopoly.
I struggle to imagine life as we like it without a government/state and some
level of coercion to pay for non excludable goods and enforce basic laws. I would stop there but most people seem to disagree with me sadly. Whether we will ever get to a healthier consensus I have my doubts
and certainly not in my lifetime.
Democracy will always be the tyranny of the majority (at best).
Kicking extremists out of the classroom means flushing out the truth-twisters who facilitate extremists getting into the classroom in the first place.
Stand up Stonewall against a brick wall and fetch the firing squad. Likewise the misanthrope philanthropists funding behavioural ops directed at children. Continue working up the chain of command all the way to Westminster and beyond.
It is a bit sneaky trying to present these materials as a stimulus to discussion as if the dubious propositions described above are being offered in order to encourage debate. When you’re a small child your grasp of metaphysics is very limited and so it would be difficult to contemplate the similiarity between human beings and animals. Of course when you reach intellectual maturity it is very easy to tear their arguments to shreds but they want to get in early during the formative years and essentially hijack the intellectual and spiritual development of their victims.
State Determined Education (and that includes the remaining Private Schools and Nurseries/pre-schools) has been turned into State Indoctrination.
The only solution, currently still available but now being targeted, is Home Schooling.
If you want to insulate your child from the indoctrination as much as possible, then care for them yourselves from birth until their formal education starts. Do not send them to Nursery/pre-school.
That will give you 5 years to instil YOUR values, teach them how to think and give them the ability to resist the indoctrination.
“Give me the child for 7 years and I will give you the man.” Five years is two years short, but determined parents should make very good use of that time. It will have financial and lifestyle implications, but then choosing to have a child always has and previous generations made the necessary sacrifices. So can this one.