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Top U.S. Government Vaccine Adviser Refuses to Get Latest Covid Shot as He Warns of Long Term Impact of Myocarditis

by Will Jones
26 September 2023 6:00 PM

A top vaccine adviser to the U.S. Government has refused to get the latest Covid shot as he warns about the long term impact of myocarditis and other serious side-effects.

In a video posted on X (Twitter) by the ‘Chief Nerd’, Dr. Paul Offit – a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines committee – said he “didn’t get last year’s bivalent vaccine” and he’s “not getting this year’s vaccine” because he believes he is “protected”.

Dr. Paul Offit on Why He Is Not Getting This Year's COVID Booster, Says Myocarditis Could Last Longer Than Previously Thought

"I think I'm protected. I didn't get last year's bivalent vaccine. I'm not getting this year's vaccine because I think I have high frequencies of… pic.twitter.com/oavTzHGQFq

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) September 25, 2023

“We’re going to find out about this vaccine over time,” he warns, describing the whole approach as a “novel strategy”.

We certainly were surprised by myocarditis and pericarditis and we’ll see whether or not over time when we’re five years into this, 10 years into this, 15 years into this, whether there’s any evidence of residual myocardial disease because the reason you have myocarditis is you’re making immune response to your own heart muscle… We’ll find out about that over time.

Dr. Offit has previously been a cheerleader, not only for the Covid vaccines but for the vaccine mandates that forced millions of Americans to get the shots or quit their careers.

Defending the first New York City vaccine mandate in summer 2021, he animatedly told CNN that “it is not your right as an American citizen to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection”.

Dr. Offit: It should be illegal to catch a a cold pic.twitter.com/GcJ39sSJCX

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) September 25, 2023

However, he changed his tune at the start of this year when he wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine an article sharply criticising the bivalent vaccines being rolled out at the time, branding them a “cautionary tale”.

At that point he did not mention safety worries, so his raising of concerns about myocarditis and other adverse effects is a new development.

As Dr. Offit says, we’re going to find out about this vaccine over time. Dr. Offit has been complicit in inflicting this rushed, under-tested technology on America and the world. However, he is a rare example of someone in a key advisory position willing to change his tune publicly. Will others be inspired to follow him?

Tags: Adverse EffectsCOVID-19FDAHeart inflammationMyocarditisPaul OffitUnited StatesVaccines

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Hardliner
Hardliner
8 months ago

Lovely story, well done!

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RW
RW
8 months ago
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Seconded.

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Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

I was siding firmly with your Grandma the whole time, especially the bit about you forced to wait between connections in a desolate train station in the wee hours to catch a dawn train. Been there, done that, ticket office closed, cafes closed, railway officials gone home, no money for a hotel, pestered by a collection of drunks and druggies in Spain, as I sat very determinedly reading a book and trying to look as fierce as possible, while staying wide awake, which seemed to put them all off. I do not recommend it.

I’m so glad your Grandad quietly got in touch with his friend up north, to make your Grandma a bit happier. I’m sure they were all on tenterhooks until you were safely home again. I was, just reading it!

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Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I hasten to add that I wasn’t a teenager, but middle-aged, and it was still scary!
So well done to you— you show great promise as a writer, Jack Watson.

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davidcraig68
davidcraig68
8 months ago

When I was 16, I hitch-hiked from Scotland through England, France, Germany, Greece to Turkey, then hitch-hiked back through Roumania and a bunch of other countries back to Scotland. But I guess those were different times.

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Gerry England
Gerry England
8 months ago
Reply to  davidcraig68

No mobile phones to keep in touch and help sort any unplanned events.

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Bellacovidonia
Bellacovidonia
8 months ago

Great piece Jack. Your parents trusted you visiting my home town to see your favourite band. They were right. The obverse of the trend towards ‘adulting” children is the infantilisation of young people more than capable of looking after themselves.

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mikehovit
mikehovit
8 months ago

Age 6, I daily comutted ‘solo’ from Parsons Green (Fulham) to South Ken to school. In uniform, with satchel! Felt so grown up.. but couldnt reach the straps to be a ‘strap-hanger’.
1962.. different world.

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mikehovit
mikehovit
8 months ago
Reply to  mikehovit

Also, 1976, hitch-hiked across Fr, Sp, It, Gr with no money.. relying on oddjobs and generosity of strangers, for 6 months. Not brave enough to try Turkey…
Age 20, do no big deal really..

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Richardk
Richardk
8 months ago

When I was 15 I made a solo trip from London to Paris and back to meet the family of an exchange student who had spent time with us on a school trip. I was nervous, yes, but survived and I still remember it fondly nearly 50 years later

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RTSC
RTSC
8 months ago

“I am not yet 16, but, encouraged by Kirsty Allsopp’s son’s interrailing adventures in Europe, I wondered how hard it could be. I had never been out of Hull on my own and had never changed trains on my own ”

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Well done and I’m glad you achieved your aim.

But as a recently-retired female, I find your story rather sad and an example of the infantilisation and coddling of young people which does nothing to build their confidence.

I was brought up in NE Kent, on the borders of London. During the school holidays, when I was age 12, my father (a MET policeman) came home with two Red Rover bus tickets and a bus map of London so I and a friend could spend the day riding the buses up to central London and back. He showed me the three buses we’d need to catch to get to Oxford St.

In turn, when my eldest son was 13 and wanted to go to London with a couple of friends I sat him down, made sure he could read the underground map, and let him go.

At age almost 16, a young person is only two years away from being officially declared an adult. If they’ve never left their home town and travelled alone anywhere they are not being properly prepared for adulthood.

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ELH
ELH
8 months ago
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Cities of Europe – London: We Live by the River – BBC iPlayer This is on the BBC archive – 2 boys on the buses in London. Unbelievable that this would happen now. Note how well the adults treat them.

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Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
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Your post is unjust. You are conveniently forgetting that all countries of the West have been INVADED by millions of Muslim Men of Military Age and often criminal backgrounds who have wreaked havoc amongst our children and teenagers.

You cannot compare your situation half a century ago, or your son’s, with the dangers facing children today.

Things are NOT THE SAME.

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RTSC
RTSC
8 months ago
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All the more reason for them to learn to navigate their surroundings and further afield …. because at age (almost) 16 in just 2 years time they’ll be expected to be competent to do it.

My sons went to a (very good) comprehensive senior school in Surrey. They’d attended state infant and junior schools and by the time they got to the senior one, they knew how to deal with the “rougher” and more disruptive pupils.

The kids who went to private prep schools and then to the state comp for senior level (because the senior fees were too high) didn’t know how to deal with them …. and were (a) bullied and (b) struggled to adapt.

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Jackthegripper
Jackthegripper
8 months ago

Good for you Jack. Your type of adventure would have been fairly commonplace when I was your age. I left school at 15 had a full-time job and a couple of holiday on my own,
On one occasion my family, mum, dad and sisters, when on one holiday whilst I went in the opposite direction, much to the chagrin of my elder sister that was not allowed the same privilege.
I hope your adventure has given you the conference to do more. Well done.

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Epi
Epi
8 months ago

Well done Jack great story there’s hope for the younger generation yet!

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Peter W
Peter W
8 months ago

At 67 years old I shudder at the thought of catching a train as I’ve had so many bad experiences over the years. Having said that, when I was 15, I would happily travel from London to Wolverhampton and then catch a bus. I think you become more risk averse as you get older- like your grandmother (I’m a grandfather)!

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Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  Peter W

No, it’s just that THINGS HAVE CHANGED. Our once “High-Trust Societies” everywhere in the West have been ruined by Mass Third World Invasion.

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iconoclast
iconoclast
8 months ago

A relative regularly used to hitch-hike 60 miles to and from boarding school from well under the age of 16.

That was in the days when email did not exist and there were no websites available to any old snitch to find out about how to snitch on people and then snitch.

There was only the telephone directory and landline phones.

Smart phones? That was in the days of Dick Tracy fiction.

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