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Victims of AstraZeneca

by Simon Elmer
24 December 2022 9:00 AM

Dr. Stephen Wright

On January 16th 2021, Dr. Stephen Wright, a healthy 32-year-old child psychologist and married father of two children, updated his Facebook profile picture. A photograph of himself and his wife, Charlotte, taken at their wedding in June 2018, now bore the NHS logo and a white circle in which a crown and heart were surrounded by the declaration: “I’ve had my Covid vaccination.” It was later revealed to be the AstraZeneca vaccine. Dr. Wright had just been promoted to his new position as Senior Clinical Psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and was due to start on February 1st.

Instead, in the early hours of January 26th, 10 days after his injection, Dr. Wright suffered what was later diagnosed as a cerebral venous stroke. The previous evening he had fallen asleep after refusing dinner, and when he awoke complained of pins and needles. With his arm moving uncontrollably, his wife called an ambulance and by the time the paramedics arrived Dr. Wright’s blood pressure was so high they advised him to visit hospital for further checks. Due to coronavirus-justified regulations, his wife was not permitted to accompany him to King’s College Hospital. Two MRI scans revealed massive bleeding on the brain, and he was placed on life support. Later that day he died. At his request, Dr. Wright’s organs were donated, and his wife reported that his lungs went to a man in his thirties and his heart to a teenage boy. His wife subsequently told the Independent that she “does not disagree with the rollout” of the COVID-19 “vaccination programme”; adding: “I know why they had to do it and that they had to do it”.

David Mears

On March 4th 2021, David Mears, a 58-year-old former world champion in Taekwondo and teacher who had moved to Taiwan before lockdown restrictions bankrupted his bar and forced him to return to England, was injected with his first dose of the viral vector AstraZeneca vaccine. Within hours he developed a fever, which grew progressively worse over the course of the month. On April 10th, his left foot began to swell and he was rushed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Two days later, he said, “my foot exploded, there was blood everywhere”. Mr. Mears was initially told that he might lose a few toes, but his left leg was later amputated below the knee. Recalling that he became ill on the night of his injection, Mr. Mears said: “I think it has got to be linked. It has put me off having the second one.”

It’s possible that Mr. Mears suffered from deep vein thrombosis. Scientific studies have admitted a link between the viral vector AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots, with 445 cases of major thrombo-embolic events (blood clots) and concurrent thrombocytopenia (low platelet counts) reported to the MHRA as of November 23rd 2022. All but 51 of these were reported, as happened with Mr. Mears, after the first injection, and 81 of them resulted in death. However, because he had been told by the NHS that flu-like symptoms were among the expected reactions to the vaccine, Mr. Mears delayed contacting the hospital and may have developed May-Thurner Syndrome or perhaps critical limb ischemia, which if left untreated can lead to amputation. With the ongoing censorship of information about the risks of taking these vaccines, his doctors have yet to offer a diagnosis of their own. Mr. Mears said: “The doctors say it’s hard to prove that it’s linked to the Covid jab and that the infection could have been there for some time, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” Following complications from the first operation, his entire leg was amputated. David Mears said that his goal was to have use of a prosthetic leg by the end of 2021, and I wish him well in his recovery. He has a GoFundMe page, set up to cover his medical expenses and rehabilitation.

Paul Bainbridge

On March 13th 2021, Paul Bainbridge, a 46-year-old software developer from the U.K., had his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. To celebrate the event he announced it on his Facebook page with a photograph of himself surrounded by a rainbow and a blue heart saying “thank you NHS”. Three days later he confirmed that he had been injected with the AstraZeneca viral-vector vaccine, along with the information that he had what he called “a dodgy immune system”. Over two months later, on May 29th, Mr. Bainbridge declared himself “fully vaccinated”, presumably meaning that he had received his second dose. A friend, Paul Oxley, whose profile photo bore the same rainbow and heart, asked: “Are you glowing yet?” In response, Paul wrote: “No. But I now have three arms and metal keeps sticking to me.” This mockery was typical of Mr. Bainbridge’s views. On September 19th 2020, he had posted a photograph of the anti-lockdown demonstration in Trafalgar Square – a demonstration in which I participated – with the comment: “Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers at Trafalgar Square. Or as they are collectively known. A Karen of Ratlickers.” I’m not sure if this is accurate, but Wikipedia says that “Karen is a pejorative term for a white woman seeming to be entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal.” I guess a “ratlicker” is fairly self-explanatory.

On June 1st, a few days after his second injection, Mr. Bainbridge posted a summary of his rapidly deteriorating health. On May 30th he had felt “pins and needles” in his hands and feet. The next day he was “falling over” and was sent by his GP to a hospital, where he had two spinal taps and was “diagnosed same day”. On June 2nd he had “full body paralysis with the exception of right side of face”, and was put into an “induced coma” in an intensive care unit. He concluded, almost laconically, that while in hospital he also contracted MRSA (a bacteria that’s more resistant to several widely-used antibiotics), pneumonia and septicaemia (blood poisoning). This is a demonstration of just how many diseases are nosocomial, and of how many so-called ‘hospital admissions’ for COVID-19 are in reality positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 of people who went to hospital for very different illnesses or injuries. Mr. Bainbridge’s Facebook post, which has subsequently been removed, didn’t say what he was “diagnosed” with, but spinal taps are required to diagnose Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a neurological condition whose primary symptom is the “pins and needles” he reported feeling, and which occurs when a trigger, such as a virus or a vaccine, mistakenly makes the immune system attack the nerves, causing pain and loss of co-ordination.

Undeterred, on June 3rd Mr. Bainbridge posted another dig at “anti vaxxers”. This was the last post on his Facebook page; but alerted of the recording of his story on the Covid Blog, on June 13th he accused the blog of publishing “fake news”, claimed that the screengrabs of his Facebook page it had published were “out by over 10 years”, and threatened the author with “libel lawsuits”. Presumably, the success of such lawsuits will depend on Mr. Bainbridge establishing how he was posting about taking a COVID-19 vaccine before 2011. Closer to the truth, in July 2021, the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration acknowledged that there was an increased risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome from certain COVID-19 vaccines, including the AstraZeneca brand. Despite Mr. Bainbridge’s mockery of and contempt for the concerns and fears of millions of Britons, and his reckless promotion of an experimental vaccine programme, I wish him a full recovery.

Alex Mitchell

On March 20th 2021, Alex Mitchell, a 56-year-old scaffolder from Glasgow, had his first injection of the viral vector AstraZeneca vaccine. Twelve days later he started to suffer from sore calves, but because his work involves heavy lifting he didn’t think much of it at the time. The pain, however, continued, and on April 4th Mr. Mitchell collapsed while ironing at home. When he started to hyperventilate, he knew something was wrong, and his wife called an ambulance. At the hospital a computerised tomography (CT) scan confirmed Mr. Mitchell had multiple blood clots in his lower abdomen and in both legs; but, fortunately, surgeons managed to remove them before they moved into his liver and kidneys, and he survived. Unfortunately, every vein in his left leg had collapsed, and they had to amputate it above the knee. Despite losing his leg and his livelihood, Mr. Mitchell insisted that others should take the same vaccine. He told the Sunday Post:

This is so rare it isn’t going to happen to many other people so it shouldn’t deter anyone having the vaccine. I had it because I want things to go back to normal as soon as they can. And the only way we can do this is by being vaccinated. I wouldn’t want to discourage people from having the Covid jab. From what they know, what happened to me is rare. It’s only going to affect maybe one or two people, so don’t let it put you off.

The article, published on May 2nd, reiterated that Mr. Mitchell losing his leg two weeks after being vaccinated was an “incredibly rare side-effect”, a “highly rare but devastating reaction to the Covid vaccine”, that it is “so rare there is no reliable data on it yet”, that the chance of dying from a blood clot after the AstraZeneca vaccine – which Mr. Michell didn’t – is “about one in a million”, that blood clots are “very common” and the “risk of them from the AstraZeneca vaccine is tiny”, and that “it’s important to remember that with any medications, there are risks”.

That month, a 40-second film of undeclared origin appeared on Twitter about Alex Mitchell promoting the U.K. vaccination programme. Over rising piano chords, strings and footage of his recovery, the film states in a series of texts:

An inspirational amputee has urged everyone to get the Covid vaccine despite the incredibly rare side effect that nearly claimed his life. Just three weeks ago, Alex Mitchell was fighting for his life in hospital. He was one of the very rare cases of blood clotting after the AstraZeneca vaccine. After a leg amputation he is now learning to walk again. He hopes to be back on his beloved Vespa this summer.

The final text is a quote attributed to Alex Mitchell: “What happened to me is rare, so don’t let it put you off. I wouldn’t like to think it would stop anyone having the vaccine.”

The footage was subsequently deleted from Twitter – perhaps because Mr. Mitchell has sought Government compensation for his injury, which he now attributes to the AstraZeneca viral vector vaccine. Presumably in anticipation of the devastation these experimental vaccines would inflict on the U.K. public, on December 3rd 2020 The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2020 added COVID-19 to the list of diseases against which payments made to individuals severely disabled as a result of vaccination are limited to a one-off Vaccine Damage Payment of £120,000.

Tanya Smith

On March 21st 2021, Tanya Smith, a 43-year-old mother of three children and childminder with no pre-existing medical conditions, had her first injection with the viral vector AstraZeneca vaccine. As a key worker and carer for her disabled child, Ms. Smith was contacted by her GP surgery to book an appointment to be vaccinated. According to her partner, she felt “pretty rough” for a couple of days afterwards, and then woke one morning in pain. She called 111 for help, and was admitted with severe stomach cramps to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, where she suffered a heart attack and cardiac arrest. Ms. Smith was diagnosed with multiple blood clots, which had caused the heart attack, and she was operated on to remove them. After initially improving, doctors said her blood platelet levels “went through the floor”. On April 3rd, just 13 days after being vaccinated, Ms. Smith suffered a massive heart attack and died in hospital.

Having read about the recent death of BBC journalist Lisa Shaw after taking the same brand of vaccine, Ms. Smith’s partner, Kenneth Edwards, contacted the press about her death. In response, the MHRA commented: “Our detailed and rigorous review into reports of blood clots occurring together with thrombocytopenia [low blood platelet count] is ongoing.” The regulatory agency continues to insist that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine outweigh the risks for most people. Ms. Smith’s death has been reported to the Coroner’s Office in Plymouth, but no inquest has been opened and the cause of death is not yet established. NHS England has declined to comment.

Lisa Shaw

On May 21st 2021, Lisa Shaw, the previously healthy 44-year-old presenter for BBC Radio Newcastle, died of a brain haemorrhage. On April 29th, she had been injected with her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. In August 2021, the Newcastle coroner, Karen Dilks, found the death to have been caused by “complications of an AstraZeneca Covid vaccine”, which she had “clearly established” caused “thrombotic thrombocytopenia” (blood clots) in Mrs. Shaw’s brain. Under Section 19 of the Coronavirus Act 2020, a doctor who has not seen the deceased is empowered to certify the cause of death (for example, as COVID-19) without the death being referred to the coroner before cremation of the deceased; so it is unclear why an autopsy was performed on Mrs. Shaw’s body. The most likely explanation is her relative fame, and the interest the U.K. press would take in the story should her family’s request for an autopsy be denied. It’s important to bear in mind that the death of Mrs. Shaw occurred more than three weeks after injection, and that her death, therefore, like that of Rachel McKinney, is unlikely to be recorded by the MHRA.

Simon Elmer is the author of The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State, which is available in hardback, paperback and e-book.

Tags: Adverse eventsAstraZenecaCOVID-19VaccineVaccine injury

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

It is all by the by now. In 2019 a decision was made to allow direct rule by the banks and corporations and here we are. The governing party is utterly irrelevant. Every word they spew would be uttered by their opposition but couched a bit differently. There is no escaping fundamental power relations and how they have changed. This is the first tep to dismantling them. I would say at current reckoning it will take about three decades to develop a true spiritual resistance. All the while everything that makes life bearable will be crumbling at an accelerating rate. All you can do is keep spirits up in yourself and the people around you. It never came with a promise of ease or happiness or fulfilment but there was a promise that you would feel alive if you chose to do so.

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DickieA
DickieA
1 year ago

Good article. The tories have lacked leadership with a pair of bollocks since Margaret Thatcher. Greedy, self-serving, spineless bastards – the lot of them. (* there are one or two honourable exceptions).

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

They are not “embarassed to be conervatives” they have not been conservatives for decades. The shock to their members is they have not been Conservatives, although there has never been a coherent philosophy about that or what it means.

They have been, as you say, keen to avoid a “scene”. They friends and associates and many (mpost?) of the Parliamentary party were on the side of woke, high tax, net zero and all the rest of the damaging mess.

The Conservative Party will not change. It is in too deep on all this stuff and its elected representatives will not tolerate change any more than they would allow a proper Brexit. As the GE approaches they will huff and puff and pretend all this was nothing to do with them. The ECHR, UK Courts, EU, UN, HoL and any number of other points of resistance will be given as excuses but it won’t wash. Even their own members don’t accept it.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

As Peter Hitchens memorably pointed out on Question Time when talking about gay marriage, Cameron hates his own supporters.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Fascinating article for anyone who cares about the tories or the current political system or thinks that our system is anything but a show to keep the masses mesmerised and subdued.

If you are awake in the world, it all looks like the pantomime that it is.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
1 year ago

The basic error in this piece is the presumption that Sunak, Hunt and globalist gang that usurped Truss actually care about being unpopular.
They don’t.
They’re banking on being less unpopular than Labour, but if Starmer gets in, he’ll just do more of the same.
Every day, in every way, the revolution gets nearer its globalist goal.
It’s up to us to expose, resist, disrupt.
Naive articles like this miss the message.

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

They don’t care about being unpopular with their members, the working class or other conservative and sane citizens.
They do very much care about being unpopular among the circle of likeminded managerial elite people they and their wifes, husbands and children move withinor aspire to do so.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

They care about being popular with their fellow globalist swamp creatures, not the people.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

It is a very simple game – keep the charade going on long enough so that you can get awat with all the spoils. This is a fundamentally flawed point of view because on a meta level the world that they luxuriate in depends completely on the thriving, at least on the surface, of a layer below.Just wise up we were all taken in at some point. That;s irrelevant because we are facing a serious attack on our spiritual home.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

What the Tories have failed to realize is that the most important legacy of the Blair era is that New Labour is still running the country with an increasingly iron grip on everyday life regardless of who sits in Downing St 10 by virtue of all these quangos and charities stuffed with New Labour types which all act is if they had a mandate for enforcing general policies because they have the power to do so. The charade of the Hallet ‘inquiry’ would be a striking example of this.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

We have to do something. If we allow this to continue then we aren’t even men enough to be guardians and we deserve everything we get. Serious people in this country need to acknowledge a sense of urgency.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

Look at it in six months time given the defaults on mortgages and the homelessness engendrred by passed on rent costs. The whole situaton is a corrupt deck of cards. There will be no hiding from it when it collapses. We have only one option which is to fight as a nation that takes in and takes on allcomers. Obviosly if they give any indication of betryaal then we slice em up.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

The Conservatives, or more certainly the executive realise that they are now nothing but play actors taking orders from elsewhere. As a consequence the likes of Fishy and Chunt couldn’t give a F. about the people of this country and so do not care one way or another about election results and as I keep repeating

Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.

The executive is now nothing more than a cabal of treasonous actors who are feathering their nests before taking flight.

Scum.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Fighting Marxist cultural warriors takes courage.

After 13 years of putting up with the blatantly biased, left-wing, BBC, the cowards in the Not-a-Conservative-Party still haven’t even got the courage to decriminalise a failure to pay the BBC’s Propaganda Tax.

Well over half of so-called Conservative MPs are carpet-bagger LibDems or Blairites, including the Prime Minister-with-no-mandate and the Chancellor.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
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I’ve never paid it. OTOH, I am genuinely uninterested in having my time wasted by TV producers and presenters.

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John Drewry
John Drewry
1 year ago

Unpopulism? The correct expression is ‘intentional suicide’. This takes you to the burning question: Why?

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Kemi Badenoch, by contrast, …… has been happy to stay in the Government through overturning Brexit, Lockdowns, Covid Jabs, Excess Deaths, Drag Queens, Rubber Dinghies, Net Zero, Ever higher Taxes, Woke Policing, Mutilating Teenagers on the altar of trans …..

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

“Thirteen years in which almost every public and private institution in the country has capitulated…”

Including the Tories.

Not thirteen years, right back to the final years of Thatcher, because the ‘Conservative Party’ was among the first to capitulate – hence the need to defenestrate the Iron Lady – and the emergence of that superannuated Sixth Former Cameron.

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scillygirl
scillygirl
1 year ago

Time for a new party?
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/a-reply-to-dominic-cummings?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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