A few years ago, my neighbor invited me to go fishing with him and his buddies just off the coast of Southern California. I’m not really a fisherman but didn’t have anything to do that day so I went along for the ride. I’m usually OK on boats. But, as it turns out, a ride in a small boat is much different on the Pacific Ocean than it is on a lake in Minnesota.
Not too long after we got on the water, I started getting queasy. It got so bad I was pretty sure I’d be blowing chunks in the next few minutes. Not too long after that, one of the guys in the boat lit up a cigarette and the smoke came my way. I’m not usually a fan of secondhand smoke. But, here’s the thing. As soon as I got a lungful of tobacco smoke, my queasiness disappeared. Instantly.
The effect would last a couple hours. Then the nausea would kick in again and would stick around until I got another whiff of smoke. This happened several times over the course of the day. The result was instantaneous and completely reproduceable.
I figured the nicotine in the smoke was somehow temporarily ridding me of motion sickness. Being the curious sort, I did some research. According to the National Institutes of Health, nicotine actually increases one’s sensitivity to motion sickness. In theory, breathing secondhand smoke should have made my nausea worse instead of making it go away entirely.
Now, the effect could be caused by a combination of the other noxious chemicals found in secondhand smoke. But no one knows, because, as far as I can tell, nobody has bothered to do a study on the effect breathing tobacco smoke has on seasickness. It’s entirely possible I’m the only person this happens to. But it does happen. To me anyway.
Here’s another example that’s going to come dangerously close to being Too Much Information.
My wife and I read a lot. Before we switched over to e-books, we used to spend a lot of time in secondhand bookstores looking for something to read. Here’s the thing. The smell of musty old books has a strange effect on me.
How can I put this delicately? Let’s try this. For me, ten minutes in a secondhand bookstore is the equivalent of eating dietary fiber. A lot of fiber. Without fail, after a few minutes smelling musty old books, I have to quickly find the nearest restroom.
As with my experience on the boat, the phenomenon is totally reproduceable. It happens every single time. To me anyway.
It sounds bad, but it could be worse. The effects could have been reversed and I could have found out a mile and a half offshore that secondhand smoke kicks my gastrointestinal tract into high gear.
Oh sure, it’s funny. Because it doesn’t happen to you. As far as I know, these things don’t happen to anyone else.
Clearly no study has been done on either of these two things. Or maybe there were. But I can guarantee you if there had been such studies, no strong correlation was found.
How can I be so sure? Because if there was even a hint that this was happening to people, the market would be flooded with over-the-counter aerosol remedies for nausea and irregularity.
The contemporary scientific consensus is that smelling cigarette smoke doesn’t relieve nausea and smelling musty old books doesn’t create an urgent necessity to visit the restroom.
And yet both happen. To me anyway.
While the number of people with reactions similar to me might be small, just the fact that it happens to me makes it a non-zero probability that it will happen to someone else. The chance might be close to zero, but it’s not zero.
Why am I bringing this up? Because everyone is different. Even identical twins aren’t identical. They may have the same DNA, but over time their bodies are exposed to different stresses. So, they may be genetically the same, they’re not exactly the same.
I think of my experiences every time I hear of a new symptom (I’m including death as a symptom) of the COVID-19 vackseens.
Someone will claim that the vackseen caused a particular symptom and the CDC and Big Pharma will quickly respond by pointing out that their clinical trials didn’t give any indication that it can happen.
But does that mean that it can’t happen? No, it only means that they didn’t include anyone in the trial that had that particular reaction. They tested a handful of people and then used those results to guess how the bodies of the other nearly eight billion people on the planet would react.
Sometimes their guess is right, and sometimes their guess is wrong.
I have a theory. My theory is that the vackseens are sometimes causes of the symptoms and sometimes they’re simply the catalyst.
For example, the vackseens cause heart problems, blood clots and anaphylactic shock. Big Pharma has admitted that.
But, remember back when they first started poking people? They found out pretty quickly that at least one of the vackseens would kill someone who had cosmetic facial fillers. It wouldn’t kill everyone with goop in their face, but it killed enough people that they couldn’t ignore it or blame it on something else. Oops.
I think it’s stupid, but many people have had the procedure to get duck lips. And most of them are fine. Not all of them, but most of them. Then along comes the vackseen and their bodies can no longer cope with all the foreign shit that’s been injected into it.
In this case, the vackseens are acting as a catalyst. Without the injection of an experimental drug, the people who paid good money to look like Daffy Duck would probably be fine. At least as fine as somebody can be who believes that balloon lips are actually attractive. But, in some people, the vackseen triggers a lethal reaction.
So, when I hear “the experts” claim that the vackseens aren’t the cause of an ever-growing list of adverse reactions, I wonder if, instead of being the cause, the vackseens are the trigger. Because it would explain a lot.
Take, for example, the vacksinated airline pilots that have been dying at an alarming rate. The current working theory is that “cosmic radiation” is what’s killing them. And maybe that’s true. But also maybe their bodies would do just fine fighting off the radiation equivalent of a bad sunburn if the pilots hadn’t been forced to take a vacksine they didn’t need.
Or when vacksinated people suddenly contract aggressive forms of cancer. I’d say it’s more than likely that their bodies had fought the cancer to some sort of stalemate, then, when they got injected with the vackseen, their immune system couldn’t fight off the cancer and fight the lab-generated spike proteins at the same time. And the cancer won.
So yeah, it’s entirely possible that the vackseens aren’t directly causing illnesses other than blood clots, cardiomyopathy and extreme allergic reactions, as if those aren’t enough. When Big Pharma says that their drugs aren’t causing the myriad of symptoms being reported, it’s possible they’re being truthful.
But it’s also entirely possible that their experimental drugs are triggering unexpected reactions. Unexpected because Big Pharma can’t possibly predict how eight billion unique bodies are going to specifically react to their poison based on the results from testing a statistically insignificant number of people.
And if certain smells can trigger weird medical reactions in me, it’s a near certainty that other people will have similar reactions.
The answer to why people are dying after being vacksinated could be because they simply inhaled something that, when combined with artificial spike proteins, caused their bodies to react in a unique, unexpected, and deadly way.
So why don’t the vackseens kill everyone? For the same reason COVID doesn’t kill everyone. Because everyone is different.
Sometimes the jab doesn’t have any affect. And sometimes it kills people. Just like sometimes, a trip to the used bookstore is just a trip to the used bookstore. And sometimes, shit happens.
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