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COVID-19 Misinformation Persists, 4 Years After Shelter-in-Place While people’s lives are largely free of the extreme public health measures that restricted them early in the pandemic, misinformation about vaccines and conspiracy theories are still around. April 1, 2024 ... "Four years later, people’s lives are largely free of the extreme public health measures that restricted them early in the pandemic. But COVID misinformation persists, although it’s now centered mostly on vaccines and vaccine-related conspiracy theories. [emphasis added] PolitiFact has published more than 2,000 fact checks related to COVID vaccines alone. “From a misinformation researcher perspective, [there has been] shifting levels of trust,” said Tara Kirk Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Early on in the pandemic, there was a lot of: ‘This isn’t real,’ fake cures, and then later on, we see more vaccine-focused mis- and disinformation and a more partisan type of disinformation and misinformation.” ... on social media and in some public officials’ remarks, misinformation about COVID vaccine efficacy and safety is common. U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [Donald Trump's current nominee to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services] has built his 2024 campaign on a movement that seeks to legitimize conspiracy theories about the vaccines. PolitiFact made that its 2023 “Lie of the Year.” [emphasis added] (more) https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-04-01/four-years-after-shelter-in-place-covid-19-misinformation-persists

'[COVID] Vaccines Have a Better Safety Profile Than Almost Any Others' May 02, 2024 "...Patients need to better understand that the role of the vaccine isn't to completely prevent COVID but to reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and death, similar to that of a flu shot. By reducing the risk for severe disease, the vaccine also reduces the risk for long COVID, a debilitating condition that's still poorly understood, has no cure, and has already caused thousands of American deaths, he said. "Botched public health messaging also allowed for misinformation to run rampant. Rare adverse events associated with the COVID vaccine have been severely overplayed and spread like wildfire on social media. "Patients need to know that like any vaccine, vaccine injury does occur, but these vaccines have a better safety profile than almost any others," said [Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a global expert on long COVID and chief of research and development at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System]. "The rewards of getting the vaccine far outweigh the risks, and patients need to understand that." Medscape https://archive.ph/BxlSZ

More of the same from nonsense, non-credible sources like Steve Kirsch... geez! VAERS death reports don’t prove COVID-19 vaccines killed hundreds of thousands, contrary to claim by Steve Kirsch Flawed reasoning: The claim that vaccine-related deaths are being underreported by a factor of 41 is based on a flawed analysis co-authored by Kirsch, using assumptions that aren’t supported by evidence. Inadequate support: An adverse event reported to VAERS doesn’t necessarily mean that the vaccine caused the issue. The VAERS database is a tool that helps identify unusual patterns that could indicate rare side effects. Determining whether the vaccine caused the event requires a much more detailed investigation beyond the total number of reports. https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/vaers-death-reports-dont-prove-covid-19-vaccines-killed-hundreds-thousands/ And a long list of bogus, disproven COVID misinformation claims promoted by Kirsch, including: Review Article By Misinformation Spreaders Misleads About mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines February 16, 2024 The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have a good safety record and have saved millions of lives. But viral posts claim the contrary, citing a recent peer-reviewed article authored by known COVID-19 misinformation spreaders and published in a controversial journal. The paper repeats previously debunked claims. ... But an article — written by misinformation spreaders who oppose COVID-19 vaccination — that claims to have reviewed the original trials and “other relevant studies” largely ignores this body of evidence. Instead, the review, which calls for a “global moratorium” on the mRNA vaccines, cites multiple flawed or criticized studies — many of which we’ve written about before — to falsely claim the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have caused “extensive, well-documented” serious adverse events and have killed nearly 14 times as many people as they saved. .... Anti-Vaccine Authors and Debunked Claims Many of the review’s authors have a history of spreading COVID-19 or vaccine misinformation. This includes Kirsch, who has repeatedly pushed the incorrect idea that the COVID-19 vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide, as well as Dr. Peter McCullough, Stephanie Seneff and Jessica Rose. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/scicheck-review-article-by-misinformation-spreaders-misleads-about-mrna-covid-19-vaccines/ And a long list of Steve Kirsch's greatest COVID misinformation hits: https://www.factcheck.org/person/steve-kirsch/ Flawed Analysis of New Zealand Data Doesn’t Show COVID-19 Vaccines Killed Millions COVID-19 Vaccines Save Lives, Are Not More Lethal Than COVID-19 Posts Falsely Claim FDA ‘Required’ to Take mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Off Market Due to Adulteration False Claim About Cause of Autism Highlighted on Pennsylvania Senate Panel Blood Transfusion Doesn’t Transfer COVID-19 Vaccine

Do you really want to know? People have strokes for all kinds of reasons, long before COVID vaccines came along, and unrelated to COVID vaccines. So studies were required to examine whether getting a COVID vaccine increased the risk of experiencing a stroke. The research found that COVID vaccines alone did NOT increase the risk of experiencing a stroke, but did find a small increased risk if the COVID vaccines were given at the same exact time as a high-dose flu vaccine, as detailed below: "On January 13, 2023, the FDA and the CDC issued a joint public communication2 about the identification of a preliminary safety signal within the Vaccine Safety Datalink surveillance system for ischemic stroke within 21 days after receipt of a COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccine for individuals 65 years of age and older. This public communication2 also specified that the safety signal indicating a potential increased risk of stroke appeared greater when the COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines (also called boosters) were given concomitantly with either a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccine than when given alone. [JAMA Network] ... To further investigate this safety signal, the FDA conducted an analysis and Lu et al3 report the results in this issue of JAMA. The analysis used data from Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older and assessed the risk of stroke after receipt of either brand of COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccine alone or when given concomitantly with a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccine. ... Among more than 5 million recipients of either brand of COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccine, the study identified 11 001 (0.20%) with a cerebrovascular outcome (nonhemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attack, or hemorrhagic stroke). The study found no increased stroke risk associated with either brand of COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccine when administered alone. The results from this large cohort are reassuring and are consistent with those reported from France5 and Israel.6 In addition, no safety signal has been issued by the European Medicines Agency.7 [emphasis added] https://iomc.org/news/13335695 Also: Study finds bivalent COVID vaccine not tied to stroke risk March 23, 2024 "Earlier this week in JAMA, researchers published data on the risk of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older in the immediate weeks following a bivalent (two-strain) COVID-19 vaccine dose, finding no significantly elevated risk during the first 6 weeks following injection." The authors found no significant association for stroke with either COVID vaccine, but same-day administration of either brand and a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccine was associated with an elevated risk of stroke. "The current study additionally found an association that was small in magnitude between stroke and administration of a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccine when the vaccine was administered without concomitant administration of either brand of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccine," the authors concluded. "This finding suggests that the observed association between vaccination and stroke in the concomitant subgroup was likely driven by a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccination.” https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-finds-bivalent-covid-vaccine-not-tied-stroke-risk

Pet ABC News: COVID-19: A look back on where the US succeeded and where we didn’t Vaccines and tests were rolled out quickly but officials also had some blunders. March 19, 2023 ... Speedy rollout of the vaccines "Experts agree that the development and rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines is one of the country's biggest successes. [emphasis added] In April 2020, the Trump administration launched "Operation Warp Speed" to fast-track the development and production of COVID-19 vaccine, providing unlimited funding and other resources to pharmaceutical companies. ... Because researchers can design mRNA vaccines more quickly than they can produce the live or weakened pathogens needed for a traditional vaccine, mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were quickly developed, tested, mass produced and delivered to the general population, preventing millions of hospitalizations and deaths, according to analyses." https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-back-us-succeeded-didnt/story?id=97577267

The development of the COVID mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna saved many millions of lives around the world, including several million in the U.S. alone, not to mention untold more who were spared from illness and hospitalization that otherwise would have cost the U.S. more than a trillion dollars in health care and other costs. If that feat isn't deserving of recognition by the U.S. government that helped spur on the development of the first mRNA COVID vaccines under Donald Trump's first presidency with Operation Warp Speed, then I don't know what is. Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths December 13, 2022 "It has been two years since the first COVID-19 vaccine was given to a patient in the United States. Since then, the U.S. has administered more than 655 million doses — 80 percent of the population has received at least one dose — with the cumulative effect of preventing more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths. The swift development of the vaccine, emergency authorization to distribute widely, and rapid rollout have been instrumental in curbing hospitalization and death, while mitigating socioeconomic repercussions of the pandemic. [emphasis added] ... We therefore used a computer model of disease transmission to estimate hospitalizations and deaths averted through the end of November 2022. The model incorporates the age-stratified demographics, risk factors, and immunological dynamics of infection and vaccination. We simulated this model to compare the observed pandemic trajectory to a counterfactual scenario without a vaccination program. See “How We Conducted This Study” at the end of this post for further details on our methods. Findings From December 2020 through November 2022, we estimate that the COVID-19 vaccination program in the U.S. prevented more than 18.5 million additional hospitalizations and 3.2 million additional deaths. Without vaccination, there would have been nearly 120 million more COVID-19 infections. The vaccination program also saved the U.S. $1.15 trillion (Credible Interval: $1.10 trillion–$1.19 trillion) (data not shown) in medical costs that would otherwise have been incurred. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations

Interesting if any others can chime in on this: The Thai wife (who has a company job) and I have been married for more than a decade after legally registering our marriage at the amphur office. In all that time, I've never worked in Thailand and never done any wire transfers of foreign funds into Thailand. Also never filed for a Thai tax ID, although one Thai bank where I keep my Immigration retirement extension deposit has for some years been deducting a 15% tax debit from my modest Thai interest earnings. My Thai wife told me tonight (news to me) that for some years, my name automatically pops up each year when she goes to file her Thai taxes using the Revenue Department's website. Their system recognizes me by name as her husband (she claims she never volunteered that info, with her believing the RD system is somehow linked in with the government's marriage records), and their online system each year asks her to fill in my passport number, year of birth, nationality, and a few other details. The wife also says the RD website asks in Thai if I work in Thailand, to which she correctly answers NO... Once she answers NO to that question, she said she completes her own Thai tax filing for her own job without any further info required/requested about me.

Those responses above would be pretty identical to those that I believe would apply in my situation, except for mine being a different home country from yours. Interestingly, the Integrity Legal guy's general advice as listed above is that most people who don't already have one should NOT run out to get a Thai Tax number because of all this B.S., because (in his opinion) doing so exposes the person to potential claims of tax liability that might not ever be raised in the absence of a voluntary Thai Tax ID application filing.

Getting a kick lately where the head of the local law firm Integrity Legal (a U.S. attorney who says he's a naturalized Thai citizen) has been posting repeated YT videos saying that many of the expat "tax advisors" giving tax advice to foreigners here are violating Thai law in doing so. And that most expat retirees here, emphasis on his use of the term "most", shouldn't be impacted at all by the recent Revenue Department directives. And advising against everyone running out to file for obtaining a Thai Tax ID number. Examples:

02/07/2024 NewsGuard Reports More Than 300 Vaccine-Related False Narratives Now Spreading Online Nearly four years since the outbreak of COVID-19 — and amidst a constant stream of false claims about vaccine efficacy — NewsGuard reports that there are now more than 300 vaccine-related false narratives infecting social media and online search results (February 7, 2024 — New York) Health misinformation site Natural News (NewsGuard Trust Score: 5/100) reports that elderberries are more effective protection against flu than a vaccine. The National Vaccine Information Center (Trust Score: 12.5/100) cites research claiming measles vaccines cause measles. U.K-based Principia-Scientific (Trust Score: 20/100) claims COVID-19 vaccines contain monkey DNA. These are among the now more than 300 vaccine-related false narratives that NewsGuard’s healthcare information team has identified circulating on the internet, shared by 4,387 websites and other news sources and social media accounts — and counting. Two thirds of all the news and information websites that NewsGuard has rated as untrustworthy since 2018 publish healthcare misinformation. [emphasis added] “The vaccine-related false narratives we’ve found don’t just reflect the spike in conversations about vaccines since the pandemic,” said John Gregory, health editor at NewsGuard. “Long before COVID-19, people made all kinds of questionable statements about vaccines, related to autoimmune diseases, infertility, cardiac arrest and other health topics. In fact, 67% of news sites rated as generally untrustworthy (below 60/100) by NewsGuard have been flagged for publishing health misinformation, making it one of the largest categories of misinformation we track.” (more) https://www.newsguardtech.com/press/newsguard-reports-more-than-300-vaccine-related-false-narratives-now-spreading-online/

Meanwhile, in the real world of COVID vaccine decision-making: Fall Covid-19 vaccine provides additional protection Jan. 3, 2025 "The first data on the effectiveness of this fall’s 2024-2025 Covid-19 vaccine is in, and it’s looking good! A preprint was released on patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Scientists tallied the number of people who did (and did not) have Covid-19 from September- November 2024 and whether they got this fall’s Covid-19 vaccine (specifically the Pfizer 2024-2025 KP.2 formula). Among 44,598 infections, the Covid-19 vaccine reduces: Hospitalizations by 68% Emergency department and urgent care visits by 57%, and Outpatient visits by 56% The vaccine worked best for those over 65 years old. This study is very preliminary (it only covered two months with little Covid-19 transmission), but the findings aren’t surprising—they are generally consistent with what scientists have found in previous years." https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-dose-january-3 "Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) reaches more than 295,000 people in over 132 countries with one goal: “translate” the ever-evolving public health science so that people feel well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions." "My name is Dr. Katelyn Jetelina. I have a Masters in Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I am an epidemiologist, data scientist, wife, and mom to two little girls. During the day, I wear many hats, including scientific consultant to a number of organizations, including CDC." https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/about

More content from the OP poster's stable of nonsense content. Looking for COVID expertise, turn to: James Edward Taylor @jamesedwardtaylor Freethinker, heart breaker, dream maker, love taker. We must escape the Cave. Who's with me? https://substack.com/@jamesedwardtaylor You wanna rely on COVID advice from this guy:

COVID vaccine driven excess deaths? Fraid not! The author above is part of the Rupert Murdoch right-wing News Corp. clan, and one who among his various anti-vax screeds previously posted a misleading report (echoed by others similar like the Daily Telegraph and GB News) falsely claiming that COVID vaccines may have led to a rise in excess deaths in Europe -- a claim that was promptly refuted and debunked by the journal that published the study in question, and many other sources: His prior misinfo on COVID vaccines: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/covid-vaccines-may-have-contributed-to-rise-in-excess-deaths-researchers-suggest/news-story/cdf3a64c434c29a8ebc3215ab3aa335b And the response from the journal where the subject study, that Chung misrepresented, was published: The graphic below included in the above linked forum post:

Excerpts of a recap of COVID vaccine safety issues from the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities: "The fact that a medical event has been reported as a suspected side effect does not mean that the vaccine caused it. Anyone can report a suspected side effect, including members of the public and healthcare professionals. Regulators constantly analyse these reports to see if there may be a causal link with the vaccine. They do this by comparing the rate of a medical event in vaccinated people with the rate of the event in the population before the pandemic and before vaccination. As part of this robust and continuous safety monitoring, regulators also consider any other available evidence such as evidence from studies. Most of the time, reported suspected side effects are not caused by the medicine concerned. ... Reports of deaths following vaccination are very rare. During mass vaccination campaigns, when millions of people are being vaccinated, it is expected that some deaths will occur by chance shortly after vaccination. The fact that deaths are reported after vaccination does not mean that the vaccine caused them. Healthcare professionals can report any death that occurs following vaccination, even if it is unknown whether the vaccine was the cause. In very exceptional cases, deaths have been reported to be caused by the vaccines*1. *1 One example is ‘thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome’ with adenoviral vector COVID-19 vaccines ... ICMRA strongly supports the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and their benefits in protecting people of all ages from the severe consequences of COVID-19." "About ICMRA ICMRA brings together 38 medicines regulatory authorities from every region in the world, with the WHO as an observer." https://icmra.info/drupal/strategicinitiatives/vaccines/safety_statement

I'll wait for some credible source, instead of a documented misinformer, to address the issue: https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer/search/Berenson;hl=en;cropx0=0;cropx1=1;cropy0=0;cropy1=1

Fall Covid-19 vaccine provides additional protection Jan. 3, 2025 "The first data on the effectiveness of this fall’s 2024-2025 Covid-19 vaccine is in, and it’s looking good! A preprint was released on patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Scientists tallied the number of people who did (and did not) have Covid-19 from September- November 2024 and whether they got this fall’s Covid-19 vaccine (specifically the Pfizer 2024-2025 KP.2 formula). Among 44,598 infections, the Covid-19 vaccine reduces: Hospitalizations by 68% Emergency department and urgent care visits by 57%, and Outpatient visits by 56% The vaccine worked best for those over 65 years old. This study is very preliminary (it only covered two months with little Covid-19 transmission), but the findings aren’t surprising—they are generally consistent with what scientists have found in previous years." https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-dose-january-3 "Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) reaches more than 295,000 people in over 132 countries with one goal: “translate” the ever-evolving public health science so that people feel well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions." "My name is Dr. Katelyn Jetelina. I have a Masters in Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I am an epidemiologist, data scientist, wife, and mom to two little girls. During the day, I wear many hats, including scientific consultant to a number of organizations, including CDC." https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/about

The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson. The Atlantic April 1, 2021 ... "The vaccines have inspired his most troubling comments. For the past few weeks on Twitter, Berenson has mischaracterized just about every detail regarding the vaccines to make the dubious case that most people would be better off avoiding them. As his conspiratorial nonsense accelerates toward the pandemic’s finish line, he has proved himself the Secretariat of being wrong: ... Usually, I would refrain from lavishing attention on someone so blatantly incorrect. But with vaccine resistance hovering around 30 percent of the general population, and with 40 percent of Republicans saying they won’t get a shot, debunking vaccine skepticism, particularly in right-wing circles, is a matter of life and death. ... Their hesitancy is being fanned by right-wing hacks, Fox News showboats, and vaccine skeptics like Alex Berenson. The case for the vaccines is built upon a firm foundation of scientific discovery, clinical-trial data, and real-world evidence. The case against the vaccines wobbles because it is built upon a steaming pile of bull<deleted>." https://archive.ph/u2jjV

"In May 2020, Fox News announced that Berenson would host a TV show called COVID Contrarian on its online streaming platform Fox Nation. However, by July 2020, amid surges in coronavirus cases across parts of the United States, Fox News appeared to have backtracked and removed the announcement of his show from its website.[30] In 2021, Berenson tweeted that COVID-19 vaccinations had led to 50 times more adverse effects than flu vaccine. PolitiFact rated the claim "mostly false".[12] The Atlantic called him "The pandemic's wrongest man", owing to what they termed his "dangerously, unflaggingly, and superlatively wrong" claims of the vaccine's ineffectiveness.[10] On January 25, 2022, Berenson appeared on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight declaring that existing mRNA vaccines are "dangerous and ineffective" against COVID-19, and further demanding that they be withdrawn from the market immediately.[31] The Washington Post's Philip Bump denounced Carlson for "inviting Berenson on, despite his proven track record of misinformation and cherry-picking" and observed that "Berenson's claims went unchallenged."[32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Berenson#COVID-19_pandemic

Another typical nonsense source: Alex Berenson, 'Pandemic's Wrongest Man' Suspended Permanently From Twitter Published Aug 29, 2021 Conservative commentator and vaccine skeptic Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter after he reportedly violated the social media giant's COVID-19 misinformation rules. Berenson, dubbed "the pandemic's wrongest man" by the Atlantic in April, was removed from Twitter on Saturday following "repeated violations." A statement sent to NBC News regarding Berenson's permanent suspension read: "The account you referenced (Berenson's) has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules." https://www.newsweek.com/alex-berenson-pandemics-wrongest-man-suspended-permanently-twitter-1624050 And a long list of Berenson's past COVID misinformation: https://www.factcheck.org/person/alex-berenson/

Maryanne Demassi is yet another member of the loony, non-credible anti-vaxer clique: "Now, let’s look at what Maryanne Demasi has to say. I will first, however, note that she recently featured in this very blog because Peter Gøtzsche had teamed up with her, despite her long history of antivaccine propaganda, to write a review article that exaggerated the risks from COVID-19 vaccines." ... "And reference to how she lost her job as a presenter in Australia years before the pandemic: Several years ago, my successful career at the ABC came to a grinding halt after defenders of “scientific consensus” criticised several documentaries I produced, which questioned various medical orthodoxies such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, nutritional guidelines, and the over-prescription of medicines." One of her reports fear mongered about wifi and cell phone radiation..." https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2023/04/24/antivaxxers-attack-scientific-consensus-as-a-manufactured-construct/ "Peter Gøtzsche, formerly leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center, has teamed with Maryanne Demasi to write a systematic review of the “harms” of COVID-19 vaccination. Besides accepting the highly dubious methodology behind one study, their preprint is yet another example of how EBM [evidence based medicine] can be corrupted to promote antivax ideas." "I also mention that Maryanne Demasi is not a physician, although she apparently does have a PhD in rheumatology and did work for a decade at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia as a research scientist. After that, she was a TV presenter for a number of years, during which she became known as a statin denier, who falsely claimed that cholesterol and saturated fats do not contribute to heart disease and that therefore statins are ineffective in lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease—and dangerous, to boot. More recently Demasi has aligned herself firmly with the antivaccine movement. She now contributes regularly to the Brownstone Institute and is frequently cited by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s minions at Children’s Health Defense. Her Substack is full of antivax content, including the usual antivax tropes about COVID-19 and masks, and she is a big fan of Dr. Asseem Malhotra." https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2023/04/10/peter-gotzsche-is-now-officially-antivaccine/ Respectful Insolence blog: "Here, I continue my little hobby of critically examining claims made in medical science, analyzing scientific studies in the news (or that just interest me), refuting pseudoscientific claims made by quacks, cranks, and antivaxers and will hopefully continue for another 13 years." https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/about-respectful-insolence/ David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS – Managing Editor DAVID H. GORSKI, MD, PhD, FACS is Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, and faculty in the WSU Graduate Program in Cancer Biology. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/editorial-staff/david-h-gorski-md-phd-managing-editor/

McGill University Office for Science and Society 8 Jun 2024 ... "As we slide down this rabbit hole, you will see why scientists have had to write multiple 10,000-word refutations on this subject. Those of us trying to fairly explain our understanding of the science of vaccines are at a major disadvantage: we can’t simply make stuff up. ... "Take-home message: - The claim that the spike protein or its messenger RNA can be detected for weeks or months after vaccination is based on studies where fragments were barely detectable, often trillionths of a gram, which is in keeping with our understanding of biology - The fears around the wrong protein being made because the vaccine RNA has been modified is not backed up by the evidence, which shows that those wrong proteins are few and far in between and are likely destroyed by the cell like most malformed proteins we naturally produce ... - Over 13 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, with robust data showing they are overwhelmingly safe." https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-medical-critical-thinking/spikeopathy-speculative-fiction-contaminates-blood-supply Further elaboration in the full version of the linked article above. McGill University Office for Science and Society "Our office recently celebrated its 25th anniversary—25 years of, among other things, separating sense from nonsense on scientific matters."

And/or... perhaps he was trying to make/prove a point....

Here's a documented 'anecdote" on this subject: "The shots were bought and given privately within the space of 29 months. The man appears to have suffered no ill effects, researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg say."

More of the same: Not surprisingly, one of the OP's favorite sources to cite: Overall, we rate World Tribune a Questionable source based on a far-right bias (propaganda), poor sourcing, misleading science, and a lack of ownership transparency. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-tribune/

More nonsense from the usual nonsense anti-vax sources: "Mark Crispin Miller (born 6 November 1949[2] ) is a professor of media studies at New York University.[3] He has promoted conspiracy theories about U.S. presidential elections, the September 11 attacks and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. ... Anti-vaccination and COVID misinformation Miller has also screened for his students the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed, produced by disgraced[27] former physician Andrew Wakefield (who was struck off the medical register in the UK for scientific misconduct).[10][13] Miller has spread COVID-19 misinformation, including misleading claims about the efficacy of face masks and false claims that COVID-19 vaccines alter recipients' DNA,[9][28] and believes the virus may have been an artificially created bioweapon.[29] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin_Miller And on the point of internet-posted "anecdotes,," from the Associated Press: ‘Died suddenly’ posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies February 5, 2023 ... "...Anastasia was swiftly added to a growing list of hundreds of children, teens, athletes and celebrities whose unexpected deaths and injuries have been incorrectly blamed on COVID-19 shots. Using the hashtag #diedsuddenly, online conspiracy theorists have flooded social media with news reports, obituaries and GoFundMe pages in recent months, leaving grieving families to wrestle with the lies. ... Rigorous study and real-world evidence from hundreds of millions of administered shots prove that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare and the risks associated with not getting vaccinated are far higher than the risks of vaccination. But that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from lobbing a variety of untrue accusations at the vaccines. ... An AP review of more than 100 tweets from the account in December and January found that claims about the cases being vaccine related were largely unsubstantiated and, in some cases, contradicted by public information. Some of the people featured died of genetic disorders, drug overdoses, flu complications or suicide. One died in a surfing accident." https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-died-suddenly-misinformation-a8e3a80a015ba9bf78b6bd4f3c271f58