Placebo Kills (and Saves?)
Can psychosomatic effects be blamed for both covid and myocarditis?
Mind over matter, baby. Mind over matter. Use the Force, Luke. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
I’m so glad we have finally embraced the power of our thoughts. I hope that this will be applied to more than just a impotent, self-mockery gaslighting piece though.
What am I talking about?
This…
What worries me even more is that there are people that actually believe this stuff; and ridiculously, believe it only in self-serving selective situations.
My subheading might seem a bit hyperbolic but it actually aligns with the author’s stated beliefs.
Raymond Palmer, who is Chief Science Officer of Full Spectrum Biologics, has written this piece that is lacking in its scientifically and logical rigour but, even more so, in its ethical stance. That isn’t a surprise when you look his company up. Here is their website:
Yup, that’s the whole thing, no menu, no other webpages, nothing. It’s essentially a weak landing page.
Whatever. Let’s get to his main claim.
Here it is:
It seems that the age of believing the victim - which was prominently promoted through the "Me Too movement - has been flipped on its head. In the case of covid vaccine injuries, medical professionals (and others) who are supposedly champions of mitigating harm and healing the injured have become masters of gaslighting.
For those who aren’t clear on what gaslighting is, it isn’t fart lighting. While there seems to be a connection in the quality of these behaviors, gaslighting is more harmful to others while fart lighting is a greater threat to oneself.
Fart lighting also known as pyroflatulence, or flatus ignition is the practice of igniting the gases produced by flatulence.
Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone so as to make them question their own reality.1
It is typically found in the abusive behavior of narcissists. These types seem to be in no short supply these days in the roles of politicians, bureaucrats, and public health officials.
I digress… sort of.
Let’s get back to the claim and break it down sentence by sentence.
“A mini review of published literature has been conducted and found that mental stress clearly causes vasoconstriction and arterial constriction of the blood vessels.”
A “mini review” literally means: I cherry-picked a few studies, generalized, speculated, and made assumptions from that. In other words, it is lazy, lacks rigour, and is inappropriate to establish anything credible.
The rest of the sentence is fine. Stress can cause a narrowing of veins and arteries. This happens every day to everyone multiple times. It is a part of having a vascular system.
Next…
“Therefore, if subjects are panicked, concerned, stressed or scared of the vaccination, their arteries will constrict and become smaller in and around the time of receiving the vaccine.”
Yup. So what?
Again, this claim must be true of a variety of things that cause panic, concern, stress or fear. Does this mean anytime this kind of stimulus is present people have physiological reactions that present similarly to vaccine adverse events?
“This biological mechanism (the constriction of veins, arteries and vessels under mental stress) is the most likely cause for where there has been blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, dizziness, fainting, blurred vision, loss of smell and taste that may have been experienced shortly after vaccine administration.”
Ray Ray claims this is “the most likely cause for blood clots, strokes, heart attacks… loss of smell and taste”! Whadafuq?!
Again, if this was the case, then how many other mental stressors would be causing acute responses like this?
Have you ever felt stress? I’m sure. I have. Have you ever lost your sense of smell and taste after that stressful episode? Yeah, I don’t think that is too common.
Yes, stress is a risk factor for strokes and heart attacks, but how often do we see this within demographics that do not already have multiple risk factors like age, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, etc..
The next line is the icing on the cake though.
“The extreme mental stress of the patient could most likely be attributed to the fear mongering and scare tactics used by various anti-vaccination groups.”
Well, well, well, its the anti-vaxxers’ fear mongering that is to blame.
If fear mongering was to blame, we wouldn’t need to look any further than the media and public health authorities with their hyper-sensationalist doom and gloom headlines streaming in 24/7 and the daily announcements of deaths, hospitalizations, and cases.
Hey Ray Ray, how many people has Fauci killed with his apocalyptic pronouncements?
How about the CNN anchors?
The NYT and WaPo must be getting up there with Pol Pot and Stalin.
What ya smoking, Ray Ray?
Funny because the other company named Full Spectrum Biologics - which had the first hit on my search engine - was this:
It is a much nicer, more informative, and professional website than Ray’s.
(Yeah, I know you cannot get high on hemp-based CBD but don’t tell Ray Ray because he will claim that the thought of getting high makes CBD psychoactive.)
Hey, maybe Ray is right. If fear mongering can cause all these conditions - including loss of smell and taste - maybe the media, the politicians, the bureaucrats, and public health are responsible for all the covid symptoms and deaths.
Hmmm….
Seriously though, do young people, youth, children, and elite athletes suffer heart attacks and strokes regularly due to mental stress?
Well, take a look at this…2
And this…3
These data are all coming from Public Health England (PHE) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is reporting it.
The data shared with their paper shows a dramatic rise in non-COVID-19 mortality rate in those vaccinated more than 21 days earlier with a first dose, beginning in April 2021 and escalating rapidly in May 2021. Although some 18 and 19 year olds may have received a second dose in August, the majority (78% according to week 38 reported data) of the vaccinated 12-17 year population have received only a first dose. Therefore they would be largely in the category of “vaccinated more than 21 days earlier with a first dose”. The age adjusted mortality rate for this group reached levels 60% higher than the peak mortality rate for unvaccinated people during the winter.4
There is plenty more alarming data about spiking excessive mortality in younger demographics.
Does this lead to a conclusion that the vaccines are killing everyone who died?
No, but it begs for further investigation.
It is also quite damning in how public health has dealt with this “pandemic”. Remember, public health is meant to be about total harm minimization. If we have significant excess deaths regardless of whether they are vaccine related, then there is sufficient justification to claim, they have failed at their job.
This should make my point even clearer.
“OneAmerica insurance company CEO Scott Davison revealed that they had witnessed ‘the highest death rates in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica’ with a jump of ‘40% over what they were pre-pandemic.‘ Interestingly, Davison noted that the majority of deaths are not classified as due to Covid-19.”5
This unprecedented rise in mortality is for the 18-64 year old demographic. Let’s add a few key observations:
Mortality worsened in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations
A spike in Mortality among younger, working-age individuals coincided with vaccine mandates
The spike in younger deaths peaked in Q3 2021 when Covid deaths were extremely low (but rising into the end of September)
So, again, I think Ray Ray is grasping at straws and ignoring some glaring data.
I don’t doubt that mental stress is up, but how often do we see a pitcher, goalie, tennis player, etc. go down in the midst of a high pressure situation?
Watch this segment with Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist and an expert in the matter.
To be honest, I do think the mind and our emotional state can play a significant role in our physical health and even bring about acute reactions. However, dismissing thousands of cases of serious adverse events in healthy young people as solely being attributable to mental stress seems irrational, unscientific and insulting to these victims.
I would add that the majority of the people who received the vaccine early on were extremely eager and confident in its efficacy and safety, so they would not have been experiencing panic in anticipation of a vaccine adverse event. Remember, they told us time and time again it was 95% effective and completely safe.
If you’d like to revisit these claims and there merits, you can read my article Being Pfollowed and Pfressured. There is also a nice video linked in my article New World Orders showing the waning efficacy in media claims over time.
The CDC data that has been revealed through the use of the FOIA by ICAN has shown that over 3M people reported on the new CDC app, V-Safe, serious adverse events. These were all early vaccinees. In other words, they were more than happy to race ahead to get it. I do not think they fall in Ray Ray’s description of “scared by anti-vaxxer fear mongering”.
What I do think we can take away from Ray Ray’s paper is that we would do well to tamper down our fear and stress by redirecting it and finding healthy outlets to manage it.
Whether these potentially destructive emotions are coming from engaging with the mainstream narrative or those concerned about this chapter in human history, we can strive to both pay attention rather than bury our heads in the sand AND take steps to be grateful for what we have, be responsible for our personal health, and shine for others.
If the mind is truly powerful enough to cause a heart attack, can we not use this power to cause a heart celebration?
https://dictionary.apa.org/gaslight
https://www.hartgroup.org/recent-deaths-in-young-people-in-england-and-wales/
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland
https://www.hartgroup.org/recent-deaths-in-young-people-in-england-and-wales/
https://archive.vn/r5odG