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Aug 22, 2023Liked by Modern Discontent

I have a neighbor who is in his 50's who just came down with shingles. I know an older woman who also came down with shingles. It seems to be very common now.

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One thing to remember is that shingles is rather common in older people due to immunosenescence, so it's important to consider timing of vaccination with respect to shingles outbreak. For those who experience it days after vaccination there's likely to be a strong association. Any time months or years afterward would be a more difficult to argue.

But certainly during the first few rounds of vaccinations it was rather apparent to hear of people who had evidence of shingles, so it was likely more common than it was made out to be.

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Aug 23, 2023Liked by Modern Discontent

Thanks for the info! I appreciate it! My neighbor is only in his mid-50's and has been vaccinated atleast three times, so I thought there might be a correlation, especially since he's younger.

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Aug 22, 2023·edited Aug 22, 2023Liked by Modern Discontent

What we haven't heard is a lack of outbreaks with these types of infections. And with the MSM, we'd hear about them if they were not occurring. But, crickets.

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Lack of collagen, maybe?

Dormant viruses that are triggered into pathogenicity is some Rockefeller medicine nonsense.

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How does that seem nonsensical? Anything can seem nonsensical if put into the right perspective. I mean, our whole existence is inherently nonsensical. The ability for us to communicate online in mere seconds should seem nonsensical. The argument that things seem nonsensical isn't itself a refutation of the possibility that something may be occurring.

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I just think every time there is something inexplicable within the realm of virology, one can just make up something without definitively proving it. A virus killed 27,000 extra people in NYC between March & May of 2020 before plummeting to NO excess death until the rollout of the shots? It must have briefly mutated into a more virulent version and then back to spreading silently! Evidence? Virology! Epidemiology! Science!

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Sure, but then we argue against the made-up information. It all boils down to what the evidence says. One big criticisms I have is that most people tend not to look at the evidence i.e. the primary source, but rather what other people disseminate about this primary source. One of the reasons why I have written many of the articles I have, and increasingly in juxtaposition to the narratives formed from COVID skeptics, is that many people tend not to look deeper than just the abstract or even the title, so they don't know how to parse information well. If information isn't parsed well and you pass it on to readers then they are being fed information that is either misinterpreted or flat out wrong.

We see this issue all over the place. It's not relegated to virology alone, but again most people unfortunately just want to be spoonfed information rather than taking the time to think things through.

There's plenty of problems with the scenario you presented. It may be iatrogenic, it may also be an issue of how we record deaths via not differentiating between "from" or "with". Then there's also the matter of excess deaths as well that has to take into account a slew of factors aside from just vaccines. Many people missed out on important screening procedures may have been caught with late-stage, aggressive cancers. People became more depressed, people became more obese. In general I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that people overall just became more unhealthy due to the lockdowns. It's likely that many things didn't start going "back to normal" until the vaccine rollout, so those need to be factored in along with any possible excess deaths attributed to the vaccines themselves.

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OR maybe iatrocide?

Oh, but we don't talk about a top 5 leading cause of death or the narrative managers start hurling insults. Makes you wonder, huh?

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