Jeff Childers

The Hill ran an unintentionally hilarious bit of backfiring pharma propaganda yesterday while desperately trying to short up Pfizer’s stock, capped with a blithely ironic and self-parodying headline, “Why do I feel sick after getting the flu shot, COVID booster?”

The answer to the headline’s rhetorical question suggests itself. Because it MAKES you sick, that’s why. But that article was even funnier than that and ultimately could even have been a stealth anti-jab piece. Sadly for the Hill, to maintain credibility it was forced to use all kinds of weasel language, and admit some uncomfortable facts, since everyone now knows the shots are perfectly awful, and their ever-waning efficacy can only be detected using the Hubble Telescope on a good day.

The article starts by answering its headlined question — by posing another question, presumably something that dark government propagandists surfaced in some CIA focus group. The Hill thinks some folks might be wondering why they get sick after the shots, but not their friends, who brag on social media they didn’t even need a band-aid or have a sore arm.

This will shock you. But the simple answer to the puzzle of why the shots make some people sick but not others is: they have no idea. The establishment scientists, once so confident about everything covid and 100% sure about the safety and efficacy of the jabs, now find themselves suddenly and regretfully helpless as vaccine-injured babies.

It’s an enigmatic mystery, a riddle deeper than the Sphinx:

Unfortunately, there is no scientific explanation as to why some people experience side effects and others don’t, explained Dr. Rachel Scheraga, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Cleveland Clinic.
It’s unfortunate!

As if we all haven’t heard it a hundred times now, their ridiculous lie is that the shots are working when they give you symptoms of the disease — but the benefit is it’s not the actual disease. It’s kind of like taking the polio shot and becoming paralyzed. The good thing is you weren’t really paralyzed by polio, not per se. Your frigid, motionless body proves the polio shot is working.

Of course, here in the real world, on Planet Earth, we perceive that the symptoms are just what we are trying to avoid. The pro-pharma scientists’ finer distinctions about degrees of severity are quite lost on most of us, which may be part of the reason uptake is only 2%.

Or, it could be all the side effects they are willing or required to admit at this point. I collected all the following side-effect sentences from the single article. Compare what the short article admits about the downsides versus what it claims about the upsides. Here’s the downside:

Feeling a bit under the weather after getting the flu vaccine or COVID booster is OK.
The CDC notes that you may experience soreness, redness, or swelling where you got either shot for a few days. You could have some flu-like symptoms afterward. That includes a headache, a fever, nausea, muscle aches, fatigue, and potentially fainting.
Those who receive their newest COVID booster shots may experience a number of symptoms, including tiredness, headache, muscle and joint pains, chills, fever, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness, irritability, swollen lymph nodes, and generally feeling unwell.
Your symptoms from either vaccine should last hours to days, according to Dr. Scheraga. If you have a fever, headache, or respiratory symptoms for longer than a day or so, she recommends seeking medical attention.
Another serious but rare side effect to be aware of is Guillian-Barré Syndrome. Seen in the face and sometimes other parts of the body, Dr. Althoff says GBS can occasionally cause temporary paralysis.
You can get the flu vaccine and COVID booster at the same time, but you may want to do it when you know you’ll have some free time, in case you do experience side effects.

Boy, that sounds great! I can’t wait to encounter all those risks. But let’s look at the glass half-full. Here are all the weakly-worded sentences about the benefits of the shots:

It doesn’t mean you can’t get sick… But, those who receive the vaccine are less likely to become seriously ill or die from an infection than those who are not vaccinated.
“It’s about making sure that you’re not becoming so seriously ill that you’re hospitalized. That is our first and foremost priority, that we can avoid severe illness,” she says, adding that the COVID vaccines and boosters have also been found to reduce a person’s risk of being hospitalized or becoming seriously ill.
Haha, that’s it, that’s the whole thing. And even though the so-called doctor claimed the shots “make sure” you don’t get seriously ill, the Hill immediately followed that quote clarifying the shots only “reduce a person’s risk” of getting seriously ill. You might have to look at it twice to notice what they did there, but a reader’s subconscious easily notes the discrepancy.

They wrote a whole pro-jab article and those few sentences were all they could stitch together to try to sell us on the damned things. They can’t say it will keep you from catching covid or the flu. They can’t say it will help create herd immunity. They can’t even say it will stop you from getting very sick or dying. The best they got is it will “reduce your risk” of getting sick or dying. They can’t even say by how much. It will reduce your risk by a mysterious, unknown and unknowable amount.

I think this might be why booster uptake is only 2%.