Quote:Covid 19 vaccines and the misinterpretation of perceived side effects clarity on the safety of vaccines

This brief review will offer data that may demonstrate that misinformation perpetuated by the anti-vaccination movement may be causing more deaths and side effects from any vaccine.

A mini review of published literature has been conducted and found that mental stress clearly causes vasoconstriction and arterial constriction of the blood vessels. 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. 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. 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.

This paper does not aim to rule in or out every side effect seen, but it is highly likely that many apparent side effects seen shortly after a subject has received a vaccine could be the result of restricted or congested blood flow from blood vessel or arterial constriction caused by emotional distress or placebo based on fear around vaccines.

Quote:Died Suddenly

SIR,-The phrase "died suddenly" occurs with conspicuous frequency in the obituary notices which you publish weekly in the B.M.J. and a similar phrase "after a short illness" is also seen very often. To many of your readers, particularly the older ones, the obituary pages of the B.M.J. are of special interest and most of us have noticed the amount of suddenly fatal illnesses in our profession. I have just finished surveying the obituary notices of the past year (1970) and my findings may be of some interest to others. For my purpose I divided the profession into three groups: (1) general practitioners; (2) consultants and specialists; (3) "other ranks"-administrators, public health, the services, etc. I divided the modes of death into three groups also: (1) sudden deaths; (2) short illnesses; (3) other causes.

The total number of obituary notices was 449 and in 126 of these the deceased had "died suddenly" (28%). There were 158 general practitioners, of whom 51 died suddenly (32%) and 14 died after a short illness. There were 193 consultants and specialists, of whom 57 died suddenly (29%) and 21 died after a short illness. There were 98 other ranks, of whom 18 died suddenly (18%) and 8 died after a short illness.

Although this small survey makes no pretence to be statistically exact, the differences between the three groups seem to be very much what one would expect. Is it possible that those members of our profession who achieve the distinction of an obituary notice in the B.M.J. are likely to have lived a more stressful life than their colleagues who have not been so distinguished, or do these high ratios of sudden death apply equally to the profession as a whole?

A more cheerful point which I also noted was that among the 449 cases there were 15 who lived to be 91 and over, including one of 100 and one of 101. -I am, etc.,

W. CAMERON DAVIDSON

Died Suddenly