by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext
What the mainstream media is hiding
Suddenly severely disabled: A stroke can have dire consequences that are often irreversible. In the worst case, it kills. Preventing it is one of the best reasons for a healthy lifestyle, as the Auswege/ Ways Out Charity recommends to everyone. Does a Covid-19 “vaccination” increase the risk?
Just a moment ago, you were filling your shopping cart at the supermarket, mowing the lawn, sitting together in a cheerful group, cooking something delicious, or lounging in front of the TV. Suddenly, you feel dizzy and nauseous, and you vomit. You get a splitting headache. You can no longer feel one side of your body. You can no longer move an arm, a hand, or a leg. One corner of your mouth droops. You see double images; half of your field of vision is lost. You speak slurred and choppy, you lisp, you emphasize strangely, and you can no longer form certain sounds. Your memory is impaired. You may lose consciousness or even fall into a coma.
This is how a stroke usually manifests itself – almost always without warning, out of the blue. Sometimes only a few of the mentioned symptoms occur, very rarely none at all, but often all of them at once. In the best case, the nightmare is over after a few hours, occasionally even within minutes. Often, however, the frightening limitations persist for months, in every third case forever, despite intensive rehabilitation. Then you may be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life, paralyzed, incontinent, and blind; unable to work, helpless, constantly dependent on care; robbed of your freedom of movement as well as your dignity; with your dreams for the future destroyed, depressed, full of fear, often deeply depressed, increasingly demented.
And the sword of Damocles of the next, possibly even worse stroke is always hanging over you.
Assuming it doesn’t kill you right away. In almost one in five cases, it does so within the first year for its unsuspecting victims, in one in ten cases within the first three months, and in seven percent within the first month. (1)
Monstrous danger
The enormous extent of the danger, which healthy people prefer to ignore, is to be brought to public attention every year on October 29, International Stroke Day, at least for a brief moment. In Germany alone, around 270,000 people are affected each year – 200,000 for the first time, 70,000 again. (2) 2.5 percent of the adult population has already suffered at least one stroke – that’s one in forty. (3) Half of those affected are still over 75 years old – in this age group, over six percent have already been affected; but younger people are increasingly being affected.
At least one in five is so severely affected in the long term – five years or more – that they need support in their everyday lives. (5) This makes stroke the most common cause of disability in adulthood. (3)
Worldwide, strokes are the second leading cause of death, the third leading cause of disability, and one of the most common causes of dementia. Over the past three decades, the number of people affected has risen by around 70% to over 100 million, while the number of stroke-related deaths has grown by 43% to nearly six million. (6)
The outlook for the future is devastating: experts predict that by 2050, strokes will kill around ten million people and leave 190 million disabled. (7)
The damage? Soon to exceed $2 trillion.
This results in staggering economic damage – €17 billion per year in Germany alone. Worldwide, the estimated costs – directly through treatment and rehabilitation, indirectly through lost productivity – amounted to over $891 billion in 2017, much to the delight of rehabilitation clinic operators and manufacturers of medical aids. By 2050, this amount is expected to rise to a staggering $2.31 trillion per year.
Well over $2 trillion: Couldn’t the WHO and national health authorities use this to set up a fabulous, undoubtedly Nobel Prize-worthy action program around the globe? Nine out of ten strokes could be prevented if a health-conscious population motivated to take preventive measures avoided a few known risk factors.
To do this, they would need to understand how a stroke can occur in the first place. It mainly occurs in two forms:
– A cerebral infarction – also known as an ischemic stroke – is caused by a blockage in a blood vessel. This can be caused by a blood clot (thrombus) that has formed in the heart or carotid artery, for example, and has broken loose. It enters the cerebral vessels with the bloodstream and blocks them. Alternatively, advanced calcification can block the carotid or cerebral arteries.
– In the case of cerebral hemorrhage – also known as hemorrhagic stroke – a blood vessel in the brain bursts, usually due to high blood pressure, pathological changes in the vessel walls, or vascular malformations. Blood then leaks out and penetrates the surrounding brain tissue, sometimes also into the space between the brain and the soft meninges, which is filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
Whether blocked or ruptured, in both cases, the affected blood vessels are usually already damaged by arteriosclerosis, hardened, and narrowed by deposits. After the “stroke,” the areas of the brain behind it are no longer adequately supplied with blood, oxygen, and nutrients. Brain cells die. Depending on their size and location, various mental and physical functions are then impaired or lost.
How can it be prevented? That has long been clear.
This neurological worst-case scenario can almost always be prevented, as can a recurrence—in ways that have long been known. Simply maintaining normal blood pressure reduces the risk of stroke by 60%. (8) Good blood sugar levels also reduce it significantly; people with diabetes have a two to three times higher risk of stroke. Other important preventive measures include being physically active, drinking enough water, avoiding tobacco and alcohol, and avoiding constant negative stress caused by anxiety and worry, time pressure, and performance pressure.
Arteriosclerosis, which sooner or later narrows and clogs the blood vessels, is caused in particular by a disturbed fat metabolism, with too much LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. It is promoted by obesity, lack of exercise, and certain medications.
Above all, however, a healthy diet is important. It should be balanced and wholesome, based on the Mediterranean style. Vegetable fats reduce the risk, in contrast to animal fats, as a study of data from 117,000 test subjects over a 27-year period showed. (9) High consumption of table salt also significantly increases the risk. (10)
On the other hand, an adequate intake of potassium protects against high blood pressure. (11) Particularly rich sources of this mineral, which lowers blood pressure—while sodium raises it—are nuts, vegetables such as green beans and Brussels sprouts, potatoes, bananas, dried fruit, and whole grain products. Coffee junkies should bear in mind that caffeine draws potassium out of the body, but this can be compensated for with the right diet.
Vitamin D also appears to play a role. A lack of vitamin D increases the likelihood of a stroke, as a 2017 Indian study found. (12)
According to a Chinese study, people who drink tea regularly also reduce their risk of stroke – by as much as 20 percent. Green tea is even more effective than black tea. (13)
However, such statistical correlations can lead to premature conclusions about causality, so they should be treated with caution. Empirical research may reveal that stroke victims are significantly more likely to be single, drive a Mercedes, vacation in Italy, and own a poodle. Does this mean that health-conscious people should change their car brand, rethink their travel plans, take their poodle to a shelter, and, if single, get married as soon as possible? Even without waiting for further evidence-based research, we are on the safer side if we avoid the long-known main risk factor: the lifestyle prevalent in Western industrialized countries, which produces chronically ill people on an assembly line.
Where is a preventive health culture?
The example of stroke illustrates the glory and misery of conventional medicine. On the one hand, it succeeds in detecting an increased risk at an early stage: by measuring blood pressure, in blood tests, using ultrasound—especially of the carotid arteries to detect narrowing— as well as with an ECG to determine whether atrial fibrillation is present. (Because the heart no longer pumps blood properly due to irregular, too rapid atrial contractions, it can accumulate in the left atrium and form a clot, which may then be transported further until it gets stuck in a cerebral artery and triggers a stroke.) Modern medical equipment such as CT and MRI scans can precisely determine the extent of the neurological damage caused. Those affected can count themselves lucky for every minute they spend in the care of the stroke unit of a well-equipped clinic. And if their symptoms subside quickly, they owe this primarily to proven rehabilitation facilities, measures, and aids.
On the other hand, the vast majority would not have found themselves in this terrible predicament in the first place if they had grown up in a health culture that prioritizes personal responsibility for staying healthy and prevention over costly overdiagnosis and treatment. Occasional appeals, press releases, and one of what feels like ten thousand anniversaries, coinciding with World Psoriasis Day (also on October 29) and somewhere between Intersex Awareness Day (October 26) and the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Violence (October 30), is far from enough. We need medicine that doesn’t just kick in after health has been lost. It should aim to prevent this loss – a key concern of my Auswege foundation.
The wisest of all medical fee schedules was created at least two and a half millennia ago. According to the world’s oldest medical textbook, the Huangdi Neijing, a doctor in China received his full remuneration only as long as all members of the clan to which he was assigned remained healthy. If someone fell ill, his fee was reduced, if not canceled. If this type of doctor were still prevalent today, how many strokes would there be in this country?
And how many fewer would there have been, especially since the end of 2020?
Stroke-inducing “jab”?
A 21-year-old firefighter is dying of a brain hemorrhage three days after his second Pfizer mRNA injection. Four days after his second Covid “vaccination,” a 23-year-old man is found dead in his bathtub in July 2021. Two days after her third Comirnaty injection, a 17-year-old girl from Vienna dies of a brain aneurysm. All three were apparently in perfect health beforehand. 1288 similar fates after Covid-19 “jabs” can be found in the archive of the portal impfopfer.info.
The general public knows virtually nothing about this. As if on cue, most mainstream media outlets continue to spread a cloak of silence over the issue: Just like nerve damage, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and heart disease, strokes have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 “vaccination” campaign with mRNA injections began. Even the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), otherwise notorious for spreading fake news and downplaying the risks, felt compelled to sound a small alarm in January 2023: They reported a noticeable increase in strokes among older US citizens after they received “Comirnaty,” the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech. The risk was increased by almost 50% in the first three weeks after the “jab.” (14) However, this “safety signal” was unfortunately only noticed now by the VSD (Vaccine Safety Datalink), a CDC project for monitoring vaccine side effects; fortunately, however, it does not appear in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a reporting system that has been in place since 1990 with several hundred thousand case reports, nor in the databases of other countries and those of Pfizer-BioNTech – a blatant lie.
On the other hand, a research review published in June 2022 brings bad news for those vaccinated against COVID-19: it confirms an increased risk of stroke. (15) A British study published in the journal Nature in November 2022 sees the reason for this in the fact that the vaccine exacerbates known risk factors for ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes: blood clotting, high blood pressure, and low platelet counts—below 150,000 per microliter (µl) is considered “thrombocytopenia.” These occur more frequently in Covid vaccine recipients than in the general population. (16)
Data from England, the US, and Norway have reportedly refuted these fears (17), and the World Health Organization was quick to give the all-clear. (“The best evidence is that there is no true association.”) Fact checkers immediately refuted the “fake news,” of course. (18) As if on cue, mainstream media outlets have recently begun spreading the message that SARS-CoV-2 infection poses a much higher risk of stroke (19) – and that vaccination protects (!) against it. (20) To embellish the statistics, those affected are summarily declared “unvaccinated” as long as they have not yet received the second dose; this allows those who are affected after the first dose to be sorted out.
A rarely cited study from the UK underscores how justified the concern is. It covered 29.1 million people over the age of 16 who had received a Covid “vaccine” dose between December 1, 2020, and April 24, 2021; 19.6 million had received the AstraZeneca vaccine, 9.5 million had received the Pfizer vaccine. In the following month, 112,711 had to be hospitalized due to thromboembolism—vascular occlusion caused by blood clots, a major cause of strokes—and 8,404 died. Another 28,222 vaccinated individuals had already suffered an ischemic stroke – 4,204 did not survive. Mind you: within the first four weeks. And after that?
What thousands upon thousands of vaccine victims and their relatives, caregivers, and doctors are reporting on social media confirms the connection: shortly after receiving the mRNA injection, there were massive numbers of strokes and cerebral hemorrhages, thromboses, and embolisms. (21)
But hasn’t the number of deaths from stroke been declining slightly for some time? Even in 2021 and 2022, there were slightly fewer than in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. (22) However, this trend is more likely to indicate that those affected are receiving faster and better emergency care—and are therefore surviving more often. The absolute number of cases, on the other hand—as well as cases of myo- and pericarditis, heart attacks and cardiac arrests, thromboses and embolisms of all kinds—have skyrocketed since the start of mass vaccinations, with more and more younger people being affected. Emergency calls are increasing massively, emergency rooms are overcrowded, as are aftercare facilities.
At the Berlin Fire Department, the number of recorded emergency calls under the keywords “stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA)” rose by 27.4 percent in 2021 to a total of 13,096, compared to the average figures for 2018/2019. “Such rates of increase need to be explained,” commented a spokesperson for the fire department community. “However, for 2021, another unknown factor seems to have been added, which significantly amplifies the previous increase. “ In addition, a comparison of age groups shows that ”the highest rates of increase are occurring in age groups that are not generally considered vulnerable to COVID-19.”
Of Germany’s approximately 1,100 rehabilitation facilities, 269 also treat stroke patients. (23) For those affected, finding a free aftercare place there is a test of patience, as a 67-year-old acquaintance of mine experienced after he suffered a stroke in mid-October 2023. While he was in intensive care, the hospital called all the rehabilitation facilities in the surrounding area to find out which one could take him in. Without exception, they were all full to capacity. It was only over a hundred kilometers further north that a free rehabilitation bed was finally found for him.
Scientists are increasingly revealing what is behind this. After a COVID-19 vaccination, cells begin to produce vast amounts of spike proteins. These can form amyloid-like substances that can arrange themselves into narrow, thread-like intertwined structures, as Swedish researchers have discovered. (24) This can lead to blood clots. (25) In addition, S1—a part of the spike protein—stimulates the production of fibrin. (26) This, in turn, is resistant to fibrinolysis, the body’s own process of dissolving blood clots. Microclumps also form in this way. Woe betide if they migrate to the brain.
Prof. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, a specialist in microbiology and infectious epidemiology and former head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, takes a particularly pessimistic view. He fears that a large proportion, if not all, of those who receive mRNA “shots” will develop a more or less pronounced blood clotting disorder.
How so? When injected into the muscle, the vaccine gene packets do not remain there, as health authorities and manufacturers initially led us to believe. First, the mRNA particles migrate to the lymph nodes, then they enter the bloodstream, reaching even the smallest vessels, including the capillaries in the brain. They accumulate primarily where the blood flows most slowly and are absorbed by the endothelial cells that line the vascular system like wallpaper. These cells then begin to produce spike proteins—and, together with waste products from protein synthesis, transport them out into the bloodstream. As soon as they come into contact with platelets, the white blood cells, blood clotting is activated. Bhakdi cites two doctors who examined the blood of all their vaccinated patients before and after the injection. One of them reportedly found activation of blood clotting in one in three patients, the other in as many as 100 percent.
A person in perfect health may survive the injected stress unscathed – but for someone with metabolic syndrome and blood vessels already damaged by arteriosclerosis, it could be the proverbial last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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Remarks
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14 CDC & FDA identify preliminary COVID-19 vaccine safety signal for persons aged 65 years and older. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Letzter Zugang: 19.6.23. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/bivalent-boosters.html
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18 https://www.factcheck.org/2021/12/no-credible-evidence-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-dramatically-increase-heart-attack-risk-contrary-to-flawed-abstract/; https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccines-excessdeaths-idUSL1N3490M3
19 https://www.healthline.com/health/stroke/stroke-after-covid-vaccine; https://www.healthline.com/health/stroke/covid-and-stroke; https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2022/11/14/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-strokes/; https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/stroke-after-covid-vaccine
20 https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20230223/vaccination-reduces-post-covid-heart-attack-stroke-risk; https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2794753
21 Z.B. Impfopfer.info (aktuell 57.000 Mitglieder; s. auch das aufschlussreiche Archiv von Schadensfällen https://www.impfopfer.info/archive/impfopfer-archiv/gehirn/), Impfschäden Schweiz Coronaimpfung (26.000), Corona Impfschäden Deutschland (14.000), CovidVaccineVictims (89.000), CovidVaccineInjuries (57.000), CovidVaccVictims (3.100).
22 https://www.it.nrw/2019-starben-nrw-drei-prozent-weniger-menschen-durch-schlaganfaelle-als-ein-jahr-zuvor-17345; https://www.it.nrw/nrw-zwei-prozent-weniger-todesfaelle-durch-schlaganfall-im-jahr-2021-120767
23 Nach https://schlaganfallbegleitung.de/verzeichnis/, abgerufen am 6.11.2023
24 Sofie Nyström/Per Hammarström: “Amyloidogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein”, Jiurnalof the American Chemical Society 144 (20) 17. Mai 2022, S. 8945-8950, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c03925]
25 Yi Zheng u.a.: “SARS-CoV-2 spike protein causes blood coagulation and thrombosis by competitive binding to heparan sulfate”, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 193, Teil B, 15. Dezember 2021, S. 1124-1129, https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ijbiomac.2021.10.112
26 Lize Grobbelaar u.a.: “SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 induces fibrin(ogen) resistant to fibrinolysis: implications for microclot formation in COVID-19”, Bioscience Reports 41 (8) 27. August 2021, doi.org/10.1042/BSR20210611
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