My reasons for not getting the infamous Covid-19 vax were outlined in this 2021 post, Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life.

I was relatively young (certainly nowhere near the at-risk demographic), healthy, flu-exposed, and doubtful that the C-19 vax would be any more effective than the normal flu vaccines that I’d rejected for thirty years. Also I knew that corona viruses were tough to combat due to their often not hitting the immune systems at all, re-producing fast in the nose and the lungs to spread to other humans and then fading fast – as well as mutating quickly, leaving vaccines to catch up. And by the time I wrote that in June, as the Labour government belatedly started to try and catch up on vaccinations, it was quite obvious that the vaccination wasn’t stopping people from catching the disease (the term “breakthrough infections” didn’t last long as the numbers of them rapidly rose) or spreading it to others, which is a big fail for a “vaccine”. At best you could say that it was a viral therapy that would probably stop you getting very sick, a key factor for old people most at risk.

What I didn’t say at the time was that I also suspected I’d already caught the bug, either in Italy in late 2019 or back in NZ in January 2020: in both cases it was the sniffles but also some mild joint pain which is the indicator of flu. In both cases I was fine after 24 hours and some Nurofen. So I figured I had immunity and that seems to be confirmed by my never having caught it since then, despite being around a lot of people when they had it, most of whom proudly told me they’d been “jabbed”.

I wasn’t afraid of the virus or the vaccine and in the case of the latter was actually quite fascinated by the mRNA technology since I’d been following for years the progress in using genetic engineering to tackle cancer.

As such I merely noted with interest the efforts to tie the vaccines to the rise in youthful myocarditis, screwy mortality figures for 18-29 year olds, life insurers reporting massive increases in late 2021 for the 18-64 mortality rates, a spike in miscarriages, and overall higher adverse reactions than one should expect from a vaccine. Such things had no bearing on my original decision.

And the one health hazard I purposely ignored were the efforts made to tie the vaccine to cancer. That seemed just a step too far to contemplate, even as people around me, including many vaccinated people, began to talk in astonishment about the numbers of folk they knew who were getting cancer. I admit that I was a bit concerned when a close mate died last year and for the first time I heard the term “turbo cancer” and another mate a bit younger than me and in perfect health got cancer this year. But I don’t take much notice of anecdata, only actuaries, anti-vaxxers have long been trying to tie all vaccines to various diseases, and none of the proposed explanations for the mechanism made any sense to me.

It was the one aspect of the C-19 vaccines that did seem to fairly fall into the category of conspiracy theory.

However, it would seem that TPTB and their MSM mates are finally willing to concede that something weird has been going on with cancer in the last three years and they have an explanation, courtesy of the Washington Post:

Unusual cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame? It’s not a new idea that viruses can cause or accelerate cancer. But it will probably be years before answers emerge about covid and cancer.

Viruses certainly can cause cancer. I lost a high-school and varsity mate to liver cancer back in 1999 after he’d caught Hep B and D in Africa several years earlier. He survived that, although he lost a hell of a lot of weight, but knew his number might be up for cancer as a result, and so it was.

There’s just one problem with the theory and this article by David Strom  gets stuck into it:

Coronaviruses don’t cause cancer. We know that, since people get them all the time. The common cold is often a coronavirus. It would be rather shocking to discover that, this ONE time, one suddenly does.

To be fair even the Washington Post acknowledges that, quoting two experts: John T. Schiller, a National Institutes of Health researcher and pioneer in the study of cancer-causing viruses, and David Tuveson, director of the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and former president of the American Association for Cancer Research:

  • Said Schiller, “You can never say never, but that sort of … virus does not suggest being implicated in cancers.”
  • Tuveson said there’s no evidence the coronavirus directly transforms cells to make them cancerous.

Yet despite quoting these experts and acknowledging a 100% medical history of no connection between coronaviruses and cancer, the WaPo article still spends the rest of its space arguing for that connection.

Moreover, despite trying to connect the rise in rare cancers to this one unique virus, they are absolutely determined to not connect them to the other unique medical event of the same period:

it’s also important to emphasize that the research and other recent papers focusing on covid and cancer involve acute infection or long covid; they do not suggest a link between the coronavirus vaccine and cancer — misinformation that some anti-vaccine groups have spread in recent months.

To paraphrase Salieri, it simply has to be the virus.

It has to be.

It better be.