The Post & Email 10/18/2023
In a letter dated October 6, 2023 posted by O’Handley, the six senators — Steve Daines (R-MT); Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) — wrote to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough inquiring as to how service members might be evaluated for “vaccine-related injuries in determining VA benefits and disability claims.”
The vaccine mandate has since been repealed, the senators noted in their letter. In a “Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership” dated January 10, 2023, Austin acknowledged the passage of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023″ the previous month requiring him to withdraw the mandate.
After the edict took effect, thousands of military members’ requests for religious exemptions to the vaccine were not honored, according to Military.com in January. Some adverse or non-decisions led to legal action and involuntary separation, with one such lawsuit settled last week with a $1.8 million payout, the Navy Times reported.
However, in the memorandum Austin contended, “Religious liberty is a foundational principle of enduring importance in America, enshrined in our Constitution and other sources of Federal law. Service members have the right to observe the tenets of the religion or to observe the religion at all, as provided in applicable Federal law and Departmental policy…For Service members administratively discharged on the sole basis that the Service member failed to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccine for COVID-19, the Department is precluded by law from awarding any characterization less than a general (under honorable conditions) discharge. Former Service members may petition their Military Department’s Discharge Review Boards and Boards for Correction of Military or Naval Records to individually request a correction to their personnel records…”
Early last year a federal judge issued an opinion supporting Austin’s later statement. At the time, CNN reported, the “US military has approved religious exemptions to vaccine mandate for 15 service members out of 16,000 requests.”
Concluding their two-page letter, the senators requested Austin provide responses to four questions:
What is the VA’s process for considering COVID-19 vaccine injuries for disability claims?
Does the VA consider COVID-19 vaccine injuries as service-related if the service member received the vaccine during service?
Has the VA investigated the health effects of COVID-19 vaccine injuries?
What resources does the VA provide service members who are concerned that a COVID-19 vaccination led to their injury?
The CDC has divulged that concerns have arisen connecting myocarditis and pericarditis to COVID-19 vaccines while claiming such reports to be “rare.” As of October 3, the CDC stated:
Myocarditis and pericarditis have rarely been reported. When reported, the cases have especially been in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna).
Up to June 16th, 2023, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) included 1,569,668 adverse event reports associated with COVID-19 vaccines, including 35,487 deaths, 27,229 myocarditis and pericarditis, and 20,184 heart attack reports (US domestic/foreign). Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Meissner reported that 86% of VAERS entries were completed by medical personnel or vaccine manufacturers and only 14% were made by the patient or their family. Thus, VAERS has demonstrated a very strong crude signal for myocarditis as an accepted complication of COVID-19 vaccination, however, additional information can be gleaned from autopsy in cases of death that are suspected to be caused by COVID-19 immunization. In fact, Walach et al stated that all deaths after COVID-19 vaccination should be investigated with an autopsy to better our understanding of the vaccines deleterious mechanisms on the human body. Autopsies represent one of the most powerful diagnostic methods in medicine, ascertaining causes of death and elucidating the pathophysiological mechanisms of disease. COVID-19 vaccines exhibit multiple mechanisms of injury to the cardiovascular system and are associated with a considerable number of adverse event reports, thus representing an exposure that is causally linked to death in some cases.
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