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Headline (there might be a paywall):

US Officials Reject Compensation for People Diagnosed With COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries

Why? Because they're a bunch of fucking assholes is why.

U.S. authorities rejected multiple people who sought compensation for COVID-19 vaccine injuries, despite diagnoses from doctors, documents show.

Letters from U.S. officials reviewed by The Epoch Times show officials contradicting doctors who treated patients as they turned down requests for payment.

Cody Flint, an agricultural pilot, was diagnosed by four doctors with a severe adverse reaction to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Shortly after being vaccinated, Flint experienced intense head pressure, which led to problems such as perilymphatic fistula, the doctors said.

Flint sent a slew of medical files, including evidence of the diagnoses, to the U.S. Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which compensates people who prove they were injured by a COVID-19 shot.

But administrators for the program rejected Flint’s application in a denial letter, saying they “did not find the requisite evidence that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination caused” the conditions from which he suffers.

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CICP administrators told [Flint] that “compelling, reliable and valid medical and scientific evidence does not support a causal association between the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, perilymphatic fistulas, increased intracranial pressure, Eustachian tube dysfunction, hearing loss, or loss of eyesight.”

They also tried to pin the problems on barotrauma. Colloquially known as airplane ear, barotrauma happens when air pressure suddenly changes, and is common as planes climb higher in the sky. Barotrauma causes the fistulas and symptoms of the fistulas “began while flying,” administrators wrote.

Flint and his doctors asserted in appeal letters that the barotrauma theory doesn’t hold up because Flint flies low as he dusts crops.

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The CICP determination was reviewed by a panel that sided with administrators. The panel found that the COVID-19 vaccine “did not cause Mr. Flint to develop bilateral perlympathic fistulas and related symptoms,” Suma Nair, an administrator, told Flint in a final denial letter. “There is no compelling causal connection between the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and the symptomology Mr. Flint experienced; the more likely cause of Mr. Flint’s symptoms is trauma from flying a plane, which would have developed over time.”

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“It’s just all comical to me,” Flint told The Epoch Times. “I get the shot, I’m injured within 48 hours, and they say that that makes it implausible.”

One part of me wants to withhold sympathy for people who suffer complications after getting vaxxed, but I recognize that getting vaxxed hasn't always been a choice. In many cases, unwilling people have had to get vaxxed (well, jabbed) because it was a matter of keeping their jobs. All I can do is feel sad for such folks. I myself never got jabbed, but I had to follow the asinine masking rules like everyone else if I wanted to keep using the subway, taxis, etc., and if I wanted to enter stores, restaurants, and even my own office building and apartment. The whole thing was massively retarded, and we all had to suffer some degree of totally unnecessary humiliation. I want three years of my life back.

Korea's initial COVID measures started off being a lot saner than what was happening in blue-state America, but as the previous government (led by liberal Moon Jae-in) began to fixate more and more fanatically on those damn "confirmed infected" statistics (which had nothing to do with COVID's actual low mortality rate), South Korea's pandemic measures began to feel like screw-tightening. You could go outside without a mask, but in-building and in-vehicle restrictions were stifling, and the pressure to get the shot was very high. I often found myself doing the old-man thing of standing on a sidewalk and randomly shaking my head at the colossal stupidity of it all. Every other word out of my mouth, as I walked along, was "Fuck." 

Now, the mask mandate has been lifted everywhere but in pharmacies and healthcare facilities, and my cell phone no longer vibrates five-plus times a day with emergency messages about "confirmed infected." I still see at least 50% of people outside and in public transportation masking up... the fear, whether from social pressure or from superstition replacing science, lingers. I did a rough count while in the subway a couple weeks ago as I quietly looked at the people who were seated. Each set of seats in a typical subway car can hold about seven people, and during the day, about 6/7 of the seated people had masks on. That number seemed to go down in the evenings when trains were less crowded.

Anyway, all the world's governments responded to this virus in a manner that proved to be both fearful and stupid. I understand that we were all unsure what to do at first, but as more and more information about COVID seeped out (despite the best efforts of authorities and the media to suppress it), it became obvious that following the science meant no masks, no jabs, and no lockdowns. Essentially, the Swedish model. And most news agencies did their best to lie about Sweden. Fearmongering is a tool of both sides, but the left does it especially well. Meanwhile, the above article merely rubs salt in the wounds. Many people were forced to get the shot, then they suffered aftereffects, and now, the government predictably refuses to pay for injuries resulting from the shot. In an ideal world, organizations like the abovementioned CICP would be burned to the goddamn ground with flamethrowers, but we live in a world where the criminals get away with their grift again and again.