Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz accused the Biden administration of covering up the severity of the effect of COVID-19 vaccines on U.S. troops.
In an opinion article that appeared on the National Pulse website last week, Gaetz argued that the Pentagon seeks to “distort” medical data housed in the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, or DMED, system, by which commanders track troops’ medical conditions.
Gaetz said the Pentagon’s action resembled the “Ministry of Truth,” as found in George Orwell’s novel “1984.”
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“This is yet another attempt by the federal government to control the narrative and obfuscate data that supports claims that President Joe Biden and Secretary Lloyd Austin’s vaccine mandate on the military may have harmed numerous service members—another example of the government telling you: ‘Don’t believe your eyes; trust what we tell you to see,’” the Fort Walton Beach Republican wrote.
This effort, Gaetz said, exhibited the Department of Defense’s pattern of censorship, which was also noticeable when the Pentagon worked with leftist groups to suppress information.
Those efforts included giving taxpayers’ money to the Global Disinformation Index, Newsguard, and Graphika “to label and monitor unwelcome speech,” as well as pressuring Big Tech to quash views that questioned both the reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rollout of vaccines, Gaetz wrote.
The lawmaker acknowledged that China was not the most cooperative nation to get accurate information from. He also noted that “no reasonable person could expect 100-percent investigative accuracy amid a pandemic.”
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Yet the congressman noted that last Thursday, during a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on the Pentagon’s monitoring of the coronavirus, Shauna Stahlman, the senior epidemiologist at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division, sought to rationalize “statistical increases” in adverse conditions as found in DMED records.
Stahlman, he wrote, dismissed “significant increases” in potentially vaccine-related diseases because the pre-pandemic data was based on a smaller sample size of medical injuries.
“But even DoD’s ‘corrected’ data shows an alarming increase in medical injuries in key categories,” he added.
That included a 35% spike in ovarian dysfunction, a 44% increase in pulmonary embolism, and a whopping 151% jump in myocarditis.
“If we are to accept the government’s explanation for its past mistakes and take the DoD’s word that the previously ‘corrupted’ data is now ‘accurate,’ one must question whether this correction was prompted only after service members voiced concerns about the vaccine adversely affecting their cardio-pulmonary and reproductive health or leading to cancer,” said Gaetz.
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“It’s also worth asking whether the DoD anticipates that the thousands of service members who have suffered from infertility, ovarian dysfunction, and cancer diagnoses should simply accept the department’s assurances that their conditions are unrelated to the experimental vaccine that was mandated for them.”
He pointed out that the Pentagon has had no accountability for the prolonged period during which the data was allegedly “corrupted” and “inaccurate.”
That is a problem, Gaetz argued.
“In practice, this flawed data would have informed medical treatments and strategies for years, suggesting that service members might have been subjected to misguided or detrimental treatment plans, exacerbating potential harm,” he wrote.
“More importantly, we are now faced with the possibility of adverse effects on the health of thousands of our volunteer service members who were impacted by an illegal mandate to receive an experimental vaccine under the misuse and misapplication of an Experimental Use Authorization.”
Gaetz pointed out that Austin “knowingly misrepresented” information about the available vaccines and subsequently forced troops to get the jabs under the threat of punishment and discharge, while also reducing troops’ opportunities to make informed consent.
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“I believe the twisting and blurring of data, paired with reprisal and retribution faced by the brave service members and veterans who have brought this to our attention, is another governmental censorship effort to hide injuries caused by the vaccine mandate,” said Gaetz.
“Therefore, I am demanding accountability and oversight into these injuries, to arm our service members with the knowledge to protect against impacts on their own health, to redress to the maximum extent possible the wrongs done to those already harmed, and to reestablish the trust in our senior leaders.”
To address this, Gaetz wrote, Congress should change the law to allow troops to sue for COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries and repeal Big Pharma’s liability protections in the CARES Act.
“This would expedite care and assessments so that our service members are not fighting an uphill battle trying to prove the Secretary and his department injured them like they had to do with Agent Orange in Vietnam, burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP), and at the Red Hill Fuel storage facility in Hawaii,” Gaetz wrote.
“Congress should be proactive, for once, in taking care of our service members. We must not allow the DoD to experiment on our service members, silence or suppress their speech, and destine them to a life of self-funded medical treatments because the Department of Veterans Affairs will not recognize their injuries as vaccine-related if, in fact, they were.”
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