People Collapsing in Public
Is the sudden rise in public fainting indicative that something is wrong?
The following video contains footage of various individuals inexplicably collapsing while on camera. While such incidents have happened before—one thinks of Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton collapsing while delivering the State of the State in 2017—it does seem that it has happened more often since the introduction of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines in early 2021:
Let’s take a closer look at some of these on camera collaspes:
Gabriel Poliquin. Poliquin is a lawyer who collapsed during a hearing related to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s declaration of emergency against the trucker protests in February of 2022. These protests had initially been instigated by Trudeau’s policy of vaccine mandates—so we here have an example of someone collapsing in a vaccine related hearing. Although it’s not clear that a Covid-19 vaccination had anything to do with Poliquin’s keeling over during his questioning of another government official, according to his social media, the lawyer had received multiple AstraZeneca jabs.
Tanja Erichsen. Ironically, Erichsen, a Danish health official, fainted during a press conference announcing the decision to stop using the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. While it’s uncertain whether her collapse was vaccine-related, she of course, as a public health official, would have been throughly jabbed-up.
Tiffany Dover. This may be the strangest case of them all. Dover fainted soon after receiving the vaccine. Obviously, this was incredibly embarrassing for the pro-mRNA-vaccine crowd, and so efforts at damage control were immediately enacted. After Dover had recovered, she explained that she was prone to fainting whenever she felt any sharp pain and had fainted six times in recent weeks. Of course, this improbable story only served to fuel conspiracy-related speculations. Claims that Dover had perished from the vaccine soon arose all over the internet. The publicity over Dover’s collapse became so intense that Dover decided to become a recluse and has not been seen or heard from since. Unfortunately, this has only served to perpetuate the myth that she is no longer among the living.
Earlier this year, Brandy Zadrozny, an NBC journalist, ventured to rural Alabama in search of Dover. After interviewing Dover’s parents, Zadrozny was assured that Miss Dover very much wanted to speak to her. But before a meeting could happen, Dover changed her mind. She claimed she couldn’t do the interview until after her NDA had expired. Then she took it a step further. She decided that, even if she did do a public interview, this would do nothing towards convincing the conspiracy theorists that she was still alive. They would only insist that she was a body double meant to deceive the public and this would only make things worse for her. In short, Dover remains in hiding to this very day and the conspiracies about her persist.
Undoubtedly conspiracy theorists can be annoying people. But so much of this could have be avoided if the medical establishment hadn’t been so intent on denying any adverse effects whatsoever from the vaccines. Of course no one knows whether Dover fainted as a consequence of the vaccine. But the very fact that the medical establishment wouldn’t even consider the possibility that the vaccine caused an averse reaction within Dover is the core of the problem. No vaccine is one hundred percent safe. But the medical establisment was more concerned with public relations than they were with truth—and all this has helped fertilize all the conspiracy theories that sprouted from Dover’s on camera collapse.
Clara Pfeffer. The German television presenter Clara Pfeffer fainted while advocating lockdowns and other restrictions against the unvaccinated. While we don’t know whether Pfeffer’s dizzy spell was caused by the Covid-19 vaccines or not, it would be rash to dismiss the hypothesis from consideration.
Heather McDonald. This clip speaks for itself. After McDonald was taken to the hospital, she posted the following on Instagram:
Oh my God, I feel so terrible. I will be back. I've never, ever fainted in my life.
In other words, she had never fainted until after getting her booster.
Rafael Silva. The Brazilian television news host fainted on live TV shortly after receiving his third shot booster. Silva would later claim that his collapse had nothing to do with the vaccine, but with a newly diagnosed malformation in his heart. Odd that this malformation had escaped detection prior to his booster.
Athletes and cardiac arrests. The remaining clips deal with various athletes (and one referee, Burt Smith) who collapsed during sporting events. What we see here is the merest fraction of what has happened to athletes since the mRNA vaccines were first introduced. While it is not entirely unusual for athletes under the age of thirty-five to die—between 1966 and 2004, about 29 such athletes died on average per year—the numbers of deaths (and related cardiac events) have sharply risen over the last two years. It is estimated that somewhere in the neighborhood of one thousand athletes have died since early 2021:
Apologists for Big Pharma and the mRNA vaccines will insist that unless we can conclusively prove that the abnormal death or injury of an otherwise healthy individual is caused by vaccination, then we are justified in dismissing from consideration even the merest possiblity of vaccine related health catastrophes. But since when is conclusive proof the only standard for judging the truth of a hypothesis? How many assertions about matters of fact can in fact be proved conclusively? Very little, as it turns out. The fact is, all these injuries and deaths are suspicious. At the very least, they indicate the potential of a serious problem which demands our attention.
Greg Nyquist is author of The Psychopathology of the Radical Left and The Faux-Rationality of Ayn Rand.