I Got My COVID Booster Two Weeks Ago
Fear Is Loud. Data Is Quiet. I Trust the Quiet.
Two weeks ago, I received my COVID booster, along with influenza and RSV vaccines.
I have not grown a tail.
I do not have “turbo cancer.”
I have no mysterious clots, no amyloid overload, and I am not genetically altered.
Yet if you spend any time online, you’d think I narrowly escaped catastrophe.
The anti-vaccine movement is louder than ever—stacking anecdote on anecdote, stripping tragedy of context, and selling certainty with supreme confidence. And it works. It scares people. It scares families.
At moments, it even gives me pause—and I’ve spent a lifetime in operating rooms, ICUs, and hospital wards.
I hate needles.
But what’s worse than one needle is many needles—IV lines, ventilators, missed work, missed family—lying in an ICU because someone told you COVID was “just a sniffle” and boosters were worse than the disease.
So let’s slow this down and walk through the claims—carefully, calmly, and honestly.
Because data matters.
What the Vaccines Actually Did (From the Wards, Not the Timeline)
I wasn’t watching COVID from a podcast studio.
I was a surgeon in the hospital when COVID hit—when wards overflowed, hallways filled, and the system bent in ways I had never seen.
To give you a sense of scale:
our hospital was licensed for 30 ventilators.
At the peak, we had over 230 patients on vents.
Not theoretical patients.
Not charts.
People.
Every physician I know who worked in those hospitals ran to get vaccinated the moment we could. Not because of politics. Because we had seen what the virus did.
When vaccines rolled out, something changed.
Hospitals stopped drowning.
ICUs stabilized.
Ventilator numbers fell.
COVID didn’t disappear—but the vaccines gave us our healthcare system back.
Claim 1: “The Spike Protein Persists for Years and Damages Organs”
This claim collapses once you understand how mRNA vaccines work.
Think of mRNA like a temporary copy machine.
It enters a cell, makes a limited number of spike protein copies, and then stops. The mRNA degrades. The machine shuts off.
The spike protein that is made is presented or expelled, and the immune system immediately recognizes it as foreign. It binds it, neutralizes it, and clears it—faster than a spider wraps a fly.
Then comes the entire point of vaccination:
the immune system learns.
It remembers the protein, so the next time it sees it, it can respond faster and stronger—without you needing an ICU bed first.
Could someone have persistent spike protein?
Possibly—but far more plausibly from actual SARS-CoV-2 infection, which produces millions of times more spike protein, across many tissues, for longer, with active viral replication.
Blaming the vaccine spike while ignoring infection biology reverses reality.
Claim 2: “Turbo Cancer”
This claim isn’t just wrong—it’s indecent.
The tragic death of Tatiana Schlossberg, age 35, was immediately labeled online as “turbo cancer,” with insinuations that vaccination caused it.
That is outrageous.
First: “turbo cancer” is not a medical term.
Turbo cancer is a term not used by oncologists (doctors who specialize in treating cancer).
It has no diagnostic criteria, no pathology definition, and no accepted biological mechanism.
It exists only on the internet.
Yes—young adults can develop aggressive cancers. That has been true long before COVID. Leukemias, lymphomas, sarcomas, and certain solid tumors can progress rapidly despite treatment.
Anti-vaccine activists also misuse population data from South Korea, claiming it proves vaccines caused a cancer explosion.
What they omit is context.
During the pandemic:
cancer screening dropped
routine care was delayed
diagnoses occurred later
Later diagnoses look more aggressive. That is not new biology—it’s delayed detection.
Cancer registries do not show vaccine-driven excess cancer deaths. No new cancer pattern has emerged. No plausible oncogenic mechanism has been demonstrated.
Using someone’s death to sell a fabricated syndrome is not skepticism.
It is exploitation.
Claim 3: “Excess Deaths Prove the Vaccines Are Killing People”
Yes—excess deaths increased during the pandemic.
What’s false is blaming vaccines.
Excess mortality tells you how many people died, not why. When properly analyzed, excess deaths track:
COVID infection waves
older age and comorbidities
delayed emergency care
postponed cancer treatment
cardiovascular disease
substance use and mental-health crises
Large population studies consistently show lower all-cause mortality among vaccinated people, especially older adults.
Graphs without denominators are not epidemiology.
They are persuasion.
Claim 4: “mRNA Vaccines Are Genetic / Like HIV”
This is where the claims become biologically illiterate.
mRNA vaccines:
do not enter the nucleus
do not integrate into DNA
do not persist
do not replicate
Calling this “gene therapy” is rhetoric, not mechanism.
You’ll hear panic about shared genetic sequences with HIV.
Here’s the reality:
We share about 60% of our DNA with a banana.
Small sequence similarities are inevitable when genomes contain billions of base pairs. Similarity does not imply function. Function does not imply causation.
I’ve moved DNA around inside viruses. This is my wheelhouse.
HIV is a retrovirus that integrates into DNA.
mRNA vaccines are not.
The comparison is absurd.
And Then There’s the Foundation
Much of this fear flows through the Peter McCullough Foundation.
It does not run labs.
It does not conduct trials.
It does not produce primary data.
It republishes weak studies, amplifies fear, and fundraises off grievance. It behaves less like a scientific institution and more like an evangelical revival—certainty preached, donations collected, correction unwelcome.
Science advances by being willing to be wrong.
This enterprise advances by never being allowed to be.
Why I Keep Speaking Up
Those of us who were in the hospitals during COVID speak from memory—not theory.
The vaccine didn’t create a perfect world.
It stopped a collapsing one.
I got my booster.
And I hate needles.
But I hate ICU beds more.
If you’re eligible, get your booster.
And I’ll keep doing what I’ve always done:
Following the data.
Calling out the con.
And reminding people—especially when fear gets loud—that science beats dogma every time.
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