The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned.

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn’t be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans heart damage.

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In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). And they didn’t widen the range by a little. They widened it by a lot. It was done after the vaccine rollout.

This is extraordinary. They did it hoping nobody would notice. It worked for a while. Nobody caught it.

But you can’t hide these things for long.

This is a tacit admission from the US government that the COVID vaccine has damaged the hearts of our pilots. Not just a few pilots. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage.

The cardiac harm of course is not limited to pilots.

My best guess right now is that over 50M Americans sustained some amount of heart damage from the shot.

That’s a lot of people who will be very upset when they realize the vaccine they took to reduce their chance of dying from COVID actually worked in reverse making it:

  1. More likely that people will get COVID
  2. Be hospitalized from COVID and other diseases
  3. Die from COVID (and other diseases)
  4. You also have an excellent chance of getting a lifetime of heart damage for no extra charge.

But don’t worry; you can’t sue them. They fixed the law so none of them aren’t liable (the doctors, the drug companies, the government). After all, you took the vaccine of your own free will. It’s not like you were forced (or coerced) to take it or anything like that! And there were plenty of people warning you not to take the shots (even though they censored most of them).

In this article, I will explain the evidence and thinking behind all my claims.

As I learn more, I will refine the estimate.

Introduction

On October 24, 2022, the FAA quietly, without any announcement at all, widened the EKG requirements necessary for pilots to be able to fly.

The PR (a measure of heart function) used to be in the range of .12 to .2.

It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher.

This is a very wide range; it accommodates people who have cardiac injury. Cardiologist Thomas Levy is appalled at this change:

Why did they make the change?

Why would they do that?

I’ll take an educated guess as to why they did that. I believe it is because they knew if they kept the original range, too many pilots would have to be grounded. That would be extremely problematic; commercial aviation in the US would be severely disrupted.

And why did they do that quietly without notifying the public or the mainstream media?

I’m pretty sure they won’t tell me, so I’ll speculate: it’s because they didn’t want anyone to know.

In other words, the COVID vaccine has seriously injured a lot of pilots and the FAA knows it and said nothing because that would tip off the country that the vaccines are unsafe. And you aren’t allowed to do that.

Why we sure it was the vaccine that did it

There are several clues that are consistent with “it was the vaccine and not COVID”:

  1. They were quiet about it. If it was COVID, you can be public. But the vaccine is supposed to be safe.
  1. The timing. October 2022 is late for COVID. If it was due to COVID, it would have happened well before now. They can make changes every month.
  2. The vaccine creates far more injury to the heart than COVID (which creates NO added risk per this large-scale Israeli study of 196,992 unvaccinated adults after Covid infection).
  3. Anecdotally, cardiologists only started to notice the damage post-vaccine.
  4. All the sudden deaths started post-vaccine.

The data supporting my 20% damage estimate

I know from a study of 177 people in Puerto Rico (97% of whom were vaccinated) ages 8 to 84, that 70% of those people, when screened for cardiac injury using an FDA-approved testing device (from Heart Care Corp), exhibited objective signs of cardiac injury.

There was a study done on pilots. It will be published in The Epoch Times later this week. That indicated heart damage in over 20% of pilots screened (The Epoch Times will release the exact number).

The Thailand study showed nearly 30% of kids were injured. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults.

VAERS shows that cardiac damage happens at all ages, not just the young:

Bottom line: The most logical conclusion is that the FAA knows the hearts of our nations pilots have been injured by the COVID vaccine that they were coerced into taking, the number of pilots affected is huge, the cardiac damage is extensive, and passenger safety is being compromised by the lowering of the standards to enable pilots to fly.

The right thing would be for the FAA to come clean and admit to the American public that the COVID vaccine has injured 20% or more of the pilots (based on their limited EKG screening), but I doubt that they will ever do that.

The change: from 200 msec to 300 msec and beyond

The changes were made on October 24, 2022 to the GUIDE FOR AVIATION MEDICAL EXAMINERS.

Here is the change log where you can see the change listed (see page 4):

Here is what the policy was before the change. It was just one row:

Here are what it looks like as of Oct 24, 2022 (click the image to see the context):

So it’s now two rows, one for less than 300 ms (it used to be 200 ms), and a second row to handle 300 ms or more.

For more information about the change, see Myocarditis: Once Rare, Now Common.

The Thailand study

In the US, we are not allowed to do lab tests on people before and after the vaccine.

The reason for that is simple: it would make it crystal clear that the vaccines are unsafe. That is why there are no before/after studies in the US. There never will be.

Why? Because that is how science works in America today: it’s unethical to design a study that might expose that the COVID vaccines that they forced us to take cause harm.

Think I’m kidding about how they game the trials? Get yourself a copy of Turtles All the Way Down and just read the first chapter. It’s eye opening.

Even though we can’t do a before/after study in the US, they did such a study in Thailand on 301 kids. They found that 29.24% of the participants developed cardiac injuries within days after they got the second shot:

But here’s the most important part about that study that nobody points out:

None of the tests that were done in the Thailand study included doing a cardiac MRI with contrast on all the participants since that would be expensive and invasive. That test is the gold-standard for cardiac injury.

In other words, the 29% rate of injury was a lower bound of injury.

If you did a cardiac MRI on all those kids, you are going to find stuff that you will not find using the cheap and easy tests. Maybe a lot of stuff.

Summary

I believe that the actual rate of heart injury from these vaccines will be found to be well over the 29.7% rate of heart damage in the Thailand study.

At a more conservative 20% injury rate, we are looking at 50M Americans with heart damage caused by the jab.

As more studies are done, it’s going to be crystal clear why so many people are dying suddenly, especially kids. It’s also going to explain why nursing homes have lost up to 33% of their residents in 12 months where before they were losing only 1 or 2% a year. It’s going to explain why I was unable to find even a single nursing home where the all-cause mortality dropped after the vaccines rolled out. And it’s going to explain why none of the nursing homes wanted to talk to me about what happened to people after the shots rolled out.

Confidence in the CDC and the medical community should hit rock bottom after it is revealed how extensive the damage caused by these vaccines is.

The fact that the Thailand study was published in a peer-reviewed journal, that they only did the easy-to-do assessments (which only found a portion of the damage), and the FAA quietly changed their EKG guidance should at least open your mind to the possibility that I might be right.

This narrative is going to start falling apart at an accelerated rate.

Stay tuned. The best is yet to come. And it’s going to be epic.

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53 Comments
MTD
MTD
January 17, 2023 7:11 am

Nobody cares whether or not their pilot has heart issues. The only thing that really matters these days is how much diversity we have flying the plane!

anon a moos
anon a moos
  MTD
January 17, 2023 10:36 am

Nobody cares whether or not their pilot has heart issues.

and thaat I can still get to my holiday, hedonistic fix on a warm beach in mexico or some other destination.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  anon a moos
January 17, 2023 12:45 pm

^^ Yep, I love beach vacays like all the rest, but I’m done with that shit show in the air.

anon a moos
anon a moos
  Abigail Adams
January 17, 2023 12:50 pm

The Pop’n Drop may take on a whole other meaning soon.

Best not to fly, smarter people won’t until the fields been weeded

PSBindy
PSBindy
  Abigail Adams
January 17, 2023 11:40 pm

One can always get a roof seat on a Mexican train or bus.

bucknp
bucknp
  MTD
January 17, 2023 10:54 am

Airlines have become a real PITA. No telling what’s on those flights anymore.

VOWG
VOWG
January 17, 2023 7:38 am

Sadly the best that is yet to come will be the worst.

Iggy
Iggy
January 17, 2023 8:14 am

Fuck it we’re all doomed ,I’m having eggs and ham for breakfast.

Chud Bentley
Chud Bentley
  Iggy
January 17, 2023 9:08 am

I second the motion!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Iggy
January 17, 2023 9:23 am

Braggart!

So, you’re rich and I’m not. No need to rub it in.

Pfffft … eggs!

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Anonymous
January 17, 2023 9:27 am

I’m having eggs from our chickens and ham that I cured and smoked from a pig that I slaughtered and butchered after having cared it from the day it farrowed.

It tastes better than it sounds.

Time for everyone to get into the self-sufficiency game if you haven’t already.

Not a joke.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
January 17, 2023 9:33 am

Why do you have the need to constantly write about how wonderful and virtuous you are?
Good for you, we get it.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Anonymous
January 17, 2023 9:41 am

To show anonymous shitbags that it is indeed possible…I’d assume.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Anonymous
January 17, 2023 12:51 pm

I get it. New Englanders can come across that way.

HOWEVER, if you look past it, I have a feeling HSF is pretty generous and would gladly share his ham & eggs with you.

Machinist
Machinist
  Abigail Adams
January 17, 2023 1:28 pm

green eggs and ham ?

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Machinist
January 17, 2023 1:40 pm

You read my mind.

brian
brian
  Machinist
January 17, 2023 1:46 pm

We had green eggs an ham on our farm. Araucana’s lay green eggs. well bue/green

People would ask for and pay more for the green eggs. eggs are eggs and it mattered not if you told them that, they wanted them because they’re better for you. my response was… HUH!?!?

ADDED: When we first got them I’d throw in a couple amongst the brown eggs we were selling. At first people thought there was something wrong with them, obviously. Then they became ‘healthier’ and in demand. It was funny seeing the transition from WATs this to OOHH I need these because….

ken31
ken31
  Anonymous
January 17, 2023 4:56 pm

He is sharing information that is inspiring to some of us, but you can pervert his goodwill if you chose. There is value in learning the way others do things. He gives us an example to follow and I welcome anyone who does so.

What you perceive as self-righteous, I perceive as generous, in this case.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ken31
January 17, 2023 6:20 pm

Perfectly put. HSF is definitely not engaging in swagger. I’d kill to be where he is. Depending on timeframe, I’m toast in the foodpocalypse – depending on just when and how it all comes down. I’ve sorta had my life, though. The young ‘uns, though . . . wow.

A rich old uncle died and they’re assessing his unwilled estate over the past year and a half or so. If it comes through before the last bits of foodpocalypse and vaxed food do, I’m gonna get a driver’s license and a vehicle for the first time in decades and scout out parts of the North-West Redoubt that John Wesley Rawles and others have written of, and at least I’ll die somewhere nicer and play out my hand a little longer.

Search terms:
North-West Redoubt John Wesley Rawles
https://www.google.com/search?q=North-West+Redoubt+John+Wesley+Rawles&ei=Zi7HY_OOB66wptQP0pac4AI&ved=0ahUKEwjz2fad4M_8AhUumIkEHVILBywQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=North-West+Redoubt+John+Wesley+Rawles&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEMgUIABCiBDoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQHhCiBDoICCEQoAEQwwRKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQjwVYnhJgnx1oAXABeACAAbEBiAGLBJIBAzMuMpgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

The Scamming Poverty Lawless Center hates him, so he must be good.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  hardscrabble farmer
January 17, 2023 9:44 am

Been there. Done that. And I was nine years old my first time. Fucking hog bit my foot while I had it hung inside the fence, pouring slop for him. Dad let me stay home from school to personally shoot that pig in the head. Best sausage I ever ate!

brian
brian
  hardscrabble farmer
January 17, 2023 10:39 am

sigh… I’m actually jealous.

I truly miss the produce from our small farm.

bucknp
bucknp
  hardscrabble farmer
January 17, 2023 10:43 am

Add the eggs and ham to my grandmother’s drop biscuits and gravy. She used sausage grease but ham works too!

Add grated mild cheddar on those eggs sunny side up and runny , fresh green onions on the side and I like to throw in fresh hash browns as well on the crispy side.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  bucknp
January 17, 2023 12:53 pm

Tex…that sounds PERFECT! Southern cooking…yum.

(P.S. Yes, my dogs like to sleep on my bed.)

Machinist
Machinist
  hardscrabble farmer
January 17, 2023 1:18 pm

I’ve been contacted by a couple of local farmers, they are asking if I would make farrowing pens for them, (for the pigs not for the farmers or their wives).
The price of steel is still high and in some cases, soon to be higher. ‘Chine chine’ steel (as I call it) is impossible to use to make into a decent product. It fractures, the size tolerance are sloppy, usually has multiple inclusions, the grain of the ‘steel’ is a disaster,etc.
Anyway, I delivered a few pens and they were happy… no crushed piglets while nursing.
I’ll skip the souse, but I’ll look forward to the ham and sausage right about slaughter time. I need to learn how to smoke hams. (Old joke, “they’re hard to get lit”.)

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Machinist
January 17, 2023 1:48 pm

I’m a ham when I’m lit . . . bourbon is the key.

ken31
ken31
  hardscrabble farmer
January 17, 2023 4:52 pm

The egg, bacon, pepperjack sandwich my wife made on home made bread was delicious, but yours sounds better.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
January 17, 2023 9:22 am

BUSTED !

Steve Z.
Steve Z.
January 17, 2023 10:29 am

Pre vaxx the deaths and disease were mucosal in nature (upper airway, lungs as seen in the flu) after the death vax program the death and disease turned cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels with clots, lots of clots and inflamed heart muscle) in nature.
I hear the Davos jetset crowd wants only unvaxxed pilots….Hmmmm…

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 17, 2023 10:43 am

Snopes deems the story about WEF hiring unvaxecuted pilots to be false, so that settles it: it’s true.
.

Freedom Flyers Organization: Wealthy Businessman Have Reached Out and Want UNVACCINATED PILOTS To Fly Their Jets (VIDEO)

.
https://newspunch.com/wef-hires-unvaccinated-pilots-to-fly-them-into-davos-safety-of-our-members-is-no-1-priority/
.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/billionaires-want-unvaccinated-pilots-for-private-jets/
.
MORE: https://yandex.com/search/?text=wef+unvaccinated+pilots&lr=223
.
It’s probably just quirky self-indulgent status signalling on the part of the rich and powerful.

bucknp
bucknp
January 17, 2023 10:53 am

I’d like to visit the Oregon coast in June but keep putting it off. Probably Sept. now. I’m apprehensive about flying yet not scared. When it’s time to pass this world that’s how it is.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  bucknp
January 18, 2023 1:26 am

Book well in advance … and bring lots of the Green Je$u$ … the OR Coast is very expensive … and, from living there for 9 years, I found that there are some sizable nests of ’60s-era radical leftists there …

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
January 17, 2023 10:55 am

How many commercial planes have crashed because if pilot health issues in the past year? Are plane crashes up like all cause mortality?

Warren
Warren
January 17, 2023 10:56 am

What’s the problem? We’ll just use one of those automatic pilot thingys….right?

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B_MC
B_MC
  Warren
January 17, 2023 11:04 am

With my luck, it would be more like this….

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Iggy
Iggy
January 17, 2023 11:11 am

Haven’t flown in over 20 years since 9/11. I refuse to be harassed by fat nigger security at airports.

Warren
Warren
  Iggy
January 17, 2023 11:51 am

I’m with you there.
I actually remember flying in the late 60s and early 70s. People actually dressed.up.. It was tedious but classy, and they gave you real food.
Now the airports are horrible. Third world places full of people from third world shit holes. Actually it’s a rendering of what 21st century America has become.

Iggy
Iggy
  Warren
January 17, 2023 11:58 am

Flew to Puerto Rico a few times in late 70s early eighties dc10 from Kennedy to San Juan . The seats were like comfy recliners the even served us a meal chicken or beef with a roll and salad .A 3 1/2hour flight with a meal!today you might get peanuts lol.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Warren
January 18, 2023 1:27 am

Airline deregulation turned the airlines into the Greyhound or Continental Railways of the skies … 

fujigm
fujigm
  Iggy
January 17, 2023 11:25 pm

Haven’t flown in over 20 years since 9/11

Same here.
The fat nigger TSA definitely figured into it.
Corp bought a plane in 2008, got my pilot’s license in 2010.
Puts me anywhere I need to be except overseas.
There’s freighter passage for that.
Slows the world down a bit…

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 17, 2023 11:38 am

Although weather related issues affect all commercial airlines this past holiday season flight crews were in short supply. Obviously many were stranded as were passengers unable to complete connecting flights due to weather conditions hundreds or even thousands of miles away but no mention of crews grounded for medical reasons.
Feds answer FINE THE AIRLINES !
With the faggot running the Department of Transportation and a Dementia riddled President a weaponized Department Of Justice a Supreme Court Justice that does not know what a woman is and out of 9 none can observe or see any treasonous actionable offense by any Congress critters as they cash in and move on

Warren
Warren
  Anonymous
January 17, 2023 11:56 am

When she said she didn’t know how to describe a woman. The obvious that came to mind was follow up question was “Are you a woman?” And if she said yes. Then”How do you know? ”
As for the Transportation Security, so called, the only expertise that he has in that field is that he has spent a lot of time riding the Hershey Highway and that’s the only experience that the fraud in the Whit House seems to be interested in.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Warren
January 18, 2023 1:29 am

But Pete’s the mother of twins … 

Born Skeptik
Born Skeptik
January 17, 2023 1:17 pm

Figures don’t lie, but liars love to figure.

Dan
Dan
January 17, 2023 2:18 pm

I totally don’t know anything about EKGs, but plenty of sites such as this have good information. A normal PR interval for adults is 120 to 200 milliseconds. Pilots’ should certainly be in this normal healthy range. Even to a complete layman, the idea that results up to 300 mS are okay is completely nuts.

DRUD
DRUD
January 17, 2023 3:00 pm

Awesome. Flying to Philly (then driving to friggen Camden, NJ of all places) day after tomorrow. Not only is there a major winter storm about to hit Denver, plus the shitshow that was the airlines the last couple of weeks (NOT flying Southwest, so at least there’s that) now I’ve gotta worry about the heart health of the fuggin piolts.

Fun.

Iggy
Iggy
  DRUD
January 17, 2023 4:32 pm

You have more to worry about in Camden wear kevlar lol.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Iggy
January 18, 2023 1:29 am

Philadelphia is likely at least as bad as Camden …

ken31
ken31
January 17, 2023 4:50 pm

Not concerned. Will not fly while there is a TSA.

tony
tony
January 17, 2023 7:40 pm

proof of malice aforethought. premeditated murder.

Unedited
Unedited
January 17, 2023 10:46 pm

Posting to this thread as well. Below is a comment by a former United Airlines pilot. It was posted on Kirsch’s Substack:

Jeff
10 hr ago
Thanks Steve,

I was a Widebody International B777 Captain for United Airlines. When Comirnaty was FDA approved, United Airlines, specifically Scott Kirby the CEO, mandated the Covid shots for employees to continue working at United Airlines. It did not matter that Comirnaty was not even being manufactured or available in the United States.

I actually had The Covid virus early on, in November of 2019, which coincidentally I caught flying on a trip for United Airlines. I was sick for 4 days or so, and it was not any worse than other viruses that I had in the past. Post Covid though from November 2019 till October 2020, I had flown all over the world to include Japan, S. Korea, China, India, as well as all over the United States. Not once during that time was I ever sick. I had natural immunity and I still do till this day.

In my opinion, I think United Airlines mandated the Covid Shots, because it was “payback” for the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans which paid employees salaries at United for quite a long time during the economic downturn from The Covid Pandemic. I believe, I can’t prove though, that somewhere in the fine print of the PPP loans that once an FDA approved Covid shot was developed that the airlines would be required to mandate it, or pay back the money from the PPP. That would be well over a Billion dollars. This plan was rolled out under the Trump Administration.

Anyway, the more I researched the shots, the more Red Flags I came across. United’s policy was, take the shots or you will be terminated. ALPA United, the pilot’s union at UAL, wanted the pilots who did not take the shots gone from the Company. They negotiated with the Company to pay a huge stipend to pilots who got the shots, prior to the mandate. In my case, this would have equated to about $3800. Most pilots praised this, I saw it as a huge Red Flag. If these shots were so safe and were going to save my life, why would they pay me such an outrageous amount to get them. Once Kirby mandated the shots, I felt like I was being considered a “Domestic Terrorist” for not capitulating. I reached out to my Union several times regarding my rights and options, but never once received a reply. It was take the shot or else.

I applied for a religious exemption, and was approved. But United’s Religious Accommodation was extremely punitive. It was a up to six year leave of absence, with no pay or benefits. I asked someone in HR if I took the LOA, would I be able to retire at a later date if I so desired, the answer was no. Only active employees could retire. The only thing retirement would benefit me would be future Pass Travel, and slightly reduced Health Insurance, we had already lost our pilot pensions in Bankruptcy in the early 2000s. I asked what happens at the end of the six year LOA, and was told that if the mandate was still in place, I would be terminated at that time.

There were no good options. Take the shots, which I felt were unsafe, or take up to a six year Unpaid LOA. I chose instead to walk away from United Airlines, as I realized I was simply a widget whose own ability to make my own health decisions regarding my life meant nothing in the eyes of a tyrannical CEO. I retired in October of 2020 at 56 years old, after working for 26 years at United. Do I regret retiring early? I’m not happy about it, but I am healthier today than when I was actively working for United. Being a pilot for a major airline is not the healthiest profession. Disrupted sleep patterns, unhealthy eating on the road, and lack of proper physical exercise take a toll on your body. I made it a point to try and get as much sleep as possible and to exercise regularly while traveling, and also to try and eat as healthy as possible. The average Airline Pilot is overweight and not in the greatest physical shape. These shots, IMO, are a ticking time bomb.

I talked to several pilots at United before I decided to walk away over the shots. The answers I received were either they were for the shots and supported the narrative, or that they did not want the shots but financially could not afford to lose their jobs. Scott Kirby and ALPA United knew that pilots faced will termination or a lengthy period of unpaid leave would make nearly every pilot succumb to the shots, even if they didn’t want to.

As a side note, there is an FAA regulation that stipulates that any new drug cannot be approved for use by pilots until it has been fully FDA approved and available for 2 years, so that any side effects from the new drug will hopefully be uncovered and the FAA will then decide if the drug can safely be used by pilots or not. This regulation was disregarded and waived for the Covid shots, and now we find out the EKG acceptable parameters have been relaxed for pilots. IMO, this is not good and will negatively affect Airline Safety.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Unedited
January 18, 2023 1:31 am

“They negotiated with the Company to pay a huge stipend to pilots who got the shots, prior to the mandate. In my case, this would have equated to about $3800. Most pilots praised this, I saw it as a huge Red Flag. If these shots were so safe and were going to save my life, why would they pay me such an outrageous amount to get them. ”

Since when is $3,800 considered a ‘huge stipend’ or ‘an outrageous amount’?

Typo?