In Jan 2022, my son, Max, had an adverse reaction to the Pfizer jab. I have written on this subject previously. My investigations into the nature and consequences of Max’s reaction now led me to an appointment with a private cardiologist on April 28th, 2022.

This blog faithfully conveys all important points from the appointment.
However, the appointment lasted 40 minutes which means this blog is quite long. As such, I will summarise the doctor’s advice into 3 points:
1) Max had a reaction to the gene therapy that may, or may not, have been myocarditis.
2) Max should have further doses of gene therapy if advised by the government to do so.
3) Max could have an Astra Zeneca jab instead of a 2nd Pfizer jab.
Now, let’s see how the Dr. justified such woolly thinking…
The initial part of the appointment related to an exchange of info about Max’s symptoms and general health. Max had a constant pain in his chest for 3 weeks from 2 days after the jab. He also had periodic tingling in the fingers of his left hand and times during the 3 week long episode where he was felt his heart “was beating out of my chest”. We established that Max had no previous history of ill-health and there is no history of heart disease in the family. Max tested positive for c19 twice, once in December 2020 and again in Dec 2021. He recovered from each illness without lingering effects. Then the Dr conducted an examination on Max.
Post-examination…
Dr C: I’m thinking you are after info about futures vaccines and what’s the best approach.
Atticus: Well, yes, specifically, what has he had, what are the long term effects, how we can ameliorate those effects, plus advice for future vaxxes.
Dr C: The textbook of covid has not yet been written so there are some aspects to this that we are a bit uncertain about. There are a few aspects to think about. Firstly, it’s not unusual to have some sort of reaction and to feel unwell after the vaxx. Then there were people who had more specific complaints like pericarditis which is an inflammation of the heart lining. There’s also something we call sub-clinical myocarditis which is inflammation of the heart, a few people have suffered this. With you [Max] it seems like you had some sort of myocarditis type thing. We can’t be 100% categorical about this but that’s how it appears but you’ve made a full recovery and I wouldn’t expect this to have any adverse consequences in the long term.
Atticus: There’s no arrhythmia?
Dr C: No.
Atticus: Are there any tests that can be undertaken to prove there’s no lasting damage?
Dr C: Potentially, yes. A cardiac MRI scan would be the ‘gold standard’ but it depends on whether that’s a road you want to go down.
Dr C explained that if myocarditis were to be diagnosed beyond doubt then it would be a permanent feature of Max’s medical record which could affect Max’s applications for mortgages or life insurance in the future. He stated that myocarditis would be difficult to prove at this stage.
Me: So, having originally diagnosed myocarditis, Dr C is now being slightly more vague and proposing that we shouldn’t confirm the diagnosis.
Dr C also pointed out that although cases are down at moment so things have gone a bit quiet on the vaxx, there may be situations in the future where more vaccines are encouraged, if there’s another outbreak, “so you have to weigh up having the vaxx in relation to the potential hazards of another strain of c19”.
Me: We explore the risk / reward profiles of covid and the vaxx in much more detail later in the appointment.
I then asked the Dr, if, in his experience, 3 weeks of chest pain would count as a mild case of whatever it was. “Yes”. With no long term implications? Dr C repeated his assertation that the covid textbook is not yet written so there are no guarantees.
Me: Dr C’s unwillingness to commit became increasingly frustrating as the appointment progressed. He relied on appeals to authority.
Atticus: It’s true that the textbook for c19 has not been written but the textbook for myocarditis has been written. So, on that basis, would 3 weeks of chest pain, if it was myocarditis, lead to a heart attack 5 or 10 years later?
Dr C: No, no…
Atticus: Do you think Max is likely to have any scarring on his heart?
Dr C: Highly unlikely.
Atticus: Whatever Max developed, do you believe it was brought on by the vaxx?
Dr C: It seems highly likely.
Atticus: And we are seeing a spike in heart conditions amongst the vaxxed, especially with young people…
Dr C: The other side of this is that prior to the vaccine, people were developing heart conditions from c19.
Me: This is untrue. No one was listing heart conditions as a symptom of c19 until after the vaxx came out.
I asked what is it in the vax that is causing heart conditions. Dr C responded “I don’t think anyone knows…but it does seem the mRNA is linked to slightly higher rate of heart conditions.”
Slightly higher?
At that point I pointed out that mRNA is an experimental treatment and we have no idea of the long term health implications. Now Dr C admitted that he had “skin in the game” because he had had 3 vaccine doses. After 2 of the doses he didn’t feel good. “It’s entirely possible that I’ve got what you’ve got.”
Me: The Dr can’t categorically say what affected Max and he’s also not sure what affected he himself but he’s willing to equate his condition with Max’s in order to convince Max that there’s no problem with having more doses even if you had a reaction to the first one. This seemed to be a deliberate belittling of Max’s adverse reaction. Dr C is normalising 3 weeks of chest pain in a 25 year old healthy man.
AF: Bearing in mind that Max had 1 dose and had this reaction, would you advise him to have a 2nd dose?
Dr C: All I’ll say is that if the government advice is for people Max’s age to have another vaxx, then I’d have another vaxx.
Me: this is just fence-sitting. The Dr is delegating responsbility to the government. Be a good boy and do what you’re told.
Dr C continued that the government have gone quiet on the vaxx because Omicron doesn’t seem to be an issue.
Atticus: But it’s gonna flare up again every winter as all respiratory diseases do so there is likely to be another vaxx push next Autumn / Winter and this could be an annual thing…bearing in mind Max hasn’t reacted well to whatever is in the vaxx, how can we have any confidence…? The government won’t consider the numbers of deaths from the vaxx, they’ll simply believe that the vaxx is saving more lives than it’s ending and this [ie Max] is a potential death by vaxx
Dr C: I wouldn’t put it in that category…
Atticus: Whatever’s in the vaxx, he hasn’t reacted well to it.
Dr C: He’s had a reaction to the vaxx, there’s no doubt but all I’d say is that some people had the vaccine and ended up in hospital. The only thing I’d say is Novak Djokovic – they wouldn’t let him into Australia so things could get awkward. What I wouldn’t do is think you had a near death experience from a Pfizer vaccine in Jan 2022 which means that you must never have another vaccine.
Atticus: We know Max didn’t have a near death experience but we don’t know that he won’t have a near death experience after the 2nd vaxx because he could have a more extreme reaction next time. I’ve read that people are likely to have a more severe reaction to a 2nd dose so aren’t we tempting fate?
Dr C: there is a hazard to not being vaccinated if there is another outbreak.
Atticus: A hazard to health? Or a hazard associated with not being able to live a life?
Dr C: both!
Atticus: Let’s park the ‘living a life’ aspect for now. As far as hazard to health is concerned, the stats are fairly clear that the people most at risk are the elderly – the average age of c19 death is 82 – and people with co-morbidities. Max’s age group, without co-morbidities, are at virtually no risk from c19.
Dr C: I’d say it’s extremely low.
Atticus: It’s so low that it’s statistically insignificant.
Dr C: Someone would say that vaccine reactions are statistically insignificant.
Atticus: The number of people of Max’s age who have died from the vaxx is much higher than the number that have died from c19.
Dr C: The numbers in Max’s age group who’ve died from the vaccine is very small
Atticus: Yes, both numbers are small but the number dead from the vaxx is comparably much greater and the number who have suffered debilitating effects from the vaxx is again much greater than without the vaxx.
Dr C: I’m not certain about the numbers…I wouldn’t over…Do you spend a lot of time thinking about this?
Me: the Dr is not disputing that the vaxx is more dangerous than c19 for healthy young men.
Atticus: Well, yes, I do, my son had myocarditis…
Dr C: We’re not sure he suffered from…
Retreat!!! Max may have had myocarditis… or he may not, but we are being advised not to prove it one way or the other. Let’s call it ‘Schroedinger’s Myocarditis’: Max both had it and didn’t have it at the same time. We can let the two states co-exist but we shouldn’t open the box to find the singularity!
Atticus: …He suffered an effect that he wouldn’t have suffered if he hadn’t had the vaxx and he only had the vaxx so he could go on holiday. He didn’t have the vaxx to protect himself from c19. He only had it so he could live a life and this comes back to your earlier point. So, he has had something that has possibly damaged his heart, certainly something to which he could have a more severe reaction next time and, against that, you have something from which he is at no risk anyway – he’s had c19 twice and shrugged it off both times, without any long term impacts…no long covid. So, for Max, the risk – reward ratio seems very heavily weighted against having the vax.
Me: I was getting into my stride at this point!
Dr C: There are variables that could switch it.
Atticus: But based on what we know about Max’s situation, having had c19 twice and had myocarditis after one vaxx…
Dr C: All I’d say is that we do not know you had myocarditis
Me: This is the 3rd time the Dr has pointed out that myocarditis has not been confirmed, yet he is the one advising us not to get the confirmation. This gives him the wriggle room to downplay the risks of a 2nd jab. It’s frustrating. It made me think that the same scenario is playing out up and down the country: people are being told not to investigate adverse effects which leads to massive under-reporting of the vaxx side-effects.
Dr C: My advice would be not to overthink this. Who knows what happens in the future? If there turns out to be an aggressive strain of c19 in the future, then I would not hesitate to say ‘Have the vaccine’. There are 2 aspects to this: 1) weighing up if the vaccine is recommended for your age group and 2) the nuisance factor if they bring in c19 passports. But, for you, I don’t think anything serious happened to you and I don’t think you are at high risk from the vaccine.
Atticus: But he is at risk!
Dr C: Everyone’s at risk.
Atticus: [exasperated] I don’t know what to do with that because it’s terrible that Max is in this situation where he is being coerced into having an experimental gene therapy treatment just so he can live his life and, it seems, being coerced into something that has caused damage – and could cause great damage in the future – is unethical.
Dr C (indicating to me): Did you have the vaccine?
Me: I didn’t want to distract the Dr, nor give him any space in which to indulge in any anti-vaxx prejudices, so I subverted the question.
Atticus: This is about Max. I’m older. My risk profile is different to Max’s. It just seems unfair and unjust that Max is coerced into having an unlicensed experimental treatment just so he can live his life. The treatment is of no benefit to him and seems to be a great risk to him.
Max: I’d have to have the 2nd vaxx in about 5 weeks so I need to make a decision within the next month.
Dr C: There are different types of vaccine. The Astra Zeneca one is completely different.
Atticus: Blood clots! There’s blood clots with that one. They all seem pretty dirty when you start investigating them!
Me: The GP had also suggested mixing and matching different c19 vaxx brands. Refer to linked post. Where is the science that this is safe and effective? There is none. All that seems to matter is that you take the required number of doses. Compliance appears to be the objective, not efficacy. The Dr did not respond on the subject of bloodclots!
Max: I’m pretty nervous about having the 2nd one…I still lived my life with the pain after the first one…I still went to the gym…
Dr C: That makes me think that you didn’t have myocarditis, you had a reaction. We have no objective data on which to base this.
‘No objective data’ – 4th time!
Atticus: Could you issue a medical exemption, exempting Max from subsequent jabs?
Me: I knew the answer to this even before I asked it since the Dr’s entire advice consisted of telling Max to have the 2nd jab, like a good boy, but I thought I’d ask it anyway.
Dr C: I think that’s a ‘no’, you see it probably wasn’t myocarditis [then he brought up, again, the disadvantages that having myocarditis on his medical record could cause Max in future].
Atticus: So, you would advise having 2nd jab?
Dr C: Well, it’s a personal decision but I had it, my family had it, everyone I know…the recommendation is that people have the vaccine…
Me: another appeal to authority.
Max: that’s given me a bit of confidence hearing that.
Me: All the doctor has done throught the entire consultation has been to downplay the risks, despite having no facts to hand, with the result that Max is now beginning to think that 2nd jab might not be so bad after all! It was time to bring out the Big Gun…
Atticus: Would you be prepared to sign a liability letter, saying that Max wouldn’t have any serious long term impacts if he had the 2nd jab?
Me: I had a printed liability letter in my pocket ready to push in front of the Dr. In the end, I didn’t produce the letter as that would have been quite provocative. The Dr wasn’t a bad man: he was just following orders.
Dr C: Why would I sign such a letter?
Atticus: To give us confidence in your medical expertise
Dr C: why would anyone sign such a letter? What would such a letter mean?
Me: the Doc wasn’t at all happy about the letter!
Atticus: It would mean peace of mind. It would mean you are confident in the advice you have given us.
Dr C: I’ll tell you what is important is that I write down that you had a reaction to the vaccine, you were able to go to the gym…[then, for the 3rd time, he raised the subject of mortgage applications and life insurance in the future].
Dr C: “Now, a cheeky question: what do you do?”, indicating me.
Atticus: I’m in IT.
Dr C: Now if I bought a computer system from you, would you write me a letter guaranteeing that it would never break down?
Me: the Doc was still smarting about the liability letter!
Atticus: It’s not an equivalent analogy! But I would give you a letter saying it would work as required but I would recommend against you loading some dodgy software into it, or you will have to accept the consequences. What’s happening here is that you’re recommending that Max loads the dodgy software – the jab – but that it’s entirely his fault if there are consequences.
Me: we said our goodbyes at that point. It was a very unproductive meeting. The Doctor was smart enough to maintain a neutral facade throughout the engagement. He kept repeating that we should follow government advice. We emerged without answers: we still didn’t know what adverse reaction had affected Max. We had reached the end of the road and it was a dead-end.
Postscript: Max decided not to have the 2nd jab. I showed Max information on the Spanish government’s website that showed it was possible to enter Spain if you could prove you had recovered from c19 within the previous 6 months. Since Max had proof of c19 infection in December 2021, he entered Spain on that basis.


































