On Monday, December 11, 2023, I attended a webinar hosted by USA Boxing—the national governing body for Olympic style boxing — titled Our Best Shot for a Happy AND Healthy Holiday Season.
USA Boxing provides guidance for approximately 2,400 clubs in the United States. According to its Mission Statement, its purpose is:
To promote and grow Olympic-style amateur boxing in the United States and to inspire the tireless pursuit of Olympic gold and enable athletes and coaches to achieve sustained competitive excellence. Additionally, USA Boxing endeavors to teach all participants the character, confidence and focus they need to become resilient and diverse champions, both in and out of the ring.
The purpose of USA Boxing’s holiday season webinar was to push COVID-19 vaccine boosters onto young athletes who are NOT at risk of severe illness from COVID-19, but ARE at risk of suffering myocarditis from the SHOT.
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As presented on the e-mail invitation, the speakers.
The webinar was a shameful species of propaganda that featured multiple lies, starting with the lie that getting a COVID-19 vaccination “is not just a personal choice, but a collective responsibility.” This lie ignores that fact—expressly stated 2.5 years ago by CDC director Rochelle Walensky—that the vaccines do not prevent transmission of the virus. This being the case, there is no grounds whatsoever for claiming that getting a shot “is a collective responsibility.”
After a brief introduction by Mike McAtee, Lindsay Clarke took the floor to speak about the COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project, which is led by her organization, the Alliance for Aging Research. The PROJECT, whose membership includes dozens of large institutions and associations, resembles the COVID-19 Community Corps. As such, it is yet another large scale propaganda network, financed by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, to advocate COVID-19 vaccine uptake in associations through their officers and managers.
Avra Thomas took the floor “to share facts about COVID vaccines and how they work in the body.” She gave a jumbled and incoherent presentation on “the messenger RNA vaccine” and stressed the importance of getting boosters going into the holiday season to stay up to date.
She made a series of unsubstantiated assertions, including the following:
- 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations have been prevented due to the vaccination, and this is over the last two years in the U.S.”
- Among the unvaccinated, the death rates are higher. … And also we know that the vaccine could have prevented additional deaths.
- 67% of unvaccinated people have heard a myth that has causes them to be vaccine hesitant.
- You DO need a vaccine even if you’ve had COVID-19. The infection gives you some protection, but we don’t know how long. We think it’s 90 days, so when you start to feel better, you should get a vaccine.
- Serious vaccine side effects such as heart attacks and strokes are very rare. The common types that are known are injection site pain, redness, swelling, fever and chills. These are temporary and for the greater good.
- The risk of developing a blood clot is far higher from COVID-19 than from the vaccine. This risk is much greater of a cardiovascular complication from the infection than from the vaccine.
Following this mendacious and misleading presentation by Avra Thomas, Mike McAtee talked about USA Boxing events with mobile vaccine facilities (including pharmacists) present for providing free shots and boosters to all attendees, including all insured and uninsured adult spectators. Information about vaccines is provided in both English and Spanish.
During the Q&A, a question was posed about “the recommendation for the time between boosters?” Avra Thomas gave another incoherent response:
“So it’s still as it was before. I believe it’s at least two months, um, from, um, from when the last dose. Well, I’m sorry, that was with the initial dose, and then the booster. So—”
“I think it’s still two, right? Per season,” interjected Lindsay Clarke. “But then at least two months in between. Right?”
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“Is it still two months?” asked Avra Thomas.
“Right, but then, um, at least two months in between, right?”
“Right, at least two months in between, but, immunity is longer than that, but it’s fine to get a booster. I just got mine in October, um, so…”
“Yeah, and just to put a plug-in,” interjected Ms. Clarke again. “You need boosters, just because you had an infection, right, doesn’t mean you are protected against an another infection. And just because the first or the second or the third time you had it wasn’t big deal doesn’t mean the next time won’t be. So we can’t, we can’t, we shouldn’t gamble on just because we had a mild case one time means we’ll have a mild case again, right?”
“That’s exactly right. And I want to encourage it as we’re going into the holiday season and we’ll congregate and be around the more vulnerable population, whether they be younger or older. We want to be sure we’re protecting ourselves as well as those around us. So get those vaccinations.”
