Influencer who mocked unvaccinated confused by sudden blood clots

A woman who mocked people for questioning the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine is confused by the sudden appearance of blood clots in her lungs.

Jamaican influencer Abi-Gaye Smythe promoted the vaccine in 2021 when she wrote, “Hospitals are filled with people suffering from effects of Covid-19. Hospitals aren't filled with people suffering from effects of the vaccine.”

Smythe’s post was a jab at health professionals and medical experts who warned that the COVID-19 vaccine is associated with cardiac events and blood clots. Scientific findings and anecdotal evidence of blood clots following the vaccine earned it the nickname “the clot shot.”

Last week Smythe updated her Instagram followers on a new diagnosis which is puzzling doctors.

“The Diagnosis; I have Bilateral Pulmonary Embolism (Blood Clot in both my lungs. They are some decent sizes too). How? We don’t know yet. The doctors are trying to figure it out,” she wrote.

“Nonetheless… until we get to the bottom of this, and even when I overcome this, we stay praying God ain’t done with me yet!”

It is unclear which vaccine Smythe took, though Jamaica initially kicked off its vaccination campaign with the AstraZeneca/Oxford injections. The country was also given a donation of 300,000 AstraZeneca shots after Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness complained that “rich nations” were “hoarding” the vaccines.

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At least 75 families in Britain are now suing AstraZeneca over the deaths of their loved ones, who they say died from vaccine-induced blood clots. Kurt Wiedeling, whose wife Nicola died from a blood clot caused by the vaccine, has joined the army of bereaved family members seeking legal action, according to a Daily Mail report Friday. Nicola was a marketing executive for Oxford University, which partnered with AstraZeneca in producing the vaccine. Days before her death, when she was being treated for Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis (VITT), Nicola insisted she was “an anomaly” and “an absolute outlier statistically” and said she “would still recommend the AZ vaccine.”

Like Nicola, medical establishment spokesmen insist VITT is “rare” and are scrambling to provide other explanations for the recent rise in strokes and cardiac events among the young and healthy population, such as too much and too little exercise.

In a June study researchers said 16.5 million Americans are at risk of blood clots and consequent strokes from too much exercise. An estimated 5% of the population suffers from carotid artery stenosis, which is when the carotid arteries are constricted. Carotid arteries are found on either side of the neck and carry oxygenated blood to the brain.

This imperils millions of people when they exercise, concluded the researchers:

[W]hile stressful exercises may be beneficial for improving the cardiac performance of healthy individuals, the same may bring in extremely adverse consequences at elevated heart rates on account of extensive physical activities for patients having extensive arterial blockages, if not performed in supervision of specialized experts.

The study’s authors also concluded that exercise may be the cause of sudden cardiac arrests suffered by young, healthy people.

“These findings may, therefore, provide a possible clue to the apparent mystery of sudden massive cardiac arrests of otherwise asymptomatic individuals working out in the gymnasium that keeps on killing human lives with no apparent rationalizing explanation,” said the study.

An MIT study last year found the recent outbreak to be correlated with the COVID-19 vaccines.