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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina says she has developed lasting health problems resulting from the COVID-19 vaccine, including asthma, hand tremors, and heart problems.
The CDC openly admits that serious side effects, including enlargement of the heart and death, are possible from the COVID-19 vaccine, but are rare and do not outweigh the benefits.
Rep. Mace recently spoke during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee and questioned Twitter’s role in wrongfully suppressing accurate COVID information.
“Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate COVID information,” Mace explained. At one point, Twitter censored Stanford doctor Jay Bhattacharya who rejected the federal approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I, along with many Americans, have long-term effects from COVID. Not only was I a long hauler, but I have effects from the vaccine. It wasn’t the first shot, but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma that has never gone away since I had the second shot,” she said.
“I have tremors in my left hand, and I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain. And I’ve had a battery of tests,” she said.
“I find it extremely alarming Twitter’s unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagreed with the CDC,” she said.
“I have great regrets about getting the shot because of the health issues that I now have that I don’t think are ever going to go away. And I know that I’m not the only American who has those kinds of concerns,” she said.
.@RepNancyMace: You're not a doctor, right?
Gadde: No I'm not.
Mace: What makes you think you or anyone else at Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate CDC data?
Gadde: I'm not familiar with these particular situations.
Mace: Yeah, I'm sure you're not. pic.twitter.com/GJaoVwAoGu
— MRCTV (@mrctv) February 8, 2023
Rep. Mace directly confronted Twitter’s former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde over the issue.
“Where did you go to medical school?” she asked Gadde.
Gadde responded that she isn’t a doctor.
“You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world, and you silenced those voices,” Mace said.
“This is what Twitter did. They labeled this as inaccurate. It is the government’s own data,” she continued.
“It’s ridiculous that we’re even having to have this conversation today. It’s not just about the laptop this is about medical advice that expert doctors were trying to give Americans because social media companies like Twitter were silencing their voices,” she said.
