Wikipedia Suppresses Basketball Player’s Post-Vaccine Blood Clot Troubles
In spring 2021, the American basketball player Brandon Goodwin, then of the Atlanta Hawks, developed severe fatigue and back pain, which would force him to miss that year’s NBA playoffs. Several months later, in September, Goodwin revealed in a Twitch stream that he had been diagnosed with blood clots and that his problems began in the immediate aftermath of being vaccinated against COVID-19.
“I was fine… until I took the vaccine,” Goodwin said. “I was fine… Yes, the vaccine ended my season, one thousand percent.”
Astonishingly, however, Brandon Goodwin’s post-vaccine troubles with blood clots have been entirely purged from his Wikipedia entry. The current version of his Wikipedia entry simply reads “Goodwin missed the 2021 NBA playoffs due to a respiratory condition”, without any source being given.
It was in fact his employer, the Atlanta Hawks, that had announced in May that Goodwin would miss the playoffs due to a “minor” respiratory condition, as reported by the Associated Press. In his September 29th Twitch stream, however, Goodwin revealed not only that he had in fact been suffering from post-vaccine blood clots, but also that a Hawks official called him while in the hospital and told him, “Don’t say anything about it, don’t tell nobody”.
For an account of the episode, see Megan Redshaw’s article at Children’s Health Defence. The Twitch stream is no longer available, but relevant excerpts have been preserved by the Daily Caller.
Despite back-and-forth among Wikipedia editors about whether blood clots should be described as a ‘known’, ‘rare’ or ‘common’ side effect of COVID-19 vaccines, as of February 26th 2022, Goodwin’s Wikipedia entry still included the following passage:
On October 3rd 2021, with his season having ended early, Goodwin reported severe fatigue coupled with extreme back pain, and a formal diagnosis of blood clots followed. Blood clots is a common side-effect connected to COVID-19 vaccination. Goodwin has made public he had received a vaccination shot just prior to his blood clot diagnosis.
By two days later, there was no longer any mention of his blood clots or the vaccine.
A Wikipedia editor attempted to justify an earlier deletion of reference to Goodwin’s post-vaccine blood clots by noting that Goodwin had “recanted” his claims. The term is well chosen.
By the time of his Twitch stream, Goodwin had been let go by the Atlanta Hawks. In an apparent attempt to get back in the good graces of the NBA, on October 14th – the very day he signed a non-guaranteed contract with the New York Knicks and just before the start of the NBA season – Goodwin posted an exculpatory tweet insisting:
I don’t have a story. That wasn’t something I wanted to get out there. I got sick. Maybe it was the vaccine maybe it was Covid [I don’t know] I’m not a expert. But I’m fine, and I’m healthy and about to play.
It was presumably also around this time that Goodwin made his Twitch stream private. He is presently out of the league.
Have other NBA players likewise been put under pressure to cover up adverse reactions to a COVID-19 vaccine? Well, on the same day that Brandon Goodwin posted his exculpatory tweet, Brooklyn Nets centre Nic Claxton revealed after a pre-season game that he was feeling unwell with what the New York Post would later call a “mystery illness“. Claxton would not play again for the next month-and-a-half.
News reports described symptoms of fatigue reminiscent of the problems Goodwin was having earlier in the year. On October 31st, the Brooklyn Nets announced that Claxton was suffering from an otherwise unspecified “non-Covid-related illness”.
“Nic is going to be out a little bit,” then Net coach Steve Nash explained:
He’s not feeling well. Nothing to be concerned with but I don’t think he’s going to be back in the next week or 10 days. Just an illness, but it’s nothing major or nothing we’re overly concerned with. It’s just a little more severe illness than we thought initially and I think he’ll miss a little more time.
Mysterious indeed. “Don’t say anything about it, don’t tell nobody”?
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This explains a lot doesn’t it? The above just further confirms what we all already know; these sports people that are being taken out by sudden health issues ( usually cardiac related ) are being told to keep quiet. That’s why my rule of thumb is this; if there’s no mention of the vax status then you can put money on the fact they had it. The censorship is just blatant now and we aren’t bloody stupid.
Correct. If the reverse were true, i.e. he was unvaccinated and didn’t mention his vaccination status, somebody would have edited the story to add it in! This is how the media
Pravdapedia..
Jimmy Dore does a wonderful video of Wikipedia and how it’s really CIA, FBI etc controlled. His own entry presents him as a conspiracy theorist, surprise, surprise, even though he never says anything at all conspiracy-minded. The vid is only 6 + mins long and as usual, in Jimmy’s inimitable way, is highly entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dblXf0RGuMc
The FBI and CIA etc etc may well be involved but it has always seemed to me that the political left have an endless supply of people with the time and energy to do stuff like edit Wikipedia.
Yes.. I’ve heard the CIA are involved with Wikipedia, which wouldn’t surprise me, they’re involved in just about everything else.
I think anything and anybody controversial is edited and then locked so ‘the truth’ just like ‘the science’ conforms to a narrative..
Let’s face it, this is far from the only pro sportsplayer whose ‘health problems’ – almost invariably related to cardiac issues or blood clots – have been obfuscated. At the end of June a professional basketball player from the Dominican Republic called Oscar Cabrera Adames, 28, died of cardiac arrest while engaged in a heart stress test at a health centre. He had stated that he had been diagnosed with myocarditis after having to take the vaxx to play (he was playing in Spain). There is a video of him keeling over on the court. This got very little attention in the press. What is frightening about this episode is that they knew of his condition and he was in a location where they should have been prepared and able to prevent his death. LeBron James’ 18-year-old son, playing top basketball in college and on his way to the NBA, suffered a cardiac episode a few weeks ago. James has stated publicly in the past that he and his family had been vaxxed. He was the second basketball player at that university to suffer such an episode within in a year. US football player Damar Hamlyn. I suppose it isn’t… Read more »
I stopped watching the NBA when they started forcing players to take jabs and will never watch it again until they admit the horror of what they did and express real regret.
They’re scumbags.
Professional sport isn’t really about anything except advertising revenue. As always He who pays the piper calls the tune. A nice example of that would be the former German national team. They won a world cup not that long ago. This caught somebodies attention who then had a Hold a sec, this must not be! Since then, they’ve accomplished nothing except endless alphabet soup posing – We are so L. And so G. And so B and T, yes we are! Consequently, they’ve turned into a national laughing stock and are now whining that the German population should really support them like they did in earlier times. When the played football and won matches instead of being So L. And so G. And so Etc!
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Hold a sec, this must not be! moment.
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