Covid-19 vaccine victims sue Portuguese state

Victims “feel betrayed by those who should have protected them”

Bit by bit, throughout the developed world, victims of the vaccines created at the ‘speed of science’ to combat Covid-19, are seeking to make their stories heard.

Neuroradiologist Gabriel Branco has admitted that “the number of complications in the first two years of the vaccine were superior to the complications of all other vaccines in the last 10 years” – stressing that, in his opinion, the DGS (Portugal’s health directorate) was wrong in saying the vaccine was safe.

None of this is ‘new’ to the wider world, but for Portugal it is another step in a direction that so many are keen to see taken, particularly at a point where the European Union seems to be focusing further vaccine control.

Back in 2021 the ‘vaccine certificate’ for people accepting the Covid vaccines “was more than a document; it was a promise of return to normality”. People who agreed to be vaccinated would once more be able to circulate freely; go into restaurants and cinemas and parties; fly abroad.

“But, for some, vaccination brought consequences they never imagined, leaving profound marks for the rest of their lives.

“Paulo Almeida worked for more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, and retired with a 71% lifetime disability, allegedly due to the vaccine against Covid-19 that he took in 2021.

“Tiredness was the first sign, but his symptoms progressed.

“It is time to admit that the vaccine provoked secondary effects”, says the 57-year-old who is taking out a complaint against the Portuguese state.

Paulo Almeida took the Janssen vaccine, and now lives with miocarditis and pruritus (constant itching) – “symptoms which INFARMED accepts can follow vaccination”.

I live almost like a caveman. I cannot put a drop of water on my body, because, if I do, I break out in an hour…

Isabel Faria, 53, also took the Janssen vaccine, and her life now “is very difficult (…) These last three years have been hell. The vaccine ruined my life”, she says.

Isabel used to be a businesswoman whose activity took her “everywhere, even outside the country”. Today, she takes a high dose of morphine, and there are days when she cannot get out of bed: “I have to be carried”.

Pedro Gonçalves, 49, took the Pfizer vaccine, and started getting breathing difficulties, which developed into “uncontrollable epilepsy attacks”.

He spent 16 days in an induced coma – and “when he woke up, he was told that epilepsy, in spite of being rare, is an adverse effect of the vaccine. The confirmation was given by a doctor during the closing stages of his hospital internment”.

I was always healthy, but now I am afraid to do sport, I am afraid to go running because I could get an attack at any moment.

His episodes are ‘controlled by medication’, but his life, he says, will never be the same.

Just these three people are among those taking out judicial processes against the Portuguese state. They feel betrayed by those who should have protected them, and are fighting for their problems to be recognised. Isabel Faria also intends to sue INFARMED and the pharmaceutical company (Janssen).

Beyond Portugal, other countries have also seen victims sue for the consequences of their trust in the pandemic narrative.

Later this month, a court in the Netherlands has agreed to hear the civil complaint lodged by a group of Dutch citizens against a number of ‘movers and shakers’ behind the Covid-vaccines, including Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.

https://www.portugalresident.com/covid-19-vaccine-victims-sue-portuguese-state/