Before the convening of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Two Sessions, victims of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in China continued their momentum in seeking justice for their suffering. They joined forces with other vaccine victims in their efforts, albeit on a long and arduous path.
The Two Sessions represent the most tense period for the CCP, during which various aggrieved individuals from across China seize the opportunity to travel to Beijing to appeal to the central authorities to address their grievances.
‘Government is a Scoundrel’
Qian Dalong, a victim of the Beijing Sinovac vaccine, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that many victims had already arrived in Beijing, and “went into hiding” to wait for the right moment. Some of them were intercepted and sent back to their hometowns. He himself has been under surveillance since Feb. 27, with someone stationed outside his home.Yao Ling (pseudonym), a female victim from Anhui Province, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that in 2021, she was diagnosed with leukemia about 45 days after she received the third shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. She went to Beijing alone on Feb. 28, found a place to stay, and intended to stay in Beijing until the end of the Two Sessions, but she didn’t expect to be targeted as soon as she arrived in Beijing. When she went out to throw the garbage on the morning of Feb. 29, a gang of people seized her and sent her back to Anhui.
Mr. Qian said that based on the information he collected, nearly 3,000 victims of all types of vaccines would join the petition, the largest group being the victims of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“The COVID-19 vaccine victim group is so large,” he said. “Many got leukemia. In some families, two people in the family got leukemia. There have been many deaths. It is too tragic.”
The largest number of victims in this group appears to be recipients of the Beijing Sinovac vaccine. Adverse effects include leukemia, diabetes, cerebral hemorrhage, and cerebral infarction, among others, and victims span all ages.
“So many families have been affected, and the pain they bear is beyond words,” Mr. Qian said.
This year, they drafted a proposal, which they plan to submit on site during the Two Sessions in Beijing. The proposal calls for the establishment of a mechanism to protect and assist victims of vaccine injuries.
In accordance with the provisions of the Vaccine Administration Law, they advocate that compensation should be provided for death, serious disability, organ tissue damage, and other injuries to vaccine recipients during or after the vaccination process, which are vaccine adverse reactions or adverse reactions that cannot be ruled out as being caused by the vaccine. The authorities are requested to set up an ad hoc relief fund to provide full compensation for pre-medical treatment to prevent abnormal reactions to vaccination, including accommodation expenses, living expenses, and lost wages during the treatment period.
They also planned to attach a list of nearly 3,000 victims with the proposal.
Mr. Qian revealed that some people agreed to settle with the authorities when they received a very small amount of money as compensation, sometimes a ridiculously small amount.
“I know of a victim’s family from a rural village in Hunan province who was given 7,000 yuan (about $972) in funeral expenses by the government and the matter was resolved without any further dispute,” he said.
According to Mr. Qian, when handling cases of mild symptoms, the authorities generally recognize that vaccines cannot be ruled out. In contrast, those with severe symptoms are basically identified as “co-occurring.”
“If the symptoms are recognized as coincidental but you try your best to appeal and make as many people know about your case as possible, the government may solve the problem for you. If you don’t, the government basically doesn’t care,” he said.
COVID-19 vaccine companies took advantage of government-enforced mandatory vaccination programs to make a fortune during the virus outbreak, but the vaccine’s adverse effects went unanswered.
Government-Enforced Mandatory Vaccination
Several vaccine injury victims told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that the government forced them to take the vaccine. Now, some have died, and some are disabled. As a result, many people have descended into a deep pit of misery after that.“If you don’t get vaccinated, you are not allowed to go to school, go to work, or go to public places. It’s ridiculous,” Mr. Qian said.
Mr. Qian used to work as a manager in an “automobile city” in Beijing—a car dealership center. Because of the three-year lockdown, all the car dealerships lost money and laid off workers. He lost his job and had to take the vaccine to find a new one.
Mr. Qian received his third dose of the Sinovac vaccine on Oct. 28, 2021. About a week later, he suddenly became paralyzed on the evening of Nov. 7, and at the worst point, the right half of his body was completely immobile. Although he has recovered somewhat after treatment, he has become a person with a second-degree disability.
He currently relies on a monthly disability allowance of just over 1,000 yuan (approximately $139) and his wife’s income to make ends meet. To save money, he tries his best to endure the pain himself to save medical costs.
Zhou Fenghua (pseudonym) from Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, also revealed that her husband received his second dose of the Sinovac vaccine in June 2021 because of the government’s mandatory vaccination program, but little did he know that it would bring devastation to their family. Two weeks later, he suddenly had difficulty breathing and was rushed to the hospital. After staying in the hospital for two days, he experienced a sudden cardiac arrest and bronchospasm early on the third day, becoming a vegetative person without spontaneous breathing, and subsequently passed away.
“It was just that simple, in just two days, we lost him forever, so we couldn’t accept it,” Ms. Zhou said. She further revealed that in her community, there were multiple deaths following the vaccination in June that year. She herself heard of six or seven such cases.
Medical Bills Leave Families Destitute
Many of the victims of the COVID-19 vaccine are suffering from serious or rare illnesses that are difficult to treat. Some have been hospitalized for years. The high medical bills have brought great financial difficulties to their families.Ms. Yao is still young, and her strong will to survive drove her to try every possible means to seek treatment. Her family sold their house and car and borrowed money from friends and relatives to get enough money to pay for her medical bills. Her sister even donated bone marrow to her. Now, because of her low immunity and poor resistance to diseases as a leukemia patient, she spends half of every month in the hospital, and her husband has lost his job because he has to spend time taking care of her.
Li Yong (pseudonym) in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, said her sister suffered from leukemia two years ago due to the COVID-19 vaccine and spent 1.2 million yuan (about $160,000) for two years of treatment. Because Mr. Li kept appealing to the relevant departments, the authorities, fearing he would make a big fuss, agreed to reimburse part of his sister’s medical bills. However, she still had to pay 440,000 yuan (about $60,000), an astronomical figure for her family.
