How I Woke Up to the Fraudulent Narrative
- Elisa Ballard

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OPINION
August 12, 2026
In 2020 and 2021, as the official story from the CDC, FDA, and Dr. Anthony Fauci dominated every screen and newspaper, something did not sit right with me. I began questioning the narrative when I came across a short interview shared by filmmaker Mikki Willis featuring Judy Mikovits, Ph.D. Mikovits, who had once worked in research connected to Fauci’s orbit, described what she saw as deep corruption. That led me to her book Plague of Corruption.
From there, the pieces started connecting. Gain-of-function research involving coronaviruses was being conducted at the Wuhan lab in China. Mikovits detailed how vaccine injuries had been minimized or covered up for years. One historical example that stood out was the accidental introduction of the monkey virus SV-40 into early polio vaccines. Research has since detected this virus in certain tumors in people who received those vaccines. To me, the pattern of downplaying adverse events felt criminal.
I found older PubMed studies from 2004 showing chloroquine (similar to hydroxychloroquine) had potent in-vitro activity against coronaviruses. Fauci knew of this data, yet insisted there was no evidence that it would be effective and that studies were required before it could be used for COVID-19. Fauci continually downplayed treatments for the virus in favor of emergency-authorized vaccines. The motive? - If effective treatments could be identified, the vaccines could not be approved under emergency authorization. Reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci reinforced my growing suspicions. The book documented a long record of problematic responses by Fauci, including during the AIDS era. It also highlighted remdesivir—the drug heavily promoted for hospitalized COVID patients—which had been sidelined in an Ebola trial after showing poorer outcomes, including serious kidney injury in a substantial portion of patients. It appeared to me that the priority was not finding the most effective early treatments but advancing certain dangerous but lucrative pharmaceutical products.
The “safe and effective” mantra was repeated over and over by public health officials, pushing everyone to get vaccinated. The truth was far from this narrative. Adverse vaccine injuries were covered up, and the claim that the vaccine would halt transmission of the virus proved false. The narrative then changed to “the vaccine will reduce the seriousness of the infection.” However, even this vaccine benefit wanes significantly after just two or three months. People who had recovered from natural infection were told to get vaccinated because natural immunity wasn’t good enough. This was another lie.
The reliance on PCR testing raised further red flags. The inventor of the technology, Kary B. Mullis, had warned before his death about the dangers of using PCR tests to diagnose viral infections. High cycle thresholds could produce false positives. Yet high amplification was widely used. Flu cases seemed to vanish that year as nearly every respiratory illness was labeled COVID-19. The more COVID-19 cases, the more reimbursement hospitals received from the Federal Government ($14,000-$40,000 more per patient).
I also came to question the foundation of vaccine safety studies. Vaccines have rarely been tested against a true inert placebo; short-term trials often compare one vaccine to another. The cumulative effect of the childhood schedule has not been examined as a whole. Books such as those by Dr. Brian Hooker, describing his son’s injuries from vaccines, and Dr. Paul Thomas’s The Vaccine Friendly Plan, examining risks versus benefits of individual vaccines on the schedule, deepened my concerns that stacking multiple vaccines may create toxic overload in vulnerable children and contribute to conditions including autism. Notably, the Amish people who refuse vaccines for religious reasons have much lower rates of autism than the general population.
Dr. William W. Thompson, the CDC scientist known as the “CDC whistleblower,” was willing to testify before Congress about a 2004 study on the MMR vaccine and autism. In recorded conversations with Brian Hooker and in a formal written statement provided through his attorneys to then-U.S. Representative Bill Posey (R-Florida), Thompson alleged that he and his co-authors omitted statistically significant findings related to African-American boys from the published paper. He also described a meeting in which hard-copy documents related to the study were discarded; Thompson said he retained copies because he believed discarding them could have violated record-retention rules.
Posey repeatedly raised the issue on the House floor. In July 2015 (and in subsequent remarks), he entered excerpts of Thompson’s statement into the Congressional Record and publicly called for a formal investigation and for Thompson to testify under oath. Thompson indicated he was willing to appear before Congress under appropriate protections. Despite these efforts, Congress never scheduled a formal hearing at which Thompson testified under oath about the 2004 study or the handling of related documents.
Congress, the FDA, and the CDC have long been complicit in the expanding autism crisis. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated in 2025, is now leading the agency and implementing reforms, yet faces an uphill battle against deep pharmaceutical industry influence within the department. There is a revolving door of CDC officials leaving their positions to obtain lucrative positions with big pharma. The claim by many skeptics that we have more autism because of better diagnostics doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. We do not see those high numbers of middle-aged or older adults who are autistic.
One senator has been instrumental in bringing truth to the American people. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has held multiple hearings examining COVID-19 vaccine injuries, failures in safety monitoring, and related issues. These hearings have focused on alleged underreporting and downplaying of adverse events, flaws in federal surveillance systems, myocarditis risks, potential mechanisms of harm (including cancer concerns), and the experiences of the vaccine-injured.
On July 29, 2026, Fauci was questioned under oath by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) , and refused to answer any questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. This confirmed for the American people that the person at the helm of the government's COVID-19 response was diabolical. Examination of documents, emails, and Fauci’s cell phone reveals a pattern of his failure to communicate the truth about the suspected origins of the virus, the potential adverse events associated with the vaccines, and his fascination with celebrity status. Many believe this man is evil. He was directly involved in funding gain-of-function Coronavirus studies at the Wuhan lab, even as he told the public that the lab-leak theory was invalid. He told the public that the vaccine was perfectly safe, including for pregnant women, but he knew that vaccination in the first trimester of pregnancy could be dangerous due to cytokine storms. Unsuspecting pregnant mothers were pressured to get the vaccine. Truth-tellers online told about the large numbers of miscarriages and birth defects that occurred during the vaccine rollouts in 2020 and 2021.
The rollout of mRNA technology brought new worries. Critics, including Dr. Robert Malone (who has described himself as an early contributor to the technology), have argued that the spike protein is toxic and that the platform carries risks of altering cellular processes in ways that may impair natural cancer defenses. Malone and his wife, who had worked on emerging infectious threats, found themselves sidelined when they questioned the official approach. Meanwhile, the CDC hid the signal for myocarditis and other adverse events from the public.
Doctors who advocated early treatments or questioned the heavy use of remdesivir and ventilators were often vilified rather than engaged in open scientific debate. America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), founded and led by Dr. Simone Gold, emerged in 2020 as a physician-led group that advocated early outpatient treatment of COVID-19 using existing, inexpensive medications rather than relying solely on hospital care, novel drugs, or public-health restrictions.
Common sense suggested that products studied for only a few months could not fully reveal long-term risks such as cancer, which can take years to develop. Fauci pressured the public to lock down, social distance, and close down schools, churches, and businesses, leading to major suffering and deaths.
All-cause deaths were up in the U.S. in 2021 and 2022, among middle-aged, insured people, according to insurance actuaries. There were reports by morticians of strange clots discovered in the veins of the dead. Nothing was reported by the mainstream news about vaccine adverse events because their advertising revenue is mainly derived from the pharmaceutical industry.
I woke up years ago to what I believe was a coordinated deception. The books, the interviews, the older studies, and the pattern of suppressed dissent all pointed in the same direction. Questioning the experts was treated as heresy—until the top expert himself refused to answer questions under oath. The public deserves better than narratives that cannot withstand scrutiny. President Donald Trump’s new Executive Order reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines and splitting up the MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) vaccine into separate doses that should be administered at separate doctor’s visits is a very good sign that common sense and proper studies will be performed to evaluate risks and benefits for every vaccine and the combinations thereof.
Now mRNA flu vaccines are being introduced. I see this as another chapter in the same story. Do your own research and take the time to question and inform yourself concerning healthcare decisions. Do not blindly trust the experts. They could be well-meaning, or they themselves might be misinformed. However, there is no excuse for the lies told by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who seems to enjoy committing crimes against humanity and should be punished for them.
Disclaimer:
This article is provided for information purposes only. It is not medical guidance. Always consult your personal physician when making personal health decisions.






