How Covid got Biden elected
October 8th news too
This is a roughly 29-minute interview from the Dan Bongino podcast, posted 4 October 2026 on Peter McCullough’s channel. Bongino asks why some people who took an mRNA COVID vaccine appear harmed and most do not, and whether people with no symptoms should still worry. McCullough’s answers are his own claims; several are contested by mainstream regulators and researchers.
Why some are injured and others are not. McCullough says about 81% of Americans were vaccinated and about 94% of those received Pfizer or Moderna. He treats the products as genetic: synthetic mRNA that, he says, can persist for years and keep making spike protein. He cites CDC v-safe and puts the split at about 98% apparently fine and about 2% with ongoing problems.
He gives three reasons for that split:
- Batch variability. He says doses were not uniform. Of about 4,500 Pfizer lots, he says roughly 75% showed essentially no serious side effects, which he reads as very little active mRNA.
- Antibody neutralization. If antibodies fully neutralize the spike, he says there are no side effects. If the antibody response is slightly off, spike can circulate and cause syndromes.
- Baseline susceptibility. In his cardiology practice, people with mutations in heart-muscle proteins are at higher risk of myocarditis, and people with genetic clotting tendencies are at higher risk of a vaccine-associated clot.
What he tells the injured to do. Get a spike-antibody blood test (he mentions Labcorp, self-ordered, about $79). Above 1,000 units/ml he calls a significant spike exposure; levels of 10,000–25,000 he associates with being very sick. He recommends clearing spike with nattokinase and bromelain on an empty stomach, taken for a couple of years, and promotes The Wellness Company’s “Ultimate Spike Detox” (nattokinase, bromelain and other ingredients). He also takes nattokinase himself for atherosclerosis and says these enzymes may dissolve microclots. He claims patients who sweat a lot — exercise or sauna — seem to clear the material better, and cites studies reporting mRNA in breast milk.
Why he says spike is dangerous. He describes it as an engineered, unnatural protein from Wuhan work that human enzymes do not break down. He says it has been found in the heart (myocarditis), inside clots, rupturing brain vessels, driving autoimmunity, and that fragments of its genetic code have been found in cancers.
On the mRNA design. Bongino thought the intent was a short, local burst of spike. McCullough says the mRNA is synthetic and chemically modified (pseudouridine) so it does not dissolve in minutes to hours the way natural mRNA does, and that there is no known off-switch.
Other topics in the interview.
- Cancer vaccines. He says mRNA was originally aimed at cancer. Moderna’s melanoma product, used with Keytruda, is worth trials in late-stage disease, but targeting and on/off control are still unsolved, and it would sit inside toxic combination therapy, not as a simple preventive.
- COVID deaths. He repeats Senate testimony that about 85% of deaths were avoidable, blames hospital protocols (ventilation, remdesivir, no early outpatient treatment), cites an ICON study in Florida in which he says ivermectin cut in-hospital mortality by about half, and says WHO advised against remdesivir in November 2020 while the US still uses it.
- AI and future threats. He uses AI as a clinical assistant and supports it for drug discovery, but warns against “Dr AI” replacing physicians and against AI-designed viruses. He says Stanford has already shown that capability and that controls and defensive AI are needed.
- Masks and PPE. Both treat community surgical masks and hospital hazmat use as ineffective and wasteful.
Bongino closes by saying McCullough was attacked early for opposing lockdowns, mandates and the official vaccine line, and that those critics have not apologized.
= For October 8th
The Rainhill Trials were a public test, not a race for its own sake. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was nearly finished in 1829, and its directors were still split on how to move the trains. George Stephenson wanted locomotives. A strong party, backed by engineers who had looked at the line, wanted fixed steam engines hauling wagons by rope. The company offered £500 to the locomotive that could do the work of a Liverpool–Manchester journey and the return, under rules written so that a showy sprint would not win.
The trials ran from 6 to 14 October 1829 on a level stretch at Rainhill, about nine miles from Liverpool. The judges were John Urpeth Rastrick, Nicholas Wood and John Kennedy. Ten engines were entered. Five appeared.
The rules, in the form finally used, were strict. The engine, with water in the boiler, was not to exceed six tons; above four and a half tons it had to run on six wheels. It had to be sprung, stand under fifteen feet to the chimney top, burn its own smoke, and work at no more than 50 pounds per square inch. It had to draw three times its own weight at an average of at least ten miles an hour. The course stood in for the real road: one and three-quarter miles each way, of which one and a half miles was at full speed, ten trips making thirty-five miles, then fuel and water renewed and ten trips more. Seventy miles, the equivalent of Liverpool to Manchester and back, with the boiler starting cold and the fuel weighed.
Cycloped, built by Thomas Shaw Brandreth of Liverpool, was not a steam engine at all. A horse walked on a moving platform geared to the wheels. It was the first to go. The horse put a foot through the floor and the machine was withdrawn. It had never met the rule that the engine be a locomotive consuming its own smoke.
Perseverance, by Timothy Burstall of Edinburgh, was damaged on the road to Rainhill. Burstall repaired it on the spot and it ran late in the week, but it could not hold much above five or six miles an hour and was taken out. The judges noted that its boiler was little more than a large copper.
Novelty was the crowd’s engine. John Braithwaite and John Ericsson built it in London in about seven weeks. It was a light tank locomotive, roughly two tons fifteen hundredweight, copper and blue, with a vertical boiler and bellows blowing the fire. On the first day, running light, it reached about twenty-eight miles an hour, faster than anything most of the ten thousand spectators had seen. It was also the most fragile. A feed pipe failed, then a boiler joint blew, and repeated repairs never got it through the weighed course. It was withdrawn without completing the trial. Ericsson later took the same inventive streak to the screw propeller and, in the American Civil War, to USS Monitor.
Sans Pareil was Timothy Hackworth’s bid, from the Stockton and Darlington. It was an 0-4-0 with vertical cylinders and a return-flue boiler, the type that had worked well on his Royal George. It arrived overweight for a four-wheeled engine, at about four and a half tons, and the judges let it run anyway. One cylinder, cast at Robert Stephenson’s works in Newcastle, cracked. Hackworth improvised and the engine did complete a long part of the course, averaging about fourteen miles an hour with a load near nineteen tons. The cost was coke. It burned on the order of 700 pounds an hour against the Rocket’s roughly 200. Power it had; economy and a sound boiler it did not. Hackworth’s friends later claimed the cracked cylinder was sabotage. The casts were Stephenson’s, and Henry Booth, treasurer of the railway, had suggested the multitubular boiler used on the winning engine, so the suspicion stuck. The evidence is the failure itself, not a plot.
Rocket, entered by Robert Stephenson of Newcastle, was painted yellow and black with a white chimney and weighed about four tons three hundredweight. The decisive ideas were Booth’s multitubular boiler — twenty-five copper tubes carrying the fire through the water — and the blast pipe, which threw exhaust steam up the chimney and pulled air through the fire. George Stephenson drove it. On 8 October it finished the first thirty-five miles in about three hours twelve minutes with a load of about thirteen tons, averaging a little over twelve miles an hour, with bursts near twenty-five. Light, it later touched about twenty-nine or thirty. It was the only engine that completed both halves of the trial without a breakdown that ended its run. On 14 October the judges gave it the prize: it alone had met every condition, and it was the best engine shown.
The immediate result was that the Liverpool and Manchester chose locomotives. Robert Stephenson and Company received the order. The line opened on 15 September 1830, with Rocket among the engines in the procession; William Huskisson, MP for Liverpool, was struck by it at Parkside and died that night, the first widely reported railway passenger fatality. The railway itself was a success, and the argument for rope haulage on a level inter-city line was over.
The design consequence mattered more than the £500. Within a year Stephenson had moved the cylinders inside the frames on the Planet type, and that layout, with the multitubular boiler and blast pipe, became the pattern of the British steam locomotive. Sans Pareil was bought by the Liverpool and Manchester, used on construction trains, and sold in 1832 to the Bolton and Leigh, where it worked into the 1840s. Novelty was repaired and tried again on the line, without changing the verdict. Hackworth went on building engines at Shildon and remained a major figure on the Stockton and Darlington; he did not forgive the result.
Rainhill did not invent the locomotive. Colliery engines had been hauling coal for a quarter of a century. It did settle, in front of engineers from Britain and abroad, that a locomotive could keep time, keep steam and pay its way on a passenger railway. Within a decade the same conclusion was being built into lines from Manchester to Birmingham and from Albany toward the Great Lakes.
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These are the October 8 entries. A few of the older dates are traditional rather than secure, and those caveats are marked where they matter.
314 (more likely 316) — Battle of Cibalae. Constantine I and Licinius, colleagues since the collapse of the Tetrarchy and joint authors of the Edict of Milan in 313, went to war over the Balkans. The spark was political: Constantine had raised his brother-in-law Bassianus as Caesar; Bassianus was caught intriguing, and Licinius refused to hand over the man behind him. Constantine invaded Licinius’s territory and met him on the plain between the Sava and the Drava, near Cibalae (modern Vinkovci in Croatia), about 350 kilometres inside Licinius’s domain. Constantine had roughly 20,000 men against about 35,000. The fight lasted all day. Late in the afternoon Constantine led a cavalry charge from the right wing, broke the line, and killed as many as 20,000 of Licinius’s troops. Licinius fled by night toward Sirmium and then Thrace. A later clash at Mardia was indecisive, but the peace that followed stripped Licinius of most of the Balkan peninsula and raised Constantine’s sons Crispus and Constantine II, with Licinius’s own son, to the rank of Caesar. Hydatius’s chronicle gives 8 October 314; consular lists and coinage point to 316. Either way, it was the first decisive step toward Constantine’s sole rule, completed at Chrysopolis in 324.
451 — Council of Chalcedon opens. The first session of the fourth ecumenical council began at Chalcedon, opposite Constantinople, on 8 October and ran until 1 November. Empress Pulcheria and Emperor Marcian had called it to settle the quarrel left by the “Robber Council” of Ephesus in 449, which had backed Eutyches’s claim that Christ had one nature after the Incarnation. About 500 bishops attended, almost all eastern. The council deposed Dioscorus of Alexandria, condemned both Nestorianism and Eutychian monophysitism, and issued the Chalcedonian Definition: Christ is one person in two natures, divine and human, “without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.” Rome accepted it. Alexandria and much of Syria and Egypt did not. The split is the origin of the Oriental Orthodox churches.
876 — Battle of Andernach. Louis the German had died in 876. His brother, the emperor Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, tried to seize East Francia before Louis’s sons could settle the inheritance. At Andernach on the Rhine, Louis the Younger caught him. Charles’s larger army was routed; he escaped across the Rhine and died the next year on another Italian expedition. East Francia held, and the line that became Germany stayed separate from the line that became France.
1075 — Dmitar Zvonimir crowned King of Croatia. Zvonimir, already ban and de facto ruler, was crowned at Solin near Split, with a crown sent by Pope Gregory VII and the papal legate present. The date is traditional (some place it in 1076). He was the last native king to exercise real power over the whole Croatian kingdom. His death without an heir in 1089 opened the succession crisis that ended with the union of Croatia and Hungary under the Árpád kings.
1200 — Isabella of Angoulême crowned. Isabella, about twelve, had married King John of England at Bordeaux on 24 August. On 8 October she was crowned queen consort at Westminster. John had taken her from her fiancé, Hugh IX of Lusignan, which gave Philip II of France the pretext to confiscate John’s continental lands. Within a few years John had lost Normandy, Anjou and most of Aquitaine.
1322 — Mladen II Šubić arrested. The Šubić family of Bribir had dominated Croatia and Bosnia for a generation, Mladen II as ban. A coalition of Croatian nobles beat him at the Battle of Bliska. The Sabor then arrested him and he was sent to Hungary. Angevin royal authority replaced the quasi-independent Šubić banate.
1480 — The Great Stand on the Ugra. Ivan III of Moscow had stopped paying tribute to the Great Horde. Akhmat Khan marched to restore it, aiming to join his ally Casimir IV of Poland-Lithuania. On 8 October his army reached the Ugra, a tributary of the Oka, and found Ivan’s son Ivan the Young and his brother Andrey the Less already on the far bank. Attempts to cross failed over four days, Russian missile fire keeping the Tatars off the fords. Casimir never came: a revolt in Lithuania held him. The two armies faced each other for weeks. Akhmat began to withdraw on 8 November; news of the retreat reached Ivan on 11 November. No pitched battle decided it. Russian tradition treats the stand as the end of the “Tatar yoke,” about 240 years after Batu’s conquest. The Great Horde itself broke up soon after; Akhmat was killed in 1481.
1573 — Siege of Alkmaar ends. Alba’s Spanish army had invested Alkmaar in late August. The defenders opened the dikes, flooded the approaches, and a relief attempt by sea failed. On 8 October the Spanish lifted the siege. It was the first clear rebel success of the Dutch Revolt, and it fixed the slogan “Victory begins at Alkmaar.”
1582 — This day does not exist. Pope Gregory XIII’s bull dropped ten days to correct the Julian drift. In Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, 4 October 1582 was followed by 15 October. The 5th through the 14th, including this day, were skipped. Protestant states adopted the reform later; Britain and its colonies not until 1752.
1645 — Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. Jeanne Mance, a laywoman from Langres who had come to New France with the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, opened the Hôtel-Dieu in the settlement that became Montreal. It was the first hospital in North America run by lay founders rather than a religious order already established in the colony, though nursing sisters from La Flèche arrived later to staff it. It is still a working hospital.
1806 — Congreve rockets at Boulogne. During the Napoleonic Wars a British squadron under Commodore Edward Owen bombarded the French invasion flotilla in Boulogne with Sir William Congreve’s rockets, iron-cased weapons derived from Indian war rockets and fired from boats. The attack on the night of 8 October did limited damage and did not destroy the flotilla, but it was the first serious combat use of Congreve rockets and the start of modern military rocketry in Europe.
1813 — Treaty of Ried. Bavaria, Napoleon’s largest German ally, changed sides. At Ried in Upper Austria, Maximilian I Joseph signed with Austria: Bavaria joined the Sixth Coalition, and Austria guaranteed Bavaria’s sovereignty and territory. Ten days later Bavarian troops fought the French at Hanau. The treaty is a hinge of the War of the Sixth Coalition, between Leipzig and the invasion of France.
1821 — Peruvian Navy. José de San Martín, protector of Peru after the declaration of independence in July, created the Peruvian Navy by decree on 8 October, built around ships captured or bought from the Spanish Pacific squadron, notably the frigate Protector. Peru marks 8 October as Navy Day. (Croatian Independence Day, once linked to this date in some lists, is 25 June.)
1829 — Rainhill Trials. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway offered £500 for the best locomotive. Trials ran from 6 to 14 October on a level mile-and-a-half stretch at Rainhill. On 8 October George and Robert Stephenson’s Rocket completed its runs at an average of about 12 miles an hour with a full load, and later showed bursts near 30. Novelty broke down; Sans Pareil failed on a cracked cylinder. Rocket won, and the multi-tube boiler with a separate firebox became the pattern for steam locomotives.
