The documentary “Follow the Silenced” (FTS) follows diseased and dying American COVID-19 vaccine-injured patients and their struggle to be heard. The first of this two-part review highlights Big Pharma’s connivance with the Biden-Harris administration to silence these patients.
FTS depicts preschool teacher Brienne Dresen, who had volunteered for clinical trials in the public interest. She soon noticed her post-shot symptoms: hypersensitivity to sound and light, blurred vision, tinnitus, and short-term memory loss.
Similarly, parents of high school student Maddie de Garay noticed her ice-cold, swollen fingers and hands, uncontrollable tremors, and syncope (fainting spells). Others have a myriad of complaints: unexplained face-tingling, headaches, heart attacks, blackouts, bladder-bowel dysfunction, joint pains, blood clots, arrhythmia, and partial paralysis.
Suddenly, they’re unable to go on with their lives. They can’t continue school, college, work, or routine life. This also brings the lives of their caring families to a standstill. Visits to ERs and vaccine centers meet with stony indifference.
Unable to diagnose them accurately, doctors fob them off, insinuating that they were hallucinating or suffering from mental breakdowns. The doctors prescribe anti-depressants and refer them to psychiatrists or neurologists. Others insist these new symptoms stem from “pre-existing” conditions.
The documentary features real people, not actors, with real names, families and occupations, contending with an Orwellian sense of siege during lockdown: masks, sanitizers, social distancing, and entire hospitals doubling as ERs.
A voiceover says vaccines normally take 10 to 15 years to get to market; here, they reach clinical trials and rollout in months. Through audio-visual footage of newscasters, research papers, and health establishment documents, FTS argues that this rush led to more than a handful of man-made deaths and autoimmune disorders.
WHO Is the Villain
On May 15, 2025, two launches acknowledged the dangers of such rush. First, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s statistics report, indirectly acknowledged the vaccine-injured, when it revealed COVID-19’s “deeper health impacts on loss of lives, longevity and overall health.” Second, FTS producers Texans for Vaccine Choice held their world premiere in Austin.
The WHO remains conspicuously unnamed, but FTS amounts to an indictment of it, for it is WHO that globally-approved vaccines FTS names: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. This enabled Big Pharma to lead global COVID-19 responses, corrupting America’s health agencies CDC, NIH, and FDA into unquestioning compliance.
As early as November 2021, the WHO acknowledged “rare” debilitating adverse events in America but didn’t require Big Pharma and national administrations to adequately address this. If they had, they would have acknowledged that it wasn’t as “rare” as believed and responded proportionately.
FTS explains how statistical sleight of hand was used to delay the time at which a person was designated vaccinated; adverse events after a first dose weren’t attributed to vaccines because the individual wasn’t “fully” vaccinated. “Cause of Death” ended up being recorded as everything else except the vaccine itself because a diagnosis code indicting the vaccine hadn’t been created. Because of this, the scale of vaccine (not COVID-19) induced diseases and deaths stayed hidden.
Autoimmune Conditions
Computational-molecular biology and immunology expert Jessica Rose says the SARS2 mRNA template that vaccine-makers used encodes to make a spike protein, which occasionally is trafficked or brought to the membrane of the cell itself. The body then sees that protein as foreign and tags those cells for destruction wherever they’re found, creating “immunological haywire.”
Myelin helps insulate neurons the way synthetic insulation insulates electrical wires. Neurology Institute of San Antonio (NISA) founder Suzanne Gazda says, “The immune system creates antibodies against myelin.” She admits seeing a “deluge” of multiple sclerosis and other de-myelinating disorders. Vaccine-injured orthopedic surgeon Joel Wallskog, tackling his transverse myelitis, explains that the mRNA platform triggers molecular mimicry. The body attacks its own tissues and nerves believing they’re infected with COVID-19.
This causes several (not just a few) symptoms and tears into entire systems: neurological, lymphatic, sensory, hepatological, respiratory, digestive, circulatory, and musculoskeletal. It sometimes manifests as the devastating Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome.
Abandoned by the health and media establishment, swelling numbers of the vaccine-injured band together on social media to help themselves and get the word out. But the Biden-Harris administration cracks down; their appeals to the American public via legacy and social media silences the innocents speaking up.
The Cost of Censorship
The Biden administration put on a full-court press. In one broadcast, Biden says, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” Eyeing vaccine-injured voices, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says, “When it comes to misinformation, not sharing is caring, unlike what many of our moms taught us.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki warns that social media platforms have been asked to act against narratives “dangerous to public health.”
Biden’s Deputy Assistant Rob Flaherty’s bullying emails prompted platforms to shut down vaccine-injured support groups, countering what the state called falsehood, amplifying what the state called truth. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg admits the administration instigated platforms to remove anything that links adverse events to vaccines; Facebook removed as many as 18 million COVID-19 “falsehoods.”
Robert Frenk, MD., principal investigator for Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial for Children oversaw enrollment of child volunteers into clinical trials. One attorney here implies, it’s because Frenk was “paid by Pfizer” that he kept insisting that adverse events weren’t vaccine related.
While enforcing masks and vaccines, neither the WHO nor national agencies mandated use, let alone proper use, of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Here health professionals confess that no one was educated on VAERS, although many self-learned through trial and error.
Others had been asked to report only to vaccine sponsors (Pfizer and others) who in turn would report to the FDA, not through VAERS. FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks insists that a report to VAERS doesn’t mean the vaccine caused the adverse event.
Of course, vaccines may have saved several lives. But instead of being open and honest about the scale and severity of vaccine injuries, the administration doubled down on denial and lack of accountability. Brienne says, they redirected their “anger and frustration on the small, unvaccinated minority,” portraying them as inimical to public health. FTS shows Biden and his team packaging muscular door-to-door vaccination campaigns as solutions to “the pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
In interviews, producer-director-cinematographer Matthew Lynn Guthrie explains how journalism has failed people. When swathes of the legacy media are in lockstep with the establishment narrative, that should be the “barometer of the lie.” He adds, Americans are particularly vulnerable to pharma malpractice because, apart from New Zealand, the United States is the only high-income country that allows direct-to-consumer pharma advertising.
Guthrie is grateful for the care doctors and nurses showered on him as a chronically ill child; however, he lost his little sister to misdiagnosis, negligence, and malpractice.
Confronted with the despair of the vaccine-injured, he draws on his rewarding and regretful experiences with healthcare. He spotlights this conspiracy of the credentialed, but goes on to celebrate the triumph of the human spirit. The vaccine-injured are left to fend for themselves. Brienne says agonizingly, “Why it is the responsibility of sick people to do this, is beyond me.”
Part 2 of this review follows the silenced as they unite and speak up.
You can watch Follow the Silenced on the FTS website, PrimeVideo, and YouTube.
‘Follow the Silenced’
Documentary
Director: Matthew Lynn Guthrie
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Release Date: May 15, 2025
Rated: 4 stars out of 5
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