Dominique de Silva (aka queencitydom on Instagram) has recently claimed that she has suffered a severe vaccine injury from the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine that she received in March 2021. She claims that from two weeks following the dose, she's been experiencing symptoms including severe tremors, tics, troubles with speech, extreme lower limb weakness/paralysis, and a myriad of other seemingly unexplainable physical and mental issues.

Not only is what she claims totally impossible from a medical standpoint, it's also immediately apparent even at first glance that it's indisputably false. Some proofs of this are:

Frequency of symptoms - conveniently perfectly healthy for her wedding (May 2021), photo shoots where she can be seen running, jumping and twirling (May 2021), and several of her vlogs even currently where she speaks perfectly with absolutely no tics or tremors whatsoever. This is all while saying that her symptoms are getting progressively worse.

Inconsistency of symptoms - symptoms seem to change all the time, alternating between leg weakness/trouble walking with no tremors or tics, to SEVERE (constantly variable) tremors and tics and trouble speaking, to nothing at all. She has even recorded videos showing extreme tremors and tics while in the driver's seat of a car, although conveniently the only part of her body not affected by the (very poorly and insultingly acted) tremors and tics is the hand holding the phone that she's filming with.

Nonsensical medical imagery - any competent medical professional can see that the medical equipment shown in her videos, meant to instill sympathy and fear, are not actually being used in any way remotely resembling the correct manner. The facilities she's seen in don't resemble the places she claims them to be either.

Truly Terrible Acting - the videos in which Dominique shows her fake symptoms are INCREDIBLY poorly acted, and downright insulting. They showcase what appears to be a combination of every disorder she's ever seen in a movie. Her tics and tremors are ridiculously unbelievable, and as mentioned before, conveniently only affect the parts of her body not holding her phone. 

In a society already troubled by vaccine hesitancy due to misinformation, her deception is not only dishonest and distasteful, but incredibly dangerous. Her lies could literally mean the difference between life and death for hundreds or thousands of people. 

Now, on top of putting lives in jeopardy, she's attempting to monetize her falsehood through a GoFundMe page. She's claiming to have thousands of dollars in medical expenses, a good deal of which were supposedly incurred through the services of a "private neuroimmunologist" who does not accept insurance and operates only through cash. 

I ask that GoFundMe do the right thing and immediately shut down Dominique de Silva's account. She should be stripped of the platform that she is currently abusing in order to rob people of their money, spread dangerous misinformation, and make a complete mockery of very real conditions that people suffer with every single day. Dominique may sincerely believe that she's suffering from these imaginary symptoms, or she may be a liar and a con artist. Either way, the company needs to put an end to this incredibly damaging campaign.