"As you can see, this eye is not blinking," he told his whopping 241 million Instagram followers last weekend. Bieber's handsome face is drooping and lopsided; he "can't smile," his "nostril will not move," and "there's full paralysis" on the left side of his face.

The entertainer's doctors diagnosed him with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a "rare neurological disorder" marked by facial palsy that is "caused by the varicella zoster virus" (which causes chickenpox in children and shingles in adults), according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

Media outlets around the world rushed to assure Beliebers (the celebrity's massive global fan base) that the somber singer's condition could not possibly have anything to do at all with experimental COVID-19 jabs.

EuroNews, which reaches an audience of 440 million homes in 160 countries across Europe, flatly declared there was "no link to COVID vaccination" associated with Bieber's facial paralysis.

Dr. Anthony Youn, who bills himself as "America's holistic plastic surgeon," asserted to his nearly 4 million viewers on YouTube that it was "unreasonable" to raise concerns about COVID-19 jabs and Bieber's plight, in large part because the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) (where he says he found 62 cases of COVID-19 vaccine-linked RHS) is "unconfirmed and unvetted." He dismissed those cases despite the fact that medical professionals have regarded the government-run VAERS database as a critical early warning system since 1990 and have credited its passive surveillance monitoring with "improving the quality of reported data and contributing significantly to safeguarding public health." As a research team noted in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatric Annals, "the investigation that resulted in the voluntary withdrawal of rotavirus vaccine was triggered by nine reports to VAERS of intussuception, eight of which had occurred within 1 week of the first dose of this vaccine."