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Striking Back at the White-Coat Empire

Posted by M. C. on December 5, 2024

“In rushing to approve mRNA vaccines for COVID,” Culshaw explains, “what was essentially a massive clinical trial was conducted in real time on the entire population.” (emphasis added) And it was all justified by Dr. Fauci’s wife, NIH ethics boss Christine Grady,

Bhattachayra and Kennedy can bring to light Fauci’s ties with Big Pharma. No more redactions in the royalty reports for Fauci and other NIH bosses. No more funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

By Lloyd Billingsley

President-elect Donald Trump, survivor of  two assassination attempts, has selected Elon Musk for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The goal is to scale down the federal leviathan, and the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur holds strong opinions about federal health agencies and those who run them.

“Remember that one time in the 80s-90s when people died from AIDS treatment and not the actual AIDS virus?” Musk noted in a recent X post. “Remember the one doctor who promoted that treatment?” he further asked and accompanied his comments with a photo of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Embattled Americans know Fauci from his 2020 Covid lockdowns and vaccine campaigns, but key stages of his career need further exposure.

Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966 but in 1968 he took a cushy “yellow beret” job with the National Institutes of Health. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology, but in 1984 the NIH made him director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), went on record that Fauci “doesn’t understand electronic microscopy and doesn’t understand medicine,” and “should not be in a position like he’s in.” The NIAID boss would prove Mullis correct.

Fauci’s drug of choice for AIDS was AZT, a DNA chain terminator abandoned as a cancer treatment during the 1960s because of its excessive toxicity. Despite the record, the FDA approved AZT for AIDS treatment with lightning speed. For more information on that disaster, see Poison by Prescription: The AZT Story by John Lauritsen. Lauritsen’s book was endorsed by, among others, UC Berkeley molecular biologist Harry Rubin, a pioneer in the field of retroviruses.

Lauritsen noted an important study: “Effects of Continuous Intravenous Infusion of Zidovudine (AZT) in Children with Symptomatic HIV Infection,” by Phillip Rizzo et. al., published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Oct. 6, 1988. That study showed that five of the 21 children in the trial died, but Fauci looked the other way. The NIAID boss forced AZT and other toxic drugs on foster children in New York City, with disastrous results. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services (HHS) charted those experiments in his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. But there is even more to Fauci’s misdeeds.

Elon Musk, who once tweeted “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” picked up on a back story that escaped notice. “Almost no one seems to realize,” Musk tweeted, “that the head of bioethics at NIH—the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically—is his wife.” That would be National Institutes of Health bioethics boss Christine Grady. She served with the National Institute of Nursing Research, a division of the NIH, and in 1995 authored The Search for an AIDS Vaccine.

As Grady explains, NIAID is “the branch of the NIH primarily responsible for vaccine development.” Grady identifies Dr. Anthony Fauci as “director of NIAID” but fails to tell readers that she had been married to the NIAID boss for 10 years. This blatant deception proceeds from a health professional with a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University.

The following year, Grady became deputy director of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, and in 2012 the NIH gave Grady the top job. The official NIH announcement makes no mention of Grady’s marriage to NIAID boss Dr. Fauci, and no mention of The Search for an AIDS Vaccine. In that book, Grady touts “the availability and effectiveness of AZT” as a boon to research, and presents children and pregnant women as suitable subjects for drug trials. In advance, Fauci’s wife justified her husband’s actions during the pandemic. 

Children were the group least vulnerable to the COVID virus but from the start Fauci set out to vaccinate children. The NIAID boss endorsed doses of Pfizer’s vaccine for children ages six months through four years old. As Fauci explained, for kids under the age of four, “it looks like it will be a three-dose regimen.” Biologist Rebecca Culshaw laid out the connection in The Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All.

“In rushing to approve mRNA vaccines for COVID,” Culshaw explains, “what was essentially a massive clinical trial was conducted in real time on the entire population.” (emphasis added) And it was all justified by Dr. Fauci’s wife, NIH ethics boss Christine Grady, who notes that “the regulations governing the conduct for clinical trials for vaccines in the U.S. are the same as those for clinical trials of drugs.”

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Lina Khan Gets It Wrong (Again)

Posted by M. C. on October 29, 2024

The FTC’s successful efforts to lower prescription drug prices is an example of the agency “fixing” a problem caused by government intervention. The FTC lowered prices of prescription drugs by challenging patents filed by companies whose sole purpose was to keep generic alternatives off the market—thus enabling the big pharmaceutical companies to keep prices high. So, the pharmaceutical companies were not abusing market power to keep prices high. they were manipulating the legal and regulatory process.

by Norman Singleton

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/lina-khan-gets-it-wrong-again/

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60 Minutes recently aired an interview with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan conducted by veteran reporter Lesley Stahl. This may have been the first time in their 58-year history that 60 Minutes has profiled an FTC chair, but Lina Khan is not the “typical” FTC chair.

President Joe Biden picked Lina Khan to head the FTC because she is a (maybe the) leading advocate for “neo-Brandeisians.” Named for former Supreme Court Justice (and progressive icon) Louis Brandeis, this movement seeks to restore the “big is de facto bad” approach that dominated antitrust from the passage of the first antitrust laws in the 1890s until the Ronald Reagan administration. The “big is de facto bad” approach was displaced by the consumer welfare standard, which focuses on how businesses’ actions affect consumers.

Stahl questioned Khan about concerns that when government prevents companies from merging, they deprive them of the ability to use economies of scale to lower prices. Khan said, “Even if those efficiencies arise, if the companies are not checked by competition, it won’t have an incentive to pass those benefits on to the consumer because those consumers may not have anywhere else to go.” Khan and her progressive allies fail to consider the history of businesses that believed their position as leader of the market was so untouchable that they could abuse their customers with high prices, poor customer service, and a refusal to adapt to compete with new and innovative competitors.

An example of a seemingly untouchable market leader that failed to “keep up with the times” is Borders Books. Borders’ failure to see the potential in online retail caused the company to lose many customers (and eventually go bankrupt) to an online book retailer that started as one man selling books in a rented warehouse. That company was Amazon.

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Why the COVID Delusion Continues

Posted by M. C. on August 21, 2023

But, in fact, unless we pay attention to what researchers have been concluding in the last year and, indeed, if we return to our well-ingrained training not to question, but merely to respond to immediate input, we’re primed to get suckered again.

by Jeff Thomas

Well, the COVID panic has been over for more than a year, and most people seem to be breathing a bit easier now, both literally and figuratively.

Most everyone has returned to their pre-COVID lives. The masks are mostly gone, and testing is only undertaken by a few people who remain in fear.

The great majority of people state that they did the “right thing” and got the requisite initial jabs, although a majority of people state that they decided against the boosters. The reason? Most are unclear on that, except to say that, “I was beginning to have doubts… but I’m still glad I got the initial injections.”

Of course, since the “all clear” signal was sounded, those doctors who initially jumped on board the COVID Express with both feet have calmed down a bit, and many research facilities have been doing studies on the possibility of vax damage.

Those studies have been showing with fair consistency that the jab was indeed detrimental – both short-term and long-term. At this point, scores of studies have come to this conclusion, and even many prominent doctors who initially supported vaxxing are now stating emphatically, “We were lied to.”

So, we might expect that those who filed into clinics like cattle to get the jab would now have learned three important lessons –

  • Don’t trust Big Pharma
  • Don’t trust the media as regards Big Pharma
  • Don’t trust the authorities as regards Big Pharma

And yet these lessons, with few exceptions, do not seem to have been learned.

Some people are still getting tested whenever they get cold symptoms. When asked why, they don’t seem to have a clear answer.

When asked if they would trust those who pushed the vaccines again, their eyes tend to glaze over. Again, they don’t really have an answer.

Most people who got the jab don’t seem to have advanced their thinking in the last year. Their learning curve appears to have halted the moment the media stopped talking about COVID.

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Biden Regime Allows Big Pharma to Loot Medicare

Posted by M. C. on August 1, 2023

Let’s think about this for a minute. If these 5 additional Covid test kits for which my Medicare account has been billed actually arrive, and each contains the 8 test kits of the previous three, I will have at Medicare’s expense 64 expired Covid test kits.

Paul Craig Roberts

Earlier this month I reported that my Medicare account has been billed by three separate labs for expired Covid tests sent to me as “totally free, paid for by the Government. Please Do Not Return.”  https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/07/10/the-looting-of-medicare/ 

“Paid for by Government” means paid for by Medicare.  I now have 24 expired Covid tests for which Medicare has paid.

Since reporting this a few days ago I have now received Medicare notices that FIVE more labs have sent me AT MEDICARE’S EXPENSE Covid test kits.  These kits have not year arrived, but the bill to Medicare has.  

One is from Chicago Care Lab Services, W. Pratt Blvd, Chicago, IL, claim number 10-23136-413-830

One is from Cipher Global LLC, Pagosa Springs Dr, Auror, IL, claim number: 09-23097-395-630

One is from Az Labs Limited, W. Peterson Ave, Chicago, IL, claim number: 09-23117-216-810

One is from Lone Star Medlab, W. Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano TX, claim number: 39-23129-711-040

One is from Sval, S. Stonebridge Dr, McKinney, TX, claim number: 22-23153-708-850

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Project Veritas Directors Bought off by Big Pharma Remove Founder James O’Keefe for Telling the Truth |

Posted by M. C. on February 11, 2023

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/02/10/project-veritas-directors-bought-off-by-big-pharma-remove-founder-james-okeefe-for-telling-the-truth/

Project Veritas Directors Bought off by Big Pharma Remove Founder James O’Keefe for Telling the Truth

Another victory for the controlled narrative.  Henceforth Project Veritas is just another part of the whore media.

O’Keefe is the person who got all of Pfizer’s admissions to its crimes, so he has to go.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fierce-backlash-project-veritas-sidelines-james-okeefe-after-pfizer-bombshells

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr Exposes Big Pharma’s Covid Plot To Destroy Us

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2022

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

To the contrary, there is abundant evidence that mass vaccination had only very brief efficacy against COVID, including the now-undeniable fact, summarized in the February issue of the European Journal of Epidemiology, that ‘Countries with a higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.’ [Data based on CDC COVID Tracker and the New York Times Interactive Tracking the Coronavirus.] Consistent with this global pattern, US deaths attributed to COVID in 2022 were—after mass vaccination—higher than they were in 2020, before vaccination. Aegon Insurance reported a 2021 third-quarter rise of 40% in US COVID-19 deaths among people under 65 years old, ‘the highest percentage in any quarter since the pandemic began.’ 

In November 2021, Robert Kennedy Jr. released his epochal The Real Antony Fauci, the definitive exposé of how the monster Fauci has for decades been plotting to impose vaccine tyranny not only on America but throughout the world. The Covid-“vaccine” hoax is only the latest episode in this plot, and I summarized the vital core of Kennedy’s case in a review that appeared on LRC.

One thing about Kennedy’s magnificent crusade may have surprised many LRC readers. Kennedy is and remains a liberal Democrat, and few people of that political persuasion oppose Covid tyranny. To the contrary, they say that “science” requires everybody to be masked and vaccinated, and the more lockdowns the better. Kennedy discovered this to his cost. The name “Kennedy” is one of honor among Democrats, but this did not stop the cancel culture elite from denouncing him and trying to block his access to the media.

Kennedy has responded to the campaign against him by his former political allies with exemplary courage. He has distilled the essence of his research over many years into vaccine tyranny and the evil forces behind it in a short book that you can read in a couple of hours: A Letter to Liberals from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Censorship and Covid: An Attack on Science and American Ideals. You can download it for free here.

Kennedy says this about the efforts to destroy dissent from Covid Tyranny: “According to an August 18, 2021, Pew Research Center Survey, 65% of Democrats currently support government censorship of unauthorized opinions. That astonishing result suggests that Democrats have lost their faith not only in their party traditions, but also in democracy. The majority of Democrats appear to believe that the Demos—the people—can no longer be trusted to govern themselves and that it is, therefore, permissible for elites to manipulate the public with propaganda, and even to censor information that might infect the population with dangerous thoughts. Liberals have long agreed that censorship of dissent is the emblem of totalitarian systems. The new strategy of silencing government critics like myself is therefore repugnant to liberalism’s foundational values and is clearly offensive to the American Constitution’s guarantee of free speech. . . the ‘Lockdown Left’ has abandoned the discipline of evidence-based medicine. Instead of scientific citation, they rely on appeals to often undeserving authorities who have manufactured ‘scientific consensus’ by cherry-picking data to support a pre-determined policy. Sanctimonious bromides to ‘follow the science,’ ‘trust the experts,’ most often mean blind dogmatic trust in the official—and often whimsical—pronouncements of amoral pharmaceutical companies and their venal government vassals at captive agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH, and WHO. Unable to defend the scientific underpinnings of their ideology in debate, liberals rely on book bans and an arsenal of coercive muzzling strategies including deplatforming, delicensing, doxxing, gaslighting, defunding, retracting, marginalizing, and vilifying scientists, physicians, journalists, and vaccine-injured Americans who complied but now refuse to toe the official line. The hallmark of Lockdown Liberalism is a bullying form of censorship called ‘cancel culture,’ which disappears not just the heretical language, but also the heretic who uttered it.” As you can see, Kennedy doesn’t pull his punches.

What has Kennedy discovered that the Left wants silenced? For one thing, the Covid “vaccine” doesn’t cure people: It kills them. “With the rising unpopularity of mandates, governments are rushing to declare the pandemic ended, often assigning credit to mass vaccination. However, there is meager scientific evidence that vaccines reduced COVID infections or deaths. 

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BIG PHARMA SET TO CONTROL ENTIRE FOOD SUPPLY

Posted by M. C. on May 2, 2022

The latest from Greg Reese.

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During the 1990s, Monsanto Corporation’s devastating attack against farmers; their genetically-modified Frankenfoods and their neurotoxic pesticides inspired people to push government into legislating certification standards for foods.

But thanks to Big Pharma, Bill Gates and pop culture media brainwashing, Monsanto still stands strong and is ready to take complete control of your food supply with the help of the same powerful families and foundations who already control the money and the energy.

Their plans to do so are comprehensively laid out in a recent report published at Corey’s Digs.

The indoor vertical farming industry, which is a highly-innovative and efficient method is being funded by Bill Gates and pushed by the World Economic Forum as a replacement to conventional outdoor farming.

Aerofarms is the industry leader in vertical farming and they also co-developed the first CRISPR gene-edited produce product and worked with the NIH to produce proteins for the deadly COVID vaxxines.

Aerofarms makes it clear that they are not conventional gardeners. They’re all about synthetic food products, which is clearly the trend in this growing industry.

Monsanto is creating specially-tailored genetically-cut seeds for these vertical farms and the University of California is developing a plant-based mRNA vaxxine that farms can grow in heads of lettuce, which happens to be the main crop of these new farms.

These GMO farms already provide food at major outlets, including Kroger, Walmart and Whole Foods and are massively expanding.

And it’s not only fresh produce that’s getting genetically-modified. The USDA and FDA have already approved genetic modifications on pigs, salmon and cattle. And they have approved synthetic lab-grown meat.

Bill Gates’ Good Food Institute plans to reimagine meat production with $10 million of support from the USDA. But in order to make their Big Pharma food supply the new American model, they will need a major crisis.

The 2020 lockdowns distressed the supply chain, which was further affected by US sanctions against Russia. This has created a food shortage crisis.

Add to that, over a dozen food processing plants been mysteriously been destroyed in the past several weeks, as well as several fertilizer plants during a major fertilizer crisis.

To make matters worse, Union Pacific Railroad forces a 20% reduction in shipments from the world’s largest fertilizer company.

And when the people demand a solution, as it turns out, Bill Gates is heavily-invested in alternative fertilizers and is also a chief stockholder of the Canadian National railway, who claims to be helping the fertilizer market grow.

Perhaps Bill Gates and Monsanto will volunteer to save everyone with their new gene-edited bacteria fertilizer and maybe it will backfire, like it did in Africa, when after 15 years of trying to help, all Gates and Monsanto accomplished was increasing starvation by 31%.

But that’s OK, because it’s Monsanto-Bayer to the rescue, with their Big Pharma food factories with brand new mRNA vaxxine lettuce.

And as if this wasn’t bad enough, the stated goal of this new Frankenfood industry is to make all food traceable and that means coating it all in nanotech.

Who controls the food supply controls the people;
who controls the energy can control whole continents;
who controls money can control the world.

– Henry Kissinger

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Crime Time

Posted by M. C. on March 9, 2022

So there you have it. Mental health is being used as an excuse for the criminal behavior of our ethnic minorities, by Hollywood types, and all sorts of freaks, drug addicts, and lowlifes, while the shrinks, the insurance companies, and Big Pharma rake it in. Oh yes, I almost forgot: I once broke a pair of rackets after losing a close tennis match in a French tournament, and a man I didn’t know approached me and offered some pills to calm down. I told him to get lost. He later befriended me and I even hit some balls with him. His name was Mortimer Sackler, and his company Purdue killed 500,000 Americans with his pill Oxycontin. Uncle Sam is asleep at the wheel while mental health hustlers are running riot.

https://www.takimag.com/article/crime-time/

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Like a strange melody that keeps repeating in my ear are four letters, PTSD, an acronym for a psychiatric disorder that seems to afflict most criminals in America. I suppose some shrink invented it, then ambulance-chasing lawyers picked it up; finally the criminals themselves have discovered it. It is the quickest get-out-of-jail scheme since article 1 section 9 of the Constitution, Habeas Corpus.

We are in the midst of soft-on-crime time, where DA’s like Alvin Bragg of New York City, Kim Foxx of Chicago, Los Angeles’ George Gascon, and, most infamous of all, San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin have all declared let’s be nice to the bad guys, let’s be less punitive, and other such nonsense. In the meantime, crime has gone through the roof in American cities, with criminals brazenly breaking the law and looting stores, and murders having doubled in mostly black and Hispanic neighborhoods. The media, needless to say, blame the rise in crime on a white-supremacy aftermath, a bit like blaming the Jews for the rise of Hitler.

In New York City a black career criminal lures two police officers to his apartment pretending his mother needs help and proceeds to murder them both in cold blood with an automatic pistol, while his witness mother claims that her son is suffering from mental illness and should not go to jail. Another career criminal executes a cashier in a bodega after the 19-year-old girl working a midnight shift handed over the hundred dollars. His family immediately claimed he had mental problems and should not be incarcerated but treated. Still a third career criminal kills a Chinese woman while she was walking to work for no apparent reason (except perhaps being Chinese) and declares that he has mental issues. That’s just three cold-blooded murders in one week in the Big Apple by…er…unstable men. During the funeral for the two slain policemen, photos appeared named “sea of blue” as thousands of cops turned up to honor their slain colleagues. That old hag, actress Susan Sarandon, denounced the pics, saying they reminded her of fascist parades.

PTSD used to be called shell shock, and that trauma was at times real. Soldiers suffered from it while engaged in ferocious combat—trench warfare in World War I, especially—and it hit its peak among the military during the Vietnam conflict. George Patton famously slapped two soldiers claiming to suffer trauma during World War II, and lost his command as a result. My grandfather as a cavalry officer stayed in the front for two years during the Balkan wars, and my uncle six months on the front line without a day off against the Italians in 1940, but for some strange reason the only thing that bothered both of them was the inability to change their underclothes.

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If You Are Not Immunized From A Virus, You Were Never Vaccinated Period

Posted by M. C. on January 30, 2022

https://thinkspot.com/discourse/b5uMPy/post/davidjspetch/if-you-are-not-immunized-from-a-virus-you-were-never-vaccinated-period/ozt3kPM

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This is what the CDC tried to hide by removing the definition of vaccine while replacing it with their rubbish on September 10th 2021. Of course major dictionaries are willing to lose their credibility by following suit with the shady globalist low life scum bag narrative by replacing definitions with complete globalist rubbish. Of course with Youtube, Twitter and Facebook being threatened with endless lawsuits to comply with the globalist narratives, what makes you even skeptical that smaller businesses would do the same?!

 Calling something that isn’t a vaccine, a vaccine because they remove the definition of vaccine and replace it with rubbish while politicians wheel and deal behind closed doors so that big pharma isn’t held accountable for the damage they cause to human citizens of countries suffering covid, blood clots, heart problems, neural paralysis etc. from the jabs they administer is supporting a giant hate crime against humanity.

 You are all being thrown under the bus with a slew of lies under guise of pandemic along with calling injections that are not vaccines a vaccine to try and dominate the masses with fake shame for not complying with such rubbish only so greedy, selfish and ignorant low life scum bags can get rich off of big pharma while they make the masses unhealthy and suffer their government putting your children further in debt over their sick and filthy jabs disguised as vaccines.

 If we don’t stop this and your children are survivors of this, who’s slave do you think they are going to be?!! Not one person on this planet has been vaccinated from covid by big pharma! When they say unvaccinated, that means everyone as opposed to people not getting the jab that they lie about by calling their jab a vaccine. 

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Big Pharma CEO Blows a Hole in Vaccine Mandates – American Thinker

Posted by M. C. on January 19, 2022

Yet the left keeps pushing COVID vaccine mandates, despite the Pfizer CEO, CDC Director, and the US Supreme Court saying, perhaps in a roundabout way, that they are of no benefit. Hopefully, the Supreme Court’s trend continues, with a thoughtful analysis of our public measures, following the science rather than simply saying “do this because I say so.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/big_pharma_ceo_blows_a_hole_in_vaccine_mandates.html

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

See also: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Makes Startling Admissions About the Vaccines

Vaccine mandates are one of many stifling measures brought on by the ongoing COVID pandemic, a consequence of those trying to “follow the science” and doing anything but or of government and bureaucrat officials using the opportunity to flex their authoritarian muscles. Whether they serve a useful societal function is an open question.

The CDC website cites a book chapter by research scholars Kevin Malone and Alan Hinman that describes vaccine mandates as a means of “drastically reducing infectious diseases in the United States.” Mandates present a challenge “when societal interest conflicts with the individual’s interest.” With vaccine mandates, there is the assumption that “Increased immunization rates result in significantly decreased risk for disease.”

According to the chapter,

Although no remaining unimmunized individual can be said to be free of risk from the infectious disease, the herd effect generated from high immunization rates significantly reduces the risk for disease for those individuals. Additional benefit is conferred on the unimmunized person because avoidance of the vaccine avoids the risk for any adverse reactions associated with the vaccine. As disease rates drop, the risks associated with the vaccine come even more to the fore, providing further incentive to avoid immunization. Thus, when an individual in this common chooses to go unimmunized, it only minimally increases the risk of illness for that individual, while conferring on that person the benefit of avoiding the risk of vaccine induced side effects.

Herd immunity, a term that can get one banned from social media and polite society, is the key. Both vaccines and natural infection can achieve herd immunity. Once herd immunity is reached, the risk-benefit ratio pivots from less benefit for every last person being vaccinated to more risk from vaccine adverse effects. This is the logical way infectious diseases have been approached in the past, until COVID apparently changed relatively settled science regarding vaccines, masks, distancing, and mandates.

The above premise assumes that the vaccine in question prevents contracting and transmitting the underlying infectious disease. Or as the chapter describes, “An important characteristic of most vaccines is that they provide both individual and community protection.”

Are the COVID vaccines providing both individual and community protection? If they are, then a case may be made for vaccine mandates although that is debatable. If not, then such mandates make no sense.

An excellent person to ask is Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, the largest COVID vaccine maker. In a recent Yahoo Finance interview, Bourla let the cat out of the vaccine bag,

And we know that the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any. The three doses, with the booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and deaths—and, again, that’s, I think, very good—and less protection against the infection.

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“Limited protection if any,” is not a strong endorsement. It’s a polite way of saying two doses of the vaccine don’t work as previously described and promised. And with a booster, the protection becomes “reasonable.” He didn’t say robust or excellent, only reasonable, meaning that there is limited benefit. And it’s a benefit to the individual, not to other people.

An umbrella provides “limited protection if any” in a hurricane and a raincoat offers “reasonable” protection but, in both cases, you will get soaked and blown around.

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I must add the standard and necessary disclaimer that I am not anti-vaccine, having been personally fully vaccinated. Nor am I offering medical advice, only an analysis of this recent news item. Any vaccine decisions should be between you and your physician based on a thoughtful analysis of risks and benefits, as is standard for any medical intervention.

When Big Pharma doesn’t believe its own spin anymore, though, why should anyone else?

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