One of my first jobs was to guess weight at the county fair.
No, admittedly, it’s not something I was good at. You would see me getting beaten over the head with a purse after a guess more often than you would observe me standing idly by. The strange thing was that I would get assaulted more often after I guessed correctly than when I was wrong.
I learned: When the truth trucks through identity either an awakening can occur, or a retrenching begins.
That was a long time ago, but maybe that’s the same thing as what’s going on today.
For instance, I understand that Moderna, one of the two massive creators of mRNA vaccines, gave the NIH (National Institute of Health), the department Covid Czar Anthony Fauci headed, 400 million dollars to use at their discretion.
That’s what makes this so crazy.
Why would this governmental agency that got paid 400 million dollars not be concerned that the vaccine produced by the 400-million-dollar donor had a one in eight hundred rate of adverse reactions? By comparison, the 1976 swine flu vaccine had a one in one hundred thousand rate of adverse reactions was summarily pulled from the market.
I mean, yes, we know that Covid itself created a risk for myocarditis, as one example of an adverse reaction, in those with risk factors associated with Covid, but it was the healthy people that got myocarditis from the vaccine. Yet, they would lose their jobs if they didn’t take the risk, I mean, the shot. I’m not calling the shot in healthy people a risk, it’s that statistics that say that, not me.
Yes, a recent study shows a person was 27 times less likely to have complications from Covid after natural immunity than after the booster, but we still made them take the risk. The shot, not the risk, the shot. Geez.
The question is, what is it that someone can expect for 400 million today? How did the makers of mRNA vaccines benefit. I don’t see it?
I mean, science would suggest there are sub-populations that a drug works for and others that it doesn’t. Somehow in this case, everyone was required to get it, even those so unlikely to suffer consequence from the disease it’s nearly impossible to show a drug benefit (children). Yes, getting the shot didn’t protect from transmission, so requiring youngsters to take the shot with no long-term safety data seems corrupt, but for 400 million you would think . . . wait a second?
Yes, one could argue the Sackler Family made billions off the backs of the deaths of hundreds of thousands addicted to their drug. But they used a groundbreaking study posted in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980, to demonstrate that their drug was safe.
One could argue that the FDA turned a blind eye to the fact that it wasn’t a study so much as an opinion piece, but this is the agency that protects us from those that both make billions off of their determinations and then hire them with exorbitant salaries after a product’s approval.
When I was in college I was a telemarketer for MCI long distance for three months. I worked next to an older politically conservative man that if I was a gambler would have bet the house that he didn’t graduate at the top of his class.
I remember him complaining about how could anyone have voted for Gary Hart to be president because even his wife couldn’t trust him. That was of course a month before he got caught riding his bike to an 18 year-old co-worker’s apartment due to a misunderstanding. He thought she was sexually interested, she thought he was embarrassing and disgusting.
He risked his five dollar and hour job and family for something significantly less than 400 million dollars. Like maybe seven minutes of his time in exchange for the possibility of destroying his life. Even Bill Clinton didn’t have the benefit of four hundred million dollars for his risk. But, he did have a portrait of himself wearing a blue dress with his legs draped over the arm of the chair he was sitting on in the vestibule of Jeffery Epstein’s primary residence as a sort of “I own you“message.
My point? Sometimes a person’s morality is limited to their options. Don’t trade your morality for the comfort of identifying with someone you think you share values with, especially someone in politics. Your values are probably the same as your neighbors, not your politicians, you’re just being distracted.
