https://www.globalresearch.ca/meaning-fda-resignations/5756418
The Significance of the Resignations of FDA Officials Responsible for Vaccine Safety
How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters?
This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
The booster has already been promoted by top lockdown advocates Neil Ferguson of Imperial College and Anthony Fauci of NIH, even in the face of rising public incredulity toward their “expert” advice. For these two FDA officials to go on record with grave doubts – and their perspective is certainly backed by the unimpressive booster experience in Israel – introduces a major break in the narrative that the experts in charge deserve our trust and deference.
What’s at stake here? It’s about more than the boosters. It’s about the whole experience of taking away the control of health management from individuals and medical professionals and handing it over to modelers and government officials with coercive power.
From the first week of March 2020, the US embarked on a wild experiment in virus mitigation, deploying a series of measures with a sweep and scope that had never previously been attempted, not in modern times and not even in ancient times. The litany of controls and tactics is long. Many of these measures survive in most parts of the US. The retail landscape is still filled with plexiglass. We are still invited to sanitize ourselves when going indoors. People still mask up in proximity to others. The “Karens” of the world are still actively shaming and denouncing anyone suspected of non-compliance.
The vaccine push has been particularly divisive, with President Biden actively encouraging “anger” at those who don’t get the jab, even as he refuses to acknowledge the existence of infection-induced immunities. In several cities, people who refuse vaccines are being denied active participation in civic life, and a populist movement is rising up that scapegoats the refuseniks as the only reason that the virus continues to be a problem.
All these measures were deployed in waves of controls. It all began with event cancellations and school closures. It continued with travel bans, most of which are still in place. Sanitization and plexiglass were next. Masks were rolled out and then mandated. The principle of forced human separation governed social interactions. Capacity limits indoors were a common feature. The US example inspired many governments around the world to adopt these NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions) and take away the liberties of the people.
At each stage of control, there were new claims that we’ve finally found the answer, the key technique that would finally slow and stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Nothing worked, as the virus seemed to follow its own course regardless of all these measures. Indeed there was no observable difference anywhere in the world based on whether and to what extent any of these measures were deployed.
Finally came the pharmaceutical interventions, voluntary at first but gradually mandatory, just as with each previous protocol began as a recommendation until it was mandated.
At no point in these 19 months have we seen a clear admission of failure on the part of government officials. Indeed, it’s mostly been the opposite, as the agencies double down, claiming effectiveness while citing no data or studies, while social media companies backed it all by taking down contrarian posts and brazenly deleting accounts of people who dare cite dissenting science.
The vaccine was the biggest gamble of all simply because the program was so expensive, so personal, and so wildly oversold. Even those of us who opposed every other mandate had hopes that the vaccines would finally end the public panic and provide governments a way to back out of all the other strategies that had failed.
That did not happen.
Most people believed that the vaccine would work like many others before them to block infection and spread. In this, people were merely believing what the head of the CDC said. “Our data from the C.D.C. today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick,” Rochelle Walinsky told Rachel Maddow. “And that it’s not just in the clinical trials, it’s also in real-world data.”
“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” President Biden said, reflecting what was the common view in the summer of 2021.
That of course turned out not to be the case. The vaccines appear to have been helpful in mitigating against some severe outcomes but it did not achieve victory over the virus. Israel’s surge in infections in August was among the fully vaccinated. The same happened in the UK and Scotland, and that precise result began to hit the US in September. Indeed, we all have vaccinated friends who caught the virus and were sick for days. Meanwhile, team natural immunity has received a huge boost from a large study in Israel that demonstrated that recovered Covid cases gain far more protection than is conferred by the vaccine.
The fallback position then became the booster. Surely this is the answer! Israel was first to mandate them. Here again, the problems began to show, as yet another magic bullet of disease mitigation failed. Then the inevitable headline came: Israel preparing for possible fourth COVID vaccine dose. So think about this because there is a sense in which the vaccines rank among the biggest failures: in a matter of a few short months, we’ve gone from the claim that they fully protect to they are pretty okay provided you get regularly scheduled boosters forever.
Now to the striking resignation of two top officials at the FDA who were in charge of vaccine safety and administration. It was the Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Vaccines Research, Marion Gruber and Phillip Kause. They gave no reason for their departure, which is scheduled for October and November.
The case is fascinating because
1) people rarely resign cushy government jobs unless a higher-paying, higher-prestige job in the private sector awaits, or
2) they are being pushed out. It’s rare for anyone in a position like this to resign over a principled matter of science. When I first read that they were going, I figured something else was up.
These days, extremely weird things are going on within the Biden administration. Even though his approval ratings are sinking, the president has to pretend that he has all the answers, that the science behind his mandates and virus war is universally settled, that anyone who disagrees with him is really just a political enemy. He has gone so far as to denounce, demonize, and legally threaten red-state governors who disagree with him.
This is a deep problem for actual scientists working within the bureaucracy because they know for sure that all of this is a pretense and that the government cannot win this war on the virus. They simply cannot preside over more false promises, especially when the whole of their professional training is about assessing the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
So what can they do? In this case, it appears they had to get away before they dropped a bombshell.
The bombshell is called “Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses.” It appears in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet. The two top officials are among the authors. The article recommends against the Covid booster shot that the Biden administration, following Fauci’s advice, is suggesting as the key to making the vaccines work better and finally fulfill their promise.
Fauci and company are pushing boosters because they know what is coming. Essentially we are going the way of Israel: most everyone is vaccinated but the virus itself is not being controlled. More and more among those hospitalized and dying are vaccinated. This same trend is coming to the US. The boosters are a means by which government can save face, or so many believe.
The trouble now is that the top scientists at the FDA disagree. Further, they think that the push for boosters is courting problems. They think the current regime of one or two shots is working as well as one can expect. Nothing is gained on net from a booster, they say. There just isn’t enough evidence to take the risk of another booster, and another and another.
The authors knew this article was appearing. They knew that signing it under the FDA affiliation would lead to a push for their resignations. Life would get very difficult for both of them. They got ahead of the messaging and resigned before it came out. Very smart.
The signed article goes even further to warn of possible downsides. They point out that boosters might seem necessary because “variants expressing new antigens have evolved to the point at which immune responses to the original vaccine antigens no longer protect adequately against currently circulating viruses.” At the same time, there are possible side effects that could discredit all vaccines for a generation or more. “There could be risks,” they write, “if boosters are widely introduced too soon, or too frequently, especially with vaccines that can have immune-mediated side-effects (such as myocarditis, which is more common after the second dose of some mRNA vaccines, or Guillain-Barre syndrome, which has been associated with adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccines.”)
Bringing up such side effects is essentially a taboo topic. That this was written by two top FDA officials is nothing short of remarkable, especially because it comes at a time when the Biden administration is going all in on vaccine mandates. Meanwhile, studies are showing that for teenage boys, the vaccine poses a greater risk to them than Covid itself.
“For boys 16-17 without medical comorbidities, the rate of CAE is currently 2.1 to 3.5 times higher than their 120-day COVID-19 hospitalization risk, and 1.5 to 2.5 times higher at times of high weekly COVID-19 hospitalization.”
From the beginning of these lockdowns – along with all the masks, restrictions, bogus health advice from plexiglass to sanitizer to universal vaccine mandates and so on – it was clear that there would someday be hell to pay. They wrecked rights and liberties, crashed economies, traumatized a whole generation of children and other students, ran roughshod over religious freedom, and for what? There is zero evidence that any of this has made any difference. We are surrounded by the carnage they created.
The appearance of The Lancet article by two top FDA vaccine scientists is truly devastating and revealing because it undermines the last plausible tool to save the whole machinery of government disease management that has been deployed at such enormous social, cultural, and economic cost for 19 months. Not in our lifetimes has a policy failed so badly. The intellectual and political implications here are monumental. It means that the real Covid crisis – the task of assigning responsibility for all the collateral damage – has just begun.
In 2006, during the early years of the birth of lockdown ideology, the great epidemiologist Donald Henderson warned that if any of these restrictive measures were deployed for a pandemic, the result would be a “loss of trust in government” and “a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.” Catastrophe is exactly what has happened. The current regime wants to point the finger toward the noncompliant. That is no longer believable. They cannot delay the inevitable for much longer: responsibility for this catastrophe belongs to those who embarked on this political experiment in the first place.
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https://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept21/inequality-baked-in9-21.html
America 2021: Inequality is Now Baked In
Zeus Y. and I go way back, and he has always had a knack for summarizing just how insane,
disconnected from reality, manipulative and exploitive the status quo narrative has become.
I've occasionally published his commentaries and essays here since 2008
Imaginary Worth, Empire of Debt: How Modern Finance Created Its Own Downfall (October 15, 2008),
not coincidentally, in the midst of the previous debt-fueled speculative bubble popping.
Here is Zeus's recent commentary on my opting out essay:
"Regarding your excellent recent article:
Now That the American Dream Is Reserved for the Wealthy, The Smart Crowd Is Opting Out:
1) The sock puppet theater assumption among the technocrats that economies ebb and flow, go
bull and bear, and have moments of advancement and retraction is now irretrievably disproven.
We have gone past "too big to fail, too big to jail" and escalated to "so big as to fail
upward always and to get away with everything no matter how venal".
When the Fed decided to buy up non-investment grade junk bonds fo the first time in its
107-year history, we now have no semblance of the (always iffy and now absurdly irrelevant)
"self-regulating" economy. More and more extreme intervention on behalf of the super-rich
(even as the real economy is tanking) will mirror the vaccine mandates on behalf of Big Pharma,
even as their vaccines are tanking. "Draining trillions of dollars and stashing them in
offshore accounts? You deserve a tax break!"
We have gone far past "moral hazard" and a "rigged game," where the super-rich will make out
like bandits, even if they cause a crash. We are in the next phase where it becomes profitable
to cause hyperinflation and crashes (which you control by your monopoly powers), and then
simply "siphon" (the apt term from this article) whatever is left of the savings and sweat
of Jose and Maria American. Inflate and crash. Inflate and crash. Quick money.
Guaranteed government bailouts. Manipulated markets (including cybercurrency by the way--
can you say JPMCoin?).
There is only one way out. Refuse the sordid mess, which has gotten so absurd, and the myths
so hollow (educating yourself into massive debt, and working hard, only to be "rewarded"
with some downsized employee's work being loaded on you) that there can be no other ultimate
option but non-violent civil market disobedience.
2) What is the future of the developing juggernaut called predatory global capital,
and their preferred cocaine called "zero interest rate, infinite money printing (ZIRIMP?)?
a. The super-rich will continue to borrow unlimited sums of money at near zero interest rates,
so they can claim this new "debt" as a deduction and pay no income tax whatsoever
(while vacuuming up every tangible good with this funny money)
b. The super-rich will use the same value-free money to buy stocks (of their own companies
and others) sending those valuations and options soaring on nothing other than an artificial
and infinite "demand", while being assured of special treatment and no prosecutions.
c. The super-rich will circle wagons around one-another-- Big Legacy Media, Big Social Media,
Big Pharma, etc. This can be seen in Big Social Media's promotion to disinformation
by the Biden administration and censoring of real and critical scientific pushback because
the billions of taxpayer-funded government contracts Big Everything knows they can get if
they play along. Again, we will see acceleration toward rebellion, as people are finding
ways to move away from these monopolies like YouTube and Facebook into Telegram, Rokfin,
and Rumble.
d. Not only have the "little people" had $50 trillion of their productivity stolen, but
many trillions more for having an effective savings interest rate of 0% for the past 12 years.
What are we "saving up for" when our money in savings has literally no growing power at all?
Who needs workers anyway when you can ship every productive asset and manufacturing to China,
and have them holding both the strings and the bag of the global economy?
e. This complete capture of all avenues of regulation and governance can only end one way,
I can see, a kind of hyper-stagflation, i.e. plummeting (real) growth and hyperinflation
as both Fed and government "stimuluses" only supply trillions of dollars more to the richest
while the little guys gets screwed over and over under the guise of helping them
(where "paycheck protection programs" fund hedge funds on Wall Street and somehow manage
to miss mom-and-pop businesses on an increasingly shuttered Main Street).
This growing
gap will reach a critical point when we have supply line collapses and unpredictable
events around credit. Perish forbid if we have an interruption of the internet. We are
headed to that station, GBOAT, the Greatest Bubble Of All Time alright, and it is just a
matter of how long it's going to take for this runaway train to get there."
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https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/80842/weatherman-fired-after-33-years-on-the-job-for-refusing-vaccine-goes-out-with-legendary-final.html
Weatherman Fired After 33 Years on the Job for Refusing Vaccine, Goes Out with Legendary Final Words
With a prediction for very stormy weather ahead for the nation he loves, meteorologist Karl Bohnak signed off last week after being fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Bohnak had served as the weatherman at Michigan’s WLUC-TV for 33 years, according to The Washington Post. Gray Television, WLUC’s parent company, instituted a vaccine-or-else policy that went into effect on Wednesday.
Bohnak, quoting New York Yankee icon Lou Gehrig’s famous farewell speech, announced his departure in a post on Facebook.
“That dream came true and to top it off, I got to broadcast weather for one of the most challenging, beautiful spots in the United States. As an added bonus, the people I broadcast to all across Upper Michigan were so kind and encouraging,” he wrote.
But a cloud has fallen over the land of the free, he wrote.
“I just wanted to go about my business, ‘live and let live’, and keep my mouth shut. But this act by the federal government through corporate America has brought me to a crossroads. Our way of life, our freedom and liberty, is collapsing before our eyes,” Bohnak wrote.
He said personal freedom should be paramount.
“Many of you have taken one of these injections, and that is absolutely your right. It is also my right to choose the medical options I feel are right for me. I have authority over my body.”
Bohnak then laid out why he had refused the vaccine.
“So, I will certainly not allow a medicine in my body from a company that does not stand behind its product,” he wrote.
Bohnak said he might have received the vaccine had the risk of death from COVID-19 been significant.
“However,” he wrote, “for a normally healthy adult not housed in a nursing home or not suffering from serious comorbidities, the chance of surviving COVID is well over 99 percent. I will take the chance and go without a shot. I choose not to risk serious side effects.”
“We are being bludgeoned with fear, I believe, in an effort to control us. Eminent doctors, virologists and epidemiologists who post facts contradicting the ‘official’ accepted narrative regarding COVID are being censored; some are losing their jobs.
“It’s time to honor those who served. For me, I honor them by saying ‘Enough! I have the right to choose — we all do. If we do nothing, we will lose that right.”
Bohnak concluded with “a distillation of a portion of Jefferson’s masterpiece, the Declaration of Independence: ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’
“Those who love America and the freedom and liberty it stands for, must speak up. Hopefully, it’s not too late,” he wrote.
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