Posted on 10/28/2024 9:06:39 AM PDT by Starman417
by Jeff Childers
The Great Reckoning continued last week, with the latest development being an article by the BBC’s medical editor headlined, “Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?” While the article never explicitly answered the question (they never do), the clear answer was, yes, the system is letting down people harmed by covid vaccines. Of course.
Amidst harrowing tales of devastating (but “very rare!”) vaccine injuries, the BBC reported that the UK’s vaccine compensation program, which is limited only to people who can convince doctors their injury was caused directly by the jab, and resulted in their being more than 60% disabled, has sixteen thousand pending claims — but has only paid out 180 so far.
Some injured citizens feel the UK program is somewhat arbitrary. In one example mentioned in the article, a woman was blinded in one eye, suffered profound psychological problems, and lost substantial motor coordination, but was told she wasn’t entitled to compensation since she was not over 60% disabled.
Well, she still has one eye, so.
Last year, after news broke that the UK’s program had only approved four claims in two years, the British government announced it was modernizing the office, which was previously chipping its records onto stone tablets. The result was incredible: another 76 claims were approved over the following 12-month period, an astonishing 2,000% increase.
At this modernization rate, they’ll work through the claims backlog sometime over the next 210 years, assuming the backlog doesn’t get any bigger.
Alas, we are fighting the very same battle here in the United States, in our case over the PREP Act’s embarrassing failures to compensate vaccine-injured folks. It’s a sick joke. (By coincidence, my calendar today is blocked to work on our response to the United States’ motion to dismiss our PREP Act lawsuit.)
I’ve learned a lot prosecuting our lawsuit against PREP. For one, I learned that the government’s covid program felt new, but wasn’t actually entirely new. Fifty years ago it did something very similar during the swine flu vaccine campaign of 1976. The government unleashed a coercive, fear-based advertising campaign with the goal of vaccinating 80% of Americans. Unfortunately for the government, the campaign screeched to an abrupt halt after a bunch of folks were injured by Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Famously, Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes broke the failed vaccine story, and the government’s jab program rapidly collapsed in disgrace. Wallace harshly criticized the CDC and exposed government officials who pushed the swine flu jabs while minimizing the risks. At the time, CBS’s swine flu story was hailed as courageous investigative journalism and it cemented 60 Minutes’ place in history.
Thousands of vaccine-injured Americans filed lawsuits against swine vaccine manufacturers (mainly Merck and Wyeth Labs, which was later acquired by Pfizer). The U.S. Government had indemnified the vaccine makers, so taxpayers wound up footing most of the butcher’s bill, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (in 1976 dollars).
Now you see why they made sure it couldn’t happen that same way again. They needed to get to 80% jabbed without getting derailed by a few whiners and complainers, and they needed to shield reluctant vaccine makers better than in 1976. So, in 2020, I believe they intentionally planned to conceal vaccine injuries by tightly controlling the media, to avoid another 60 Minutes-style exposé. Once the media —including social media— was securely in the government’s grip, it carefully managed our cognitive ‘permission structures’ until the jabs surpassed the targeted 80% threshold.
In other words, they strangled America’s free speech to avoid an abortive covid vaccine failure like what happened to swine vaccine in 1976.
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My body, my choice
Cost Jerry Ford the election.
I had it going into basic training. Hid it pretty well;-)
I recall going to the student infirmary at UGA during my junior year when this was going on. Don’t recall getting the jab. I do recall the subsequent blowup over GBS. “60 MINUTES” had a shred of credibility then.
... and I did not get jabbed with the clot shot this last go-around!
I thought the swine flu jab was BS as well. I was all of 19’yearsnold. SMH.
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