Thanks for the clarification, moron.
Posted on 12/06/2023 6:40:44 AM PST by Heartlander
Would 92% of American adults have gotten a Covid shot had they known the “vaccines” only offered a 0.85% reduction in risk? Would young men have taken the jab if they had known it did not prevent transmission?
Americans came to understand that the media campaigns supporting the shots were fraudulent. The touted benefits – preventing infection and transmission – were lies. In response, fewer than one in five Americans elected to receive “boosters” despite multi-billion dollar propaganda campaigns.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has now brought a suit to bring accountability for the fraud that resulted in record profits for the pharmaceutical industry. Last week, he filed a complaint alleging that Pfizer misrepresented Covid vaccine efficacy and “conspired to censor public discourse” in violation of Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA).
While Big Pharma enjoys immense government-provided insulation from legal liability for vaccine injuries, it cannot lie to promote those products.
Paxton alleges that the $75 billion Pfizer has raked in through sales of Covid vaccines were the “direct and proximate result” of the company’s deceit.
The DTPA requires Paxton prove two questions to succeed in his case. First, he must establish that the company lied or failed to disclose known information concerning its Covid vaccine. Second, he must prove that the company’s fraud was designed to promote sales of the shots.
Brownstone previously analyzed the applicability of the DTPA against Moderna. Now, Paxton’s lawsuit threatens Pfizer with fines of $10 million as well as awards of “restitution, damages, or civil penalties.”
Paxton’s case argues that Pfizer deceived the public on three issues: (1) the efficacy of the vaccine; (2) whether the shots reduced the risk of transmission; and (3) the company’s efforts to “censor[] persons who threatened to disseminate the truth.”
In each instance, the company skewed the public debate in order to induce Americans to take its shots. The efforts stripped us of the right to informed consent, deceiving us on purported benefits while hiding established risks.
First, Paxton targets the now-familiar falsehoods that the company, led by CEO Albert Bourla, touted, including that the shots had “95% efficacy” and worked against mutations of the virus.
Paxton’s critiques do not require the benefit of hindsight. Pfizer’s own data showed that the vaccine was merely 0.85% effective in reducing the likelihood that an individual would contract Covid (known as absolute risk reduction). Put differently, Pfizer’s clinical data showed that “preventing one COVID-19 case required vaccinating 119.”
Despite this unconvincing data, Bourla claimed there was “initial evidence of our vaccine’s ability to prevent Covid-19.” Bourla later said that the shots had “100%” efficacy rates against mutations of the virus, including the Delta variant. Not only was this a lie, Pfizer never tested the shots against the variants. Still, in May 2021 he baselessly claimed that “no variant identified so far…escapes the protection of our vaccine.”
Three months later, the company issued a press release saying that boosters would “preserve and even exceed the high levels of protection against…relevant variants.” Shortly thereafter, the United States exercised its option to purchase 500 million more doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccines.
These lies clearly and directly induced Americans to take products with illusory benefits. The claims were fabricated, and they led to billions of dollars in windfalls for Bourla and Pfizer.
Pfizer’s marketing relied on convincing healthy young adults and teenagers to get shots despite the negligible risk that Covid posed to them. Bourla used transmission to launch a moral blackmail campaign. He told teenagers that they should get the shots to “protect…their loved ones.” He later tweeted, “widespread vaccination is a critical tool to help stop transmission.”
Under oath, company officials later admitted that they had never tested whether the vaccines reduced transmission.
In October 2022, Pfizer spokeswoman Janine Small appeared at a European Parliament hearing. “Was the Pfizer Covid vaccine tested on stopping transmission of the virus before it entered the market?” asked Dutch MEP Rob Roos. “No!” Small responded emphatically. “We had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market; and from that point of view, we had to do everything at risk.”
Under the DTPA, Paxton must prove that the company misrepresented information regarding the vaccine in an effort to promote sales of its products. With the vast majority of Americans under 70 facing zero substantial risk from Covid infection, the lies regarding transmission were critical to expand the customer base.
This deception underpinned the mandates in 2021 as government and corporate officials insisted that vaccination was necessary to keep healthy adults’ coworkers and neighbors safe. By December 2021, Pfizer’s stock price had doubled from the onset of the pandemic in February 2020.
As Pfizer committed to deceiving the public, it had to ensure that journalists would not uncover its corporate misdeeds. Paxton’s suit outlines how the company “sought to intimidate and silence…journalist Alex Berenson.”
As Berenson reported on the efficacy, or lack thereof, of mRNA “vaccines,” Pfizer Board Member Dr. Scott Gottlieb colluded with Twitter to silence his reporting. In August 2021, Berenson tweeted that Pfizer’s vaccine “doesn’t stop infection…[o]r transmission,” and had a“limited window of efficacy.” Despite the veracity of these statements, Gottlieb wrote to Twitter officials encouraging them to ban Berenson’s heresy.
Hours later, Berenson received a permanent ban (he was later reinstated following a lawsuit). Now, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is a defendant in Berenson’s case against the Biden Administration, which accuses White House officials of colluding with private actors in Big Tech and Big Pharma to usurp Berenson’s First Amendment rights.
Paxton’s case also outlines how Pfizer worked to silence scientists who discussed the benefits of natural immunity, calling the rhetoric “corrosive” to the public’s confidence in their products. The aim was simple: shield Americans from the truth so that they would continue to get the product.
To this point, “victories” against the hegemon that emerged in 2020 have been defensive in nature. Groups have fended off vaccine mandates, states have resisted calls for renewed lockdowns, and journalists have begun to expose the corruption that shattered Western civilization.
These efforts, though important, have failed to bring accountability against those who usurped our civil liberties and pillaged the national treasury. Paxton’s suit strikes at the heart of the corruption behind the Covid regime: how their success required mass deception and their profits depended on lies.
Though $10 million in fines is little compared to the $75 billion in revenue that Pfizer raked in from vaccines alone, the suit signifies that the resistance is at last on the offensive.
Big Pharma sees this is a grave threat, and its lobbying forces led a failed impeachment effort against Paxton this fall. They threw him out of his office, and disabled his ability to do his job that the voters sent him to do. Turning up nothing, the legislature rejected the entire drama. Now he is back and working and this is the result: accountability at last.
The steep drop in demand for Covid shots reveals how Pfizer depended upon fraud to promote their most lucrative product. Once Americans knew the truth, demand dropped by over 75%.
Now, Paxton’s suit brings that fraud to trial.
I took it for only one reason — because i needed to travel overseas for family reason and it was the only way I could travel internationally. I did get the J&J single jab which seems to be the least onerous of the options.
What you said.
In spades.
Thanks for the clarification, moron.
Unlike every single other medical add, the vaxx commercials never ever list a single side effect. Not a list that takes up half the air time like any normal pill or injectable, not one word, not one microsecond...
Please let us know if you die.
when was the last time you heard of anyone having Diphteria?...
Guess what? There are a lot of previously irradicated diseases coming into our country over the southern border.
nonsense.
available widely
Neither my girlfriend’s family, nor my family, took the shot. All of us register as Republican, and always vote conservative.
Where the 92% comes from becomes obvious. Certain people are incapable of thinking for themselves and are simply more willing to blindly follow the crowd.
I think we could assume that practically all modern diseases that have only shown up in the 20th century are man-made population control and to create a customer base for "doctors".
good article... but it doesn’t get into the effects of the shots.
all the injuries and excess deaths MUST be accounted for.
Never took the jab.
Not a lab rat.
Answer: No.
**Of course. I’m not a moron.**
King Solomon wasn’t either, but didn’t finish as wise as he started.
I work in a small Hosp. They told me the shot was mandatory...
I told them...I am not taking it. They eventually granted me a exemption,,,,but had to wear a mask.
So many nurses have had the 19 over and over again....even after the jab.
I've not been sick at all...
Lemmings....come to mind.
I operate on the premise that anything the government tells me is a lie until I can prove otherwise through my own investigation. With the internet it is fairly easy to access large amounts of information regarding nearly any subject. A modest amount of effort can quickly produce sufficient data to determine if the government is telling me the truth or full of shit. In the case of the Chinese Flu it was evident to me early on that getting the “vaccine” was far riskier than taking my chances of getting the virus and thus declined even though at 70 I was in the “high risk” cohort. I wound up getting it, recovered and now have real antibodies to ward off another attack.
No! I was suspicious of their intentions from the beginning. And , I was a high risk individual at the time. I was undergoing cancer treatment and immunodeficient.
I preferred to risk Covid than trust the WHO and the CDC. It was obviously politically motivated pressure for administering the vaccine. The reasons unclear at the time. But it felt distinctly nefarious.
I smell a troll…….
I got the shingles shots earlier this year. Friend who had shingles and said it was utterly intense pain, very unpleasant. Anyone who had Chicken Pox as a kid can have a shingles outbreak as an adult and by all accounts it is to be avoided.
If I die, I will update this thread with the news.
If I had known then what I know now I would never have taken it. But when Trump praised Operation Warp Speed on TV I assumed it was okay. It wasn’t until the brother of a friend, then 28 years old, had to go to the ER with chest pains that I was forced to admit the anti-vaxxers were right.
I believe the only reason I am still alive is because I am female. The cardioprotective effect of estrogen in pre-menopausal women is established science. Men should not take the vaxx; they are at much higher risk for blood clots from it.
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