Posted on 01/06/2021 4:56:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the media have spilled barrels of ink over mistakes by the federal government. We've heard endlessly about the failure to quickly ramp up testing, the confusion over mask-wearing and the debates over proper lockdown policy. But when the history of this time is written, the fundamental mistake made by the United States government won't be rhetorical excesses by the president or conflicting public health advice. It will be the same mistake the government always makes: trusting the bureaucracy.
We now know that the miraculous Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 had been designed by Jan. 13, 2020. That was just two days after the sequencing of the virus had been made public. As David Wallace-Wells writes for New York magazine, "the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. ... By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial." Meanwhile, for six weeks, Dr. Anthony Fauci assured Americans that there was little to worry about with COVID-19.
Fast-forward to the end of 2021. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died. Tens of thousands of Americans continue to die every week. The Food and Drug Administration has still not cleared the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which costs a fraction of the other vaccines (about $4 per dose, as opposed to $15 to $25 per dose for Moderna's vaccine or $20 per dose for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine). The FDA approval process cost us critical months, with thousands of Americans dying each day. As Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University told me this week, "Safety is their eternal excuse. They are entirely a broken federal bureaucracy...Why did we not have a combined Phase I-Phase II clinical trial for these vaccines?"
This is an excellent question, of course. Phase I trials involve small numbers of participants, who are then monitored. Phase II trials involve larger numbers. Huge numbers of Americans would have volunteered for a combined Phase I-Phase II trial. And even after we knew the vaccines were effective, the FDA delayed. Data was collected by late October that suggested Phase II/III trials had been successful. The FDA quickly requested more results, which it did not receive until November. It then took until Dec. 11 for the FDA to issue emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine. The Moderna vaccine wasn't cleared until Dec. 18, nearly a year after it had first been produced.
The disgrace continues. The government continues to hold back secondary doses of the vaccine, despite the fact that the first doses provide a significant effect. As Makary says, "We're in a war. The first dose gives immunity that may be as high as 80 to 90 percent protection, and we can probably give half the dose, as Dr. Moncef Slaoui suggested ... We can quadruple our supply overnight."
Meanwhile, states continue to be confused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on how to tranche out the vaccines. It took until nine days after the FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for the CDC to release its recommendations. Those recommendations were still complex and confusing and often rife with self-defeating standards -- even though it was perfectly obvious from the start that the solution ought to be based on age.
Americans have relied on the government -- a government supposedly comprised of well-meaning experts -- to get us through a pandemic. The government not only failed with conflicting information and incoherent lockdown policy but also actively obstructed the chief mechanism for ending the pandemic thanks to bureaucratic bloat. If Americans' takeaway from the COVID-19 pandemic is that centralized government is the all-purpose solution, they're taking precisely the lesson most likely to end in mass death in the future.
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So statistically, going back into the 1990’s, the United States has 8% of it’s population die from various causes. The data is in on 2020, we have lost 8% of our population. The history will read, plandemic hoax.
But did we crush our middle class?
How about the fact that these same Federal public health agencies (FDA/NIH/CDC) have seemingly completely ignored cheap effective re-purposed therapeutics that could have significantly reduced deaths and transmission.
Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19: meta analysis of 28 studies
https://ivmmeta.com/
Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
Key protocols from this group use Ivermectin.
COVID Care for Clinicians
https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/
Ditto this group.
India has been using HCQ and Ivermectin for many months as therapeutics and for prophylaxis. Their curves are quite impressive, scroll down to see them here.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
Anyone able to interpret a basic graph will be impressed. Why is this not being talked about in Western media?
Also from India:
Ziverdo Kit Contains Zinc Acetate 50 mg, Doxycycline 100 mg & Ivermectin 12 mg Dispersible Tablets. It is currently indicated in the first line treatment for COVID-19 positive patients. Quadruple Therapy with Ivermectin is effective in treating COVID-19
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/
That’s a link to an Indian online pharmacy selling that Covid treatment kit for under $2, just add vitamin D3. I had a FR thread based on a Tweet about this pulled in the last couple weeks. I’m still annoyed about that.
In other words: We have experienced no excess deaths in 2020.
No excess deaths means that COVID-19 did not have any measurable effect on gross mortality in the USA.
Most likely the people that died with COVID-19 would have died with another flu virus had they not contracted COVID-19.
That is what I thought this article would be about.
The government reaction to COVID-19 has been more deadly than the disease itself.
2020 saw marked rises in drug addiction, drug overdoses, alcoholism, and suicide.
And yes dramatic failures in businesses large and small.
And massive destruction of people’s dreams. Like myself. I am putting of retirement by at least 2 years.
Can you get EUA from FDA if there is an approved therapy(hydroxy, ivermectin, etc)?
No
Can govt change those rules and make an exception during a pandemic?
Yes
Do you know an official source for that data? Dennis Prager couldn’t find it during yesterday’s show.
All of your points are very valid.
We prevented nothing with respect to the virus, and crushed lives.
2021 will be just as bad.
More lockdowns, more stimulus, more no eviction notices, more social destruction of lives, etc.
The long term effects of this are yet to be known and felt.
Giant Petre (?) DISH,
for We The People.
Biggest PsyOps experiment in human history.
And all of this is setting up a period of hyper inflation when all of this stimulus phony money finally reaches its ultimate limit.
We will be a Zimbabwe of massive proportion.
The controlled blind test showed the Moderna vaccine to be “94%” effective. But that is only the improvement in Covid cases compared to the placebo.That suggests the inference that even if you get the vaccine, you’d be over 5% likely to get Covid. That is not the case. Because only a modest percentage of the control group got the disease. Looking at the actual numbers, 15,000 people got the vaccine, and eleven (11) of those people got Covid at all - and none were hospitalized, let alone died.
So realistically the Moderna vaccine was 100% effective at keeping people out of the hospital for, let alone dying of, Covid. The 94% number comes by dividing eleven (cases of Covid), not by 15,000 but by the number of Covid cases in the control group. Divided, that is, not by 15,000 but by something like 185. Even being in the control group was hardly a death sentence, tho - still talking in the 1% range. Of course, there would be the usual disclaimers about age and preconditions . . . and living in NY City.
So, the bottom line is that if you dared skip the established caution altogether - on the basis that Covid actually was an emergency - hindsight clearly shows that woulda (coulda shoulda) been a wonderful thing. Especially in NY State . . .
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