Posted on 11/16/2022 8:06:01 AM PST by Heartlander
What if the coronavirus pandemic was not a once-in-a-century event but the beginning of a new era of regular deadly respiratory viral pandemics? The Biden administration is already planning for this future. Two weeks ago, it unveiled a national strategy to develop pharmaceutical firms’ capacity to create vaccines within 130 days of a pandemic emergency declaration.
The Biden plan enshrines former president Donald Trump‘s Operation Warp Speed as the model response to the next century of pandemics. Left unsaid is that, for the new pandemic plan to work as envisioned, it will require us to conduct dangerous gain-of-function research. It will also require cutting corners in the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of novel vaccines. And while the studies are underway, politicians will face tremendous pressure to impose draconian lockdowns to keep the population “safe.”
In the case of COVID-19 vaccines, it took about a year for governments to deploy the jab at scale after scientists sequenced the virus. Scientists identified a vaccine target—fragments of the spike protein that the virus uses to access cells—by early January 2020, even before the WHO declared a worldwide pandemic.
This rapid response was only possible because some scientists already knew much about the novel virus. Despite heavy regulations limiting the work, the U.S. National Institutes of Health had funded collaborations between the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They collected bat viruses from the wild, enhanced their function to study their potential, and designed vaccines before the viruses infected humans.
While there is controversy over whether this gain-of-function work is responsible for the COVID pandemic, there is no question this research is potentially dangerous. Even cautious scientists sometimes accidentally leak hazardous, highly infectious viruses into the surrounding community. In December 2021, for instance, the virus that causes COVID-19 accidentally leaked out of a laboratory in Taiwan, where scientists were researching the virus.
A promising vaccine target would be needed immediately after a disease outbreak for the Biden pandemic plan to work. For that to be possible, there will need to be permanent support for research enhancing the capacity of viruses to infect and kill humans. The possibility of a deadly laboratory leak will hang over humanity into perpetuity.
Furthermore, before any mass vaccination campaign, pharmaceutical firms must test the vaccines for safety. High-quality randomized, controlled studies are needed to make sure the vaccine works. In 1954, Jonas Salk’s group tested the vaccine in a million children before the polio mass vaccination campaign that effectively defanged the threat of polio to American children. Physicians need the results of these studies to provide accurate information to patients.
Operation Warp Speed cut red tape so that vaccine manufacturers could conduct these studies rapidly. The randomized trials cut some corners. For instance, the Pfizer and Moderna trials did not enroll enough people to determine whether the COVID vaccines reduce all-cause mortality. Nor did they determine whether the vaccines stop disease transmission; a few months after the government deployed the vaccines, researchers found protection against infection was partial and short-lived.
Each of these cut corners has since created policy controversies and uncertainty that better trials would have avoided. Because of the pressure to produce a vaccine within 130 days, President Biden’s pandemic plan will likely force randomized trials on future vaccines to cut the same corners.
This policy effectively guarantees that lockdowns will return to the US in the event of a new pandemic. Though the lockdowns did not work to protect populations from getting or spreading COVID—after 2.5 years, nearly everyone in the US has had COVID—public health bureaucracies like the CDC have not repudiated the strategy. Imagine the early days of the next pandemic, with public health and the media fomenting fear of a new pathogen. The impetus to close schools, businesses, churches, beaches, and parks will be irresistible, though the pitch will be “130 days until the vax” rather than “two weeks to flatten the curve.”
When the vaccine finally arrives, the push to mass vaccinate for herd immunity will be enormous, even without evidence from the rushed trials that the vaccine provides long-lasting protection against disease transmission.
This happened in 2021 with the COVID vaccine and would happen again amidst the pandemic panic. The government would push the vaccine even on populations at low risk from the novel pathogen. Mandates and discrimination against the unvaccinated would return, along with a fierce movement to resist them. The public’s remaining trust in public health would shatter.
Rather than pursue this foolish policy, the Biden administration should adopt the traditional strategy for managing new respiratory-virus pandemics. This strategy involves quickly identifying high-risk groups and adopting creative strategies to protect them while not throwing the rest of society into panic.
The development of vaccines and treatments should be encouraged, but without imposing an artificial timeline that guarantees corners will be cut in evaluation. And most of all, lockdowns—a disaster for children, the poor, and the working class—should be excised from the public health toolkit forever.
If they try the lockdowns again these “pandemics” may become deadly in unexpected ways.
People who are multiple-vaxed seem to be prone to multiple reinfections.
BIDEN DEMANDS that vaccines be produced within 130 days????
HOW brain dead is that????
We will never have another viral outbreak without wondering if it came from a Lab. There are literally thousands of labs working on gain of function. There were 40 in Ukraine just working on AnthraX.
I wonder about the Avian flu that has devastated the US Chickens and the Swine Encephalitis the destroyed Asian pigs.
What about the mysterious kennel cough racing through the US dog population?
FedGov is researching and developing and releasing serial virus bioweapons, and the criminal marxist politicians and deep state villains are reaping billions of dollars in the process from big pharma, all while overstepping and infringing upon our God-given rights. I believe nothing from the government nor the medical community after the hellish abuses of the last 3+ years. Nothing. Its all LIES.
I agree.
I no longer believe anything that comes from an official government source or from the medical establishment.
That’s sad.
They mis-spelled plandemic.
Some of the parallels to today are interesting.
(Vanity) Mark Twain, and Pandemic Flu, or, Mongolian Flustered Cluck
(Please read Smokin' Joe's reply in #12 of this first article)
(Vanity) Mongolian Flustered Cluck, Part II, or, Stop the Supply Chain, I Want to Get Off
Anyone remember the initial response to COVID?
/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2020/03/11/theo-moudakis-four-horsemen/theo_moudakis_four_horsemen.jpg)
Keep these things in mind for the next engineered pandemic / attempted forced injections.
Considering what the left found out in how ridiculously easy it is to panic and then control the sheeple, I’d say we can count on it.
Watching the current events these days is like watching a slow motion train wreck. You don’t want to see it but can’t help watching anyways.
As far as elections next year, given how easy it’s been proved to steal an election, I’d be surprised if we even had an election in 2024 at all.
The US government has most effectively eradicated any reason to trust them or the medical community ever again.
They could not have done any better if they had tried.
I refuse to participate. :)
Yes, the Draconian social isolation, face masks, government mandated vaccination of an untested experimental biologic injection is true,
but hopefully, some poor soul will demand to see the clinical studies, and investigate the adverse effects of the injection BEFORE taking the injection.
Notice that the NIH/FDA/CDC/Pfizer cartel did all it could do to suppress any inquiry into the vaccine for 74 years;
this, in violation of the "Nuremberg Code" which required both voluntary and informed consent.
Then later, we find out from the CEO of Pfizer in testimony, that they didn't even test the vaccine against covid-19 viral influenza. (What ? ..Read that again !)
Furthermore, we have now learned that the covid-19 virus probably originated from the funded "gain of function" research
that went into the 'wild' after release, whether accidental or intentional, from a "gain of research" facility.
Now, can you believe this, no one has been criminally prosecuted for the world-wide release of this "gain of function" research,
nor for the fraud of a totally untested experimental vaccine which may have harmed hundred of thousands people.
The various Federal agencies, Pfizer, aided and abetted by the media and the bought-off medical professionals have lost their credibility,
and yet remain free to continue their "gain of function" research.
This represents an ongoing and continuous crime against humanity !, with no prosecutions !
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