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Why Vaccines are Treated Differently from Other Products
American Thinker ^ | July 15, 2023 | Victor Fernandez

Posted on 07/15/2023 9:35:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

How does a car, home electrical appliance, or computer manufacturer typically assure the safety of its products?  Well, they typically engage in some form of self-regulation.  Companies competing with each other are interested in the success of their products and want to make as much money as they can. If a company finds itself risking a loss of revenue as a result of a manufacturing error or lack of safety, it typically corrects or refrains from actions that are responsible for the loss of profits.

However, this may not be the case if profitable conduct contains no liability.  Should this be the case, the easy route to attaining greater profitability will be taken.  Indeed, such is the case in the world of vaccines, which proves to be the world’s exception to the rule.

Attorney Aaron Siri of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) who has worked a great deal on vaccine-related issues like vaccine injury claims, vaccine exemptions and vaccine policy work, gave testimony to the Arizona State Senate on May 25th.  His impressive two-hour presentation sought to answer the question: How can this system that people rely on fail us so badly?  But to understand the failure is to understand the context within which the new vaccines arose.  We need to understand what happened 37 years ago.

In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (HR5546).  This is an historic act because it removed liability for childhood injury vaccines.  Removing liability tends to alter the behavior of entities that benefit. Indeed, it turned out that pharmaceutical companies were no longer liable for injuries caused by their products.  That has been the law since 1986.

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It turned out that in the years leading up to Congress’ 1986 Act, the amount of liability that pharmaceutical companies were facing from injuries far exceeded the revenue that those products accumulated. Manufacturers went bust or withdrew from the market. You would think that the typical and responsible action would be to simply make a safer product for any remaining pharmaceutical company. That’s how market forces work. However, Congress decided that they did not have to make a safer product. Instead, they could continue to sell harmful products and would be granted immunity to boot, thereby evading a lawsuit from anyone. Equally as awful, they made this law for any vaccine made for children from that day forward.
1 posted on 07/15/2023 9:35:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why Vaccines are Treated Differently from Other Products

Because the Wuhan Vaccine along with the Wuhan Virus are politically motivated by the Left to use these things as excuses for installing more totalitarian government.

2 posted on 07/15/2023 9:38:31 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Nothing screams “safe and effective” like working hard to remove liability. Remember when Obamacare was so great that Congress immediately exempted themselves from it?


3 posted on 07/15/2023 9:43:04 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The question is why would they need to pass such an act? They know they aren’t safe!


4 posted on 07/15/2023 9:47:05 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Big Pharma has outstanding lobbyists.

They figured out early that controlling politicians was a lot more important than worrying about vaccine safety.


5 posted on 07/15/2023 9:51:54 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Yup—if they won’t stand behind their products with liability then I won’t stand behind them either.


6 posted on 07/15/2023 9:52:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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In theory, the liability protection for vaccine manufacturers makes sense. Imagine a hypothetical case where a destructive viral pathogen with a fatality rate of 50% or higher is running its course through a population.

If someone develops a vaccine that offers full protection against this virus but causes adverse effects — including death — in 1% of the people who take it.

The purpose of the liability protection is to eliminate the financial risk that would keep the manufacturer in this scenario from making the desperately- needed vaccine available.

7 posted on 07/15/2023 9:53:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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“The purpose of the liability protection is to eliminate the financial risk that would keep the manufacturer in this scenario from making the desperately- needed vaccine available.”

That would make sense in the very narrow scenario you gave—but we have never had such a scenario.

The liability protection is pure grift in the real world.


8 posted on 07/15/2023 9:55:12 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Then make that the law. Not the blanket immunity for all vaccines. Really HPV vax gets immunity?


9 posted on 07/15/2023 10:06:56 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Here’s the list...

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/covered-vaccines


10 posted on 07/15/2023 10:11:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BTT


11 posted on 07/15/2023 10:54:41 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: for-q-clinton

$$$$$$


12 posted on 07/15/2023 2:33:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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