Posted on 10/27/2024 8:53:54 AM PDT by george76
The House report on HHS Covid propaganda is devastating. The Biden administration spent almost $1 billion to push falsehoods about Covid vaccines, boosters, and masks on the American people. If a pharma company had run the campaign, it would have been fined out of existence.
HHS engaged a PR firm, the Fors Marsh Group (FMG), for the propaganda campaign. The main goal was to increase Covid vax uptake. The strategy: 1. Exaggerate Covid mortality risk 2. Downplay the fact that there was no good evidence that the Covid vax stops transmission.
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The propaganda campaign extended beyond vax uptake and included exaggerating mask efficacy and pushing for social distancing and school closures.
Ultimately, since the messaging did not match reality, the campaign collapsed public trust in public health.
The PR firm (FMG) drew most of its faulty science from the CDC’s “guidance,” which ignored the FDA’s findings on the vaccine’s limitations, as well as scientific findings from other countries that contradicted CDC groupthink.
The report details the CDC’s mask flip-flopping through the years. It’s especially infuriating to recall the CDC’s weird, anti-scientific, anti-human focus on masking toddlers with cloth masks into 2022.
Biden’s Covid advisor Ashish K. Jha waited until Dec. 2022 (right after leaving government service) to tell the country that “[t]here is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well.” What took him so long?
In 2021, former CDC director, Rochelle Walensky rewrote CDC guidance on social distancing at the behest of the national teachers’ union, guaranteeing that schools would remain closed to in-person learning for many months.
During this period, the PR firm FMG put out ads telling parents that schools would close unless kids masked up, stayed away from friends, and got Covid-vaccinated.
In March 2021, even as the CDC told the American people that the vaxxed did not need to mask, the PR firm ran ads saying that masks were still needed, even for the vaxxed. “It’s not time to ease up” we were told, in the absence of evidence any of that did any good.
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In 2021, to support the Biden/Harris administration’s push for vax mandates, the PR firm pushed the false idea that the vax stopped Covid transmission. When people started getting “breakthrough” infections, public trust in public health collapsed.
Later, when the FDA approved the vax for 12 to 15-year-old kids, the PR firm told parents that schools could open in fall 2021 only if they got their kids vaccinated. These ads never mentioned side effects like myocarditis due to the vax.
HHS has scrubbed the propaganda ads from this era from its web pages. It’s easy to see why. They are embarrassing. They tell kids, in effect, that they should treat other kids like biohazards unless they are vaccinated.
When the Delta variant arrived, the PR firm doubled down on fear-mongering, masking, and social distancing.
In September 2021, CDC director Walensky overruled the agency’s external experts to recommend the booster to all adults rather than just the elderly. The director’s action was “highly unusual” and went beyond the FDA’s approval of the booster for only the elderly.
The PR campaign and the CDC persistently overestimated the mortality risk of Covid infection in kids to scare parents into vaccinating their children with the Covid vax.
In Aug. 2021, the military imposed its Covid vax mandate, leading to 8,300 servicemen being discharged. Since 2023, the DOD has been trying to get the discharged servicemen to reenlist. What harm has been done to American national security by the vax mandate?
The Biden/Harris administration imposed the OSHA, CMS, and military vax mandates, even though the CDC knew that the Delta variant evaded vaccine immunity. The PR campaign studiously avoided informing Americans about waning vaccine efficacy in the face of variants.
The propaganda campaign hired celebrities and influencers to “persuade” children to get the Covid vax.
I think if a celebrity is paid to advertise a faulty product, that celebrity should be partially liable if the product harms some people.
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In the absence of evidence, the propaganda campaign ran ads telling parents that the vaccine would prevent their kids from getting Long Covid.
With the collapse in public trust in the CDC, parents have begun to question all CDC advice. Predictably, the HHS propaganda campaign has led to a decline in the uptake of routine childhood vaccines.
The report makes several recommendations, including formally defining the CDC’s core mission to focus on disease prevention, forcing HHS propaganda to abide by the FDA’s product labeling rules, and revamping the process of evaluating vaccine safety.
Probably the most important recommendation: HHS should never again adopt a policy of silencing dissenting scientists in an attempt to create an illusion of consensus in favor of CDC groupthink.
BTTT
“Probably the most important recommendation: HHS should never again adopt a policy of silencing dissenting scientists in an attempt to create an illusion of consensus in favor of CDC groupthink.”
silencing doesn’t hardly describe it......if memory serves it was more like ruining and destroying careers.
If they knew, then we should hunt them down like animals. This cannot go unpunished.
They’re still running Pfizer ads on the radio.
It’s annoying to hear.
Still running covid shot ads during football games...idiots.
Yes. This. For if it does go unpunished, the perpetrators will know that there is no real risk in trying the same sort of thing again, if perhaps in different ways.
And by punishment, I mean that there are some who should swing. For real. Government officials. Pharma execs. Certain academics/"scientists." Certain prominent doctors, medical "experts," and "public health" blowhards.
And maybe even some shills who infested social media and online forums and contaminated them with their bought-and-paid-for lies. The worst of the bunch, anyhow.
*** FAUCI on 60 Minutes March 2020 - “DON’T WEAR MASKS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ5oCxP6TUc
**** Fauci “highly effective” (’vaccine’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
***** UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people (May 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg
Bttt.
5.56mm
My prediction is that it will most certainly go unpunished.
The government let Randi Weingarten dictate health policy.
I see ads on TV with that a**hole John Legend in his own mind pushing the clot shots.
Big Pharma had propagandists right here on this board.
The most important ‘recommendation’ is that Fauci, the heads of the VAXX Pharma Companies, and heads of CDC and NHS should be charged with murder and imprisoned.
“When people started getting “breakthrough” infections, public trust in public health collapsed.”
There has never been a vaccine that stopped “breakthrough” infections.
….and FR was ALL OVER THIS STUFF from the get-go.
Many took the shots. Many didn’t. But on FR, we were all informed/eyes wide open.
JimRob et al NEVER CENSORED ANYONE. It was a demolition derby at times, but the truth got out.
But Leviathan….well, we can’t have that freedom stuff.
Thank you all. Good bless you.
And TV!
jotato proved the kung flu was a scam when he opened the border during a “global pandemic” and the cdc said nothing about the dangers of it...
They’re STILL pushing these horrid things at EVERY pharmacy, radio/tv ad and the corrupt CDC!!!
jotato proved the kung flu was a scam when he opened the border during a “global pandemic” and the cdc said nothing about the dangers of it...
^^ THAT ^^
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