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The Destruction of Trust In The CDC and Public Health Establishment Is Now Complete


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2021 Aug 12, 12:36am   45,630 views  325 comments

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The new mask recommendations are a disgraceful debacle, doomed to fail...again

As soon as politicians, media members and incompetent and terrified “experts” became ideologically committed to ineffective interventions, they could never end.

The CDC has been the most reliable and consistent contributor to destructive and functionally useless mask recommendations. They’ve used unconscionably bad, dangerously incompetent and misleading “studies,” along with hilariously useless “hairdresser” examples to “prove” mask efficacy. Finally though, after throwing out their own pre-pandemic planning documents to promote a policy with no demonstrable benefits, the CDC displayed confidence in the “safe and effective” vaccines and removed their useless mask guidelines just two and a half months ago.

And yet. It’s all happening. The CDC flip flopped again. Masks are back.

Many of us arguing against lockdowns and masks and other related and equally ineffective “mitigations” have been pointing out for months now that the CDC has been unbelievably bad at their literal one job. We’ve been pointing out that the CDC’s credibility has been irreparably damaged based on their demonstrable incompetence and ever changing messaging with unchanging certainty. But no one, and I mean no one, could have foreseen that the death blow to the CDC’s credibility would come from the CDC itself.

I guess it shouldn’t be as surprising as it is that they put the final nail in their own coffin, but somehow their devotion to pseudoscience never ceases to amaze.

Bringing back masks is the end. It has to be. They were unequivocal in their assertions that the available vaccines were remarkably effective at preventing infections and transmission, symptomatic illness, severe cases and ultimately deaths.

Yesterday’s announcement is completely incompatible with their previous statements and should be an inescapable disaster for the country’s trust in “public health” and what the CDC, Fauci and others laughably refer to as “science.”

So let’s go over this unfolding debacle!

April 1
INTELLIGENCER HEADLINE: “CDC Data Suggests Vaccinated Don’t Carry, Can’t Spread Virus”
Got that? No hemming and hawing, no uncertainty, no “don’t spread the virus as much,” it literally says that the vaccinated CAN NOT SPREAD THE VIRUS. CAN NOT. It’s not possible for them to spread it, that’s what the “data” says.

Here’s a direct quote from the CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky:

“Vaccinated people do not carry the virus — they don’t get sick,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday. That’s “not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.”

They do not carry the virus and do not get sick. Focus on the “they do not carry the virus” part for a second. If vaccinated people can’t carry it, how can they spread it?

They can’t! That’s what the CDC says:

Walensky was referring to a new CDC study that suggests those fully inoculated with the vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer don’t transmit the virus.

So naturally,

“The authorized vaccines are the key tool that will help bring an end to this devastating pandemic.”

They are the key tool. Masks used to be, of course, but now vaccines will end the pandemic. Let’s keep that in mind. ...

July 27
CNBC Headline: “CDC reverses indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people and kids should wear them indoors”
There it is. The destruction of any remaining shreds of credibility the CDC and Fauci had left.

So what was the justification for this dramatic shift? The delta variant! The same variant that Fauci said the vaccines did “very well” against. ...




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72   HeadSet   2021 Dec 2, 7:15pm  

That is not "business' either. It is crony capitalism, also known as corruption.
74   Patrick   2021 Dec 12, 1:08pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/there-is-no-medicine-but-the-medicine?source=patrick.net


regulators have been consumed by covid monomania and every other area of medical endeavor is suffering as a result ...

the FDA (and other health regulators) have gone on weird, fundamentalist covidian pilgrimages at the expense of literally everything else.

facilities remain uninspected. trials are not getting approved. ongoing and planned clinical trails are failing or being postponed because the endless circus of randomly rotating regulations make it impossible to enroll and follow up patients and increasingly because the FDA refuses to provide the comments and engagement on study and submission design integral to a successful process. ...

this used to run quite well. frankly, under gottlieb, the FDA was truly a gold standard organization and they hit their dates well while providing high quality review and striking a good balance of working with companies on their projects while demanding good study design and requiring sound endpoints and data.

since scott left mid term in april of 2019 to “spend more time with his family” the FDA has been in a downspiral. his departure itself was deeply odd. you basically never see a mid-term resignation, especially from such a popular and effective leader. ...




this is not a make believe game played for goldfish crackers, this is the engine of medical advancement and it has been idled so that we can chase nothing but covid and push massive new products of dubious utility (to the unprecedented profit of a few big companies) while the rest of the industry gets plowed under.

this will, of course, wind up benefiting the big pharma companies a second time as all the stranded assets will be cheap to acquire. (oh, did you think this would be a one act play? not likely.) ...

the FDA seems to have become a wholly owned subsidiary of “covid inc” a public private collaboration of crony capitalism and political preferencing. this is going to pay nasty dividends for a long time to come.

keep one thing in mind:

it was not covid that did this. it was covid policy.

this was a choice.
75   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 10:14am  

https://brownstone.org/articles/how-could-they-have-done-this-to-the-children/?source=patrick.net


At this point, I think it is clear: many pandemic experts hurt children.

School closure was the greatest self inflicted wound of the pandemic. Sensible European nations did not close primary school at all, or only for 6 weeks, but places in the USA remained closed for more than a year. This was a net negative for the health and well-being of children, and will damage this nation for years to come. I am not sure we will recover.

This decision was made only in some places in the USA, and not others, and was not explained by virus specific properties— it had no correlation with cases/100k or hospitalizations per capita—but solely the political valence of a region/ strength of teachers unions. When the history books are written, school closure will be viewed, as I have said before: a massively catastrophic and harmful blunder that was fueled by mis-information from the legacy media, and many pundits who lacked experience adjudicating trade-offs.

But the experts did not stop with closure. To this day, children suffer some of the harshest restrictions. In many parts of the USA, including school districts in California, school kids must wear cloth masks inside and outside (Nov 2021). During recess, and in inclement weather (rain). In some locations, they must eat lunch outside, in a hurry (time limits), or in the cold.
76   Patrick   2021 Dec 22, 4:01pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-robert-califf-fda-big-pharma-investments/?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net

Biden Pick for FDA Chief Holds Millions in Big Pharma Investments
Dr. Robert Califf, President Biden's pick to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, made millions as a consultant for more than a dozen pharmaceutical corporations and holds millions more in Big Pharma investments.
77   Patrick   2021 Dec 23, 5:37pm  

https://www.ntd.com/fda-authorizes-pfizers-covid-19-pill-after-securing-5-billion-deal-with-federal-government_717705.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net


FDA Authorizes Pfizer’s Wuhan Virus Pill Weeks After Landing $5 Billion Deal With Biden Administration

The Biden administration has already purchased some 10 million courses of Paxlovid in a deal with $5 billion.


So... The Biden administration shovels another $5 billion of taxpayer cash to Pfizer and then the FDA suddenly says the pill looks good to them?

We have nothing but criminals running the corporate-government festering sore that claims to represent the people.
78   richwicks   2021 Dec 23, 5:53pm  

Patrick says
We have nothing but criminals running the corporate-government festering sore that claims to represent the people.


In my opinion, it's been this way for 2 full decades.

I'm just happy that people are starting to realize it now.
79   Patrick   2022 Jan 2, 12:13pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-misinformation-from-the-cdc-keep?source=patrick.net


The misinformation from the CDC keep on coming
I could spend all day, every day, dissecting the garbage that gets published by the CDC. This paper was a doozy.




80   Patrick   2022 Jan 6, 2:55pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-not-investigating-myocarditis-death-jacob-clynick-pfizer-vaccine/?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net


CDC Not Investigating Myocarditis Death of 13-Year-Old Days After Pfizer Shot, Emails Reveal
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is leaving it to state health departments to investigate deaths reported following COVID vaccines, including the June 2021 death of 13-year-old Jacob Clynick who died of myocarditis three days after his second Pfizer shot.
81   Patrick   2022 Jan 8, 9:24pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/is-omicron-mild?source=patrick.net



such credibility as it once had, the WHO has squandered and then some over these two long years of beclowning themselves with reversals, reversions, fabrications, and fantastical fright narratives, seemingly at random.

this is just more of the same and i’m not even going to try to speculate on motive anymore. it’s just too absurd.


Stunning how brazen the lies are now.
82   Patrick   2022 Jan 12, 5:35pm  

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/ah-rochie-if-only-your-lies-bounced?source=patrick.net


So the guy asking questions starts simple: a VAERS question about the number of deaths. He remarks that it’s been reported by virologists and scientists that the VAERS data system contains thousands of death reports. Is this true? Pretty simple question, yes? I can answer now, without thinking or making a reference to getting hit by a car. Yes. It does contain thousands of death reports in the context of the COVID-19 injectable products.

What say you of VAERS, Rochelle? Thousands (actually it’s tens of thousands and there is an over 6000% increase over the past 30 year average) dead in VAERS in context of COVID-19 injectable products… Is this true?

Rochelle through her multiple masks: Let’s not answer the question and talk about getting hit by a car!

A number? Any idea? Nope. Er. Uh. Referral.

Records of deaths?

Fauci: No absolute number. (Muted microphone.) No number. But let’s talk about getting hit by that car again! ‘Everything that happens after the vax is considered a death?’ What the hell is he even trying to say?

Rochelle: And every one of those is adjudicated.

WHAT? ADJUDICATED? Unless they also changed the definition of adjudicated to ignored, then I think you have the wrong word lady.

5 days after being ‘omicron asymptomatic’, you are allowed to go out! But no traveling, no gyms, no travel, no traveling, no living, no eating.

Yeah, just put your multiple masks on and go home. It’s safer. And for Christ’s sake, don’t talk to anyone or express any kind of love or be human.
84   EBGuy   2022 Jan 12, 6:26pm  

It's getting interesting. The CDC director just posted this on her twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1481315911843856387?source=patrick.net
The hardcore "Lock me down" types are freaking out... (MUH preprint)

85   Patrick   2022 Jan 12, 7:52pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-revelations-in-the-us-whats-happening?source=patrick.net


Early treatment was really the only intervention we ever needed treat COVID. But fat chance of that ever happening. No nation on earth is that smart to acknowledge that. I don’t think it’s ever going to happen because nobody wants to admit they were wrong.

Too bad no public official in the US is calling for a debate on this with our team of scientists. They don’t want to be exposed as incompetent. ...

They deliberately covered up the lab leak and conspired to treat those who told the truth as “conspiracy theorists”
We now know that NIH knew the virus was man-made (since they funded it) and then when it was released, they deliberately covered it up and conspired to paint those people telling the truth as “conspiracy theorists.” ...

Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay financial penalties
Quebec is going to charge the unvaccinated to pay for skyrocketing healthcare costs. You really can't make this stuff up. It’s an AP News story. I'm sure we're next.
88   Patrick   2022 Jan 13, 1:57pm  



I know it's been posted before, but so appropriate.
89   Patrick   2022 Jan 14, 10:05am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/time-cdc-get-clue-rochelle-walensky-comorbidities/?source=patrick.net


“The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 percent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who were unwell to begin with.”

That declaration by the director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, is one of those fall-out-of-your-chair moments. You’re tempted to repeat it several times just to be sure every syllable is in the right place.

Did she mean the deaths of all the people who died of Covid? Seventy-five percent. Or did she mean the people who died with Covid? The preposition, we have learned, matters muchly. “Of” means Covid is the murder weapon. “With” means Colonel Mustard did it with a poker in the library, and Covid was just standing in the corner. Listen carefully to the tape of Walensky on Good Morning America and it sounds like she means “with.” How many people actually died of Covid has been a dark CDC secret from early on. ...

Of course, many of us have been skeptical all along about the reported numbers, but the CDC has stalwartly told us, no, things are really bad. What loosens Dr. Walensky’s lips at this point?

We are left to wonder. Is it the widespread recognition that the vaccines are not very good at stopping the transmission of the virus? Is it that the boosters administered to people outside the red zone of age and comorbidity are more likely to harm than to protect? Is it that the Great Scare is losing its edge faster than a melting icicle?

We can trust that somewhere in the Batcave of the Biden administration a decision has been handed down. Now is the time to cool the Covid hysteria. Word must go out that Omicron is only my head cold.

No doubt, weaning people off masks, social distancing and shutdowns will be difficult. Devotion to Faucism has taken root like Chinese bittersweet along our roadsides, choking out the native foliage. The comparison to a salvation cult is too easy to make. By comparison, the salvationist cults I used to study were far more questioning of their premises and closer in spirit to the séance-busting Houdini or doubtful Richard Dawkins than the Fauci-ites are to questioning their master’s pronouncements. My guess is that Fauci will soon be cashing in his reported $350,000 per year federal retirement package — the largest in the history of the federal government.

I’d also advise Dr. Walensky to steer clear of the library. She has the quadruple comorbidity of knowing too much, lying too often, panicking too many and reassuring too faintly. At least she shouldn’t go in there with Ron Klain fingering a piece of rope or Jill Biden pinching a hat pin.
93   Patrick   2022 Jan 23, 2:02pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/cdc-director-walensky-says-that-the-cdc-is-changing-from-fully-vaxxed-to-up-to-date-meaning-youll-have-to-get-boosted-to-remain-fully-vaxxed?source=patrick.net


CDC Director Walensky Says The CDC Is Changing From "Fully Vaxxed" To "Up To Date," Meaning You'll Have To Get Boosted To Remain "Fully Vaxxed"
94   Patrick   2022 Jan 30, 8:33pm  

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/my-weekly-spit-test-reveals-the-scamdemic?source=patrick.net


Politics have sucked all the air out of the Reason Room. When Biden announced his unconstitutional OSHA “vaxx” mandate, my employer reflexively required me to submit to the vaxx. Though I love my work and the people with whom I work, I told my supervisor that I would never inject this talismanic, experimental, harmful dreck.

None of the dozens who come on-site to work their gardens, nor the homeless men who sleep there, are required to jab. Some of the gardeners are Mexican immigrants who speak no English. They tell me that they won’t take la vacuna; they know people who have been hospitalized or died after the shot. No matter the language, word gets around. Though somehow, the word on the street doesn’t seem to reach the nightly news. The street isn’t sponsored by Big Pharma. Yet.

Knowing I was threatened with dismissal for declining the vaxx, these normally institution-averse people reached out to administrators to oppose my firing. It was kind of touching.

Applying logic to facts, the gardeners criticized the mandatory vaxx policy, especially as applied to my situation. Erstwhile campesinos with almost no schooling are out-thinking university and municipal leaders with advanced degrees, as well as governors, public health “experts,” the American President and seemingly all elected members of his Party.

Hmm….

While I spent six weeks under under the vaxx mandate Sword of Damocles, I sincerely sought, and eventually received, a religious vaxx exemption.

But the exemption was conditioned upon me submitting to a weekly test. Sample collection requires me to generate greenhouse gases by driving to the Student Health Center, where I stand outside and spit into a plastic funnel and tube. Together, this kit probably contains as much plastic as twenty Burger King straws, and millions of the kits are likely disposed each day disposed as medical waste. As are mask mandates, the testing process is environmentally unfriendly. ...

Spitting into a tube is revelatory. But it tells you far more about your government’s and media’s abiding untrustworthiness than it tells you about your health. Reliance on testing is yet another obvious sign that the entire “crush the virus” crusade has been a sham. Governments—Democrat politicians, in particular—that have persistently required lockdowns, masks, shots and testing—none of which work—have destroyed their credibility among thinking people. This mistrust should logically and chronologically extend far beyond the Covid overreaction. Nominal Experts, Pharma, news sources and political parties who have lied this often, this obviously and for this long, may—appropriately—never be trusted again.
97   Patrick   2022 Feb 15, 5:38pm  

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/how-the-cdc-abandoned-science?source=patrick.net


How the CDC Abandoned Science...

Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. This research is plagued with classic errors and biases, and does not support the press-released conclusions that often follow. In all cases, the papers are uniquely timed to further political goals and objectives; as such, these papers appear more as propaganda than as science. The CDC’s use of this technique has severely damaged their reputation and helped lead to a growing divide in trust in science by political party. Science now risks entering a death spiral in which it will increasingly fragment into subsidiary verticals of political parties. As a society, we cannot afford to allow this to occur. Impartial, honest appraisal is needed now more than ever, but it is unclear how we can achieve it. ...

Once that trust is broken, it’s not easily regained. One way out would be to reduce the CDC’s role in deciding policy, even during a pandemic. Expecting the executive agency tasked with conducting the science itself to also help formulate national policy—which must balance both scientific and political concerns and preferences—has proven a failure, because the temptation to produce flawed or misleading analysis is simply too great. In order to firewall policymaking from science, perhaps scientific agency directors shouldn’t be political appointees at all.
98   Patrick   2022 Feb 15, 5:46pm  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/views-and-news-today/comments?r=6gdz&source=patrick.net


W. Aaron VandiverWrites W. Aaron Vandiver, Author ·1 hr ago
The Swedish constitution guarantees that public agencies are independent of the influence of the central government, protecting the agencies from political meddling. https://voxeu.org/article/sweden-s-constitution-decides-its-exceptional-covid-19-policy?source=patrick.net
99   Patrick   2022 Feb 15, 5:49pm  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/views-and-news-today/comments?r=6gdz&source=patrick.net


Michael Kramer 2 hr ago Liked by Robert W Malone MD, MS

All one needs to see the corruption using federal tax from the citizens-Wolensky's husband company a biotech something received 5 mil grant from Fauci's NIAC it goes on and on like Neil Youngs 4 dead in OHIO-government coming to cut us down!
100   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Feb 16, 8:06pm  

'Flawed science': Johns Hopkins professor crushes 'political propaganda' out of CDC

Dr. Marty Makary: 'The absolute worst studies' came from federal agency

Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been "using science as political propaganda."

"The absolute worst studies that were done during the pandemic came out of the CDC," he said in an interview Tuesday with the Fox Business Network spotlighted by Breitbart News.

"It really is offensive. It should be offensive to anybody who believes in science, including our nation’s physicians. This is using science as political propaganda. The absolute worst studies that were done during the pandemic came out of the CDC."

Makary, a professor of public health, pointed to a CDC study in Arizona's Maricopa and Pima counties he said was "deeply flawed."

The agency used the study to recommend "universal indoor masking by students, staff members, faculty, and visitors in kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12) schools, regardless of vaccination status."

But Makary argued the "number of schools in the study didn’t even match the number of schools in the geographic area they said they were studying."

The CDC also has largely ignored the power of natural immunity, based on two "highly flawed studies," he said.

"And yet they parrot these studies again and again, and much of the media just reports it out," Makary told FBN.

"If you look at most of the misguidance that we’ve gotten, it has been based on flawed science, with a lot of the community complicit in what they’re putting out."

The Johns Hopkins professor said "basically, what they've been doing is saying, we've made our decision, now let's go find some data to support it."

This week, WND published an interview with a data analyst with a PhD in computational biology who has taken a deep dive into the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System database, known as VAERS. She finds that the data signal a human catastrophe.

Meanwhile, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, while continuing to undermine VAERS, still hasn't fulfilled her promise to a senator to provide "the data" indicating how many Americans have died from the COVID shots.

https://www.wnd.com/2022/02/flawed-science-johns-hopkins-professor-crushes-political-propaganda-cdc/?source=patrick.net
102   Patrick   2022 Feb 17, 3:44pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/cdc-casually-admits-covid-nose-swabs-ended-lab-genomic-sequencing-analysis/?source=patrick.net


CDC Casually Admits Covid Nose Swabs Ended Up in a Lab for Genomic Sequencing Analysis
By Cristina Laila
Published February 16, 2022 at 12:50pm
110   Patrick   2022 Mar 18, 3:32pm  

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/the-hubris-of-modern-medicine-caused?source=patrick.net


The Hubris of Modern Medicine Caused Billions to Be Injected With "Hidden Genes" in the mRNA Sequences in COVID-19 Vaccines. It's Time We Tell Them We Know.
Parts of cryptic genetic code lead to proteins that are almost certainly expressed by cells in the vaccinated along with Spike - with unknown effects. No one has any idea what to do about it now.

The past two years have led to a disastrous plummet in the public’s trust of “public health”. According to Dr. Vinay Prasad, the causes include

Flip-flopping on masks within six weeks - and Fauci admitted to lying, for evidently no reason (cloth masks are not used by medical professionals);

Masking two year olds, evicting families from airplanes over a two-year old not handling masking;

Hypocrisy caught in photos on videos on the importance of masking;

Blood clots due to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, downplayed at first, and then merely demoted;

Booster mandates, objected to by Gruber & Kraus who resigned over the fact that booster mandates were needed in site of the science showing no long-term benefits;

Terrible studies on masks and on health outcomes in kids with COVID-19 compared to vaccination;

Financial conflicts of interests throughout public health implicating epidemiologists doing studies to support specific policies. The US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s history of receiving $400,000 from Carnival Cruise before his appointment.

To these recently pointed to by Dr. Vinay Prasad, I will add:

Allowing incorrect and inaccurate calculations of mRNA vaccine efficacy;

Implementation of a woefully flawed application of RT-PCR for COVID-19 testing, while reporting zero false positives;

Implementing unrealistic and futile control policies re: outdoor events and outdoor dining;

Denying instead of addressing the PCR false positive problem;

Unwarranted claims on the tissue fates of the spike protein;

Silence on the findings of insertion of mRNA spike-encoded reverse transcribed DNA in human cells;

Locking down the US and the resulting data showing lockdowns had no effect on the virus;

Promotion of studies that claim to show that vaccine-induced immunity is superior to natural immunity;

Reliance on non-peer-review “preprints”

Reliance on flawed and fraudulent studies allegedly showing no efficacy of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine

Reliance on late-COVID-19 studies of treatment options that are not highly profitable;

Denial of the science on early treatment with options that are not highly profitable;

Implementation of the remdesivir treatment protocol based on an interim analysis published as a press release;

The implementation of perverse incentives for COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 deaths after starving hospitals of cash via the 3-month lockdown;

Whistleblowers that stepped forward (to Del Bigtree and the Highwire team) reporting willful miscoding of deceased patients with COVID-19;

Interference with public discourse via pressure on social media outlets to allow only discussions that match the official narrative;

Acting as though the deaths and adverse events reported to VAERS and other systems are not caused by the vaccines.

As if those are not reason enough…

Now we have yet another reason to no trust public health. The public health agenda caused billions of people around the planet to be injected with the spike-protein encoding RNAs without first determining whether other parts of the RNA might be read as other proteins.
111   Patrick   2022 Mar 18, 3:34pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-cdc-analysis-on-pediatric-vaccines?s=r&source=patrick.net


the CDC analysis on pediatric vaccines is pure garbage
this is not public health, it's public harm

el gato malo
2 min ago

one fact in medical care is unarguable:

medical interventions are everywhere and always a risk/benefit calculation.

this is just bedrock reality. nothing is free. you must always compare that which a treatment will gain you to that which it will cost you. you must weigh risk as well as reward.

anyone pushing just reward is lying to you.

i could douse you in gasoline and light you on fire. it would reduce your chance of being stung by a bee.

seem like a good trade?

and the CDC is, yet again, failing to do this or even acknowledge the concept.

and as a result, they are selling poison as preventative. again.

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