« First « Previous Comments 163 - 202 of 343 Next » Last » Search these comments
Early physician reimbursements were in line with other vaccines, though the USG interestingly paid more for the second dose. Then the payment per dose rose to $40 in March 2021
Vaccinating during a house call got you $75.50
The incentives for doctors got much higher for a) recalcitrant patients and b) higher percentages taking a COVID shot--up to $250 per patient!!
Truly sickening and I am embarrassed for my profession by this
California dangled $350 million to increase vaccinations in its unvaxxed medicaid population on Aug. 6, 2021--right after Walensky admitted it didn't stop transmission
FOIAed email from FDA's #2 vaccine regulator to the FDA Commissioner reiterates that the Commissioner (and/or the #1 vax regulator) believed mandates of EUA vaccines were illegal
This is the proof that a bait and switch took place: FDA improperly issued a COVID vax license in order to impose mandates. This needs to be part of the litigation
and i suspect we may be dealing with an amoral few happy to set fires all over town so that the police are busy while the rob the bank.
because one thing is certain: the best way to keep you from responding to depredations and incursions into your life and livelihood is to keep you in acute distress elsewhere.
no one is paying a ton of attention to policies about internet censorship when their kid just came how from school having learned that the second law of thermodynamics is a patriarchal plot to prevent racial equality and ravage the earth with climate change so that no one can have free healthcare. cuz fascism.
the original el gato malo (who alas is no longer with us) was a savannah cat of astonishing cunning. there was nothing he loved more than ham. one day i was eating a ham sandwich in my home office. he arrived and started seeking to eat it. i told him no. so he walked over and knocked over my water bottle so it was pouring into my printer. when i jumped up to grab the bottle, he grabbed the sandwich and made his getaway.
how many times has this been done to us of late?
how many times have we been threatened on some orthogonal axis so that a prize may be grabbed from us while we are distracted?
how many times was the real fight about tightening the ratchet of control while we were fixated on some outrage or supposed safety?
i’m not sure we can possibly know and that would certainly be the desired outcome in such a system as epistemological evisceration would seem to be a feature not a bug in this product of “grand theft society” by technocratic totalitarians bent on lives of lavish legal plunder and ant farm social control.
what is the aim is to keep us too busy fighting evil clowns to cotton on?
i doubt very much that this can ever be untangled. it’s too deep, too wide, and too pervasive. it’s just everywhere and it’s a bewildering mix of a priori intent and unconscious evolved practice.
trying to parse it is a fool’s errand.
the good news is that we don’t have to because whatever the answer, the solution is the same: take power away from the state.
this is the fundamental moral case for liberty, libertarianism, and the primacy of rights and free organization. ...
the simple fact is that this is the inevitable end result of a state with the power to determine that which is bought and sold, to demand credential to allow the practice of professions, and to license everything from dogs to lemonade stands. this is what happens when liberty and property are privleges and not inalienable rights.
this is the price of “but we just need to do my special important thing to protect you!”
the wild communal incohesion and dissolution is not some failure of freedom, it’s the path to predation by plunderers.
this is not safety, it’s servitude.
and this is the mindset we need to get away from.
it’s nothing but a societal sinkhole trying to pass itself off as civilization.
Why do you think pharma and defense industry are the primary ad buys? Do you think that a commercial for the new cholesterol drug makes any difference to sales for the pharmaceutical industry when it’s a doctor who has to prescribe it? Do you think Northrop Grumman makes any extra sales of weapon systems by putting ads on a news channel? No these are legal ways for the government to pass along money to news media with out it being “government funded”. Tucker pissed off the government so the government got rid of tucker.
Federal, state, and local governments provide $764.7 billion or $15,120 per pupil to fund K-12 public education.
this is in excess of $300,000 per class of 20. so, sorry, but no possible way this is an “insufficient funding” problem. the unions are skimming something like 10% of this right off the top for themselves and for kickbacks to politicians in the form of donation and PAC’s to maintain their monopoly on public funded ed. the rest is going to the sort of administrative bloat that replaces AP math with a third DEI obersturmführer with designs on proving that biology class is a form of patriarchy.
The Director of Women's Studies at CSUEB makes "Real Dr. Fauci" required reading, very interesting article:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lynn-comerford-the-real-anthony-fauci-required-reading-students-csueb/
"Comerford noted that as part of the $2 trillion federalCoronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/about-the-cares-act ,U.S. colleges and universities https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/higher-education-provisions-in-cares-act were allocated billions of dollars on the precondition that they complied with COVID-19 mandates.
In another example, she said,Yale University https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/my-day-at-yale received, in 2022 alone, $607 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), compared to $475 million in student tuition. Indeed, since 1998,Yale has received https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=14367 $9 billion from HHS — $1 billion of which has been disbursed since 2020."
When Colleges Accept Golden Handcuffs from the Medical Cartel...
Rutgers has been captured ...
If you’re wondering if universities like Rutgers are willing to bite the hand that feeds them, consider Rutgers’ efforts to drive COVID policy since that time:
Rutgers Doubles Down on “Obey To Play” COVID Policies Despite Science
Rutgers has decided to continue imposing indoor mask and vaccine mandates for the fall semester citing concerns about the continued spread of the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron…
8 months ago
... You can see a thread of headlines demonstrating all the ways the university has worked to push vaccines and fight vaccine hesitancy and “misinformation” here. ...
Do we really want to trust the minds of the future to these institutions?
The Twitter community outed two Gen-Z shills paid to promote old-man Biden and it was beautiful to behold, my friends!
... In late 2022, Biden's campaign team connected with young social media influencers, including Harry Sisson, to draw in voters ages 18-29.
https://nypost.com/
https://www.axios.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Sisson recently signed with Palette management. Palette received more than 200k from the DNC in the last 8 months.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-sisson
https://www.fec.gov/
In the past, paid actors could get away with the grift because the fAcT-cHecKers and social media were there to prop up the Democratic Party.
That doesn't work in free-speech land, where you get to be objectively analyzed by everyone under a microscope!
In a different place (Aristotle's "Politics") I read that corruption is reduced when the community all knows each other and eats together.
In a different place (Aristotle's "Politics") I read that corruption is reduced when the community all knows each other and eats together.
One idea is that children should be taught virtue and to be opposed to corruption starting from an early age.
The House Oversight Committee revealed Wednesday that more than $1 million flowed from a corrupt Romanian businessman to the Biden family while then-Vice President Joe Biden paid lip service to cleaning up corruption in the Eastern European nation.
“While Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policy, in reality he was a walking billboard for his son and family to collect money,” committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said at a morning press conference.
By fall 2021, I no longer recognized New York.
It had vaccine passes and mask mandates and a crazy-eyed governor telling unvaccinated people they weren’t “listening to God and what God wants.” (Apparently God wanted New York to pay $600 million for Covid tests to one of the governor’s biggest donors, too.)
Federal judge in Brook Jackson’s case covered up DoD’s Dec. 2020 knowledge of Pfizer’s clinical trial fraud, to fabricate a false timeline, to better immunize DoD from prosecution. ...
Like their historic counterparts in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s Russia and many other mass murdering police-states, American federal judges have played a key role in maintaining and expanding the supranational covert biowarfare program run through the Trump/Azar-Biden/Becerra police-state apparatus since January 2020.
Imagine, just for a moment, for the sake of argument, that early in the COVIDcrisis it became clear that the major route of infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was intranasal (but also oral and ocular infection), and that a simple nose wash (nasal lavage) with a dilute solution of stabilized Hypochlorous acid could drastically reduce the risk of disease and transmission associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Clinical endpoints which the much touted, highly promoted, and frequently mandated genetic Spike-based COVID vaccines never were able to achieve.
Surely this must be an imaginary parallel universe. There is no way that the US FDA would have blocked rather than expedited the availability of such lifesaving treatment using an inexpensive agent which is less toxic than povidone–iodine!
I am very sorry to tell you that what I am describing is not some parallel, dysfunctional universe in which the FDA has been transformed into a bootlicking sycophantic captured promoter of the commercial interests of the patented pharmaceutical industry, or yet another sordid example of the US Federal Imperial Administrative State making arbitrary and capricious decisions which have indirectly led to a large unnecessary loss of life. Unfortunately, as is often the case, both scenarios are clearly true in THIS universe.
Video (On UK Column): Money for Bad’s sake
An epidemic of fake money is just about the worst thing that can happen to a society, because it embraces the possibility of just about every other bad thing you can imagine.
JOHN WATERS
JUN 11, 2023
... ‘Money is not what it used to seem to be’ is the opening line in John Waters’ most recent article, ‘Fake Money as Cluster Bomb'. He argues that money has ceased, in a sense, to be real, and has become instead a chimera. It is, in effect, a strange sort of weapon used to coerce our societies to morph into the form chosen not by the people but by bureaucrats in think tanks and international institutions.
When governments used to say, ‘There is no money, we cannot do that,’ money remained real. Now, all reality is gone and the impossible becomes possible. Political will is no longer restrained. This has a profoundly corrupting effect. ...
Waters writes that ‘smirking scoundrels’ rule over us only because of the falsity of what has replaced real money. As a result, we have a society of lies where morals are inverted. Evil has become good and black has become white. The destruction of our civilisation has become a profitable business.
John Waters concludes that there are indeed links between these three things: money, perverted desire and evil.
We live in an era where mainstream society does violence to language. Mainstream society assaults language to the point where words no longer have any meaning. Then they proceed to do violence to people because if words have no meaning then it becomes impossible to hold anyone to account. Examples include toxic injections described as “safe & effective”, riots described as “mostly peaceful”, and surgical castration of autistic children referred to as “gender affirming care”.
One can generally spot the captured words because they look, feel, and sound Orwellian and are usually the result of extensive market research and focus group testing by Pharma (and other corporate) public relations firms.
If we are to survive, we absolutely must take language back from the postmodernists in the mainstream media, in the three letter agencies (CDC, FDA, NIH), and in academia.
“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”
By Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. and Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
July 14, 2022
That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.
That doctor is hardly alone.
At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH’s Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer. “They have no leadership right now. Suddenly there’s an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,” one NIH scientist told us. (The people who spoke to us would only agree to be quoted anonymously, citing fear of professional repercussions.)
The CDC has experienced a similar exodus. “There’s been a large amount of turnover. Morale is low,” one high level official at the CDC told us. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?” Another CDC scientist told us: “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.”
Why are they embarrassed? In short, bad science.
The longer answer: that the heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions. That such decisions are being driven by what’s politically palatable to people in Washington or to the Biden administration. And that they have a myopic focus on one virus instead of overall health.
Nowhere has this problem been clearer—or the stakes higher—than on official public health policy regarding children and Covid.
First, they demanded that young children be masked in schools. On this score, the agencies were wrong. Compelling studies later found schools that masked children had no different rates of transmission. And for social and linguistic development, children need to see the faces of others.
Next came school closures. The agencies were wrong—and catastrophically so. Poor and minority children suffered learning loss with an 11-point drop in math scores alone and a 20% drop in math pass rates. There are dozens of statistics of this kind.
Then they ignored natural immunity. Wrong again. The vast majority of children have already had Covid, but this has made no difference in the blanket mandates for childhood vaccines. And now, by mandating vaccines and boosters for young healthy people, with no strong supporting data, these agencies are only further eroding public trust.
One CDC scientist told us about her shame and frustration about what happened to American children during the pandemic: “CDC failed to balance the risks of Covid with other risks that come from closing schools,” she said. “Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.”
An official at the FDA put it this way: “I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don't like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement.’” ...
“It seems criminal that we put out the recommendation to give mRNA Covid vaccines to babies without good data. We really don’t know what the risks are yet. So why push it so hard?” a CDC physician added. A high-level FDA official felt the same way: “The public has no idea how bad this data really is. It would not pass muster for any other authorization.”
they legislated so Pharma could flog their shit through direct advertising and make the patients hector their doctors for the nostrums.
« First « Previous Comments 163 - 202 of 343 Next » Last » Search these comments
"Stern and lasting message" my ass. Only life in prison will do. Singapore is a much better country than the US in this way.