While I am extremely glad the FDA has changed its stance on the COVID vaccines, this article is a blood boiler. As someone who's worked in clinical research for almost a decade I can tell you this is so intellectually dishonest and hypocritical (and yes, I acknowledge I'm still "part of the problem").
While I'm not a clinical expert, I understand how pharma and government contracting work from the business side. I'm here to tell you this whole thing was a grift from the jump. To most of us here on nostr this is common sense but a good chunk of the public at large still believes these covid vaccines are saving people to this day and shouldn't be pulled off the market.
Anyone with experience in research will tell you that AEs and SAEs are taken very very seriously in clinical trials. That all just went out the window in 2020. I get it, desperate times/desperate measures... but that is a childish mentality at this point. There has been an abundance of data out there for awhile that contradicts the narrative about these products but it's only now that the FDA is changing its tune. Simply put the government is acknowledging they have been lying to you for 4+ years.
"The FDA’s new Covid-19 philosophy represents a balance of regulatory flexibility and a commitment to gold-standard science. The FDA will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data on persons at low risk." This statement is complete psychological manipulation and how history gets rewritten.
What this statement actually means is "Now that big pharma has secured a bag with impunity and it is no longer politically convenient to force this narrative, we will accurately align with scientific integrity and voice our concerns over the safety and efficacy of these products." It's like the scene from The Big Short where Goldman calls Michael Burry after ghosting him because they got the liability off their books and can now accurately value his short position because it is in their interest to do so.
This needs to be called out for what it is. I know nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spramhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmndv9uxjmtpd35hxarn9ehkumrfdejszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3xjarrda5kuurpwf4jucm0d5k2j70t is still beating this drum but the message needs to get out there. Many people like Mary Talley Bowden & Jack Kruse have been saying this for a long time and have been completely shunned and threatened by the medical establishment. We cannot let this outright fraud and criminal behavior get swept under the rug. Unfortunately, we're the only adults in the room.
I don't really know what to do with all of this but if there is any way to keep this conversation in the zeitgeist I'm here for it.
