"What is truth"? Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus that in the Gospel (John 18:38). We thought of that exchange when we read the following statements.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to approve the CDC’s new recommended immunization schedule, saying that Adults and children 6 months and older should get the vaccine and the boosters. October 20,2022.
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, questioning whether young and healthy people should receive booster vaccines: “I think it's going to be like the flu…If you’re a 25-year-old, do you need an annual booster every year if you’re healthy?” He predicted COVID boosters will be needed for "Only people at high risk, people above 50 years of age, people with comorbidities, people with cancer and other conditions, people with transplants." October 19,2022
So, what’s the truth here? Do you trust the US Government? Or, do you trust the Big Pharma CEO, whose company will make a helluva lot of money if more people, not less, take the vaccines? It’s not like the US government has a really good track record on Covid matters. Our government health care leaders and experts seemed absolutely certain when they declared the following:
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, in March, 2021: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials, but it's also in real-world data."
President Joseph Biden in July, 2021: “You are not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations”.
On Aug. 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, in August 2021: "Vaccines prevent getting infected, prevent getting sick, prevent your hospitalization,"
Of course, they were all spectacularly wrong when they made those statements. Walensky, Fauci and Biden have all received multiple covid shots and boosters, and they have all gotten the virus; and, unless they never interacted with family, friends and co-workers, they certainly must have transmitted that virus to others.
It’s not a sin to be wrong, but it is a sin, you would think, to speak falsely, especially when your statements – and your actions – affect so many people adversely.
Dr. Deborah Birx certainly knew what was true back then. In 2020, she was former President Trump’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator. She has been making the talk shows recently, promoting her new book. In it, she says the following: “I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection".
Maybe she was just a very bad coordinator, and she didn’t tell her colleague, Dr. Fauci, or the CDC, what she knew at the time. Perhaps the truth is otherwise: that our leading medical experts and political leaders all knew that the vaccines did not protect against infection, and they privately decided that the American public, to quote Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, “Can’t handle the truth!”
How about Dr. Fauci? In February 2020 he presumably knew the “truth,” when he wrote the following: "The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keeping out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you." On March 8, 2020, he added “there's no reason to be walking around with a mask"
Yet just one month later, he went along with the CDC which recommended that all people “cover your mouth and nose with a mask when in public settings or around others.” What’s the truth here? People say, “to trust the science,” but did the science change so quickly? Do the droplets really “easily” seep through the mask material, or do they not?
If the benefit of wearing masks provides only a “slight benefit,” why did these experts and political leaders force small children to wear masks in school settings? Did they ever suspect that masking small children might just hinder their social and learning development? Are they just “slightly” embarrassed, or do they feel guilty about hearing the abundant reports of young children falling so far behind in school?
We think the worst offender is President Biden. Did he know the truth about vaccine transmission, when in September 2021, he issued two executive orders mandating vaccines for federal workers and contractors? Did he know the truth when he announced new requirements for large employers and health care providers, which would affect around 100 million workers, more than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce? Did he know the truth when he asked the Department of Labor to issue an emergency rule requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any unvaccinated workers to produce a negative Covid test at least once a week?
The President is very good at blaming others. Did he know the truth when he said "we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin," while blaming the 80 million people who he said were still unvaccinated? And when he added "your refusal has cost all of us?" Then in December of 2021, he loudly proclaimed: “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” No, it never was; as everybody must know by now, it does not matter if you are vaccinated – you can still get the virus, and you can still transmit it.
However, we think a larger issue looms. There are a large number of people out there who agree with the President when he worries about the “danger to democracy” posed by the “far right.” We think they ought to pause and look in the mirror. Why aren’t they equally worried about giving too much power to an unelected bureaucracy to affect everybody’s life to decide where they can meet, eat and pray? Why aren’t they worried about giving too much power to any President – one who can rule by executive power, without Congress, making rules as to whether you can work and where?
If you want to protect and save democracy, The US Constitution is a wonderful document. There are checks and balances in the interplay between Congress, the Courts and the President. Whether you politically agree with President Biden or not, you should be alarmed when any President seeks to govern by executive decree.
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