TIL: The FDA Tried to Prevent Having to Turn Over Safety Data it Already Had for COVID Shots for 76 Years. Pfizer Layoffs.
Last year, the FDA was ordered to turn over safety data it had on COVID shots after being sued under the Freedom of Information Act.
The hair in the soup?
It argued in court that it needed 76 years to turn over data that it possessed last year.
Siri, a 2004 University of California Berkeley School of Law grad who got his start at Latham & Watkins, is no stranger to FOIA fights. Last year, he sued the Food and Drug Administration to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency unsuccessfully argued that it needed up to 76 years to review and release all the information.
-Reuters
The FDA fights everyone because it wants to sit on data that it knows would be damaging, if it got outside the agency.
And this is very basic information. Right? What made you decide that these “vaccines” were effective and safe?
So if there’s no scandal, why do they want to make us wait 76 years?
Usually, when the government commits horrific crimes, it sits around and waits until all the victims are long dead and nobody cares anymore, then admits it quietly in some document dump nobody even reads.
Tens of thousands of claims of injuries and the government has paid “three or four people”.
I wonder how long they’ll be able to hold back the dam before this turns into another Asbestos or Camp LeJeune.
As usual, the government that ran the Syphilis experiments up to 1974, told me in health class that all gay men got AIDS eventually, said the air quality on 9/11 was perfectly fine and Saddam had Anthrax, and ran a torture program, would never ever lie and everyone else is the disinformation.
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I was born about 39 years after the end of World War 2.
I’m almost 40 years old now.
This is the total amount of time that the FDA argued in court, unsuccessfully, that they needed in order to tell you how safe or unsafe the COVID shots were based on data they already had last year.
I am glad that the courts haven’t started entertaining the government, like the people in charge of the Web, burying us in propaganda.
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Jamie Zawinski was about as nice as the typical leftist.
When I told him how “effective” the first four shots were, at making my spouse lose several days at work that counted against him, then he got COVID, then gave it to me and I almost died anyway, and that I didn’t know what 5, 6, 7, and 8 would do better than 1, 2, 3, and 4, he responded with the very sympathetic “fuck it, die then” meme and blocked me.
These are anything but rational people.
A normal person says I’m sorry to hear that.
-Me, on Mastodon
I doubt we’ll ever know the full extent of how badly the government liars bullshitted us on this.
I threw in a random sampling of the American government’s long history of being unethical, lying, and committing crimes to make my point. In every criminal trial, a prosecutor is allowed to go after the character of the defendant by bringing up other bad things that defendant has done in the past. If we go into the US government, it’s hundreds of examples. We don’t have time for all of it.
The government has never shown a propensity to care about the rights of its citizens, or to tell the truth, and you want us to believe them over this? Show your work.
The fact that they have to hide things, very basic, which they have shown the public immediately on other vaccines, like “What led you to believe they were safe and effective?”, and all those other times they said, “Here’s the data. We hope it explains our thinking on this!”, and now they go “We need to hide it until you and the next 3 generations are dead before we admit what we did.”, says a lot, doesn’t it?
I think it says a lot.
Our experience with the shots wasn’t very good and it led me to conclude that the risk from the shots just isn’t worth it. I don’t think we saw any benefit. If anything, I got my ass kicked by COVID even after I did everything the Democrats said to do about it, and my spouse lost twice as much time from work, and the part the COVID shot caused wasn’t even excused. He had to dip into sick hours.
Where is the data? Show me the actual data. I want to see data, not press releases.
The CDC — which should be the gold standard for accurate information — still hasn’t made the v-safe information publicly available itself, although it seems to have fulfilled a FOIA obligation by giving it to ICAN.
-Reuters
So the CDC refuses to comment and explain itself, and so it lets itself get sued, turns over the raw data to actual anti-vaxxers, which are opposed even to legitimate vaccines, such as Hepatitis, Measles, and flu, and lets the anti-vaxxers show it to everyone along with their narrative?
Is this not, at the very least, incompetent? Shouldn’t the CDC get out in front of this and admit the COVID shots “are the best we could do” or try to put some sort of remotely positive spin on them?
So “ICAN”, the anti-vaxxer group, provided the CDC’s data in a dashboard, according to Reuters.
According to ICAN, 7.7% of the v-safe users — 782,913 people — reported seeking medical attention via a telehealth appointment, urgent care clinic, emergency room intervention or hospitalization following a COVID-19 vaccine.
-Reuters
782,913 people sought medical attention after getting a COVID shot.
Isn’t overwhelming the hospitals and doctor’s offices what we were trying to avoid with the shots?
This is just of the people who participated in V-SAFE. Nobody had to participate in V-SAFE. Probably more than half didn’t.
So people got the shots and then well over a million people storm the healthcare system, because of the shots?
This week, Pfizer announced layoffs due to pathetic “COVID vaccine” sales. It’s all about selling products these days.
Who even cares if they work? Calling it a vaccine is even better because if they hurt people, they have to talk to the government injury program about it, which will let them eat static.
To make up for the lower-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment this year, Pfizer announced it will cut $3.5 billion-worth of jobs and expenses to gain savings through 2024, though it did not provide details on exactly how many people it will let go.
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But the company did say that it expects to pay a one-time charge of $3 billion linked to its saving plan for 2023 and 2024, most of which would come from severance payments spurred by the job cuts.
-Newsweek
Also worth noting, that the media has switched from calling the Biden-era mass layoffs a “savings plan”, rather than layoffs.
Are we losing track of the Newspeak yet?
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