TIL: The FDA Tried to Prevent Having to Turn Over Safety Data it Already Had for COVID Shots for 76 Years. Pfizer Layoffs.

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?

The Fauci Ouchie (COVID Shots) “Wins” Again. My Cousin and Aunt Have COVID; Also, Big City Crime.

The Fauci Ouchie (COVID Shots) “Wins” Again. My Cousin and Aunt Have COVID.

My dad E-Mailed me about my cousin going to visit my Aunt before my Aunt was due to have sinus surgery. They had to scrub the surgery because my Aunt was exposed to COVID by my cousin.

Like my spouse and I, we both got COVID 6-7 weeks after getting the bivalent, and both of them had gotten all their “COVID shots”.

Just absolutely worthless shots. The worst cases of COVID I’ve seen were in people who were “vaccinated”, including my own. Also, everyone who got “vaccinated” got COVID anyway.

Yet they want us to get more shots, now $180 each, which don’t even work. The New York Times posted an article a while back about “potentially getting them four times a year”.

This is such a bullshit racket. I cannot believe that I allowed myself to go along with it. I am definitely not getting one this year or ever again. I was deceived and lied to. Whatever trust I had in the US government, which wasn’t much, is gone.

I don’t even trust my own doctor anymore. They’ve been turned into pharma salescritters and nothing more.

Suddenly, all of these diseases that we’ve never had a vaccine for “have shots” now, modeled on the ineffective and dangerous mRNA COVID shots.

After seeing that all the bivalent shot did for us was make my spouse unable to get out of bed and he had to call into work for three days, I can’t justify continuing this, especially since the court system has struck down all of the threats.

Now it’s just the government, insurance companies, and pharmacies taking turns with my text messages and E-Mail accounts going “Knock Knock! Had your COVID shot yet?”.

UNSUBSCRIBE! QUIT! STOP!

This country has gone straight to Hell.

The same Democrats who won’t stop screaming about COVID shots are basically doing nothing as everyone overdoses from smoking fentanyl that Bonehead Biden and his partner, Xi, are flooding the streets with to commit a holocaust against the surplus population.

I was talking to my ex yesterday, about how oblivious the libtards are. He was laughing at one of them in Seattle, who was trying to lure someone to put down their crack pipe by bribing them with a bottle of water. The guy went over and got the water bottle then went right back to smoking crack.

It does no good to call the police anymore. The Defund the Police movement has won.

John tells me that what the cops in Seattle do now is they just don’t respond to anything in the areas that are voting for this. He works for an apartment rental company and he said that crackheads are always getting in the building somehow and the cops won’t do anything, and these are “luxury” apartments. Luxury apartments with crackheads, and the cops don’t come scrape them out.

I told him, “Why would they? If there’s not enough cops to patrol the city, let the people who voted for this deal with it on their own. Rich people get funny ideas in their head and vote for those funny ideas, and then when there’s people getting in their luxury condo buildings and smoking crack, raping people, and pissing in the hallways, they wonder where the fucking cops are.”

I finally got COVID-19 despite all of the vaccinations, and it’s pretty damned terrible.

I finally got COVID-19 despite all of the vaccinations, and it’s pretty damned terrible.

When my spouse tested positive for COVID-19 on the 14th of this month (November 2022), I immediately took him to get Paxlovid at the CVS Minute Clinic.

I continued testing myself for the next 14 days and since I felt okay on Friday, I went to see my mom and cousins in Indiana for Thanksgiving dinner over the weekend.

Big mistake.

On Saturday night (actually early AM Sunday) in the hotel room, just hours after dinner, I woke up with all of the COVID symptoms. Mom took me and my spouse back to the train station, and we spent all evening on trains trying to get back home. I was starting to wheeze and gag and cough, but I had an N95 mask on and sealed it properly, and kept my head down and away from everyone else.

A simple carry-on bag felt like lugging around a dead elephant, and my lungs were on fire and filling up with fluid that had a “gritty, sand-like” substance in it.

We got home last night. I had been taking Tylenol every 6 hours on the way back to try to keep moving. I took a COVID test, and it was positive.

Since I had expected it to be, I scheduled an appointment at the local CVS Minute Clinic for this afternoon while I was still in Indiana.

I went to bed, and again, the COVID symptoms came back with a vengeance. Worse than Saturday/Sunday.

Sore joints, burning in the lungs, burning in the nose, sharp stabbing pains all over my body. Headache, extreme chills (so bad that I had to put my dental guard in to avoid tooth damage from chattering, and this while I was under two comforters and a winter sleeping bag splayed out as a blanket, and had a space heater aimed right at me.

Sinus drainage, sneezing fits. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.

In such pain I was literally screaming, as best I could, before giving up and calling my spouse on the phone, dialing it with my nose, last night, to ask him…one….word….at…a….time to get me Tylenol, water, throat numbing spray, cough drops, and hot tea.

I had 3x monovalent Pfizer vaccine. For me it was 2/26/21, 3/21/21, 8/29/21, and then a bivalent on 10/6/22, and it was similar for my spouse.

Roy Schestowitz recalled that I drove across the state of Illinois and back 4x to get the vaccine sooner. I did everything I was “supposed” to do and still got it, and it’s kicking my ass.

I’m really not a complainer.

I’ve been sick before and just toughed it out, but this is next level shit. I’ve gone through more Tylenol in the last 3 days than I have in the 20 years prior to that. I usually skip it even when I have a headache because I don’t want to take the stuff. I don’t like taking a lot of pills. But now I’m even on experimental pills!

My spouse is now undergoing “Paxlovid rebound”, but the Nurse Practitioner wouldn’t prescribe me Paxlovid, because it interacts with three of my medications.

One of those I can’t stop taking and the interaction is potentially life threatening (came up on the screen in red).

Also, I have high blood pressure and am on medicine for it, and the Paxlovid can raise blood pressure.

So I’m not even angry at the NP for that. Handing me something that could put me in an even worse predicament than just COVID would be reckless and I’m glad she didn’t do it.

Most people, however, don’t even know what pills they are taking, or what they do. Mom’s a nurse, and she’s been one long enough to experience many people where if the doctor says swallow a pill, they swallow it, and if they say list your medicines, they shrug and go “uh nuh”.

So I know everything I’m taking and knew to talk to the NP about interactions. Many people are probably getting Paxlovid prescriptions when it risks damaging their body.

I ended up suggesting Molnupirovir (Lagevrio), which is currently under Emergency Use Authorization, in only the United States, iirc.

It’s not as effective, apparently, but it doesn’t have all of those drug interactions. It’s supposedly designed to screw up the virus by inserting the drug into the RNA, causing the virus to undergo catastrophic replication error.

Merck originally said it was 50% effective at keeping mild to moderate COVID from progressing to “hospital or death”, but later studies show it’s more like 30%. It still beats nothing. I took my first dose right away.

Pfizer brought a bunch of products to market that don’t seem to be leaving the people taking them much better off in the end. Bourla himself, I’ve heard, has had COVID twice?

To top it all off, I’ve never seen this many people in public, no masks on even, hacking and coughing. Usually not even bothering to cover it.

Mom’s starting to come down with symptoms, again. It couldn’t possibly past the incubation phase from when I was near her.

She said it’s probably that supervisor at work who wears her mask under her nose that stopped for 15 minutes to have a pointless conversation with her, and then tested positive.

Then I got another call today where she said COVID is in the building and bowling over everyone. Staff. Residents.

My cousin said it was in the facility she works in like that too.

But Biden said “Pandemic’s over, Jack!” and then got an ice cream cone.

And have you checked out these Black Friday deals?

Do your part for the ECONOMY.

Now, the mainstream media is bullshitting us and saying it’s “still out there” but “it’s very mild” and “deaths and cases are steadily going down”.

That has not been my experience in this matter.

Healthcare companies are licking their chops about the “commercialization” of COVID vaccines and therapeutics.

Healthcare companies are licking their chops about the “commercialization” of COVID vaccines and therapeutics.

Right now, the US federal government pays about $16.50 per dose of COVID-19 vaccine under the Warp Speed deal with Moderna, according to CEO Stéphane Bancel.

However, he was “optimistic” that they’d get $60 per dose out of Medicare.

Medicare only tends to pay about 60-70% of what private insurance does, so that means your insurance will end up “negotiating” to get to $80 or more per dose.

The companies are really jonesing to fleece the American public.

They were not happy that the “vaccine passports” and mandates went away, because their thinking obviously was that they could come back every year and lock us all in our houses until we paid for the annual booster and some app on our phone turned green again.

The situation as it stands now is that the monoclonal antibody therapies have already gone that way. No more clinics where you can go get them free of charge, and the vaccines will be this way next year.

Since the monoclonal antibodies have to be administered in a clinic, not at a pharmacy, you know what that’s going to cost. Get ready to start seeing $60,000 bills again if you pass up the vaccine and have to go to the Emergency Room for the antibodies.

We took the bivalent booster.

According to CNN, the government may not even pay for the vaccine soon because it’s running out of money appropriated by Congress, and the Biden administration is prioritizing what it needs to fund.

The Pfizer one. Nobody charged us for it. I suppose that’ll be a similar experience if there’s another one next year because it will seem like my insurance pays for it, and then premiums go up again, because insurance hides the cost of everything.

I was on the fence about the bivalent booster.

But a few things are becoming clear.

One of those things is that the government in the US is pulling up the stakes and leaving everyone to fend for themselves if they do get severe COVID, so the other option is to get vaccinated if I want to be sure no $60,000 ER bills are coming my way over this.

I think that’s part of the point.

I haven’t heard what they’re planning to do about Paxlovid and Molnupirovir yet (what mom took after she got COVID). Those have been “free” up to now (government), but that’ll probably change soon too.

The government wants the economy open and it wants it open now.

For this reason, and the fact that President Biden and Governor Pritzker (of Illinois) along with others want re-elected, they have every reason to be sirens luring people to crash into the rocks with talk of the pandemic being “over”.

Richard Stallman noticed part of this and condemned Biden, whose evidence was that people had stopped acknowledging it.

We had a discussion in Techrights IRC the other day. The troll, Matthew Garrett, was in there acting as if the vaccines are perfect (hardly), and Roy and I were dismayed because the vaccines are not perfect. They’re just….part of what we do have to deal with this, and just bringing up that the only test for the latest boosters were done on mice and that there are too many gaps in the CDC’s data went completely unacknowledged by Garrett, who says he is a “biologist”.

A man who ignores facts in evidence or flaws in data to reach a preconceived conclusion is not a scientist. This is bordering on religion.

If they were really as effective as they were touted to be, why are so many cases (80,000+) still happening, despite testing being down over 90%?

Even with those caveats, it seems that Biden realizes that the one lever he still has to compel people to get their vaccinations is fear of the American healthcare system (massive bankruptcy-inducing medical bills), and the Republicans aren’t going to do shit to fix that. So, use it.

From what I’ve seen in Illinois, it’s the rare person who is still wearing a mask, and that’s amusing in a way. Last year, everyone who wanted to go maskless was turned into a pariah. They were being arrested and heckled by the police. Fist fights were breaking out. Some people even got shot and killed.

Now if you are wearing a mask, you’ll be the 1 in 100 people doing it and everyone will look at you funny even though all of 12 months ago it was a whole different story.

The “maskless jerks” who should “be arrested” according to Stallman are 99 out of 100 people in Illinois, and maybe a touch past that.

Not even the pharmacy staff giving the vaccines are wearing masks at this point.

The government is so done with this.

They’re done trying to get it under control. They’re done spending money on it. They’re done not collecting taxes from people going out and doing their usual levels of reckless overspending.

So now they don’t even want to know. All of the testing mandates are gone, all of the testing centers are shut. If you get COVID, you’re on your own.

Soon you may not even be able to get a free COVID shot because if you don’t have insurance, they may cost more money than you can afford.

(The American economy is unusually bad right now even in light of the last 15 years. With hyperinflation and unemployment, maybe people don’t have $80 for a COVID shot so they just take their chances.)

This will completely unravel what’s left of the effort to shape the spread and keep people out of the hospitals, and cause an even bigger disaster for everyone (including government programs that have to pay the bill sometimes when people go to the hospital).

With the transition of COVID vaccines from “government pays” to “everyone for themselves”, the US turns into what Pfizer has already done globally in a microcosm.

1.7% of their vaccines have gone to non-rich countries. Their goal has been to sell a product to the rich. They can’t seem to get away from selling some to poor people, but their goal is to make it as few doses as possible.

There’s no money in it. It’s just something they do in order to stop the media from reporting that it’s 100% to rich countries, what an outrage. I wonder how Mr. Garrett, “biologist”, feels about that.

Good luck, America.

The doctor refused to treat my blood pressure, so I took matters into my own hands. Bonus: Insomnia, Depression, and COVID-19

Back in March, I started having problems with my blood pressure running too high.

Coincidentally(?) it was after the second Coronavirus vaccine (Pfizer) and I don’t know if the two are related, but I’d never had it shoot that high before. On a bad day, I’d be in pre-hypertension and on most days it would be on the high end of normal. But in March I started having blood pressure running so high I could feel it in my eyeballs. When I checked, it was running at 147/99, and in about that range. Not good! But since you’re not going to have a stroke in the next five minutes, good luck getting any medical care in America.

You can almost fill a book with things that doctors either don’t know or won’t tell you, so when I visited the doctor, I was told “No, we’re not putting you on meds and if you really want to get it down, go on a DASH diet and get rid of most of your dietary salt.”.

So, obviously, I like to eat. Who doesn’t? But after three days using the American Heart Association’s slow cooker DASH diet, I could tell that there’s really no making up for salt in your cooking in a lot of places. You can reduce the salt, and honestly in many recipes you should seek out reduced sodium options such as reduced sodium chicken broth (the tetrapak, not the can!) or reduced sodium ketchup, or using coconut aminos instead of soy sauce (or if you can’t afford coconut aminos, at least use reduced sodium soy sauce), and obviously if the recipe calls for salt, you can use Morton Lite Salt (half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride) or just omit it entirely or use less if some other ingredients are really salty already.

But most people do what I did. DASH diets don’t work because, they work, but the patient will not comply with them. It fails to anticipate what patients will do. You have a medical mutiny, not a patient who is getting better. And some doctors realize this and say “You should cut down on the salt, but here’s some medicine.”. Nope, I got one of those government doctors at the Health Department who just said “Go on a DASH diet. Here’s the bill.”.

Fortunately, I’m not one to skip my homework, and it got me thinking about supplements that can reduce blood pressure. There’s quite a few options, and they “stack”, as in, they can all contribute a modest reduction, and do not conflict with one another. So while you can take too much of something, you can take the right amount of multiple supplements that aren’t going to hurt you, but collectively contribute to solving the “big problem”.

I started taking a 400 mg Magnesium supplement at night, which is not harmful. It’s about the RDA for a man my size anyway, and then I started taking Omega 3 from fish oil. (1280 mg of Omega 3 per day at bedtime).

This along with modest reductions to my sodium (using less sodium options for processed foods and backing away from the salt shaker, and ordering my french fries without salt….that kind of thing) turned out to cause my blood pressure to drop to 126/84 as of my last reading, Not too bad.

But I think I can do better, so I upped my Omega 3 recently to 2,000 mg Omega 3. (1 of those “horse pill” sized “Spring Valley” capsules from Walmart when I wake up, and one at bed, along with the magnesium.) I’ll take more measurements as time goes on, but I really think 120/80 is attainable.

If you need to go further, concentrated garlic supplements, I’m told, also have an effect (a small one, but it’s a nudge). Go for odorless obviously. Mom has horrible blood pressure problems, from age mostly, and she’s used garlic for years because sometimes the prescription drugs can’t even get it under control by themselves.

The Magnesium turned out to have a knock-on benefit. It makes you really really sleepy about an hour after you take it. I’ve struggled with insomnia my entire life and this stuff puts me right to sleep.

Which brings me to a sidebar moment. Doctors really have no idea what to do about sleep, but they pretend like they do on TV. The truth about prescription sleeping pills is that your body adapts to them quite rapidly and they no longer work after a while. Some even cause your hair to fall out, and most can cause side effects like sleepwalking.

Around 2006, I went sleep walking on Ambien and tried to make a peanut butter sandwich out of my phone and then I turned the stovetop on (I don’t know why.) and went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Then I woke up, sitting on the toilet, with a pizza box on fire on top of the stove and the fire alarm going off, and I had to put it out with an extinguisher.

Luckily, there was no damage and the landlord never found out. It was just a hell of a mess to clean up from the fire suppressant foam. Anyway, that’s what you get from the “professionals”.

The Benadryl in disguise stuff (OTC, Unisom, Zzzquil, etc.) is less harmful, but your body adapts to it within about two weeks and it won’t make you sleepy anymore.

But Magnesium, this stuff, whoa. Look out! It puts me to bed and then I just wake up in the morning. It’s a very useful supplement. Possibly the biggest find I’ve ever made. But doctors won’t tell you that.

Are there clinical studies on supplements? Yes. But…

Interestingly, the studies seem to be architected in order to find out that the supplements “don’t work”. Which isn’t science. It’s more drug company bullshit.

In one case I found, they called for 18,000+ people 50 years old or so, who had no history of depression, to take some Omega 3 and some Vitamin D (I take 5,000 IU of Vitamin D per day), and then followed them for 5 years, and then concluded it had no effect on depression.

“Here’s some people who made it 50 years with no history of depression, and who aren’t depressed! Let’s see what this does to the depression they aren’t having! Oh, look, it didn’t do anything for depression! Womp womp! Want some antipsychotics? We call them mood stabilizers now. They’re really quite nice! The FDA was very nice too. It let us take the studies that showed them not helping the patient and feed them right into the shredder. We used the model that Oliver North did for Iran-Contra.”.

But many other studies have suggested that the anti-inflammatory properties of Omega-3 help with depression and stress. Many people also take it for arthritis pain relief.

As another aside, I added an Ester-C (non-acidic vitamin C supplement) and a Stress-B Complex vitamin daily as well.

I figured it can’t hurt. The Stress-B even has quite a bit of zinc in it (and more vitamin C).

The FDA recommends very small doses of vitamins, lower than what people actually need in order to stave off or reduce the seriousness of certain disease processes. For example, you _can_ take a 1,000 IU Vitamin D supplement like Fauci recommended, but it won’t move your actual Vitamin D level that much.

My husband’s level only went from 19 to 26 with 5,000 IU per day of Vitamin D (which is really the most you should ever take if you aren’t having your levels checked!) but he does have his levels checked, so we talked to his doctor and I said, “You know what, I’m getting tired of you guys prescribing him Vitamin D when his levels drop, taking him off, and then his levels drop again. We’re going to do 10,000 IU per day and you can just draw his levels every time he’s in here.”.

Aren’t you just sick of doctors?

And on the subject of Vitamin D deficiency, that’s likely to lead to severe COVID. In fact, 90% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient or insufficient for at least most of the year, but they tell everyone to get a COVID shot every 90 days now (LOL) but never mention Vitamin D’s role in preventing severe COVID and thus, hospitalizations.

And while people continue to get statin drugs, the doctors never tell you that Omega 3 supplements can also help with your triglycerides and HDL. Why would they? The drug companies buy them steak dinners at $500 a plate restaurants and pay tuition. Then you go in and get a prescription for whatever the latest bribe was.

I once had a psychiatrist, who, like clockwork, would try to prescribe me something, and then I’d go to the Open Payments website for CMS and look, and sure enough they had bought him dinner or put him through a class or something. In any other field, this would be called what it is. Flagrant and open corruption.

I’m just not seeing any really good reason to not take Omega 3 supplements. There’s a laundry list of conditions they may help or are proven to help (like blood pressure) and nobody has come out with anything to suggest that it would be harmful in any way. They appear to help with a number of conditions I have, and it’s something the doctors will never ever admit.

I talked to my psychiatrist about Omega 3. He said, “Well, they’re studying it and have been for a while. We don’t know whether we should recommend it or not yet, but I don’t think it’s harmful. You can keep taking it if you think it’s helping you.”.

I said, “Well, I know how these studies can go even when they mean well. Like, take scurvy for instance. Some doctors in the 1550s noticed if you drank lemon or lime juice or ate the lemons and limes, you didn’t get scurvy, and if you had it, they would reverse it, but the medical community was so resistant to change, that they didn’t give sailors lemon juice for 50 more years after millions more had died of scurvy, and handwashing between patients met similar resistance. So they can study this and I’ll take it now, because in 50 years I’ll probably be dead or won’t have long to benefit from it if they ever admit it works.”

Some studies have been so promising that certain psychiatrists recommend Omega 3 as an add-on to an antidepressant or an antipsychotic while they are treating depression or Bipolar Disorder, but many don’t. And we don’t have 50 years.