“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
In my opinion, the approval of a “likely safer” coronavirus vaccine is – in the long game – a big win for popular science – here’s why.
The approaching approval (or not) of a competing EUA for the NON-mRNANON-viral-vectorNON-geneticNovavax coronavirus vaccine is going to tell us a LOT about how much power Pfizer and China still hold over FDA and CDC.
As you may have read two days ago, I regarded the conveniently timed FDA public statement about the myocarditis risks of the Novavax vaccine as a cynical “pot-vs.-kettle” attempt to sway approval and prevent the entirety of future Novavax data from getting into VAERS, where such data would very likely highlight every possible problem with the mRNA vaccine technology of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
TL;DR – “I believe that mRNA vaccines have serious risks that would be REVEALED by approval of the Novavax vaccine.” -Wolf Moon I’m actually surprised that FDA and Pfizer/China allowed Novavax to get this close to approval, but they clearly have the upcoming vote RIGGED, just like the 2020 election. The trusty “board mules” that …
Well, it looks like the VRBPAC bunch did the smart – or at least consistent thing, and recommended approval.
The 21-0 vote with one abstention is telling, IMO. A vote AGAINST would cause an uproar on both sides, and put VRBPAC in the hot seat. Are they shuffling the murder of Novavax off to “the Roach” for a kill? We will see.
Here is a comment I added to my prior post, regarding an article in the Federalist, which takes the “no more approvals of any vaccine” approach – which I believe is well-intended but short-sighted. This comment explain my strategic reasons for supporting approval.
Here is a great example of somebody who sees the vaccines much the same as me, but strategically comes to the exact opposite point of view on approval of Novavax.
Reading his point of view may help people to see mine – or maybe not. Worth a read.
Dr. Gortler basically wants to begin playing fair and correctly on Novavax – making it jump through the hoops that Pfizer and Moderna didn’t have to jump through, but (IN MY OPINION, NOT HIS) thus denying what is likely a SAFER vaccine (in many respects – not all) to people who are going to take a vaccine, one way or another.
In my opinion, admitting the Novavax vaccine will shed necessary light on mRNA technology, as this “shingles-style” (recombinant protein) vaccine will help to highlight the flaws of the mRNA tech in the long run.
This is where I take a “Trumpian” and “they have to be shown” position. I regard a denial here as the kind of “purism” that has been deadly to conservatives, and was responsible for “NeverTrump” as an effective weapon of the left.
We have what is likely a “saf-ER” vaccine. Do we approve it or not?
YMMV.
Wolf Moon, June 9, 2022
Note that there is still plenty of time for FDA and/or CDC to snake Novavax and help Pfizer and China. Will they do it? Let’s wait and see. Either way, we win.
If Rochelle Alinsky and Anthony Fauci knife Novavax in the back to protect mRNA, I will have one of my greatest arguments yet that they need to be removed and prosecuted. The blatant hypocrisy will win more and more Democrats to our side. All of my neighbors are perfect recipients of the message. They will be screaming for Fauci to hang.
If they allow Novavax the opportunity to prove itself [to any degree] safer than mRNA vaccines, they fight another day – but they have to fight a battle we are destined to win.
Like I say, every day is a fight – but we are winning more and more fights, sooner and sooner.
Told you it was all just a business ploy! Elon never had any intention of “backing out”. The deal didn’t “fall through”. The mainstream coverage around this has all been completely false, but to my followers, this is nothing new.
The takeover is inevitable. Elon is just lowering the purchase cost. While simultaneously, and most importantly, exposing the amount of bot activity and Twitter’s nefarious activity.
As you all know, I believe Elon to be acting on behalf of the US MIL in congruence with Trump. Elon is their highest paid contractor, and he just so happens to be taking out the most powerful deep state brainwashing asset with sterling precision and calculated counter moves that perfectly expose the enemy’s crimes to the public on the world stage.
Everything about this story is suspicious. A California man travels all the way to Maryland only to be intercepted by unnamed police at 1:50am, and then admits he was intent on killing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh because he was angry about the possibility of SCOTUS overturning Roe -v- Wade. Uh huh.
The first indicator something is sketchy is the WaPo with the breaking news. The second indicator is Peter Strzoks BFF journalist Devlin Barrett with the story. Assuming the U.S. Marshals office still holds some credibility, the Occam’ Razor of the sourcing would indicate it’s the FBI delivering the information to the Washington Post….
Looks to me like someone wants to keep the Supreme Court abortion story in the mind of the electorate. Perhaps the political benefit was wearing off, so they needed to restir the pot. Regardless of what is behind the story, things are certainly not as they appear at face value.
Let's be real… If January 6 had been an actual insurrection, Trump would be dictator right now and gas would be under $2 a gallon.
The other side is investing a lot into keeping the January 6 narrative alive. They’ve even hired someone who has the resources to confect a story line to keep the people not already awake mesmerized.
Too bad few people will watch the show. There’s bound to be some sort of playoff sports happening. If the Blues were still in the Stanley Cup hunt, that’s where I would be.
Switching topics:
The gun control bill today will ban magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
Last night, the chairman of the rules committee said this would prevent shootings like the one at Virginia Tech.
I reminded him the shooter carried 17 magazines… none of them held more than 15 rounds.
Following the recent tragedy in Uvalde, the anti-liberty left didn’t waste any time blaming innocent gun owners. They immediately began talking about “red flag” laws, which sound merely helpful but which are, in fact, unconstitutional gun grabs under another name.
This is a typical leftist tactic: avoiding certain words because they would convey what is really taking place. Democrats routinely have their best wordsmiths conjure up soft language for wholesale gun confiscation. Start with those so-called “red flag” orders, which imply a government promise to confront serious dangers. Now that the people have become wise to this crass word manipulation, they’ve even starting to roll out a new version: “Yellow flag” orders. It’s got all the unconstitutional gun confiscation as before, but with a slightly brand new name.
That’s just the beginning of the naming frenzy, all intended to show that the government is just here to help. These unconstitutional abominations are also known as Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Orders (ERFPO), Risk Protection Orders (RPO), Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO), and Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO). Liberticidal leftists have also been wearing out their thesaurus conjuring up harmless descriptions of how these things work. Instead of talking about how an innocent person’s means of self-defense and personal property will be taken at gunpoint, they talk about how these laws “temporarily” separate people from their guns or keep guns out of the hands of individuals perceived as a danger to themselves and others.
The dilapidating state of our culture, institutions, and politics (the order is deliberate) have been decades in the making. Blame Boomers — the culture definers among them — for getting the ball rolling downhill in the highly romanticized lied about 1960s. They spawned the decadent counterculture, which set in motion every society-rotting development we’re grappling with today. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the aging avatars of counterculture radicals who turned into establishment exploiters.
Real Clear Politics’ average for “Direction of Country” polls is currently an eye-popping wrong track, 70.7%, while right direction stands at a paltry 22.4%. Other than D.C. lifers, welfare moochers, and people wanting their college debt loans erased, who are these 22%? And who, this side of lobotomies, is the smaller percentage of “not sure?”
America’s accelerating tumbling is the handiwork of a corrupt, ideologically driven, incompetent — dare say, venal — elite. Don’t doubt that most of the incompetence stems from an irreparably flawed leftist worldview and age-old, mind-twisting power- and money-lust.
A calamitous, destructive, painful descent is happening before our eyes. We’re witnesses to history — but the imperative is to be actors against what we’re witnessing. Winning elections, though critical, won’t alone fix things. The culture needs to be retaken. Institutions need to be recaptured — or routes around them created.
The attack on American Civilization is multi-fronted. Progressivism — an Orwellian inversion if there ever was one – is reminiscent of the classic TV show, The Twilight Zone. In the show’s opening title, Rod Serling would say, in part, about the world of imagination that viewers were to enter: “It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.”
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” Voltaire
The signs of decline are everywhere: violent crimes, corruption, riots, all with little or no consequences for the perpetrators, election fraud, medical mandates for vaccines that do not work.
“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” Voltaire
All of this is part of the left’s grand plan to “transform” American society from the free nation of our founding into something resembling communist China. The one thing they did not plan on was the presidency of Donald Trump. His four-year term in the White House was not only unexpected because the Democrats were certain that they had that election in the bag. Hillary was on board with their globalist/Marxist plan, and they just knew that all their plans were a go. But they underestimated the America First movement and were gobsmacked by Trump’s thoroughly unpredictable victory. That is how blinkered they are.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
The leftists “know” that if they are doing it, it is the right thing to do. Convince people that there are multiple genders, that men can get pregnant, that it is fair for men to compete against women as women, that small children can be “trans.” Anyone who publicly notes their destructive bent will be called a racist or homophobic or transphobic. That is how they roll, our left.
And who do they blame for all the chaos they incite? The deplorables of course; Trump supporters, patriots, constitutionalists, conservatives of every stripe.
While the appeal of homeownership remains a priority for many Americans, the attainability of such a goal is steadily becoming loftier and out of reach for a majority of younger generations. In 2020, the Los Angeles Times reported that currently more than 67 million U.S. homeowners are over the age of 55, while a 2018 report by Urban divulged that homeownership rate among millennials aged from 25 to 34 is eight percentage points lower than baby boomers, and 8.4 percentage points lower than Gen Xers within the same age group.
There are many reasons for this grim manifestation ranging from the increased cost of living, the rising debt in younger generations, hidden homeownership costs, and even the glamour of traveling that appeals to many millennials. However, perhaps the most sinister and intrinsically dangerous justification for the millennial decline in homeownership is that the American dream is simply being bought right out from under them.
In the first quarter of 2021, one in every seven homes purchased were made by an institutional investor (asset managers, pension funds, foreign sovereign wealth funds). Among other things, this prices perspective middle-class homeowners out of the marketplace. HousingWire reported that investor purchases of single-family homes in 2021 rose 4.8% year over year in the first quarter, while investors maintained the largest market share in the multifamily sector by buying 25.8% of multifamily properties that sold. Investors acquired the largest share of lower-priced homes (20.8%), compared to 12.5% of high-priced homes and 11.3% of mid-priced homes. These investors typically pay in cash and often 50% above the asking price, while devouring entire neighborhoods by transforming them from middle-class homes into rental properties.
The Watergate boys are trying to be relevant…trying too hard, actually.
WRONG on saturated fat WRONG on calorie counting WRONG on grains & carbs WRONG on salt WRONG on “healthy” veg oils WRONG on 100% vaccine safety WRONG on mask efficacy WRONG on lockdowns
Does anyone know why Hunter Biden stopped painting? I mean if his talent was so good that people were paying $500,000 per painting, why quit? pic.twitter.com/GmTfG5V7OS
No rational actor would trust the FBI or DOJ to impartially handle new powers and authorities. Anyone proposing giving them new authority as opposed to removing authority, disbanding them, defunding them, or putting them under strict oversight, is unworthy of elected office.
Everything that is happening is part of a bigger plan. All of it fuel,food and pandemic. Depopulation is the end goal and a one world government. If you can’t see you’re blind. Things are going to get way worse not better. We need a miracle.
This came from a friend, and is long, but worth a listen for deep divers in the conspiracy rabbit holes. This guy spent a whole lot of time in reading rooms all over the world.
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20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 21“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, `You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire. 23So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; 26truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.
