1/ According to Bob Woodward's BUSH AT WAR, in an NSC meeting of October 17, 2001, VP Dick Cheney, his aide "Scooter" Libby and DCI George Tenet agreed that the anthrax letters represented a WMD play by a state sponsor of 9/11, and that this assessment needed to stay on the QT.
2/ Less than two weeks later, Woodward co-authored an anonymously-sourced piece for the WaPo suggesting the anthrax was a distraction from the "War on Terror" and implicating "domestic extremists" in the letter campaign. Nothing has emerged in 20 years to support that assessment.
3/ Woodward's WaPo article earned a pithy, taunting rejoinder from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Baghdad radio the next day...
1/ And, one possibility is certainly that these are just crappy vaccines which give short-lived immunity and which the virus can easily mutate around. Similar, then, to flu vaccines, only worse -- kind of what you might expect given the history of attempted coronavirus vaccines.
2/ The more ominous possibility, also presaged by the history of attempts to develop vaccines against SARS, the nearest relevant target, is that escape mutants disseminated by vaxxed bodies could lead to ADE/vaccine-induced enhancement by any of a variety of related mechanisms.
3/ The failure of the Warped Speed vaccines has important implications either way. But, the latter case -- even if it's just a "scenario" for now -- should be at the forefront of our minds, commonsensically, as animal models show it could lead to a massive die off in the vaxxed.
As in Sweden, mass vaccination seems to have spawned an aberrant, non-seasonal 3rd wave -- not unexpected given the compounding risks associated with rollout at high virus prevalence, use of a non-sterilizing vaccine & use of a spike-only vaccine offering only "cartoon immunity."
@pangolins13@ITGuy1959 1/ Insufficient testing/unknown long term effects is a major concern with all the Warped Speed vaccines, regardless of technology. There's also growing empirical evidence that they have high levels of side effects. The decision-making process around the use of these vaccines is
@pangolins13@ITGuy1959 2/ completely corrupt and driven by bad actors with agendas that have nothing to do with our well being (Fauci, Bancel, Biden, etc.) There are serious theoretical concerns about the selective pressure these vaccines (all of which express only the SARS-2 spike protein) exert on
@pangolins13@ITGuy1959 3/ on the virus and the societal consequences -- actually, those concerns are now moving beyond the merely theoretical phase. As far as the mRNA vaccines specifically are concerned, as one of the principal scientists involved in bringing synthetic mRNA to its current prominence,
Question: Has Mass Vaccination Decreased or Increased COVID-19 Mortality in Sweden?
Fundamentally, that question comes down to whether we believe the sharp and unexpected resurgence in the virus concomitant with the onset of mass vaccination was driven by mass vaccination, or we believe that is simply a coincidence.
Mass vaccination started in Sweden around the turn of the year. The rate of vaccination has been relatively slow compared to the US but, as in Florida, the campaign has prioritized the elderly. So, by now most of the population at risk of dying of COVID-19 have been vaccinated.