@adistantpeople 1st: thx for responding reasonably! I'll try to reciprocate.
I'm sure 31 in TN is much less than 5%! Anything close to that even CDC would shut down the program immdiately. They shut down swine flu vax in '76 after 53 deaths nationwide.
Current death reports from these vax are >12K(tot) 6K(US), still <1%, though 12X reports from all vax since 2000. Death rate (IFR) of Covid is <1% for all <65yrs (CDC best est) or <80yrs w/o underlying condition (Stockholm U.)., All-ages ranges bet .1-1.5%. (not easy to find)
If any of these stats surprise you, think why, given constant media "coverage." Also these vax did not promise *any* % immunity. Was that not made clear to you? Were you led to expect something else from "vaccine"? Something that might justiry forcing it on people?
Cause *that* is the issue now. (As it always will tend to be with vax)
Point is these numbers are signals of potential problems with *new treatments not fully tested*--problems that must be investigated, not dismissed--as the drs & scientists raising them are.
New drugs must prove they are not harmful, not be assumed to be. No "except vax".
Instead of *this paradigm & program* foccused entirely on vaccine* as the answer to the problem, I would have liked to see the following:
-*First off all,* provide a universal costless-to the user, public health system promoting strong immune systems in a healthy natural and social environment. There was not a word about any of that, except to oppose single-payer; vax was posited as only goal.
Within that context of real concern for public health:
-Isolate *the sick*. (Not everybody!)
-Gather reliable data based on consistent & transparent standards and tests. (Don't change the definitions of pandemic, cases, and deaths to push a preconceived agenda,as was done.)
-Search for useful treatments w existing meds, heeding drs who are *successfully* working with sick. Don't attack, shame & censor doctors who have done that. But any successful treeatment means no EUA or mandate for new, profitalbe vaccines.
-Study the virus and its spread in an open, collaborative--i..e., scientific, way. Don't exclude scientists & their work that diverge from establishment--i.e., Pharma-approved experts, Arguments from"authority" are precisely what science was developed *against.*
-Find out how the well the adaptive human immune system is handling the virus in various pop cohorts. Encourage and teach people to strengthen their immune systems. Don't ignore & deprecate & try to *replace* with pharmaceuticals this most powerful weapon against virus,
-Develop new therapies & meds ,incl vax, with same safety & same liability standards, fully & openly present all the science abt their efficacy *and* safety, and *offer* them to most vulnerable & most likely to be positively affected
Don't insist on, or hide & selectively downplay negative evidence & arguments about, unprecedented, not-fully-tested one-size-fits-all forced injections to all, regardless of specific differences in pop cohort.s.
-"Offer"=respect the indispensable historically-acheived right of informed consent. Do not just waive it away permanently for anything called a "vaccine," which is exactly what mandatory vax policies do.
Things like that. An entierly different approack in which properly-vetted vax are *one tool*. The absolutely standard ways of dealing with virus. Until 2020. Anything crazy here?
But these things were *actively* not done because the goal is to scare people into accepting the harmless magic bullet of for-profit liability-free vax as their only salvation from horrid death. From day 1, Pharma saw this as the opportunity to get mandatory adult vax. Foerver.
Bottom line: I stand w @StabellBenn Vax--certainly these mRNA--have *unknown* non-specific effects It's not me saying this; it's scads of drs and scientists who are being suppessed to prevent thinking outside the vaccine box. Pls pay attention to them.
Here's Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi explaining how the spike protein that *the vax makes your body produce* induces blood clotting. If you are not *sure* and able to explain there's NO risk of this, you can't *mandate* vax & create a regime of segregation.
This is ONE example of problems many scientists have identified. If you are not SURE. AND able to explain there's NO risk of this,
& you support a regime of discrimination and segregation.for millions of people who choose not to take it (including me and 62% of black New Yorkers), then wtf--really WTF! are you doing?! THAT IS NOT "LEFTISM"!
The gaggle of rushed-to-market #covd19#vaccines constitute unprecedented mass human medical exeperimentation.
UK Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA) is "urgently seekimg an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process *the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs)*."
Because "its planned procurement process for the SafetyConnect programme..would not have concluded by vaccine launch" (i.e., safety testing was rushed and skipped), MHRA is concerned about the "direct threat to patient life and public health" from these ADRS.
First, his cancellation of the attack on Iran. Now this. If Senate Rs start turning against #Trump on #impeachment, it's b/c of THIS--because he's not a reliable enough trigger-puller for the neocon warmongers of both parties. #Syria#impeachment#Turkey nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/…
Of course, even he can't get completely out of the neocon grip. Note that US troops r NOT being withdrawn from #Syria, only "pulled back." i.e., they won't fight a Turkish invasion, but will be there as tripwire should gov of Syria try to take back control of its own territory.
Because the #Kurds, now seeing what fools they were to ally with the US, will now likely negotiate a resolution with #Syria which they would much prefer to Turkish occupation.
@DougHenwood@katiecannon2@srlie True that MMT does not explain the production and appropriation of *value*. It's an explanation of how *money* works. But that's a lot, since money--esp fiat currency--is a very powerful tool & is the primary expression of value in capitalist society.
@DougHenwood@katiecannon2@srlie Why fiat currency has been and will be used in reactionary ways until and unless we learn to use it in progressive ways--as something that is social and political in origin.
@DougHenwood@katiecannon2@srlie They are using it to fund wars & enable banksters profits & speculation. We have to use it as a social utility that enables producing what we consider necessary & valued goods & services. And we can! What's stopping us is political, not economic. MMT makes that visible.