Absolutely stunning watching @AmeshAA spend practically 10-20 minutes trying to explain how getting a vaccine on the CDC schedule triggers a liability shield without ever admitting the liability shield exists.
It comes up twice during his segment, and he basically bends over backwards to explain how the vaccine court is a special court that incentivizes companies to make vaccines, without actually admitting they cannot be sued for damages.
He lists all kinds of supposed benefits of the vaccine court like access to experts and streamlining, as if experts can’t testify in regular court. He won’t just come out and say the difference is the taxpayers pay for it instead of the companies.
And his coverage of the history is laughable. Rather than saying Wyeth threatened to stop making vaccines after the insurance industry stopped underwriting them because the DTP shot was killing 1 in 300 babies and Wyeth was losing $20 in lawsuits for every $1 profit…
… he says they anti-vaccine culture is so strong that most companies just don’t want to get involved in making vaccines, so in the 1980s we realized we had to coax them into it by consolidating the injury lawsuits and making them less complicated.
The amount of effort in contorting the basic facts, and the sheer length of time he had to spend to describe this in a way that avoids saying the companies prefer not being liable for damages is baffling.
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