Thread by @Saintonge235

#Propaganda #protip: Never underestimate the power of the Big Lie. There have been NO studies about the implications of this, long term, because there CAN’T be. They would have had to sit on the #vax for YEARS to conduct them. We’ll find out the implications in future years.

https://twitter.com/AlastairMcA30/status/1480425150185050112

Did you know the word “cisapride.” It’s the name of a drug introduced to the U.S. market in 1993, and ‘voluntarily’ withdrawn from the market in 2000. (It’s still available for vet use). Why was it withdrawn? It kills people. OOPS!

How did it ever get approved?

There were deaths among the test subjects in the clinical trials. But there didn’t seem like a lot of deaths, it was plausible that they were coincidental, so the regulators made a judgment call and approved it.

That is not a scandal. The scandal came later.

Once in use among the general pop., more deaths. But the FDA and the companies making it couldn’t admit they’d goofed, so they left the stuff on the market. THAT WAS THE SCANDAL. THAT WAS #EVIL. Very banal evil. Happens all the time evil. Don’t make waves evil.

I am not #vaxxed, and won’t be. But I approve of the stuff decision to grant the EUA. The #reality of our time is that a hard choice had to be made: bring the vax to market when it could be useful, and maybe kill people with it, or wait years to be sure if it was “safe,”

by which time it would be largely useless.

But the #vax should not be marketed as a magic talisman that wards off evil. And that is the way it is being marketed.

Maybe the menstrual irregularities are trivial for almost all women. Maybe. IT WILL BE YEARS TILL WE KNOW FOR SURE.

Until we know for sure, do NOT listen to the people who tell you they know for sure what the truth is. They are guessing about the long term effects, and LYING about their state of knowledge.

And learn to live with risk. Because RISK CAN NEVER BE REDUCED TO ZERO.

#Reality doesn't care about your fear.

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