Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 5

[ecosophia]

The semi-open posts  I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a huge number of comments, so I'm opening another space for discussion. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 

3. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 

Comments

[methylethyl]

At first glance, that looks like simply a snide remark about the political affiliations of the staunchly unvaxxed.

But one does wonder if, after a year of claiming credit for the thing, they can see something ugly coming down the pike in the uncensored data, and are starting to distance themselves.

[troyjonesiii]

Yes, you are right. It could very well just be a one-off snarky comment from Psaki. The thing to watch for is if the administration and their stenographers (aka the media) start linking Trump to the vaccine more often in their rhetoric. If they do, it could be a harbinger of serious trouble with the vaccine.

But still, it is very strange to me that Psaki would give Trump any credit at all for the vaccine, even sarcastically. The truth is that Trump has always been pro-vaccine and was one of the first in line to get the jab. The Biden administration and the media's blaming (or crediting) of Trump for the anti-vax groundswell was always 100% fake news fabricated from whole cloth. Trump is not now, nor has he ever been, opposed to the vaccine. Psaki reminding people of the truth, even in jest, threatens to unravel the media's false narrative that Trump is behind the anti-vax movement.

[methylethyl]

Yeah, will certainly be looking for repeats to see if "Trump-approved vaccine" was an annoyed slip of the tongue (it is, of course, true, but they've put so much effort into claiming undue credit...), or a brand-shiny-new talking point. If the latter, that's a bad sign for vaccine safety/effectiveness.