Pepperidge Farm remembers. We also remember otherwise very intelligent and kind people turning into social media & family dividing bullies in the name of a morally unquestionable safetyism that made anybody with very reasonable questions about natural immunity, Invermectin, and/or the weirdly fanatical regime of mandates and censoring, a "denier" of what we now know was a false gospel referred to as "the science" by compromised "experts" and a propagandizing media establishment.👎🏼
Liberal institutions and experts delivered spectacular results at a perilous time yet are facing distrust
Robert Tracinski for The UnPopulist:
The Covid-19 pandemic has produced a startling paradox.
In response to the outbreak of a deadly disease, scientists developed an effective vaccine in record time. It is estimated to have saved three million lives in the U.S.—many more than the 1.2 million lives Covid claimed—and tens of millions of lives globally.
Yet the immediate result is that resistance to vaccines increased.
Those who oppose vaccines progressed rapidly from the fringe to the mainstream, and now, President Trump has appointed prominent vaccine skeptics to run the nation’s top health agencies: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Health and Human Services and Dave Weldon at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
How did we arrive at such a perverse result? Why are people turning against a lifesaving technology precisely at the moment when it has demonstrated its value?
A Pandemic Interrupted
The effectiveness of the vaccine is well supported by facts and evidence. For instance, a 2022 study in the New England Journal of Medicine (see a summary here) found that Covid vaccines were “52.2% effective at preventing infection and 66.8% effective at preventing hospitalization.” In other words, if you were vaccinated, you were half as likely to get the disease, and if you did get it, you were a third as likely to suffer a serious case. The effectiveness of the vaccine fades over time—but then again, so does the natural immunity conferred by getting full-blown Covid.
You can see the result in this chart of Covid death rates for the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. The differential has narrowed in recent years as the pandemic recedes and far fewer people are getting Covid in the first place. But notice the giant spike in January of 2022, when the unvaccinated were dying at a rate 10 times as high as the vaccinated. That is how we know this was a successful vaccine, and that’s when a lot of lives were saved.
A flurry of bad arguments has attempted to bury these facts in the public mind. Consider the complaint that the Covid vaccines are not “real” vaccines because they don’t provide “sterilizing immunity”—that is, they don’t completely prevent transmission of the disease. But this is based on ignorance about how “real” vaccines work. For example, Jonas Salk’s famous polio vaccine didn’t provide sterilizing immunity, either. Yet it kept the polio virus from attacking the nervous system, preventing paralysis and death.
But this issue is a red herring, because other vaccines such as the HPV vaccine do provide sterilizing immunity—and more than that, a 2020 study showed that the HPV vaccine’s adoption resulted in a 90% decrease in cervical cancer. Yet this vaccine was also targeted by a misinformation campaign. It briefly became an issue in the 2012 Republican primaries, when anti-vaccine talking points were promoted by Sarah Palin and others in the populist faction of the party that has since become dominant.
Other objections, such as complaints about inconsistent or inaccurate early CDC recommendations about, for example, masking, are also red herrings—because the people who tout these arguments then tend to credulously accept the assertions of vaccine skeptics who have been wrong far, far more often than the experts.
The success of the Covid vaccine can be seen in the degree to which we no longer worry about the disease. That in itself is not too remarkable. All pandemics eventually fade. What was really different this time is that the Covid vaccine cut the progress of the disease short. Before Covid, the fastest time for developing and deploying a vaccine was four years. At that pace, we would just have gotten our first Covid shots in 2024. But the new vaccines were deployed in less than a year, before the end of 2020.
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Industrial Amnesia
This forgotten history suggests one of the main drivers of the current vaccine paradox. People turned against vaccines after Covid simply because the pandemic required them to think about vaccines, which they haven’t done for a long time. And because they haven’t done it for such a long time, they have forgotten—or never learned in the first place—why vaccines existed, what problem they solved.
You may have heard the famous story about church bells ringing in 1953 when the successful test of the polio vaccine was announced. This is because most people had actually witnessed the horrible effects of the disease—it peaked in the U.S. in 1952—and many still remembered an era when children routinely died from infectious diseases.
This UnPopulist column nails it on why the rise of anti-vaxxer extremism has spread.
Every medical doctor who chose to come to terms with this Truth with Integrity and Empathy is Ascending, becoming and or is a Healer in the New Earth.
There is no disease - (Native American saying) but "One Disease - Mucus "Dr. Sebi the man who cured AIDS, Lupus, Cancer Diabetes etc.
No doctor, pharmacist, nurse, healthcare practitioner etc who administered Vaccines in good faith should blame themselves as, never blame myself for once being Christian; not your fault, not my fault in the present Past Future not knowing.
But in the knowing Past Present Future, if you have not chosen to be on my side your person in the mirror is the most pained
It is not a coup or a revolution but the Awakening.
The now Chosen Black African leaders are Col Omar Tchiani of Niger, Capitaine Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso and Colonel Goita Asimi of Mali
