President Joe Biden participates in a Q&A townhall with Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday, May 17, 2021, in the Blue Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
As recently as July 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden warned Americans that the Trump-ordered vaccine would be “real” and might not be “safe”?
Two months later, Joe Biden had more to say, expressing his deep doubts:
“Who’s going to take the shot? Are you going to be the first one to say sign me up?
Biden insisted he would take the shot “only if we knew all of what went into it.”
Public Health Totally Politicized
Today we are a deeply divided nation with a president who has no interest in either compromise or moderation. Exacerbating this, Congress seems intent on establishing provisions for a long-term rule, offers Peter Wood in SpectatorWorld.com.
The vaccine brouhaha is the perfect manifestation of this madness. We have overreach on one side and defiance for the sake of defiance on the other.
(Joe Biden) eventually took the shot anyway and then became its fiercest champion. His vague explanation of all this is that he didn’t trust the vaccine because he couldn’t trust anything Trump said.
But the vaccine is the same regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. We are thus dealing with a thoroughly politicized branch of public health advice.
Fauci: Pop Goes the Weasel
The president can’t polarize the nation without some help, and the nation’s jack-in-the-box of medical polarization is Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
I admit my own viral load of liberty particles is such that I have a strong immune reaction to just about anything the good doctor has to say. He is notorious for his ever-shifting pronouncements on COVID. Ever confident, ever changing, always somehow wrong, Fauci became a charismatic figure for COVID hysterics and the American left in general. Adulation of him bizarrely tipped into a pseudo-religion. Fauci votive candles are widely available and are not sold or bought entirely tongue-in-cheek. The man has adoring acolytes.
Fauci – Rich Soil for Conspiracy Theories
(Fauci) is of course a major proponent of COVID vaccinations and he embodies, even more than Biden, the spirit that centralized government edicts are the right and proper way to handle health emergencies. He was preaching that doctrine well before the COVID pandemic, and even predicted a pandemic that would require a national shutdown. That prediction, published in Healio News, January 11, 2017, contained his claim that “we will definitely get surprised [by a new epidemic disease outbreak] in the next few years. Risks have never been higher.” Fauci was speaking at Georgetown University forum on pandemic preparedness.
Given his involvement in funding gain-of-function research on bat corona viruses at the Wuhan Lab, suspicion has arisen among anti-vaxers and other skeptics about the federal government’s handling of the COVID crisis — mainly that Fauci may have known a little too much in advance of the actual events.
The Centralized State
Consider, continues Mr. Wood, that one of Fauci’s co-presenters at the Georgetown event was Ronald Klain. Klain, who coordinated the Obama response to the Ebola epidemic, now serves as White House chief of staff and is widely thought to be President Biden’s closest “advisor.”Klain also recently mocked inflation and shortages as “high-class probems.”
It just happens that epidemic viruses have been very good for those intent on expanding the powers of centralized state.
Liberty-Primed Immune Systems Kicking Up
Immunity to tyranny is generally a good thing, although like any immune system it can go haywire and turn against the body it is supposed to protect. The liberty-minded folks refusing to be vaccinated may, in a large degree, be doing damage to themselves … or worse, the opportunity for sustained good health.
But the doubts that grip many are a healthy response to the odors of autocracy emanating from Washington.
Therein perhaps lies an explanation as to why our liberty-primed immune system is kicking up so forcefully. Immunity to tyranny is generally a good thing, although like any immune system it can go haywire and turn against the body it is supposed to protect.
The liberty-minded folks refusing to be vaccinated may, in a large degree, be doing damage to themselves. They could be foregoing … the opportunity for sustained good health.
But the doubts that grip many are a healthy response to the odors of autocracy emanating from Washington.
How Comforting Is This?
BRIGHT editors just reported that the FDA voted 17-0 to approve vaccines for children between the ages of 5 and 11.
The FDA Panel’s Dr. Ruben:
“We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That’s the way it goes.”
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