Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Dick Young’s Safe America
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • Critical Race Theory
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money

The Political Downside of Stoking Fear

February 26, 2021 By Debbie Young

President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, delivers remarks on the Administration’s response to the military coup in Burma Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

With the pandemic reportedly having killed over half a million Americans, a realistic question is, why does the public still need convincing to get the COVID-19 vaccination? As the Biden White House blame game continues, Joel Zinberg explains in the WSJ that Joe Biden and his cohorts spent 2020 (1) questioning the Food and Drug Administration’s independence and integrity and (2) fueling fears for political reasons.

  • Kamala Harris maligned President Trump’s claims about the speed of vaccine development and questioned its safety and effectiveness.
  • New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo cast doubt on FDA evaluations of Covid-19 vaccines and said states should conduct their own reviews.
  • Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer questioned the safety of the vaccines in development stating that media “fact checkers” said rapid vaccine development would take a “miracle.”

“Medical authorities were complicit in stoking these fears,” writes Joel Zinberg. Dr. Zinberg, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a professor at New York’s Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, was senior economist and general counsel at the White House Council of Economic Advisors from 2017 to 2019. 

Although June FDA guidance confirmed the agency wouldn’t “cut corners” and that expedited development would proceed “without sacrificing our standards for quality, safety, and efficacy,” a Sept. 10 editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association claimed that “some” were concerned that political appointees would “insist” on authorizing a vaccine “over the recommendation of FDA career scientists.” The concerned “some” were never named, and no citation was given.

The editorial claimed FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn had “indicated that the FDA is willing to use an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for vaccines before phase 3 trials are complete.” It cited an Aug. 7 JAMA article by three FDA officials including Dr. Hahn and Peter Marks, head of the FDA center responsible for vaccine reviews. In fact, that article, titled “Unwavering Regulatory Safeguards for COVID-19 Vaccines,” didn’t signal a loosening of standards. It committed to issuing an EUA only once clinical trials demonstrate safety and effectiveness, which FDA guidance indicated could be based on final analysis of a phase 3 trial or on interim analysis of such a trial that met specified success and safety criteria and after public discussion at the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

Now that Mr. Trump has left office, medical leaders and Mr. Biden are assuring us that Covid-19 vaccines are safe. It will take more than that to undo the public distrust created by the politicization of science.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Understanding the COVID-19 Vaccine
  • COVID: Trump vs. Biden – Hope vs. Fear
  • COVID-19 Ravages Iran
  • Political Terrorist Chris Matthews
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • President Joe Biden’s Good Question - May 25, 2022
  • Biden IGNORES Americans’ Pain at the Pump, Touts “Green Transition” - May 24, 2022
  • Our Daily Bread Threatened? - May 23, 2022

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • Escape From the City: You’re Going to Like What You See
  • Democracy & Diversity: Not In the Constitution
  • Warning! Your Survival Guy’s on a Boil Water Advisory
  • The Simple, Elegant Power of the Retirement Compounders
  • Gold/Silver Coins No Longer Allowed in Safe Deposit Boxes
  • America’s States Rights Revolution
  • Democracy: The Most Dangerous and Insidious Effect of Majority Rule.
  • “I’ve Got Guys Buying Guns/Ammo for Me All Through the Night.”
  • What’s the Best Survival Currency?

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Jean-Pierre: Economy "Not Something that We Keep an Eye on Every Day"
  • Consequences of Biden Killing the Keystone Pipeline
  • Harvard Professor Calls Homeschooling a "Threat to Society"
  • PRIMARIES: Trump Endorsed Candidates’ HUGE Night
  • PARTY'S OVER JOE: Republicans Crush Democrats in Local Elections
  • Are You Suffering from One of These Nutrient Deficiencies?
  • Our Daily Bread Threatened?
  • President Joe Biden’s Good Question
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • BUY THE DIPS? Can You Catch a Ginsu Knife?

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Survival Guy: “Life on Main Street Hasn’t Been This Hard in a While”
  • China Builds an Anti-Quad Coalition
  • If You Have a Plan, I Believe You’ll Get to Where You Want to Go
  • There Are Tech Companies “Still Dreaming of Boundless Growth”
  • Nowadays, Everyone Is Getting Some Dividend Religion
  • How Can the Fed Prevent Stagflation?
  • How to Avoid the Restrictions of a Target Date Fund
  • Now You Can Own Your Vacation and It Doesn’t Have to Be a Time Share
  • Watch Out for Your Worst Enemy
  • Big Banks Adopting Blockchain for Short-Term Trading

KRISTALLNACHT: How Well Intentioned Gun Registries Become Tools of Evil

Your Survival Guy: “Life on Main Street Hasn’t Been This Hard in a While”

Is America About to Lose Its Investments in Colombia?

POWER MOVE? Did Viktor Orban Just Seize Control of Hungary?

Americans Are Abandoning ESPN and Woke Professional Sports Leagues

If You Have a Plan, I Believe You’ll Get to Where You Want to Go

Copyright © 2022 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives