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Home Front: Politix
Anthony Fauci sets stage for mandatory -- lucrative! -- vaccine
2020-04-09
Great news for big pharma....gee, who da thunk it?
[WashingtonTimes] Anthony Fauci, America’s most-listened-to medical professional on the coronavirus, and apparently on all the political, economic, cultural and social precautions every man, woman and child in the nation should take on the coronavirus, has just warned what cooler-head coronavirus watchers have suspected all along: that this country may never, no never, go back to normal.

Never, that is, Fauci suggested, until a vaccine is developed. And by logical extension, that’s to say ‐ never, until a vaccine is developed that must then be included on the required list of shots for all children to attend school.

What great news for Big Pharma.

What great news for Bill Gates who just announced his foundation is going to spend billions of dollars to help build factories for seven possible coronavirus vaccine makers. "Spend" is probably the wrong word here. Invest is more like it.

After all, Gates, first and foremost, is a businessman. A billionaire businessman who made his billions in Microsoft and who just left his billion-dollar Microsoft enterprise to pursue other matters ‐ specifically, to "serve humanity," is how the Economic Times put it, in a March headline.

For a taste of how he’s already served humanity, one need only look to the disastrous Common Core one-size-fits-all, top-down education plan that his foundation bankrolled.

From education to vaccinations ‐ the service to humanity never ends.

But this is what Fauci just warned, at a White House briefing with reporters: "When we get back to normal, we will go back to the point where we can function as a society. But ... [i]f you want to get back to pre-coronavirus, that might not ever happen in the sense that the threat is there. But I believe that with the therapies that will be coming online, and the fact that I feel confident that over a period of time we will get a good vaccine, that we will never have to get back to where we are right now."

He also said this: "If back to normal means acting like there never was a coronavirus problem, I don’t think that’s going to happen until we do have a situation where you can completely protect the population."

This ‐ as the dire, dark, deathly numbers that sent America into coronavirus panic in the first place were just revised downward.

"America’s most influential coronavirus model just revised its estimates downward," The Washington Post reported.

This ‐ as Gates, the guy who has been the face of warning about the "nightmare scenario" of the coronavirus outbreak, just said the predicted death toll may not be as high as, well, predicted. Yes, viruses are, after all, seasonal.

This ‐ as deaths due to the coronavirus are wildly open to interpretation, wildly speculative, wildly unscientific.

"The lack of widespread, systematic testing in most countries is the main source of discrepancies in death rates internationally," BBC reported.

What do doctors consider a coronavirus death?

In the United Kingdom, health officials give daily counts of deaths of those who tested positive for the coronavirus, but who might have actually died from other medical conditions. In the United States, doctor discretion reigns.

"In the US," BBC reported, "doctors ... are asked to record whether the patient dies ’as a result of this illness’ when reporting Covid-19 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

So some patients may have underlying conditions that lead to death; others may not. Some hospitals may have policies that mandate the U.K. model ‐ to chalk up any patient who died with the coronavirus to be reported to the CDC as a coronavirus fatality; other hospitals may let the doctor determine. It’s a toss-up, hardly fact-based.

And for all this, America may never see a return to pre-coronavirus normalcy?

We’re focused on fear.

We should be focused on this: the money trail.

The money and power trail.

The Global Vaccine Action Plan, for instance.

"The World Health Organization, UNICEF, the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a collaboration to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan," the Gates Foundation reported in a press release. "The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill ad Melinda Gates for the next ten years to be the Decade of Vaccines."

The "Decade of Vaccines?"

It’s a structured campaign. It includes a Leadership Council, a Steering Committee, an International Advisory Committee ‐ and other bureaucratic so forths and so ons. But here’s an interesting link.

The Leadership Council "is comprised of ... Dr. Anthony S. Fauci," the Gates Foundation reported.

Fauci, the same guy who just set the stage for the dire need for a protective coronavirus vaccine, has a vested interest in seeing this vaccine come to fruition ‐ come to widely administered fruition.

"Vaccines are miracles," said Pedro Alonso, the director for the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona, and another stakeholder in the "Decade of Vaccines" program.

Yes.

And for certain folk, certain insider folk, vaccines are also great economic and political investments. Especially when they come as saving grace solutions to wildly spread fears ‐ especially when they come as required, mandated protections for global populations.
Posted by:Clem

#29  I've heard Americanski Touriste before. This is new. :)
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2020-04-09 21:43  

#28  Too funny, European Conservative.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-04-09 19:35  

#27  We call them Amerikaner...
And you say ze Gerrmans have no humor?
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-04-09 17:35  

#26  ^The current FDA head is Trump Appointment.
And, if he doesn't play ball.
The FDA is led by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate
Trump will fire his ass.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 16:41  

#25  In the race to get a vaccine in the US, FDA approval is the high hurdle.

Any bets on who has the inside track?
Posted by: Bobby   2020-04-09 15:59  

#24  Maybe someone will decide to run Fauci to ground and let the air out of him. Gates too.
Posted by: Phineter Turkeyneck6202   2020-04-09 15:55  

#23  ^ absolutely true
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 15:37  

#22  Whatever it looks like you will be able to buy quality forgeries in downtown LA a couple of days ays later. And for a few dollars more,the actual records of it by local government there will reflect it matches with your other phony ID.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-04-09 15:28  

#21  I definitely didn't get that from the comments above but I do agree.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 15:23  

#20  By the time a vaccine is ready we'll all have had the disease.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-04-09 15:22  

#19  The point, MM, if the criterion is immune memory (antibody counts), then you cannot specify a particular vaccine. And there are going to be dozens - at least one from each industrialized country.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 15:11  

#18  Don't rest your case prematurely.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 15:07  

#17  I didn't watch any. But I did read the books a few decades ago. Your point?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 13:10  

#16  You didn't watch many episodes of Perry Mason, G.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:54  

#15  But we have regular drivers licenses and CDLs. Who thinks DHS will settle for one chit?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:53  

#14  I rest my case.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 12:49  

#13  Entirely possible.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:49  

#12  MM, ever considered that, with Trump in cat-bird seat, the paper will be antibody test results not proof of vaccination?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 12:48  

#11  Get vaccinated > wait 6-12 weeks > get antibody test (maybe repeat first three steps) > apply to DHS for chit, send in check or money order, may take 180 days or more to process...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:47  

#10  How many democrats do you think will support "hold harmless" legislation for the vaccine manufacturers? Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:44  

#9  Maybe the vaccine will be cheap. The piece of paper won't be. And wait til the anti-vaxxers file lawsuits.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:40  

#8  If the conspiracy mongers are right

We'll all die, so it doesn't matter.

p.s. The assumption that vaccine will be expensive is based on?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 12:26  

#7  If the conspiracy mongers are right that you will need a vaccination chit, who cares if it's a bureaucrat or a politician deciding?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 12:23  

#6  (a) He advises, he doesn't decide.
(b) A bureaucrat will always give the most cautious estimate.
(c) If HCQ works as advertised, who's going to pay any attention to him?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 12:14  

#5  #3 Not the same: flu viruses have - what amounts to sexual recombination - producing lots of new variants - coronaviruses don't.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 12:12  

#4  WHO can just hold it up until it's free for all. That'll be a laugh riot.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 11:57  

#3  "they" offer annual flu shots. Now what?
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-09 11:30  

#2  A perminent vaccine, of course, or one that only lasts eight months?
Posted by: gorb   2020-04-09 11:28  

#1  Not good.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-04-09 11:23  

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