Pharma performed a miracle, but government's
botched rollout killed tens of thousands
The Aspen Beat,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
1/16/2021 10:11:20 AM
Although they aren’t exactly scientists, the media said that COVID vaccines would take years or even decades to develop and test and that they would probably be only about 50-60% effective.
It’s not clear whether the media really believed their own dire predictions, or whether they were just rooting for the virus because they thought it hurt Trump and hurt America, both of which they like to see hurt. Although (or perhaps because) they’re not scientists and not very smart, they are Democrats after all.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 1/16/2021 10:19:29 AM (No. 662921)
Private sector vs Public sector. Get a clue.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 1/16/2021 10:20:57 AM (No. 662923)
Well, you can have my dose. I believe Beaton is a pro-vaxxer, and that is his prerogative. But there is no doubt, Biden will screw it up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimboscott 1/16/2021 10:33:43 AM (No. 662940)
EVERYONE who faces a difficult diagnosis should do their OWN research before trusting ANY doctor.
My son was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when 16. The doctors ALL wanted to put him on Remicade at a cost of about 100,000 USD per year and with a list of side effects that is nothing short of amazing. If a Remicade commercial existed, the voice-over for side effects would have to be a MINI-SERIES.
Cut to the chase. Through my research we discovered that a drug that costs 50 cents per day is the SINGLE MOST effective treatment for Crohn's Disease. We told our doctors. They did NOT refute the data, but simply stated that 'there have not been enough studies'. Of course not. The drug has been off-patent for decades. No money to be made. As long as my son watched his diet and takes his cheap generic drug he is in remission.
Any auto-immune sufferer should know about this treatment. A friend of a friend has MS and was in serious decline. We told them about this. They reported back a few months later that they felt they had been given a second life.
If there is no MONEY in it, American doctors are not going to steer you in that direction.
Oh... LDN - Low Dose Naltrexone - for those who might have been praying for some help that carries all the risk of a baby aspirin.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 1/16/2021 10:45:50 AM (No. 662950)
Not much evidence for botched. Every health care worker i know regardless of age has had their first shot. Plane loads were reasy to go the day of approval. My governor in wa. State said they got it for distribution monday after the fridayish approval.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/16/2021 10:48:46 AM (No. 662955)
OP, sadly that's exactly how most government workers still think and feel. And, they are allowed to because no one, including the politicians giving out the funding, don't hold them accountable for any problems or mistakes.
Had an article in the paper where the local county official was trying to explain that they aren't the main, or sole, distributor of the vaccine. How it went to many large health plan companies too, not just the government agencies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 1/16/2021 10:49:42 AM (No. 662956)
No. 4: "Health care workers [you] know" is not much of a scientific sampling. The real data says many are actually refusing it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/02/large-numbers-of-health-care-and-frontline-workers-are-refusing-covid-19-vaccine/?sh=3e7213d83c96
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/16/2021 11:09:40 AM (No. 662990)
I'm torn. I really don't want the shot. My Doctor wants me to have it due to a minor stroke I had a year ago. I took one flu vac. and every joint in my body hurt for 3 days. This one scares me and I don't get scared!
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Personally, I think these are recycled flu vaccines. There is no way a vaccine can be properly tested in this short a timeframe.
Not,too mention, why do we need a 95% effective vaccine for a 99.5% survivable virus?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sanspeur 1/16/2021 11:28:15 AM (No. 663030)
Spousal unit got the Pfe one yesterday .Not me yet .A few tips from NYU Langone , ..not on an empty stomach and shake your lower arm as it is given ..seems to distribute the shot better . Tylenol for mild after effects & you most probably will be more tired than usual . People were sitting /waiting for a few minutes afterwards .there was a special section for those who had had a previous allergic reaction to shots .. Those on radiation therapy should wait till that’s over by a week or two
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rather Read 1/16/2021 11:47:35 AM (No. 663058)
When I get a flu shot and when I got the pneumonia shot, I took a tylenol and then I used the arm. Very little pain. I plan on doing the same for the covid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/16/2021 12:02:49 PM (No. 663079)
Out worthless, incompetent fool of a Dem governor has screwed up Kansas. We'll be lucky to see vaccinations here by summer, I'll bet.
She has decreed that the prisoners in the state pen get the vaccinations before honest citizens. Witch.
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Pfizer's politically motivated delay in finalizing the vaccine likely killed a few people as well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 1/16/2021 12:07:34 PM (No. 663088)
Reply No. 8: You ask, "why do we need a 95% effective vaccine for a 99.5% survivable virus?"
That's a catchy formulation, but it actually makes no sense. It implies that there's no need for a vaccine if the disease survival rate is greater than the vaccine efficacy rate. If that were true, then we wouldn't take flu vaccines, or even chicken pox or measles vaccines.
Stated another way, the short answer to your rhetorical question is, "Because we don't want that other 0.5% to die." Capiche?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jacksin5 1/16/2021 12:28:22 PM (No. 663122)
Both CVS and Walgreen's will soon be allowed to distribute the vaccine through their store chains. Heaven forbid you need your heart medication while this is going on. Just administering the test in the drive-thru at CVS makes picking up a prescription there a time-consuming errand.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 1/16/2021 12:40:13 PM (No. 663137)
#6, are you aware that Forbes is owned by Hong Kong business interestes, which are, of course, totally controlled by the Chinese Communist Party?
Look at who "Integrated Whale Media Investments" is. They own Forbes for he last six or seven years.
People, the Chinese have been taking over our media for quite a while. Read "Stealth War" by Gen. Spalding.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/16/2021 12:43:30 PM (No. 663144)
Won't read Glenn anymore after his nasty article about President Trump.
In my state, 5% of the population has already been vaccinated in less than a month and with a limited amount of vaccine. We are doing fine despite the whiney Biden loving journalists.
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DVC 1/16/2021 2:45:02 PM (No. 663269)
#3, interesting information. My grandmother, dead now for 45 years, was a LPN, retired. Since she worked in medical industry, she could get the old HUGE book of drug information, the Physician's Desk Reference, not readily available information to everyone then. When I was in college, I visited them in rural Fla a lot, and she complained about her problems with Crohn's disease causing problems in what she could eat. I had no idea what that was, and eventually we discussed it a bit.
She said that a doc (gave his name) had given her a particular drug for minor knee arthritis issues. She failed to look it up in her PDR before taking it, had a horrible reaction to it and started bleeding in her stomach, blood ejected from both ends of GI tract, to not be too graphic. She was hospitalized and nearly died, finally sort of recovering with a permanently damaged stomach. Reading the PDR, the drug company warned that this was an extremely powerful drug, should be reserved for only the most serious and intractable cases of arthritis which was totally debilitating because of the risk, and even then only be administered while the patient was in the hospital and closely monitored, due to risk of serious side effects.
The doc wrote the prescription, gave little directions and sent her home to take it unsupervised. I looked him up a few years later, found that he had his degree from some foreign medical school, I now forget the country.
Not all docs are competent.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 1/16/2021 4:36:33 PM (No. 663344)
More proof that if one wants ANYTHING done right, keep government out of it.
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My father had a saying about shoddy craftsmanship; "Good enough for government work." Sadly, that seems to have been the government's attitude in rolling out the miracle vaccines invented and tested by the pharmaceutical industry