Biden’s Boosterism

Good grief. We’re doing THIS again?

Ginning up the fears of a new wave of covid infections while pushing untested vaccines on the public? Now? In 2023?

Sorry, I’ve seen this movie before. I walked out on it the first time. I don’t plan to buy a ticket this time.

Perhaps you heard Joe Biden last week. He said EVERYONE should get the “safe” and “effective” new covid vaccine that hasn’t yet been approved by the FDA and before we know which variant will dominate by next month.

All this, says Dr. Marty Makary, a surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University, without any data. Here’s an excerpt from a scathing piece Makary wrote for The Wall Street Journal headlined, “Biden Waves Through Another Covid Booster. He’s Certain That It ‘“Works” But There’s No Data. Is This How We Approve Drugs Now?”

President Biden declared last week that a new Covid booster shot “works” and is “necessary.” He said he would ask Congress to fund it and “it will likely be recommended that everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before.”

Is this our new drug-approval process? There are no human-outcomes data on this new shot, which the Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve in the next two weeks…

Advocates of the new Covid boosters point out that the annual flu shot gets approved without a randomized trial. But flu shots use a traditional vaccine platform that has withstood the test of time, and Covid vaccines have higher complication rates. The latter have a rate of serious adverse events as high as 1 in 556 doses, according to a study published last year in the journal Vaccine. They have also been found to cause myocarditis in young people at a rate six to 28 times the incidence after infection, according to a 2022 JAMA Cardiology study.

Remember the hoopla surrounding last fall’s booster? Americans refused to fall for that hype with only 20.5% of the population rolling up their sleeves.

A few obedient people will take as many injections as the government recommends, however. Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford, for instance:

Resident liberal & former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. tells the rest of @TheFive cast that his next Covid shot, which he plans to get, will be his 7th, and he's had Covid 3 times. 🤣🤦‍♂️👇 pic.twitter.com/g61dOSJCCO

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) August 28, 2023

I’d say Ford was joking, except that I know people who have gotten every single booster and have contracted the virus multiple times.

They can’t connect the dots. Fortunately, most of us can.

In fact, most of us remember when it was possible to get a cold, run a fever and frankly feel like a dog’s dinner for a week or two without swabbing our nostrils or trying to blame someone for giving the bug to us.

When did we develop this stark fear of getting sick?

It’s a source of comfort, however, to know that Gov. Glenn Youngkin is in the Governor’s Mansion and that the chair of his medical advisory board is none other than Marty Makary.

One of the lone voices of sanity during the last epidemic of covid hysteria.

Get ready, folks. They’re trying to make covid a thing again.

Stop the fear-mongering.