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When Every Death Is a Morality Play
One of the worst parts of the pandemic was its timing. Had it occurred at any time other than an election year things may have been remarkably different. It may not have been done in a conspiratorial manner, but it was universally accepted that part of the story was going to be told to maximize Covid-19’s political impact.
Every failure point had to be framed as being due to Donald Trump’s incompetence, therefore every death from the disease was going to be portrayed as a preventable human tragedy. Trump did not follow the science and now these people are dead. And we will tell you each of their stories, every single one as an individual morality play and all with the same moral: Trump kills.
Then something happened. Operation Warp Speed actually produced three “vaccines.” I use that word in quotes because they are not vaccines as we traditionally understood them, but rather an artificially produced prophylactic trick. The introduction of this “miracle” was delayed until after the election lest the news impact voting in Trump’s favor.
But there is a problem. Now that Biden (or whoever is really in charge) is ensconced in the White House, how do you dismiss deathly reactions to the vaccines as insignificant when you’ve already established that every single death is a moral tragedy? Take these two stories:
“Unvaxxed mother other of two, 35, dies of Covid, urges others to get vaccinated with dying breath”
“Mother of three, 35, dies of stroke after second jab, husband says she was forced to take vaccine”
Two deaths, two widowers, all motherless children. If every death is a moral failing, how does one make a case that the latter is more insignificant than the former?
If Trump had won, it would have been so much easier. “See, the vaccines don’t work! Trump’s incompetence forced these to market too quickly! It’s all Trump’s fault because he is ignorant of science! Everybody knows it takes a minimum of six years to get a vaccine safely to market! The idiot!” So all they can do is downplay the adverse reactions and pretend they don’t exist.
This has happened before. As we gear up to vaccinate children and adolescents, Saskatchewan-based blogger Kate McMillan reminds us of the great Canadian Blood Scandal. At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, public health officials in Canada ignored the evidence that HIV and Hepatitis C were rampant in the medical blood supply chain and they weren’t doing enough to screen it out. Journalist Vic Parsons watched as his son David, a hemophiliac, first learned that he was HIV-positive in 1986 at the tender age of 15.
In a review of Parson’s book, Bad Blood, the Canadian Encyclopedia contains this passage:
Safety was second to budget trimming, Parsons contends. Turf wars buried scientific data that alerted blood agencies to potential dangers. Hemophiliacs, who became the miners’ canaries of the blood system, were themselves self-destructively passive. At every turn, writes Parsons, “eyes were shut to mounting evidence, until it was too late.”
And so McMillan asks the following, “Should it come to pass – say in five years time – that there’s a spike in leukemia, rare cancers, autoimmune disease or other long term side effects in these children that no one could have foreseen (because no one did long term trials) — what’s the game plan?
“I mean, surely there’s a game plan?”
Will this become a morality play or just a game of statistics?
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Notice they use both the terms “equity and equality”. Maybe they’re just touching all rhetorical bases. But I wonder if Psaki could explain for us the difference.
Got me. I didn’t believe him then.
I fully expected that in November last year. The press pegged the fear needle for seven months and helped steal the election for their guy. Now, I assumed, they’d want to prepare the battlefield for their conquering hero to save the day. As EJ mentioned, the vaccine announcement was delayed until the Monday after election day. The press needed to let off the pedal and begin bringing people off the ledge. That way, by January people wouldn’t be as afraid of Kung Flu and by February Biden would have saved the nation. Instead they kept the pedal down and now Brandon Weinstein has implemented his No Jab, No Job policy.
True fact. I understand that European nations are watching to see how our kids react before jabbing theirs.
Giving children — who are least-likely to suffer any effects from COVID — these “vaccines” is monstrous.
I weep for the children whose parents anxiously await their opportunity to force these damn things on their kids.
And when the first of those parents tries to sue Big Pharma for the side effects and they’re told there is no legal recourse?
I have a friend with a daughter who is as Covid paranoid as anyone I’ve met or heard of. My friend has gone along with all her daughter’s ridiculous demands without complaint (grandchildren are a helluva blackmail)
My friend is horrified that her daughter plans to get the children (4 and 2) vaccinated as soon as possible. But after going along to get along for so long, there’s nothing that can be said to change her mind.
Horrifying.
It ain’t gonna be pretty.
May a trillion lawsuits bloom!
Children are the least likely to be affected by COVID, but the ones most affected by the ridiculous edicts our Ruling Class has concocted.