This is just the tip of the iceberg. Nothing punitive will likely ever come out of it. The There will be vindication for those who correctly were skeptical of data and acted on that skepticism. There will be fear and anger for some who were vaccinated according to the recommended schedule. A trove of research and data will flow over the next decade or so. For many, there will not be any adverse effects from the vaccine.....but there will be adverse effects, some very serious. The coverups, the pandering, the skipping steps and cherry picking of data will be largely ignored. History will likely point to these vaccines as the most ineffective. ever. Those clinging to them will tout them as saving us all from the pandemic, while ignoring medical realities of what we could have done differently if money lust and panic hadn't taken over.More reporting on Walnesky's testimony from Alex Gutentag on Public @crush
On Tuesday CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened the hearing by explaining that Walensky was appearing under threat of subpoena after months of stonewalling.
“It appears that maybe the Biden Administration did not want you to speak regarding these topics,” Wenstrup said to Walensky. And indeed, Walensky’s testimony made it clear why that may have been the case.
First, Walensky disclosed that the CDC did not have — and never has had — national data about COVID hospitalizations by vaccination status. "At a national level we have never been able to get hospitalization, vaccination, and COVID [data]” she said. “We did not get data in aggregate on vaccination and hospitalizations."
This is more than just a simple data collection problem. Recall that the Biden administration justified vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and federal employees through the claim that, across the country, unvaccinated people were at high risk for death and hospitalization. “For [the] unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death… for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm,” Biden warned in December 2021. Now it turns out, as Walensky divulged, there was never national hospitalization data to support this claim. Surprise!
At another point in Walensky’s testimony, when asked about her 2021 statement that COVID vaccines prevented transmission, she answered, “that was true for the alpha variant at the time that I said it.” The vaccine trials, though, did not test for transmission, and some people in the vaccine group still got symptomatic illness. So her claim was largely based on wishful thinking, not actual data.
Walensky’s testimony is characteristic of her tenure as CDC director. Vaccine policy was the defining aspect of her time as director, yet Walensky once admitted that she first learned about the vaccines’ efficacy from CNN, not from reading the actual trials. Her job as CDC director was to both understand and effectively communicate national public health data, and her legacy will be that she did neither.
—AG
Fraud is not something one can hide under.This is just the tip of the iceberg. Nothing punitive will likely ever come out of it. The There will be vindication for those who correctly were skeptical of data and acted on that skepticism. There will be fear and anger for some who were vaccinated according to the recommended schedule. A trove of research and data will flow over the next decade or so. For many, there will not be any adverse effects from the vaccine.....but there will be adverse effects, some very serious. The coverups, the pandering, the skipping steps and cherry picking of data will be largely ignored. History will likely point to these vaccines as the most ineffective. ever. Those clinging to them will tout them as saving us all from the pandemic, while ignoring medical realities of what we could have done differently if money lust and panic hadn't taken over.
What a crazy time to be in the medical/science field. What a bunch of losers some turned out to be (and still are)
More reporting on Walnesky's testimony from Alex Gutentag on Public @crush
On Tuesday CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened the hearing by explaining that Walensky was appearing under threat of subpoena after months of stonewalling.
“It appears that maybe the Biden Administration did not want you to speak regarding these topics,” Wenstrup said to Walensky. And indeed, Walensky’s testimony made it clear why that may have been the case.
First, Walensky disclosed that the CDC did not have — and never has had — national data about COVID hospitalizations by vaccination status. "At a national level we have never been able to get hospitalization, vaccination, and COVID [data]” she said. “We did not get data in aggregate on vaccination and hospitalizations."
This is more than just a simple data collection problem. Recall that the Biden administration justified vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and federal employees through the claim that, across the country, unvaccinated people were at high risk for death and hospitalization. “For [the] unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death… for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm,” Biden warned in December 2021. Now it turns out, as Walensky divulged, there was never national hospitalization data to support this claim. Surprise!
At another point in Walensky’s testimony, when asked about her 2021 statement that COVID vaccines prevented transmission, she answered, “that was true for the alpha variant at the time that I said it.” The vaccine trials, though, did not test for transmission, and some people in the vaccine group still got symptomatic illness. So her claim was largely based on wishful thinking, not actual data.
Walensky’s testimony is characteristic of her tenure as CDC director. Vaccine policy was the defining aspect of her time as director, yet Walensky once admitted that she first learned about the vaccines’ efficacy from CNN, not from reading the actual trials. Her job as CDC director was to both understand and effectively communicate national public health data, and her legacy will be that she did neither.
—AG
The public trust in our public health institutions has been destroyed for years to come. I hope that this doesn't cause "the boy who cries wolf" effect in the future. One thing I've noticed about bureaucrats, the academic elite and those with a social agenda is that they are very poor at understanding or choose to ignore "cause and effect".This is just the tip of the iceberg. Nothing punitive will likely ever come out of it. The There will be vindication for those who correctly were skeptical of data and acted on that skepticism. There will be fear and anger for some who were vaccinated according to the recommended schedule. A trove of research and data will flow over the next decade or so. For many, there will not be any adverse effects from the vaccine.....but there will be adverse effects, some very serious. The coverups, the pandering, the skipping steps and cherry picking of data will be largely ignored. History will likely point to these vaccines as the most ineffective. ever. Those clinging to them will tout them as saving us all from the pandemic, while ignoring medical realities of what we could have done differently if money lust and panic hadn't taken over.
What a crazy time to be in the medical/science field. What a bunch of losers some turned out to be (and still are)
The other interesting thing is...how many people blindly followed along. Never questioning the official pronouncements, but happy to discount anything contrary to the official propaganda line. dad comes to mind as one who happily followed along despite data showing the official line was BS.The public trust in our public health institutions has been destroyed for years to come. I hope that this doesn't cause "the boy who cries wolf" effect in the future. One thing I've noticed about bureaucrats, the academic elite and those with a social agenda is that they are very poor at understanding or choose to ignore "cause and effect".
For some its just easier to go along...it provides comfort to follow instructions rather than to have to think for themselves.The other interesting thing is...how many people blindly followed along. Never questioning the official pronouncements, but happy to discount anything contrary to the official propaganda line. dad comes to mind as one who happily followed along despite data showing the official line was BS.
A couple weeks ago I went into my dive barbershop. The gentleman ahead of me, who was a priest or pastor of some sort, was wearing a mask and requested that the woman barber wear a mask as well. He then precedes to pull an old, wrinkled surgical mask out of his pants pocket and offers it to the barber. She looks at him with this WTF look for a few seconds and then retrieves a mask from the back room. The irony was multi-leveled.The other interesting thing is...how many people blindly followed along. Never questioning the official pronouncements, but happy to discount anything contrary to the official propaganda line. dad comes to mind as one who happily followed along despite data showing the official line was BS.
He wasn't the only one, but he was the most disappointing because he is capable of critical thinking.The other interesting thing is...how many people blindly followed along. Never questioning the official pronouncements, but happy to discount anything contrary to the official propaganda line. dad comes to mind as one who happily followed along despite data showing the official line was BS.
Dad 100%The other interesting thing is...how many people blindly followed along. Never questioning the official pronouncements, but happy to discount anything contrary to the official propaganda line. dad comes to mind as one who happily followed along despite data showing the official line was BS.