James keeps a low profile in a small mountain community of Colorado.
Dear Candidates:
Covid-19 has been one of the most challenging events of our lives. We remember the days of cancelled weddings, nursery home visits through a window, unattended funerals and long, lonely days stuck in our homes, our children isolated from peers, family and community. We feared to get close to one another and hid our faces behind masks. The economy was shut down, entire careers were deemed non-essential, and many of us have not recovered lost wages.
Both of you served in administrations that guided us through different phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now both of you are running for re-election.
My questions to each of you:
President Trump: Both Covid and the arrival of the vaccines took place while you were in office. You oversaw the lockdown and rushed two experimental gene therapies to market - a technology never used before in humans. Promises of protection from infection and transmission did not materialize. Today’s shots purportedly offer only a reduction in symptoms and temporary effectiveness ... and annual boosters are suggested. Adverse vaccine effects are reason for concern and under-reported. With the benefit of hindsight, what would you have done differently with regards to the vaccines, and what will be your policy if elected?
Vice President Harris: Without benefit of any long-term safety data, your administration initially encouraged, and later mandated, the use of this novel technology—never before used in humans—to be injected into every individual under your jurisdiction. This included military personnel, government employees, healthcare workers, and college students. Your latest policy requires all campaign personnel to have current vaccinations. After decades of being a proponent of “keep your laws off my body” why are you mandating experimental medicines be injected into any American?
Sincerely,
James W.
I dream of a day when we have a choice of leaders, not politicians, to select from.
ReplyDeleteRemember the term breakthrough cases? It was used to keep track of people who got the jabs and still got Covid. "Very rare," they said. Then the CDC stopped keeping that statistic because breakthrough cases were anything but rare. Now, most everyone with jabs has had the Vid, many more then once.
ReplyDeleteYes! The questions that cannot be asked. Neither party brings it up. Neither party attacks the other for their policies. To be avoided at all costs. Is there anyone out there brave and capable enough to get this question to David Muir, Lindsay Davis and the rest of ABC in time for the debate?
ReplyDeleteEven if ABC had these questions, they'd never ask them.
DeleteI feel passionately about voting neither in this “election”. I have been voting for the lesser of evils too many times to count. There are no “lesser’ evils here only differing evils. Though on one issue I do agree with both of them, if THAT other party wins it’ll be a disaster for America.
ReplyDeleteWhat a crock. Two candidates running to "be of service" and the path to get there is to annihilate your opponent.
DeleteTop beneficiaries of the "vaccines," and I use that term loosely:
ReplyDelete1. Pfizer and Moderna stockholders. Plus Johnson & Johnson stockholders for a short period of time before their product was deemed even unsafer than the other two.
2. The campaign coffers of US politicians.
James - I think you are missing the point here. The debates are designed to be part of the smoke and mirrors pageantry. Yell, ramble make a show of yourself, maybe even offer a sound bite or two. . . But pertinent questions need not apply. Thanks for trying.
ReplyDeleteJames, you state that "Promises of prevention from infection and transmission did not materialize." This aspect of anti-vaxxer thought interests me, and so I googled 'did the covid-19 vaccine save lives', and, of course, a lot of interesting data pops up. I found a 2022 article in Medical News Today, a privately owned web-based news outlet in the UK, titled "Covid-19 vaccines saved 20 million lives in 1 year". I've been curious about this because I am no longer on the vaccine train myself (sidebar - I have covid now), but it felt to me out of the gate that it was doing a lot of good, especially for my age group (older). Anyway, I looked to see if Medical News Today is considered a credible source, and found nothing negative. I read about 3 other US based studies claiming the vaccine saved 1 to 3 million lives in the US - maybe 20 million is a little extreme, but a couple of million is still significant. Do you propose that the people doing this research and publishing these findings are simply in the pocket of big pharma and these studies are done to prop up the vaccination story line? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteMike, thanks for your comment. I have numerous thoughts and responses. First the term Anti-vaxxed is derogatory and misleading. I consider myself to be pro-health. You yourself state that you are “off the vaccine train”. I take that as meaning you chose not to take the third or fourth or fifth booster. Would you consider yourself Anti-vax? CPR undoubtably saves lives yet millions decide, owing to factors of age and health, to choose to be DNR. I would not say that any of them are Anti-resuscitate-ers”.
DeleteYes I too have heard the claims of 1- 3 million lives saved. They are indeed “claims”. I know of no scientific proof behind the claim. Please find a proper peer-reviewed study showing the science behind the claim, I’ll read it.
I stand behind what I stated. We were promised that the jabs would stop us from contracting covid and that infecting others would be stopped with every vaccination. Neither is true, nor now even controversial. The fully vaccinated get sick (and I wish you a speedy recovery with your covid illness) and they are just as able to transmit that virus to others.
Finally, yes I am proposing that the funding for research is funded by big pharma. It is. Depending on the results they then choose to publish the results or bury them.
Thank you for bringing these questions to light.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfortunate indeed that the real questions expressed with the kind of transparency that you have presented them with here are never asked or entertained during presidential debates or any other part of the election process.
It is unfortunate that the true health and well-being of the population are matters in which the the group of people who call themselves our "leaders" never concern themselves with, because what's best for the people isn't on anyone's agenda.
Thank you for this. It's always refreshing to see real people reminding our lovely politicians that they are nothing but big loud fancy-dressed babies who constantly try to blame someone else for the shit in their diapers.