The CDC is withholding COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness data from the public

What you've been seeing with your own eyes is not an illusion, but the U.S. Government will never admit it. This is not a democracy anymore

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is refusing to release data pertaining to the effectiveness and overall safety profile of the coronavirus vaccine. This has been reported by multiple major outlets, including The New York Times, Fox News, and MSN.com (via the Daily Mail). When the CDC published data on booster effectiveness in U.S. adults under 65 two weeks ago, it omitted the information about 18- to 49-year-olds—33 million of whom exist and consume media as well as vaccines and masks.

The excuse offered by CDC spokes-joker Kristen Nordlund is that the public is, in so many words, too dumb to interpret these and apparently only these data correctly, the correct interpretation being that everyone alive should keep getting boosters because they’re safe and effective. You have to feel bad for the scientists down in Atlanta being forced by the White House to serve as misinformation agents.

Dr. Robert Malone—a man about whom many people have written an incredible amount of damaging horseshit—offers an analysis of the NYT story, which is as pro-CDC as can be given the content, and of the unfortunately unsurprising revelation overall on his Substack.

Does the U.S. government’s eagerness to quash information related to vaccine effectiveness seem to follow naturally from your experiences since the emergence of the omicron variant? Who out there has not watched a parade of vaccinated-and-boosted friends and associated contract the disease in recent months, the current form being—luckily—no worse than a bad cold for most who get it?

The only way you can pretend that the vaccines have been working as claimed is to offset your own brainpower by believing what outlets that were in fact mostly trustworthy until recent years are spewing. Or by encasing yourself in apocalyptic Twitter bubbles where the most morbid certified healthcare professionals on Earth spend their days describing not just how awful the coronavirus is, but how awful the people who don’t understand this are.

The only way you can pretend Joe Rogan is even close to the level of “misinformation agent” as either his own president or the corporate media whose foot-soldiers hate Rogan’s popularity and editorial freedom is by jumping on one of many available popular anti-common sense bandwagons—by, say, soaking your head in the rapidly collapsing joke known as CNN, or believing that MSNBC has any investment whatsoever in factual reporting. And almost all of my longtime friends rely primarily on these sources of “information” for their news, still laboring under the delusion that these are merely partisan outlets instead of couriers of the government’s deceptions. All of these media have been instructing Americans to get “the jab” or else from the start, even when more promising treatments seem to be emerging (I wonder why that is?).

Indeed, throughout the pandemic, the corporate media and tech giants have been actively coordinating their pandemic-related and other forms of messaging with the American government. This is a breach of duty by both industries; the media’s role is—or used to be—telling people what the government is doing, not transmitting its imperatives, and social-media platforms in theory exist for people to communicate and share ideas, not convince them en masse to adopt political or philosophical positions—even good ones, let alone stances based on speculation, nonsense, or outright deceit intended to affect national elections.

But owing mainly to the alleged existential threat posed by the presidency of Donald Trump—who in four brainless, full-throated years didn’t manage to fuck up the country half as bad as the Biden administration already has—journalists and others is powerful positions have decided to serve as advocates rather than information-providers, with their lies now as flagrant and unapologetic as those of any drunken swamp-preacher campaigning for a state-legislature seat and promising to stamp out The Gay while bringing an Amazon fulfillment center to a county of 4,500 people. And while the presence of Trump was a catalyst, the fuel has been an entire generation of incompetent weasels taking over journalism jobs and treating them as one-way personal therapy sessions with a concierge shrink in the Hamptons. If journalists still cared, and more importantly were allowed to function as such at prestige outlets, none of this would be so bad.

The media attempting to serve as a steward of policy might not be so foreboding had there been clear answers to the unanswered, and often unanswerable, questions that Anthony Fauci has been glibly misleading the world about under two different presidents. The current press secretary, Jen Psaki, is a proudly condescending and dissembling shit-stack, worse than either the hillbilly or the ersatz bimbo who directly preceded her, dismissing reporters’ solid questions—even those from NPR reporters—about vaccines and testing kits as if they’d just held out a crumpled $20 and asked if they could look up one of her bright-red skirts.

The, er, limitations of the coronavirus vaccines have been evident since the glory days of the delta variant if you know where to look. One lawyer in Ohio got his hands on Department of Defense documents that have since been taken offline. Among the revelations are that in one study of 65-and-over subjects, 71 percent of coronavirus-related cases and 60 percent of hospitalizations occurred in the fully vaccinated. The Washington Post obligingly commissioned a couple of cunt-faces to write a hit piece about Renz after his challenges to orthodoxy started gaining steam, just as their various cunt-faced colleagues have been characterizing truckers protesting absurdist policies as Nazi zealots.

In September, Glenn Greenwald wrote about NBA player Jonathan Isaac’s decision to forgo the coronavirus vaccine. Isaac, much like tennis star Novak Djokovic more recently, was pilloried for this choice, and Greenwald—already widely hated by reporters for being a real reporter than an inept lobbyist for his own ego—was trashed for his supportive stance. Read that piece and try to convince yourself that Greenwald and Issac look more lost today, less than five months later, than their histrionic accusers and detractors. (And guess who thinks Djokovic is “bad at science”? Lyndsay Crouse, who is bad at the truth and whose bullshit comeback tale is still live on the Web.)

Were I to publish this post as a YouTube video, it would very likely be taken down posthaste assuming the scanning bots didn’t preclude its uploading in the first place. It would be classified as “covid misinformation.” Which U.S. President Joe Biden (Junior) saying “You’re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations” 2:07 into this video apparently is not:

If you can spot any misinformation in this post or in any of the articles I’ve linked to within it, please call me on it. But also consider which entities are telling different stories over time, preventing the release of information, redacting information, or attempting to ruin the lives of dissenters. The chilling thing is that most otherwise thinking Americans have been sucked into this bullshit—many of the same people who imagine themselves having resisted pogroms across Europe in the 1930s, or standing Chinese students in 1989 in Tiananmen Square.

I have always eagerly gone after anything I think is horseshit, and in most cases, it’s been easy to convince others I’m not being a crank because those “debates” have usually been of the non-resolvable sort where everyone involved already holds an immovable position—e.g., is the Earth really only 10,000 years old? And did Shelby Houlihan dope on purpose or was she victimized against all odds?

But this is the first time in my life I feel as though some of the people I dismissed as hysterical in every way a few years ago might just have hit upon a few accurate points about the state of American democracy. And now, it’s too late to do fuck-all about it. If you’re on social media, you do not have the freedom to say what you want if what you want to say is at all controversial. If you write for a legacy media outlet, you write what the White House wants you to write or you lose your exclusive access, meaning you relinquish what is essentially a government a job subsidy.

I am not crazy, nor do I think covid is a trivial illness or that people are likely to drop dead from vaccines in large numbers merely because they fail to do their job—although, who knows? If you want to go all-in on this, some people speculate that the World Economic Forum is seeking to use the vaccines to reduce global population, continuing the job of a virus intentionally engineered by Fauci’s minions in Wuhan. You don’t have to believe any of that to accept that we’re all being lied at about coronavirus vaccines, not to mention the effectiveness of masks. And this has everyday, serious consequences, even for those of us with no clear goals and traipsing through what’s left of our lives with our dicks in our hands. More than anything else, I’d like to avoid being the target of anything from cold stares (“that guy took off his mask right as he walking out the door!”) to an induced mass psychosis to a sudden freezing of my financial accounts for having the wrong beliefs.

Look at the sources I’ve used here. Jacobin is a classic left-wing (pro-Bernie Sanders, not pro-Wokism) publication. The Daily Mail is like the UK version of the New York Post, a conservative rag combining the gleefully tawdry style and flavor of the National Enquirer with stories about major world events. The New York Times is now strictly for upscale, vulva-waxing libtards, people who nod their heads at Jen Psaki while admiring her red skirt, and fans of unclever satire. Freddie DeBoer espouses socialism bordering on communism. Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are disaffected classic liberals. Fox News is as far to the political right as a mainstream outlet can be.

A lot of people you probably disagree with on a whole raft of issues are in strong agreement with you and your intuition on this one. That by itself should convince you of something important.