The New York Times, again sampling the intelligence of its readership, is pushing experimental covid vaccines

The fusion of corporations, mass media, and the state never ends well for people

The New York Times is counting on its readers still believing that covid “vaccines” have resulted in a net positive for society, and moreover, believing that the NYT and its corporate media brethren are reliable sources of information on this and other fronts.

The headline of this article is intentionally misleading, implying that the era of covid “vaccinations” is quickly ending. The piece in fact extols the importance of developing even more vaccine-like potions for covid—just more deliberately, so that there won’t be any, uh, glitches this time.

After the usual round of complaints about Republicans getting in the way of progress and the dire dangers of “long covid” (sorry: Long Covid), the author, openly shilling throughout this piece for the pharmaceutical industry, complains that

prospects have dimmed for the two most coveted kinds of next-generation vaccines: nasal sprays that can block more infections, and universal coronavirus shots that can defend against a wider array of ever-evolving variants.

How promising are the nasal sprays? You don’t have to be a discerning word-consumer to see through the bullshit here (all emphases mine):

No next-generation vaccines are as likely to reduce the spread of the virus as those that can be inhaled or sprayed into the nose.

By generating immunity in people’s airways, where the coronavirus first lands, those vaccines can potentially help extinguish infections before they begin.

China, India, Russia and Iran have all approved vaccines delivered through the nose or the mouth, even though they have not released much data about how the products work.

[Akiko Iwasaki’s] team’s vaccine appears to reduce viral transmission in hamsters, a promising sign. But Dr. Iwasaki has not been able to get Pfizer or Moderna shots for studies on monkeys.

There are no guarantees about how effective a nasal vaccine would be or how long its protections would last. It is not entirely clear how best to formulate the vaccines or deliver them to people’s airways. Safety concerns stem from the nasal cavity's closeness to the brain and the lungs. And there is no standard test for measuring immune responses in the airways, as there is for gauging the systemic immunity that is the goal of injectable vaccines.

The article is one long demand for more funding of this garbage and its faster rushing into production and circulation. It’s a completely irresponsible, in fact reckless, example of journalism.

But it’s standard for the NYT. And considering how we got here, the outlet has every reason to expect its readers to embrace this latest recklessness as a sign of hope.

In the spring and early summer of 2021, when the shots were new, the media were ferociously dismissing organ-specific safety concerns about the virus shots. Bear in mind that at this point, the public had at least some reason to think the shots would prevent or at least sharply reduce transmission of the coronavirus—that is, act like genuine vaccines—whereas the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and the makers of the shots themselves already understood otherwise.

The CDC itself pushed the same “benefits outweigh risks” message.

This campaign only amplified in the fall of 2021, by which time it was evident that the shots weren’t doing fuck-all. In addition to denying the seriousness of shots-induced heart problems, the media promoted the idea, now proven false, that covid itself causes more of these heart problems than the shots do (according to a recent study in Israel, covid-19 doesn’t lead to myocarditis or endocarditis at all).

USA Today, by the way, may be the biggest running media gag out there not associated with a radio broadcast (NPR is by far the most hilariously degraded liberal outlet overall). Cormac McCarthy, 89, just had one novel published and its companion will be released next month. This is despite being dead for over six years.

More recently, of course, the mass media—no longer able to deny reality, and with Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and other criminals no longer in the public eye for some reason—have received permission to start casually revealing the dangers of the shots, padding the blow by adding that, with the barn door wide open and hundreds of stallions galloping toward the far horizon, the makers of these shots are going to start doing randomized controlled safety trials!

There are any number of parallel and branching avenues one can follow to track the staggering levels of deceit at work here, as well as any number of ways to look at the dismal consequences of locking down society from a virus that was very likely created in a Chinese, Fauci-funded laboratory and loading it with ineffective-to-dangerous shots, sometimes by legal force.

Depression and substance abuse metrics since early 2020? On the rise. Fatal auto accidents? Up in 2021 by a startling amount. And the direct results of people feeling shut out of non-covid aspects of the medical system are becoming increasingly apparent, too.

The clown show is spectacular to behold overall. It is really and truly a beautiful mess, all part of the purposeful demolition of effective American intellectual freedom.

My two best friends now have covid for the first time, and my landlord, who’s 75, just got over his second bout of it. If I haven’t had it yet, then I will at some point. When I complain about the media treatment of covid, it’s not meant to imply that it can’t be a serious disease. That it in fact can kill people is even more reason to be upset at public health officials, Wuhan microbiologists, Bill Gates, drug companies, and every level of government for lying and lying for their own gain and refusing to stop.