Source: Brownstone.org
Despite eschewing much of social media, television, and trendy media stories, I still couldn’t avoid major mainstream news reports in 2021 and 2022 covering entertainment news about gormless Hollywood/social media types and political officials (who increasingly seem to preen about like Hollywood entertainers) making embarrassing spectacles of themselves getting their mRNA shots and/or gushing online about it afterward with “vaxxies” (an amalgamation of words “vaccine” and “selfies”). Sometimes they even called for the press to witness them getting mRNA injections – and of course, the press always came.
Are Americans Reticent to Get 2023 mRNA ‘Boosters’? If So, Why?
Initial mRNA shots from Pfizer were granted emergency-use authorization by the FDA on December 11, 2020, and authorization of Moderna’s version quickly followed on December 18. Americans immediately and eagerly lined up for their shots, encouraged by politicians and celebrities.
Unlike then, why aren’t we seeing pictures of people waiting in line for hours alongside pictures of celebrities gleefully posing in a sea of flashbulbs for fall 2023 mRNA shots? What is different this time around? Could it be that previous incentives, motivation, or clinical claims that existed then don’t exist now? Were those incentives and the subsequent enthusiasm contrived? Is it because earlier monovalent/bivalent Covid-19 shots did not live up to their promises?
Not Just mRNA; Americans Don’t Seem to Want Any ‘Vaccines’ in 2023. Why?
According to an October 24th Politico article— almost two months after the 2023 updated Covid-19 boosters were authorized — only a mere 3.6 percent of Americans have gotten their updated shot.
Only about 4.8 percent have gotten the influenza vaccine; so, it seems they just aren’t disinterested in Covid-19 mRNA shots. According to the CDC and FDA, flu vaccines are supposed to all be administered prior to Oct. 31. It is presumed that the fall deadline would be the same for Covid-19 shots as well, in sync with fall weather. After all, both influenza and Covid are respiratory diseases spread via airborne droplet transmission. Plus, with Covid’s high rate of mutation, mRNA shots would have to be given as quickly as possible, lest they become irrelevant to mutations.
How quickly? Researchers from the Universities of Bath and Edinburgh have published findings showing that COVID mutates as quickly as every two weeks. That is faster than influenza, potentially making Covid vaccines irrelevant faster than influenza vaccines, hence making the now expired Oct. 31st deadline critically important — not just for influenza — but for Covid as well.
Despite those low numbers, the CDC called the ~3.6 percent Covid-19 compliance figure “on track” …which isn’t really accurate. And the flu vaccine’s 4.8 percent compliance rate a week ahead of an Oct. 31 deadline is not “on track” either. This is a noteworthy aberration from historical data illustrating around 50 percent of all Americans typically receive flu vaccines each year.
Not to be outdone by consumer hesitancy, rather than making an effort to be transparent and put consumers’ minds at ease with an abundance of safety data, Pfizer is instead currently in late-stage testing of a combination influenza/COVID-19 mRNA injection after the FDA awarded it the highly coveted “fast track” review status in late 2022. Does that mean that in the future, consumers may not have the choice to just get an influenza vaccine without an mRNA COVID-19 shot?
Who Makes the Recommendations and on What Scientific Bases?
While the FDA evaluates the actual Covid-19 shot approval/authorization, the CDC sets recommendations of when and who should get them. Despite epidemiology stating otherwise, especially in kids, the CDC recommends that everyone six months and older receive an updated 2023 mRNA Covid-19 shot.
Recommendations need justification. So where is the CDC’s big data set scientifically, immunologically, and epidemiologically justifying that everyone six months and older is what is most appropriate? Could that lack of evidence explain why not everyone seems to be taking their CDC marching instructions as before? Could it be that the CDC is losing its authority with Americans because they, too, have an abundance of unanswered questions over the mRNA technology and want more transparency from Big Pharma and the federal government? …