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🥩 @RepThomasMassie has been fighting for the PRIME Act for years, and it's been folded into the Farm Bill that passed the House.
The PRIME Act allows small farmers and ranchers to slaughter their own animals on site and sell directly to local restaurants, households, and community members without federal oversight. Right now, even a farmer selling steaks at a local farmers' market has to route the animal through a large federally inspected processing facility, often a corporate plant, before it can be sold. That process adds high cost, which is why locally raised beef at a farmers' market carries a price tag that shocks most people.
The PRIME Act cuts that middleman out entirely for small, local operations.
This is the kind of food freedom that used to just be called farming. Knowing your farmer, buying directly from the source, skipping the corporate processing chain - it is a straightforward idea that has been buried under layers of federal regulation for decades.
The bill now heads to the Senate.
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The PRIME Act allows small farmers and ranchers to slaughter their own animals on site and sell directly to local restaurants, households, and community members without federal oversight. Right now, even a farmer selling steaks at a local farmers' market has to route the animal through a large federally inspected processing facility, often a corporate plant, before it can be sold. That process adds high cost, which is why locally raised beef at a farmers' market carries a price tag that shocks most people.
The PRIME Act cuts that middleman out entirely for small, local operations.
This is the kind of food freedom that used to just be called farming. Knowing your farmer, buying directly from the source, skipping the corporate processing chain - it is a straightforward idea that has been buried under layers of federal regulation for decades.
The bill now heads to the Senate.
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Bipartisan Uprising: The People vs. Poison Rally
Two months of planning, one public sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court, and a coalition that nobody in Washington saw coming
The crowd that gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court on April 27th was not the audience anyone expected: organic farmers from Maine and Ohio, cancer survivors, widows of farmers who used Roundup because they were told it was safe, environmental activists, health advocates, elected officials from both sides of the aisle, and families whose children are eating glyphosate in their school lunches, their cereal, and their baby food.
Speakers named names and told stories: a husband who served eight years in the military, never smoked, chose Roundup specifically because he was told it was safe, and was dead of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma before his wife could get him into chemotherapy in time. A woman who survived a golf ball-sized tumor in her lymphatic system. A man whose grandfather farmed with paraquat and died with Parkinson's. A son whose father believed he was feeding the world and later watched that same son acknowledge that they had contaminated their own drinking water and lakes.
The rally organizers had held back on promotion, worried about overcrowding the permitted area, and the crowd showed up anyway in numbers that exceeded every projection. Speeches from the steps were seen hundreds of millions of times across X and Instagram in the days that followed.
After the rally, the crowd marched to the Capitol and sat inside the Rules Committee hearing where farm bill amendments were being debated. The pesticide liability shield language was stripped from the bill, with Democrats providing the votes that made it happen alongside Republican co-sponsors including Representatives Massie and Pingree.
The amendment that carried was modeled on the Massie-Pingree language and renamed, and both co-sponsors supported it anyway.
Reporters from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, NBC, and NPR showed up and could not find a villain. Both sides of the aisle were standing together, and the media had no framework for it.
It's a tectonic plate shift, a return to the kind of politics where something so obviously harmful simply gets recognized as such across party lines. The Supreme Court is still deliberating on whether to hand Bayer a liability shield that would close the courthouse doors to the 170,000 cancer plaintiffs already in line and block every future case. The vote in the House is now on record. The justices are watching.
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Two months of planning, one public sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court, and a coalition that nobody in Washington saw coming
The crowd that gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court on April 27th was not the audience anyone expected: organic farmers from Maine and Ohio, cancer survivors, widows of farmers who used Roundup because they were told it was safe, environmental activists, health advocates, elected officials from both sides of the aisle, and families whose children are eating glyphosate in their school lunches, their cereal, and their baby food.
Speakers named names and told stories: a husband who served eight years in the military, never smoked, chose Roundup specifically because he was told it was safe, and was dead of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma before his wife could get him into chemotherapy in time. A woman who survived a golf ball-sized tumor in her lymphatic system. A man whose grandfather farmed with paraquat and died with Parkinson's. A son whose father believed he was feeding the world and later watched that same son acknowledge that they had contaminated their own drinking water and lakes.
The rally organizers had held back on promotion, worried about overcrowding the permitted area, and the crowd showed up anyway in numbers that exceeded every projection. Speeches from the steps were seen hundreds of millions of times across X and Instagram in the days that followed.
After the rally, the crowd marched to the Capitol and sat inside the Rules Committee hearing where farm bill amendments were being debated. The pesticide liability shield language was stripped from the bill, with Democrats providing the votes that made it happen alongside Republican co-sponsors including Representatives Massie and Pingree.
The amendment that carried was modeled on the Massie-Pingree language and renamed, and both co-sponsors supported it anyway.
Reporters from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, NBC, and NPR showed up and could not find a villain. Both sides of the aisle were standing together, and the media had no framework for it.
It's a tectonic plate shift, a return to the kind of politics where something so obviously harmful simply gets recognized as such across party lines. The Supreme Court is still deliberating on whether to hand Bayer a liability shield that would close the courthouse doors to the 170,000 cancer plaintiffs already in line and block every future case. The vote in the House is now on record. The justices are watching.
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The First Domino? Fauci Adviser Indicted
Dr. David Morens, senior adviser to Anthony Fauci at NIAID, has been indicted. The emails that got him there have been public for two years.
We walk through the indictment and the paper trail behind it. The emails obtained by @RonJohnson's team and made public in 2024 show Morens writing in 2021 that he had learned from the agency's FOIA coordinator how to make emails disappear before a search begins, concluding that he and his colleagues were safe.
A separate email to EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak describes routing sensitive correspondence to Fauci's personal Gmail account or delivering it by hand, explicitly because Fauci was, in Morens's own words, too smart to let colleagues send him things that could cause trouble.
The Department of Justice indictment charges Morens with conspiracy against the United States, destruction, alteration, and falsification of records in federal investigations, concealment and removal of records, and aiding and abetting. The maximum penalty for each destruction count is 20 years. The maximum for the conspiracy charge is five years.
Rand Paul called for this prosecution in 2024 when the evidence was already public and virtually every other elected official was silent.
He is now back on X with a message: lying to Congress is a felony, destroying federal records is a felony, advising others to destroy federal records is a felony, and Fauci did all three.
The statute of limitations deadline to prosecute Fauci is May 11th.
Morens is charged with aiding and abetting, which means the question the Department of Justice now has to answer is who he was aiding and abetting?
Biden's auto-pen pardon adds a layer of legal complexity that will shape how this plays out, but the indictment of the man directly beneath Fauci marks the first time the Covid oversight effort has produced a criminal charge.
The window for more is closing fast.
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Dr. David Morens, senior adviser to Anthony Fauci at NIAID, has been indicted. The emails that got him there have been public for two years.
We walk through the indictment and the paper trail behind it. The emails obtained by @RonJohnson's team and made public in 2024 show Morens writing in 2021 that he had learned from the agency's FOIA coordinator how to make emails disappear before a search begins, concluding that he and his colleagues were safe.
A separate email to EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak describes routing sensitive correspondence to Fauci's personal Gmail account or delivering it by hand, explicitly because Fauci was, in Morens's own words, too smart to let colleagues send him things that could cause trouble.
The Department of Justice indictment charges Morens with conspiracy against the United States, destruction, alteration, and falsification of records in federal investigations, concealment and removal of records, and aiding and abetting. The maximum penalty for each destruction count is 20 years. The maximum for the conspiracy charge is five years.
Rand Paul called for this prosecution in 2024 when the evidence was already public and virtually every other elected official was silent.
He is now back on X with a message: lying to Congress is a felony, destroying federal records is a felony, advising others to destroy federal records is a felony, and Fauci did all three.
The statute of limitations deadline to prosecute Fauci is May 11th.
Morens is charged with aiding and abetting, which means the question the Department of Justice now has to answer is who he was aiding and abetting?
Biden's auto-pen pardon adds a layer of legal complexity that will shape how this plays out, but the indictment of the man directly beneath Fauci marks the first time the Covid oversight effort has produced a criminal charge.
The window for more is closing fast.
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Sen. Ron Johnson: The Covid Reckoning
An FDA scientist warned that the agency's vaccine safety surveillance system would mask Covid injection signals. She was told to cease and desist. The documents proving it are now in @RonJohnson's hands.
Del Bigtree sat down with Senator Johnson the day after one of the most consequential oversight hearings in the Covid reckoning so far.
The centerpiece is an FDA analyst who identified that the mathematical algorithm being used to monitor post-authorization Covid injection safety was structurally incapable of detecting signals when two similar products, Pfizer and Moderna, were being analyzed simultaneously.
She brought a multi-page presentation to Peter Marks, head of CBER at the FDA, who thanked her and ignored it. Twenty-six days later she returned with an updated system that, when applied to the existing data, revealed 49 instances of masked signals and 25 safety events flagged as serious, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell's palsy, multiple types of stroke, and multiple types of cardiac arrhythmia.
Marks responded by ordering her to stand down. She was treated, in Johnson's words, as persona non grata. The agency continued using the system it had already been told would hide what it was supposed to find, and Peter Marks continued telling the public and vaccine-injured individuals on recorded Zoom calls that no safety signal was being detected.
The second bombshell from the hearing involves 23 vaccine-injured individuals, including Brianne Dressen, who were brought into an NIH treatment program beginning in March 2021.
Researchers were seeing some success. The injured patients were told to stay silent, that the NIH would publish the study and formally acknowledge their injuries so others could access treatment. The study was never published. The acknowledgment never came. The 23 patients were told to keep quiet in exchange for a promise that was broken.
Those patients wanted to be seen, heard, and believed so they could get treatment. The FDA saw them, heard them, believed them, and said nothing to the American public.
The week of the hearing also brought the arrest of Dr. David Morens, a senior Fauci adviser whose emails, discovered by Johnson's staff inside a 115,000-page document dump from a university grantee, showed him explicitly describing how to make emails disappear through FOIA-evasion techniques and directing colleagues to route sensitive correspondence to his personal Gmail account.
Johnson's current interim report, titled "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Safety Signals," documents the same pattern of deliberate off-channel communication across multiple agencies.
For everything on Peter Marks's public statements versus what the documents now show, visit therealpetermarks.com.
@delbigtree
An FDA scientist warned that the agency's vaccine safety surveillance system would mask Covid injection signals. She was told to cease and desist. The documents proving it are now in @RonJohnson's hands.
Del Bigtree sat down with Senator Johnson the day after one of the most consequential oversight hearings in the Covid reckoning so far.
The centerpiece is an FDA analyst who identified that the mathematical algorithm being used to monitor post-authorization Covid injection safety was structurally incapable of detecting signals when two similar products, Pfizer and Moderna, were being analyzed simultaneously.
She brought a multi-page presentation to Peter Marks, head of CBER at the FDA, who thanked her and ignored it. Twenty-six days later she returned with an updated system that, when applied to the existing data, revealed 49 instances of masked signals and 25 safety events flagged as serious, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell's palsy, multiple types of stroke, and multiple types of cardiac arrhythmia.
Marks responded by ordering her to stand down. She was treated, in Johnson's words, as persona non grata. The agency continued using the system it had already been told would hide what it was supposed to find, and Peter Marks continued telling the public and vaccine-injured individuals on recorded Zoom calls that no safety signal was being detected.
The second bombshell from the hearing involves 23 vaccine-injured individuals, including Brianne Dressen, who were brought into an NIH treatment program beginning in March 2021.
Researchers were seeing some success. The injured patients were told to stay silent, that the NIH would publish the study and formally acknowledge their injuries so others could access treatment. The study was never published. The acknowledgment never came. The 23 patients were told to keep quiet in exchange for a promise that was broken.
Those patients wanted to be seen, heard, and believed so they could get treatment. The FDA saw them, heard them, believed them, and said nothing to the American public.
The week of the hearing also brought the arrest of Dr. David Morens, a senior Fauci adviser whose emails, discovered by Johnson's staff inside a 115,000-page document dump from a university grantee, showed him explicitly describing how to make emails disappear through FOIA-evasion techniques and directing colleagues to route sensitive correspondence to his personal Gmail account.
Johnson's current interim report, titled "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Safety Signals," documents the same pattern of deliberate off-channel communication across multiple agencies.
For everything on Peter Marks's public statements versus what the documents now show, visit therealpetermarks.com.
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Three people died on a cruise ship from hantavirus and the media coverage that followed treated it as a potential pandemic. Here is the actual context.
Since surveillance began in 1993, the United States has recorded roughly 30 hantavirus cases per year on average. About 10 people per year die from it. For comparison, lightning strikes kill 20 to 30 Americans annually.
The primary transmission route is exposure to aerosolized rodent droppings and saliva, and experts confirm the virus would need a major evolutionary leap to spread efficiently between people.
Moderna and Korea University's Vaccine Innovation Center are already collaborating on an mRNA hantavirus vaccine.
The market for a product targeting a disease that kills roughly 10 Americans per year is not driven by public health math. It is driven by fear, and the cruise ship coverage is doing exactly the work it needs to do.
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Since surveillance began in 1993, the United States has recorded roughly 30 hantavirus cases per year on average. About 10 people per year die from it. For comparison, lightning strikes kill 20 to 30 Americans annually.
The primary transmission route is exposure to aerosolized rodent droppings and saliva, and experts confirm the virus would need a major evolutionary leap to spread efficiently between people.
Moderna and Korea University's Vaccine Innovation Center are already collaborating on an mRNA hantavirus vaccine.
The market for a product targeting a disease that kills roughly 10 Americans per year is not driven by public health math. It is driven by fear, and the cruise ship coverage is doing exactly the work it needs to do.
@delbigtree
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The production of vaccines currently requires the slaughter of millions of animals every year, and the laboratories running those processes employ enormous numbers of people across every level of administration and research.
Dr. Tess Lawrie is calling for a deep and thorough investigation into all of it. Pandemic preparedness has become a racket, with stockpiles of viral material sitting in labs ready to sustain the cycle indefinitely. That infrastructure needs to be examined from top to bottom, from administrative staff to the researchers themselves, and the accountability needs to happen before it is quietly preserved and repurposed for the next emergency.
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Dr. Tess Lawrie is calling for a deep and thorough investigation into all of it. Pandemic preparedness has become a racket, with stockpiles of viral material sitting in labs ready to sustain the cycle indefinitely. That infrastructure needs to be examined from top to bottom, from administrative staff to the researchers themselves, and the accountability needs to happen before it is quietly preserved and repurposed for the next emergency.
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The acellular pertussis vaccine does not prevent colonization of the bacteria. A peer-reviewed consensus paper, signed by 16 of the world's leading pertussis experts, confirmed it. The vaccine does not reduce the circulation of B. pertussis and provides no herd immunity.
What it does do is suppress symptoms. A vaccinated person can carry and transmit the bacteria without knowing they are sick, which turns them into an asymptomatic spreader. The unvaccinated person who gets sick feels sick, stays home, and is known to be contagious.
The vaccinated person feels fine, goes to work, goes to school, and spreads it everywhere.
The entire justification for mandating this vaccine rests on a transmission benefit the science says does not exist.
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What it does do is suppress symptoms. A vaccinated person can carry and transmit the bacteria without knowing they are sick, which turns them into an asymptomatic spreader. The unvaccinated person who gets sick feels sick, stays home, and is known to be contagious.
The vaccinated person feels fine, goes to work, goes to school, and spreads it everywhere.
The entire justification for mandating this vaccine rests on a transmission benefit the science says does not exist.
@delbigtree
🚨NEWS: Researcher behind study claiming no link between MMR and autism extradited:
Poul Thorsen co-authored the most widely cited study used to dismiss any link between the MMR vaccine and autism. That study was used to shut down more than 5,000 autism injury claims in federal vaccine court.
Thorsen was indicted in 2011 on 13 counts of wire fraud and 9 counts of money laundering for stealing over $1 million in CDC grant money. He spent 15 years evading arrest in Denmark before being extradited to the United States last week.
The fraud charges relate to grant money, not the science itself, and Thorsen has not been convicted of anything. But a 2025 reanalysis of the Madsen et al. study he co-authored found that its unadjusted results do not support rejecting a causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and the authors called for the release of the raw data to ensure transparency.
The CDC updated its own website in November 2025 to state that the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out that possibility.
The cornerstone study used to close the door on this question for two decades was co-authored by a man now standing trial for research fraud. The full article has everything.
https://thehighwire.com/news/vaccine-autism-researcher-accused-of-stealing-1-million-from-cdc-extradited-to-u-s/
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Poul Thorsen co-authored the most widely cited study used to dismiss any link between the MMR vaccine and autism. That study was used to shut down more than 5,000 autism injury claims in federal vaccine court.
Thorsen was indicted in 2011 on 13 counts of wire fraud and 9 counts of money laundering for stealing over $1 million in CDC grant money. He spent 15 years evading arrest in Denmark before being extradited to the United States last week.
The fraud charges relate to grant money, not the science itself, and Thorsen has not been convicted of anything. But a 2025 reanalysis of the Madsen et al. study he co-authored found that its unadjusted results do not support rejecting a causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and the authors called for the release of the raw data to ensure transparency.
The CDC updated its own website in November 2025 to state that the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out that possibility.
The cornerstone study used to close the door on this question for two decades was co-authored by a man now standing trial for research fraud. The full article has everything.
https://thehighwire.com/news/vaccine-autism-researcher-accused-of-stealing-1-million-from-cdc-extradited-to-u-s/
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Vaccine Autism Researcher Accused of Stealing $1 Million From CDC Extradited to U.S. - The HighWire
Poul Thorsen, co-author on major vaccine-autism studies, was extradited to the U.S. over alleged CDC research fraud.
🚨A CIA whistleblower testified under oath today that the government's official Covid origins report is false.
Senator Josh Hawley laid out the timeline.
Congress passed a law requiring declassification of any and all information linking the Wuhan Institute of Virology to Covid-19. The Biden administration blew through the statutory deadline, then produced five pages, all heavily redacted. One of them a cover note.
Hawley held it up in the hearing room. Then asked CIA whistleblower James Erdmann: is this all the information the US government had?
It is not. Director Gabbard is currently working through an estimated 2,000 pages for the first release batch alone. Former DNI Avril Haines signed the letter to Hawley saying five pages was everything they could declassify. Her office sent it - with her signature.
Hawley read the two key conclusions from that report into the record. Nothing researched at the Wuhan lab could plausibly be a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. No evidence of any research-related incident involving Wuhan employees. Then he asked Erdmann directly: are those statements true?
"No. I don't believe that's true."
Three violations, on the record. They defied the law. They withheld thousands of pages they knew were covered by it. And the conclusions they did release are false.
Hawley closed with this: if elected and unelected officials can blatantly violate the statutes of this country and lie to the American people, we don't have a democracy anymore.
Full clip linked below 👇
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Senator Josh Hawley laid out the timeline.
Congress passed a law requiring declassification of any and all information linking the Wuhan Institute of Virology to Covid-19. The Biden administration blew through the statutory deadline, then produced five pages, all heavily redacted. One of them a cover note.
Hawley held it up in the hearing room. Then asked CIA whistleblower James Erdmann: is this all the information the US government had?
It is not. Director Gabbard is currently working through an estimated 2,000 pages for the first release batch alone. Former DNI Avril Haines signed the letter to Hawley saying five pages was everything they could declassify. Her office sent it - with her signature.
Hawley read the two key conclusions from that report into the record. Nothing researched at the Wuhan lab could plausibly be a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. No evidence of any research-related incident involving Wuhan employees. Then he asked Erdmann directly: are those statements true?
"No. I don't believe that's true."
Three violations, on the record. They defied the law. They withheld thousands of pages they knew were covered by it. And the conclusions they did release are false.
Hawley closed with this: if elected and unelected officials can blatantly violate the statutes of this country and lie to the American people, we don't have a democracy anymore.
Full clip linked below 👇
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"I need the mainstream media, CBS, ABC, CNN to step forward and start covering what is a major scam. How many thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of people are permanently disabled or possibly lost their life because our FDA hid the fact that there were safety signals screaming at them with the COVID injection?
So again, you can't answer all my questions... but we need to figure out who is running this deep state"
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So again, you can't answer all my questions... but we need to figure out who is running this deep state"
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Thank you, RandPaul
A CIA whistleblower testified before Congress this week under significant personal risk, and what they described is a direct continuation of everything this community has been saying for five years.
CIA scientific analysts repeatedly concluded that a laboratory leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19. Those conclusions were buried, softened, and withheld from Congress while the public was directed to trust a different narrative. At the center of that narrative was Anthony Fauci, the same person who approved the funding for gain-of-function experiments that may have created the virus he was then asked to objectively investigate.
Congress passed the COVID-19 Origin Act unanimously, requiring the declassification of all COVID origins intelligence. The deep state is still resisting it. John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, testified that a lab leak was the only explanation credibly supported by intelligence, science, and common sense, and that partisan politics created deliberate roadblocks to that conclusion reaching the public.
Millions died, children lost years, small businesses were destroyed, civil liberties were suspended, and Americans who asked questions were censored and smeared.
The government that allowed all of that is still fighting to keep its own documents classified.
Government secrecy cannot become government impunity.
@delbigtree
A CIA whistleblower testified before Congress this week under significant personal risk, and what they described is a direct continuation of everything this community has been saying for five years.
CIA scientific analysts repeatedly concluded that a laboratory leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19. Those conclusions were buried, softened, and withheld from Congress while the public was directed to trust a different narrative. At the center of that narrative was Anthony Fauci, the same person who approved the funding for gain-of-function experiments that may have created the virus he was then asked to objectively investigate.
Congress passed the COVID-19 Origin Act unanimously, requiring the declassification of all COVID origins intelligence. The deep state is still resisting it. John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, testified that a lab leak was the only explanation credibly supported by intelligence, science, and common sense, and that partisan politics created deliberate roadblocks to that conclusion reaching the public.
Millions died, children lost years, small businesses were destroyed, civil liberties were suspended, and Americans who asked questions were censored and smeared.
The government that allowed all of that is still fighting to keep its own documents classified.
Government secrecy cannot become government impunity.
@delbigtree
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Johns Hopkins University has been a WHO collaborating center for vaccine epidemiology, with the terms of that agreement explicitly tied to supporting the WHO's Immunization 2030 agenda, a program calling for vaccines at every stage of life from birth to death, with 500 vaccines currently in development or planned.
Dr. Tess Lawrie has been warning about this trajectory for years. The framework is already written. The institutions behind it are the most credentialed names in global public health. And the hantavirus coverage these past few weeks is a live demonstration of how the pipeline works: a disease that kills a handful of people annually generates national fear, and a vaccine partnership launches before the news cycle ends.
If seven people die from a pathogen but seven billion can be persuaded to inject themselves with it, the math works out very well for the people running the program. The fear is the mechanism. The injection is the destination.
@delbigtree
Dr. Tess Lawrie has been warning about this trajectory for years. The framework is already written. The institutions behind it are the most credentialed names in global public health. And the hantavirus coverage these past few weeks is a live demonstration of how the pipeline works: a disease that kills a handful of people annually generates national fear, and a vaccine partnership launches before the news cycle ends.
If seven people die from a pathogen but seven billion can be persuaded to inject themselves with it, the math works out very well for the people running the program. The fear is the mechanism. The injection is the destination.
@delbigtree