Dr. told Chris Cuomo that the Biden administration needs to tie reopening to vaccination status. While the administration has already begun discussing the possibility of a so-called "vaccine passport" with business leaders, Wen seems to believe that the government should go even further to secure their aim of sticking a shot into the arms of every American.
What she wants is to find a way to get more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Her big idea, however, is to hold Americans' freedoms hostage to their vaccination status. Wen proposes that those who are vaccinated be given their freedoms and rights to move freely back, in order to convince other people to get vaccinated so that they, in turn, can have their rights back.
Comment: Wen's candor is jaw-dropping. Watch Cuomo's creeping horror as he realizes she is letting the cat completely out of the bag:
Wen is the former Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, CNN medical analyst and a Washington Post columnist. Wen had been president of Planned Parenthood until June 2019, when she was ousted from her post after less than a year.
Wen said that she was concerned primarily that America will "not reach herd immunity due to vaccine hesitancy." The CDC, and the Biden administration, have been very insistent that every American get vaccinated against a virus that has a survival rate of some 98 percent.
"It has to be clear to them," that the vaccine is the ticket back to pre-pandemic life. And the window to do that is really narrowing. And you were mentioning Chris about how all these states are reopening, they are reopening at 100 percent. And we have a very narrow window to tie reopening policy to vaccination status.Our rights are not a cudgel that we should be beaten with. Our rights are not a bargaining chip that the government can withhold to get us to do what they want. Whether the vaccine is or is not the scientifically correct thing to do has absolutely nothing to do with Americans' right to their God-given, Constitutionally explicated, rights to liberty.
"Because otherwise if everything is reopened, what is the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the vaccine? So that's why the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out alot bolder and say, 'if you're vaccinated, you can do all these things, here are all these freedoms that you have.' Because otherwise people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway."
But Wen, and the people of her mindset, including those in the Biden administration, feel that it is their job to create a criterion system that will authorize some Americans to take part in every day life while others are denied that, all as a result of whether or not they have consented to a medical treatment.
It's not just our basic rights that Wen feels it is appropriate to withhold until we get vaccinated, it's also our kids' education. Speaking to NPR, Wen said that a criteria to get all schools reopened should be that teachers all get vaccinated too.
Wen said that "I strongly believe that at the very beginning, we should have prioritized teachers and school staff for vaccination. If we had done that, we could have gotten schools back for in-person learning a lot sooner. There really should be no expenses spared."
Teachers unions, however, were not comfortable forcing their members to get the vaccine just so that they would be able to work. While yes, schools should be opened, granting the right to work based on whether or not someone has been vaccinated, despite their vulnerability to the virus, is not reasonable.
There cannot be caveats on our rights. We have the right to work. We have the right to move about freely. These must not be contained or restrained by medical experts, government leaders, or business interests.
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"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice , without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment ; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity ."
Enough of this bullshit!
PSYOPs for children . . .
"a 'fierce visionary' for reproductive rights and health care."--Wikipedia
Apparently born with a forked tongue. Would not read her book, nor resort to her diagnoses. She obviously cannot diagnose the motives of Freemen.
Childhood immigrant. [Link] The downside of immigration is those doing so always bring with them their native cultural mindset, especially political. This is something the US' Floundering Fathers did not properly understand. It is not enough to teach US citizens about its democratic process, structure, and history. Jefferson at least understood that a Republic only survives on public virtue.
" If public virtue declined, the republic declined, and if it declined too far, the republic died. Philosophical historians had worked out a regular life cycle, or more properly death cycle, of republics. Manhood gave way to effeminacy, republican liberty to licentiousness. Licentiousness, in turn, degenerated into anarchy, and anarchy inevitably led to tyranny.โ p70-1 Novus Ordo Seclorum
So now we have a Communist Chinese ex-pat promoting the same philosophical methodology that her parents sought to escape--tyranny. Carrot indeed.
R.C.
I expect like many of the Chinese I worked with professionally "they smile in your face, all the while they want to take your place, those backstabbers", and do much differently than they profess. Same "philosophical" dispute here. Of course, politically speaking, the US is in the same game.
It is a known that all pathogens - viral and bacterial lose potency over time. We don't know why but we know it happens. We also know that as the collective health improves through better nutrition and habits, immune systems increase their performance characteristics.
Traditional vaccines have their place - I have had several enabling me to travel to places where life-threatening Yellow Fever, Tuberculosis etc was a real danger. I have refused, and on behalf of my children, refused vaccines against common non-lethal diseases such as 'flu and measles after studying the statistical data. It becomes very obvious that vaccines for these conditions were introduced well after the lethality of them had passed. Here is a graph that illustrates the point : [Link]
Here is another graph that purports to show the efficacy of the measles vaccine: [Link]
The text that accompanies the second graph states: "Alexander Langmuir estimated that about 4 million measles cases occurred in each year shortly before vaccine introduction (Langmuir AD. Medical importance of measles. Am J Dis Child 1962;103:54-56). Note the drop in cases after the introduction of the first measles vaccine in the early 1960s."
I tend to disagree with Mr Langmuir because whilst the vaccine was invented in the 60s, it's use was not widespread until much later.
These examples involve the traditional vaccine technology - a weakened form of the pathogen is introduced in order to prime the immune system. The technology of the Covid 19 vaccines being peddled is quite different and is unproven. The manufacturers have sought and gained immunity from prosecution for adverse effects including death which now numbers in the thousands: I have not checked the above data and this site is new to me but they claim these figures are from the CDC.
Long before Covid hit I had begun to draw the inference that vaccine manufacturers had piggy-backed on the "knowns" I referenced above and enjoyed great (meritless) success. I do not even blame them for creating a business model that leverages off that success (I have long since become cynical about the direction of unbridled capitalism when it becomes synonymous with virtue).
No matter what the Establishment tells me, there is no escaping the simple fact that this disease is no more lethal than seasonal 'flu.
I am open to persuasion but this woman's histrionics are not, in the face of what I consider I know, convincing. They are, in fact, reinforcement for my contrarian views.
In my family, (kids DOB's from 1955 - 60) we got what were then called the 'usual childhood diseases' (mumps, chickenpox, measles*, et al.? I forget and have never had kids.) as choreographed by our mothers. They would wait until (a) a good time; and (b) some of our parents' friends' kids got a mild case and we'd go over to play with the kids. Result: we got natural immunity.
Oh, as re the overselling of the whole vaccine BS, how's this that I just came across? I thank God I didn't have the inane overdosage of vaccines that they put kids through these days. You (in contrast to easily 90% of parents) have rightly concluded that that should be and is only YOUR cost-benefit decision to make, NOT the state's. (That's especially so given the effectively fascist merger of the state with big pharma, et al.
RC
*Once we got to here in Florida - I was 6 - we had added to those, also rabies.**
** Kidding, but this "OMG! It's a virus! BS" has gotten me thinking that most of us even have had some rabies viruses in our systems which our immune systems (something the BFM NEVER talks about) resolved it in the same way that most C-1984 cases are resolved - without the 'infected' person even knowing it.
rc
Her CCP handlers will be pleased. And she didn't have to fuck Swalwell either.
Bet he doesn't even swallwell anyway.
RC