{"id":136030,"date":"2020-12-23T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=136030"},"modified":"2020-12-24T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T14:36:21","slug":"we-had-the-vaccine-from-the-start-you-just-werent-allowed-to-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=136030","title":{"rendered":"FEE: We Had the Vaccine from the Start\u2014You Just Weren&#8217;t Allowed to Take It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v9ito5\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v9ito5\",\"div\":\"rumble_v9ito5\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Moderna&#8217;s highly effective vaccine was available in January, https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/we-had-the-vaccine-from-the-start-you-just-werent-allowed-to-take-it\/<br \/>\n07:00 James Thompson, The Bitter Tiers of Mutant England, https:\/\/www.unz.com\/jthompson\/the-bitter-tiers-of-mutant-england\/<br \/>\n13:00 Who Made the Vaccine Possible? Not WHO, https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-made-the-vaccine-possible-not-who-11608744603?mod=hp_opin_pos_1<br \/>\n23:00 One Day Sooner pushed for challenge trials, https:\/\/www.1daysooner.org\/<br \/>\n25:00 Covid Vaccine: Should &#8220;Challenge Trials&#8221; Be Allowed?, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PlsCMGC60cY<br \/>\n35:30 Clinical Trials: From Design to FDA Consideration, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pfsYbMP47o<br \/>\n55:00 Generating self-compassion, https:\/\/www.tmswiki.org\/ppd\/TMS_Recovery_Program<br \/>\n1:19:00 What are we doing here?<br \/>\n2:20:00 Jared Taylor on BLM<br \/>\n2:21:30 Rush Limbaugh says goodbye<br \/>\n2:28:30 Let&#8217;s get energized<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/we-had-the-vaccine-from-the-start-you-just-werent-allowed-to-take-it\/\">Philip Steele writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Few people realize that the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19\u2014which the FDA has finally declared &#8220;highly effective,&#8221; and which is now being distributed to Americans\u2014has actually been available for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>But the government wouldn&#8217;t let you take it.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine, a triumph of medical science known as mRNA-1273, was designed in a single weekend, just two days after Chinese researchers published the virus&#8217;s genetic code on January 11, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>For the entire duration of the pandemic, while hundreds of thousands died and the world economy was decimated by lockdowns, this highly effective vaccine has been available.<\/p>\n<p>But you, and all the people who died, were prohibited by the government from taking it.<\/p>\n<p>There are some who claim that the FDA &#8220;saves lives&#8221; by putting the brakes on medical innovation with their requirements for years-long, and often decades-long, billion-dollar medical trial procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Missing here is the obvious counterpoint\u2014How many lives did the FDA sacrifice to disease in the meantime?<\/p>\n<p>In the case of COVID-19 we know the answer: more than 300,000 deaths so far in the United States and counting.<\/p>\n<p>So why was this vaccine delayed for a full year? Because the FDA prohibited rapid &#8220;challenge trials&#8221;\u2014where volunteers take the vaccine and then expose themselves to the virus in a lab, rather than waiting agonizing months to see how many catch the virus &#8220;in the wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Challenge trials would have proven the vaccine&#8217;s effectiveness in a matter of weeks. But the FDA considered the risk to trial volunteers too high.<\/p>\n<p>But why? Why are hundreds of thousands of &#8220;natural&#8221; deaths from a rampaging disease considered acceptable to the FDA\u2014while the remote possibility of one or two deaths, in the absolute worst case scenario, among well-informed vaccine-testing volunteers are not?<\/p>\n<p>There is no rational answer. The tragic truth is that we are ruled by a cowardly medical bureaucracy, one that would rather allow hundreds of thousands of people to die than face any potential criticism for allowing an accelerated vaccine trial.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, in a free society, immediately after the vaccine was created, volunteers would have been allowed to participate in challenge trials. The trials would have been conducted either by the vaccine company itself, or more likely by third-party medical-trial specialists, to remove any concerns about bias in the results.<\/p>\n<p>The first small group of volunteers would be vaccinated, and then exposed to the virus. If the vaccine appeared to be safe and effective, then a larger group would be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>As each challenge group proved successful, the number of volunteers for the next group would grow. Week by week the challenge groups would grow larger, until after just a few months\u2014instead of taking nearly a year by the FDA&#8217;s &#8220;in the wild&#8221; method\u2014the results would be definitive and the trials complete.<\/p>\n<p>This means that in March or April of 2020\u2014instead of the first wave of COVID deaths and lockdowns in the United States\u2014we could have seen a wide vaccine rollout, leading to rapid herd immunity, nipping the pandemic in the bud.<\/p>\n<p>But that path would have been possible only in a free society.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we have the FDA, backed by government force, dictating medical policy and drawing out the trial process for nearly a year, while death and economic destruction reign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/jthompson\/the-bitter-tiers-of-mutant-england\/\">James Thompson writes for Unz.com<\/a>: &#8220;the Moderna vaccine was available in January and could have been deployed from 24 February onwards. 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