On Friday The Conservative Review posted an article about mandatory Covid vaccine shots.

The article reports:

Some of you might have jumped with elation on Tuesday after hearing the news that the FDA had de-authorized the original series of COVID shots. What the agency is really doing, however, is reloading so it can enshrine the shots into the permanent immunization schedule and mix them with an ever-growing list of respiratory viral vaccines they are rolling out over the coming months. Now is the time for Congress to step on the gas pedal in opposing these shots, not tabling the issue as if it’s over.

The FDA and CDC had a problem. There was no way to continue marketing the shots any longer as an imminent and urgent need for an ongoing pandemic. After all, even the president has said the pandemic is over. Were they to continue packaging the shots as a continual series for protection against the pandemic, they’d be left with fewer than 1% of the public getting them. So rather than simply canceling them, as Switzerland and other countries are doing, the FDA pulled a bait-and-switch. Officials de-authorized the original series of shots to signal the pandemic is over. But now they have established a system that will allow them to enshrine the newer bivalent shot or some future version, perhaps mixed with flu and RSV, as an annual single shot.

Why is this so significant? With the public already groomed into thinking they need an annual flu shot, officials now hope to treat COVID like the flu shot.

The article notes:

Indeed, the FDA’s announcement was designed to signal to Republicans that they can tell their base the issue is over, when in fact it’s just beginning. For example, given that Congress and the president have terminated the public health emergency, why did HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announce last week an extension of the PREP Act liability waivers for all COVID-related products all the way through the end of 2024? Why is there such a need to continue suspending the Seventh Amendment’s guarantee of a jury trial by absolving Pfizer and Moderna of all liability?

Clearly, they are not done. Which is why Republicans must use reauthorization bills to rectify the dozen or so atrocities committed against the people using pandemic authority.

There are still a lot of questions about the vaccine and about boosters. I personally know someone who developed Bell’s Palsy after a booster. Her doctor advised her not to get any more boosters. I suspect she is not the only one who reacted to the shot that way. If nothing else, the continuing liability waivers are a concern–if the vaccine is totally safe, why do we need the waivers?