{"id":44632,"date":"2022-02-23T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44632"},"modified":"2022-02-23T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:35:00","slug":"a-constitutional-republic-will-only-stand-as-long-as-its-citizens-and-voters-are-able-to-stay-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44632","title":{"rendered":"A Constitutional Republic Will Only Stand As Long As Its Citizens And Voters Are Able To Stay Informed"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Western Journal<\/a> posted an article about the lack of transparency and misinformation coming out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the past two years or so.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being called out for not sharing the vast quantities of data it had been gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some medical experts are speculating that the reason why is the fear the data will be \u201cmisinterpreted\u201d and used as justification not to follow the agency\u2019s guidelines regarding vaccination and other matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTell the truth, present the data,\u201d said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration, The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the CDC, told the news outlet the reason much of the data has been withheld is \u201cbecause basically, at the end of the day, it\u2019s not yet ready for prime time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bureaucracy is another reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CDC<\/a> is weighed down by multiple layers of bureaucracy, including a requirement to first run information to be released through the Department Health and Human Services and the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe CDC is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization,\u201d said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s Pandemic Prevention Institute, the Times reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe steps that it takes to get something like this [covid data] released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the CDC.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In an opinion piece in\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/a> last month, Makary (Dr. Marty Makary<\/a>, a professor and researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) contended that another topic the CDC has been reluctant to address is natural immunity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor most of last year, many of us called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to release its data on reinfection rates, but the agency refused,\u201d he wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFinally last week, the CDC released data from New York and California, which demonstrated natural immunity was 2.8 times as effective in preventing hospitalization and 3.3 to 4.7 times as effective in preventing Covid infection compared with vaccination,\u201d he continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Makary further noted the National Institutes of Health<\/a> resisted acknowledging natural immunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the NIH\u2019s inaction, my Johns Hopkins colleagues and I conducted the study. We found that among 295 unvaccinated people who previously had Covid, antibodies were present in 99 percent of them up to nearly two years after infection,\u201d he wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Makary argued the failure of the CDC<\/a> to release the data sooner meant many who had previously recovered from COVID and had better immunity than those were just vaccinated needlessly lost their jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He concluded that they should be hired back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a political agenda here and a monetary agenda here. The CDC is too closely tied financially to the drug companies. There was more money in vaccines than there ever was in ivermectin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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