Catching Up on Recent Events
Thoughts on the FDA Oustings, Hantavirus
Been busy with birthday-related shenanigans, and I unfortunately missed some critical news. Thanks everyone for the well-wishes. Now back to regular programming!
Marty “There is no Long COVID, there is only Long Anxiety” Makary, endorsed by liberal public health influencers like Ashish Jha and Leana Wen, resigned from the role of FDA Commissioner via text message. What finally brought this about was his resistance to re-legalizing fruit flavored vapes, which he approved as his final act. According to reporting by Politico, his insistence on bringing back Vinay Prasad was also a significant contributor to Makary’s fall from grace. It’s darkly funny for Makary to pretend he ever cared about the health of children, considering how and why he was selected to serve as FDA Commissioner:
Marty Makary was rewarded with the role of FDA Commissioner solely because of his COVID-19 disinformation, especially when it came to children. Actively downplaying the virus at every term and its potential for serious harm, Makary & his handpicked goons Vinay Prasad & Tracy Beth Hoeg would even go on to mock the people disabled by his favorite SARS virus, claiming they merely had “Long Anxiety” on FOX News. Long COVID is now the leading chronic illness in children, with no treatment or cure. Makary has contributed a great deal more harm to the health of America’s children than flavored vapes ever could, as Long COVID is now the leading chronic illness in children. Oh my:
Makary has no shame in his many failings.
Vinay Prasad, Hanta-Thought Police Officer
Hantavirus has been in the news a great deal as of late. There’s a great deal of confusion going around, and it’s hard to know what to think and who to trust; this is part of why I started the Pandemic Accountability Index: to produce a public resource of accurate and reliable information about pandemics. The International Hantavirus Society put out a statement that the risk of a pandemic is relatively low, so that’s reassuring. Hot off the heels of a historically humiliating tenure as the Food & Drug Administration’s Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation & Review, Vinay Prasad is back to his old embarrassing self on Substack, screeching and howling that he knows better! Frankly, he thinks it’s illegal that you’re thinking at all about hantavirus! The media is out to get you! You can only trust Prasad!
Even worse, Senator Ron Johnson forced the Food & Drug Administration to release the report Vinay Prasad claimed in an intentionally leaked e-mail rant that the COVID-19 vaccines killed children. The FDA found, in fact, that the vaccines killed zero children. So why should anyone give a damn what Prasad has to say about anything in medicine or science? This should be grounds for Prasad losing his medical license, being terminated from UCSF & publicly condemned, and forced to write a 5,000-word apology to his paying Substack subscribers.
How embarrassing for the University of California San Francisco and Sensible Medicine to welcome Prasad back with open arms after making an ass of himself on the public stage, only to immediately revert to spreading medical disinformation on social media. In his new Hantavirus rant, the oncologist gets basic facts wrong and completely misses the forest for the trees. Prasad has a profit motive to engage in this chicanery and will never admit error, making him anything but “Sensible.” It goes to show that Prasad’s priority is promoting himself, and he sees the constant stream of negative headlines from his tenure at the FDA as an asset, not an indictment.
Tracy’s Gone, and I’ve Waited So Long
As I was first drafting this, former PAI celebrity Tracy Beth Hoeg was fired from the Food & Drug Administration, as the short-lived Director of the Centers for Drug Evaluation and Research. Good riddance. This is not a reasonable person. This is a mercenary academic who, just like Kevin Bass and Allison Krug before her, is being disposed of after serving her purpose to sabotage the COVID-19 pandemic response.
With Makary, Prasad, and Hoeg all gone from the FDA - lacking any actual experience and solely being rewarded for spreading harmful disinformation about COVID-19 - it is now undeniable that depraved social media trolls are not qualified to run federal agencies. They saw Andrew Wakefield as a template to follow, and now that they are all shamefully ousted from the Trump Administration, their anti-vaccine Twitter fans are now claiming that they’re just like Wakefield - victims of a Big Pharma conspiracy!
This is true, but not in the way they think. Wakefield exploited children to produce fraudulent data and promote himself. After becoming persona-non-grata in Britain, he fled to the United States and promoted himself as a hero standing up for children’s health to cash in. There was no number of sick and suffering, dead and disabled children that was too much for Makary, Prasad, and Hoeg when it came to exploiting COVID-19. That is all they should be known as: Wakefielders.
Congratulations! Your PODCAST JAY Has Evolved into LOCKDOWN JAY!
The wildly inappropriate dual director of both the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, economist Jay “Podcast Jay” Bhattacharya, has evolved into “Lockdown Jay.” Travelers on a cruise ship which recently saw a horrific outbreak of hantavirus are being placed under strict quarantine in government facilities against their will! What the Jay Bhattacharya of 2020 would have claimed is that this is a gross violation of their civil liberties, and that they should be encouraged to spread the virus for “herd immunity,” is a measure he is now personally signing off on. That’s because he always knew that lockdowns work:
Jay Bhattacharya has quietly admitted that the Great Barrington Declaration, in all its bluster, was a complete farce. After seeing what happened to his buddies screwing up at the FDA, Podcast Jay did an Individual Risk Assessment, followed by a Cost-Benefit Analysis, and realized he couldn’t risk his lucrative podcasting career. I would even go so far as to guess that Trump’s White House pressured him to take extreme measures before the Midterm elections.
In good news, a high school near the NIH campus has disinvited Podcast Jay from giving a commencement address. This is a necessary first step in dismissing the pestilence cheerleader from polite society and hats off to the parents for speaking up. Now if only universities & mainstream media outlets could also stop bringing this quack on as a legitimacy voice worth hearing, we could start making progress!
Odds are this latest Hantavirus outbreak will fizzle out on its own. If and when that happens, we cannot let cranks and pundits alike insist that this is proof that Jay Bhattacharya was right about COVID-19. In reality he got everything wrong because his priority was building his personal brand, no matter how many Americans he got killed and disabled in the process.
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