By Lori Weintz at Brownstone dot org.

[The following is an excerpt from Lori Weintz's book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.]

They had a pandemic. They had a technology they couldn't bring safely to market, and the emergency allowed them to do it…allowed them to go through emergency use authorization, to get people on board with taking it because people were so scared of Covid. It allowed them to basically push aside all of the safeguards that should have prevented a prototype technology like this from reaching the market without demonstrating safety.

Bret Weinstein, Evolutionary biologist, August 5, 2023

Dr. David Gortler points out that, "New vaccine development has historically involved a meticulous, slow, decade-long discovery, testing, review, and approval process. In contrast to that, those established epidemiological and time-honored standards seemingly evaporated under the justification of a Public Health Emergency (PHE). That scuttling was not for a "classic" type vaccine - but instead for brand-new, mRNA "vaccines" and their LNP components. Next, the entire expedited approval/review process was condensed to less than one year." But we had been taught to trust vaccines.

We have been told from the time we were children and receiving our first shots, that vaccines are a miracle of modern medicine. A little bit of discomfort leads to lifelong protection against serious diseases such as polio and measles. Sometimes a booster shot is required, as in the case of tetanus, to maintain protection.

Most of us also knew that once you received the vaccine, or had the disease, you didn't get that illness again. For example, those who had chickenpox as children did not receive the chickenpox vaccine when it became available years later, because they already had immunity against the disease.

This is what we understood. This is what doctors are taught in medical school where they spend roughly one week on vaccines - basically learning about the childhood immunization schedule, and proper handling and administering of the vaccines. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the Florida Surgeon General, says that other medications are looked at objectively in medical school, but "with vaccines, they are treated instead as something that is inherently good or inherently benevolent…And when individuals…choose not to participate in vaccine programs [they are considered] essentially bad people. There's a value judgment that is absent from every other medication in medicine."

With Covid-19 we were told, in no uncertain terms, that vaccination was our only way out of the pandemic, that natural immunity from prior infection was insufficient protection, and that the Covid vaccines were 95% effective. "Safe and effective" was the mantra. Great news! Except it wasn't, because "95% effective" was based on obfuscation. The fact that Pfizer and the FDA wanted 75 years to release the data on the vaccine development and clinical trials is evidence of wrongdoing. It took multiple Freedom of Information Act requests, and a court order to make the data available. What it revealed is shocking.