Maybe you’ve noticed that the best place to get the latest public health information is on the earnings calls of pharmaceutical companies.

On Friday, business news channel CNBC reported that the Centers for Disease Control “expects” new COVID boosters from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax to be available to the public in mid-September.

These have not yet been approved, as required, by the FDA and CDC. An “independent panel of advisers” to the CDC meets on September 12 to “vote” on a “recommendation.”

You can imagine the ‘rigor’ of that approval process after the president of the United States told reporters on Friday that he has already approved a funding request for this new vaccine that “is necessary, that works,” and further, that it is “tentatively recommended that everybody get it, no matter whether they got it before or not.”

Stanford professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had this question, which he posted on X (formerly Twitter): “How does the president know that the Covid vaccine ‘works’ and that everybody needs it, whatever their immune status? Is there a secret randomized trial somewhere that only he and the FDA know about to prove this point?”

Here’s another good question, posted by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson after the CDC closed its vaccine safety reporting system, V-Safe, the “after vaccine health checker,” to new reports of “symptoms or problems following your COVID-19 vaccination.” As of June 30, 2023, the CDC doesn’t want to hear about it. “What could possibly explain shutting down this vaccine safety reporting system?” Sen. Johnson asked. “Is the CDC seeing something they don’t want the rest of us to see? The CDC’s brazen lack of transparency is alarming. What are they hiding?”

We may not know what they’re hiding, but we certainly know what they’re selling, and we know to whom they’re selling it: the taxpayers. When Biden said he “signed off” on the funding request, that means his administration is seeking another massive transfer of your money to pharma companies for products that are, to be polite, questionable.

In many local jurisdictions, including Los Angeles County, the CDC’s “recommendations” are not mere suggestions. They are transformed into unconstitutional mandates.

It’s a “perfect shell game,” wrote attorney Julie Hamill, who filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Alliance of Los Angeles County Parents over L.A. County’s threat to implement another mask mandate, imposed on powerless schoolchildren without credible evidence of necessity or efficacy. A court dismissed the Alliance’s challenge to the county’s “arbitrary and capricious health mandates.”

“Defendants say ‘this is per se reasonable because we’re relying on CDC guidance,’” Hamill wrote in an online post. “Then when you challenge CDC guidance, defendants (the government) say, ‘You can’t challenge the guidance, because the guidance isn’t binding on anyone.’”

Hamill has said she will appeal that dismissal when the case concludes. The lawsuit is also challenging the county health department’s decision to shut down public commenting on its social media sites.

There’s a running theme here. The government does not want to be questioned. It issues alarming statements to achieve its goals, and then evades public accountability for its actions.

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You’ve experienced the effect of the daily drumbeat of COVID death statistics churned out by the L.A. County Public Health Department. Would you like to know how the government came up with those?

In the L.A. Alliance lawsuit, Hamill asked county public health director Barbara Ferrer, under oath, how her office determines whether deaths were “from or with” the COVID virus. “Would your office review medical examiner records and death certificates to determine the death count?” Hamill asked.

“I’m going to instruct you not to answer,” the county’s lawyer, Kent Raygor, told Ferrer.

Hamill was asking questions about a topic discussed by the public in the comments on the county’s social media accounts, the possibility that the COVID death counts were overstated.

“It’s fairly complex algorithm,” Ferrer said of death count calculations.

This opaque, wizard-behind-the-curtain governance must stop. Federal public health officials must be accountable for their life-altering, freedom-robbing “recommendations.” We need televised public hearings at which officials answer questions directly posed by scientists such as Bhattacharya who were censored and silenced, and right about everything.

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