As we’ve noted in these pages before, the CDC is totally fine to use the vaunted and massive VAERS database when they want to prove something in a ridiculous MMWR paper - but they failed to live up to their OWN requirements to run data analysis on VAERS - by their own admission!
To be fair, the CDC is a vaccine promotion PR organization. Their job, at least when it comes to vaccines, whether we choose to accept it or not, is to promote their use. Now, if one assumes, or believes, or subscribes to the view, that vaccines are, in fact, generally "safe and effective," then this mission almost makes sense! (The "safe and effective" part is supposed to be supplied by another agency, but that might be a separate post.) In any event, the CDC did what I would expect them to do, either ignore negative data in VAERS, or claim to have been monitoring it, but not do so. Call it what you like! That so many people are just now realizing that this is a feature (not bug), in how these authorities function is surprising, at least to me.
this is either egregious dereliction of duty or and outright lie in FOIA response.
they either did not do the analysis because they knew what they’d find if they did
or
they did do the analysis and are hiding it because of what it showed and the fact that they could never justify inaction in the face of it.
these agencies are long past their sell by dates.
a false sense of security is worse than no security at all.
it's time this was all made open source, accessible and auditable.
That's not negligence. Negligence implies a lack of intent and they certainly intended to not perform that analysis.
To be fair, the CDC is a vaccine promotion PR organization. Their job, at least when it comes to vaccines, whether we choose to accept it or not, is to promote their use. Now, if one assumes, or believes, or subscribes to the view, that vaccines are, in fact, generally "safe and effective," then this mission almost makes sense! (The "safe and effective" part is supposed to be supplied by another agency, but that might be a separate post.) In any event, the CDC did what I would expect them to do, either ignore negative data in VAERS, or claim to have been monitoring it, but not do so. Call it what you like! That so many people are just now realizing that this is a feature (not bug), in how these authorities function is surprising, at least to me.
This may be the wedge to crack open the fraud across agencies
“Public servants.”