Shot in the Dark: Conflict, Corruption, and COVID-19

Earth has always been a stew pot of pandering, pandemonium, and every so often, pandemic.

Like an iceberg, the greatest danger of this latest pandemic lies not in what is on the surface, but that ninety percent of the truth lies beneath the waves.

That’s the part that can get really deadly — and did.

Towards the end of 2019, the world was ‘blessed’ with the appearance of COVID-19. A disease of disguised origin, a malady that killed millions while making for a select few, millions of dollars.

It birthed masks, moronic quarantine mandates from government, the rushed development of questionable vaccines, and economic devastation for many small businesses.

During the several years that it spread worldwide, it killed (as of 2023), about seven million people.

Not quite the numbers of the 1918 flu epidemic, but still rather ‘impressive’ — especially to those who lost family members who died in isolation in overcrowded hospitals, and others who suffered long term illness.

But it wasn’t only the disease that damaged human immune systems it was the rushed to market vaccines, shoveled out to the public for profits for the privileged.

Conflicts of Interest

In its report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime stated:

‘The fast pace of research and development and the urgent demand for a vaccine may create opportunities for corruption that are likely to impede public health efforts. Conflicts of interest related to the funding of the research and development of a COVID-19 vaccine is such a corruption risk.’

It further noted, ‘With the urgent global demand for vaccines, there is a risk of substandard and falsified vaccines entering a market.’

The report acknowledged the reality that risks were:

‘[Further] compounded if quality assurance measures are absent or bypassed during the emergency response, resulting in adverse health outcomes for the population and an erosion of public trust in the safety and efficacy of a vaccine.’

In 2023, the website for the Attorney General of the state of Texas revealed that:

‘Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Pfizer Inc. for unlawfully misrepresenting the effectiveness of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine, and attempting to censor public discussion of the product.

‘Pfizer engaged in false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims regarding the company’s COVID-19 vaccine in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.’

The antics of big pharmaceutical companies are nothing new, and lawsuits against them are nothing new, including huge settlements paid out, but in this case Pfizer apparently outdid itself because, according to the Texas AG:

‘Pfizer fostered a misleading impression that vaccine protection was durable and withheld from the public information that undermined its claims about the duration of protection. And, despite the fact that its clinical trial failed to measure whether the vaccine protects against transmission, Pfizer embarked on a campaign to intimidate the public into getting the vaccine as a necessary measure to protect their loved ones.’

The author of this article had the misfortune of taking the Pfizer vaccine and booster. He was rewarded with ten months of hives over fifty percent of his body, and daily hour long episodes of shortness of breath.

The ‘Stink’ of Misrepresentation

When I caught COVID-19, in spite of the ‘protection’ of the vaccine, it amounted to 36 hours of a reduced olfactory ability, and then it was over, and the sense of smell was fully restored —sufficient to perceive the stink of the Pfizer misrepresentations of the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.

I got off easy, because reports stated, ‘evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke’ were effects of the vaccines for some.

These effects were possibly under reported. A German study determined ‘data suggested that there is very significant under-reporting of suspected cases of COVID-19 vaccination side-effects.’  The report concluded, ‘It can therefore be assumed that there are probably about three million suspected cases of vaccine side-effects.’

These were not the rants and ravings of unqualified conspiracy theorists. In fact, ‘Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pushed a false “safe and effective” COVID vaccine narrative by underreporting adverse events.’

While people were getting sick or dying from the vaccines they were told were safe, the National Institute for Health was having its coffers filled during the pandemic. In a FOIA suit to uncover the details:

‘[The] lawsuit turned up records of payments totaling $710 million from private pharmaceutical companies going to the NIH, including royalties to its scientists during the pandemic as treatments were being developed and licensed.’

Why You Should Care

It’s likely that you or someone you know contracted COVID-19. You might have known someone who died from it, or from the vaccine that was supposed to prevent it.

It’s likely that you or someone you know, were vaccinated, and suffered serious side effects. Your government and its public health agencies may have, according to recent revelations, fudged the facts, and put our citizenry at risk, without properly informing them of those risks.

All the while the public suffered, a select few agencies and individuals were raking in the profits from the pharmaceutical companies who quite likely more interested in profits than public health.

In the preamble to the United States Constitution, that document that all of the politicians promise to defend, it is stated:

‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’

In the case of COVID, the more perfect union was between big pharma and big government at the expense of the ‘general welfare’ of the people of this country.

That should make you very angry.