Update From Ron New Day Record Covid 19 Battle

When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent.

Scientists emphasize that obtaining accurate COVID-19 data, particularly in African countries with patchy surveillance, is extremely difficult, and warn that declining coronavirus trends could easily be reversed.

But there is something "mysterious" going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. "Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better," she said.

Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as "one of the least affected regions in the world" in its weekly pandemic reports.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-scientists-mystified-wary-africa-covid.html

FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/

Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that their request should be top priority, and that the FDA should release all the material no later than March 3, 2022.

“This 108-day period is the same amount of time it took the FDA to review the responsive documents for the far more intricate task of licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine,” wrote Aaron Siri of Siri & Glimstad in New York and John Howie of Howie Law in Dallas in court papers.

 

“The entire purpose of the FOIA is to assure government transparency,” they continued. “It is difficult to imagine a greater need for transparency than immediate disclosure of the documents relied upon by the FDA to license a product that is now being mandated to over 100 million Americans under penalty of losing their careers, their income, their military service status, and far worse.”

Trust issues deepen as yet another FDA commissioner joins the pharmaceutical industry

Pharma-giant Pfizer announced on June 28 that the former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb would be joining its board of directors. The move fell in line with a troubling pattern: After their tenure at the FDA, commissioners tend to go on to advise private companies in the pharmaceutical industry.

In fact, 9 out of the last 10 FDA commissioners—representing nearly four decades of agency leadership—have gone on to work for pharmaceutical companies. The lone exception, David Kessler, joined the ranks in academia before eventually settling in his current position as chair of the board of directors at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit nutritional science advocacy group.

https://qz.com/1656529/yet-another-fda-commissioner-joins-the-pharmaceutical-industry/

On its own, Gottlieb’s move from FDA commissioner to Pfizer board member isn’t necessarily a problem for the FDA. There’s nothing illegal about the move, Kessler told Quartz in an interview.

 

However, when it happens again and again—as it has for the past 38 years—it raises the specter of conflict of interest. The perception of a so-called “revolving door”—a chummy agreement between big drug companies and the regulators who approve their products for sale—undermines trust in the FDA.

“[The American people]believe that the FDA is making their decisions in their interest and no one else’s,” Kessler told Quartz.

In addition to the issues arising from the agency’s pharmaceutical ties, Kessler said he also worries about the FDA’s politicization, which could be viewed as a threat to its ability to base decisions on independent, scientific analysis.

In all seriousness, let’s define a word or seek it’s known definition.

When governments, in an electoral system that involves the given country’s public... when said governments & private monies or corporations collude with one another, either openly or in secret, against the will of the people... when they do this for one another’s benefit, against or contrary to the benefit of the public...this scenario has a name.

Facsism.

When they do the same... but don’t use the little bits of colored and numbered paper (’money’) and associated ledgers, they call it: communism.

On China’s ’board of directors’ (the NPC), there is apparently now over 100 billionaires.

It’s become so bad that one can’t tell the difference anymore...

I tend to think that it can all be loosely labelled/collated under the term  'organized crime'.

Teo...is it your assertion that a company engaged in pharmaceuticals should only appoint plumbers or audio cable manufacturers to their board? We wouldnt want anyone on a corporate board to have any knowledge of the industry would we? That would be the equivalent of putting someone who has filed bankruptcy multiple times in charge of your financial future...oh wait...

I’d ask you to not put words in my mouth and then come off as sneery and dismissive based on your projected self assessment of me.

That’s a tactic to use emotions to help a point be dismissed by the self and any others who might be looking in..

It’s disingenuous and I’m calling you out on it. I don’t have a solution but neither do you.

It could be fair to say..the current scenario can be seen as an an abject failure - when it comes to the ideals of democracy and rule of law as a constitutional pairing.

There are hundreds, literal hundreds of far more damning points and reports from accredited and reliable news sources that can be brought to bear on the discussion.

This probably would not do much good, as this is entrenched warfare (these sorts of threads.)

So I’ll step away from this thread, not in some holier than thou kind of mindset, but knowing it was probably not wise to get involved in the first place.

The desire to get involved (probably for some of us), is tied to knowing that we are coming to a point, in this world.. where there is precious little space or room (if any) left for the wise and thinking to step away from the given ugly fracas of ’psychopathology as rulership’ being the norm in most countries of this world.

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As to your point of what to do, well... other countries have strong laws against the scenario of norm for the  the CDC, FDA, FTC, etc....where the public servants cannot be party to involvement in for-profit corporations, either before or after their tenure at the given government office.

These governments do this, order to deal with the issue of collusion and crime being a problem in such scenarios where there are no controls or limits of such, on the given government department heads.

Yet they get things done just fine.

In most cases, with less actual recorded RICO-ish problems, by a notable amount. Usually with more untainted benefit to the public.