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Re: Today's vaccine update

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Byker wrote:
> "Eric@"  wrote in message news:rqm458$sp3$1@dont-email.me...
>>
>> "OTTAWA -- Canada’s first vaccinations against COVID-19 could begin
>> happening as early as next week, pending Health Canada approval.
>>
>> Canada will be receiving an initial batch of up to 249,000 doses of 
>> Pfizer’s
>> COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December, with the first shipment
>>  expected next week."
>> https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coronavirus/2020/12/7/1_5220229.html
> 
> Wait until the first few thousands go first, as expedient guinea pigs:
> 
> "In the 1950s, one of the first polio vaccines to hit the market was
> administered to over 200,000 children in the mid-United States.
> 
> "The defective vaccine contained an active virus, leaving 200 kids 
> paralyzed
> and 10 dead.
> 
> "The infamous Cutter Incident is a moment in the history of science that
> many might like to forget. But according to Meredith Wadman, author of The
> Vaccine Race, it's these very stories that highlight how important it is to
> remember the devastating diseases that have haunted humanity — and how far
> we've come toward getting rid of them.
> 
> "'[The Vaccine Race] really recovers stories we need to recover,'" Wadman
> told host Stephen Quinn on CBC's The Early Edition.
> 
> A controversial history
> 
> "Wadman's book follows the long and controversial history of 
> vaccinations in
> North America. She covers the race between scientists to produce vaccines
> for diseases such as rubella, as well as the troubling work that many
> researchers undertook following the Second World War.
> 
> "'It was standard U.S. medical practice that vulnerable populations —
> generally institutionalized groups, be they dying cancer patients, 
> premature
> babies, ... [or] orphans — were used as essentially human guinea pigs,' she
> said. 'This was done with the sign-off and the approval of the medical
> research establishment.'"
> 
> "The infamous Cutter Incident left 200 children paralyzed and 10 dead after
> the adminstration of a defective polio vaccine.
> 
> "Wadman says the tendency to give vulnerable people unreliable vaccines
> emerged from wartime rhetoric.
> 
> "'It grew out of a World War 2 mentality — an-ends-justify-the-means
> mentality — when the aim was to get medicines and vaccines to soldiers at
> the front because civilization was at stake,' she said. 'But when the war
> ended, the mentality did not.'
> 
> "Wadman says loose regulations on vaccination testing persisted until the
> 1970s."
> 
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/deadly-history-of-vaccines-highlights-how-important-they-are-says-author-1.4028036 
> 

WARNING: THE CHINK 19 VACCINE WILL SLANT YER EYES MAKE YOU WANNA CRASH 
YER OWN CAR MAKE YOU WANNA BUY MONSTER HOMES AND LEAD TO POST WAR 
SYNDROME AND SHELLSHOCK!!

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