This is something I haven't heard anyone else mention. I posted a couple of tweets about it, but I needed more room.
We are where we are regarding the Covid vaccines, largely due to the ego of Donald Trump.
I don't believe he had nefarious plans. I also don't believe he would have attempted to mandate vaccination. He certainly didn't cause the governments of the world to disregard all caution and rush to put as many poorly tested shots into people as possible.
No. He just made that all possible. And he made it all possibly because proving his critics wrong and getting reelected was, and still is, more important to him that ensuring he didn't harm anyone. Early in the pandemic, Dr Fauci went in front of the world and said that a vaccine would take years to develop. That the process of approving vaccines it's laborious and slow. The ponderous pace of vaccine development has lead vaccines to have a reputation as being some of the safest medical interventions known to man. A safety record which has been magically conferred to brand new technology, which skipped huge parts of the standard process.
This was called “Operation Warp Speed” and it was objectively a disaster.
You might think I'm getting ahead of the data in saying the failure is objective, but I'm not.
Let's start with bio-distribution. We were told the vaccine would stay in the shoulder where it was injected. Then it was “shoulder and liver” then it was “well it goes all over but MOST of it is in the shoulder.”. The CDC has conceded at this point that it doesn't all stay in the shoulder. This would have been known if the proper testing was done.
Let's talk vaccine period of effect. We were told that mRNA is so fragile that the vaccine could not possibly remain viable in the body longer than 3 days. Most likely not even 48 hours before any undelivered mRNA would be broken down and non-functional. Now it is well known that vaccine mRNA can last for months in the body along with spike production. (Though Marc Girardot presents a compelling argument that immune privileged cells might be pumping out the constant long term vaccine spike.)
I highly recommend reading it. Honestly it might mean that the only required mistake for Operation Warp Speed to be an objective failure is that of systemic bio-distribution.
If immune privileged cells are producing spike, the body will end up under constant assault.
It also means that we have no idea what the effective dosage is from person to person. Depending on the speed of distribution, cellular uptake off LNPs and speed of production, as well as cell types doing the production, the same dose in the syringe can have drastically different volumes of spike production in vivo.
Quality control on the vaccine lots is also awful. Even if all this does is create saline equivalents, not something much worse, this is a failure made possible only by rushing the process too much. It is nearly impossible for a government to admit their own regulatory failure. On the other hand, it is relatively easy to point out failures made by drug companies in the runup to product evaluation. It simply becomes a stumbling block to their approval.
So you see, we do not even need to consider vaccine efficacy or safety to see that there is in fact a reason vaccine creation takes so long. And that length of time and number of specific tests catches many issues along the way.
But Donald Trump wanted to win an election. He was trying to overcome the impact of Covid on his position as President. And so he pushed for a rapid approval. Ultimately it failed to ensure his reelection. But early days looked very good and so his successors leaned into the vaccine and almost erased Trump's role from the collective consciousness.
But he stands front and center as a major reason we have these vaccines today. And their failure will linger on for decades to come.
I think you are right about Trump. His ego is blown up like that balloon they had in the UK. And you are wrong about safe and effective vaccines. Just read a few whistleblower books and watch vaxxed. Why do you think they got immunity from persecution. Vaccines should be treated like all other meds. See how many remain.