1976 Swine Flu Redux: Government Messed Up Then, But Don’t Worry, It’s Worse Now

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by Jeff Childers

The Great Reckoning continued last week, with the latest development being an article by the BBC’s medical editor headlined, “Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?” While the article never explicitly answered the question (they never do), the clear answer was, yes, the system is letting down people harmed by covid vaccines. Of course.

Amidst harrowing tales of devastating (but “very rare!”) vaccine injuries, the BBC reported that the UK’s vaccine compensation program, which is limited only to people who can convince doctors their injury was caused directly by the jab, and resulted in their being more than 60% disabled, has sixteen thousand pending claims — but has only paid out 180 so far.

Some injured citizens feel the UK program is somewhat arbitrary. In one example mentioned in the article, a woman was blinded in one eye, suffered profound psychological problems, and lost substantial motor coordination, but was told she wasn’t entitled to compensation since she was not over 60% disabled.

Well, she still has one eye, so.

Last year, after news broke that the UK’s program had only approved four claims in two years, the British government announced it was modernizing the office, which was previously chipping its records onto stone tablets. The result was incredible: another 76 claims were approved over the following 12-month period, an astonishing 2,000% increase.

At this modernization rate, they’ll work through the claims backlog sometime over the next 210 years, assuming the backlog doesn’t get any bigger.

Alas, we are fighting the very same battle here in the United States, in our case over the PREP Act’s embarrassing failures to compensate vaccine-injured folks. It’s a sick joke. (By coincidence, my calendar today is blocked to work on our response to the United States’ motion to dismiss our PREP Act lawsuit.)

I’ve learned a lot prosecuting our lawsuit against PREP. For one, I learned that the government’s covid program felt new, but wasn’t actually entirely new. Fifty years ago it did something very similar during the swine flu vaccine campaign of 1976. The government unleashed a coercive, fear-based advertising campaign with the goal of vaccinating 80% of Americans. Unfortunately for the government, the campaign screeched to an abrupt halt after a bunch of folks were injured by Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Famously, Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes broke the failed vaccine story, and the government’s jab program rapidly collapsed in disgrace. Wallace harshly criticized the CDC and exposed government officials who pushed the swine flu jabs while minimizing the risks. At the time, CBS’s swine flu story was hailed as courageous investigative journalism and it cemented 60 Minutes’ place in history.

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RUMBLE: CBS 60 Minutes Swine Flu With Mike Wallace (15:44).

Thousands of vaccine-injured Americans filed lawsuits against swine vaccine manufacturers (mainly Merck and Wyeth Labs, which was later acquired by Pfizer).  The U.S. Government had indemnified the vaccine makers, so taxpayers wound up footing most of the butcher’s bill, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (in 1976 dollars).

Now you see why they made sure it couldn’t happen that same way again. They needed to get to 80% jabbed without getting derailed by a few whiners and complainers, and they needed to shield reluctant vaccine makers better than in 1976. So, in 2020, I believe they intentionally planned to conceal vaccine injuries by tightly controlling the media, to avoid another 60 Minutes-style exposé. Once the media —including social media— was securely in the government’s grip, it carefully managed our cognitive ‘permission structures’ until the jabs surpassed the targeted 80% threshold.

In other words, they strangled America’s free speech to avoid an abortive covid vaccine failure like what happened to swine vaccine in 1976.

The risk they made sure to avoid was that, if people somehow discovered the mounting vaccine injuries, through Mike Wallace-style investigative journalism or even just through viral videos on social media, it would be impossible to hit that 80%. So they had to lie, confound, confuse, cheat, bribe, and coerce. They had to own the media to prevent any reporting about jab injuries. Any doctor who even suggested the possibility of injuries had to be professionally destroyed. The government had to maintain the “safe and effective” illusion as long as possible.

In the government’s view, vaccine injuries were collateral damage, unfortunate but unavoidable friction generated while speeding toward that magic 80% jab rate they wrongly thought would stop a pandemic. They never got to try it in 1976, not really, thanks to those meddling reporters.

Another extremely unfortunate byproduct of all this engineered deception was that governments could not afford to betray any expectation of vaccine injuries by increasing staffing or funding of the various vaccine injury compensation programs. Had they done so, it would have immediately exposed the lie and torpedoed the rollout.

Governments had to pretend to forget the well-known and microscopically studied lessons of 1976, and thereby pretend to forget there was any need to care for the injured.

It took a couple decades, but the 1976 debacle finally blew over. People relaxed, nobody went to jail, and the hyper-profitable vaccine industry took off like a Dragon Starship. In 2005, they quietly passed the PREP Act, sneaking it through in a defense appropriation bill, protecting both the government and the vaccine makers during 2020’s do-over of 1976.

But it will be different this time. This time, we will not let them skate past what they’ve done, like in 1976. This time, we are never ever going to quit pursuing accountability. This time, we will keep suing the PREP Act until a court finds it unconstitutional or until Congress changes the law. This time, we may enjoy the historic first of having an official leading the health agencies willing to question orthodoxy, like Robert Kennedy.

Electing Donald Trump is the first step toward real accountability for what happened during the pandemic. Vote. Nag other people into voting. Drive them to the polls if you have to. We’re in the final approach, so its time to pull out the stops. Let’s do this.

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My late Father took a Swine Flu Shot back then