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“People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”

"An official at the FDA put it this way: “I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don't like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement.’” "

I have heard it said that courage is the most important virtue, but sadly, it is in short supply. It is lack of courage that has brought us to where we are in the field of climate science, and the current fuel shortages and pending food shortages, all in the name of 'saving the planet'. It is lack of courage that has allowed Covid-19 to be used to cow the world into submission to lockdowns, masking, 'social distancing' (now there's an oxymoron if ever I heard one) and a mass vaccination program that has, I truly believe, only prolonged the agony. I have more respect for the physicians who have the courage to speak out publicly about the risk/benefit ratio of the vaccines and/or the efficacy of early treatment options - Doctors like Pierre Kory, who has suffered dismissal from three hospital systems and is now facing revocation of his board certification in retribution for his intransigency. Drs. Peter McCullough and Paul Marik face the same punishment and are paying the financial costs of defending their positions. If what these courageous doctors are doing is so 'dangerous', why have we not heard from the legions of people whom they have supposedly harmed? And why are the families harmed by the vaccines and lack of early treatment not given voice? The answer to that last question can be attributed to the same issue: lack of courage in mainstream media. The fact that this article is posted on Substack and not on the opinion pages of the Washington Post or New York Times is evidence of that.

As for the two quotes that I began my comments with, I hardly think that 'making it to retirement' would be worth living with the carnage that your lack of courage to speak up on the issue has wrought. (I could go on about how it is that pension systems rather than individual retirement accounts can have perverse consequences, such as fear of speaking your mind, but that is an issue for another day.)

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