It's not that Merck, Inc. employees could come and shit in a syringe, and pump it into you, and never be sued. But it's close.
Meet the men who managed to make vaccine manufacturers legally completely free from liability for any harm done by vaccines, ever. Ronaly Reagan in 1986. Evidently Reagan had his reservations, on grounds of resisting the expansion of governmental purview, but Vice president Bush, Commerce Secretary Malcom Baldridge and Dr. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, urged Mr. Reagan to sign it, as did James A. Baker, Secretary of the Treasury.
BTW, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from
the Supreme Court's ruling that this corporate protectionism was OK.
You can assume that corporate-whore crotch scum like Brett Kavanaugh
would never dissent against such a monopoly-friendly ruling.
That's right, no matter many harmful ingredients they have included or will include, no matter how they might overload infants and pregnant women and other people susceptible to adverse reactions with immunoreactive agents and toxic heavy metals the effects of which have never been studied long-term, no matter how they might step up the vaccine schedule in order to increase their bloating profits, or use those profits to influence the 'science' of vaccination side effects, no matter how much they ignore the science that does say serious side-effects occur and certain people should be red-flagged as high-risk, no matter how the actual experience of certain people contradicts the CDC's assurances of vaccine safety--you cannot, under any circumstances, sue a vaccine manufacturer. They are simply, legally, never at fault.
Now, you may disagree with me and say that, up 'til now, vaccines have been shown to be perfectly safe for the vast majority. Compelling challenges to this point of view exist, but for the sake of argument, let's agree with that. Nevertheless, no one knows if people will still be safe getting three times as many vaccines as previous generations, because it's simply never been done before. And you sure as hell cannot say that a $24-billion industry isn't ever going to be corrupted by its search for profits into offering, and then covering up, a seriously harmful vaccine schedule. That's a reckless level of naivete.
You know what happens if someone IS injured by a vaccine? There is a governmentally sponsored (and thereby taxpayer-funded) entity that hears cases and makes awards to 1 out of 3 complainants. Vaccine manufacturers themselves never pay a cent, because, in the U.S., that would be legally impossible. We pay for it, not the people who have profited from it.
When this law was drafted, there was very little money to be made in vaccines; the profit margin was horrible. In the 32 years since, they have become a cash cow. I think it's time to dump this law and make them responsible for any actual liability.
That's right, no matter many harmful ingredients they have included or will include, no matter how they might overload infants and pregnant women and other people susceptible to adverse reactions with immunoreactive agents and toxic heavy metals the effects of which have never been studied long-term, no matter how they might step up the vaccine schedule in order to increase their bloating profits, or use those profits to influence the 'science' of vaccination side effects, no matter how much they ignore the science that does say serious side-effects occur and certain people should be red-flagged as high-risk, no matter how the actual experience of certain people contradicts the CDC's assurances of vaccine safety--you cannot, under any circumstances, sue a vaccine manufacturer. They are simply, legally, never at fault.
Now, you may disagree with me and say that, up 'til now, vaccines have been shown to be perfectly safe for the vast majority. Compelling challenges to this point of view exist, but for the sake of argument, let's agree with that. Nevertheless, no one knows if people will still be safe getting three times as many vaccines as previous generations, because it's simply never been done before. And you sure as hell cannot say that a $24-billion industry isn't ever going to be corrupted by its search for profits into offering, and then covering up, a seriously harmful vaccine schedule. That's a reckless level of naivete.
You know what happens if someone IS injured by a vaccine? There is a governmentally sponsored (and thereby taxpayer-funded) entity that hears cases and makes awards to 1 out of 3 complainants. Vaccine manufacturers themselves never pay a cent, because, in the U.S., that would be legally impossible. We pay for it, not the people who have profited from it.
When this law was drafted, there was very little money to be made in vaccines; the profit margin was horrible. In the 32 years since, they have become a cash cow. I think it's time to dump this law and make them responsible for any actual liability.
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ReplyDeleteThanks.