From the NY Post:
Cuomo blames drug companies, President Trump for speedy COVID-19 vaccines
Gov. Andrew Cuomo actually blamed President Trump and drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna for being so fast in coming up with coronavirus vaccines that show signs they may be very effective in ending the pandemic.
Cuomo accused Trump of stroking his own ego and the drug companies of prioritizing their wallets ahead of public health as the chief reasons behind accelerated coronavirus vaccine trials and results, despite the governor’s own attempts to control the vaccine’s anticipated distribution in New York until he gives it the all-clear.
“Why is it moving so fast? Two reasons: money and ego. The first drug company that has the vaccine, that is big money,” Cuomo argued on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning radio show Tuesday.
The message: don’t trust the vaccine because Trump.
Cuomo is actively blocking the vaccine for use in New York until he’s satisfied it’s safe.
Cuomo blasted President Trump’s vaccine plan Monday morning as “flawed” and went so far as to declare: “We can’t let this vaccination plan go forward the way that Trump and his administration is designing it.”
Cuomo said the vaccine rollout plan needed to be stopped until his old friend President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, otherwise it will cause “damage.”
Biden’s advisors have called for massive lockdowns.
It started wits “15 days to slow the spread,” which turned into “until we have a vaccine,” which has morphed into “you can’t trust the vaccine, we need more lockdowns.”
Just yesterday I posted how the side that said “test, test, test,” is now saying “you can’t trust a negative test result.”
They are moving the goalposts outside the stadium in an attempt to maintain power.
Mark my words, you will see “the vaccine is only 90% effective so we need lockdowns and masks to save the lives of the 10% it’s not effective in – which is unpredictable so just assume everyone is susceptible to the virus.”
If this was about saving lives, they would be cheering on a vaccine. They are attacking it or ignoring it because they don’t want to give up the power the fear of the virus has given them.
Just watch… we’ll get “immunity passports.”
It’ll start with a little laser-printed vaccination receipt, then people will need that for any sort of in-person activity, so fakes will appear, so we’ll get a difficult-to-forge certificate that must be presented to enter a store, ride a bus or an Uber, etc., and that (in the interest of preventing forgeries) will be checked against the WHO’s list of vaccinated individuals every time it’s presented.
Sounds Beastly, eh?
You already need a real ID or passport to fly, that is no different.
Yeah, but only to fly. You don’t need ID to shop for groceries, ride in a taxi, etc.
Many of us manage to avoid flying for years at a time, but do a lot of other things for which “immunity passports” would likely be required. Add in the “check against central database when used” feature, and it gets very difficult to avoid the benevolent gaze of Big Brother.
… Watch also for an emergency measure to abolish nasty disease-ridden cash in favor of strictly electronic transactions, which may just happen to be trackable (and your next-generation, disease-free, contactless payment token might itself be trackable whether you’re using it or not, unless you keep it in a Faraday wallet).
My point is it is that real id is one of the many small inconsequential steps in the continuing trends of papers please.
Pretty soon using cash will be more unusual than not and therefore more suspicious.
And suddenly the Left has become anti-vax.
They were always anti-vax. The biggest anti-vaxers are the organic fetishist Lefties.
The “party of science” attracts a lot of fuck-wits and dip-shits why believe in crystal healing and ancient folk medicine from an Eastern “Eat, Pray, Love” destination country.
They are truly insane, if they don’t realize how transparently ridiculous their argument is.
But they know you’ll comply, because you always comply rather than risk arrest, losing your career and friends, etc…
Petty tyrants need to petty tyrant.
Reminds me of the CS Lewis quote:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
We heard a lot of that during and right after the election, with all the talking heads discussing the results and marveling at red-state voters “voting against their best interests.” The analysts from NYC presume to know what’s best for farmers in Iowa, will do everything in their power to make sure they get it, and will never stop because it’s for the farmers’ own good.
They torment red-state voters with the blessings of their consciences.
Personally, I think the folks that vote Democrat are voting against their best interests, but I keep that to myself. I do not write letters to the editor, post things on Facebook, or tweet that opinion. It does not become a basis for discriminating against liberals.
And, I can accept that folks on the left side of the political aisle think I am voting against my best interest. They have their own personal view of what is important in an elected official. Priorities differ across the political aisle.
The big difference between the average conservative and liberal when it comes to “voting against their best interest” is how that sentiment is used. One side uses it to dismiss and diminish those that disagree with their priorities. Therein lies the problem.
Agreed on all points. I also think people “vote against their best interests” when they vote Democrat, but my reaction is to shrug and say, “Hey, if they want to decrease their quality of life, who am I to judge?”
Unfortunately, when a Leftist learns I vote conservative (not always Republican), their reaction is NOTHING like mine. Whereas I take a “your choice, not my business” approach, they make my choice their business and seek to actively silence, shame, humiliate, doxx, unperson, and sometimes even physically attack me.
All over a difference of opinion.
Such a sad state of affairs….
Spot on. Just what I was saying the other day. Only 90% effective? Then we clearly must keep the lockdowns going. Remember, if EVEN ONE LIFE is saved, then it’s worth it. How much dollar value can you put on a life, etc, etc. Since we had to go to lockdowns save less than 1% of the people who get sick, because “even one death is too many!”, then how can we ethically say that fewer deaths is okay? If we HAVE to lock the country down over 200,000 deaths, then we must lock the country down over 20,000 as well, or even 2,000. How can we tell the victims “sorry, your life alone wasn’t worth saving”, since according to the left every single life is worth all the money in the world and more.So by this same logic, we’re going to have to go back on lockdown every time there is a flu season as well. Masks will probably be permanently required from now on,
Just last week the well known bastion of trump loving conservative thought named NPR ran a story that said there was zero interference from the administration in developing the vaccine.
Hey you dont want to take it because you dont trust a rush job, that I understand, but claiming it is dangerous because it was developed under trump and that it will somehow become safe under biden is a real head scratcher.
After reading through the article and comments, my only reaction is “if you remain in NY state after all that has happened, you deserve what you get.”