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CORPORATE MEDIA IS FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO TRYING TO ADDRESS DESANTIS NEW COVID INVESTIGATION PANNEL AND GRAND JURY

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   December 18, 2022 - 8:50 am at 8:50 am

   ? Corporate media is finally getting around to dealing with Florida’s big news this week, which was setting up its own independent health agency and convening a criminal Grand Jury. Bloomberg ran an unintentionally hilarious op-ed yesterday headlined, “Ron DeSantis Vaccine Complaint Exploits Public Health Gaffes.”

   Gaffes! Bwahahahahaha! They’re called blood clots, morons!

   The sub-headline is even funnier. It said, “Doctors and government officials have been so focused on getting shots in arms that they’ve left an opening for self-serving politicians.”

   So … the doctors and government officials were trying too hard to help everybody! So they forgot all about … politics!

   Oh man, it hurts to laugh this hard! Please make it stop!

   I told you guys this would be a terrific political issue, how we’d get to Phase Four in my Covid Accountability plan. Bloomberg sees it, too. And they don’t like it, not one bit. Here’s how they framed the scientific opinions and vaxx-injured testimony published during Governor DeSantis’ blockbuster roundtable earlier this week:

   Despite the success of these vaccines, misleading messaging from public health experts and from the White House has created confusion that’s left fertile ground for DeSantis’s disingenuous and self-serving maneuvers.
   Fertile ground! Disingenuous! Self-serving!

   But then, trying as hard as they could to discredit DeSantis, they gave away the game. Bloomberg was forced to admit the jabs are neither safe nor effective:

   It’s well past time to talk honestly about the downsides of the Covid-19 vaccines. They don’t do much to prevent people from getting mild cases of the current variants. They don’t do much to stem community transmission. And like all pharmaceuticals, they’re not perfectly safe. Booster mandates for young people amount to safety theater (free rapid tests would do a lot more to keep college students from infecting their grandparents or professors)… At this point, most vaccinated people have been sick with Covid. They know firsthand the vaccine didn’t “prevent the virus” for them.
   NOW you tell us. But in Bloomberg’s view, EVEN WORSE THAN THAT, the crappy jabs have hurt democrats:

   Papering over or ignoring those minor problems has eroded public trust and created an opening for DeSantis to sow discord and confusion. While it’s fair to say that presidential hopeful DeSantis is proving himself a health hazard with his misleading petition, the move capitalizes on pre-existing distrust of public health, big pharma and the media on the part of many Americans.
   See that? Governor DESANTIS is the health hazard. Not the jabs. But, explained Bloomberg’s leftwing tech/politics editor, the left did go a teeny-weensy bit too far, by slightly overselling their miraculous jab juice:

   But there’s a false narrative from the left as well, which was parroted in a Politico piece about the DeSantis grand jury stunt: “Most of the medical community, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FDA and Johns Hopkins, have emphasized that the Covid vaccine is safe and effective in preventing the virus and protecting against serious symptoms.”
   You don’t say. They “emphasized” the jabs were safe and effective? “Emphasized?” That’s a polite word for it.

   The editor spent several paragraphs explaining in microscopic detail how the shots allegedly still provide “excellent” protection against “severe injury and death,” which, even if true, is NOT what they told us while they were mandating everyone to take their stupid jabs.

   It’s so funny watching the pretzel-like contortions they’re twisting into while trying to “discredit” the Governor, like this bit of remarkable, mendacious, childlike logic:

   Sandman points to some of the deceptions DeSantis uses in the petition, in which the governor claims: “The federal government, medical associations, and other experts have created an expectation that receiving a COVID-19 vaccine is an ethical or civic duty and that choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is selfish and harmful to others.”
   That’s true — people did promote the vaccine as a way to protect others and end the pandemic — but DeSantis ignores the fact that the clinical trials made this look plausible at the time.
   It “looked plausible!” But they didn’t SAY it “looked plausible” at the time, did they, little Johnny? They said, “if you take the shot, you won’t get sick.” Period. Nothing about “plausible.”

   Or how about this one, quoting DeSantis’ petition to convene a Grand Jury:

   A good example is this passage, where “prevent” seems to imply perfection rather than reduced odds: “some Floridians made the choice to receive the COVID-19 vaccine because they believed that receiving the vaccine would prevent them from spreading COVID-19 to others.”
   Oh man, they are making it way too easy. First, how could people have ever got the idea that taking the jab would protect grandma? Hmm? Second, DeSantis isn’t playing around with the definition of the word “prevent.” Bloomberg is. Let’s check:

   Oh. It means, “to keep from happening.” “To avert.”

   Haha, but NOW Bloomberg is trying to claim that “prevent” means “reduced odds.” Um, no. And disgracefully, they’re supposedly in the writing business, which includes knowing the definitions of the words you’re using in your article, morons.

   The best question is, how on Earth did this awful op-ed slide past the Covid Censors? The Great Unraveling just keeps getting better and better