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 Nope, this post isn’t about the press, it’s about the federal government.

A FOIA request from The Intercept to the National Institutes of Health regarding the origins of the wuflu came back with 292 of 314 pages FULLY redacted.  As in just a date, page number and the NIAID logo were visible.  There’s about 1400 additional documents that haven’t been released.  (ht B at Middle of the Right).

So let’s combine that with another federal agency who seems to be hiding information–the CDC.  This tidbit is actually from the New York Times, who, it seems, has woken up a little bit and figured out that they are actually journalists and not propogandists (at least for this article).  Via Just the News:  

Several sources told the Times that the CDC is only publishing “a tiny fraction of the data it has collected.”

Authorities have been forced to rely on data from Israel to determine the efficacy of booster vaccines, the outlet reported.

CDC Spokeswoman Kristen Norlund told The Times that her agency has been slow to release data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” 

The agency came under fire last year for not publishing data on breakthrough COVID infections last year.

Norlund confirmed that one reason the CDC is hesitant to publish data is that the vaccines may be misinterpreted as being ineffective. Another reason she cited is that the CDC data represents about 10 percent of the U.S. population. The methodology for collecting the data has been used by the CDC for years to track influenza though.

In other words, those rednecks might actually see that, well, the vaxxes are ineffective using our own data.  And then we wouldn’t get them.  Can’t have that. 

I found this part to be particularly laughable:

 When the Delta variant caused an outbreak in Massachusetts last summer, the fact that three-quarters of those infected were vaccinated led people to mistakenly conclude that the vaccines were powerless against the virus — validating the C.D.C.’s concerns.

But that could have been avoided if the agency had educated the public from the start that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise, public health experts said.

Why is it funny and not in a ha-ha kind of way?  Because until the time, everyone was trumpeting how the vaxxes were ‘safe and effective’ and that there was no such thing as a breakthrough infection.   Because Bear Week in Provincetown blew that meme right out of the frickin’ water and the CDC had to start ‘fessing up about the whole ‘effective’ thing.  It also started the ‘pandemic of the unvaxxed’ that still exists (and is still wrong).  And masking, much more masking.

And the last agency I’ll mention is the FDA.  Who wanted 75 years to release the Pfizer study data that took them 108 days to review.  They got shut down, but then Pfizer stepped in and now the release of any information is again being slow rolled.  It seems that they are hoping that anyone who received a shot will be dead before their study data is released.  They are supposed to release 55,000 pages by May 1, 2022 at this point, but who knows what else they’ll come up with before then.  Of course, the Pfizer study whisteblower information showing that the Phase Three study was hopefully flawed is being studiously ignored even though it was published in the British Medical Journal.

Never forget that it’s the FDA who whipped up a nice little shell game by ‘approving’ covid shots that aren’t available in the United States, thus creating enough confusion that the US populace is still a very large experimental study for both Pfizer and Moderna.  People are still getting fired, including people in the military, for not submitting to be a test subject in accordance with the Nuremburg Code and the FDAs own rules regarding experimental medications.