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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Bureaucracies Are Necessary, But Not Always Great

 In order to run a large and complex country, you need established bureaucracies to maintain the even distribution of goods and services. We are all equal at the DMV. Most of us never come into contact with the federal bureaucracy (the DMV is local government) and we have no idea how or why they make the decisions they do.

The decision to not give full approval to the mRNA vaccines is a bad one. There is a lot of logic is slow-rolling drug approvals, especially for new drugs. The recent fustercluck surrounding a new Alzheimer's drug is a good example of how the regulatory process should NOT work. But the Covid vaccines have been widely, widely used. There are no weird chemicals in them that might show up later, just a few strands of RNA to teach the immune system how to fight a novel virus.

So much of the vaccine resistance that is killing thousands of Americans every few days is because they have latched on to the "emergency use" tag that the mRNA vaccines have. If the purpose of the EUA was to get as many shots into people's arms as possible, then moving from EUA to full authorization would have the same effect. 

Of course, as soon as the FDA gives full approval, those same idiots will claim it was done under pressure from evil Demoncrats who want to put Bill Gates' computer chips into our arms.

Someone said the Confederacy "died of a theory." The New-Confederacy will "die of a stupid."

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