The New York Post reports that “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plans to investigate whether their companies misrepresented the efficacy and safety of the vaccines and manipulated vaccine trial data.” Ya Think?
Texas is just the latest to join a growing number of states and nations looking into alleged fraud from Pfizer and Moderna that violated local truth in advertising law of statutes prohibiting deceptive trade practices.
On Monday, Paxton will launch an investigation into potential violations of his state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, he has revealed exclusively in The Post.
He also wants to know whether the pharmaceutical giants engaged in gain-of-function research and misled the public about it.
Though I’ve not read the relevant Texas statutes, I think we can safely say yes, there were deceptions. Lack of informed consent. Hiding known harms of which there were many. And, of course, claiming it was safe and effective when the Pfizer docs show they knew it was neither – and that will be the tail they pin on this donkey.
Pfizer may be doling out chunks of COVID profits in out-of-court settlements to avoid discovery, by which I mean ever-wider exposure of the Pfizer docs, which begs the question. New Hampshire is a serious gold digger when it comes to chasing corporate payouts for alleged wrongdoing.
Someone has to be looking at the potential profit and measuring it against the potential for political fallout.
But can they?
The Granite State’s Republican governor, ersatz presidential ponderer Chris Sununu, along with his public health apparatchik, hospitals, health care NGOs, and innumerable lesser political beings, echoed the safe and effective narrative. They aped the pandemic of the unvaccinated lie. They rejected any data suggesting masks, distancing, and lockdowns did not work. They refused to believe remote learning or mRNA injections were more dangerous to kids than covid. Opposition to the wait-and-vent death by hospital protocol was met with disdain.
They openly eschewed alternatives to the COVID-Jabs and pandered to lies about Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. The State even went out of its way to claim that if it took Federal COVID money, it could not be tied to any Federal rules or agreements attached to it.
In other words, many of the people who might want to pursue this new pot of money from Pfizer are complicit in the fraud and knee-deep in the Federal hush money to peddle that fraud.
Going from gold-digging the feds to gold-digging the Pharma Campaign Laundromat would be unseemly.
But if they did, would the State have to return the COVID money if it sued Pfizer for unfair trade practices, or, better yet, is there small print preventing them from suing because they took the money?
HT | Igor Chudov
