On 24/10/2022 12:56, podinski wrote:
re: mRNA developments
One really shouldn't be surprised by these dismal achievements to " hack
the body" and " under the skin surveillance"
Was/is mRNA a scientific achievement or a political measure, bypassing
already/anyway rather weak (read: corrupt) approval procedures of medicine?
Anyone saw or read Dopesick? -- "Double the dose" sounds an awful lot
like "booster campaigns".
Here's a Cambridge University science outreach programme writing in 2018:
"...There is still a lot of work to be done before mRNA vaccines can
become standard treatments, in the meantime, we need a better
understanding of their potential side effects, and more evidence of
their long term efficacy..".
https://www.phgfoundation.org/briefing/rna-vaccines
How do you build "long term evidence" in less than three years? Is the
scientific breakthrough a time machine?
Here's Adam Fejerskov's angle on paradigmatic changes, in:
'The Global Lab: Inequality, Technology, and the New Experimental
Movement', Oxford University Press 2022
https://www.diis.dk/en/experts/adam-moe-fejerskov
Page 2:
"...Throughout the book, we will meet at least four main protagonists,
together making up the core of the movement: philanthropists,
economists, pharmas, and humanitarians. Private foundations such as the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation experiment with new technologies and
radical change as they test innovative toilets or condoms or attempt to
alter social norms in poor communities, basing their actions on what
they see as objective models of change emerging from experiments,
reducing the messy real world to formulae. Pharmaceutical companies have
moved their experiments with new drugs to ‘emerging markets’ that
provide abundant human subjects ready to partake in clinical trials to
overcome diseases for which they often cannot afford treatment, pushing
both experimental methodologies and stabilizing experimental practices
as everyday care. The randomista economists likewise conduct randomized
controlled trials and similar methodologies brought in from the natural
sciences to experiment with solutions for social problems, driven by
similar scientific desires of reducing complex realities to a set of
logical causal chains. Finally, humanitarian actors, including private
charities and United Nations (UN) organizations, pursue what they see as
radical and innovative approaches to saving lives in disasters and
emergencies through new technologies, from testing cargo drones and big
data, to the registration and ordering of refugees through biometric
data, iris scans, and blockchains- this is an introduction of emerging
technologies that essentially functions as experimentation...".
The book was written before and during the pandemic, where of course
"the lab" grew much bigger and the number of experimental subjects is
now rather large:
"...68% of the world population has received at least one dose of a
COVID-19 vaccine. 12.76 billion doses have been administered globally,
and 3.26 million are now administered each day.
22.7% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose...".
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
As such as we can theorise that we are now all colonial subjects -
whoever, wherever - and that in fact pharma-capital now primarily
experiments on subjects in the home countries, such as the Pfizer-styled
argument about vaccine apartheid entails: testing and trying was tested
and tried on subjects in poor countries, now testing and trying is
universal and it has become understood and perceived to be a privilege
to be allowed to donate your body to clinical experiments.
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