Every time you turn on the news, someone inevitably talks about the acute shortage of ventilators — life-saving machines that pump air into your lungs when you can’t breathe on your own. Ventilators are the last-ditch mechanical means available to health care personnel when they’re trying to save a coronavirus victim’s life.
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Yet, hospitals are screaming they don’t have enough; there is a life-threatening, acute shortage of ventilators everywhere — and everyone wants to know why. The New York Times explains what happened: There was a plan in place 13 years ago. There was a government contract to build enough ventilators for a crisis like this. The work had begun to acquire low-cost ventilators in substantial quantities.
“And then things suddenly veered off course,” the Times says. “A multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices bought the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators.
That failure delayed the development of an affordable ventilator by at least half a decade, depriving hospitals, states and the federal government of the ability to stock up. The federal government started over with another company in 2014, whose ventilator was approved only last year and whose products have not yet been delivered.”
If this leaves you hyperventilating, you’re probably not the only one who’s had the air sucked right out of them when they learn the politics of why the U.S. doesn’t have enough ventilators now that they’re needed.
Sadly, this state of affairs is no different from the politics of any other health care topic. The truth is it doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, from sugar’s effect on your health to how vaccines are used to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies to the way the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is part and parcel in the pockets of Big Pharma, your health is run by politics.
While there are dozens of issues to address on this topic one huge political ploy player is the sugar industry. Historical documents show this industry spent decades manipulating, molding and guiding nutritional research to exonerate sugar by shifting the blame for obesity and heart disease to saturated fat. The documents also show the sugar industry buried evidence from the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to heart disease and bladder cancer.
And, to make matters worse, this industry purposely manipulated the dental industry by shifting their focus onto the need for fluoride, rather than to address the health-killing effects of sugar.
Likewise, the history of vaccine development is mired in politics involving federal agencies and world health leaders who all have fingers in the pie when it comes to financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Even mainstream media as well as medical professionals who treat you are tied to the industry. What’s worse is that, like sugar, the vaccine industry has a worldwide stage where Big Pharma produces, tests and sells its vaccines in poorer, undeveloped countries — sometimes with disastrous results.
Not to be left behind, however, the government is also in the vaccine "biz." Vaccine safety activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reported that the CDC owns more than 20 different vaccine patents and sells $4.1 billion in vaccines each year, noting that those patents create a significant undisclosed conflict of interest when it comes to the agency's involvement in vaccine safety. It is a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.
Talking about the CDC, this agency has been caught numerous times with conflicts of interest that have no place in controlling and preventing disease. Basically, the CDC is nothing but a corporate disaster center with cozy ties that go beyond obvious things like vaccines. For example, both the CDC and World Health Organization were caught buddying up with Coca-Cola as they worked together to relax recommendations on sugar consumption.
Kennedy calls the CDC a “cesspool of corruption” that refuses to identify or resolve potential conflicts of interest or to even bother to follow proper ethics in the decision-making they are involved with. The bottom line is no matter which health topic you’re talking about, there is a political process in play that usually lines the pockets of industry and costs you your life — and, as noted by the Times, literally takes your breath away while they fiddle for financial gain.
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The New York Times March 29, 2020