According to the New York Times, Biden said at the end of July that he expected a fully approved vaccine in the early fall, which would be something like October. The FDA itself said it hoped to have the Pfizer vaccine approved by Labor Day.
Yet here we are with an approved vaccine in August. What changed? Read between the lines.
At the beginning of August, The Washington Post said that lawmakers and health experts were "pushing for quick approvals." As in, pushing the FDA. Why? Because "they argue that universities, governments and employers would feel more comfortable imposing vaccine mandates after full approvals, and predict some people would be more willing to get the shots." I'm not sure the word "willing" goes with the word "mandate" but okay.
And at that same time, in early August, the FDA put out it's own statement saying that approval might inspire more public confidence. Which looks an awful lot like those same words those lawmakers who were "pushing for quick approvals" were using. But hey, maybe we were still on target for September, or "early fall."
Then Afghanistan happened, and aside from all of the actual, on-the-ground chaos it's caused, it's also been a nightmare for the Biden administration's polling. But lo and behold, right when this calamity was at it's apex, the FDA went ahead and approved the Pfizer vaccine. Weeks ahead of schedule! It's a miracle! It probably had nothing to do with the smiling, good-news press conference Biden did that same day, when he took no questions and gave no answers on Afghanistan. He did the same type of press conference a week prior, when there was literally no Covid news, because the virus is one of Biden's best polling issues.
So pardon us if we think there was a little political chess happening behind the scenes at the FDA.
To be clear, none of this disputes the actual findings of the FDA, which could very much be on the level. But it shows how involved the slime-dripping crone-fingers of politics have mucked up everything, and by doing so, eroded the very credibility they need to operate.
The problem is that these kinds of actions undermine the public trust in everything, not just one institution. Avowed leftists look at those on the right suspiciously, not understanding that they've pushed us to isolation through the dismantling of objectivity, which has thus destroyed credibility. It's not because we don't want to trust these institutions. Heck, it would make our lives a whole lot simpler and easier and happier if we could. It's because the next time a study comes out from the CDC or NYU or CNN, all we remember is the time you betrayed us by using those once-hallowed names for a power play, to gain an advantage. We tried looking the other way for decades, but there comes a time when we've seen behind the curtain just too many times.
That suspicion you have of the right, that's the suspicion we have of the institutions you control. Don't use this knowledge to "understand" us better so that you can change your messaging. Just understand that you're not going to win us back without changing the way you do things.
