Pfizer executive’s Freudian slip has given the vaccine game away.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/pfizer-executives-freudian-slip-has-given-the-vaccine-game-away/
OKAY, so we’ve all seen the video of the Pfizer executive stumbling on her words in the EU parliament when asked whether her company’s vaccine was tested for preventing transmission of Covid-19 (
reported in TCW yesterday). Sceptics on social media focused on the obvious folly of the vaccination hubris and related curtailments of livelihood. But the lack of transmissibility testing was already known, so this was not quite the revelation that was proclaimed. The real story was in the Freudian slips.
Seven to ten years is the normal period for a new vaccine to reach the market. This process is protracted because inoculation is experimentally complicated. If the vaccine is for a contagious disease, a later part of the testing should be transmissibility, through a challenge trial (in which participants are exposed to the pathogen). Clearly this was not done with the Covid-19 vaccines, which were rushed into arms on emergency approval. Primed and frightened by propaganda, the majority of the public were willing to be injected as soon as the vaccination centre doors opened. The language was compelling – ‘safe and effective’, ‘miracle of science’, ‘save granny’, etcetera.
In the EU Covid Panel on Monday, Pfizer executive Janine Small’s incoherent answer to Dutch MEP Robert Roos began: ‘Regarding the question around did we know about stopping immunisation before it entered the market? No [laughs].’
Few seem to have noticed this apparent slip by Small. Being flustered, she may have simply used the wrong word – ‘immunisation’ rather than ‘transmission’. Arguably, she may have meant what she said.
