Many Americans remember a time when Senator Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency on a platform of “hope and change.” It looks like the left is still trying to sell the vague “hope” as a cheap replacement for real solutions to the problems Americans face, only this time they are doing so under the guise of science. During a hearing with former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio asked a simple question. He asked, “When the government told us that the vaccinated couldn’t transmit [COVID], was that a lie or is it a guess?” Dr. Birx responded, “I think it was hope that the vaccine would work in that way.”
Doesn’t that expertly summarize the entire medical community’s response to COVID? For more than two years, high-paid government officials told us all to “trust the science” and do whatever the scientists said, even though they themselves were operating on “hope” rather than actual scientific data. When some people decided to make their own choices rather than simply toeing the line, mandates were imposed to force compliance. That never should have happened in a land claiming to value individual liberty like America.
Yet, I want to be clear that I don’t necessarily fault scientists for not having 100 percent certainty of the efficacy of the COVID vaccines. I have no doubt that they were under a tremendous amount of pressure to get something on the market as soon as possible. However, where I do lay blame is at the feet of scientists like Dr. Birx. The fact is they acted like they were certain about the vaccine’s efficacy even though they weren’t. They lied to us. In order to boost sales and compliance, they pretended that they had a miracle cure. Only now are they willing to admit that their products were sold on the basis of hope, not science. When the sales tactics failed, the mandates began, and the people are still being hurt by those mandates today. Members of our Armed Forces have been actively discriminated against on the basis of COVID vaccine status, and all in the name of “hope.” Maybe we should trust real science, but I do not trust the hope of scientists.
