What's Wrong With America?

The Lantern Vol. 46

First, I must say Happy Thanksgiving and Thank God for all of His gifts. It has been a while since I have written. It is not because of a lack of subjects to speak upon, on the contrary, it is because there are so many things that need to be addressed.

Our Church is a mess, our country is spiraling downward, society is de-evolving, the whole world is acting crazy. When I think of what to write about I just want to spin in a circle and yell Auntie Em it’s a twister.

I live in a world where so many people are lying to each other. The media has taken over and much of society has been brainwashed. Truth is obscured or denied and every argument seems to be about how to redefine evil so it sounds nice. We want to redefine sexual predators, child molestors, and shop lifters just to name a few, so these creeps of society don’t feel bad about their actions and we as a society accept their actions. The ends now justify the means.

We have seen this play out over the last year with the unceasing attack on individual liberties.

So today I wanted to focus on something I thought most people could wrap their heads around.

The American desire to be successful and make money.

For the past several decades I have worked in the Advertising business. I look at my job as presenting someone's product or service in such a way that people desire it. I want to create a perception that becomes a reality.

When I took marketing many years ago they spoke about creating the better mousetrap. “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idea is people would come to you if you have the better idea. Being in marketing we see that you must show, convince, persuade people this is true, therefore advertising.

Wonderful products and ideas have been tossed aside by convincing people they were no good.

The Tucker automobile or alternating current are two good examples. Perception becomes reality and today this is more true than ever.

Over the past two years our world has experienced a culture change due to a virus.

I have seen the greatest marketing event in my lifetime. A vast effort to convince people of many viewpoints. Good products are bad, bad products are good, and it goes on and on. It is not a battle of science but of words and opinions, perspectives and arguments. Marketing at it’s best and it’s worst.

Recently though, something stood out above all others in this crazy reality. Something that has been nagging at me and it should make you ask why. We had a clear marketing winner yet they did not take their prize, they did not accept victory. Let me explain.

With the entire world under the perception that we are facing a virus that is attacking all of humanity the scientific community jumped into action. Major pharmaceutical companies set everything else aside to focus on this preeminent problem to save the day. All of the rules of drug development were redefined or tossed aside because of the perceived need. What the world faced was too important and people had to sacrifice everything including their lives to help. Humanity became a gigantic science experiment. It was a race to build the better mousetrap.

On August 23rd 2021 I read the announcement that we had a winner. Here is the except from their news release.

“Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

“The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.”

When I read this I thought Pfizer is the winner, everything will change.

Think of what happened here. You have a virus that is attacking the entire world and your company alone has the one and only approved vaccine. You not only built the better mousetrap, you have the only one that is approved to work.

What should have happened here in the land of American capitalism? First, Pfizer should have jumped into an immediate relabeling of their product under the Comirnaty name. They could have sub licensed their product all over the world.

We should have seen billboards, radio, newspaper, and television ads everywhere. Social media should have exploded about how and where to get the new product.

Accordingly, Pfizer should have petitioned for the emergency use authorization of the other vaccines to halt. Under U.S. law once you have a product that can work, everyone else should have been required to go back to the usual testing requirements. How can you ask people to be the guinea pigs when you now have an approved product?

We have a victory, and in America the victor should have claimed their trophy and their prize.

But they didn’t. Nothing happened.

Everything went on as it had been and nothing changed. Why? What was wrong with America?

In the land of opportunity you had the opportunity yet you did nothing.

After a few months, I kept reading articles that the vaccine was not really approved, yet I read the release and the statement myself. When I re-read the press release something did keep nagging at me. The FDA also approved Pfizer to continue to manufacture under the Emergency Use Authorization. I thought maybe they would tweak the formula, yet as the weeks passed something else developed, something contrary to marketing and America.

Rather than see thousands of vials of Comirnaty fly off the production line, we had reports that you just can't get the new vaccine. It is being used elsewhere, but not to worry you can get the experimental vaccine because it is the same.

This made and makes no marketing sense so what was going on? Again, what was wrong with America’s entrepreneurial system?

It was through reading countless articles that I was finally enlightened.

What if we were being lied to? What if the Pizer vaccine was not safe and effective as the FDA now said it was. I have read and watched thousands of testimonials from people who lost loved ones or suffered debilitating effects immediately after taking the Pizer vaccine. Over 80 percent of all the deaths and injuries reported on the Government's own tracking website VAERS show these events happened within two days of injection.

What if the Government lied to us and this “approval” was to remove the argument so many had made that they should not be forced to take “experimental drugs”. Not just an argument, but International Law prohibits human experimentation without free consent.

You see my brother and sisters, once Pfizer received approval for Comirnaty they no longer had the protection granted these experimental vaccines. If you receive Comirnaty and suffer these reactions, Pfizer can now be sued. If this is the case then Pfizer would not want to market the approved drug. Anything labeled under Comirnaty would be a huge liability for them if something happened. So wouldn’t it be better to just label their product under the experimental name? Just explain to people it's the same thing so just use this vaccine. It’s not worth taking the prize or being first to market when the truth comes out.

America is now used to seeing documents released decades after tragedies such as the JFK files or the World War II files. We see documents “unclassified” that were meant to hide the truth from us, a truth that the Government thought we could not handle or should not be told at the time.

I hear the pharmaceutical companies are now asking for recent virus records to be sealed for decades. What are they hiding?

We now have an approved vaccine - the only approved vaccine in the world to fight a worldwide problem. If anyone is comfortable with how this was rushed through , they should not be foolish enough to take anything that is not labeled Comirnaty. Stop all of the other experiments for now and only take the FDA approved vaccine. Isn’t that what we were waiting for? If you can’t find it or they are allowing and offering any other vaccines please stop and ask the question. What’s wrong with America?