Hi Everyone.
I’m back and Happy Holidays!
What I want to share with you this week is a Letter to the
Editor that I wrote that was just published in The Virginian Pilot on January
6, 2021. The title that they gave it was Build Trust. I was commenting on an
article that was in the paper entitled “Rare claims of vaccine injury steered
to obscure US office.”
Here’s what I wrote:
So, government officials want us to trust them as they inject
us with vaccines to stop COVID-19. However, based on the article if you suffer an injury
caused by one of these vaccines, then you may be out of luck when it comes to obtaining
compensation and support.
This obscure office is called the Countermeasures Injury
Compensation Program (CICP). Its name implies getting compensation help for vaccine injuries, but the
truth is very different.
CICP decisions are made in secret. Decisions denying claims
can’t be appealed to a judge, and you have to pay your own attorney’s fees. Fewer
than 10% of claims are paid. With the H1N1 swine flu, it awarded only 29 of 499
claimants. Its standard of proof is that drug makers can only be sued for “willful
misconduct.” Nothing is paid for pain and suffering.
There is a better option available: expand the scope of the
federal vaccine court, which permits claims to be filed within 3 years instead
of one. It pays for lawyers and witnesses and allows appeals all the way to the
Supreme Court. The vaccine court compensates 70% of the cases that come before
it and it compensates for pain and suffering.
So, if government officials want us to trust them, then they
need to make sure that people injured by the COVID-19 vaccines will be taken care of. The law
should be to direct all COVID-19 injury cases to the federal vaccine court!
Since I was limited to 250 words, this is what I would have
added: I’d suggest an ad campaign letting people know if they’re injured by the
vaccines that they’re not left to fend for themselves, that the government has
their back. This could make a huge difference in people’s attitudes about
getting injected.
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