By Georgia Earley
Another legislative bill based on anything but science. Recently bill 1036 was proudly introduced by Senator Brandon Shippy of District 9. It places a moratorium on gene therapy and supports this by presenting a single case of injury after a J & J vaccination.
I wrote him the following e-mail:
“My name is Georgia Earley. I’m a retired RN. Your proposed S1036 moratorium on human gene therapy has nothing to do with the J & J COVID vaccine that Mr. Doug Cameron had received.
For your edification the J & J vaccine is a vector vaccine, not gene therapy.
And if your moratorium is based on one bad outcome of a particular therapy, then consider this: in the United States, between 500 and 1,000 people die from anaphylaxis each year from antibiotics. Because of those known risks, would you recommend that we stop using those medications?
Another question relevant to your concerns is exactly what “caution, transparency, and rigorous over-sight in the deployment of these treatments” would you suggest that the FDA, the NIH, and the RAC employ in addition to the clinical trials and scientific research that they do currently?
This bill is a perfect example of why government officials are not qualified to make medical decisions for individuals. Those decisions should remain between one’s doctors and themselves. And bills like this show your constituents that members of legislature are likely not to be knowledgeable enough to make credible decisions about science.
If you have concerns perhaps it would be better to discuss it with those who are knowledgeable rather than to make laws that stops medical progress that could benefit millions.”
Keep up the good work, Georgia. Hopefully he listened.
I do hope he read your letter as there seems to be some confusion on his part about what a genetic therapy injection is. You’ve taken a misleading path of attacking his bill, however. Pointing to anaphylaxis from antibiotics is a far cry from the damage done by covid shots. If we had the same amount of data about antibiotics vs what’s inside, and the ramifications of Pfizer and Moderna injections, maybe we could make an informed comparison. Fact is, not enough time has passed to have that data and pharma isn’t really interested in us having it, even though the injections were labeled “safe and effective” with no objections allowed for years. As someone from the medical community, you risk coming across like a pharma-dollar recipient with an attack like that. The medical community was also not based on science during covid. It was based on fear (at best), propaganda, control, and money – full stop. The medical community (like government) does not like any criticism and will even turn on itself when science is applied. Take the Johns Hopkins study which says that more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Or the more recent study published in BMJ Quality & Safety that estimated that 795,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled by diagnostic error each year. These studies are regularly attacked by the medical community and I’m fine with having that debate, but that would require dialog and… science – which most “experts” have reduced to “trust the experts”. Problem is, the “experts” have been killing a lot of people lately. I think the intent of his bill (which was only introduced, it’s not law) was to get a handle on what we’re injecting people with and hopefully have the medical community kill fewer people. Help make the bill smarter rather than dismissing it out of hand.
Thank you Tony for sharing your thoughts.
Most Americans would agree that the credibility of any law based on misinformation should be called into question. If lawmakers propose a law in which our freedom to choose is taken away in the spirit of “protecting the people”, it’s fair and right for the people to expect them justify that law with credible reasons. The reasons given to support bill S 1036 are not.
And to put a moratorium on anyone’s ability to receive a therapy they would otherwise choose is most certainly taking away a very personal right of one’s freedom of choice. Until lawmakers provide scientific and credible reasons for taking it away, that choice should remain between an individual and their doctors.
As for COVID vaccines being a leading cause of death, well, “facts” seems to be a matter of opinion these days, again a choice.
As for medical errors, that’s a subject actually worth some attention. As a concerned citizen, which you seem to be, perhaps you can address why this happens and lead the effort to remedy it.