90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #2049

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Girls With Guns

The Democratic Party and its media allies have made a new rule: “Insurrections” are good, at least when Democrats are doing it.

Two Tennessee lawmakers were expelled from the legislature for taking bullhorns to the House floor to lead the protests of the gun control mob outside its doors. In the words of one of these lawmakers, “We occupied the House floor today,” taking over the session and preventing the legislature from continuing its normal business.

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In short, a mob of protesters was initiating violence with police officers while elected Democratic representatives carried out an extension of their protest and “occupied” the House floor in an attempt to subvert the legislative process because they weren’t going to get the result that they wanted.

What makes this different from the moronic rioters on Jan. 6? The smaller scale? The fact that the overgrown children occupying the House floor happened to be legislators? In the end, the motivation was the same. The biggest difference was that members of the state House took an active role in this outside of legislative means, which is why they were expelled.

Ah, but some mobs and occupations are acceptable now, according to the Democratic Party. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama were among those saying that the mob tactics were “peaceful” and that not allowing people to occupy the House floor whenever they feel like it is “a sign of weakness.” The hysterics reached an 11 at MSNBC, which of course chalked this up to racism.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration declared that “inaction is unacceptable” when it comes to gun control. What logically follows is that occupying the House floor is not only acceptable to oppose this “inaction” but that it is necessary and encouraged. Mobs and mob tactics are good when Democrats like the cause. What’s a little insurrection when it comes to an assault weapons ban?

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Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine for Older Adults Linked to Guillain-Barré Syndrome, But Drugmaker Says It’s ‘Safe’

People who receive Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine should be monitored for Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to the authors of a Pfizer-funded study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

People who receive Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine should be monitored for Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to the authors of a Pfizer-funded study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

The paper — one of several published Wednesday reporting interim analyses for Pfizer’s phase 3 clinical trials for the RSV vaccine — concluded the vaccine was effective in preventing RSV in adults age 60 and over “without evident safety concerns.”

But that same article also flagged Guillain-Barré syndrome as a safety concern moving forward with the vaccine.

“If RSVpreF vaccine [Pfizer’s RSV vaccine] is approved and recommended, these adverse events warrant close monitoring in future studies and with real-world data and post-marketing surveillance,” the authors of the NEJM study said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for older adults in May.

Safe and effective?

Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks its own nerves. Symptoms can range from brief weakness to paralysis.

The FDA asked Pfizer to include the condition as an “important potential risk” of the vaccine and to develop a safety study to monitor for potential cases if the shot is approved, CNBC reported.

When the FDA vaccine advisory panel met in February to review Pfizer’s data pre-publication, there was substantial disagreement about the data on safety and effectiveness, although the majority of the committee voted to recommend the vaccine for approval.

Four of 12 committee members voted that the safety data was not adequate for approval — and one abstained — because of their concerns with the Guillain-Barré cases.

Four committee members also voted the evidence of vaccine effectiveness was not adequate for approval, while seven said it was and one member abstained.

In the NEJM study, one person developed Guillain-Barré syndrome and another developed Miller Fisher syndrome, a subset of Guillain-Barré. The symptoms appeared six and seven days post-vaccination, respectively.

The person with Miller Fisher syndrome recovered. The person diagnosed with Guillain-Barré continues to suffer from loss of...