“Sen. Ron Johnson called out the Biden administration’s health agencies Sunday for shortcutting the usual safety reviews in a rush to give final approval to COVID-19 vaccines, including failing to account for thousands of deaths and adverse reactions among people worldwide who got the shots. In a letter to the administration’s top health officials, the Wisconsin Republican warned against the Food and Drug Administration’s pending approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected Monday. He said the fast-track decision appeared more political than scientific since it skipped the usual formal advisory committee meeting and did not fully account for the reports of deaths and disabilities suffered by people after being vaccinated.”
“‘I see no need to rush the FDA approval process for any of the three COVID-19 vaccines. Expediting the process appears to only serve the political purpose of imposing and enforcing vaccine mandates,’ Mr. Johnson wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times. Indeed, the Biden administration appeared eager to use the approval to pursue mandates. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told ‘Fox News Sunday’ that moving the Pfizer vaccine from ’emergency’ to ‘full approval’ would make mandates more appealing. ‘There are universities and businesses that have been considering putting in vaccine requirements in order to create a safer, a workplace, a learning environment,’ he said” reports The Washington Times.
Which is all good and great, but you know, it wouldn’t be RonAnon if an instance of him taking a contradictory stance weren’t immediately fucking available with a simple Google search. Observe:
Transcript from Senate Foreign Relations Committee if you don’t feel like watching:
When we hear accusations from the other side that Republicans have politicized COVID. I mean, go back to March, April, May, June of 2020, who was politicizing COVID? It is the current President and Vice President in their campaign that expressed skepticism over a Trump vaccine. So I cannot stand by and let the other side accuse Republicans of politicizing COVID. It has been your side that has done that. And you did it, and you won the campaign, you won the presidency. Congratulations. Now my point with the agencies is they have not been forthright. I listened to Jen Psaki yesterday. Well, it is all based on data. Okay, show us the data. Be transparent. There is a law on the books that says if five members of the Homeland Security Committee, which I formally chaired, sign an oversight request, the agencies “shall”, not, hey, would you kind of maybe do it, they shall turn over the information.
So Ron wants the high ground on skepticism both ways: It was wrong for Biden and Harris to be publicly skeptical of Trump’s months and months of promises of a vaccine coming just right after election day (And wow, Trump was actually was telling the truth about that when it sounded awfully like he was just making shit up because he was desperate to get reelected, like he’d have the 14th Amendment repealed) and it’s totally right for him to be questioning the full approval as being politicized now, because vaccines ain’t MAGA. Again, fuck Ron Johnson.