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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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If it doesn’t stop transmission. Then it doesn’t qualify for an EUA - right?
Definitely you can’t mandate something to “mitigate symptoms”...
Strictly speaking, when you look at the controlling statutes, the FDA CAN grant EUA for something that only mitigates symptoms.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/covid-19-the-endless-emergency
The controlling statute for granting EUAs is section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, codified in the US Code at 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb–3.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3
"mitigating symptoms" would fall within the treatment criteria for receiving an EUA.
HOWEVER, a key …
I agree with your conclusions regarding the dissolution of the FDA. As it relates to the EUA, I think the more compelling evidence for this is the active propagandistic campaign against any early treatment (ivermectin and HCQ being the most visible).
The same federal regulation you referenced regarding EUA also lists as a requirement: “that there is no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating such disease or condition;” which goes a lo…
The demonization of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine is yet another in the FDA’s lengthy list of failures to comply with its own mandates.
In a purely legalistic sense, however, the FDA has an out in the word "adequate". The same gray area that damns them on the body of evidence regarding the mRNA inoculations tends to exonerate them on Ivermectin--the simple defense is Ivermectin is not "adequate".
Still, regardless of the evidence for and against Ivermectin, without solid evidence of efficac…
Agree that their most egregious crimes are the promotion of ineffective and arguably harmful (albeit VERY profitable) treatments. Their obfuscation, suppression, and lies about safe alternative (less profitable)treatments supported and justified their primary offense. My reason for pointing it out was that the absence of alternative treatments is a prerequisite condition for EUA that many (including me) would argue was not met. Seems pretty important when you consider the lack of safety data for EUA drugs at the outset and the suppression of safety data as the “emergency” progressed.
