There have been too many instances that caused me to believe (even before COVID) that the FDA does not have our backs! Many of those involved the food products and additives they approved. Big Pharma is very powerful. I didn't realize how much until my husband and I were chilling in the park one day...in the car, listening to a broadcast by Dr. Gary Null, PHD. He spoke about how doctors are influenced to prescribe (and in some cases over prescribe) drugs. He mentioned the incentives that are given and how powerful these big drug companies are. That was many years ago before I became aware of the term Big Pharma.
Any studies being paid for by the pharmaceutical companies are automatically suspect IMO.
@Lethe200 The vaccines work for some but apparently from the number of breakthrough cases being reported, they are not protecting everyone from COVID. Do they protect against severe symptoms and hospitalization, probably most of the time but again, not always.
My ex-DIL, honorary daughter (HD) and mother of two of my grandchildren, got COVID a couple of months ago. She didn't have to be hospitalized, nor was she severely ill. She thought she had a cold but found out it was COVID because she was notified by the school, where she's an administrator, that she had been exposed there. She quarantined herself in her room and my grandchildren did not get it. Shortly after COVID broke, her mother got infected. She too was never hospitalized and was nearly asymptomatic.
My son reposted a Tik Tok video of Dr. Fauci saying one of the best things to do is take good care of yourself, eat properly, exercise, take your vitamins (sic). I would suspect it might be fake except for I saw him say the same thing when he was being interviewed on a news broadcast last year. The question we had was...why didn't he say this before touting the vaccine? My HD told me that the nurse advised her to take vitamin D and zinc when telling her how to manage her COVID infection. So far she has not suffered any adverse effects nor has her mother. I mentioned that my current DIL's sister who has some strange illness where allergies to all types of things could happen at anytime, was advised not to be vaccinated. She got COVID but her hospital stay was only two days, no ventilator needed.
@Mike "It makes me wonder how vaccine if any at all was in the injections of those who died!!!!!"
I wondered the same thing. Or if there was something wrong with the batch that N.J. received but different parts of the state may not have gotten the same batches.