Finally, let’s discuss one of the best, but least-well-known weapons for change: the Heisenberg Effect (that’s what I call it). To frame the conversation, we begin with this week’s exciting New York Post article headlined, ‘
A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal mandates.”
The news was the DOJ posted a new job listing seeking eight new attorneys to defend the federal government in vaccine injury cases. “The office is currently expanding to address workload created by an increase in cases filed under the Vaccine Act,” said the ad, posted by the Torts Branch of the DOJ on the government’s USAJobs website.
I wonder what makes them think there will be more vaccine cases? Haha, just kidding. A rhetorical question.
The article’s author, Miranda Devine, speculated the DOJ’s new job listing suggests that the government foresees a tsunami of vaccine lawsuits. She’s partly right, and there’s a big part that she doesn’t know about. Let me give you a little insider background.
For good reasons, I don’t usually blog about my cases, but I do occasionally make an exception. My firm is currently preparing a major case challenging the Constitutionality of the PREP Act — the federal statute that shields Pfizer and Moderna from liability for their defective vaccine products. We have already submitted FOIA’s to the federal government in preparation for that lawsuit.
The Post’s article also mentioned ICANN’s similar, recently-filed lawsuit, not coincidentally making the same legal arguments. Like our pending suit, ICANN’s also challenges the Constitutionality of the PREP Act, and seeks to strip off vaccine manufacturers’ liability shields. If we succeed, it would then allow the
real tsunami of lawsuits, comparable perhaps to the scale of the tobacco cases, or maybe even bigger than that.
ICANN’s and our theories are both generally based on the argument that the PREP Act takes Americans’ property — their right to sue for being injured by a defective product — and gives them something in exchange that is
not adequate compensation. What the government offered instead of a lawsuit is the right to file a claim with the PREP Act’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (the CICP).
Back when it was passed, the PREP Act was sold to legislators and Americans with the promise that, for vaccine-injured Americans, the CICP would be great. It would be even
easier and
faster and
more efficient than a lawsuit. Injured Americans wouldn’t even
need lawyers, they said. A crack squad of white-coated experts would
rapidly review and approve all valid claims, they said. Whereas lawsuits often take years, they said, CICP claims could be processed and paid in a few weeks. Or at most, a few months.
You can guess what
really happened.
The CICP is an
absolute failure. It’s a horrifying nightmare of bureaucratic incompetence. I would tell you it blew up on the launch pad, but the truth is there was never even a rocket to start with.
As the Post’s article explained, as of October 2023, only
six covid vaccine claims have been paid out under the CICP, despite there being
over a million VAERS reports of adverse events — each of which conceivably could be fully or partially compensable under the CICP (as the program was originally advertised). Worse, the six claims that were approved only received an average of $2,148 each. That’s almost less than a lawsuit’s filing fee. It’s about three hours of attorney time. It’s much less than what insurance companies are will pay for “nuisance value” these days.
More pointedly, $2,148 is less than one month of the cost of treatment for post-vaccine syndrome. It’s not just a joke. It’s a horrible joke.
In the history of the CICP, only 72 claims total (for all vaccines) have ever been paid. It’s an unaccountable, humanity-destroying system
designed to fail. And also not surprisingly, after all these years, and all the controversy, the CICP remains shrouded in secrecy. Who are the white-coated experts who are (not) approving compensation claims? It’s a secret!
How many experts are there? Nobody knows! How many full-time employees does the CICP department have, to process all these covid vaccine claims? It’s a mystery!
A bloody, bureaucratic mystery neatly-wrapped in a red-taped riddle.
But we are ripping the red tape off that riddle. Our FOIA was a shot across the federal government’s bow. We requested answers to
all those questions. What I expect to see, whenever we finally get them, is that the CICP is woefully, disgracefully understaffed. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has only one lawyer and a couple assistants.
They coerced hundreds of millions of Americans into taking experimental countermeasure shots and never staffed up the injury compensation program.
We expect to find conclusive evidence that the CICP is
not faster than a lawsuit. It’s not easier. It’s not more fair. It doesn’t produce better results than litigation.
And now that we’re asking these questions, the government has realized its error. They forgot to cover their tracks. They should have massively staffed-up the CICP in 2020. But they missed it.
The DOJ’s belated advertisement for 8 new lawyers is the government’s first knee-jerk response to our FOIA and ICANN’s lawsuit. They are panicking and trying to ‘fix’ the obvious problem that the CICP is a heartless, massively-understaffed joke, a sham of a pretext, a meritless idea of an agency, and definitely
not adequate compensation for taking away citizens’ right to sue vaccine manufacturers.
In other words, the government is going to try to moot our lawsuits by preemptively “fixing” all the problems. It won’t work. The system was designed to fail, and we now have twenty years of evidence to prove it.
Successful C&C calling op; Oregonians re-thinking legalization; Iceland volcano might be exploding maybe; NYC faces huge budget cuts; WSJ hops on Ukraine pig-pile; DOJ reacts to vaccine claims; more.
www.coffeeandcovid.com
Finally, NTD News ran an optimistic story yesterday headlined, “Judge Rules Teachers Can Get Jobs Back With Back Pay After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine.”
