While you wait for Fauci’s hearing to start, a reminder that when the U.S. government purchased Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, it contractually agreed to keep the PREP Act immunity in place for as long as their vaccines are administered in the United States.
What that means is that the U.S. government promised Pfizer and Moderna that it could not be sued for harms from its Covid-19 vaccines, irrespective of whether an emergency continued to exist.
But not only did our government contractually agree that Pfizer and Moderna can harm and kill Americans with impunity, it also guaranteed Pfizer and Moderna billions of dollars for this privilege.
Even worse, the U.S. government guaranteed this immunity in July 2020, months before it first authorized Covid-19 vaccines in December 2020. Meaning, the U.S. government pre-guaranteed these companies immunity from any harm caused by their products, thus, knowingly undermining any incentive for them to create a safe product.
And how much were Pfizer and Moderna guaranteed to be paid by the U.S. government to develop a product that could harm its own citizens with impunity? A total of over $21 billion just in the initial rollout -- $8.63 billion for Moderna and $13.15 billion for Pfizer.
Sound unreal? See the actual contracts for yourself linked in my most recent restack.
The Fallout
The implications are incredible.
To start, Pfizer and Moderna could sue the U.S. government for breach of contract and potentially other relief if PREP Act immunity is terminated before the United States’ use of their COVID-19 vaccines ceases.
Only in an upside-down world would the U.S. government siphon over $21 billion of its citizen’s taxpayer dollars to Pfizer and Moderna and pre-guarantee a profit-motivated company sweeping immunity for harms its product causes to its own citizens.
Summing it up:
The U.S. government guaranteed Pfizer and Moderna immunity for injuries from their products before they were even developed, thereby eliminating the incentive for these companies to make their product safe. Worse, it gave these companies billions of dollars of its citizens’ money to develop these products, and even more incredible, it then spent billions more of its citizen’s money to promote Pfizer’s product as “safe and effective.” And in an ultimate slap to its citizens, then it required them to be injected with this product under the threat of grave consequences, including expulsion from school, losing their job, discharge from the military, etc.
Who is Being Protected?
Who exactly is the U.S. government working for? Whose interests is it protecting?
Government agencies have a well-documented history of being captured by industry. It is known in political science as regulatory capture. In this case, the capture is by pharma and the degree of capture is unprecedented.
You, the collective citizens of the United States, have paid Pfizer and Moderna billions of dollars. You have paid with your taxes. You have paid with your bodies when you were injured without recourse against Pfizer or Moderna. You have paid with your right to freedom when you were forced to be injected with their products under penalty of losing basic civil rights, employment, or more.
And what have Pfizer and Moderna paid? Nothing. They instead raked in billions of dollars of your money as long as they developed a Covid-19 vaccine and were shielded from liability irrespective of how unsafe of a product they developed or how much harm it would cause the public that paid them.
The Solution
The above again brings into focus why no medical product should ever be mandated. This assures you can say “no” if you don’t want a product developed with pre-guaranteed immunity for harms. “No” where its clinical trial had more deaths in the vaccinated group than the placebo group. “No” where it generates over $55 billion in revenue but its morally-bankrupt manufacturers won’t spend a dollar to compensate those injured.
Even if you support all current vaccines, masks, etc., there may come a day when you may not want to take a mandated medical product or procedure. When that day comes, it may be too late to recapture the rights you have surrendered. Rights lost are rarely retrieved. This is why, while everyone should be free to take any medical product, everyone should also be free to decline any medical product without penalty.
It should be that simple.
Take Action
To that end, I encourage you to send the following proposed legislation to your legislative representatives:
“No law may require or coerce a person to receive or use a medical product, or impose a penalty or deprive a benefit for refusing a medical product or refusing to disclose whether a person has received a medical product.”
Medical freedom is freedom. If you cannot get a job, go to school, play sports, sit in a restaurant, or otherwise participate in civil society because you refuse a medical product, then what good are your rights if you can exercise them only at home by yourself? That is why medical freedom is a fundamental right that must be permanently fixed into the law of every civilized nation.
Thank you to all the warriors, veteran and new, who join arms in the battle to secure this fundamental right. As aptly stated in the Declaration of Independence, we “are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and to safeguard those rights “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” We must never yield to the tyranny of permitting others to dictate what can or must be placed, administered, or injected onto or into our bodies. For once that right is ceded, none truly remains.
The Silent Tax on Freedom: Why Sound Money Matters More Than You Think
I used to think freedom was about choices. The more options I had, the freer I felt. But I was wrong. True freedom isn’t just about what you can choose, it’s about what you can keep. And nothing determines that more than the money in your pocket.
Money is more than paper, digits, or shiny metal. It’s a contract. A promise that the value you earn today will still be yours tomorrow. When that promise is broken, freedom quietly slips away.
History teaches this lesson in ruins. Roman emperors shaved silver from coins to fund wars, slowly replacing real value with hollow symbols. The people didn’t revolt over night. They adapted, clipping coins themselves, until trust evaporated and the empire crumbled. Centuries later, Weimar Germany printed marks into oblivion, reducing lifetimes of savings to kindling. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Argentina, the pattern repeats. When money dies, so does the ability to plan, to build, to hope.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: you don’t need a dictator or a war to lose sound money. You just need a printing press.
Central banks today call it “quantitative easing” or “stimulus.” Polite terms for a quiet confiscation. Every new dollar, euro, or yen dilutes the ones you hold. It’s a tax, but invisible, one that steals from your savings, your wages, your future. You work harder, yet the finish line moves farther away. Is that freedom?
When money can be printed without cost, those who control it wield ultimate power. They decide who benefits from fresh currency (hint: not you) and who bears the cost (hint: you). They distort prices, fuel speculation, and turn markets into casinos. They make you dependent on a system where the rules change silently, endlessly.
Freedom requires boundaries. Sound money is one of them. It can’t be created from nothing. It can’t be manipulated by decree. It’s scarce, durable, honest, a measuring stick that doesn’t bend.
That’s why Bitcoin matters. Not because it’s digital or “high-tech,” but because it’s the first money humans can’t corrupt. Its supply is fixed. Its rules are enforced by math, not men. For the first time, we have a currency that resists the oldest temptation of power: to print, to control, to dominate.
If money is a language, unsound money is propaganda, a tool to distort reality. Sound money is truth. And without truth, freedom is just a word.
So ask yourself: can you be free if the foundation of every trade, every savings, every plan you make is subject to the whims of a printing press?
The answer, like sound money itself, is hard. But it’s worth facing.
Your freedom depends on it.
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