The report that indicts the Biden-Harris administration over Covid

ER Editor: A report came out at the end of last month from the US House Energy and Commerce committee on the federal contract awarded by the Biden/Harris administration via the Department of Health and Human Services to Fors Marsh Group for its handling (read ‘lies and propaganda’) of the Covid period. Per Dr. Robert Malone,

The report documents that what Fors Marsh Group delivered to HHS for the 991M $ in taxpayer dollars it received was to deploy a massive Psychological Warfare campaign on American Citizens, one which employed a wide range of proven disinformation. Disinformation as defined by spreading falsehoods for political purposes. Those following along closely will recall that the Mayorkas Department of Homeland Security defined the spreading of disinformation during the COVID crisis as domestic terrorism.

Read the full article by him: You Paid ~1B$ for this COVID PsyWar Campaign

We invite readers to check out the creepy front page of the Fors Marsh Corporation, that serves the propaganda needs of lots of US government agencies.

This report by Just the News carries an overview:

Biden-Harris administration spent $900 million pushing faulty COVID messaging, Congress reports

Of note:

The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report Wednesday saying that the Biden-Harris Administration spent nearly a billion dollars promoting COVID-era messaging, much of which turned out to be untrue or misleading.

The Congressional report examines the $900 million spent by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on COVID-era messaging to the American people. …

The report said that much of that taxpayer-funded marketing included incorrect information about vaccines, the danger to children, masks and more, according to the report.

“Much of the scientific content directly featured in or alluded to in Campaign ads and other promotional material was drawn from CDC recommendations, guidance, and research, critical parts of which proved to be deeply flawed,” the report said.

For instance, the report cited the CDC telling Americans that taking the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent them from getting COVID, something that turned out to be false. …

“The CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans ages six months and older, which has made the United States a global outlier in COVID-19 policy,” the report said.

That marketing was used by lawmakers and local and state officials to justify extended lockdowns on businesses, which hurt the economy and put many small business owners out of business or to justify school closures, from which research now shows students have still not recovered.

“While the Biden-Harris administration’s public health guidance led to prolonged closures of schools and businesses, the NIH was spending nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money trying to manipulate Americans with advertisements—sometimes containing erroneous or unproven information,” Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., sain in a statement.

“By overpromising what the COVID-19 vaccines could do—in direct contradiction of the FDA’s authorizations—and over emphasizing the virus’s risk to children and young adults, the Biden-Harris administration caused Americans to lose trust in the public health system,” he added. (ER: which is probably a good thing in the long term)

Reporting has shown that during the pandemic the federal government successfully pressured social media companies to censor Americans’ posts on COVID-related issues that did not toe the party line. …

All of which would surely be covered under EO 13818.

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How truth emerged victorious against the covid scaremongers

A RECENT report from the US House Energy and Commerce Committee titled ‘We Can Do This: An Assessment of the Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Public Health Campaign’ provides detailed, documented information concerning the public Covid-19 psywar/propaganda disinformation campaign delivered by the Fors Marsh corporation for the US Department of Health and Human Services. This was previously discussed in this Substack essay.

According to the documentation provided, the principal HHS partner co-operating with Fors Marsh to provide content and messaging guidance regarding approved Covid-19 interventions was the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report conclusions and appendix include data summaries implying that this nearly one-billion-dollar campaign contributed to the development of widespread US citizen resistance to covid ‘vaccine’ uptake, and was associated with deterioration in confidence concerning the CDC, the public health enterprise and vaccines.

 

The Fors Marsh campaign specifically and intentionally deployed fear-based messaging to influence public behaviour to comply with CDC and other US government recommendations. The intentional promotion of fear of death from an infectious disease disproportionate to actual risk of death is psychological bioterrorism, and is associated with significantly greater social, political, and economic damage than that associated with known actual bioterror events such as the 2001 US anthrax spore letter distribution campaign. The weaponisation of fear of death from an infectious disease as a component of an intentional propaganda campaign designed to modify human behaviour is morally abhorrent, and is associated with a wide range of direct economic and mental health harms. These harms were never considered during the development and deployment of this HHS-sponsored psychological warfare technology-based propaganda campaign. This type of messaging and propaganda meets the criteria of State-sponsored disinformation.

In contrast to misinformation, which refers simply to false information, disinformation refers to false information that is spread deliberately to deceive. Unsurprisingly, political leaders, especially those who have undermined democratic institutions, adopt disinformation as an instrument for gaining support and reducing resistance, especially during crucial political moments such as elections and wars (Guriev and Treisman, 2019).

From the Energy and Commerce Committee report page 42:

‘The CDC’s disregard for emerging evidence that contradicted its own preferred policy outcomes demonstrates an insular culture unable – and unwilling – to change course with evolving science. By November 10, 2021, in line with ACIP’s [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] recommendation, the Campaign began airing ads targeting parents of children aged 5-11 years. These ads inaccurately suggested children were at high risk of severe illness or death from Covid-19. Many ads were emotionally manipulative and sought to incite fear by exaggerating the risk of severe illness and death among low-risk populations, such as children. This was especially true of ads that targeted parents. At the same time, the ads played down vaccine associated risks.’

From pages 45-46:

‘Nine months later, faced with a surge driven by the Delta variant, the Biden-Harris administration reneged on its pledge and announced, in a nationwide primetime address, that it would impose Covid-19 vaccine mandates. President Biden stated that “in total, the vaccine requirements in my plan will affect about 100million Americans”. He ominously warned unvaccinated Americans or those who had only received a single dose, that “we’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin”. The mandates were presented as a way to protect higher-risk vaccinated workers and those too young to be vaccinated from catching Covid-19 spread by unvaccinated individuals.

‘At the time of the announcement, more than 175million Americans were vaccinated with about 80million remaining unvaccinated. The vast majority of unvaccinated individuals were under 50 and at comparatively low risk of severe illness and death. More importantly, at that time, over 85 per cent of people over 65 years old had received one dose, and around 78 per cent had completed the two-shot primary series. Similarly, over 75 per cent of people 50-64 years old had received at least one dose. Thus, the age groups at highest risk of severe illness or death were largely already vaccinated by the time the mandates were announced.’

From page 62:

‘The fact that HHS’s Covid-19 pandemic policies, guidance, and recommendations, including Campaign messaging, were grounded in incorrect data generated by a faulty algorithm that had inflated the number of Covid-19 deaths shattered HHS’s remaining credibility. The CDC’s admission to overcounting deaths undermined the Campaign’s promotional materials. The Campaign’s messaging pressured parents to believe their children were facing life-or-death scenarios. By using artificially inflated child mortality rates, the Campaign greatly overstated the threat facing children and struck unnecessary fear into households everywhere. Parents felt betrayed, and those who resisted or tuned out the warnings felt vindicated.’

Quoting from the report appendix:

‘Over and over, the Campaign’s survey findings showed little to no change in vaccine uptake or readiness among the public. In spite of heavy promotion, findings reveal vaccine uptake remained unchanged for nearly a year between August 2021 and June 2022.

‘By April 2022, 76 percent of unvaccinated adults said they would never get a covid vaccine.

‘Among unvaccinated adults, nearly half of all those surveyed remained unvaccinated due to concerns about the long-term side effects of the vaccines. Others remained concerned about the speed with which the vaccines were developed, their efficacy in preventing covid infection and transmission, as well as mistrust of government motives in widely encouraging vaccines.

‘Survey findings between January and June 2022 also reveal no significant change in booster uptake among fully vaccinated adults. Notably, survey findings also reveal that while the Campaign was ongoing, booster uptake peaked at 27 per cent in November 2021 and gradually declined to 3 per cent in March 2022.

‘The Campaign closely monitored vaccine hesitancy among the public, including among parents of children under 18 years. A CET survey finding from March 2022 showed between 60 and 76 per cent of parents with unvaccinated children under 18 years were concerned about potential vaccine side effects. At the same time, 53 per cent of adults agreed that parents should be able to make their own choices about getting their children vaccinated, and as the pandemic lagged, Campaign findings indicated a 20 per cent drop in the number of adults who supported mask mandates in schools over a seven-month period. Interestingly, school mask and vaccination mandates for teachers, staff, visitors, and students were most strongly supported by liberal, vaccinated adults, non-parents and those dwelling in urban areas. In contrast, parents were more likely to agree that covid vaccines for young children, especially those under five, were unnecessary.

‘By 2022, many Americans had had enough. In April 2022, nearly half of all surveyed adults agreed that vaccination and masking decisions are personal choices and should not be mandated. These statistics reveal how public perception significantly diverged from that of the Biden-Harris administration and the Campaign’s messaging. Demonstratively, when the federal mandate requiring masks in airports and on airplanes, buses, subways, trains, and other forms of public transportation was scheduled to expire on April 18, 2022, the CDC, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chose to extend it another two weeks until May 3. Although major airlines such as Delta and American Airlines called to an end to the requirement, President Biden “promised to veto any legislation overturning it”.

‘By April 2022, 58 per cent of adults surveyed stated they were tired of worrying about the risk of covid and 46 percent claimed they tune out covid-related news. Fifty per cent stated, “[t]he virus may not be done with us, but we need to be done with it”.’

In short, the campaign failed to achieve the intended objectives and instead was associated with the development of widespread citizen distrust and disillusionment with the State, the CDC, the US Public Health Enterprise, the Medical/Industrial complex, and vaccines in general.

Not considered in the Energy and Commerce report was whether these types of state-sponsored infectious disease disinformation campaigns positively or negatively influence infectious disease outbreak outcomes. I used the US National Library of Medicine PubMed search engine to investigate this question to discover whether any high-quality peer-reviewed academic research addressing the issue had been published. My search revealed a March 2022 study publication by a group of Taiwanese researchers that was published in the Elsevier journal Social Science and Medicine, a credible peer-reviewed academic journal.

The article is titled ‘Government-sponsored disinformation and the severity of respiratory infection epidemics including Covid-19: A global analysis, 2001–2020’.

This link will take you directly to the publication, which is published as an open source document (no subscription required). But you will need to verify that you are a human. It is not too technical, and I recommend that any readers seeking additional details (such as experimental methods and data) read the primary source.

Both the background summary and the study findings are prophetic, and almost completely aligned with the Energy and Commerce committee report.

This article appeared in Brownstone Institute on November 1, 2024, and is republished by kind permission. Did Government-Sponsored Disinformation Worsen Covid-19? ⋆ Brownstone Institute

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