Dallas Express censors my comment about Ken Paxton suing Pfizer. Does this make them conservative snowflakes? Update.
A comment discussing the potential disastrous impact of Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton suing Pfizer over covid vaccines results in the comment being removed.
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Texas is beginning to look like Craziland in the science and technology media.
This is a widely read news source. We can expect that soon the world will know.
Out-of-state hospitals will likely refuse to treat Texas patients. For ANYTHING.
Censored by r/Dallas also.
I should say, that they did suggest r/Texas to be a place to have the story, and it has done very well there. I wasn’t happy about it, but it wasn’t hostility to our topic.
I sent the following message.
Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton’s public notice on suing Pfizer.
These are the letters the three pharmaceutical companies by Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton as part of him investigating them.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Pfizer%20CID.pdf
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Moderna%20CID.pdf
The above pages have been saved in the Internet Archive.
Would you want to locate a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Texas with Attorney Gen. like Ken Paxton. You make cotton bandages and think no one will have the slightest thought about you, and then some conspiracy thinker gets the idea your bandages are made with cotton from Xinjiang.
My comment seems to be shadow banned or something, but not visible to others.
This is the link to the Dallas Express article about Ken Paxton suing Pfizer over their Covid Vaccine. [I will provide links to the news item in another section.]
https://dallasexpress.com/state/paxton-sues-pfizer-over-covid-19-vaccine/
Saved in the Internet Archive. Sometimes the Internet archive is a little slow.
The Internet Archive is a great place to get webpages saved that might get deleted.
So I made this comment. I will put the text of the comment at the end of this news post.
However, later when I went back to look I found this. Where did my comment go? Notice the line saying, “Be the first to comment.”
I did get some button to click reprimanding me the prior time I had gone to see my comment and found it missing giving me some type of warning, but I didn’t think to screen capture it.
Though, when I logged into my profile and went to see it, it was there. Is this what they call shadow banning? I can see it, but no one else can?
Is there one comment or zero comments for this story?
It seems that some comments are too much for Dallas Express to handle despite all their bravado.
Some additional thoughts that didn’t go into the comment I made.
Will Covid booster shots be offered in the future?
Will RSV vaccines be taken off the market?
What doctor would want to move to Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many doctors will leave Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many medical researchers will be willing to sign up with universities and research institutions in Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many medical researchers will leave Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many bright students in biology or science will want to study at a Texas university with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many molecular biologists or any type of biologist move to Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many molecular biologists or any type of biologist will leave Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many companies will invest in medical facilities in Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
How many biotech start ups can we expect in Texas with an Attorney General suing pharmacy companies based on conspiracy theories?
Imagine hospitals short of nurses, doctors and patients desperately waiting for medical care as nurses and doctors leave Texas.
Imagine no pharmaceutical industry in Texas as they start shutting down.
Imagine biomedical research at Texas universities coming to an end and biology, medical and other science facilities in Texas can’t get the best scientists and the best students.
At this time people are likely expecting that the lawsuits will be thrown out of court and so they aren’t thinking yet, about not coming to Texas or leaving. When the lawsuit goes to trial, likely we will see people start thinking about residing in Texas. Very likely Paxton thought very carefully which court and judge to file his care with.
Surely the legal departments of pharmaceutical companies and medical supply companies have been asked what is their exposure to possible legal problems in Texas.
The Specific Dangers to the Gay community.
Of course there is a danger to the general community if drugs and vaccines aren’t available, but it is worth noting that Ken Paxton is supported by anti-Gay elements and there are specific ramifications of this lawsuit against Pfizer for the Gay community.
Moderna is developing many vaccines, quite a few of them of interest to the Gay community. For example, they are having a successful Phase I program for an HIV vaccine.
Would a vaccine developer want to bring an mRNA HIV vaccine to Texas when they might be sued by the Attorney General based on some conspiracy theory?
Don’t think that Ken Paxton will necessarily stop with going after Pfizer or just Covid vaccines. The Evangelicals were all upset with the suggestion that HPV vaccine be given to teenagers because it reduces the risk of getting HPV when they have sex. Christians are quite willing to use medical terror to discourage sex.
When important vaccines, such as an HIV vaccine, is unavailable in Texas, do you think any Gays will move to Texas? How many Gays will stay in Texas. Imagine Cedar Springs with no Gay bars or places?
Maybe Ken Paxton will go after mpox vaccines or an mpox vaccine using mRNA.
Dallas Evangelicals are not above weaponizing mpox.
Maybe Ken Paxton will go after Prep?
Don’t think that you will just solve the problem by driving to Oklahoma or New Mexico or Louisiana.
Texas counties are organizing to stop people from driving out of state to get an abortion. Can state laws be far behind? There could be right wing groups organizing to prevent people from going out of state to get a vaccine.
Here a county passed an ordinance making it illegal to drive someone somewhere for an abortion. You might think that Dallas County might not pass such and ordinance, but Colin County would be a county where it is a real possibility. They elected the clown Matt Shaheen to the Texas legislature. Then how do you drive to Oklahoma?
The title of this article is, “More Texas counties are trying to prevent people from using specific roads to get an abortion.”
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-travel-ban-roads-west-texas-3997304c4156f131ee90bb1363735ba3
Remember, the social conservatives backing the Texas conservative movement are out to get the Gay community.
They are busy going after the provision of Prep to prevent HIV. This article in the American Journal of Managed Care is titled, “Prep Court Ruling Could Lead to Thousands of Preventable HIV Cases.”
https://www.ajmc.com/view/prep-court-ruling-could-lead-to-thousands-of-preventable-hiv-cases
This is about killing Gay people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/texas-prep-hiv-ruling-goes-against-commonsense-rcna47059
And this war against Prep is driven by Evangelicals.
Real Estate Values when Texas is seen as Craziland.
Paxton’s lawsuit goes to trial and we start seeing medical supplies and vaccines become short or unavailable, we will be having people move out of the state and also stop moving to Texas. Yes the taxes are low, but people want to get their children vaccinated for measles and polio and not risk being in a state where they become unavailable.
Once real estate values start tumbling who will want to move into a declining home market? Who will want to provide mortgages for homes with declining prices?
Once people realize that moving into Craziland is a risk to their health and wealth, they won’t move here.
Another screen capture of my comment at Dallas Express.
Text of my comment about Ken Paxton.
People should consider the following:
1. Whether any pharmaceutical company will want to introduce any new product into Texas.
2. Whether any pharmaceutical company will start withdrawing products from Texas.
3. Whether in a new pandemic Pfizer or any other company will send a vaccine to Texas. Pfizer is developing a mRNA vaccine for Nipah, a rather nasty virus in Kerala area of India. It has a high mortality rate. Outbreaks, which happen in Kerala repeatedly, are curbed by severe lockdown measures. There are other nasty things out there.
Dengue virus vaccines are being developed. If Dengue, a.k.a. bone break fever, reaches Texas would a pharmaceutical company send any to Texas?
However, if one of them reaches Texas, would any pharmaceutical company send a vaccine to Texas?
Of course there would be droll moments in such a situation. In Myanmar, a pastor declared that he "was vaccinated in Christ," got severe Covid, had to be hospitalized, and then recovered enough for a trial which sent him to prison.
Not so droll is the measles outbreak in Zimbabwe which because of religious opposition to vaccination over 700 children died at least, then numbers stopped coming out of Zimbabwe.
4. Whether educated people will want to move to Texas. Whether a corporation in Texas will be able to recruit elite talent to Texas or even educated talent.
5. Whether educated talent will stay in Texas as vaccines become unavailable. Would you want to be in a state where polio vaccines aren't available?
6. Conservatives should consider how politics might be impacted if their movement was against the next vaccine and safety measures for the next pandemic and the disease was highly contagious and had a high fatality rate resulting in much fewer surviving conservatives.
7. Conservatives shoujld consider how their politics might be impacted if they end up being responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Scientific American had an article some decades ago about pandemics. They pointed out with a dense population, as opposed to prehistoric population, the evolution of diseases favored a virulent disease that was highly infectious and infected others in the dense population. Diseases in prehistoric times had to be mild and slow acting so as to not kill the host and last long enough so it could reach the next hunter-gatherer group of people.
We have over 7 Billion people on the planet now. It is inevitable something will be coming and it will be bad.
Though not without some silver linings. How many anti-Gay radio hosts broadcasting against Covid vaccines died?
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