This is very normal, like in the 1990s.

Do you remember in the 1990s, when they were doing experimental gene modifications on babies before they were born for no reason?

Well, this is like that, except it’s happening now. Just some very, very normal 1990s style stuff going on here.

AP:

New research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the common but scary respiratory virus called RSV that fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall.

The preliminary results buoy hope that after decades of failure and frustration, vaccines against RSV may finally be getting close.

Pfizer announced Tuesday that a large international study found vaccinating moms-to-be was nearly 82% effective at preventing severe cases of RSV in their babies’ most vulnerable first 90 days of life. At age 6 months, the vaccine still was proving 69% effective against serious illness — and there were no signs of safety problems in mothers or babies.

“Moms are always giving their antibodies to their baby,” said virologist Kena Swanson, Pfizer’s vice president of viral vaccines. “The vaccine just puts them in that much better position” to form and pass on RSV-fighting antibodies.

The vaccine quest isn’t just to protect infants. RSV is dangerous for older adults, too, and both Pfizer and rival GSK recently announced that their competing shots also proved protective for seniors.

None of the findings will help this year when an early RSV surge already is crowding children’s hospitals. But they raise the prospect that one or more vaccines might become available before next fall’s RSV season.

“My fingers are crossed,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. “We’re making inroads.”

Tuesday’s data was reported in a press release and hasn’t been vetted by independent experts.

Here’s a look at the long quest for RSV vaccines.

WHAT IS RSV?For most healthy people, RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a cold-like nuisance. But for the very young, the elderly and people with certain health problems, it can be serious, even life-threatening. The virus can infect deep in the lungs, causing pneumonia, and in babies it can impede breathing by inflaming tiny airways.

In the U.S., about 58,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized for RSV each year and several hundred die. Among adults 65 and older, about 177,000 are hospitalized with RSV and 14,000 die annually.

Worldwide, RSV kills about 100,000 children a year, mostly in poor countries.

WHY IS THERE NO VACCINE?A tragedy in the 1960s set back the whole field. Using the approach that led to the first polio vaccine, scientists made an experimental RSV vaccine by growing the virus in a lab and killing it. But testing in children found not only was the vaccine not protective, youngsters who caught RSV after vaccination fared worse. Two died.

“For a period of 20 years, even though science was advancing, nobody wanted to go near development of an RSV vaccine,” Schaffner said.

Even today’s modern RSV vaccine candidates were tested first in older adults, not children, he noted.

WHAT GOT DEVELOPMENT BACK ON TRACK?Modern vaccines tend to target the outer surface of a virus, what the immune system sees when a germ invades. For RSV, that target is the so-called F protein that helps the virus latch onto human cells. Again there was a hurdle: That protein is a shape-shifter, rearranging its form before and after it “fuses” to cells.

It turns out that the immune system only forms effective RSV-fighting antibodies when it spots what’s called the pre-fusion version of that protein, explained structural biologist Jason McLellan of the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2013, McLellan and virologist Barney Graham were working at the National Institutes of Health when they homed in on the correct shape and figured out how to freeze it in that form. That finding opened the way to today’s development of a variety of experimental RSV vaccine candidates.

(That same discovery was key to the hugely successful COVID-19 vaccines, as the coronavirus also is cloaked in a shape-shifting surface protein.)

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE?Several companies are creating RSV vaccines but Pfizer and rival GSK are furthest along. Both companies recently reported final-stage testing in older adults. The competing vaccines are made somewhat differently but each proved strongly effective, especially against serious disease. Both companies plan to seek regulatory approval in the U.S. by the end of the year, as well as in other countries.

The older-adult data “looks fantastic,” said McLellan, who has closely followed the vaccine development. “I think we’re on the right track.”

Buck up, schizo.

This is just like the 1990s.

In the 1990s, they were modifying the genetics of babies before they were born to stop viruses and so on.

It’s just like the 1990s, schizo.

Everything is very normal and very much the same as in the 1990s.

It’s all very normal.

The fact that Vanderbilt had to pause “gender affirming surgeries for patients under the age of 18” means they were performing gender affirming surgeries for patients under the age of 18. pic.twitter.com/dOKEW0Mi3f

— DamianJames (@DamianJ54874907) October 10, 2022

The translash has begun.

They have been doing this child tranny stuff long enough now that a lot of people who were mutilated are now old enough to regret it and are speaking out and trying to sue these people who did it to them.

They should sue these doctors and hospitals, but they should also sue their parents and they should sue the media and school system for promoting it and falsely claiming it is safe while knowing the risks. If Alex Jones has to pay $1 billion for saying that public figures – gun control political activists – were lying about their kids dying, then surely people who claimed that tranny surgeries would help people’s mental health should have to pay at least ten times that.

No one has proved that Alex Jones lied on purpose (they actually haven’t proved that these “parents” are not crisis actors), but we know that the media and schools are aware of the suicide rate, they were aware there was no evidence that mutilating people’s bodies helps them, and they just lied about it.

Campus Reform:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) agreed to pause all gender transition surgeries performed on minors after an exposé by Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh on its Pediatric Transgender Clinic drew national attention.

VUMC announced the decision in an Oct. 7 letter to Tennessee Representative Jason Zachary, stating that the clinic would “pau[se] gender affirmation surgeries on patients under age 18” while it completes an internal clinic review on treating underage patients.

VUMC declined to comment.

Walsh tweeted the news the same day, stating that the “fight is far from over but this will save children from mutilation and abuse.”

UPDATE: here is the letter Vanderbilt sent to state legislators. Notice the wording at the end. They promise to comply with whatever regulations are imposed. They’ve already conceded the legislative fight. This win is even bigger than we thought. pic.twitter.com/VkKhuiHTUO

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 7, 2022

The VUMC letter claimed that the clinic review will also serve to assure the clinic complies with new guidances established by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

The new report, released Sept. 6, states that surgical treatment decisions should be “made carefully” due to the lack of studies on long-term effects.

“Despite the slowly growing body of evidence supporting the effectiveness of early medical intervention, the number of studies is still low, and there are few outcome studies that follow youth into adulthood,” the report reads. “Therefore, a systematic review regarding outcomes of treatment in adolescents is not possible.”

VUMC also agreed to “comply with any new requirements” established by the General Assembly (GA) in the upcoming legislative session. TN passed a flurry of laws regulating child transitioning in 2021, one of which prohibits providing hormone treatment to prepubescent children.

Zachary, who led a coalition of six GA members in a letter prompting VUMC to cease its activity in September, announced the update on Twitter, stating:

*Vanderbilt Medical Update
I’m pleased to report that we’ve heard back from VUMC & they have agreed to pause gender transition surgery on minors.
Additionally, they will always honor conscientious objectors.
We appreciate VUMC’s response to the @tnhousegop deep concerns.
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— Rep. Jason Zachary (@JasonZacharyTN) October 7, 2022

The letter accused the clinic’s practice of “qualify[ing] as nothing less than abuse.”

“My colleagues and I in the Tennessee General Assembly are alarmed by recent reports from the Daily Wire detailing the surgical mutilations of minor children at Vanderbilt University Medical Center,” the letter read.

VUMC defended its services and clarified that all clinic patients were at least 16 years old and none received genital surgery.

The clinic, however, provided an average of 5 patients per year with “transgender care,” VUMC claimed.

VUMC’s letter also sought to clarify statements made by Dr. Shayne Taylor, who works for the clinic, who claimed gender transitioning surgery is a “big money maker” due to the number of procedures required.

Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it's a "big money maker," especially because the surgeries require a lot of "follow ups" pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022

VUMC assured no state or federal funds are used for the procedures and disputed the claim, saying the revenue accrued is “an immaterial percentage.”

It’s impossible that they aren’t making a lot of money, but it is probably true that the main purpose is to hurt people and to push an ideology. I can believe that.

However, they are talking about how much money they are making, so it’s not “immaterial.” As always, evil things have different benefits for evil people. They can push their pedophile agenda, their agenda to destroy society, while also making money.

Good on Matt Walsh. He might be a Jewish shill (he is, actually), but he’s done something worthwhile here. It’s not going to change the game, but if we can save a few children, that is a good thing, and it’s something that God will reward him for (of course that reward will be outweighed by his shilling for the murderers of Christ Our Lord – shills for the Jews can only end up in one place in the end, and that is Hell).

I still believe that the overwhelming majority of people are incapable of processing the fact that they are mutilating children, cutting pieces off of them, ensuring a (very short) life of psychosis and suffering. People’s brains just can’t grasp that this is real. That is the only possible reason there is not more outrage.