The front page of the 15 December 2020 New York Times exemplifies the hyped-up marketing campaign to convince people that the new COVID vaccines, comprised of RNA materials never before tested on humans, will be the heroic remedy to save us all from the ravages of COVID-19.
The giant, page-wide headline read:
“Healing is Coming: U.S. Vaccinations Begin”
Healing?
Vaccines don’t heal. At best, a vaccine may protect someone from a disease.
Underneath the blaring headline were three oversized color photos. The first showed a frontline nurse being injected, another had a gloved nurse holding an open box revealing dozens of vaccine doses in tubes, and the third was a close-up of a gloved nurse injecting the arm of a vaccine recipient. To the right of the photos is the lead article, beginning with the sub-headline:
“Dread Persists as Death Toll Tops 300,000”
Added together, the clear media message that getting vaccinated will cure the “dread” of COVID takes up about three-quarters of the entire front page.
Back to Normal?
To promote the vaccine as the heroic savior of our health and well-being, the NY Times front-page article included these highlights:
- “‘This is the marking of getting back to normal,’ said Angela Mattingly, a housekeeper at the University of Iowa Hospital, who was fifth in line as shots were dispensed on the 12th floor.”
- “‘I feel like healing is coming,’ said Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse who was among the first health care workers to be vaccinated.”
- “Dr. Jason Smith, the first Kentuckian to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, showed off the smiley-face Band-Aid a health care worker applied to his arm. ‘Didn’t even feel it,’ he said. A group of nuns in Sioux Falls, S.D. blessed the vaccine as it arrived, before it was whisked into a freezer.”
- “Seth Jackson, a nurse in Iowa City, found himself crying on the way to the hospital to get his shot. Robin Mercier, a Rhode Island nurse, rejoiced in feeling one step closer to being able to kiss her grandchild.”
As the article continued on page 6, quoting a woman who “voiced frustration with people who said they did not trust the vaccine. ‘These people who say I’m not getting it, all I can say is, why? Have you lost your mind? Have you not seen how many people have died?’”
The article then quotes the nurse who is seen in the large photo on page 1 receiving an injection after noting that she, who happens to be African-American, particularly wanted to encourage Black Americans to get the shot since Blacks have been dying from the virus at rates higher rates: “I’ve been waiting for this day not only for myself, but to show people it’s safe. I want people who look like me and are associated with me to know it’s safe.”
TRENDPOST: As the Trends Journal has reported, the COVID vaccines were rushed through the “Emergency Use Authorization” exception provided by the FDA, and they have not yet proven to be safe in the long-term or even effective at preventing infection or spread.
And for the NY Times article to choose an African-American nurse as the one photographed receiving an injection and then quoting her that Blacks are suffering from COVID-19 in disproportional numbers omits the major reason why: As we have long been reporting, among the most vulnerable are those in poor living conditions and suffering from obesity, type 2 diabetes, respiratory ailments, heart disease, etc.
According to the Office of Minority Health, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
“African American women have the highest rates of obesity or being overweight compared to other groups in the United States. About 4 out of 5 African American women are overweight or obese… non-Hispanic blacks were 1.3 times more likely to be obese as compared to non-Hispanic whites.”
The same office reports, “African American adults are 60 percent more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to have been diagnosed with diabetes by a physician.”
Yet, absent from the daily doses of selling fear and hysteria and promoting vaccinations as the only way to win the COVID War, The New York Times and the mainstream media rarely, if ever, report on vitamins, nutrition-related ways to build stronger immune systems, and natural healing protocols.