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With Ukrainian war talk screaming, equity markets volatility increasing, the COVID War raging and inflation spiking, President Biden last week shifted the nation’s focus to a new Promised Land.
He told the U.S. that he wants to reignite the “cancer moonshot” to cut cancer deaths by half within the next quarter-century—an ambitious goal that is backed by nothing but more empty promises.
“Let there be no doubt,” Biden said. “Now that I am president, this is a presidential White House priority—period.”
The move comes about a year after drug companies competed to bring vaccines against COVID-19 that have been credited with preventing additional deaths. (Critics of the vaccines say they failed to live up to their billings because those vaccinated can still be infected and spread the virus.)
Some cancer experts have questioned the ability of the White House to dramatically reduce the number of deaths. They noted that the Biden administration pointed to screenings as one way to improve outcomes.
But the paper pointed out that screenings alone will not affect the number substantially because the only cancers that have an “indisputably” lower death rate upon early detection are colon and cervical cancer.
Stephen Brozak, the president of WBB Securities, which specializes in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, told The New York Times that the time and money would be better spent on reducing the obesity problem in the U.S. and smoking.
“This moonshot is 100 percent hype; this is the absolute wrong way to do this,” he said.
The administration did not put a price tag on the initiative, but Biden imagined a DARPA-like research organization. The country will diagnose 1.9 million cases this year alone and expects more than 609,000 deaths, the report said.
His plan calls for investments in prevention, screenings, and treatment.
Nicholas Freudenberg, a professor of public health at the City University of New York, wrote in Stat News that the concept of a “moonshot against cancer is problematic.”
He pointed out that there are more than 200 forms of cancer—each with its own subtypes—and all come from different causes and require different treatment. (See “NEW TREATMENT WEARS OUT CANCER,” “PFIZER BUYS CANCER BIOTECH FIRM FOR $2.26 BILLION” and “OBESITY GROWS IN STATES.”)
Presidential Crap
With the Vietnam War raging and inflation skyrocketing, to drift the public’s mind in a new direction, Former President Nixon announced at the State of the Union in 1971 that he would ask Congress for $100 million to find a cure for cancer.
“The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took men to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let the U.S. make a total national commitment to achieve this goal,” he said.
Freudenberg cited Sol Spiegelman, a cancer researcher during the Nixon administration, who called an all-out effort to cure cancer at the time was like “trying to land a man on the moon without knowing Newton’s law of gravity.”
“Fifty years later, much more is known about cancer but many types of cancer still lack effective treatments or cures and research on prevention has yet to be a priority,” Freudenberg wrote.
Ned Sharpless, the head of the National Cancer Institute, told Bloomberg that Biden’s initiative is “bold, but achievable.”
“But if we’re going to reduce mortality by 50% in 25 years, we’re going to have to invest in the science and technologies that will do that,” he said.
TRENDPOST: We note this Biden vow to illustrate the empty words and deeds of politicians. Richard Nixon’s promise to win the War on Cancer was nothing more than bullshit. The war has been lost, and so too with Biden’s promise. It is nothing more than a great distraction.
And, with the drug lords in charge, there is never a mention of getting healthy and building up one’s immune system.
This is clearly evidenced by Washington and governments around the world telling people to roll up their sleeves to take three Operation Warp Speed gene therapy COVID-19 jabs, while refusing to suggest that individuals should build up their immune systems to fight the virus.
But instead of suggesting to stop gulping down fast food/junk food/fat foods, ice cream, candy, soda, it’s a COVID Jab a year.
There has also been a clear societal shift when it comes to obesity. “Fat shaming” is real, and it is shameful to suggest that someone drop a few pounds and get in shape. In the new dead-woke world, it’s their body and they should be proud. Who cares how you look… you’re you!
Indeed, when Jonathan Newman, the CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen quoted CDC numbers that, “78 percent of hospitalizations due to COVID are obese and overweight people,” he was attacked by Presstitutes and social media freaks who accused him of shaming the obese and overweight American majority.
They also said he was ignorant of the facts that low income individuals and their families are fattened up because all they can eat is junk food.
However, as we have continually noted, for those who take time to cook, it is cheaper and more healthy to eat at home, thus, even the poor can eat healthy and lose weight (See “Cheap family meals: Budget recipes under £1 per head.”)
TRENDPOST: It should also be noted that one of the first things politician and bureaucratic “health officials” did when they launched the COVID War, was to order cities to close down playgrounds, gyms and keep people inside where they stressed out about job security but able to buy all the alcohol they can drink since liquor stores were deemed “essential.” (See “BOOZE BINGE ESSENTIAL.”)
TREND FORECAST: Unfortunately, as economies sink deeper into despair, so, too, will the human spirit of so many who have been morally and financially devastated by these unprecedented political maneuvers that have, within just a few months, sapped the vestiges of liberty, love, joy, and beauty from the planet.
Beyond alcohol, as we had forecast for months, drug addiction, legal and illegal, will continue to claim more victims in the coming years as the “Greatest Depression” worsens, civil unrest escalates, military clampdowns tighten… and geopolitical tensions intensify.