Victory of Mankind

What great news can we hope for nowadays?! It appears very likely we will have an effective COVID vaccine very soon, exactly as President Trump has talked about for many months by now! This is by far the greatest victory of mankind in recent human history, given how much damage the virus has caused globally and worldwide. Since the damn virus is resurging worldwide at the moment, this cannot be a better time to get this fantastic news for all of us as human beings. If the vaccine can indeed show a long lasting effect, this may very well put the end of the pandemic in sight. But at least the extremely infectious virus will just become another seasonal virus infection like flu that we can use the vaccine to fight against, even though not totally eradicating it.  

So who should get the most credit from this victory? Well, no need to say all the scientists and patients who have been involved in the research and development of the vaccine must first be recognized for the greatest credit they deserve. Apart from it, any people with basic human morality and consciousness must acknowledge the great contribution and achievement by the Trump administration!! Here is why: 

• Under normal circumstances, it is quite often to take about 5 years or longer to develop an effective vaccine. Within one year? It is a pure miracle to say the least!! To a very large effect, we have to attribute the success to the Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the U.S. development program for coronavirus vaccines and treatments implemented by the Trump administration.
• OWS is a partnership among components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the Department of Defense (DoD). OWS engages with private firms and other federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. It will coordinate existing HHS-wide efforts, including the NIH's Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) partnership, NIH's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, and work by BARDA. 
• July 22: HHS announced up to $1.95 billion in funds to Pfizer for the large-scale manufacturing and nationwide distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate. The federal government will own the 100 million doses of vaccine initially produced as a result of this agreement, and Pfizer will deliver the doses in the United States if the product successfully receives FDA EUA or licensure, as outlined in FDA guidance, after completing demonstration of safety and efficacy in a large Phase 3 clinical trial, which began July 27th.   

What a great achievement under Trump's leadership for tackling this humanitarian crisis. Job well done, President Trump✌💪👏

What is more, Trump's overall strategy for handling the pandemic is actually working quite well. Here is the fact, the economy is recovering, joblessness is falling and a vaccine - which will finally take us back to normal - is just weeks away! Compared with what happens in other countries like EU which was often used as an opposite "success" example by the Left media to attack the Trump administration for their "failure" in handling the pandemic, US is doing much better now while nearly all the major EU countries are going back to their lockdown and struggling again!! The bond market is telling the same story for a much better shape for the US. 

Of course you won't hear any such great story from the Left media for any credit for Trump. Instead, they will use more fake news to denounce and defame the current administration's great efforts and success in fighting COVID. Don't be surprised to see the headlines "Under Biden's leadership, the US has won the race for getting the first COVID vaccine"! After all, when there is no moral bottomline for the media, anything can happen. They have just magically turned red to blue within minutes and now they can easily turn black to white using their magic. You see the mentally challenged Biden has just announced he will lockdown the virus and with the shameless media's magic help, he can indeed blow out a magic story of how he has helped to speed up for a successful vaccine development in a historical time, which will be used by him to successfully lockdown the virus!🙄 Just watch!!😨  

PPS

By the way, here is the untold story about Pfizer's holding back the good news likely for political reasons: (per  Jeff Brown Editor, The Bleeding Edge)   "What I found incredulous, however, was how the data from the clinical trial was carefully withheld from the public. Pfizer had previously planned to release this data in October, strongly indicating that it would soon apply for an EUA.

Researchers in the academic community, however, rallied together against Pfizer at the very end of September with a signed letter, insisting that Pfizer delay its application for EUA.

The reasoning was that Pfizer needed to wait at least another two months to have "convincing safety data" so we are able to trust the "science."

But here we are, only five weeks after the signed letter and only five days after the election, and the trial results are out."

Shame on you, Pfizer! This delay, simply due to the political nonsense, may have killed thousands more patients who could have been otherwise saved!

   

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The U.S. Presidential Election is NOT Over  

Disclaimer: None of the following is meant to be political analysis. I am not endorsing nor disparaging any candidate. I'm simply outlining the facts pertaining to the U.S. Presidential election.

I want to warn you that the next few months in the U.S. will be extremely ugly.

The country was already deeply divided before this election. And unfortunately, it's only going to get worse. 

The fact is that Joe Biden HASN'T actually won this election yet. 

That is not a typo. The media has done the U.S. a great disservice by claiming that Biden is the winner this early in the game.

How the Real Election Process Works

Everyone needs to take a step back and understand how the actual election process occurs based on federal law, not media reporting.

1) The election occurs in early November.

2) Votes are tallied while officials from both parties (Democrats and Republicans) are present.

3) Provided officials from both parties are present during the vote tallies and there are 1) no credible accusations of fraud and 2) no software glitches, the vote tallies are then ratified.

4) If the vote margin between winner and loser is 0.5% or smaller, an automatic recount is required.

5) If the margin between the winner and loser is larger than 0.5%, but either candidate (or a third candidate for that matter) wants to dispute the results, he or she can pay to have a recount performed. The cost is roughly $3 million per state.

6) Once the recount is completed (or if no recount is necessary) the individual states formally declare the winner on December 14 when they officially cast their electoral college votes for that candidate.

7) In early January of the following year, the new congress meets to count the electoral college votes, and formally declare the winner.

8) The new president is sworn into office on January 20.

This is how presidential elections work in the U.S. under normal circumstances.

The media cannot decide who wins. The media can simply project who they think will win based on vote totals at a given time. And unless the loser formally concedes prior to December 14, the election remains in play.

So Where are We in Terms of the 2020 Presidential Election?

For starters, the races in multiple states (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona) are close enough to require mandatory recounts (within a margin of 0.5%).

On top of this, the Trump administration will be filing lawsuits in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona alleging fraud, illegitimate votes being counted, and GOP officials being barred from witnessing the ballots being tallied.

Whether or not the Trump administration is right about this remains to be seen.

However, the fact lawsuits are being filed means the election will move into the courts. If the courts decide that the evidence the Trump administration presents is compelling, they can require a formal vote audit.

If, during the vote audit, actual fraud is discovered, the court can rule the fraudulent votes are no longer valid. The formal vote counts would change, and it is possible that a given state ends up declaring a different winner.

Fraud isn't the only factor that the courts can rule on. If there are problems with the ballots (the wrong type of ink was used to mark a ballot or a hole punch doesn't go all the way through the ballot as was the case in Florida in 2000, etc.), the courts can deem those problematic votes as illegitimate as well.

This again can mean the formal vote counts can change, and it is possible that a given state ends up declaring a different winner.

Mind you, that's if the courts resolve the issue to everyone's liking on the first go round.

If either party or candidate is dissatisfied with a lower court's ruling, they can appeal the ruling, which can result in the lawsuit moving up to a higher court, eventually reaching the Supreme Court, the ultimate arbiter of election law in the U.S.

This was the case in the 2000 election, when the Supreme Court ruled that vote cards from Florida that didn't have clean hole punches were NOT valid. The ensuing recount gave the state to George W. Bush and resulted in Al Gore conceding the election on December 13.

The Bottom Line

None of the above items are conspiracy theory or wishful thinking. These are the actual facts of how presidential elections are decided in the U.S.

The media doesn't decide elections. And technically, Joe Biden is NOT the president-elect, no matter how much certain people might want him to be.

Remember, he wouldn't be formally declared the president-elect until December 14, 2020, and that's under normal circumstances.

And as I mentioned already, this election is anything but normal.

I mention all of this to help you keep a clear head during what is going to be an extremely stressful and psychologically draining four-week period between now and that date.

Again, this election WILL not be decided before December 14. And it's possible things run even longer than that.

Best Regards,

Graham Summers
Editor, Money & Crisis