One might think that in totalitarian states such as China, corporate bigwigs could commit murder against common people with impunity. As this article illustrates, that is not necessarily the case. Crooked drug company execs and even Chinese FDA chiefs are getting death sentences for corruption and malfeasance.

Contrast that with the US, where corporate chiefs and FDA officials who make, approve or recommend drugs and vaccines that injure and kill people are untouchable. David Michaels (epidemiologist and current head of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) pointed out in his book Doubt is Their Product – How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health, that Merck killed about 40,000 innocent people (FDA estimate) with their Vioxx painkiller and they knew ahead of time it caused heart attacks. That is almost as many dead as US combatants in the Vietnam war. No Merck or FDA official was prosecuted.

The FDA Vaccine Adverse Event reporting System (VAERS) currently shows 4804 deaths (979 hepatitis B, 785 DTaP, 775 flu, etc.). Former FDA commissioner David Kessler estimated the Journal of the American Medical Association that only about 1% of serious vaccine adverse reactions are reported to the FDA. Using Kessler’s formula, vaccines may have killed as many as 480,000 people. No one knows for sure. Many doctors refuse to report vaccine adverse reactions. A recent study showed 61% of vaccine providers don’t even know what a reportable vaccine adverse reaction is.

Those who have vaccine adverse reactions are shunted into a compensation program that fights them tooth and nail and prevents victims from obtaining justice against the drug companies and doctors who caused their vaccine adverse reactions.

On this basis, patients might be worse off in the US than in China – and (paradoxically) Chinese drug company execs and FDA officials might be more accountable than in the US for fraud and murder.

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