DEATH OF GENERAL COLIN POWELL: COVID-19 AND THE VACCINE QUANDARY.

ICHEOKU says if any solace could come from the death of General Colin Luther Powell, it will be in its shinning much needed spotlight on the fact that thousands of Americans are still dying from the deadly coronavirus each day; and also the urgent need to find a vaccine that actually works. Having achieved their objective to use the coronavirus scourge to remove President Donald John Trump from the White House, the media, especially CNN, have pushed the coronavirus to the back burner. They no longer report the deaths from the coronavirus pandemic with such frenzy as they previously did. Meanwhile thousands of Americans are still dying from the disease such that more Americans have died from the coronavirus pandemic this year and since President Joe Biden took office than died from it last year when President Donald John Trump was in office. 

As a result, many American people have moved on with their lives, with some even completely forgetting that the coronavirus is still with us and still ravaging the people more than ever. The theory of, "if it wasn't in the news it did not happen" have set in, leading to the lull which has set in in the country about the coronavirus as CNN is no longer shouting the sky is falling down like Chicken Little and causing untoward panic in the land over it. With the reduced coverage, the generated hysteria in the polity have died down and everything have largely gone back to normalcy.  With it too, the effort at finding medicines and vaccines that will actually work against the virus have also somewhat been rested as well. Thousands of American people are continuously still dying from the disease including 2,000 people that just died yesterday but the news is not getting out to the people, at least not as it once used to.    

Colin Powell's death and the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of other American people who have died after getting their full vaccinations, shows that the vaccines which are currently available are not as efficacious as they should and ought to be. Otherwise, why are thousands of American people still dying from the virus, especially the several hundreds of fully vaccinated American people who have since succumbed to the killer virus. The vaccines are not providing the much needed inoculation from the coronavirus disease. Therefore efforts should be redoubled by the medical science community towards finding a vaccine which will in fact actually work or better still, improve the efficacy of the current vaccines which we have to enable the harbinger of death be put to a final end. 

ICHEOKU says has written on the issue of finding a better vaccine previously, as many vaccinated people are still dying from the disease, including those without any underlying factors. Although Colin Powell who was being treated for blood cancer myeloma, has had prostrate cancer and was at a very advanced old age, so making him more vulnerable and easily susceptible to dying from coronavirus. But his death from the virus despite being fully vaccinated, has once again trust to the fore-front the efficacy of the vaccines which we currently have. This should trigger everybody's curiosity, whether the vaccines we currently have and which we are being forced to inject into our bodies are even worth the trouble. If they are not working, why inject them? A supposedly protective shield which does not provide the much anticipated shield, a "product not fit for merchantability", is not worthy of its name and purpose? 

We have had other vaccines in the past including vaccines for polio, small pox, whooping cough, measles, influenza and so many other infections. These vaccines proved their weight in gold because once received, they provided full and complete immunity from their target diseases and for a life time, except for influenza which requires a yearly vaccination. If we have had these unquestionably effective vaccines for so long and were able to develop them many moons ago, why can't we develop today, with the technological and scientific advancement which we have now, a vaccine or vaccines which will actually be an effective and complete choke off of the coronavirus. What is the problem getting these vaccines and what is inhibiting medical sciences from discovering a silver bullet vaccine that will finally arrest the scourge and be done with it.

The problem seems to be market driven as pharmaceutical companies which are already making out like bandits, earning billions of dollars in profits from selling the current ineffective vaccines, have been disincentivized from taking their game one notch up. But for the acceptance of their current supplied vaccines, they would have still been inside laboratories conducting researches to find an effective vaccine and could have possibly found one by now. Their position probably is, why bother and why waste or spend additional billions of dollars in further research and development when they are already making huge profits from what they have already offered to the public. A case made worse because the government was so desperate to solve the coronavirus crisis and open back the economy that it embraced what the pharmaceutical companies offered them and are no longer pushing them to come up with a better product.

It is unfortunate that Colin Powell still died from the coronavirus disease despite getting his full vaccinations. But would he have gotten the vaccinations had he known that the coronavirus would still kill him, regardless of his good standing in his vaccination status? Ditto thousands of other Americans who have succumbed to the disease post getting all their vaccine shots. Will asking these questions now make ICHEOKU an anti-vaxxer or be seen as casting doubts on the efficacy of the vaccines or discouraging people from getting their shots? No, not in the least; as the intention here is to push a narrative that will persuade pharmaceutical companies to do more in order to get the people to the promise land, where a completely neutered coronavirus will have no accommodation  and will be permanently put behind us, in our rearview mirrors, for good.

That thousands of people are still dying each day from the coronavirus disease nearly two years after its debut in America is a scandal unto itself. America that is supposed to be the answer to every question and the solver of all problems the world over, but cannot seem to find a vaccine that will actually take care of the coronavirus disease, is somewhat very hard to understand. It would appear that we jumped up for joy and celebrated the coronavirus vaccines milestone rather too hastily and too early. Now, our relaxation has made it difficult to in fact actually solve the coronavirus problem as money that would have been spent on research and development towards finding a real vaccine that actually provides the desired immunity is now being spent buying vaccines that barely works. It is a confused mix.

It is about time a redirection of focus and attention is made back to the laboratory to do right for all those still suffering from the coronavirus disease and the thousands of people who will still perish from it. Let Colin Powell's death not be in vain and let him be among the last of the very few more people who will die from the coronavirus, especially after receiving their full vaccinations. The current vaccines were initially presented to the public as interim vaccines, stop gap measure vaccines, pending the final development of the actual main vaccines. But unfortunately, instead of putting more effort at attaining the promised final fully developed vaccines, the FDA and CDC were persuaded to approve the interim vaccines, first as a temporary vaccines and now as the permanent panacea for the coronavirus. They fell short, they are not effective and people are still dying as a result.

This changed reality was not the original set out objective or deal reached with the American people. This is why thousands of people are still dying from the coronavirus disease because pharmaceutical companies did not bring forth the awaited improved versions of their interim vaccines. They need to do it now in order to save many more American people from perishing in the coronavirus inferno. Colin Powell should not have died and neither the other thousands of American people who were fully vaccinated. Enough of the placing of market considerations and profits motives far and above providing real healthcare protection for the people. Let the people have real vaccines that actually work and which will in fact inoculate them from the coronavirus disease. Do it for Colin Powell as that will be the best way to honor him, a dear tribute to his lifetime of service to the country. Rest on General Powell.