MUST READ! A cool, calm, and collected message from vaccine-injured pro mountain biker, Kyle Warner after advocating in D.C. last week: I spent the last week In Washington, DC speaking to politicians on behalf of the people who had severe adverse reactions to the Covid-19 Vaccines. This kind of work is extremely difficult due to the stigma around it. Unfortunately in life there is no perfect medication, and almost anytime you consume something you have a small risk of it going poorly. For most medications there are programs that exist to deal with this fact. In 1986 Ronald Reagan came together with the Pharma companies to create the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ( VICP ). This program has awarded over 4 billion dollars to injured Americans in vaccine settlements since its inception. The best part, this program isn’t taxpayer funded. The VICP is funded by an excise tax on the companies. However, neither Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J Covid vaccines are eligible for this program due to them being brought to market under the emergency use authorization. Instead these reactions have been placed in a very broken and limited program called the CICP. The CICP is taxpayer funded program that does not reimburse for lost wages or pain and suffering. It also strips you of the right to a legal representative, and the ability to file an appeal. CICP has a 97% rejection rate historically & 95% of the programs budget has gone to overhead. Currently it has over 10,000 C19 Vaccine claims, and to date has only paid 6 people for a grand total of just under 18,000 dollars. What we are asking the government for is retroactive addition of the Covid Vaccines into the VICP. This would allow people to file a claim, hire legal representation, and go through the process of a no fault trial. The projected cost for the house bill we are lobbying for ( #5142 ) is 2 billion dollars over ten years. The VICP currently has 4 billion sitting inside the trust. This money could help thousands of average Americans who rolled up their sleeve and “did their part”. Parents like Ernest could be reimbursed for burying their sons, teenage girls like Maddie could pay their medical bills, explore new treatments, and get long term care. And men like my friend Doug could afford to repay the second mortgage on the house they had to take out to make the bathroom wheelchair accessible. I wouldn’t be doing this if it weren’t for the family I have become a part of. These people are my brothers and sisters and I want to see them taken care of. Pfizer has made over $50,000,000,000 ( Billion ) from this one product alone & Moderna over $20 billion. Other countries like Japan, Germany, and Singapore are taking care of their injured, but unsurprisingly in the country that produced the product, made the most money, and has the largest pharmaceutical lobby: The government is turning a blind eye. Most politicians will tell us to our face that they agree with our ask, and that this is the right thing to do. However they are hesitant to be a part of the bill because “It’s too hot of a topic”. One day things will change, and tomorrow will be one day closer to that goal. We don’t know how long it will take, but it will happen. I am grateful for the opportunity to help contribute to this cause and hopefully we can raise some awareness for what we are doing. If you have a minute and want to support, you can email your house representative or senator and tell them to look at HR-5142. We have met with over 100 offices in the last year. But there are many more to go! Thanks for all your support, Kyle