There’s nothing stopping US voters from electing another far-right cabal who repeats this bullshit again.
Agreed. Frankly, I think it will take a generation of reasonableness or maybe a really lethal strain of covid combined with a really effective vaccine for it.
I don’t know what the status in the rest of the world is, but at least in the US, we are dealing with a bird flu pandemic that is dangerously close to showing signs of jumping to humans, with a fatality rate that would make COVID at its worst seem like a mild cold by comaprison.
So we very well get that lethal strain. But instead of the really effective vaccine, you’ll see RFK standing on a pile of dead bodies denouncing the effectiveness of vaccines while an unmasked MAGA crowd cheers them on, wondering why they can’t stop coughing. This is the US we live in now.
Yeah, the vaccine part is the real pie-in-the-sky part, isn’t it? Did you hear about this one?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which Kennedy oversees, notified members of its vaccines and related biological products advisory committee on Thursday that the next meeting scheduled for 13 March was cancelled without providing an explanation.
No new date was set for a meeting and scientists warned that the cancellation risked undermining the development of flu vaccines for next year.
This is the group that assess the current flu strains and determines what strains should be protected against in the next flu shot. That decision needs to be made now so the vaccine can be produced.
Agreed. Frankly, I think it will take a generation of reasonableness or maybe a really lethal strain of covid combined with a really effective vaccine for it.
I don’t know what the status in the rest of the world is, but at least in the US, we are dealing with a bird flu pandemic that is dangerously close to showing signs of jumping to humans, with a fatality rate that would make COVID at its worst seem like a mild cold by comaprison.
So of course, Trump cut funding for bird flu research while multiple MAGA states push to ban mRNA vaccines because politics.
So we very well get that lethal strain. But instead of the really effective vaccine, you’ll see RFK standing on a pile of dead bodies denouncing the effectiveness of vaccines while an unmasked MAGA crowd cheers them on, wondering why they can’t stop coughing. This is the US we live in now.
Yeah, the vaccine part is the real pie-in-the-sky part, isn’t it? Did you hear about this one?
This is the group that assess the current flu strains and determines what strains should be protected against in the next flu shot. That decision needs to be made now so the vaccine can be produced.