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Buckle up for the next NYT headline:
RFK Jr is the real vaccination-class hero, not experienced nurses and doctors and hundreds of years of medical science
“RFK Jr: an iconoclast set to shake up a complacent public health establishment.”
“If progressives truly want to bring the surge of polio deaths in the United States to an end they will have to learn to be nicer to our wealthy friends.”
What the fuck my grandpa had a skinny leg and a hole in his back from medical tubes due to polio as a kid, this shit is no joke
Seriously. I’ve said this before here, but travel somewhere the polio vaccine wasn’t widely available. The amount of suffering via deformity and impacted development it causes is frightening.
In case it’s not clear enough, successful revocation means NOBODY can get the vaccine.
Ah, a classic move by “the party of personal freedoms”.
I’m fucking moving to Canada if this happens. This is one of the best vaccines ever made.
Wait it even the wealthy? Wonder how many wealthy babies need to suffer before the poors can get their world back.
None. The wealthy can just take a trip to another country if it comes to that.
And so it begins…
Edit: …or ends, depending on the situation.
This administration is going to ruin the lives of/kill so many people.
The upside of Covid is that we jump-started vaccine research and have seen so much stuff at scale, and quickly. It might hold huge promise for things like cancer treatment.
And these absolute fucking clowns are going to probably stall all that out. I sure hope other countries are not impacted in any way by this complete idiocy. The idea that complete morons would kill scientific progress like this is infuriating.
I hate that I wish such terrible things on these terrible people.
I once held a long-standing conviction to wish no harm on anyone, even on people doing harm to others. The reasoning was that it would be better if they were to start doing good instead, so that is what I should wish for them: That they fell compelled to undo their mistake. Their pain doesn’t help anyone, so there’s no reason to wish pain on them.
But more and more often, I find myself in your shoes.
According to Wikipedia, wild and fully potent polio is still circulating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In addition, many developing countries are using live vaccines (weakened strains of polio) which can sometimes regain their ability to spread, even if they don’t do much damage.
Polio not gone, it’s just waiting for fools to think so - and to prematurely drop their defenses.
Fuck this idiot piece of shit. Hasn’t even started and I’m so sick of this nation again.
You’d think they’re already murdering enough of us with the expensive/delayed/denied healthcare, the starvation wages, the cruel for-profit prisons, the cops, and the refusal to give even emergency abortions…but nope…they want to murder more of us.
#FreeLuigi
RFK Jr is the virus. Luigi is the vaccine.
Reading the headline and it literally made me do the meme:
Maybe they will drag him in court for that one day, for killing Americans in an un-American way, i.e. without bullets.
“No-one even really gets polio anymore, so it’s just a waste of money…”
Just have polio partys for children so that they can catch it early and be protected!
Holy shit did he really say this??
No
Let’s see if even Mitch McConnell would confirm this guy given that he had polio. Don’t have much faith though.
Surely this Republican who faced hardship won’t want anyone else to go through what he did.
I think the GOP have already proven that they’d rather die than admit they were wrong.
Bitch of it is that we almost drove that virus into irrelevant cycles. I think I read a couple of years ago that the UN believed we could declare victory on the disease by focusing on some suffering African areas. Who knew th at a western country of 300+ million would want to make iron lungs fashionable again? Sorry, Dr. Salk.
The country does not.
A batshit sliver of people do. One of them just happens to be appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
This is not a majority stance.
The country had a chance to show that though. None of this is surprising.
If the result is the same does the distinction matter?
Yes. It means we’re in distress and need help
Help from who? What would that look like?
Well… The EU further increasing their regulations and punishments on US mega corps would be welcome. Official programs for medical tourism would also be nice, even in countries without universal healthcare the costs are cheaper even with a round trip flight to another continent
We also have a very impulsive and narcissistic manchild about to return to the white house. He’s deeply insecure and likes to project - if figures mock and laugh at him publicly enough from the right angle, he’ll respond. He’s a wildcard so it’ll be like hearding cats, but in the absurdist state of the country it could actually help us
Or it can be as simple as treating us like oppressed victims. The US as the land of freedom and opportunity is an image that holds us back… We’re not very free and we have very few opportunities (unless you’re rich). Chipping holes in that facade really gets to some people
We might be the largest military and economic power, but we’re largely brainwashed by optics, and so that’s a weak spot that can be exploited
It’s like they’re begging us to rise up in revolution.
They know that when it comes down to it you won’t. They know that the older generations are too set in their ways and the younger generation is more concerned about Naughty Dog’s new game. It’s takes very little for Americans to piss and moan on social media but much much mote before mass uprising. There are trillions of dollars to be fleeced from the middle class before any significant resistance arises.
