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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If I and my friends and family could be certain of getting immunized against the inevitable H5N1 pandemic, this wouldn't bother me so much. But RFK jr. will combat the flu with honey and whole grains and the death toll will make Covid look like a cold. Thinning the herd. Maybe we'll get lucky and RFK jr & Trump and his true believers will get it first.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hilariously, they'll be culling their own herd, so to speak. You just know the MAGAts will never wear masks again, even to save their own lives.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only if there's things like vaccines for the rest of us, which we only got when we did due to the government.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fair point. It's going to be an absolute shitshow. If worm brain and felon fuckrat eviscerate the FDA, I don't even know vaccines would continue to exist in the US.

Certainly, pharmaceuticals have a vested interest in continuing to produce them. Best case, they defer to regulatory standards from other nations and the FDA becomes a rubber stamp agency. Worst case, they're allowed to peddle dangerous products without proper trialing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The biotech industry is already extremely nervous: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-uncertainty-biotech-startups

They don't like this at all, with the hope being RFK just focuses on other stuff.

Or... it could make investor money fly away and collapse the US biotech industry. Great.