Although mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incorrectly argued they are ineffective to justify the Department of Health and Human Service’s recent decision to cancel $500 million in government-funded research projects to develop new vaccines using the technology.
The longtime vaccine critic said in an X video posted Tuesday evening that mRNA vaccines do not adequately prevent upper respiratory infections such as COVID-19 and the flu, advocating instead for the development vaccines that use other processes.
COVID-19 is the only virus for which real-world data on mRNA vaccine effectiveness is currently available, as mRNA vaccines for other diseases, including the flu, are still under development. The two scientists whose discoveries enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 won a Nobel Prize in 2023 for their work.
Vote as left as can make a difference in every election. Sometimes this will mean voting for someone who’s identical to the Republican on 99% of issues because they’re the only other candidate who can win.
Protest when the opportunity presents itself. This won’t stop them, but it will show some people that they’re not alone in being pissed and freaked out by all this.
If given the opportunity, make life suck for anyone who voluntarily associates with the admin. Sometimes that means taking a moment to share some unsolicited citizen feedback at their job or when you see them at random businesses, and sometimes it means taking their money for a coffee order and then dropping the ticket on the floor. Just make someone’s day a little worse, and make sure they know it’s not just because you don’t like them, but also their choices and beliefs.
Help people around you who might be negatively impacted. The nature of the help is something you’ll have to figure out in the moment.
If the situation becomes dire enough, remember why the second amendment exists and exercise your rights. Or flee to Canada, which is a valid option. People are worth dying for, a country isn’t. And anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
Unfortunately, because they won the election and got the congressional votes too, there’s very little that can be done inside the confines of the law. Right now they are operating inside the broad outline of the law, so it’s harder to justify extrajudicial response. When that changes, that changes.
I’ve been doing all of those but the guns for the last quarter century and things just continue to get worse.
What you take away from my message is up to you.
The sad reality is that a large portion of the country is very conservative and there’s only so much you can do within the system to stop the system from expressing the will of the people in it.
That the system failing people seems to make people move towards an ideology that makes the system fail more people is frustrating.
Most people aren’t in favor of fascism, but a slow drift into fascism is preferable to every systemic reform that could do anything to stop it in most people’s eyes. “Of course someone in Wyoming shouldn’t get more votes than someone in California, but if we actually do that then politicians might pay more attention to the place with more people to the detriment of the place with less”.
If I had a magic word that would solve everything and make people wake up and remember that our biggest prosperity has always come when we’ve invested the most into science, infrastructure and our society at large I promise you I’d tell you.
Well now I just hate America and hope it fails for being so shitty.
It’s not worth fighting anymore.
It’s definitely worthy of severe remorse. I can’t go so far as to hope for failure though, because too many perfectly good people would be ruined by that.
Lmfao “vote”