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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.
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.
And he is one of the lucky ones.
My dads best friend had polio as a child. He still found a wife and had two wonderful children and a fulfilled life. Just because your legs are crippled, you need leg braces, special shoes and a wheelchair doesn't mean you can't have a great life!
/s
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.
Just concentrate on the corn syrup you idiot. Pretty much everyone is on board with that.
That industry will just buy out every room in every Trump hotel for a week and Trump will tell him to shut the fuck up or fire him and hire Joe Exotic.
This is a world-laughs-at-you, history-book-making, memes-for-a-century level headline.
America thinks it’s The Federation but really it’s the result of a torrid affair between the Ferengi and the ~~Samaritans~~Pakleds.
Have a nice day, America. This guy was clearly out of reach.
Edit: goofed
The episode of Star Trek: TNG is called "Samaritan Snare". The race is called the Pakleds.
We are Pakleds. Our ship is the Mondor. It is broken.
Right. In that episode, Pakleds were snaring the Samaritans. Basically grifting their way through the universe by taking advantage of good Samaritans. OP is still not quite nailing it.
OP is communicating using the shared experience of art. They're certainly our neighbor, just as the good Samaritan was to the beaten Jew :)
Ferrengi and Pakleds, but yeah
"No-one even really gets polio anymore, so it's just a waste of money..."
Fuck this idiot piece of shit. Hasn't even started and I'm so sick of this nation again.
Seriously. I'm going to be the most bitter and continuously angry person you've ever met by the end of this four years, and I'm not looking forward to it one bit.
Make no mistake though, I'm going to be so free with "aren't you glad this is what you voted for" to magas in my family and at work that the schadenfreude alone will be enough to power a small city.
The brain worms are strong with this one.
MALILA!
(Make America Live in Iron Lungs Again)
Should we be making efforts to preserve guidance pages from cdc.gov, or do we trust that Internet Archive will survive through this administration to provide archived copies via wayback machine?
If there's a file of this somewhere for me to archive, I've likely got space.
I've already got Wikipedia, medwiki and a few others in local files as I expect any fascist to destroy information and replace it with whatever suits their narrative
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.
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.
Kennedy is an imminent threat to the health and safety of our children. I wish the worm would finish the job.
My spanish teacher in middle school had a limp from polio in her childhood and kids would snicker about it behind her back. We have no concept of what polio is anymore
Let’s see if even Mitch McConnell would confirm this guy given that he had polio. Don’t have much faith though.
I think the GOP have already proven that they'd rather die than admit they were wrong.
*they would rather kill our children with preventable viruses than admit they were wrong
I guess it just works too well?
Kind of. Basically nobody remembers how bad it was when polio and smallpox and whatnot were killing people so they think getting a shot is worse than the alternative.
That's one of the big issues I'm having with this, people do remember. Both Mitch McConnell and Neil Young have experiences directly related to polio, and that's just off the top of my head.
That being said the last iron lung polio survivor passed away this year. (Last one so far.)
Indeed, Kennedy is a fuck nut.
If my kid gets some kind of mutated polio that gets around his vaccine from this shit, I know who will be on a list.
And so it begins...
Edit: ...or ends, depending on the situation.
Maybe they will drag him in court for that one day, for killing Americans in an un-American way, i.e. without bullets.
Quick, someone lookup any owners of iron lung manufacturers. It will be one of these schmucks. Always follow the money
So idiotic I actually laughed reading that first paragraph.