• @[email protected]
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    518 days ago

    Except that the antivaxxers are in charge of the budget for pandemic preparedness.

    So they’re not just putting their heads in the sand, they’re forcing our heads in the sand too

    • @[email protected]
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      The hottest illegal drug of 2025 will be black-market vaccines. Some will work, some will be placebos or worse (as happens when a supply chain is taken over by organised crime). The DEA will announce record-breaking seizures of “dangerous experimental drugs” from China. Those who can afford to will fly across the Atlantic to a country with walk-in vaccinations for noncitizens.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 days ago

        Lol (but more seriously I think that black market self administered injections would be too scary for the average person)

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          47 days ago

          My first thought was that it 100% depends on how scary the disease you’re trying to treat is.

          And then I remembered some folks were chugging horse dewormer during COVID and I’m not so sure anymore.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 days ago

      This exactly. I’m not worried about them. I’m worried as to whether I’ll be able to survive without a vaccine.

      That RFK will likely block. That Dr. Oz will likely prevent any study on.

      We’re entering fascism folks. Hold on to your butts.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 days ago

        Vaccines notwithstanding, I’m also worried about whether our food supply will be safe from their malarkey.

        Good luck surviving tainted food supply chains with Commander Snake Oil and Captain Road Kill running things.

        • @[email protected]
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          37 days ago

          Stuff like this is going to lead people like me to either raise my own food or buy as local as possible. Because all the safety nets will be cut and you won’t be able to trust the government to do their job.

          Which is exactly what they want. They want people to be as afraid of the government as they are.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 days ago

      Doubtful, major pharma brands made a killing, they may be weird business monsters but they are still business monsters and will bend to the dollar.

  • Diplomjodler
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    508 days ago

    Unfortunately, the last pandemic didn’t kill off enough of them to solve the problem. So we’ll have to hope this one will do the job.

      • @[email protected]
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        Ah yes, chlorinated chicken.

        Sound mighty good for you and the chicken, does it not? Chlorinated.

        Banned everywhere except in the US due to low animal welfare standards (it hides diseases and other fuckery) and hygiene. (it hides bad hygiene during slaughter)

        So yes, I do hope someone starts this movement and gets the US to acknowledge the troubles with it.

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          it hides bad hygiene during slaughter

          That’s the beautiful part about washing with chlorine. It only kills pathogens on the outside, which is logical. Anything inside the meat probably survives that. However, the testing for these pathogens only happens on the outside, because usually that’d be sufficient - but it no longer is when you chloride.

          Something else the US does differently is that eggs are washed and as such must be cooled because might remove the protective layer. Here in Germany, all eggs are sold non-refrigerated, and battery eggs are illegal, though unfortunately, caging is still legal to until 2029, and personally, I think buying eggs with any rating below “Bio” should be avoided whenever possible, better something with an additional animal welfare label like “Bioland” it “Naturland”.

          Industrial animal farming is disgusting as it is, but leave it to the US to capitalism it up a notch.

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            Yeh, I’ve always thought chlorinated Chicken was an abomination. Non-chlorinated in this hypothetical near future would let the bad hygiene (and my god is the US bad at hygienic food production) wild on those owning the libs in 2025.

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      28 days ago

      Reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/znI046F4FKg

      I think if the bird flu became a thing, hopefully we can produce vaccine quickly. I know we already can do it with other flu, but the process is still time consuming, not sure if there’s mRNA version of flu vaccine.

      But knowing some conspiracy people, yeah I think this would be the hill they would die on. After covid, even if they saw their family and friends dying they would still say that they were murdered in hospitals, or infected with something else secretly or via chem trails.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Jesus was the reason we survived this fake liberal disease.

      Those deaths were just of old age or the flu.

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    It’s weird that the party with the most “preppers” seems to not want to prepare. It’s almost like prepping is just LARPing their chosen fantasy.

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      Those “Preppers” who like to think they’re the only ones prepared to do what it takes to survive the collapse of society are the same people who thought that wearing a cloth mask was an unacceptable trampling of their rights, too uncomfortable, or would kill them with CO2.

      They are ABSOLUTELY just LARPing their chosen fantasy. The second it became even VAGUELY real they immediately crumpled.

  • @[email protected]
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    268 days ago

    Holy shit they just solved what the infectious disease researchers haven’t been able to solve for decades!!

    It seems so obvious now that they’ve said it! Just don’t participate! It’s that easy! If we just don’t participate in the disease we don’t get sick!

    Genius!!

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    Well they’re really not going to like it when reasonable countries close their borders to Americans due to this policy.

    Ridiculous tariffs and now this. He really went to North Korea and thought, yeah autarky is definitely the model to copy.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 days ago

    They need to be reminded that Trump hired Fauci for his Covid task force. Any criticism of Fauci is criticism of Trump.

  • Cruxifux
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    158 days ago

    We could accomplish a lot with a much more deadly version of COVID and a much more effective vaccine.

    But I also don’t want my right wing friends to just die.

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      But I also don’t want my right wing friends to just die.

      No, I hear ya… I, too, think they should suffer first… 🤣

  • cosmictrickster
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    48 days ago

    Ah, so the Republicans are the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Some things are beginning to make sense now.