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The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market within months, one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist who has repeatedly claimed in the face of scientific consensus that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, told the Daily Beast that Kennedys stance is shared by influential members of President Donald Trumps family. Like Kennedy himself, no Trumps hold any scientific qualifications.
Malhotra is a leading adviser to the controversial lobby group Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Action, which is seen as an external arm of Kennedys agenda as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary.
He told the Beast that many of those closest to RFK Jr. have told him they cannot understand why the vaccine continues to be prescribed, and that a decision to remove the vaccine from the U.S. market pending further research will come within months, even if it is likely to cause fear of chaos and bring with it major legal ramifications.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/
no_hypocrisy
(54,906 posts)Why not ban smallpox, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, rubella vaccines?
Are you going to proceed to ban pharmaceutical intervention for tuberculosis, flu, pneumonia, etc.? Hell, why not ban antibiotics while you're at it? Why stop at preventative medicine?
yourout
(8,820 posts)I bet that's coming.
no_hypocrisy
(54,906 posts)yourout
(8,820 posts)niyad
(132,440 posts)after all.
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)bans contraceptives.
"This section was amended by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1873.[3] The amendment made by section two of that Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:[106] obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information, or any information regarding the above items.[107] The provisions of the Comstock Act, as currently revised, only pertain to obscene, crime-inciting, or abortion-related articles or mail matter."
From Wikipedia
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edhopper
(37,370 posts)you are not, that is where we are going.
Irish_Dem
(81,263 posts)Might as well do the job right and get rid of the entire medical field.
If you get sick, just say a prayer and light a candle.
Maybe there will be some witchdoctors practicing nearby.
Texin
(2,851 posts)While there are a lot of medical practitioners who went into medicine for humanitarian aspirations, a great many (and I'd argue probably the majority of them) did so to pursue specialties that can reap huge personal wealth, such as those practicing surgeries and other specialized practices. Professional medical providers and insurance corporations, as well as the pharmaceutical companies, are a huge swath of the lobbying industry in Washington. They will be exerting a lot of pressure on legislators to see that this doesn't happen - or else.
There's some kind of rationale on RFK's and dipshit's announcement that they'd be banning the Covid 19 vaccine "in months" and not days. I think they're trying to pander to the conspiracy idiots while slow rolling in the face high winds and huge swales of opposition.
Trueblue1968
(19,251 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,263 posts)They want us to die too.
More bribe money available to them.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,142 posts)The rich still want their care, they just don't want the rest of us to have any.
After all, the anointed get preferential treatment and only they get healthcare.... mainly because only they can afford it.
Pricing healthcare out of range of most Americans will do it if we don't stop them.
All by design.
Grim Chieftain
(1,735 posts)dedl67
(223 posts)I had polio before the vaccine came along. I have memories of being for weeks in bed in a huge room, jammed with beds with other kids strapped down in strait jackets. Hardly and room for the nurses to move among the beds, and a long line of iron lungs along the walls. Is that where we are heading? Damn these people to hell.
popsdenver
(2,303 posts)mix up a batch of Kool-Aid, like amother cult leader did.........
Trump's first time around, his actions/inactions killed an ADDITIONAL half million Americans.........
Maybe part of the new marching orders that Putin gave him in Alaska...............
Seriously, at some point the MAGAot voters and Republican Politicians have got to say.......enough is enough
HighFired49
(494 posts)I guess that one epidemic wasn't enough for Dump. Sure sign of STUPID- inability to learn from experience. I'll bet that he'll get vaccinated.
popsdenver
(2,303 posts)Trump's CABAL, and the 1%ers will figure out a covert way to get it from others countries for themselves?????
Then start checking American citizens for needle marks when coming back into the country..........
ShazzieB
(22,588 posts)Don't give them any ideas!

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,035 posts)Walleye
(44,804 posts)Morbius
(997 posts)The majority of those who will die without the vaccine are the elderly, who can't be exploited too much anymore. I suspect - and I hope - public outrage will cause them to reconsider.
Every day, a new definition of evil comes from this administration.
The Madcap
(1,904 posts)Kill off anyone and everyone not willing or able to work extremely long shifts seven days a week for free.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)JoseBalow
(9,488 posts)Poof!
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Xavier Breath
(6,640 posts)sheshe2
(97,623 posts)JoseBalow
(9,488 posts)sheshe2
(97,623 posts)RFKJunior is so dreamy.😳🤮
The Madcap
(1,904 posts)I made a post, and then I see three "Post Removed" blurbs. Maybe it's a good thing I missed it.
sheshe2
(97,623 posts)Don't give her a thought.
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Cha
(319,069 posts)No room for Treasonous Stupid Assholes on this board.
sheshe2
(97,623 posts)Is she using a 'Yellow' theme now when choosing her user name?
Cha
(319,069 posts)a little treasonous toady Trying constantly to claw at the door to ooze slime on Democracy.
Traitor has the uglies fans.
Sage
Irish_Dem
(81,263 posts)If we are not making the billionaires richer.
They want our savings.
MrWowWow
(1,461 posts)And videogames! They'll have to pry my Borderlands 4 game cartridge from my cold dead hands!
Irish_Dem
(81,263 posts)Sorry, the Trump crime syndicate won't let you take the games with you to the grave.
Yep they will take your parking spot too.
SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)Or at least they used to, before Republicans passed their BBB bill in July cutting $1 Trillion from Medicare over the next 10 years.
hamsterjill
(17,577 posts)The more of us oldies who die, the more money they have to steal from Social Security and Medicare.
LiberalArkie
(19,804 posts)Total cumulative data show Black, Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) people have experienced higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths compared to White people when data are adjusted to account for differences in age by race and ethnicity.
https://www.kff.org/covid-19/covid-19-cases-and-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-current-data-and-changes-over-time/
pat_k
(13,373 posts)... is a "beautiful" savings.
Not a joke. They actually believe this.
Same with hastening the deaths of the working poor who currently, or at some point in the future, may collect any of the pennies in assistance that will remain when they're done with their "beautiful savings" on Medicaid, Medicare, and every other hard won program that is absolutely necessary for survival against the insanity of an unfettered free market.
Nevermind that private sector profits are utterly dependent on a strong public sector they are hellbent on dismantling.
The priorities are so out of whack it is like we are living in the upside-down of Stranger Things.
usedtobedemgurl
(2,050 posts)It and the flu shot, in case they ban it. I guess the shot now is better than none later.
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)but will take what I can get this week.
Ms. Toad
(38,637 posts)I skipped last spring's vaccination because I wasn't on stage in May. I ordinarily get the vaccination 2 weeks before I go on stage (and unmask). I wasn't around a lot of people indoors this summer, so I didn't get it this summer. Since it is fall, I was debating whether to get the spring version, or wait for the fall.
I think I probably shouldn't wait, given the idiots in charge.
lostincalifornia
(5,359 posts)RexLipton
(110 posts)These bans are just for the old, poor and infirm. People who cant do anything for them and so theyre a drain on the system.
Moostache
(11,178 posts)They also deserve to suffer for extended periods with no administration of pain medication of any kind either. They should be bled with leeches and have cranical holes drilled to alleviate swelling and allow the evil spirits an escpae route from their heads. This should all be done with NO ANTISEPTICS, NO STERILIZATIONS and only a dirty ass priest muttering things in Latin in a corner of the dirty room they are cut open in.
Norbert
(7,765 posts)Whatever
Vinca
(53,994 posts)IronLionZion
(51,267 posts)mainer
(12,554 posts)No vaccines. No way to protect ourselves. But all the ivermectin you want.
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bmichaelh
(1,181 posts)Because people are still dying from COVID.
For example, the British actor, Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi contracted COVID and pneumonia in the hospital and died recently.
Bunch of idiots in charge of healthcare in this country.
Seems Trump wants to have two worst presidencies ever.
RFK Jr was parodied in The Simpsons last year.
There was a character called Robert F. Quimby Jr. who blamed a death on vaccines at a funeral..
The mayor responded:
"You shut up, Robert F. Quimby Jr.! You're an embarrassment to this family. And that's saying a lot!"
RFK Jr is complete embarrassment.
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SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)He was 87. Not clear if he had a recent booster. https://deadline.com/2025/07/kenneth-colley-dead-star-wars-life-of-brian-actor-1236448796/
Blues Heron
(8,837 posts)If you ever wondered what you would have done under the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s - your doing it right now.
DFW
(60,184 posts)What I am doing now is living in Germany, probably NOT what I would be doing under the National (or any other) Socialists in the 1930s.
yorkster
(3,832 posts)'Cause something sure is building.
This is what we have been dreading. This and much morel, of course.
LymphocyteLover
(9,847 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,465 posts)underpants
(196,494 posts)bmichaelh
(1,181 posts)Plan on getting COVID vaccine in September, if updated booster is available.
Not sure what roadblocks I will run into.
I am not yet 65 but am undergoing active lymphoma maintenance treatments.
My doctor assures me that they will take care of me if my local pharmacy refuses.
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BumRushDaShow
(169,749 posts)dalton99a
(94,115 posts)spanone
(141,609 posts)Escape
(469 posts)might very well kill the sickly, pasty, senile, old asshole in the Oval Office. Proceed.
Native
(7,359 posts)NT
Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)He already took it when he was telling others not to.
greatauntoftriplets
(179,005 posts)keep_left
(3,210 posts)He got absolutely heroic measures thrown at him in order to save his life, including something like 20 rounds of Regeneron antibody therapy.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220539838#post29
Torchlight
(6,830 posts)A proud day to be... well, Welsh. Greek is good too.
(don't bother, Statler & Waldorf. Don't bother)
Jimvanhise
(594 posts)Everything he has done this year has been done to harm the United States, not make anything better. He is doing to America like he is doing to all of his perceived "enemies."
tanyev
(49,291 posts)I feel it would look exactly like what the Trump administration is now doing.
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)and they were doing what the current regime is doing, there would be a hell of a lot more resistance.
Great empires are not conquered from without until they have crumbled from within.
Will and Ariel Durant
harumph
(3,278 posts)Good bedtime reading. They would be appalled at the "memory holing" that we engage in.
I feel like we're hurtling back toward the 1850s.
mainer
(12,554 posts)I hope Canadian drugstores offer vaccines to Americans -- at a price, of course.
DBoon
(24,983 posts)hunter
(40,690 posts)If you say "yes," or even if you say "no" and they think you did, they'll detain you indefinitely.
yorkster
(3,832 posts)Then there's the getting back in part.
Burner phones for all, I guess.
ShazzieB
(22,588 posts)It would be a long day trip, but doable if necesary. I wonder what the vaccine would cost up there for non Canadians.
I guess we need to apply for our passport cards now so we can get them in time. *SIGH*
evemac
(321 posts)The medical community would rally and do something collectively. They know how this would impact all of better that anyone.
Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)We will quit, and move to sane places.
Javaman
(65,711 posts)markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)The wealthy mostly Republican enclaves here in Florida got theirs first.
https://www.wlrn.org/local-news/2021-03-04/wealthy-keys-enclave-received-covid-vaccines-in-january-before-much-of-the-state
https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/04/covid19-vaccines-for-rural-black-communities-going-to-wealthy-white-floridians/
mac56
(17,821 posts)Bengus81
(10,165 posts)Everyone else can just DIE..................
Bluetus
(2,795 posts)The cases are more mild now, but they are still like a really bad flu. This is insanity.
LisaL
(47,423 posts)Flu vaccines could be next.
mwmisses4289
(4,186 posts)This is the antivaxxer crowd, the ones who believe the long debunked nonsense that vaccines cause autism. The ones who believe that childrens book that makes light of how dangerous measles really are.
Idiots who took whatever intelligence they had and hid it somewhere so safe, now they can't find it.
We all better learn herbal medicine, it's what they are reducing us to.
orangecrush
(30,256 posts)Will.
Bluetus
(2,795 posts)an MRNA therapy has entered trials that has the promise of providing short-term protection against ALL known viruses. It would be effective for several weeks, with the main use case being to protect first responders who are sent into an infection zone.
Of course we want to make sure all these therapies are safe. That's why we have the rigid testing protocols and the panels of experts.
And we're going to let this dumbass who has zero medical trailing destroy all of that?
Wednesdays
(22,601 posts)chowder66
(12,240 posts)keep_left
(3,210 posts)...because the MAGA chud morons booed him when he did (and when he recommended that they take the vaccine).
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220539838#post25
caraher
(6,359 posts)What if Gavin Newsom praised him unironically for developing a beautiful, perfect vaccine?
ShazzieB
(22,588 posts)They are willing to take his word for SO MANY ridiculous things...but not this! There's no explaining MAGA cultists.
Incanus
(180 posts)I hope everyone who's at risk can get vaccinated before it's banned. I'm fortunate that my employer has vaccine clinics every September or I would have to pay for a doctor's visit or a hefty co-pay at the pharmacy.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,849 posts)GiqueCee
(4,257 posts)... mothafuckahs! IMPEACH BOTH OF THESE BAGS OF RAT SHIT! NO MERCY!
God damn both of these murderers to Hell.
Emile
(42,289 posts)God, I hope it will be available. Covid is on the rise around here.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)weren't going to be getting one next year or any year after that as long as this country remains under fascist control.
samplegirl
(13,984 posts)Did t enough people die of the hoax?
MrWowWow
(1,461 posts)Turbineguy
(40,074 posts)if you're dead.
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Peacetrain
(24,288 posts)CrispyQ
(40,969 posts)I know we all ask this multiple times a day, but IS ANYONE GOING TO STOP THIS ORANGE FUKCING ASSHOLE?
Liberal In Texas
(16,270 posts)I think I'll wait for more credible reporting from someone besides the Daily Beast.
Random Boomer
(4,405 posts)This isn't news out of the Trump Administration, it's just some hanger-on trying to promote his own agenda.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Nevilledog
(55,080 posts)SpankMe
(3,720 posts)During the Covid pandemic, before the vaccine was introduced, the increase in excess deaths (i.e. the number of deaths above the prior all-cause baseline) was between 10% and 50% in most months. That number is down into the single digits today. The total number of excess deaths was close to 1 million during the 22 months before the vaccine became available. That's one million people who WOULD NOT HAVE DIED had there been no Covid or Covid vaccine.
If they succeed in banning the vaccine, those excess deaths will increase again as each mutation occurs and spreads. It'll be an additional half million or so per year. Maybe more.
Of all the shit this asshole president and HHS lackey have done, this would be the most serious. This one should move people to force a real turnover in government in the next election. Dems must jump on this now and stay on it forever.
Few of the responses in this thread reflect the true serious of this. They want to ban the vaccine, and ban mask mandates, and ban remote work, and ban social distancing policies. How can this be interpreted as anything other than a plot to kill millions.
Pro-life, indeed.
covid deaths are only in the hundreds most months now... nay, no big deal
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,369 posts)Six117
(339 posts)Release the Epstein files. Doing so it's far more constructive than whatever the hell banning vaccines is going to do.
IbogaProject
(5,913 posts)After all they were created during his operation Warp Speed. My guess they will pull all payments including hobbling private insurace paying for it and try and claim to plan to deny coverage for COVID vaccine "injuries", leading to immediate litigation. They get their talking points and coverage for vaccines hold but lingering fear about not being covered in the future for the public.
progressoid
(53,179 posts)Dr Aseem Malhotra is no stranger to controversy. A decade ago, as an NHS clinician, he founded Action on Sugar, a campaign group credited with forcing Public Health England to push for lower levels of sugar in popular products. At the time, he was branded an agent of the nanny state, removing packaging that appealed to children and forcing sugar warnings on the public.
The cardiologist, 47, has also been a vocal critic of the widespread use of statins one of the most prescribed medications on the NHS as a preventative drug to reduce the risk of heart disease.
But it is since the outbreak of Covid-19 that he has risen to serious public prominence, first as a proponent of the UK governments vaccine rollout, then as one of its fiercest critics. He has repeatedly claimed that the mRNA vaccines developed during the pandemic did more harm than good and called for them to be suspended.
Now he has a new role which gives him a huge influence over global health policy. A long-time ally of Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trumps health secretary, Malhotra was recently appointed chief medical adviser to the MAHA Institute (dedicated to RFK Jrs Make America Healthy Again mantra), making him perhaps the most powerful Briton in Trumps administration.
more...https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/13/aseem-malhotra-interview/
travelingthrulife
(5,179 posts)Billions took it safely.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,179 posts)Republicans are destroyers.
Initech
(108,782 posts)Johonny
(26,178 posts)They have a clear agenda. Steering Americans to their bullshit products that are worthless, overly expensive, and make them rich. They are vastly more compromised than the vaccine makers.
NCDem47
(3,470 posts)Unless the U.S. starts arresting people on re-entry for doing this.
"Freedom" "Liberty" "Don't Tread on Me" my ass!
Botany
(77,323 posts)In October of 2023 I got an E. coli infection in my gut and needed surgery and after the
hospital I had 3 months in a nursing home before I got back to my house and Labrador
and COVID ran through the nursing home and I got very ill with it but it didnt kill me thanx
to the C-19 vaccine. I am better now but this is madness and this will kill 100s of thousands
of Americans. Btw this anti vaccine, anti mRNA, and anti science crap is 100% Russian in
origin in order to hurt and weaken America.
Here is an idea why not leave this up to the doctors and scientists?
peggysue2
(12,533 posts)Need to get our shots sooner rather than later.
These maniacs will kill us all!
Botany
(77,323 posts)to bust heads and arrest people who protest against Trump.
Passages
(4,161 posts)Initech
(108,782 posts)Words cannot express how much I truly despise these motherfuckers. Fuck Trump and fuck RFK Jr. To the hottest and fieriest circle of the depths of hell!
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LPBBEAR
(658 posts)Actually its way past time but whatever.
With this move, if this is true, Trump and his cronies have moved past just being incompetent, evil, and stupid. This WILL kill Americans, By whatever means available he and all of his supporters need to be forcibly removed, By whatever means.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)even if the vaccine is totally banned (and I'll go out on a limb here and say that it won't be), very few more people will die from it. Very few.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)love nothing more than to ban them all, which I would assume they will if they get away with this. Our ability to survive future pandemics (which are all but guaranteed, and will almost certainly be more lethal, considering how stupidly lucky we got with COVID's decreasing mortality rate over time) has been all but completely sacrificed in the name of conspiracy theories and fascist ideology.
The precedent being set by this is beyond disastrous.
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)Evil regime. And I hope multiple members of his family and republicans politicians get those infectious deadly diseases while the rest of us wear our masks.
cab67
(3,749 posts)Not really, I know - but that's what should happen if the vaccine is banned.
mzmolly
(52,793 posts)Good gawd, the lunacy!
ificandream
(11,837 posts)orangecrush
(30,256 posts)Look at the record so far
Doodley
(11,912 posts)lonely bird
(2,941 posts)Ok, party of personal responsibility, you refuse to get a vaccine, any vaccine and you get sick then you dont get treated, period. Go buy ivermectin from the vet.
RFK should have worn a condom.
Torchlight
(6,830 posts)while a moon-landing denier is appointed to NASA... and Marcel Marceau sings the national anthem for effect.
IronLionZion
(51,267 posts)rapid unscheduled disassembly of US population
Bookreadingliberal53
(159 posts)I have a bad feeling theyll be banned soon too.
Bengus81
(10,165 posts)The way your health is Trump, a good case of Covid would kill you in just a few days.
LymphocyteLover
(9,847 posts)paulkienitz
(1,507 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(13,369 posts)One of these billionaire fascists said he wanted the us population trimmed to 10 million. I cant remember who it was that said this.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,285 posts)goes on and on about how great RFK jr is and how he wont do anything bad?
twodogsbarking
(18,779 posts)TBF
(36,668 posts)Be Leave On
(430 posts)Francesca Fiorentini made an hour long video comment on RFK Jr.'s time in office so far.
https://franifio.substack.com/p/everything-rfk-jr-has-destroyed-so
Paper Roses
(7,632 posts)Be Leave On
(430 posts)I saw it, and I am not a paid subscriber.
ShazzieB
(22,588 posts)I got this:

Karasu
(2,003 posts)Fuck this party of eugenicists. Anyone pushing this deserves what they're clearly trying to inflict on the rest of us.
Actual freedom includes the choice to get vaccinated no matter how many fascist anti-vaxxers control the fucking government. These trash humans complained constantly about having the vaccine "forced" upon them and framed themselves as rebellious heroes for resisting it, meaning they knew full well they weren't actually being "forced." They made a choice not to get it. Now, they don't want to give anyone a fucking choice in the matter. Funny how that works.
Frankly, the fact that this country has even gotten to the point where this is possible (let alone accepted by the majority) is one of the most obvious signs of a failed state there is. No one should have their future determined by conspiracy theorists. Conspiracy theorists who were mainstreamed in the middle of a fucking pandemic by these loons.
Anyone who values their health and has the means needs to get the fuck out of here.
GiqueCee
(4,257 posts)... with even rudimentary critical thinking skills already knows that Trump is evil incarnate, but we're still learning the depths of Kennedy's depravity, and we learned a lot today. This entire administration is infested with incompetent, sociopathic cockroaches.But these two showed their hands a bit too early. Now we KNOW, beyond the remotest shadow of a doubt, that they are both homicidal monsters with every intention of murdering as many innocent Americans as possible. The federal legal code still allows capital punishment for mass murder of this obscene magnitude, and this certainly qualifies or it fucking well should.
Let Kennedy join his esteemed uncle and father, even if for all the wrong reasons. And there's a special hole in Hell reserved for the Gangrenous Boil on the Ass of Humanity. These psychopaths have to be stopped.
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,369 posts)Rhiannon12866
(255,525 posts)I have tried to keep up by getting the newest ones and as far as I know I've been Covid-free so far... I have asthma.
Bread and Circuses
(2,045 posts)
.and there will be a black market for Covid vaccines .
So, now we know they will kill us.
If we dont die of a disease, theyll shoot us as we cry out in agony on the streets.
applegrove
(132,207 posts)from Epstein files.
Johonny
(26,178 posts)They are happy to kill you, but we all know they're getting the vaccine.
Buckeyeblue
(6,352 posts)They can stop them from being covered by Medicare or Medicaid. I'm not sure what covid vacines would cost but I'm guessing it would be more than those on a fixed income could afford.
States could pick up the slack and help defer costs. Red states would do nothing and covid cases would spike in those areas.
No matter how you shake it, it's fucked up.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)beyond that...and honestly, it's not that surprising. It's pure red meat. These fascists have defunded production of mRNA vaccines in general. They mainstreamed and embraced anti-vaxers in the middle of a pandemic entirely for political gain. There are no limits to their insanity or their cruelty.
Montauk6
(9,339 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,158 posts)C Moon
(13,643 posts)I wouldn't put it past him to charge thousands to people who want "illegal" vaccines.
stollen
(1,143 posts)That's how the US govt functions these days.
Emile
(42,289 posts)JustAnotherGen
(38,054 posts)But the Blue States can get around this.NJ is a Big Pharma state with a ton of beautiful minds, scientists, and Pharma talent.
If we don't engage in interstate Commerce - we can do whatever the hell we want.
Seven months in and we've had it with these assholes. It's time to go behind their backs and do whatever ensures we keep people gainfully employed.
No bullets, no weapons, no violence.
But a quiet gentle first shot at secession.
D_Master81
(2,585 posts)You mean Trump is going to ban the vaccine that he boasted he was responsible for getting fast tracked in 2020? Got it
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,849 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(13,369 posts)Before brain worm takes it off the shelves
