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mimitabby

(1,960 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 12:24 PM Feb 2025

Thomas Massie calls on FDA to 'immediately' reverse course on COVID vaccines

Source: channel 4 news

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., on Wednesday called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reverse its approval of COVID-19 vaccines the agency has greenlit.

The comment, made via X, came in response to an interview between Drew Pinsky and Patrick Soon-Shiong, both of whom have experience in the medical field. During that discussion, the two touched on long COVID, a condition where symptoms of COVID resurface after one has already recovered from the disease.

Pinsky floated the idea of a long COVID vaccine.

“The reason of long COVID, I believe is because your body still has replicating virus,” he said. “You may not feel it, you may not know it. Inside is where it does it because it causes inflammation in multiple areas of your body, whether it be your heart and you get cardiac arrest or in your colon where you get cancer, whether it be in your brain where you get brain fog.”

Read more: https://cbs4local.com/news/nation-world/thomas-massie-calls-on-fda-to-immediately-reverse-course-on-covid-vaccines-food-and-drug-administration-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-patrick-soon-shiong-drew-pinsky

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Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,925 posts)
7. Massie is an absolute shithead.
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 01:57 PM
Feb 2025

He is one of those RW bozos who had Christmas Cards of his family all posing with firearms.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,678 posts)
15. I'm guessing that Massie is fully vaccinated
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 04:51 PM
Feb 2025

This anti-vax nonsense is only for the hoi-polloi, us peasants

keep_left

(3,209 posts)
6. Nothing speaks to the MAGA death drive like antivax politics.
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 01:46 PM
Feb 2025

How many Americans did we lose to this virus? 1,000,000+?! And we're quite possibly on the brink of another pandemic (avian flu). Yet these morons want to throw away our toolbox for fighting Covid. It's just infuriating!

mimitabby

(1,960 posts)
10. i actually saw..
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 02:45 PM
Feb 2025

people denying the fact that bird flu exists (in response to a concern about the health of cats)

so don't believe it until you're dead. That happened with Bubonic Plague as well.

keep_left

(3,209 posts)
12. Yep. There were stories in the press (posted here)...
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 03:25 PM
Feb 2025

...about MAGA idiots denying Covid as they were breathing their last. Then there was the sad spectacle of Covid patients asking for the vaccine on their deathbeds, long after it would have helped.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,196 posts)
17. Someone told me bird flu exists
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 07:06 AM
Feb 2025

and that it was created and distributed by the same people who created COVID-19. They said a mutation that makes bird flu transmissible between humans has already been created as well, all so Big Pharma can get rich on treatments and vaccines.

turbinetree

(27,488 posts)
8. Hey Massie are you going to make the health care providers provide names of those of us that want the vaccine...........
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 02:08 PM
Feb 2025

you really are a POS.....................I want to know when you have to go to the bathroom.................

LPBBEAR

(655 posts)
9. The results of this kind of thinking
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 02:15 PM
Feb 2025

are predictable.

Covid numbers are going to go up...obviously.

Start taking precautions now. Resume wearing masks, social distancing etc.

Masks work. My wife and I still mask in public spaces. We have not been sick since 2020. Nothing,

When and if bird flu gets loose in the population we'll have millions dead in this country because of neanderthal thinkers like Massie. Hopefully they are all Trump voters and include Massie.

Start preparing for the coming uptick in Covid now.

Prediction: These morons will attempt to somehow make it illegal to wear masks in public places or at the minimum government buildings.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
13. Between this shit, the defunding/freezing of all health-related agencies, and now RFK Jr., one can only conclude they
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 03:49 PM
Feb 2025

are trying to kill off as many people as possible.

There is no other explanation.

Vinca

(53,953 posts)
14. Maybe it's some kind of internal Republican challenge. How can they kill more people this time than the last time?
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 03:55 PM
Feb 2025
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