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So incredibly shortsighted. We only developed the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19 in under a year because 20 years ago we started researching it for exactly this scenario. If we had only started working on that body of research when a novel virus presented itself, no amount of money would be able to speed up the clock to deliver a vaccine that verifiably saved millions of lives in the same timespan.
When, not if, the next pandemic comes around, we will want to have that body of research knowledge to help protect us against it.
Let it be known that the Covid-19 pandemic cost US taxpayers trillions of dollars (much of it lost to actual fraud) because Trump thought it would be a good idea to pinch some pennies by cutting the funding for the US-backed watchdog organization that oversaw infectious disease labs like the one in Wuhan, China. "Saving" money by not investing in disease prevention now will end up costing an exponential amount of money more than whatever you think you will end up saving in the short term.
More stupid from the stupid administration.
For wellness gurus, health care is a threat to their business. That's why these people are defunding vaccines, because they'll make you lazy and not work out for your own health. Also a lot of them are eugenicists, see the chronically ill as "undeserving of life", and think "good genes attract each other" so a few generations adopting to polio will lead to blonde, blue eyed, muscle bound gigachads with chiseled chins.
If they get their way, it sounds like history will just repeat itself, and you'll get a bunch of glass-jawed six-toed offspring they'll declare as "the next step in superior human evolution." Lmao