Bonus points for Marty Makary (a surgeon with no particular experience in infectious disease) being the spokesperson for this. I wonder if he’s the only licensed doctor they could find in the government willing to advocate for this policy?
This is why fascism always eventually fails. Reality doesn’t give a shit about your spin and scapegoating, and will happily bring a pandemic roaring back when you do something stupid for the sake of the narrative.
The only question is how many people get hurt while it fails.
Hurting people is the POINT. People in his base WANT to see people hurt.
Until they get hurt. I know a former Trumper, who left after the Florida age verification law.
Wait, what age verification law?
and will require manufacturers to conduct clinical trials to show whether the vaccines are of benefit to healthy younger adults and children.
So…
Any/All data regarding COVID vaccines/vaccinations acquired from 2020-2025(1/2) doesn’t count for anything, huh??
Proven safe and effective in the wild is meaningless then, huh???
🤦♀️ 🤡 🖕 🖕
Those billions of people are obviously in Big Pharma’s pocket.
Is this the freedom they keep talking about?
Fuckin fuck.
Every fall I get my flu shot and covid boosters. Guess I’m just gonna have to play up my asthma as a high risk illness.
That will usually qualify, especially since Covid is primarily a respiratory illness.
Common sense says “yes”, but I fear we’ve gone far past that lol.
Unfortunately, it appears that you are correct. They released a list of qualifying conditions and while COPD and brochiectasis are on the list, asthma is not.
Edit: I’m kinda braindead right now. Asthma is the first thing on the list. whoops.
Am I reading it wrong, or is Asthma not the first item on the list?
(I hope I’m not reading it wrong lol).
You’re right. My brain is absolute pudding because I’m studying for my board exams. Doing a few hundred multiple choice questions about complex medical topics in a row doesn’t leave a whole lot of processing power left for anything else.
I feel ya. My brain is also running on fumes, so wasn’t 100% confident in my own reading lol.
Be careful that they don’t think you’re saying “miasma” as that is apparently the basis for RFK’s health dept policy
Killing Americans to make redneck cousin fuckers feel like their vote did what they wanted it to do.
Well, they sure proved the “you can’t trust the government when it comes to vaccines” message they were trying to put out during the pandemic.
I guess that’s kind of always been the Republican playbook: Complain about something in the government. If it’s not true, wait until you’re in power and make it true.
Good thing they’ve gotten rid of that “nanny state” they hate so much. 😒
Yeah, but people getting vaccines was bothering the cons. Same with people wearing masks. The cons shaping the world in such a way so that things they chose to politicize and obsess over no longer are bothersome to them is not being the “nanny state”, in their ridiculous redefinition of that term.
Point is, their big rallying cry was that people should be able make their own decision about whether to get the vaccine (or wear a mask), and now that they’re in charge they’re controlling what people can do, the very thing they complained about using terms like “nanny state”. Some repub-controlled places are banning mask-wearing as well so expect that to go national soon.
JFC. And I remember telling people after donvict “won” and before he slithered back into the office that they might want to be sure they were up on their shots, esp. Covid, and some of them told me I was being hysterical - even though I told them this in a calm and reasonable tone.
Fuck you, guve me my shot
You’ll probably have better chances of a successful shot at your local elementary school
droll AF
The fact that your comment doesn’t seem outlandishly calloused tells you how bad the state of affairs is. I work in education in Texas and often feel like I’m just waiting for my turn to catch a bullet.
May the internet gods of Lemmy protect thee and thine schools, or else let this fucking country get its shit together. Either is good, really.
Thank you, kind stranger.
And to you, yours, and us all, I wish a speedy unfuckening
I fucking hate these assholes. To the point where if I did not have a wife and kid, I would try to do something permanent about them.
I’m one terminal diagnosis away
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What the fuck? I had a family member nearly die from Covid. I got it 3 times despite being vaxxed and wound up with white blood cell counts that scared the doctor so much that she thought I had late stage cancer. The vaccine more than likely saved both our lives. Neither of us are over 65. Fuck this country.
Thanks, now I’m actually hoping Pfizer’s lobbying team is able to sway government policy.
I wonder how old the people in power are.
From the actual commentary ( https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929 ):
Over the past two seasons, uptake of the annual Covid-19 booster has been poor, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Less than 25% of Americans received boosters each year, ranging from less than 10% of children younger than 12 years of age in the 2024–2025 season to 50% of adults over 75 years old.4 Even health care workers remain hesitant, with less than one third participating in the 2023–2024 fall booster program.5 There may even be a ripple effect: public trust in vaccination in general has declined,6 resulting in a reluctance to vaccinate that is affecting even vital immunization programs such as that for measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination, which has been clearly established as safe and highly effective. In recent years, reduced MMR vaccination rates have been a growing concern and have contributed to serious illness and deaths from measles. Against this context, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeks to provide guidance and foster evidence generation.
Absolutely fucking bullshit spin, trying to redefine “poor” and scapegoat the vaccines themselves for the anti-vaxxers’ disinformation.
