I think terms in boards like this should be filled under a different periodicity from the presidential term, preferentially with a period coprime to it, just like cicadas do. This way it would be harder to pull the trick of letting both cycles sync.
So is your suggestion that medical policy based on balancing humours is actually effective altruism?
Everyone: “we can tell you’re an entitled dbag.”
VC: “well now I’m going to act like an entitled dbag and it’s your fault.”
- Me paraphrasing his actual interview. You know who I’m talking about.
No, we don't, because not all of us watch the same media or follow the same threads.
All of them?
It’s incredible when I read this sort of comment, and then I realise that the comment is so badly ill informed that I need to respond. But it does make me wonder what sources of information the other person is reading…
Perhaps you were thinking about compensation from the government, but the original poster was talking about actually holding Pfizer and Moderna liable.
People still have an avenue to sue for harm -- they can sue the government.
The government took on that liability in exchange for preventing the spread of a highly pathogenic, novel pandemic with moderate mortality, thereby allowing return to normal life, with fewer deaths, faster.
Which part of that was a bad idea?
Hence the schadenfreude.
It's one thing to be wrong with everyone. It's another to be wrong after a ton of people said "This is a dumb idea."
The Citizens United decision allowed capital to have a much larger influence on the programming of our political media.
Obama, many faults and all, has a great quote on this topic: ~"If I watched Fox News, I wouldn't vote for me either!"
But hey, what do I know, maybe you're 80yo and working on a short time horizon.
And this is coming from someone who abhors that business model and everyone in it.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/is...
Oh and to be clear my attitude towards antivaxxers is burn by /slow/ fire, but still.
I am not antivax but can we please stop pretending like our government and health authorities didn’t royally screw the pooch as it related to the COVID vaccine communications, mandates, etc…?
People became more anti-vax largely due to the prior administration more than RFKjr.
So there may not be a scientific defense but there damn sure is a backlash because of poor leadership.
> On May 15, 2020, President Donald Trump officially announced the public-private partnership. The purpose of Operation Warp Speed was to coordinate Health and Human Services-wide efforts, including the NIH ACTIV partnership for vaccine and therapeutic development, the NIH RADx initiative for diagnostic development, and work by BARDA.
For what it’s worth…I am not a Trump supporter…but I am not going to make excuses for Biden and the democrats for the clusterfuck they created.
RFK made a career out of being anti-vax, while according to his congressional testimony, his own children were indeed vaccinated.
These people are political grifters, with no limits, even when it comes to other people's health.
(This comment exchange probably sucks, sorry)
People became more anti-vax because of the large contingent pushing anti-vax conspiracies to a credulous audience.
The previous administration’s policies were a significant success. Any idea they were a failure or a mistake is wrong.
It's very simple: if you push more anti-vax talking points and conspiracies, then naturally those ideas will be more popular in the zeitgeist. And, well, the right in general has been doing just that. Two plus two, now there's a lot more anti-vax people.
In what way? (Specifically re: screwing the pooch around vaccines, and not other parts of the covid response.)
Measles also cause other issues than death - weak immune system, blindness, and other conditions not covered in your mis-information chart.
Improved access to medication, antibiotics to fight secondary infections, better healthcare overall, have reduced death rates from measles prior to vaccines.
Less measles cases is better for EVERYONE. Those vaccinated, those unvaccinated, or those that are vaccinated, but did not get immunity.
The amount of measles cases plummets in...1964, the year after the vaccine was introduced
I thought that something like a pandemic would have brought us all together around a base truth. However, politics + social media was stronger than R₀, this time.
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Apparently ACIP is very much not new. I am curious to the specifics of the prevous mass appointment, however.
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> Although it’s typically not viewed as a partisan board, the Biden administration had installed the entire committee.
After some degree of googling the history of ACIP I had not found any explanation and thought maybe someone here(who is actually American and maybe follows this kind of thing more closely?) would just know
Looks like there are actually some comments now that are more clarifying.
> Are you just asking questions to smokescreen for this executive power grab?
I’m just trying to understand the background. I get that this is a sensitive topic, but I’d ask that we keep things civil and give people the benefit of the doubt when they’re asking honest questions.
vkou•2h ago
That trust was undermined by habitual liars in an effort to score political points at the expense of public health. None of the batshit-insane things they claimed were just around the corner have actually materialized.
Unfortunately, this isn't even the top five most egregious thing these people are doing this week.
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