FTFY

If vaccines are no longer being researched, then it doesn't matter how much money you have: you can't buy what doesn't exist.

If all the nonwhite scientists and doctors are being rounded up and deported or put in camps, that sharply reduces the speed at which any kind of new medical progress will continue.

If all the international students are being kept out—or staying out in fear of ICE—there's fewer new scientists.

And if every college has to pay 500 million to Trump out of operating funds to get 1 billion in restricted grants, pretty soon there won't be any left to train the scientists and doctors anyway, whatever their skin color.

What's happening right now isn't just a retrenchment of the elite in order to protect their private interests at everyone's expense. They're trying to do that, too, of course, but this is much too broad. It's essentially just destroying the possibility of a stable, healthy, improving life in the United States for the foreseeable future for everyone.

This is actually not true. Pharma is incredibly dependent on accurate CDC data. Same with agriculture, unless you think farmers are looking forward to the screwworm epidemic.

This benefits nobody except for the president, direct lackeys that will do his bidding, and maintaining his cult of personality. Even the powerful elites who helped put him here were themselves conned.

The US is being dismantled and what remains won’t be capable of being a world leader in anything except brute strength, and even that will eventually be compromised and fade away as corruption and incompetence completely take hold.