Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine.
It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.
The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
@luckytran "Everyone who does not have an active influenza or other infection, or any contra-indications" needs a flu vaccine.
@luckytran May the ghosts of 1.3 million people who died from COVID haunt his waking dreams. Lemmings don’t commit mass suicide, Disney pushed them off a cliff.
@luckytran the only logical conclusion to draw is this administration wants to kill millions of poor people with plausible deniability.
@luckytran Isn't this exactly the kind of thing Republicans insisted would happen under socialised healthcare?
@luckytran I’d say it’s more witchcraft than politics.
@luckytran in the U.K. they restrict free flu and COVID vaccines to over 65s, under 16s/ students and some people with medical conditions. A decision taken year after year just a short walk from John Snow’s pump
@luckytran Easy enough to lie, go to any pharmacy that you have never had a prescription filled at. Use cash not insurance, and claim to have any qualifying condition that is not on the shit list (e.g don't admit to being autistic to anyone in heathcare). Remember to be able to use your name to find any medical records would require RFK Jr to find a way to kill HIPAA.
If that DOES happen, try another new pharmacy, claim to have neither ID nor insurance, and change one letter in your name and use a fake phone number to block all digital searches. Remember what you tell them so you can use it again next year,
@LukefromDC @luckytran My guess is that in most places, a Covid-19 vaccine wouldn't be difficult to obtain, but not using insurance means you will be paying a couple hundred dollars in most cases. For many folks, that's essentially nothing. For many folks, that's completely unaffordable. County and state health programs might have free vaccines in some areas.
There are lots of situations like this.
Self-managed abortion and self-managed transitions aren't paid for by health insurance either.
I speak of what I am familiar with, because I live rather on this society's margins.
The US for-profit medical system is globally notorious for this sort of situation. Also note that the only reason covid still exists at all is that rich countries that can spend trillions on weapons didn't spend what it would have taken to properly arm the rest of the world for a war on a virus back in 2021. Had the initial vaccine rollout been global like the smallpox eradication campaign, we could have snuffed out covid before Omicron could evolve and possibly even have pre-empted Delta.
If Delta had been pre-empted by a global vaccination campaign, alpha and earlier strains would have died out like they did in the US, ending the pandemic and the need to spend anything futher on this vaccine at all beyond maintaining a stockpile. The stockpile would have been to snuff out any re-emergence.
It is possible but less certain that just pre-empting Omicron and then targetting Delta with boosters would have also been enough to eradicate covid.
Didn't happen, the rich countries only made enough vaccine for themselves.
Here in the US, we have the best healthcare money can buy because we have the best democracy money can buy...
@luckytran I give it a month or two before they get rid of flu vaccines as well
@luckytran Sounds like an attempt to save money using an accountant mentality. E.g., self-styled fiscal conservatives who wanted to save money by denying health care to undocumented immigrants, an idea I dubbed "The Tuberculosis Bill of Rights". Bacteria and viruses do not "care" about citizenship, and the more infected people you have running around due to not being able to get health care, the higher the risk is for everyone else.
@luckytran Ya think?
@luckytran there are still three days to leave public comments to FDA... https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001
@luckytran They've had 5 years and billions of doses (and $) to find any issues. How much more do they need?
...again/still.
@luckytran The counterargument to that is that the flu vaccine shouldn't be so readily available. I'm sure there will be corresponding change in policy for that vaccine too.
@luckytran They're running an experiment on the US population. A stupid, pointless, dangerous, unnecessary, costly, clumsy experiment that will get people killed for no good god damn reason.
@Legit_Spaghetti @luckytran It’s intentional killing of humans.
@Beachbum @Legit_Spaghetti @luckytran
The billionaires funding covid disinformation saw their wealth increase over 88% after covid.
https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/
They want a do-over on covid relief bailouts.
There's a strong eugenics component to Scaife & Mellon.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/11/surgical-strike/
https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/eugenics-border-wars-population-control-the-tanton-network/
GOP donors like Tim Mellon, hope to fund false "blame the immigrants" narratives in time for 2026.
@Legit_Spaghetti @luckytran
It's not an experiment if they aren't intending to learn from it
@sabik @Legit_Spaghetti @luckytran
These people think watching AI propaganda counts as doing research. They actively hate science.
He's being contemptuous again!
@sabik @Legit_Spaghetti @luckytran
This guy literally tells us he's too good to work for us and everyone just shrugs and says "i wish he wouldn't" when the entire point is that he's there destroying everything his office is supposed to uphold. A shrug is exactly what he wanted from us on this point!