Parents of daughter who died of measles meets with RFK Jr. to blame everyone but themselves.
Parents of daughter who died of measles meets with RFK Jr. to blame everyone but themselves.
In the dusty outskirts of Seminole, Texas - just past the cotton fields and under the relentless spring sun - Peter Hildebrand stands outside a gas station, his eyes rimmed red and voice cracking.
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they claimed...that Big Pharma used vaccines to make money, at the expense of people's health.
I see this all the time with vaccine sceptics and I mean, yeah... Can't we unite on the fact that vaccines should be public and not some private investment
I'm still pissed how the COVID vaccine (and practically every medication) was researched a d developed with public funds, but the patent is owned by private companies.
The public paid for it, it should belong to the people.
There's just more and more of this lately. We give money to the govt, they fork it over to some company, they use money to make a product I have to pay for, again.
Sorry that's just fucking dumb. Don't bail companies out or give huge grants, make them compete for contracts and have the people own a portion to reduce cost to the US consumer. It's socialism, sure. But at least we'd come out ahead instead of getting hosed again.
It's socialism, sure.
Well, the US definition maybe.
We need to stop calling them skeptics. That's not what this is.
it is crazy how close they are to understanding the toxicity of capitalism, but they stop at the last moment to scapegoat someone else.
it's not the Billionaires who are dangerous, it's the one Jewish billionaire
it's not there banks who are toxic, it's the Jewish bankers
it's not capitalism that prioritises profits over health, it's just the vaccine
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It's the best way to get vaccines though.
I can imagine a government controlled bureaucracy trying to invent new stuff 😰
Edit: people have no idea how modern medication is made.
What, like NASA or university grants? Government-backed research happens all the time in loads of fields.
Yes, and capitalistic ventures, startups and stuff builds off of that all the time, I thought you were against that.
Wait until Tesla needs to be bailed out.
What does that have to do with creating vaccines?
If the government is so bad and untrustworthy, why not instead of just accepting that they're bad and trying to not let them do stuff.... we change the government to make it more trustworthy.
I don't know your political leanings but the Republicans in congress almost all universally thin that government sucks and is bad, and they do everything in their power to make that assumption a reality
I can imagine a government controlled bureaucracy trying to invent new stuff 😰
No need to imagine, it's like the main way we do research in the US. Or at least it used to be...
Yup, that golden age when we came back from the depression was because of socialist policies FDR put in place and the rich immediately began to vilify (note these rich clowns caused the depression).
Socialism isn't a boogyman, it's the reason anything is working at all.
Most of the best things in America are Socialist.
Yup, like almost every modern amenity is from socialism. All capitalism has done for me lately is... Umm... What the fuck has capitalism done for me lately?
goddamn electrical grid
i'm gonna have to move to tennessee for this comment aren't i
funny thing is pharma would never make vaccines if it not for subsidies by the govt, its just not profitable to them.