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All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

arstechnica.com All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

Overall, the meeting was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments.

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Has anyone ever asked Trump what he would consider the perfect population count of the USA ?
- I don't think he's got a number in mind, just a hue.
  
  I seem to remember hearing Trump speaking before a press conference saying he thought the US could do with just 1/3 of its current population.
- Marginal Griftees = Marginal Cost (Trumps Effort)
- About 100m according to others in the regime.
Where the hell is big pharma on this one. I can't imagine this is good for stock price
- Where the hell is big pharma on this one. I can't imagine this is good for stock price
  
  You're not thinking like a psychopathic pharmaceutical exec: vaccines cure people for life instead of creating a lifelong dependency on drugs to survive.
  
  vaccines are not good for the bottom line. I'm pretty sure the pharma industry absolutely loves RFK Jr.
  
  There will still be significant demand for childhood vaccines among people who aren't vapid dipshits, and the price per dose will likely go up because people will be more desperate for them when all the outbreaks happen. Look at the demand for measles vaccines right now. 15 years ago, parents were like "Oh, yeah, I guess the kids probably need a booster maybe." Now, those parents are like "Oh fuck, we need a measles booster because vapid dipshits are trying to kill everyone!"
  
  Nah, you aren't thinking big picture enough. A person is ONLY valuable if they reach adulthood with chronic conditions. They need their customers to survive childhood.
- They probably don't make a huge amount of money on childhood vaccines. The money is in chronic illnesses, diet injections and expensive cancer treatments.
  
  In fact, they collectively probably would make more money treating measles cases than selling vaccines.
  
  expensive cancer treatments.
  
  fuck, don't remind me 😣
- healthy people don't buy medications at exorbitant rates. the reason prevention is worth a pound of cure is because you're not desperate enough to buy them their fifth yacht.
Golly, I can't understand why younger generations aren't having more kids.
- Now even if they do they will all die of preventable illness
- Plus all the plastic in us. It transfers.
I would never have expected this from a secretary of health who eats roadkill!
US is speed running polio, meningitis, measles, whooping cough now!!! Has MAGA happened yet?!
- MAGA - Make America Gilded Again.
  
  Disease, poverty, brutality, and mediocrity, all to haunt our people once again.
Congratulations America. You found a way to make gun violence only the 2nd greatest killer of children.
- Wait for the food shortages to push it to 3rd
Eradicating smallpox seems like a mistake now.
258,000,000.

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