Posting this with the comment that the administration is trying to kill us got me banned on Reddit…again.

As for the vaccine they said they were stopping the research because the mRNA vaccines weren’t tested enough…you know other than the billions of doses already given and also the testing you’d do in… research…for a new vaccine.

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    Cancelled all research because not enough research has been done. Aside from the fact that the whole justification is a lie, are fascists always this stupid?

    Oh well, they’ll find a way to blame scientists when the pandemic kicks off. And this pandemic could be far worse than COVID, even if we had the vaccine research they just defunded.

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      Avian flu’s mortality is orders of magnitude higher than Covid’s. It’s like 60% or something like that. If you get a pandemic it will kill billions. The vaccine would help a lot in the early stages as it would prevent the virus from infecting more people. The more people it infects the higher chances are it will mutate and get more contagious or deadlier or both.

      Good thing the US admin has people monitoring the situation(that’s a joke, we’re fucked).

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      this pandemic could be far worse than COVID, even if we had the vaccine research they just defunded.

      The (up to) 90% fatality rate in cats that have caught the current strain of bird flu was enough for me to know this could get damn serious