The Trump administration and RFK Jr. are actively working to prevent mRNA vaccines from reaching the market.

People like Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison and Elon Musk are actively supporting the administration, including hundreds of millions in donations to MAGA political campaigns in recent months.

Should we hold these people accountable for the damage they're indirectly doing to public health? If not, why?

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soon_to_be_sb 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>The Trump administration and RFK Jr. are actively working to prevent mRNA vaccines from reaching the market.

Why though? Would they get paid by "crakpots" more than they could get paid by Big pharma !?

Apparently everyone knows Trump is only interested in him and friends making money. So how do you rationalize your claim?

	▲	ceejayoz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Would they get paid by "crakpots" more than they could get paid by Big pharma !? Yes. A whole bunch of the prominent "MAHA" folks sell/promote supplements, peptides, miracle cures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Health_Defense https://www.cspi.org/press-release/peptides-fda-urged-overru... https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12/03/dr-oz-influ... There's a shitload of money in alternative medicine, and you can get away with more.

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poly2it 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a relevant question. Is it ethical to indirectly kill people for profit? If so, under what circumstances? Phrased like this, it sounds ridiculous, but that must imply that the acts being committed are not understood by the people causing them through the lens I am interpreting them.

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JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> This is a relevant question

Important? Yes. Relevant? No.

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userbinator 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FYI the Trump administration was definitely not against vaccines: https://web.archive.org/web/20201216233803/https://www.hhs.g...

...nor Trump himself: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-saved-100-million-liv...

	▲	sumeno 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What's it like waking up after being asleep for 6 years?
	▲	ceejayoz 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Trump was the guy to do the "two weeks" lockdowns during COVID. Would you say the Trump administration still now supports that?
	▲	jibalt 5 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's not 2020, dude.
	▲	jeromegv an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Except for the part where he named an anti-vaxer as the Secretary of Health, which oversees the CDC