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.
Don’t worry about it, you will be able to get vaccines developped in Europe, Asia or Africa. The tarriffs will no doubt be minimal. Besides if you don’t test for it you don’t have any known deaths from that.
Big pharma either has HQ in the EU, or fully functional labs, manufacturing, trials, and regulatory submissions to EMEA. The US might get fucked, but the vaccines should still come through.
It still hurts the whole world if there is a reservoir of 340 million unvaccinated Americans for the virus to infect and mutate in. Though if this thing gets going that number would rapidly come down, but not in a good way.
Republicans have cancelled the government-funded monitoring, vaccine research, disaster preparation and disaster response capacity. It is the absolute most stupid, short-sighted and self-destructive thing a government could do when all the signs are that this is ready to go pandemic at any moment, and potentially be the deadliest thing humanity has experienced in centuries, or, in fact, ever.