I’m not sure what the motivation for this is. Is it just an easy win for his voters because they believe vaccines are bad because they only learnt of their existence during COVID? Baffles me.
Edit: Actually it’s probably more likely that it’s some backhanded way to scupper contracts for some big pharma company they are at odds with.
He didn’t have it at the time but a while back RFK promised to prove the link between vaccines and autism.
How is that going?
Why are we still fucking doing this? It has been proven time and time again, this vaccines/autism link does not exist.
Last year it was Tylenol… who the fuck is all this in service to? Like, where is the money trail? At least that would make sense. It would be corrupt, but I expect that, and it would at least make sense…
I genuinely do not understand wtf is the point of this anti-vaxxx posturing with this admin. It’s fucking bonkers.
Trump actually told his followers to get vaccinated. Then he got booed and went publicly fully anti vaccine from then on. The calculus was simple: he was losing more voters from being pro vaccine than voters were dying of viruses.
Accusing Tylenol of causing autism was a deliberate tactic to suppress Kenvue’s stock price to facilitate Kimberly-Clark’s acquisition of it.
This one is bottom-up pressure most likely. MAGA already hates vaccines so Trump is throwing them a bone since he can’t actually follow up on any of his non-fascist promises.
I wonder if it’s in service of catering to the area of the voting base for whom this is a deal breaker, without being enough to alienate everyone else? So good old-fashioned cynical efforts to stay in power without needing to do difficult things like actually trying to improve things for people.
Or maybe it is just money, and there’s funding there that we don’t know about.
It’s pretty much pressure from a voting base that is radicalized against established medical science. They got those voters with disinformation on social media and now have to throw 'em some bones.
The other aspect is that JFK and Trump simply don’t care about losing some children/people to disease. They don’t give a single fuck. It’s this ‘well maybe the weak should die’ mindset that is based on an absolutely misguided understanding of how biology works and no empathy whatsoever. The combination of stupid and ruthless means we’ll end up with absolutely needless loss of life between the other lives that we lose for the sake of increasing shareholder value.
I mean now they force a lot of pregnancies to go through … And they will just make it more likely for the baby to die?
I feel some moral dilemma somewhere.Dumb old men
Next up is bleach and bigly lamp insertion therapy. Dr Trump.
