• Nougat@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    Just to be clear, the person making this claim is Dr. Aseem Malhotra, the crazy guy who’s gotten into the good graces of RFK Jr. “Crazy Guy who makes Crazy Claims makes another Crazy Claim that aligns with his previous Crazy Claims.” For me, I’m sticking this bit of information on the corkboard, but I’m not going to freak out about it. Yet.

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      There’s also the money involved. The pharmaceutical corporations pretty much have things rigged so they make huge profit off of any drug to market. Even those that aren’t really that effective. But when it comes to vaccines, that’s a pretty much a guaranteed demand.

      That’s a lot of dough to grease some wheels, if they needed to; no way any kind of ban like this would actually go through. Not that that should surprise anyone, after all, considering how frequently these morons turn out to be all talk, no substance.

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        Don’t forget the insurance companies.

        They’re doing the math, and they’d probably rather pay for a shot than expensive ICU stays.

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          I wish I could forget about the insurance companies. Monetizing fear itself. Can we get off this timeline please?!

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          They can just do what home insurers are doing in California and determine your location is high risk for an outbreak and cancel your policy right before you get sick!

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        That’s a lot of dough degrees some wheels, …

        Okay, that took me a minute to decode. To grease some wheels. Voice to text?

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      7 months ago

      im due for one and its enough that im going to go forward and see about getting one while I can. was waiting to get a job offer to have it close to the next point I might be in close contact with folks for long periods of times.