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Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, resigned after reportedly being forced out amid clashes with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that Kennedy wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

He criticized Kennedy’s stance on vaccines, accusing him of undermining public confidence.

Marks, who led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research since 2016, played a key role in authorizing Covid vaccines and spearheading Operation Warp Speed. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, has questioned the safety of Covid and MMR vaccines despite scientific consensus.

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[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 82 points 1 month ago

This is bad. This is really bad. We knew it was coming, but if the FDA is dismantled to syncopats, a lot of people will die.

Corporations will cheap out on food safety, drug safey, medical device safety, health recommendations, vaccines, research, you name it.

Preventable disease will spread. More people will die in hospitals on life saving equipment. Any exported medications (I don't know if that's a thing) will have to be blocked by the receiving countries.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago

if the FDA is dismantled to syncopats

Did you mean sycophants? Psychopaths? Something else?

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago

.... Yes

I couldn't figure out how to spell it lol

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

When vaccines are no longer available in the US, there will be a tourism boost from Americans going elsewhere to get them. You guys can just shift us left by helping lefties survive while conservatives self-select to be decimated by disease.

[-] trevor 44 points 1 month ago

That isn't how this works. Herd immunity is extremely important for people who actually can't safely be vaccinated, but more importantly, having large populations of anti-vaxxers will create ample opportunity for the viruses to mutate into forms that we don't necessarily have vaccines for.

We are all truly fucked unless we deal with these scum. It's not just going to hurt the people causing the problem, and it will spread to the rest of the world.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

You understand what you're saying with "deal with these scum," right? They are the government. If they don't outright ban vaccines, they will pull all funding of them.

There is only one cure for a fascist government, and we aren't desperate enough for that. Yet.

Until then, we'll have to work around them. Many on the left are marginalized folks. I don't include myself there, but if anyone in this country knows how to skirt the rules to live their life, it's them. They will lead the way.

Underground vaccine clubs. Phrases like, "friends of Edward Jenner." I mean it probably sounds a little more tongue in cheek than I intend. I'm not saying this will be a gay old time. I'm saying we will find ways to survive and thrive despite their best efforts, as people always have (I mean, you know, barring the occasional genocide).

And if it becomes desperate enough to remove fascists the only way they can be, we will do that, too.

[-] trevor 7 points 1 month ago

I don't disagree with any of this. We just also need to be realistic about the fact that viruses have no boundaries and they don't discern between marginalized people and fascist shitheads when they mutate and spread.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That's true too. There will be suffering, electing facists idiots kinda does that. Protecting yourself and your community of non-idiots is the best you can do. Find those vulnerable people and set up a group that can care for them vaccinated people delivering/making food and the like.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I've been saying for years that we're going to have a civil war. I predicted it when I was a hard line conservative and I've been saying now as a bleeding heart liberal.

I was just hoping that I'd be much older when it happened.

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[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

That's assuming other countries will still let you in. If there's some outbreak a bit like the 'Rona again, they might say no vaccine no entry.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

If they just forcibly vaccinate and quarantine, that would accomplish the mission. Worst vacation ever, though.

[-] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Gonna stand at the US-Canadian border with my sleeve rolled up, cover myself in maple syrup, and wait for favorable winds so the Mounties’ vaccine drone can dart me

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

I wonder if we can come up with another set of the Bible plagues for the Trump administration because it seems like they're trying to do it.

[-] Bread@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Measles is picking up again, why not that one?

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

The death of your first born... along with your second, third, etc. All the born, really.

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Quick, somebody gather up a bunch of frogs and airdrop them over Mar A Lago.

[-] pixelpure@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Trump administration has always placed its own interests ahead of science. Women’s health, the definition of race, and vaccines have all been targeted. The U.S. will continue to lose its scientific researchers for the Trump admin to promote its own agenda. Trickle down economics didn’t work, but scientific research strangulation will affect all U.S. citizens.

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[-] rosco385@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

This is the "fuck around" portion. I fear for ordinary Americans when the "find out" part comes.

[-] NewDay@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Just come to Germany.

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