Even RFK Jr. has support for this.

Curious if people are still going to support him after this.

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    There’s some parts of the covid response that should be critically examined. I doubt anyone here is gonna say the west’s response was perfect. The initial lie of insisting masks DON’T prevent spread - because they wanted to prevent a run on masks - was actively harmful to later attempts to get people to mask by mandate. The US blob saying vaccines don’t work in Philipines because they didn’t want the PRCs vaccine to be successful in Philipines should be talked about.

    Like, there should be some kind of formal hearings on this if any of the west was serious about pandemic preparedness and management. It would probably end up as a joke and we wouldn’t learn fuck all at tye end of them, but it sure would be nice to actually find out the truth and figure out which countries response was the most effective at keeping people alive - including “enemies” like China or Vietnam or whatever, if what they did prevented death we should learn from that.

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    in the marvelization of politics, fringe political figures must take 1 (one) batshit position, to poison the well of anything good they might say.

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    Yeah I’d believe any of this was about pharma impact if ANYBODY on their side was mentioning that Moderna and Pfizer get their vaccines approved before other manufacturers and to greater demographics, or the fucking moneybags we gave them by privatizing the vaccines in exchange for truncating their market by falling into institutional pandemic denial

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    You can be pro-vax, pro-mandate, pro-lockdown, pro-generally-speaking-most-government-responses-to-the-pandemic, without being unfair to anyone slightly critical of any of those things.

    Curious if people are still going to support him after this.

    It’s not that big a deal, especially after 4 years