The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
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FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine
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Well, it certainly is more lethal for the elderly than for working age people. Perhaps it's a tacit strategy to shore up social security and medicare?
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Not exactly. Gravediggers dig exactly the same number of graves no matter how long people live.
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Not all of us and highly doubtful it was a fair election.
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I'm living proof. I developed heart failure from COVID in March 2020 and nearly died. I recovered some but not all function and live with the effects every day, for however long remains of my life.
The only (and I mean only) bright side to this entire thing is that has become almost a foolproof method of finding anti-vaxxers, because whenever I tell them that COVID gave me heart failure, they always try to find some way to blame the vaccine. It's depressing how many of them are out there. I even had to fire two doctors because of it.
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Unclear how long the protection lasts for. Apparently the study only checked after 6 months, at which point titers were still "above baseline."
But it also seems like the vaccine is only designed to be effective against seasonal variants anyway, just like the regular flu vaccines, so durability might not matter that much. Looks like the intention is that we all still get annual shots.
Kind of a disappointment after reading about how mRNA technology might deliver a single vaccine against all possible influenza variants with strong protection that lasts for years. And what we ended up with seems to be a somewhat more effective version of the crappy flu vaccines we've had for decades.
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If not already mentioned, expand the number of Justices for starters. 11 sounds like a good total number. Then require the same ethics rules and enforcement as all other Fed judges are subject to.
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They are saying the opposite: he should never have been allowed to run for office, because of that intent. I’m not sure how that would have been practically possible to enforce, but that is the point of the poster I suppose: America did not design a system of governance that could keep out someone like Trump.
We are now, I would say, well past the intent phase.
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1) Be specific
2) The FDA in August 2025, when Prasad was in office, agreed to the trial design and the comparator.
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So… the logic is that the Covid lockdowns, imposed by Trump, laid the groundwork for his re-election, but only after losing the immediately following elections, which were less than a year since the pandemic began? And that Prasad, a noble soul that warned about this, has now betrayed his own warnings and gone to work for the very third reich he was warning about and doing their dirty work for them?
Even if that convoluted logic had any semblance of truth, it seems all the more reason to condemn Prasad.
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News out today is the the FDA staff wanted to proceed, but were overruled by Vinay Prasad. Only the best people.. FFS.
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And we gave up knowing our neighbors for online communities, which eventually became fully owned/controlled by Apple/Google (as far as most people are concerned) - and if you get kicked off, you're effectively out of the game.
We'll have to rebuild underground networks, which require trust, which is hard.
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Actually, only about a third of US citizens voted for it. One third either couldn't be bothered to vote at all, or were "discouraged" from voting by employers, lack of nearby polling facilities, polling booth intimidation, and/or the insane choice to keep election day on a work day, long after any possible justification had passed.
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To own the libruls. Because only liberals get Covid, flu, measles, polio and so on. Seriously, that’s the reason.
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Naaah bro ...
The republicans, maga and trumps might be corrupt and crazy ... but your democrat party is corrupt as hell too. Outsting the current corruption is just replacing one corruption for another. Yes, the democrats are also in bed with money.
Nobody at the top cares even half a sheet about you at the bottom. You keep infighting so much, you make controlling you like rats in a pen easy. People literally sacrifice themselves to overlords that couldn't care less about you.
Your country wont be great again.
Most likely you need a second founding.
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Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Your fundamental premise is that lockdowns were the act of an authoritarian government, and could not have been ordered by a democratic government (note the small "d"; I'm not referring to the party here.)
The entire point of the lockdowns was to buy time. To keep the hospitals from being overrun by cases requiring intensive care; to give us a chance to get a handle on what this virus does and how to treat it; to try to stop rampant deaths; to increase hospital capacity; and to try to develop an effective vaccine. This was a novel virus - a virus that had never before infected any human body. That inherently means that the consequences are going to be severe, until such time as sufficient of the population has gained immunity - either through infection, or through vaccination.
I lived through some of the harshest lockdowns on the planet. I know what they did, both economically and socially. And yet, having suffered through the disease even after vaccination (and man, if that's what it was like after being vaccinated, I shudder to think about what it might have been like if I hadn't got the vaccination), I still believe that it was the best choice the government reasonably could have made - the consequences of unchecked spread would likely have been horrendous.
There are times when harsh measures are reasonable, and are warranted. The initial spread of COVID-19 was, in my opinion, absolutely one of those times. Those who think otherwise - again, in my opinion - either don't understand just how serious the situation was, or don't give a damn about their community.
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Absolutely fucking disgusting! Lives WILL be lost because of this BS, and already have to other diseases!!! 
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Also - and I'll freely admit I may be wrong here, as I'm UK based and it's been a while - but I don't think the US had an actual lockdown, per se. People were asked to maintain distancing, to not go out unless necessary, to avoid social events like parties and clubs, and if they did go out to please for the love of God wear a mask - but it was all pretty much voluntary, from what I recall.
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No they didn't. COVID lockdowns happened under Trump, which he opposed, because he thought a lot of people dying of disease was preferable to eating at home for a couple months. His complete and utter fuckup of COVID is why Biden won. It was time for Trump to be a leader, and he spent time letting everyone know the biggest victim of COVID was him and how he was being treated by reporters.
It was a once a century pandemic that hit the US harder than any other developed country. Japan is a modern country with even higher population density, and they had a considerably lesser casualty rate than we had here. Maybe because their people don't consider wearing a mask when going to the store to be a hill to literally die on.
But all of that aside, the point is that Prasad was not on anyone's shortlist for the job he has with the exception of RFK Jr, a man who helped spread measles via anti-vaxx disinformation in American Samoa.
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1) The trial was for healthy adults over the age of 50. The recommendation for high dose vaccines is for adults 65+. If the gsk vaccine is so bad, I’d like to know why Prasad allowed it to be given to me.
2) He was only out of office for about a week. Left 30 July, back a week later. I doubt that the entire review of the Moderna trial was completed during that one week.
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It was totally voluntary in places. And by "law" or mandate in others. Welcome to a federal system.
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These people are absolute morons, and Prasad specifically is just a half-wit ideologue with zero scientific integrity! The WSJ reporting has details that make my blood boil about the incompetence and corruption that is the signature of this past year:
Fascinating, huh? He already knows the result before reviewing the data, which could only be true because of political or financial motivations, so why bother to do the work? Just make up a flip excuse, call the flip excuse "gold standard" against the views of all other scientists, then call it a day, and fly cross country on your "commute" that costs taxpayers $65k a year:
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/why-the-fda-blocked-modernas-new-flu-shot-84fdaab6
https://archive.is/2026.02.12-11182...he-fda-blocked-modernas-new-flu-shot-84fdaab6
I'm not sure if I'm more offended by the corruption or by the lackeys willing to debase themselves trying to defend these undefendable corruption.
Fascinating, huh? He already knows the result before reviewing the data, which could only be true because of political or financial motivations, so why bother to do the work? Just make up a flip excuse, call the flip excuse "gold standard" against the views of all other scientists, then call it a day, and fly cross country on your "commute" that costs taxpayers $65k a year:
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/why-the-fda-blocked-modernas-new-flu-shot-84fdaab6
https://archive.is/2026.02.12-11182...he-fda-blocked-modernas-new-flu-shot-84fdaab6
I'm not sure if I'm more offended by the corruption or by the lackeys willing to debase themselves trying to defend these undefendable corruption.
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As an American who grew up in the 80s and was labeled "gifted" as a child, I suspect your number might be a bit low. Frankly, even being "gifted", I'm pretty sure I'm an idiot most of the time, so our scale is almost certainly skewed.
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What kind of woke, leftist, commie, antifa, liberal, Democrat bullshit is this???? Sounds like something Obama or Hillary Clinton wrote....
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Definitely too Woke for MAGA.
It's hard finding the right time for good role models that work for MAGA.
Anyone today is too leftist and Woke.
Go too far back and US Founding fathers are too leftist and woke, even Jesus too leftist and Woke.
That's why you need to go back about 8 decades for MAGA role models that aren't all woke:
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Musk backed the Republicans because that was where he could go after becoming a public piece of shit. He's a transphobe who thinks the biggest threat to the world is being decent to people. He called a diver who said his idea sucked a pedophile... like 3 or 4 years after he asked to come to a known sex trafficking pedophile's wildest party. Then he bought his way into a position in Trump's second administration, his first goal was to take food and medicine away from starving children overseas, that was priority number one for him. He's well at home in the Republican Party, given his moral compass.
As far as 2024 goes. The Republicans convinced a lot of very very dumb people that Democrats were going to turn their sons into daughters and the post COVID assistance inflation was Biden's fault because reasons and that businessman Trump could fix it. They also didn't know who pays tariffs.
edit: forgot the R
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Tanphobia is that what why call racism these days?
While that is a fun typo, I was more talking about the fact that he really hates trans people to the point where he's estranged from his own daughter.
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