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Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS

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8mo ago

Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS

www.cnbc.com /2024/11/14/vaccine-maker-stocks-fall-as-trump-chooses-rfk-jr-to-lead-hhs.html

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time to require proof of vaccines from americans at airports and borders?
- As an American I fully support such proposals.
  
  Yeah as an American I generally support the rest of the world trying to drag us back into the civilized world however they can.
  But at the same time, international travel inconveniences will have a 0% effect on a LOT of people who need the message.
- Proof of vaccinations are now stamped by RFK Jr. himself.
- Sorry, all you get is proof of brain worms and essential oils.
- No?
- I'm sure the new government will enforce that.
  
  This would be about other governments on earth enforcing that. Which really does seem sensible at this point, even if only to make a statement.
- America doesn't have the capacity to track that in any meaningful way. COVID was proof of this.
  
  Well, that's to bad for the US now, isn't it? Maybe they could adopt a national ID that makes sense while they're at it.
- Did Alex Jones not wear suits?
  
  Famously, not really. He's always stuck to business casual at best to make himself look more like a "man of the people".
  
  not that I watched him at all so I don't know of this image is representative, but whenever I think of him I see him in a wifebeater
  
  He probably thinks those water frog chemicals are being used to dye suits or something, IDK.
- He looks like he may be a giant brain worm wearing a corpse.
Worm stocks rise.
- Stocks in companies that make chainsaws powerful enough to cut the heads off of whales are through the roof.
  
  1/1/27 calls on home cremation kit producers
- Worm stocks rise.
Am I the only one who thinks companies providing healthcare and life saving medicines shouldn't be fucking publicly traded?? They need to focus on helping humanity, not the fucking bottom line go up or whatever.
- Well yes that's obvious
  It's supposed to be publicly funded, not traded
  Someone a long time ago must have misheard
  
  Except it's actually the best of both worlds for the rich - as far as I know, a lot of these companies are publicly traded AND receive public funding.
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/21508917
Sooo, anyone want to take bets that Bird Flu is going to be the next pandemic?
- The government has decided that pandemics are a hoax and as such do not exist.
  
  Off to the gulag, I go.
- M pox is hot right now
  
  M pox is so cliche. Bird Flu is hot.
- Avian flu thankfully didn't become a major pandemic in times past due to luck and measures taken. But SARS in 2003 could have become a major pandemic... because COVID-19 is a variant of the 2003 SARS...
Good job American voters. /s
- "Somebody shit in my pants."
How do I find a way out of this dimension?
- Such a sad time in history.
  
  Possibly the end of history.
- There's a magical wizard you must get to say his own name backwards.
  
  Nole?
I mean, what can anyone even say about this. It's just so insane
- Living in the twilight zone
These companies are huge, and know how to lobby the government. It seems to be the wrong industry to piss off.
- I never thought I'd side with big corporations...but for the next 4 years, some of them may well be the lesser evil.
  gag
  
  Pharmaceuticals are an important component of modern life. We really need them now more than ever. They are a good thing.
  Their capitalist greed and the big money that runs them is also doing all it can to suck every last cent out of the public.
  Unfortunately both things can be true.
- That's one thing I'm putting some hope in. Tariffs and stupid shit like Worm Boy running our national health infrastructure into the ground benefit no one. Not big companies, not us little guys. I'd hope these big companies will lobby hard to mitigate the stupidity that is bearing down on us.
- know how to lobby the government.
  I'm thinking this may be how it'll work. More like "bribe" though, and Trump is probably doing this on purpose to coerce companies for bribes. Aka, racketeering on the highest level.
So... Which billionaire republican buddy is gonna buy them up before they announce 'lol jk'?
Making Polio great again!
This sentence bears all the context it needs.
I want to get off Mr. Trump's Wild Ride.
This is farcical. Operation Warp Speed (fast development of Covid vaccines) was one of the few good things that Trump 1.0 did.
- From tragedy to farce as you give Trump credit for the work of Nobel prize winning medical scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Bloodly hell we are moving towards being North Korea.
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-medicine-2023-mrna-vaccine-tech/
- Yeah fuck giving him credit for what scientists did.
  
  Trump authorized and funded OWS. Obviously he didn't do the actual science. It's JFK and the moon landing. JFK didn't build the rockets or fly in them, but the project as a whole happened because of his getting behind it.
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- OMG that's even an absolute scale!
  
  Yup, from the first availability till today, no shenanigans.
can't believe the god-fearing would do this to the shareholders
He should let the brain worms take control, worked for Fry.
No not Big Pharma! Won't anybody think of the STOCKS?
- Upside: pharma companies stop making massive profits
  Downside: we all die from preventable diseases.
  Win some lose some 🤷
  
  Terrible time to be considering having children.

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