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Nurse here: I have a hard time imagining vaccines won't be covered by insurance unless federal law starts to prohibit it for some bonkers reason. Vaccines are the simplest and most effective prevention for a number of illnesses which can require expensive care. And they're cheap. Vaccines are good for the bottom line. Like, they're practically gold. If they didn't make financial sense, insurance companies wouldn't be covering them. It would be unfathomable for insurance companies to elect not to cover them unless they can also elect not to cover treatment for the resultant illness.

That said, I think the much more likely thing is RdumbFucK Jr. trying to make them unavailable, because clearly someone who has zero training in medicine or infectious disease or any science of any kind knows better than the collective consensus of the entire world's medical community... So, get your vaccinations while you can.

i had my tdap, covid recently. i was way past the flu season.

As a Millenial I have witnessed attacks on the quality of our education since I've been conscious.

I think the symptoms of cutting education over and over and over again are finally showing

money. no US based news even reported on the racist, insane shit Trump was saying. constantly. you'd be hard pressed to hear Trumps voice before the election in the US, Fox was running 24hr news reals of "dirty Mexicans are flooding over the boarder killing and raping white women everywhere in the US" just over and over again. social media was flooded with posts of "Biden and Harris are Pro-Israel here's Israel killing children in gaza again" over and over. we had relatively low voter turn out, lot of very sudden voting changes right before the election, and Bezos, and Musk openly moving heaven and hell to support Trump. This is what capital wanted. a horrid, corrupt government that can be wielded with little effort.

We let the rich, who aren't necessarily the smartest people, get too rich, so they gained too much power. Worldwide problem though, as their influence doesn't stop at borders.

Older American here, I remember the Before Times, so I can speak to how I've seen things change/crumble. Over the last twenty or so years everything has really accelerated. Social media is the biggest tool that outside and internal forces have used to destabilize democracy.

Democratic rule is terrible for business, people may make choices against your bottom line. On top of that, people like Iran, Russia, many others out there, want to crush America and never gave up their wars against us.

The KGB handbook details how to do what's been done to the US in great detail, how to amplify and boost the most confusing, chaotic rage-bait from both sides of every contentious issue until people basically tune out and just go along with whatever the government says. Makes people not get involved in electoral politics anymore. They did this in other countries that they've absorbed/annexed or have created sympathetic populations within.

If it was just Russia we probably could have countered it and defended better against it, but you combine that with the efforts of many other cells, different nations and contracted organizations doing the same thing, then add dopamine-addicting social-media algorithms and a deeply sabotaged education system, carefully tweaked interest rates and health-care obstacles, so that people are forced to work 6-days a week and are barely able to afford anything and can't spend any time learning or being curious, then a lot of very strategic messaging targeting specific portions of the population with racist, xenophobic ideas, and you have what we have now. A huge population held hostage by the smallest, dumbest, loudest segment.

And it's coming for you next.

(Also, this was all done before AI could specifically target every individual's most personal fears, desires and vulnerabilities, and could produce 100% convincing images and videos. We are all massively, thoroughly fucked.)

A combination of propaganda and fear.

how did the most stupid cunts get in charge

Same way as in yours. Lot of cross pollination of the back end guys, actually.

is it really that corrupt

No, no. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

how did the most stupid cunts in your country get in charge

Same way they got in charge of the UK.

There's an entire media ecosystem dedicated to protecting the ego of the stupid from the reality of their choices.

propaganda, fear/mysogyny/racism, and election machine rigging via musk satellite.

Yes, and you should understand the corruption quite well seeing it firsthand over there, right? (Sad to say.)

Wait, people have religious objections to vaccines? Do they worship St. Influenza or what? Is this the Church of Virus Christus? Latter Day Plagues? Cough-olic? Je-fever's Witnesses?

To be fair, or something, i dont really care what the general public thinks about vaccines. The general public is really really dumb, generally speaking, and won't really be able to judge any of this.

Vaccines should be mandatory for everyone, period. Obly allowed exception should be for proven medical reasons. Religion doesn't matter, you get vaccinated, period.

one of his favorite past time was using his falcon to hunt RATS and feed it those trash rodents, im wouldnt be surprised if he also ate rats. i wonder if he tried RACCOON before, because those are everywhere, probably too risk as raccoons carry 1-2 parasites that are quite deadly. one of the parasites was featured in a House episodes.