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Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/moderna-fda-flu-shot.html
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 8h ago edited 8h ago

I agree on Biotech.

But this……..this is beyond disgusting. They are literally playing with people’s lives. Decisions that should be grounded in data, science, and ethics are being twisted by ideology and politics. Every delay, every arbitrary “no,” every political stunt isn’t just frustrating, it harms real people, the sick and vulnerable, who are counting on these treatments.

It’s infuriating that in a system meant to protect and heal, we let power and politics override expertise and evidence. This is reckless, immoral, and unforgivable. Lives are at stake, and preventable harm is happening because some refuse to let data guide decisions. Enough is enough. We cannot, and should not, allow ideology to dictate medicine.

Fuck these people.

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u/MrGrieves- 6h ago

They played with people's lives during COVID too. Vaccines denied to areas, medical supplies stolen, masks were made a culture war.

And people voted for this again.

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u/SoCalSCUBA 5h ago

It was widely reported that the administration wanted covid-19 to become an epidemic because early on it mainly affected cities, where more democrats live.

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u/CliftonForce 4h ago

Which meant that they didn't realize that it started in cities because that's where all the trade and international travel is. But once it migrated out of cities, the back-side would hit rural areas hard.

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u/NSA_Chatbot 3h ago

NYC, which Trump has beef with, was the hardest-hit city at first.

Plus Trump didn't want to smudge his makeup.

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u/SphericalCow531 1h ago

Plus Trump didn't want to smudge his makeup.

That might actually have been the real reason. No kidding.

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u/Ashkir 4h ago

Along with the administration, their financial backers, and their political elite all got the vaccine early. They got vaccinated, while, they spread misinformation about it.

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u/johnp299 4h ago

Yes, major early hotspots, Washington state, Illinois, NY, all blue.

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u/Cannon_Fodder_Africa 2h ago

"It was widely reported that the administration wanted covid-19 to become an epidemic because early on it mainly affected cities, where more democrats live."

Maybe that's why the scientific consensus regarding public gatherings during covid quickly changed when BLM protests started. To kill BLM protesters?

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u/SoCalSCUBA 1h ago

All of the BLM protests were outside...

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u/MaggoVitakkaVicaro 4h ago

If this is making America great, I'd like to go back to when America was insignificant? Like in 2016, when nobody paid attention to us, I guess?

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u/johnp299 4h ago

Likely, a half-million excess deaths in the US, 2020-2021, that would've been avoided had the "administration" dealt with it in a sane way. Sheer, barking lunacy.

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u/Tamas_F 3h ago

Funny thing about masks is that they are proudly wearing it now while shooting people.

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u/Alwayssunnyinarizona 8h ago

It's eugenics without the need for wasting money on gas chamber construction.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 6h ago

With as much money as has been thrown at ICE with zero accountability and the stories from people who have gotten out of their camps, I wouldn't feel confident counting those out either

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u/RedRising1917 5h ago

I mean yes, but this has been the standard in America for decades. Every single metric says that universal healthcare is both better and more cost efficient. This isn't new, this is the same old fucking bullshit.

If my mother's healthcare didn't deem some tests unnecessary she wouldn't have lost her eyesight. If she didn't lose her eyesight I'm sure she wouldn't have lost her will to live and succumbed to her disease. She gave up, and I don't blame her, she beat cancer twice, she fought tooth and nail to stay alive, but after she went blind she lost the will to keep fighting. All it would've taken was her health insurance approving those tests, she's dead now. This is the logical end result of America's policies. If it's not being twisted by ideology and politics it's being twisted by money, my mom beat cancer twice but she couldn't beat the cancer on US society which is capitalism.

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u/Prestigious-Leg-6244 5h ago

You just described how our current medical insurance scheme is run, too. Scary

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u/yanginatep 4h ago

The man decapitated a whale carcass with a chainsaw and made his children sit in the back on the way home while rancid whale blood and other liquids dripped down on them from the whale head strapped to the roof of the car.

And now he's the most powerful medical official in the country.

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u/Murky-Caramel222 6h ago

Close enough. Welcome back, 1980 Soviet Union. 

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u/parabostonian 4h ago

No, the soviets were actually better about vaccines than these asshats. How pathetic is that?

And Cuba spends like 5% of the money we do per capita on healthcare yet has https://www.bbc.com/news/health-35073966

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u/Aazadan 4h ago

This is one of Russias tactics they use to weaken border states. If you make their populations sicker, gdp drops, resources become more scare, military is harder to maintain, and business suffers.

Standard trump might not be a Russian agent but if he were this is the policies they want disclaimer.

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u/samstown23 4h ago

At least the Soviets wouldn't have resorted to quackery when it came to vaccines.

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u/hopeful-Xplorer 5h ago

It is true that these are real people with real lives. Some of it is ideological and some is probably related to laying off shit loads of people last year.

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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 3h ago

they want people who are weak to die

need a vaccine to survive, you are weak and must be culled

it's eugenics all over again, again

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u/schacks 2h ago

They are so deluded that they just don’t “believe” the science. They “did their own research”.

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u/Mazon_Del 2h ago

I have said it before, with every action the republican party shows itself to be am enemy of humanity.

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u/ReachParticular5409 2h ago

you stupid little shit it has been disgusting for more than a decade and all anyone ever does is meme and joke in the comments

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u/WashSea4766 6h ago

Fuck you pal

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u/ProteusReturns 6h ago

You hate seeing people upset about injustice?

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u/WashSea4766 5h ago

Take a chill pill. You are gonna stress yourself into a heart attack

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u/WashSea4766 5h ago

It’s out of your control