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Lifesaving mRNA Vaccine Technology Appears Targeted under Trump and RFK, Jr. (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Hmm wonder what possibly could be motivating an attack against mRNA vaccine technology.

All references to mRNA vaccines should be scrubbed from future grant applications... As in no federal funding for mRNA vaccines. Which would leave only privately funded research with no public input or oversight/transparency.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not the vaccines they’re targeting. It’s American lives.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think the lives are collateral damage. RFK Jr spouts all his BS about being anti vax bc of "big pharma" corruption.

Yet he had dinner with the CEO of Pfizer right before he was confirmed by the Senate. https://fortune.com/well/2025/02/04/pfizer-ceo-had-dinner-with-rfk-jr-cautiously-optimistic-despite-vaccine-controversy/

There is a very long convoluted story behind all of this going back to the COVID lab leak theory and the director of the CDC at the time Robert Redfield. That will be the focus of my next blog post, but he's been all over the news recently pushing the lab leak theory. Coincidentally he was also one of the two individuals that wrote the Heritage Foundation's praise of Trump's EO attacking vaccine research. https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/president-trump-should-reinstate-president-obamas-moratorium-risky

It just so happened that article came out on Feb 13. Feb 14th, the HHS under RFK announces they are granting a Pharmaceutical company, Zoetis, a provisional patent for a bird flu vaccine. Zoetis is a spin off of Pfizer but allegedly fully independent.

Then on the 25th Pfizer and Zoetis shareholds suddenly peak in a very similar pattern, while Moderna shares take a tumble overnight (I cover all of this with images of the sock market trends in my blue sky post I linked in this post).

The morning of the 26th, HHS says they're considering pulling funds granted by Biden to Moderna for an mRNA bird flu vaccine. That same day senator Roger Marshall re-proposes a senate bill that would effectively end all public funding for vaccine research, making it completely privatized.

Meanwhile it turns out Pfizer and Moderna have been in a legal battle for mRNA vaccine patent rights in the U.S. and Germany. Then today the NIH starts telling researchers they can't include any mRNA references in federal grant submissions

So, the sicker and more desperate people are when a bird flu pandemic finally hits, the more they will be in complete control of a vaccine roll out. It will be completely private so they can charge as much as they want and make up whatever rules they want, and if we want vaccines we better play by their rules or tough shit.

Trump gets to make all the money he didn't get to make during COVID because of all that pesky NIH publicly funded science that made mRNA vaccine technology possible.

It's a win win for everyone involved in his administration and the giant pharmaceutical companies RFK allegedly despises.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Just when you think the evil was at it's max when it was turned up to 11, it turns out the knob keeps spinning if you take apart the frame that limited it from turning too far.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I don't really use blue sky but here is my attempt to make a series of skeets(?) explaining exactly how they could be making a lot of money off of this https://bsky.app/profile/pimentomori123.bsky.social/post/3lkoogcqvo22o

Just hoping somebody points this out before we're in the thick of a bird flu pandemic