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‘He is one of us!’: US anti-vaxxers rejoice at nomination of David Weldon for CDC
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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God I hope china actually does create a super virus to wipe us out. The level of fucking hubris here unimaginable.
No need. Americans are already infected with the "maga" virus. So far its doing a better job than any actual viruses can do.
We can only hope they Darwin award themselves all out of the genetic pool.
It's just the dormant Confederacy virus reappearing because host conditions have deteriorated
Hat would be the stupidest idea ever.
You cannot control viruses. They'll mutate and cross borders whether you like it or not, it WILL come back to bit you in the balls
Nah. Earth deserves a break from us. It's best that it takes us all.
Good point
Yeah but if the rest of the world gets vaccines like intelligent people we only lose the US, which is only sorta bad.
I mean smallpox and polio are both proof you can control viruses as long as the viruses themselves follow certain rules.
No, you can't.
You dan bit by bit remove it from the worod while thousands or millions die, sure, but you can't make ti only attack the US while leaving your country alone.
It's a terrible idea all around, but with something like polio could you not just roll out a vaccine to your population hidden within the other vaccines already required within China, then once your population has it, roll out the strain that the vaccine was made for originally? The rest of the world wouldnt have the anti viral, and MAGA would oppose getting them. Meaning it would slow protections around the world, and decimating populations while it wouldn't spread in their own until it mutated, which they should have been able to study possible mutations and create remedies during their trials.
It would kill the global economy and their own... So it'd be dumb, but if there were actually supervillains like people seem to believe, why wouldn't it work?
The problem is that viruses mutate all the time, and they are pretty much impossible to control or contain. They WILL cross borders, and they WILL mutate. It would be an extremely dumb move that will backfire one way or the other in a way that that you won't expect