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by wbl 781 days ago
Remember the pandemic? The FDA had safety and effectiveness data by end of August for the vaccine and were unprepared to do an analysis in less than a few months. Nor did they consider drafting the party boys of the Ozarks to get the efficiency data faster. As a result the winter of 2020-2021 saw thousands of preventable deaths.

There's also the part where distribution was done in a way that deliberately killed people so that racial equality goals could be met. Perhaps the worst example of this kind of thinking were teachers in SF getting vaccinated but school not starting again.