• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    They might also be toying with the market.

    I can’t imagine the administration, who’s primary concern is getting as much money as possible from as many sources as possible, would open themselves to lawsuits AND reduce a chance of fleecing/Intel’ing the pharmaceutical markets that produce highly profitable vaccines.

    My bets are they’re going to talk it up real big to scare everyone left of “backwoods gooner in a wooden shack” and raise a big narrative that they’re doing all the weird shit Conservatives think they want, while trying to exercise a completely brain-damaged tactic against pharma companies to try to negotiate another fascist “cut” of their profits. Then they can quietly forget about it like nearly everything else they’ve promised to their completely ignorant, unthinking base.

    All that said, I am going to have to suffer through a booster ASAP because these fucks are deranged and unpredictable. And if they DO go through with it and I lose anyone I care about to covid, I am going to the hardware store. And I am betting I will have friends.