• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Honestly, despite the shortcomings, I legitimately think that mRNA vaccines technology will be one of the biggest medical innovations in my lifetime.

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          Except for many decades, certainly since WWII, much of that research was done by American companies, and now all that research investment may be lost. Sure foreign companies have an enormous opportunity here, but it will take significant time to replace all that American research.

          And what happens to major studies that are already underway, and will now be cancelled because the funding is lost? Years of research down the drain, as they start over somewhere else.

          These people are so profoundly stupid that they think if they cancel mRNA research dollars, it ends this evil medical reaearch. It won’t. Foreign companies WILL pick it up, but it delays the final results by a large amount, probably years. That’s years that lifesaving therapies will be denied to people who are suffering and dying…

          …All because we have a psychotic junkie with a brain parasite from eating road kill, whose entire medical knowledge is comprised of Internet conspiracy theories and his own imagination, making medical decisions for not only our current citizens, but all future citizens as well.

          JFC, America is really, really screwed.