Mia Wong

So RFK Jr. 's thing was, well, we're not going to fund any COVID research because COVID is over. So no more research into COVID vaccine treatments. We're not going to fund that. Now, obviously, COVID is like not over. Trivially, obviously, you catch it and it makes you sick and sometimes you die and sometimes you get debilitating symptoms. long-term negative health outcomes.

So RFK Jr. 's thing was, well, we're not going to fund any COVID research because COVID is over. So no more research into COVID vaccine treatments. We're not going to fund that. Now, obviously, COVID is like not over. Trivially, obviously, you catch it and it makes you sick and sometimes you die and sometimes you get debilitating symptoms. long-term negative health outcomes.

But this is the logic that they're using to just be like, no, fuck it, fuck it. We'll cut all of the funding that we can find that does this stuff. Now, the problem again, and so these cuts look a lot like the very beginning of the Trump administration where they were just going through and like...

But this is the logic that they're using to just be like, no, fuck it, fuck it. We'll cut all of the funding that we can find that does this stuff. Now, the problem again, and so these cuts look a lot like the very beginning of the Trump administration where they were just going through and like...

But this is the logic that they're using to just be like, no, fuck it, fuck it. We'll cut all of the funding that we can find that does this stuff. Now, the problem again, and so these cuts look a lot like the very beginning of the Trump administration where they were just going through and like...

you'd get a giant list of grants that got cut in the sense that they're like control effing programs, right? And they're like searching for keywords and then just killing all the block grants that do that. We'll get more into this at the end of the episode with like a different set of cuts. But one of the big issues with this is that it's killing coronavirus research in general. Like all of it.

you'd get a giant list of grants that got cut in the sense that they're like control effing programs, right? And they're like searching for keywords and then just killing all the block grants that do that. We'll get more into this at the end of the episode with like a different set of cuts. But one of the big issues with this is that it's killing coronavirus research in general. Like all of it.

you'd get a giant list of grants that got cut in the sense that they're like control effing programs, right? And they're like searching for keywords and then just killing all the block grants that do that. We'll get more into this at the end of the episode with like a different set of cuts. But one of the big issues with this is that it's killing coronavirus research in general. Like all of it.

He's getting like massive cuts. And so this includes, I think it was CNBC or as you're putting on this, killing a bunch of fairly like late stage research on things like, you know, like actually having vaccines that could work across like the broad category of coronaviruses. Because like obviously there are a whole bunch of different kinds of coronaviruses and there are certain sort of.

He's getting like massive cuts. And so this includes, I think it was CNBC or as you're putting on this, killing a bunch of fairly like late stage research on things like, you know, like actually having vaccines that could work across like the broad category of coronaviruses. Because like obviously there are a whole bunch of different kinds of coronaviruses and there are certain sort of.

He's getting like massive cuts. And so this includes, I think it was CNBC or as you're putting on this, killing a bunch of fairly like late stage research on things like, you know, like actually having vaccines that could work across like the broad category of coronaviruses. Because like obviously there are a whole bunch of different kinds of coronaviruses and there are certain sort of.

vaccine techniques that can work to suppress the families of them and fucking, I don't know, maybe the Europeans or the Chinese will figure out how to do that because it sure as fuck isn't going to be us after we cut all this fucking funding. It's great. So, all right, we're starting sort of, I guess, on the vaccine beat here because there's so many different kinds of bullshit.

vaccine techniques that can work to suppress the families of them and fucking, I don't know, maybe the Europeans or the Chinese will figure out how to do that because it sure as fuck isn't going to be us after we cut all this fucking funding. It's great. So, all right, we're starting sort of, I guess, on the vaccine beat here because there's so many different kinds of bullshit.

vaccine techniques that can work to suppress the families of them and fucking, I don't know, maybe the Europeans or the Chinese will figure out how to do that because it sure as fuck isn't going to be us after we cut all this fucking funding. It's great. So, all right, we're starting sort of, I guess, on the vaccine beat here because there's so many different kinds of bullshit.

One of the other really big things that happened is Dr. Mark Peters, who was the guy who, like, did Operation Warp Speed, which was Trump's, like, big push to get a COVID vaccine out. And this is something I think is worth highlighting. And again, this guy, like, worked under Trump, right? And some of these programs that we're going to talk about later were Trump programs, right? But Trump won?

One of the other really big things that happened is Dr. Mark Peters, who was the guy who, like, did Operation Warp Speed, which was Trump's, like, big push to get a COVID vaccine out. And this is something I think is worth highlighting. And again, this guy, like, worked under Trump, right? And some of these programs that we're going to talk about later were Trump programs, right? But Trump won?

One of the other really big things that happened is Dr. Mark Peters, who was the guy who, like, did Operation Warp Speed, which was Trump's, like, big push to get a COVID vaccine out. And this is something I think is worth highlighting. And again, this guy, like, worked under Trump, right? And some of these programs that we're going to talk about later were Trump programs, right? But Trump won?

I mean, like, Trump did do some anti-vax shit and say some anti-vax shit, but he wasn't, like, a hardline anti-vaxxer? Definitely not, no.

I mean, like, Trump did do some anti-vax shit and say some anti-vax shit, but he wasn't, like, a hardline anti-vaxxer? Definitely not, no.

I mean, like, Trump did do some anti-vax shit and say some anti-vax shit, but he wasn't, like, a hardline anti-vaxxer? Definitely not, no.