Are they too stupid to understand transmission? Millions disabled and over a million dead aren’t enough?

So I saw someone post this list from an article in the NEJM with the comment, “So we’re all smokers (or former ones) now, right?” How’s the pharmacy or insurance to know? Maybe I just took up smoking?!?! 😉🤷🏼‍♀️

This is really bad news for so many people (including me). Fascist assholes

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I believe you can still pay out of pocket to get the vaccine. The absence of approval for your age/risk group means insurance won’t cover it.

Literally everyone is at high risk. Every time you’re infected with covid you spin the roulette wheel of developing long covid.

The mission appears to be to make it easier to buy a gun than to get a Covid vaccine. MAHA!

"Guns don't kill people. Vaccines kill people!" -- R.F.K. Jr., probably

MCGA!!! Make COVID Great Again!!

They're going to kill people.

That’s insane. It’s a death cult. We need to stop this now!

What, just in time for RFK Jr's announcement he wants to ban COVID vaccines in a fit over no doctor in America complying with his "recommendations" and saying they could be "off the shelves in months"?

When you have a human growth hormone steroid abuser as your leader it is what you get

Why did NPR interview a guy at the Heritage Foundation and relay HIS thoughts BEFORE mentioning infectious disease experts who work for universities or who have titles like President of the Infectious Disease Society of America? WHY MENTION HIM AT ALL?

Because the media has completely capitulated to these assholes.

The worst to me is the next quote from this hack stating no one should be getting Mrna vaccines. Why would they publish that?!?

Restrictions based on no evidence whatsoever, you left out that part

"Federal health officials say the changes are warranted because most people have so much immunity at this point. They also question the vaccines' safety and effectiveness – doubts dismissed by most public health experts and contradicted by a large body of scientific evidence."

IF THEY'RE NOT SAFE AND EFFECTIVE WHY ARE THEY RECOMMENDING PEOPLE AT HIGH RISK GET THEM. This is both incoherent and dangerous.

GREAT POINT. I am just grateful for the resisters at FDA who came up with the risk factors list that is so inclusive (and also not really evidence-based but let’s not mention that part).

The fact that the “federal health officials” are likely anti-vaxxers like RFK jr. and are lying about immunity, vax safety and effectiveness should be in the first paragraph instead of “privileging the lie” as @jamisonfoser.bsky.social put it.

Not allowing all healthcare workers to be vaccinated, regardless of their health history, is ridiculously incompetent and will only lead to fewer healthcare workers at the bedside during the next COVD wave.

Add "for no fucking reason" to the end of the headline.

I'm not a lawyer, but I admit, I hope a class-action lawsuit can be brought against RFK Jr for any wrongful death resulting from his actions. I'd like him to know that the country is on standby to sue him. I'd like to see Congressional hearings on the availability of the Covid vaccines. Push back

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This shit is so cringe. Healthcare freedom my ass

The fewer who are vaccinated provides more hosts for the virus to infect and mutate making the vaccine less effective so that builds the anti-vax argument that vaccines don't work. Called a circle-jerk in the military.

Was this quote necessary "Gortler adds, "Although the CDC very recently stopped publishing how many adults and children are still getting the COVID boosters in 2025, at last count it was around 23 million adults and 9.5 million kids, none of whom should be getting any mRNA covid injections."

Because it's bullshit that doesn't seem necessary to publish. This being from a Heritage foundation hack and all.

This is criminal and this is just more blood on this admin's hands.

Thanks to dumpster. We cant get enough vaccines now. Impeach the incompetant morons from office already!

What the fuck? Anyone that wants a vaccine should be able to get a vaccine. I hate those goofy Qanon antivax dumbasses

I think we can still, it may not be required to be covered under insurance.

assholes

There are ZERO reasons for including Gortler in this piece. He’s a Heritage Foundation shill.

Also, if a person wants to be vaccinated they should be allowed to get f*cking vaccinated!!!!!!

This is how it should be handled. The vaccine skeptics fought mandated vaccines tooth & nail, stating they had decision making over their own bodies. Now they’re forcing their anti-vaccine fears on the rest of us who believe in science.Choice! Not government control!

This makes 0 f*cking sense. I am severely chronically ill and 38 so I might be able to get one. But my wife who is 29, a nurse, and also my caregiver won't be able to get one even though I need her vaccinated too? I'm sick because pt gave me covid a week before I was supposed to get the vaccine.

I am in the caregiver position and I am so angry that my husband is going to be more at risk because I can't get a safe and effective vaccine.

We're looking into going to Canada just so my wife can get her yearly vaccines

I’m sad and angry for you both. Meanwhile, you’ll need to double down on masking and HEPA filtration, along with everyone else who takes airborne infection seriously.

I have cancer, and we let them.

I also don't leave the house for anything other than to see her family at their homes or to go to my many dr appointments. Even then, we get on the elevator first in my wheelchair or walker and then tell others they can't board due to immunocompromised situation. With my shaved head people assume

Thank you. Good thing is we never stopped masking. Any infection, especially viral infections, will more than likely cause serious deterioration of the already severe baselines of my chronic illnesses. We're trying to figure out if Canada will innoculate my wife if we go there for a long weekend.

We're thinking about it too

This is so stupid. It will increase those in need of hospitalization at a time when hospitals are shuttering.

Why restrict them?

They also aren't shipping them yet either.

Of 18-64: 36% obese, 8% Asthma, 4% COPD, 7% on immunosuppressant, 15% diabetes, 2% schizophrenia, 10% depression, heart disease 6%, pregnancy 4%, kidney 5, liver 2%, disability 28%, smoking 30%,Basically 90% Doubt retail pharmacists will have the ability to assess all the listed. Pointless barrier.

RFK Jr that fucking dipshit (literally!) is going to tell me what I can do with my health while he sounds like that and takes his grandkids in sewerage runoff for a swim??? I fucking HATE America with a side of science denying authoritarianism.

...zero trust in the "new round" of vaccines, based on this administration's established "cruelty" record...

I read this article. I’m 63, got the Covid vaccines+boosters on a regular schedule. NEVER had COVID. So now, I’m at risk of being a first time COVID getter with no vaccine protection because the government is denying me, an intelligent adult, the right to get that vaccine. Fuck RFK WSED.

Updates are posted on the cdc website www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccin...

You should be able to get it as long as you discuss with your doctor and they sign the order. We can give it. May be a little harder at pharmacies but guidelines look like they want you go to an appointment and ask that the doctor discuss risk and benefits (which is done regardless).

You could sue him and/or the administration, and claim you are being directly harmed by losing access to needed healthcare.

Honestly, fuck them! Go to CVS and tell them you have asthma or something. Whatever. Not like rules matter anymore.

Infuriating!

FUCK DONALD TRUMP 🖕🖕🖕 RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

When you quote Heritage Foundation officials in a medical article…. you failed.

So you’ve gotta wait for the Covid infection that gives you long Covid in order to be sufficiently compromised

Sounds like a pre-existing condition 🤔 That will cost you.

Trump-RFK are going to kill millions of people. Again.

I fucking hope they die first.

Sure am blessed to be old

This administration really hates children and pregnant women. Actually, they hate everyone.

He lied. "Shortly after Trump's election, Kennedy said in an interview with NBC News that 'if vaccines are working for somebody, I'm not going to take them away. People ought to have choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information.'" abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-j...

Missing from the list are caregivers to high risk individuals

Fuck this. I got COVID last year and was out for 4 days and I'm thin, healthy, and don't have any respiratory or heart issues. Was of course the first time I got it and the first time I didn't vaccinate.

Finally!

We are living in hell.

Hello from the (never) 51st State. Here with Public Health Care, the MATH gets really bad if people get sick. Hospitals fill up, health care costs (eventually becomes taxes) go through the roof. Government ENCOURAGES Flu and COVID shots here (Free) because its cheaper than all out Pandemic

If that's the new rule, then herd immunity cannot be achieved.

The concept of herd immunity doesn't really apply to COVID since neither exposure nor vaccines seems to fully prevent infection and the virus keeps changing. Vaccines help the body fight the infection.

Okay, so they've _approved_ the vaccines, but don't know why vaccines work. Great.

You prioritized the lies of two anti-vaxxers and ivermectin pushers (RFK jr and one who works for a right wing think tank) over experts who are buried in the article. Treating liars and legit experts as if both sides have valid views is a massive failure on your part and shame on you for it.

I gotta say, if a MAGA person croaks cause of this, I will simply not care.

A truly asinine policy from the brain worm infested FDA.

Cool. What a good plan. Such smart folks running this country. Fuck this stupid country.

Get ready for more dead Americans because these heritage foundation and RFK JR creeps believe in eugenics.

Not everyone has high immunity / some people missed or skipped boosters w/ all the confusion. What do they do now? Those boosters really work - I sailed thru the latest Covid in 3 days with what felt like a summer cold. RFK Jr & his goons need to be shown the door ASAP.

“The limitations could limit access” has to be one of my favorite NPR downplayings to date

as opposed to all those well-known cases where limitations on access actually expand access, I guess!

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So vaccination is good for high rick people, but R&D for vaccinations is cut. But vaccinations are good for people?

I hope more people speak out. In the UK they are only giving the COVID Vaccine to over 75’s, residents in a care home for older adults, and immunocompromised aged between six months and 74 years. They are refusing under 12s private vaccinations, even with other conditions.

Also hypertension is not on the list of conditions, so the idiot who wrote this can’t even read.

Don't worry COVID vaccines will be illegal in the USA soon. Thanks to RFK, Jr for simplifying things. Choose Evil, Choose MAGA!

What the ever lovin fuck is this?🤬🤬🤬🤬

FUCK THIS BRAIN ROT PIECE OF SHIT RFK JR.