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What's avatar

It is really not enough, why can't they get things going anywhere. Do they not know how to start investigations? To demand and do something, like Ron DeSantis, get on the same page at least.

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J in StL's avatar

The start of every statement by a Republican spokesbot should be, "The Democratic Party, Is, Has Been, and always Will Be the Party of Slavery." Everything else is just tactics.

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Dev96's avatar

Forgive me but I'm pretty sure they filled the role with Stefanik specifically because they needed someone willing to "say" these things.

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dissonant1's avatar

This FDA panel decision is really quite incredible in itself and Dr. Ruben's explanation explicitly invalidates it. They as a panel have abdicated their supposed function with this decision. I wish we knew who was on this panel but I couldn't find out via the web - perhaps there is a reason for that. In effect, I suppose their decision was immaterial in that CDC's Wolensky can override FDA panel recommendations anyway.

This made me think that if my car mechanic told me "well, we won't know if the breaks work until you drive the car home" I would be getting a new car mechanic pronto. Why are we paying for this level of service from govt medical agencies? And why have so many in this country been willing to entrust their very lives to a bunch of irresponsible, compromised, and/or incompetent bureaucrats?

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MikeinFL's avatar

I was thinking along those same lines as well, but with a Boeing twist. Let’s put a whole bunch of passengers on this new airplane we just invented and see if it flies. Then we’ll go back and retool if we have a crash. Oh looks like they did that already. /s

Anybody who knows how they build submarines would certainly understand why the guys that do the building have to also ride on the first deep sea trials/certification.

I would think we should start with vaccinating the children of all the people at the FDA and CDC and then wait and see what happens. I’m sure they’re OK with that don’t you?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I like the analogies!

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What's avatar

sucks to have to build from the ground up again

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