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D. Malcolm Carson's avatar

Wouldn't that be nice, but the prerequisite to that would be to restore some degree of democratic accountability in Congress and the White House, and the prerequisite to that would be to remove the influence of Big Pharma (and all other massive corporate interests that subvert the public interest for private gain) over the media.

But you're absolutely right that their having failed creates a very dangerous set of conditions, we pretty much already saw the outlines of it with Biden's speech: scapegoat the "unvaccinated" as the cause of the problem.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Sounds lovely, in another world where Legacy Pharma and Legacy The Science (tm) don't see a bunch of racist white supremacist science denying Trump voting Islamophobic transphobic colonialist imperialists trying to start renegade, unregulated drug mills to create poison to kill our children and elderly and screech to Legacy Government to regulate them into oblivion, imprison whoever defied regulations, vilify, cancel, and imprison anyone who patronizes/patronized the open-source outlets, burns the facilities to the ground, and shoots whoever's still stupid enough to be standing still.

Yeah, I can absolutely see the existing ecosystem allowing open source, peer-reviewed, free market-driven research and development gain even the slightest foothold.

In other news, still working on developing alternate food sources for when I lose all rights to banking services and my savings and retirement funds are frozen for promoting terrorism (reading gato malo).

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