There will be another pandemic, this time no masks or vaccines

[orangecrush]

There will be no mandatory masking laws, no ban on crowd sizes for events, no social distancing seating.

What is worse, if you wear your mask, you will be making yourself a target for MAGATs to harass and worse.

MAGA is a death cult, and America has drunk the Kool Aid.

See you hopefully on the other side of 4 years.

[Joe_Gadway]

1. Viruses never sleep

This is very likely.
There are always diseases trying to spread and only good public health agencies keep them in check.
We could be about to find out how terrible life was before modern medicine.

[RockRaven]

2. Bird flu. The missed opportunities which will be pointed to in hindsight

have already occurred. Deference to big business, insufficient surveillance, etc. We are in a slow motion preamble to the calamity.

[LisaL]

5. And monkey pox. And who knows what else.

We will be sitting ducks. Vaccines banned, research into infectious diseases banned.

[keep_left]

8. Yep. We're something like two steps away from...

...easy human-to-human transmission of avian flu at this point. And we've seen how Trump operates in these situations already. He tried to hide the Covid outbreak for several months, for God's sake, and when it could no longer be denied, he turned the whole thing into another front in the culture war.

[LisaL]

3. Yep.

No masks, no vaccines. Schools full of un-vaccinated children, spreading diseases like measles.
That's how MAGAs want it.

[kimbutgar]

4. I have a bunch of masks that I held on to that I will use.

Luckily I live in a blue state that will be proactive if another pandemic hits.

[Submariner]

6. Too old

at 78 to go maskless in the big box stores, where I'm seeing too much coughing in the shopping aisles recently.

So I mask up, but now wearing my veterans hat, just waiting for some smart mouth lip from a magaloon, and cause me to snap. I hate living in this rage mode, but with Putin's bitch returning to office, Caligula and the First Tramp have just set the stage for four+ years of hell.

[orangecrush]

7. Most accurate post

Of the day.

[Wiz Imp]

9. Considering the world went 100 years between significant worldwide pandemics

I'm not so sure another pandemic in the near future should be a big concern. Of course, if the Republicans try to outlaw vaccine mandates for public schools, then all bets are off.

Beyond that though, most restrictions imposed during the 2020 pandemic were imposed at a state and local level. The Trump administration will not be able to prevent states from imposing these restrictions in the future. So if you're in a state with a Democratic Governor, you should be safe, so to speak.

[radical noodle]

12. Biden praised Trump when the shot came out

He praised Trump's "operation warp speed" for the fast development of it. Considering some of the things that trump proposed to cure covid, I don't think it's surprising that some people were skeptical at best of the quality of the vaccines he might be responsible for.

And where we're getting this? It's exactly what RFK, Jr has been saying out loud.

Edit: to correct incorrect info

[EdmondDantes_]

14. The first covid vaccine was authorized on December 11th, 2020, Trump was still president

The Biden administration along with state administrations handled much of the rollout to the general public.

But even with that, after the MAGA crowd turned against it, so did Trump.

[radical noodle]

16. My bad... I just remembered Joe getting the first shot

But that doesn't change the fact that we're not making up anything about the dangers of RFK, Jr.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Hey, if Trumpers want to kill themselves

I won't try to stop them... Hell, this time I'll even buy stock in bleach and horse dewormer

[bluestarone]

15. While i 100% agree with this

It's gonna kill me to witness kids in school getting very sick and dying!

[Meowmee]

13. The last one was no masks

At first, and lies, cover up, and blocking treatments for blue states by the psycho. Purchase masks now in advance and whatever else you need. Masks and isolation will be the only way to protect yourself if there is no vaccine. Stock up on everything you can like antibiotics so you can try to avoid going to hospitals etc. where you are likely to be exposed.