Daniel Dvorkin<p>The text at the end of the post is copied rather than shared, at previous poster's request, and lightly edited. Feel free to share my post, though, with commentary intact.</p><p>You know this was always their endgame. The bullshit answers <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFK</span></a> Jr. and his fellow loons gave Congress were even more transparent lies than all the other confirmation hearing testimony. Everyone who voted to confirm them shares the blame, but Bill <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Cassidy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cassidy</span></a> has earned a special place in hell.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Bondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bondi</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Noem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Noem</span></a>, and all the rest of the cabinet are all assholes, and profoundly dangerous. Justice and Homeland Security are slaying their thousands, and Defense is gearing up to slay its tens of thousands. Health and Human Services is chuckling at them and saying "amateurs."</p><p>I'm skeptical that any amount of lobbying <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> directly, or any of its sub-departments such as <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDA</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a>, and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a>, will have much effect. But maybe, just maybe, calling your <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Senators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Senators</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Representatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Representatives</span></a> will have an effect.</p><p>Let's face it, members of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> will suffer a lot less from idiocy like <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> than the rest of us, and they're (probably) safe from roundup and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a>. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viruses</span></a> don't care about such distinctions. Mighty and humble alike can choke to death on their own liquefying lung tissue.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Antivaxers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antivaxers</span></a> are not "skeptics." They're not interested in evidence. They can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with, and they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.</p><p>===</p><p>Marty Makary and Tracy Hoeg at the FDA are currently trying to set a policy that would effectively eliminate all covid vaccines. They want to require a full clinical trial every year for companies to update the covid vaccine to match the current strain, which they know is not possible.</p><p>Please contact the FDA and demand continuing access to yearly updated covid vaccines and ask for the Novavax 2025 covid vaccine to be approved.</p><p>mmakary1@jhmi.edu<br>ocod@fda.hhs.gov<br>tracybeth.hoeg@fda.hhs.gov<br>800-402-8010</p>