The Absurd GOP

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Can’t…stop…laughing…

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

Plus, Polio’s been all but eradicated in the wild outside of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Reintroducing it for a vaccine trial, outside of the ethical question is fucking insane. Not to mention, given that the majority of people are vaccinated against Polio already, where the hell are we going to find people for this trial?

That’s not outside the ethical question, it IS the ethical question. In order to perform the idiotically useless trials this lawyer wants, you’d have to first infect healthy people with poliovirus. That’s Mengele-esque, that is.

Boru

Well, the lawyer and RFK could volunteer.

[Nanny]

The model could be the Tuskegee Syphilis Trial under this administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

A crime against humanity.

[Thumpalumpacus]

That’s not outside the ethical question, it IS the ethical question. In order to perform the idiotically useless trials this lawyer wants, you’d have to first infect healthy people with poliovirus. That’s Mengele-esque, that is.

Boru

Well, the lawyer and RFK could volunteer.

They have the luxury of already having the shots before telling everyone else to avoid them.

[Rev. Rye]

Well, the lawyer and RFK could volunteer.

They have the luxury of already having the shots before telling everyone else to avoid them.

To be fair, close to 93% of Americans have already had the full course of polio vaccinations. That said, the prospect of these rates going down is nothing short of terrifying, especially when you remember the Samoa measles outbreak, or know anything about polio outbreaks of the past.

Putting this bullshit plan into action would probably be the single worst health care decision the US government has ever made.