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[–] zeriah 103 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The thing that bothers me the most about (mostly right-wing) anti-covid propaganda is that they use the argument that it was rushed to market. The vaccines were rushed to market thanks to an FDA emergency provision that removed a lot of the "red tape" that companies normally have to go through to get any medical item into the hands and/or bodies of consumers.

So many right-wing politicians campaign on the promise of removing red tape and getting rid of these things that protect all of us. This is literally what they say they want.

Chalk another one up for right wing hypocrisy, I suppose...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chalk another one up for right wing hypocrisy, I suppose...

The only right wing value is the acquisition of power and influence, that's why they don't hold to any position, they will just stand wherever benefits them the most in that moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And by they, you mean the right wind politicians in power.

The people who vote for them are constantly voting against their immediate interests.

If we had some sort of ranked choice, a lot of these one-issue voters might actually have a choice in their representation. Which would be good for all of us.

[–] aidan -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does "left wing" and "right wing" mean?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] aidan -3 points 1 year ago

The origin of a word is largely distinct from how people use it in the modern day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Broadly speaking, left wing is about creating change, ideally for more equality or the betterment of all. Right wing is about conserving the status quo and traditional power hierarchies, because they are accustomed to benefiting from them.

[–] aidan -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So would ideologies like fascism, georgism, anarcho-capitalism, ethno-nationalism, etc be left-wing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When in doubt, remember that oncentration camps are not compatible with "equality or betterment of all".

[–] aidan -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So then what are they- since they aren't ideologies about conserving the status quo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Concentration camps protect establishment power.

[–] aidan -1 points 1 year ago

Not the current governing establishment(unless they're FDRs)

[–] Ghostalmedia 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, these vaccines were not developed in under a year. There was literally several DECADES of research and testing on coronavirus vaccines (anyone remember SARS), and mRNA / adenovirus vaccine tech.

Saying these were rushed is a flat out lie.

[–] aidan 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They were rushed in that they did rush to accelerate the development- largely through increased funding. However, that does not make them unsafe. Of course investing more into research can generally speed it up.

[–] Ghostalmedia 2 points 1 year ago

The only thing that was accelerated was the scale of the tech infrastructure and the testing to target this specific variant of coronavirus. Coronavirus vaccines, and the modern technology to deliver the vaccines, was developed and piloted long before the COVID 19 started floating around.

We were lucky AF.

[–] aidan 2 points 1 year ago

Generally right-wingers oppose efficacy requirements not long term safety trials- the COVID vaccine simply did not have enough time for that. Or they oppose the FDA entirely- which is a different thing because then you could hold drug companies liable rather than them being able to lean on the FDA for protection.