2mo ago

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

www.nytimes.com

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So now we can legally buy fully automatic machine guns, but not a lifesaving miracle of medical science, that we all paid for.
Republicans are a death cult, through and through.
- This alarmist and factually dubious fear mongering is part of what is hurting the Democrats and the left in the US. Binary triggers do not turn a firearm into a “fully automatic machine gun”. What they do is cause the gun to fire on both the trigger pull and the trigger reset. This allows the shooter to fire very quickly, but not as fast as a true automatic weapon. Machine gun, and assault rifle both have specific legal definitions that hinge on the firearm firing multiple rounds with one trigger action. A standard trigger has two actions for every trigger pull - the pull and the reset. This is why these devices are technically legal. It’s also why bump stocks are legal.
  It’s splitting hairs and is pedantic, but the tilted and inaccurate narrative only serves to disenfranchise people who lean left but also enjoy firearms.
  All that said - restricting access to this vaccine is asinine and needlessly dangerous. To your point, we paid for this medicine with our taxes, our isolation, and unfortunately with many lives. Fuck this administration and the spineless republicans who enable them to trample on our rights.
  
  We still don't need people to be able to fire more bullets per minute. The risk/benefit for society is pretty clearly against allowing devices like that.
  
  That ruling is about forced reset triggers, which absolutely replicate automatic fire in all but our pedantic definition of machine gun. I got dragged a bit on another thread for suggesting that they are effectively machine gun conversion devices the same as a DIAS or a Glock switch. People saying that these triggers "only help you shoot slightly faster and aren't even close to what a machine gun can do."
  See for yourself and be your own judge.
  
  I, personally, grew up in the swamp so I just have a machete and pocket sand. And pocket glitter if it comes to that.
This is the prelude to a total ban on all vaccines.
I thought they were the "Keep government out of my body!" party. Seems like a lot of bending over for Uncle Sam's schlong going on. What happened to "the right to choose which vaccines we take"?
- Nah. They just want to impose decisions they think will harm minorities more on people
- Tells me everything I need to know about his relationship with his family. Dude must be miserable.
Is there a way that a vaccine can be "cloned" do that younger people can take them anyway?
- It's technically possible for additional manufacturers to produce it, but making anything more sophisticated than the original smallpox vaccine is tough enough that you're not going to do it at home. The cold chain requirement for distribution means that it's unlikely that we're going to see an effective black market for vaccines either.

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