For those discussing the upcoming Trump administration - why?

[LSLGuy]

I agree w the OP.

See my comment here from earlier this morning:

What's the future of vaccine policy in the US?

I think it is completely pointless for any of us to ask any questions about our collective futures. What will happen will be Calvinball. A smidgen of it might by accident be good news to some of us sometimes briefly. Most of it will be a burden, but not a disaster. Some of it will be a disaster to some of us. But any attempt to apply historical precedent or even logical thought about what would benefit the oligarchs soon to own us all is doomed to failure. There are times the near future is d…

And this follow-up from downthread there:

What's the future of vaccine policy in the US?

Quoted, as they say, for truth. Something to be borne in mind, though, is that much of vaccine research, and the underlying development technologies such as adenovirus and mRNA delivery systems, is funded by the federal government and performed in government labs or university-associated labs with federal funding. It is unclear how much of that will go away, or whether RFK, Jr. even has the wherewithal to read a budget plan and understand what to cut, but all of those developments and support…