• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    So pharma fucked their bed spectacularly and aren’t doing fuck all to restore trust.

    It goes farther than that, because of how aggressively the US has resisted drug imports and fear mongered against foreign science and development.

    The post-COVID “vaccine diplomacy” of European and Chinese state pharmaceutical providers (hell, Cuba even developed a variant) was matched with a flood of early US reporting that amounted to “don’t trust any vaccine that isn’t American!!!” Then there was a dirty war between domestic providers over whose vaccine was the best.

    All that propaganda took its toll.