Summary
Donald Trump’s nomination of anti-vaccine advocate David Weldon to lead the CDC has sparked celebration among anti-vaccine groups.
Weldon, a former congressman and longtime critic of vaccine safety, has promoted debunked theories linking vaccines to autism and appeared in anti-vaccine films.
His nomination raises concerns about undermining vaccine recommendations, public health messaging, and legal protections for vaccine manufacturers, potentially jeopardizing access to childhood immunizations.
Critics warn this move signals the Trump administration’s alignment with anti-vaccine ideologies, prioritizing politics over science-based public health policies.
It’s a terrible idea all around, but with something like polio could you not just roll out a vaccine to your population hidden within the other vaccines already required within China, then once your population has it, roll out the strain that the vaccine was made for originally? The rest of the world wouldnt have the anti viral, and MAGA would oppose getting them. Meaning it would slow protections around the world, and decimating populations while it wouldn’t spread in their own until it mutated, which they should have been able to study possible mutations and create remedies during their trials.
It would kill the global economy and their own… So it’d be dumb, but if there were actually supervillains like people seem to believe, why wouldn’t it work?