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mucifer

(25,296 posts)
1. This is so effed up. The federal government is draining our state of so much money pulling crap like this.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:39 PM
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We shouldn't have to pay for vaccines.

I'm our state is doing something. It's important. But, it's going to be so hard filling every hole the federal government causes.

applegrove

(127,838 posts)
2. I don't know what % of people get long covid but the
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:42 PM
Saturday

vaccines to a good job of mitigating that. So it is not only lives the Covid vaccines saves but chronic illness too.

Dem2theMax

(10,959 posts)
5. I have long covid. Five years and counting.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:03 PM
Saturday

Believe me, no one wants this.

I got covid and long covid before the original vaccine came out.

If only a certain orange resident of our White House had done his job, and shut down the country when he should have, I never would have gotten covid.

applegrove

(127,838 posts)
7. I'm so sorry. Hopefully other countries in the world
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:16 PM
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who are studying long covid can come up with a treatment.

SunSeeker

(56,523 posts)
8. The vaccine is still cheaper for the state than long covid, hospitalizations, and death. nt
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:34 PM
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FoxNewsSucks

(11,312 posts)
10. That's what I can't understand also.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:17 PM
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Why are big Pharma companies going along with all these cuts????

But I do see more and more of the Paxlovid commercials these days. Maybe, like HIV, it's more profitable for them to TREAT and illness indefinitely than to CURE it.

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