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paleotn

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4. Even competent people have a tough time figuring out.....

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 10:53 PM

5 hrs ago

which flu variants will predominate. No easy task. A game of probabilities that sometimes doesn't turn out the way even trained minds think it might. The people who make those determinations are generally in the bowels of FDA and not the thin veneer of Shitler appointees. Imagine trying to do that job, hard as it is, with utter morons running things at the top.

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