On the Joe Rogan Show, JD Vance essentially laid out their plans for a defacto ban on vaccines (of all kinds likely) by making drug companies liable for everyone who claims the “vaccine injury” — which by their standards is anyone who had minor side-effects, such as feeling under the weather for a couple of days. By taking away liability programs and making the drug companies pay out or litigate everyone who claims side-effects, it will essentially make it untenable financially for drug companies to make vaccines any longer, thereby no company will dare bother producing or selling vaccines in the U.S. or probably to Americans anywhere, out of vaccine liability fears.
There’s a perfectly good program for vaccine adverse events which has a lower bar than the normal courts, and has functioned well for a long time. And even Republicans in Congress have suggested moving covid vaccines to that program. But it seems like MAGA doesn’t want that now that RFK Jr. is on board. They want to do away with vaccines now. Or perhaps worse — since there are plans to deputize anti-vaxxers for swatting squads.
JD Vance ironically didn’t see the value in being “vaccine injured” with a couple days of side-effects because his subsequent 5 infections with covid were “mild” according to him. He apparently has no concept that the reason he’s survived so many covid infections may in fact be because of previous vaccination.