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[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 59 points 6 months ago

“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

But to what end in this case? Impede their pharma industry? It doesn't even make sense. It's so childish and spiteful.

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

They wanted to impede the soft power of China in the region. It does make sense in a realpolitik kind of way, but someone with a fucking conscience in the command chain should have stopped this.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago

someone with a fucking conscience in the command chain should have stopped this.

Based on the article it sounds like many on the US side did strongly oppose this, which is slightly reassuring. I'm going to tell myself the goons that went ahead with this were MAGA.

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

Considering that SinoVac was approved for use June 1st, 2021 and Biden was inaugurated January 20th, 2021...

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

You could just read the article.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 months ago

It's got real Dr.Strangelove vibes.

"Mr. President! We cannot allow a mineshaft gap!"

These fucking clowns. If you assume the absolute worst of them, you'll rarely be surprised.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago

The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

Well that's just fucking shameful.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 42 points 6 months ago

It's no great secret that the Trump administration was peddling in vaccine misinformation.

The only surprise here is how much damage it caused in the Philippines in particular.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago

This is incredibly fucked up. Aside from the immorality of this they do realise that viruses don't give a shit about national borders right? That's kind of why we had, you know, the whole fucking pandemic.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Especially against a friendly country with a lot of back and forth migration.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Assuming you're talking about China I think friendly is a bit of a stretch and migration is largely one way. That said the overall point still stands, at the very least the US is pretty dependent on them.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Read the article. It's the Philippines.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago
[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Who knows how many died because of this crap. The only word that accurately describe this action is evil.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago

The interesting is that it was Pentagon and not CIA or NSA.

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Why hide covert actions if nobody cares?

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