Downside: Deadly virus that can be transmitted through the air and Dr. Oz in charge of public health
Upside: Blame Canada memes
Nah. We get RFK Jr. and his worm eaten brain to get us out of this
Dr. Oz is in charge of killing the elderly.
And the poor!
por que no los dos?
Keep it in check, Canada. (nervous laughter) We're not equipped to deal with that right now.
We'll do our best, eh.
You guys pull this off, and we will throw you a super soft party when we get our shit together. Don't know when that will be, but we will try our damnest.
I'm not hearing an apology, buddy.
Oh, sorry.
Time to bring everyone back to the office!
And time for the USA to ban vaccines and infectious disease research, thanks to RFK Jr.
They’re not going to stop people doing their own research into infectious diseases and vaccines though so it’ll be fine.
They're not going to stop it, just seriously disincentivize it. Pulling billions of dollars of research funding and making it doubtful whether any developed vaccine can be sold in the USA will have a huge effect on the ability of academic institutions to do research and the willingness of corporations to do so.
Half of Americans have a reading level below 6th grade. I'm sure they are up on virology though.
Well.....we doing The Stand now, guys?
Guess I picked the wrong year to stop sniffing glue
soon we will have state supplied brain worms capable of eating up any virus that happens to enter our systems
Yes please let's end this
As long as it will not mutate to be transmissible between humans, I'm not that worried.
When it does however...
now, now, it's not all bad. maybe it'll wipe out some of that hellspawn geese
You wanna know what? You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
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