> if you refuse to recognize that many of the same companies producing these vaccines also played a major role in fueling the current opioid crisis which is coincidentally disproportionately impacting these very communities
Moderna has no opioid division.
And while Mennonites have a multinational drug problem [1][2], I see no evidence they were “disproportionately” impacted by opioids.
This sounds like post hoc rationalisation, not causation. These folks were never going to get vaccinated.
But pull out a bit for a wider view: The establishment that said "trust us" over vaccines was the same establishment that made billions from killing millions by "fueling the current opioid crisis"
> establishment that said "trust us" over vaccines was the same establishment that made billions from killing millions by "fueling the current opioid crisis"
Conflating the "establishment" into a false monolith is rhetorically convenient. It's also wrong.
"Purdue Pharma hired Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor and now Donald Trump’s lawyer, to head off a federal investigation in the mid-2000s into the company’s marketing of the powerful prescription painkiller at the" [1]. (The Sacklers disproportionately donated to the GOP [2]. I see no evidence of them continuing that under MAGA.)
To the extent the people who "kill[ed] millions by 'fueling the current opioid crisis'" had a role in the vaccine debate, it's by hitching up to the anti-vaxers.
You appear to be treating "Moderna" as "the establishment", along with lawyers, teachers, and state sanctioned violence, in order to criticise all of them at the same time.
Why, then, does "the establishment" (by your conflation of these things) sue itself?
And every doctor keeping you well (with rules to prevent scam treatment), every teacher educating you (with rules to maintain standards of education), every defence lawyer keeping you from unjust prosecution (with rules requiring people to actually know the laws first), and every civil rights activist and trade union worker trying to make the rules better.
Moderna has no opioid division.
And while Mennonites have a multinational drug problem [1][2], I see no evidence they were “disproportionately” impacted by opioids.
This sounds like post hoc rationalisation, not causation. These folks were never going to get vaccinated.
[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-28-me-18060...
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.2937000