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The Trump administration's new Vaccine Czar, appointed to lead the ridiculously named Operation Warp Speed that would include the equally ridiculous notion of deploying a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine using the military, has accepted the position as an independent contractor.
As a contractor, Moncef Slaoui is not subject to laws that would require disclosure of of positions, holdings, and other circumstances that would present a conflict of interest.
Don't worry, the HHS ethics office has cleared him.
Yesterday Trump wanted to be FDR by nationalizing pharma, today he wants to be Stalin by militarizing the distribution of a CoVID-19 vaccine.
“He's not dangerous for the reasons the left thinks he dangerous. He's dangerous because he doesn't know how stupid he is.” – James Jacobin
Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, a person who holds several silly hereditary titles of social rank in the United Kingdom, has encouraged members of Britain’s recently-unemployed ranks to assist the farming industry with the harvesting of crops to prevent the crops from “going to waste” and conveyed it is a matter of national pride.
How can a country tolerate the sanctimony of a person whose only troubles in life are the ones he created himself?
When I get stuck with the task of shucking the corn, I'm just grateful I'm not the poor sap who had to wrap it.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“All I can say is that I don't have Leo's insecurities.” – mJ
A 6.4 quake struck Tonopah, NV today. Maybe it's time to let out the aliens.
(People talk about Area 51 because they don't know about Tonopah)
“Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are.” – Frank Sinatra
“Except for those scarred psyches, no one wants to see that.” – mJ
