Comment by emchammer
18 hours ago
The context on this site is often assumed to be American. I consider myself to be multicultural and I'm definitely guilty of that in some of my posts.
There's a lot of misinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccines in the USA in addition to the valid questions which are equally serious. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is currently run by an individual who has superstitions about them, and is actively dismantling the professional efforts which further vaccination. Even if there was a vaccine available on the medical market in the US, because that is what we have in this country, a market for medical care, it's not clear that it would be accessible to everybody or the people who need it. The reason for this is because Americans do not have universal healthcare, and in fact, the President has recently enacted a law that cuts public healthcare for many millions of Americans, which would provide such a vaccine.
I'm aware of the post-COVID vaccine hesitancy (this is definitely not limited to the US) but the vaccine the CDC is talking about was discontinued "citing insufficient consumer demand" in 2002, over 2 decades ago.
So is GP just vaguely quipping about the cancellation of development of new vaccines? "Oh wait" makes it sound like we already had a vaccine for Lyme disease that is just not being used.
edit: and now this comment I'm replying to has gone gray. I'd love to see some commentary instead of just downvotes