Summary

Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, resigned after reportedly being forced out amid clashes with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that Kennedy wanted “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

He criticized Kennedy’s stance on vaccines, accusing him of undermining public confidence.

Marks, who led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research since 2016, played a key role in authorizing Covid vaccines and spearheading Operation Warp Speed. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, has questioned the safety of Covid and MMR vaccines despite scientific consensus.

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    Your idea would keep me, a fully vaccinated individual, out of Europe. A place I want to escape to eventually.

    First, it isn’t a European problem. It is your problem.
    Second, I’m sure (not a specialist and can’t prove but still sure) that vaccination can be proved medically (just test for antibodies upon injective a minor amount of virus/bacteria)

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      Sure act like trump. That’s the solution. Next you should close your borders entirely.

      Some vaccines that may be possible but I can’t imagine it would be cheap even if you could check for the 20+ vaccines I’ve had.

      Your motivation seems to be to punish good people for Trump’s actions. Pretty fucked up, petty, pointless, and unproductive if you ask me.

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        The well-being of locals is much more important to me than some may-be-vaccined-or-maybe-bilogical-bomb American whiner.

        The best I can offer is a vaccination koncentrazionlager. No proof of vaccination? Behind the barbed wire off you go. Get your vaccines, wait a few weeks and, if everything is ok, go further.

        You Americans for some crazy reason think that you should be let into any place because you’re American. Many people are sick of your chauvinism. “How dare you not to let me in?! I am American!”

        Pffft.

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          If it weren’t for your horrible shit attitude we could probably talk. But go ahead with your generalizations and assumptions. Thank God for tags in Boost

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        Actually, it’s common and standard for countries to require vaccination records to immigrate. I had the same problem when I moved, I only had paper records that my parents could no longer find. I ended up just getting all of them again at once. Insurance helped (I didn’t have to pay anything out of pocket). Also, it’s not a lot. In the US, they require around 4-5 vaccines (MMR, TDAP, HEP, varicella, and covid which they recently made optional) to pass permanent residency requirements, not all the 20 you got. I imagine EU countries require around just as much.

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          So that sounds reasonable and so I’m not sure what op was so mad about or suggesting. I thought they were also referring to visits.

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            To be fair, you did say the EU was a place you eventually want to “escape to”, so people likely assumed you meant immigration, not just visiting/tourist.

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              Which was in response to him being an absolutist. But I do see your point. Thanks for being nicer about it