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A comment on FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US. Parent comment

Re:FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, i... by fzeroracer on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:26PM (#43190673)
It's not exactly a conspiracy when they're literally outright saying this is what they're doing. Like Elon Musk is out there regurgitating every single stupid reason you can think of for dismantling the government, you can spend like an hour trawling his feed and realize that all of these conspiracies are just things he's outright admitting.
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Re:FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, i... by _heimdall on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:36PM (#43190733)
> It’s a collusion to create chaos and dismantle the system that can track what they are doing. You think “flu vaccine”, they steal elsewhere. Today a vaccine, last week an email to justify jobs, earlier USAID, next week something else. It’s a distraction.

This is the comment I was replying to. I at least haven't seen any direct acknowledgements if this being the goal, and the comment or even refers to it as collusion with predictions of what comes next. That seems squarely in the conspiracy theory realm to me, in line with all the theories thrown around while Biden was in office or Hillary was running.

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Re:FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, i... by tayo42 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:28PM (#43191371)
> The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Steve bannon, part of the first trump presidency

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Re:FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, i... by _heimdall on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:34PM (#43191392)
Sure, I saw that interview clip and raised it elsewhere on HN. That still doesn't move this from conspiracy to confirmed plan as described in the earlier comment.

There's nothing wrong with a conspiracy theory. They're just often backed by anecdotal or circumstantial evidence and aren't yet really proven. This still falls into that bucket.

Interestingly enough, plenty of conspiracy theories turn out to be at least partially true, the same could happen here.

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