Go back to the 19th century and the same kind of bullshit about vaccines was happening with smallpox, a very deadly disease.

Perhaps he is talking about AstraZenaca, which did cause a few deaths through blood clots and was withdrawn in favour of the safer mRNA vaccines. Which showed the checking for safety worked.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health...

And that brand new vaccine was banned pretty quick when a couple of people died from blood clots, so we fell back to the other brand new vaccines based on mRNA tech which was late becoming available here in Canada.
That's the thing, when a brand new vaccine showed problems, it was banned as it should be, especially with safe alternatives.

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/health...

The people voted for this? Sounds more like corruption.

Except China was not part of the Budapest Memorandum, which was signed by the UK, Russia, USA and Ukraine. France and China did sign separate agreements with the one China signed basically reaffirming the UN stand on hostilities between nations with no guarantees. https://web.archive.org/web/20... also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I don't think they use indicator bulbs anymore. Instead it is one piece, LED in a chunk of plastic. A burnt out light can now cost thousands to fix. How many sources they have for those one piece specialized lights is likely low, perhaps even only one.
Having standard parts that are easy to swap is not profitable. Same with parts that last.

One thing that is different this time is there has been very little retaliation while Smoot Hawley triggered a trade war between all nations. I think the only countries that retaliated this time were Canada and China.

Lots of small stores will still take cash in a natural disaster. Better example is the internet or cell service going down. Here in Canada the other year, Rogers went down for a couple of days. Seemed most card processors used the Rogers network for cards and even ATM's used it to check your balance. I went into a gas station to buy gas, with cash. The number of people milling around looking lost and talking about the same thing happening everywhere was amazing.
There's been other times a store has had a network failure and only taking cash and even my Credit Union has had it happen the odd time with the ATM out of service.
I always keep some cash on me just in case and more at home and that network outage proved it was a good idea.

Still hard to believe that small bills last anywhere close to coins. I regularly see Loonies (1 dollar coin) from when they were introduced in 1987, meanwhile the paper currency has changed a couple of times and then likewise with the plastic currency. Most of the changes were for counterfeiting protection.
Meanwhile the coin has changed from coated nickel to coated stainless steel.
Armoured car companies seem fine with $1 and $2 coins.
The vending machines were set up a long time ago for $1 coins and American $1 coins are compatible with Loonies in those machines, both nickel and stainless steel Loonies.
I used to hate looking at my wallet, seeing a bunch of bills and then counting them and realizing they were mostly ones.

It's how we did it in Canada. Didn't take long for $1 bills to vanish from circulation.
Did the same some years later with the $2 bill.
IIRC, 1987 for the $1 and 1996 for the $2.
I'll also note that our $1 coins are compatible for vending machines and such.

Here in Canada, when we got rid of the penny, some stores advertised that they would always round down. Didn't last before going to regular rounding and I've never heard of a business that always rounds up.
Can't remember if there is a law about it or just guidelines.
Anyways, few pay in cash today and for plastic, it is still rounded to the nearest cent.

And when did America finally shutdown its re-education camps? I believe you called them boarding schools.
Here in Canada, the last were shutdown in the 1990's and they involved a lot of abuse, including sexual and was all based on race and the goal was cultural genocide on those pesky natives.

They impound vehicles here for excessive speeding, IIRC 40km/h over, still see people excessively speeding. The problem, as you said, is the odds of getting caught are low enough that people still speed excessively even with the higher fines, and the cost of impoundment, which adds up.

They impound cars for excessive speeding (IIRC, 40km/h over) here, never heard a politician even talk about less penalties for speeding. Higher speed limits yes.

And they recently had a big strike here in Canada to change that to getting paid when they start the job. People were very supportive of the flight attendants strike as well once they realized that these people were working for free before the plane took off.
The advantage of unions and labour rights.