Health and Sanity category archive
Rand Gestures 0
Rebecca Watons takes a deep look at Rand Paul’s persecution–no, I do not think that is too strong a word–of Dr. Anthony Fauci. (Warning: Mild language.)
Or you can read the transcript.
Vaccine Nation, Reprise 0
David dissects the disinformation disseminated by disgusting deceivers who dismiss documented data.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Psychology Today website, Robert N. McCauley points out that
- the tens, if not hundreds, of millions of lives that vaccination has saved over the past hundred years from the prevention of crowd diseases (such as smallpox, polio, and measles),
- the current resurgence of measles and death therefrom in America in the face of the newest wave of vaccine hesitancy, and
- recent findings that some vaccines (e.g., for shingles) aid human health in additional ways (such as decreasing the probability of dementia),
why is resistance to vaccination so longstanding and widespread?
Read the article for his thoughts on that question.
The Lynch Mob 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch offers a theory as to why Congressional Republicans want to persecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for doing his job (and doing it quite well, I might add).
Methinks he’s onto something.
No excerpt or summary will do his piece justice. Just go read it.
Vaccine Nation 0
RFK Jr. throws a temper tantrum on CNN. David comments.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well established, that’s a Republican family value. Here, Emma talks with Katie Bergh about the damage that the Trump maladministration’s cuts to SNAP food benefits have done to families and children.
Rand Gestures 0
Susan Estrich argues that Dr. Fauci was justified in citing the Fifth Amendment when he appeared before Senator Rand Paul’s committee, She notes that Senator Paul was not acting in good faith and that Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth so as
The purpose here was the trap.
Much more at the link.
Afterthought:
What would be your opinion of a person who would releases someone’s private diary to the press?
Personally, I would not think higly of him or her.
Devolution 0
At the Hartford Courant, Dr. Michael Good marvels at the American regress. Here’s how his article begins:
In 40 years of medical practice I never saw a case of measles or cyclospora food poisoning.
When I started practice in 1983 we had an almost universally utilized measles vaccine that protected our children and an effective food safety public health system that prevented food contamination and halted contaminated food outbreaks while they were still limited in size.
After the dramatic cuts to public health made during the first year of the Trump administration, coupled with RFK Jr’s campaigns against vaccines, dangerous pathogens that have threatened us for millennia have once again been unleashed upon us.
A Gut-Wrenching Question 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Lisa Jarvis wants to know, “Why do we need explosive diarrhea to remind us public health matters?”
Follow the link for her thoughts on the matter.
Republican Family Values 0
Apparently, as PoliticalProf notices, affordable healthcare is not a Republican family value.
Stray Thought 0
RFK Jr. would be very disappointed in me.
I got two vaccinations yesterday.
Because, golly gosh gee, I believe in factual knowledge.
Vaccine Nation 0
Inaction has consequences. So does willful ignorance.
We are a society of stupid.
The Worm Returns 0
Rebecca Watson discusses how Elon Musk and the Trump maladministration contributed to the return of the screwworm.
Or you can read the transcript.
Medicare Disadvantage 0
Thom talks with Wendell Potter about how Medicare Advantage has turned out to be just another part of the privatization scam. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Vaccine Nation 0
One of the reasons that measles and other preventable diseases are making comebacks it that there has been a concerted campaign to undermine Americans faith in science. At the Psychology Today website, Lawrence T. White notes that
It’s not a huge mystery why this is so. For years, prominent voices have been telling Americans that scientists should not be trusted.
Follow the link for his thoughts as to how to combat this contagion of ignorance.
Strict Destructionists 0
At my local rag, Doug Mercado argues that the current federal maladministration seems to have overlooked the bit in the preamble to the U. S. Constitution that states that one of the purposes of the union is to “promote the general welfare.”
Methinks he may be onto something.
Enablers of Epidemics 0
Via The Japan Times, Lisa Jarvis considers the legacy of the Trump maladministration’s and of Elon Musk’s DOGE in the light of a spreading ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):
While it’s too early to directly blame those cuts for the late detection of the current outbreak, one thing is certain: The decimation of USAID and the U.S.’ exit from the WHO will make containing the spread much more difficult.
Afterthought:
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the Trump maladministration and today’s Republican Party do not comprehend the concept of–nor give a tuppence for–the common good.