Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Via the Hartford Courant, physicians Daniel Tobin and Anthony Yoder express their concern that the Trump maladministration is hazardous to our health A snippet:
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
This may not be one of Paul Simon’s most successful songs, but it was a fun vibe to work up at the start of a new school year – getting instruments out for the first time since a summer holiday. The original was the second single from the album “Paul Simon” (released 1972) and the inscrutable story in the lyrics is set in the Queens neighbourhood where he grew up. By coincidence, it was apparently performed with Stephen Colbert in 2015 on The Late Show – the programme that this week tore into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s record and showed some of his fiery testimony in the Senate, an episode which also made it into European news coverage (story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c….
Needless to say, the world is watching with alarm the compromising of America’s public health systems, including the dismantling of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) – which has now lost its chief medical officer, director of immunisation, and director of emerging diseases (among many others) – while misinformation spreads, rates of vaccine uptake plummet, new outbreaks of measles kill again, and some states gallop headlong towards removing mandates that had the overwhelming backing of the scientific and medical communities.
The Fifth Horseman, Reprise 0
Senator John Warner (who I have voted for before and will happily vote for again) calls out RFK Jr.’s hockeypuck and highlights his willful malicious ignorance.
Vaccine Nation 0
Speaking of Florida Man, it seems that the state of Florida wants to make polio great again.
Afterthought:
Now there’s brilliant political strategy:
- “Kill some kids,
Own the libs.”
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Vaccine Nation 0
Mike Littwin finds it alarming that we lack a vaccine against willful. malicious stupidity.
Vaccine Nation 0
David discusses the damage that RFK Jr. is doing to the CDC and public health.
Read the news story David refers to at Reuters.
Vaccine Nation 0
Rebecca Watson looks at how anti-vax lies led to a mass shooting in Atlanta.
Or you can read the transcript.
Vaccine Nation 0
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be aany inoculation to protect from the Trump maladministration’s cyclone of stupid.
Suffer the Children 0
In Lawrence County, Tennessee, it’s now against the rules for students to miss school because they are sick.
Under this policy, when I had measles (it was before the measles vaccine, when I was in the fourth grade, not after RFK Jr.), I could have been “referred to” the court for being home sick with a fever, for Pete’s sake.
We are a society in regress.
Signs of the Times 0
Steve M suggests a revision.
What’s in a Name? 0
Froma Harrop looks at RFK Jr.’s regime as Secretary of Health and Human Services and concludes, well, not very much. A snippet:
Bobby is Exhibit A at what could go wrong when public servants are elevated by reason of birth.
Visit the link to learn why she says that.
Vaccine Nation 0
Measles is back. A snippet (emphasis added):
At least 1,277 confirmed cases have been identified in 38 states and Washington, D.C. Around 155 people have required hospitalization, with three individuals — two otherwise healthy children and one adult, all unvaccinated — having died so far.
(snip)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 92 percent of those who have contracted measles were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status.
We need a vaccine against stupid.
This New Gilded Age 0
John Oliver rips Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and how it will make the rich richer and the poor even poorer. (Warning: Mild language.)
Via C&L, which has commentary.
