Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
It appears that RFK Jr. is succeeding at making measles great again.
Stray Thought 0
I think it says something about how messed up our health care system has become that “health care advocates” are now advertising their services.
I’m so old that I can remember when, if you felt sick, you went to your family doctor, got treated, and went home. You didn’t even need an appointment, as doctors set aside time for walk-ins.
You didn’t need a “healtch care advocate” to obtain health care.
You just needed a family doctor.
Afterthought:
We made a serious mistake when we put insurance companies in charge of health care.
They don’t care about people; they care about profits.
Vaccine Nation 0
David discusses RFK Jr.’s role–and, by extension, the Trump maladministration’s role–in the growth of measles in the U. S. And, remember, measle was declared eradicated in the United States a quarter century ago.
I was a young ‘un before measles vaccines. I had both kinds of measles. They ain’t fun, my friends.
Also, one of my earliest memories is of my parents both in bed with the mumps, which is much more serious for adults than children. I was very young and the memory is just a snapshot affixed in my mind, but it’s a memory I would not wish on anyone else.
That we are currently ruled by and surrounded with persons too stupid to accept proven science–and, remember, science is all about proof–is, er, most disquieting.
And don’t get me started on “social” media’s role in incubating epidemics.
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.