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"You may be tired of hearing about measles by now, but measles is not tired of
infecting Americans. It’s worth reminding ourselves that this is a disease that
was declared gone in America. Cases and transmission rates were so low in 2000,
thanks almost entirely to the widespread promotion and adoption of the MMR
vaccine, that we officially put the disease on America’s pay-no-mind list.
But thanks to RFK Jr.’s promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories, ironically
demoted in preference of conspiracy theories more recently of Tylenol and
circumcision, fewer people got themselves or their children vaccinated and the
case counts began to rise. The ultimate betrayal of our public health system
was performed by Donald Trump and his compliant drones in Congress in putting
Kennedy in charge of HHS and America’s health. That was combined with whatever
that whole DOGE experience was supposed to be, which helped to reduce HHS
staffing by at least 1/8th of its previous workforce. Once that was done, the
consequences for disease control became inevitable."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
