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[Recusant]

Elements of my countries hierarchy are hellbound to kill the timid liberals. The Lunatic In Chief has systematically installed crackpot officials in the form of secretary of Health, defense, education,  etc. 

The secretary of health is unhinged and irresponsible yet he has power over the masses. He has the influence to dictate terms to our Center for Disease Control (CDC)

See attached:  https://www.npr.org/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5563869/cdc-covid-vaccine-recommendation?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Boyz and Gurlzs,  we inna heap of trubble

You said it. The anti-intellectualism that's been a consistent element of the American psyche for a long time has never produced positive results as far as I'm aware. Rather the contrary. This latest ascendancy of aggressive ignorance (including the hijinks of the Kennedy scion) is almost certainly not going to help the country in any way.

[Icarus]

Perhaps a mere variation ..... the incidence of whooping cough in my state is now twice what it was during all of 2024.

We do have some of the nations better universities in Florida.  Unfortunately, we also have a predominance of ignorant rubes who inhabit the hinterlands as well as the cities.








 

[Recusant]

Perhaps a mere variation ..... the incidence of whooping cough in my state is now twice what it was during all of 2024.

We do have some of the nations better universities in Florida.  Unfortunately, we also have a predominance of ignorant rubes who inhabit the hinterlands as well as the cities.

I checked it out and it's not just Florida it's all across the US, with the west coast also showing a prominent increase in cases. From the stories I saw though, Florida is leading the nation in the strength of its outbreak. As for why, there was some discussion of how the COVID pandemic had knocked the incidence of whooping cough/pertussis back because people were being more careful during the pandemic.

Of course a greater number of people not getting properly vaccinated is a significant component. One article I read mentioned that not long ago, pertussis had been considered basically eliminated because of effective vaccination programs. It may be a while before those days return, now that people have politicized vaccination. 

[Icarus]

Individual crackpots like RFK jr. and my own state surgeon general, Dr. Ledapo, need to be removed from any position of authority and perhaps shipped to the Patagonian hinterlands. They and other deniers of long standing scientific evidence are responsible for preventable sickness and deaths of too many humans.

Our anti vaxxer citizens are not evil people, they are merely dangerously gullible.

[billy rubin]

we didnt vaccinate our five children with the normal concoction of reccommended series. at the time.  som e of the recommendations didnt make sense to us. polio had been almost completely eradicated in the USA, and the only people being infected were those whe were spending time abroad in regions of poor hygiene, and americans who had contracted it from the vaccination itself. both were low-risk, but in our case higher than non-vaccinating.

we didnt vaccinate against hepatitis B because my infant children werent sharing needles or engaging in unprotected sex. or chicken pox, because it was relatively low risk. seems like we did vaccinate against measles, which can get out of control quickly.

 no we didnt, says he wife, but some of the kids are vaccinated against measles  as adults.

all the kids have tetanus vaccinations, and i seem to recall a TB vaccine in there somewhere.

im a firm believer in the importance of vaccines in preventing infections, but i dont believe in the knee-jerk one-size-fits-all approach. we did it on a case by case basis.

chicken pox was a good example. its relatively low-risk in healthy kids, but you have to watch for encephalitis. the government recommendations for the vaccination at the time were-- i kid you not-- that avoiding the disease let mothers continue to put their young children into day care so they wouldnt miss any work days. all our kids went through it unscathed, as i did, but if they hadnt i would have had them vaccinated later as it can be serious in adulthood.

ivebeen vaccinated against smallpox, yellow fever, typhoid fever, cholera, tetanus, covid 19, and who knows what over the years. didnt have one against dengue fever, which almost killed me.