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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.