It's conspiracy theory nonsense. They'll take the one in a million case of someone suffering an adverse reaction from a vaccine and cite that as evidence that vaccines are unsafe and not effective, completely ignoring the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
To them, it's proof of how much smarter they are than the rest of the "sheep" who look at the numbers and go "it looks perfectly safe for 99.99999% of people, whereas if I don't get vaccinated, there's a huge risk that I'll get extremely sick and possibly even die", they know that someone has to be that 0.00001%, so it's better to put everyone at risk than to guarantee that someone's going to have an adverse reaction to the vaccine.
It's worse than that. They believe that every adverse occurrence on VARS was caused by the vaccine. Vars clearly explains that is not the way it works but they deliberately ignore that.
As demonstrated by the 72 year-old participant from the vaccine arm of the Moderna COVID vaccine trial who was struck by lightning 28 days after the vaccination. It was reported, so it was included in the Adverse Events section of the trial report.
That happened in 2021. Right wing media was reporting on a person who got the vaccine and died the next day. They left off the person hit a tree at high speed.
Sadly I know a few people exactly like this, everything can be cured with vitamins, garlic, change in diet or horse paste for some reason.
The amount of times I've had to listen to someone say "I didn't get the vaccine and I was fine. Some healthy person got it and they dropped dead the next day"
Vitamins actually can cure some things if you're deficient, and garlic really is useful against some minor infections (especially in the mouth), but these fools and their bullshit discredit the natural remedies that actually do work.
Horse dewormer actually could help, if you had worms. Getting rid of the worms made it easier to fight COVID. What got left off is that's a third world problem with polluted water. Is isn't a problem in the US. And people were going into Tractor Supply, getting a dose for a 1000 pound animal, and ending up in the ER.
The exact same medicine worked great for my dog. She didn't have COVID, though. She had worms🙄. Megadoses of a medicine as hard on the body as ivermectin are just stupid in almost any situation. When I had to use antibiotics made for larger animals on my pet mice because it was the only way I could afford to treat them at all, I bought special ultra-precise scales just for that!
I have a nurse (RN) friend who cites the vaccine inserts as evidence when trying to get her kids into school under an exemption from vaxes. She truly believes she and her kids are safer unvaxed, and tells everyone else to suck it and read about herd immunity. Then screams my body my choice. These selfish jackwads drive me insane
Is it me or has there been a marked uptick in the last, say, 20 years of nurses & dental assistants/hygienists who don't believe in basic science and accepted facts (vaccines being the most obvious example)?
For Heaven's sake, when I was younger, you never heard medical professionals say idiotic things like that and even less being anti-vaccines.
I haven't looked at all the dates, but I would not be surprised if this nonsense started with the rise of social media. zuck & co have done more to poison the minds of people than anyone else I can think of.
P.S.: I think you should openly question your friend's training & credentials. Like others, I think she should lose her license and I'd add she should be barred from the medical profession because she's a danger for everyone around her, including her kids.
There has been a marked uptick in the number of nurses, because it's been said for 20+ years that there will be a huge demand for them because of the aging population, and the fact that it offers comparatively high pay for the education requirements.
Because there are more nurses in general, it means that there are more nurses of any given type than before.
The problem with that is people are still affected by their choice to not vaccinate. I now know my husband and I both had pertussis in October. We are both vaccinated and it was fucking rough. Newborns, who tend to have the worst and fatal cases of it, understandably hardly have a chance if it knocked the absolute stuffings out of a pair of healthy mid 30’s/ early 40’s adults. I also have a friend who has permanent leg disabilities because she contracted polio as an infant. Fuck these people.
im so sorry. last year i got a TDaP booster. in september, i got 5 vaccines, 3 that they finally opened up to more people, covid, flu, smallpox/mpox, pneumonia, and HPV. they wouldnt let me get vaccines for shingles or RSV because of age restrictions
I wish I could Katie Porter style school these people like they used to in sex-ed with a white board and a blanket exercise. They’d do the whole chart where they try and guilt you into abstinence because the logic was if you have sex with one person, you are having sex with everyone they’ve been with and you can catch any STD’s they picked up.
Well, in this instance, they need to fully understand what herd immunity actually is and how it’s achieved. Meanwhile they are spreading diseases that were mostly irradiated eradicated (thank you kind stranger) because they won’t vaccinate or take reasonable precautions to not further spread the disease to the general population. SMH
To add on to what the other person said, some people simply can't take vaccines for one reason or another like allergies or the fact that they're immunocompromised. Those people rely on herd immunity, that is to say, the idea that most people get vaccinations, to keep them protected from sickness.
It's so fucking stupid. I get nauseated if I take a particular medicine. My husband does not with the same one. But if he takes one antibiotic, he'll throw up for a day.
Does that mean there's a problem with those drugs? Fuck no. We happen to have less than ideal reactions to them.
Why people can't apply the same logic to vaccines baffles me.
"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope." -- George Carlin
Vaccines are viewed badly by the government because we keep electing people with this ignorant points of view. The government LOVES vaccines for their armed services; dont want your fighter getting sick. Somehow, civilians getting sick is just "good business."
Nah. 2 Brits - (Ex) Dr Andrew Wakefield and David Icke spread shit like this and a whole grifting gravy train of people realised that they could make money off gullible people on socials.
that's it, MAGA finds a new way to get rid of autism, inbreeding to keep the bloodline pure, their babies will have a lot more problems, so autism ain't gonna be one.
You gotta understand the conservative perspective to understand that list is wins to them.
Conservatives want serfdom. (And that’s all they’re ever wanted).
Here’s what’s going on.
Two things:
The point of conservatism is to enforce socioeconomic hierarchy and empower aristocrats. They don’t think non- aristocrats deserve quality of life. They think high status people are always good and low status people are always bad. Democrats (in the USA) are low status for trying to empower (to an extent) non-aristocrats. Among other things, aristocrats have been mad about The New Deal since it passed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment this is what's going on right now in the USA. The ultimate goal is the dissolution of all nation states into many more "network states." Journalists should be asking all of these ghouls about Dark Enlightenment every day.
If we have a sick and desperate (and uneducated) society with no medical insurance (as they attempt to do away with ACA), we have desperate parents who will work low wage jobs. When we see this stuff we have to ask who benefits from these choices. Always the billionaires
This. The US never got rid of slavery, after the civil war they just started a process of converting it into some version of indentured servitude and this is just one of the last building blocks for that.
Hopefully, there will be a COVID-26 Pro max this time where only those with common sense will survive, and the single digit IQ's will continue to inject bleach and invermectin.
Yeah, I agree. With the rise in antivax idiots refusing to vaccinate their kids and dumb fuck RK's.rhetoric, I think in the US there will be an epidemic of childhood illness like mumps, measles, whooping cough, and even the return of polio. It is very sad that we have gotten to this point after all the scientific advances we made in the last century.
Whooping cough is no joke. I was vaccinated as a baby 50 years ago, but wasn't so great at keeping up with my boosters. We have some foster kids who were shuffled around so much they missed some of their vaccines as well. We all ended up with whooping cough a couple of years ago - I broke four ribs from coughing so hard and spent about three months sleeping semi-upright. Why anyone would purposefully skip the vaccine is beyond me.
It has been obvious for some time that T wants to take America back to the 19th century with his decrees; not MAGA but MAOA! (O = Old), Then he'll have the plague back too!
Yup, because conservatives are majorly uneducated about nearly everything in relation to how things work. Not only did the Union not punish the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War, they took an extreme "hands off" approach to the Confederacy. The result is that the ex-Confederacy states teach the next generation that in the Civil War (or the "War of Northern Aggression") the Union attacked to take away state's rights, slavery had nothing to do with it, the Union stole all of the Confederacy's wealth and that's why they're so poor today, and slaves loved their masters so much they refused to be set free.
The end result is a terrifying number of people who praise the Confederacy, revere its leaders as heroes, and are determined to bring the US back to the '70s where if you aren't a white straight Christian man you have no rights, and medicine was so non-existent that scores of people were dying from diseases that are preventable today.
Nurses, NPs and PAs no longer "professionals" for grad school loan purposes, so provider shortages coming to a hospital near you
ACA subsidies expire soon, so even if there were providers, you can't afford them now
Deporting a huge chunk of our nation's meat & dairy supply workers is just making prices skyrocket - good luck getting lean protein (we do have plenty of unsold soy still sitting around to offer you!)
Also those tariffs on fresh fruit, nuts, legumes & veggies is going to make eating healthy extra hard.
The maternal death rate is the highest in the developed world, which is unfortunate because...
Cuts to public health and lack of comprehensive sex ed means rates of unwanted pregnancy and STIs have been climbing steadily.
Yay America! 🇺🇲
Edited to add some more! Thanks friends for all the suggestions!
So, taking away people's option to even attempt to follow their horrible, unscientific, in accurate rules? Oh, I know what they want me to do! Go to Erewhon and get a $46 health smoothie to rebalance my humors, visit a salt room to suck out my bacteria, tape my mouth to stop my snoring, drink a raw liver smoothie to boost my immunity, and do Pilates while my husband is at work to tighten my kegel muscles! Finally, I can be healthy and my kids can be healthy only if we eat the white cheddar Doritos for $7 a bag. Thank you MAHA for taking away my insurance, making groceries more expensive while also cutting food stamps and WIC, and mudding the waters as to early childhood health advice. It's changed from "let them eat cake" to "fucking hurry up and die".
NPs and PAs not being considered professional is going to decimate rural healthcare. They are the ones keeping the hospitals open to see patients in these areas. MDs and DOs aren’t going to work in rural hospitals and make less money when they can make more by moving to a metro area and see a constant flow of patients.
Oh yes, I consult as a nurse for healthcare facilities in the rural West, we're already having critical access hospitals close and providers leave the state after 8% Medicaid provider cuts in our state.
Things that require a graduate-level healthcare degree:
* Nursing education (already a huge shortage)
* Public health
* Nurse practitioners (esp pediatrics, women's health, acute care, psychiatric, urgent care, ICU, NICU & midwifery, anesthesia)
* Physician assistants (esp ER, ICU, surgery, acute care, ortho, cardio & other medical subspecialists)
* Physical therapists
* Occupational therapists
* Speech language pathology
* Research/clinical trials
* Specialized policy & legal areas
* Adminstration and compliance
* Therapy/counseling/social work
So if you plan on ever becoming any of those things, try to start saving now cuz you will not get a low-interest government-backed student loan that's enough to cover the cost of getting that degree.
Theology counts though, so plenty of clergy of all those funerals.
Polio is transmitted primarily through the fecal-oral route, meaning the virus (found in the stool of an infected person) enters another person's mouth, often from unwashed hands touching food or surfaces. It can also spread via respiratory droplets from sneezes or coughs, though less commonly. The virus is very contagious, and people can spread it even without showing symptoms, often before they feel sick and for some time after.
Droplets from an infected person's cough or sneeze can carry the virus.
You can get infected by inhaling these droplets or touching surfaces they land on and then touching your mouth or nose.
Key Points
Asymptomatic Spread: Many people infected with poliovirus show no symptoms but can still spread the virus.
Virus Location: The virus lives in the throat and intestines of an infected person.
Contaminated Water/Food: In areas with poor sanitation, the virus can contaminate water and food supplies.
Prevention Focuses on Hygiene Washing hands thoroughly (soap and water work best, as alcohol sanitizers aren't always effective against polio) and practicing good hygiene after using the bathroom or changing diapers are crucial steps to prevent transmission
I think it's no longer a matter of IF but of WHEN with regards to the return of polio in the US. It's an inevitable consequence of reduced mass vaccination and the idiotic antivax disinformation campaigns.
RFK Jr reminds me of this guy from Courage the Cowardly Dog (episode: Conway the Contaminationist). His name is Conway, and he's probably the most disgusting character ever featured on that show.
Pandemic preparedness was the #1 priority after inception during the latter part of George W Bush( arguably the only good thing he did after the Katrina disaster) maintained/enhanced thru Obama's 2 terms but gutted during Trump's first term after John Bolton was hired and wanted that priority shifted to Iran. The far right went from decrying "death panels" during ACA passage to f**k old people and immuno compromised during covid in less than a decade. Countless lives were lost as a result.
If anyone is interested in reading the list that links to, here it is:
Making Our Children Healthy Again - The Presidential Commission to MAHA released its strategy with more than 120 initiatives to reverse the childhood chronic disease crisis.
Wow. 120 initiatives hey? Have any of them achieved anything?
Lowering Prescription Drug Prices - HHS is rapidly implementing President Trump’s Most-Favored-Nation drug pricing order that will significantly reduce Americans’ prescription costs.
Again, another initiative, but they don't even claim to have actually reduced prices.
Bringing Back Physical Fitness - Sec. Kennedy and DOW Sec. Hegseth brought physical fitness back into the mainstream with the Pete & Bobby Challenge
You heard it hear folks, physical fitness has been brought back, courtesy of an alcoholic and a recovering heroin addict who eats roadkill.
Dairy Industry Pledges to Remove Artificial Dyes - The dairy industry has pledged to eliminate artificial food dyes from ice cream by 2028, a voluntary step applauded by HHS, USDA, and FDA.
Again, they haven't done anything, but the dairy industry has pledged to do something, eventually, pinky promise. It's not enforceable, and there's no definition of what "artificial" means anyway
Restoring Biological Truth - HHS issued guidance defending women and children, restoring the concept of biological truth - recognizing there are only two sexes: male and female.
Gender affirming care is healthcare, dickheads.
Withdrawing from the WHO - Sec. Kennedy told the World Health Assembly the U.S. will withdraw from the WHO and pursue global partnerships that are transparent and accountable.
How the ever loving fuck is this a "win"?
Cleaning Up Public Drinking Water - Utah became the first state to ban added fluoride in public drinking water, as communities take decisive steps to reduce harmful.
Absolute morons. Also, proof reading is clearly woke.
Fixing Prior Authorization System - Sec. Kennedy and CMS Admin. Oz secured industry pledges to streamline prior authorization across health plans, cutting red tape and improving care.
Who needs results when you've got "pledges"?
Demanding Nutrition Education Reforms - Sec. Kennedy and Ed. Sec. McMahon are overhauling nutrition education in U.S. medical training so physicians can prevent diet-related chronic disease.
No details, but I assume they're changing the food pyramid to include more roadkill.
Maha means belly in Finnish so personally my biggest MAHA win this year has been avoidin my beer belly growing in size. It didn't really get noticeably smaller either so maybe that's MAHA goals for 2026!
I moved over there early 2001 and visited the US Embassy and had to either prove I'd had my vaccines or had one of the nurses there provide them there and them.
I also had bloods done to ensure I wasn't carrying any STIs.
Personally have been more motivated over the last year than I had been in several decades. There is something about realizing people can get into those positions while being underdeveloped imbeciles in their twilight that helped me accept the responsibility to better understand and manage my physiology.
I saw this post/tweet/blueskywhatever the other day. I don't understand why a confirmed case of 'The Black Death' in the US mid-year didn't get a spot.
I'm also hearing family members talk about a rise in shingles as well, not sure if that's due to our age or if it's got anything to do with the rampant distrust of science.
Their "wins" are pathetic. They amount to stating the obvious, launching "investigations" and doing whatever they can to further harm trans and ND people
As a physician abroad, I thought I would never see the day when the evidence coming from the USA should be treated as falsehoods until verified in other parts of the world. It is outrageous that one of the most important producers of medical investigations are hindered by a power tripping mule and his lobotomised cronies.
This is how we get more dead kids and a lower average life expectancy. I'm against that and uneducated buffoons routing health policy for the nation. Sue the maha moms into oblivion
MAHA sounds like an evil laugh to me. And since it appears that Captain Brainworm's main job is to put as many people at risk of serious illness or death as possible, evil laugh seems fitting.
In fact, it seems fitting for most of this administration...
What a great Kennedy legacy he has now created. With introduction of no need of vaccines is this his idea of population control. And seems to be interesting it seems that those red states have the outbreaks.
As a Swede, MAHA sounds like MÄHÄ, a stupid, slow and helpless person that has always do what they are told and cannot think for themselves. So basically perfectly describing RFKs fan base.
Don't get me wrong, they should all be in jail BUT Pertussis is back everywhere.
Pertussis is whooping cough.
If you read this, there is a vaccine for Pertussis, it's very common and cheap. PLEASE PLEASE get it, even as an adult. This isn't some rare niche thing, it's fucking evil.
Source: me. I swear I came out of that shit a whole different person, it was weird and totally preventable.
In the next 10 years there's gonna be so many dead children and I guarantee MAGA will just blindly declare "it's the vaccine" about kids who probably never even fucking got any
MAGA, and by extension MAHA, have this childish and vindictive sense of “winning.” It boils down to 2 things: 1) having their guys in charge and 2) upsetting the libs. What actually happens is immaterial. Their children could die and they’ll carry on. RFK could flip every last one of his policies and say the liberals hate that and they’ll accept that too. There’s no actual opinions in play. They don’t have concrete goals. They just want their enemies to “lose” and they’ll suffer every unforced calamity to see that happen.
FDA is also in tatters, running on institutional fumes. Mehmet Oz told sick Americans they weren't being patriotic.
But the bottom line is that all of them are OK working for Trump, and are thus complicit in war crimes, illegal detentions, Epstein coverups, and dead African children.
I mean, personally… to be completely honest, I’m looking forward to not giving conservatives sympathy for their choices for the rest of my life. Oh no, Your children died because you thought prayer and natural oils could replace vaccines? Damn, fam lmfao
This leadership is so desperate for a win they lie while the room they’re in is figuratively on fire. And their base happily believes those obvious lies.
Hey, they failed to admit the biggest win yet! Pharmaceuticals and medical facilities will get a massive influx of new patients to exploit through whatever private bullshit healthcare Republicans saddle us with! Such a huge win.....for billionaires.
Crazy to me, that we've reached a point where basic vaccines is seen by government as a controversial topic. After a global pandemic no less.
It's conspiracy theory nonsense. They'll take the one in a million case of someone suffering an adverse reaction from a vaccine and cite that as evidence that vaccines are unsafe and not effective, completely ignoring the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
To them, it's proof of how much smarter they are than the rest of the "sheep" who look at the numbers and go "it looks perfectly safe for 99.99999% of people, whereas if I don't get vaccinated, there's a huge risk that I'll get extremely sick and possibly even die", they know that someone has to be that 0.00001%, so it's better to put everyone at risk than to guarantee that someone's going to have an adverse reaction to the vaccine.
It's worse than that. They believe that every adverse occurrence on VARS was caused by the vaccine. Vars clearly explains that is not the way it works but they deliberately ignore that.
As demonstrated by the 72 year-old participant from the vaccine arm of the Moderna COVID vaccine trial who was struck by lightning 28 days after the vaccination. It was reported, so it was included in the Adverse Events section of the trial report.
The criteria was "people who died after getting the covid vaccination"
Wait 5 years and people who died from car accidents, gunshots, strokes, heart attacks etc will be used to bolster their claims
That happened in 2021. Right wing media was reporting on a person who got the vaccine and died the next day. They left off the person hit a tree at high speed.
What?!? So they completely ignored the person who reported that they turned into the Hulk? That’s irresponsible!
May cause lightning strikes
Sadly I know a few people exactly like this, everything can be cured with vitamins, garlic, change in diet or horse paste for some reason.
The amount of times I've had to listen to someone say "I didn't get the vaccine and I was fine. Some healthy person got it and they dropped dead the next day"
Vitamins actually can cure some things if you're deficient, and garlic really is useful against some minor infections (especially in the mouth), but these fools and their bullshit discredit the natural remedies that actually do work.
Horse dewormer actually could help, if you had worms. Getting rid of the worms made it easier to fight COVID. What got left off is that's a third world problem with polluted water. Is isn't a problem in the US. And people were going into Tractor Supply, getting a dose for a 1000 pound animal, and ending up in the ER.
The exact same medicine worked great for my dog. She didn't have COVID, though. She had worms🙄. Megadoses of a medicine as hard on the body as ivermectin are just stupid in almost any situation. When I had to use antibiotics made for larger animals on my pet mice because it was the only way I could afford to treat them at all, I bought special ultra-precise scales just for that!
I have a nurse (RN) friend who cites the vaccine inserts as evidence when trying to get her kids into school under an exemption from vaxes. She truly believes she and her kids are safer unvaxed, and tells everyone else to suck it and read about herd immunity. Then screams my body my choice. These selfish jackwads drive me insane
Hoping they lose their nursing license soon.
Is it me or has there been a marked uptick in the last, say, 20 years of nurses & dental assistants/hygienists who don't believe in basic science and accepted facts (vaccines being the most obvious example)?
For Heaven's sake, when I was younger, you never heard medical professionals say idiotic things like that and even less being anti-vaccines.
I haven't looked at all the dates, but I would not be surprised if this nonsense started with the rise of social media. zuck & co have done more to poison the minds of people than anyone else I can think of.
P.S.: I think you should openly question your friend's training & credentials. Like others, I think she should lose her license and I'd add she should be barred from the medical profession because she's a danger for everyone around her, including her kids.
There has been a marked uptick in the number of nurses, because it's been said for 20+ years that there will be a huge demand for them because of the aging population, and the fact that it offers comparatively high pay for the education requirements.
Because there are more nurses in general, it means that there are more nurses of any given type than before.
But also, as you say, social media brain rot.
The problem is the people who remember the terrible impact have mostly died off. Now you have mom groups saying polio is just a cold.
Awareness Is such a civilized quality.
But have you considered that they're just so special and unique that they would be the 0.0000001% who died?
Not so smug now, hm?
let them avoid taking vaccines and die, suffering from these awful diseases that the rest of us are protected against
i just feel badly for people that cant get vaccines or kids that are forced by stupid parents to not be vaccinated
The problem with that is people are still affected by their choice to not vaccinate. I now know my husband and I both had pertussis in October. We are both vaccinated and it was fucking rough. Newborns, who tend to have the worst and fatal cases of it, understandably hardly have a chance if it knocked the absolute stuffings out of a pair of healthy mid 30’s/ early 40’s adults. I also have a friend who has permanent leg disabilities because she contracted polio as an infant. Fuck these people.
im so sorry. last year i got a TDaP booster. in september, i got 5 vaccines, 3 that they finally opened up to more people, covid, flu, smallpox/mpox, pneumonia, and HPV. they wouldnt let me get vaccines for shingles or RSV because of age restrictions
I wish I could Katie Porter style school these people like they used to in sex-ed with a white board and a blanket exercise. They’d do the whole chart where they try and guilt you into abstinence because the logic was if you have sex with one person, you are having sex with everyone they’ve been with and you can catch any STD’s they picked up.
Well, in this instance, they need to fully understand what herd immunity actually is and how it’s achieved. Meanwhile they are spreading diseases that were mostly
irradiatederadicated (thank you kind stranger) because they won’t vaccinate or take reasonable precautions to not further spread the disease to the general population. SMH*eradicated. Being irradiated would probably also kill off the viruses, but it’s not the most effective method.
lol good catch! When I wrote that this morning after a night of poor sleep, autocorrect struck!
To add on to what the other person said, some people simply can't take vaccines for one reason or another like allergies or the fact that they're immunocompromised. Those people rely on herd immunity, that is to say, the idea that most people get vaccinations, to keep them protected from sickness.
To add on that. They think they're "safe." It's only because the rest of the sain population decided to get vaccinated and now you have herd immunity.
It's so fucking stupid. I get nauseated if I take a particular medicine. My husband does not with the same one. But if he takes one antibiotic, he'll throw up for a day.
Does that mean there's a problem with those drugs? Fuck no. We happen to have less than ideal reactions to them.
Why people can't apply the same logic to vaccines baffles me.
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons"
Mongo only pawn in game of life
"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope." -- George Carlin
Vaccines are viewed badly by the government because we keep electing people with this ignorant points of view. The government LOVES vaccines for their armed services; dont want your fighter getting sick. Somehow, civilians getting sick is just "good business."
Im a firm believer that the anti vax movement was a Russian psyop that took really well
It's aligned interests, reducing healthcare for poor people. You bet the rich assholes still get vaccinations, Secretary Brainworm excluded.
Nah. 2 Brits - (Ex) Dr Andrew Wakefield and David Icke spread shit like this and a whole grifting gravy train of people realised that they could make money off gullible people on socials.
Antivax propaganda beat vaccination to America by 3 years.
As a european MAHA sounds to me like something a confederal hillbilly would say.
For example:
They are stealing MA'HA job. Ma'Ha rights. MA'HA guns. MA'HA sister is my wife and we have two children.
https://preview.redd.it/8z50epo2kp8g1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d21c1937321b5ece85cfa1e57bf6bf388d044d9
Thank god I'm not the only one whose mind went to this!
Immediately
I loved that show
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that's it, MAGA finds a new way to get rid of autism, inbreeding to keep the bloodline pure, their babies will have a lot more problems, so autism ain't gonna be one.
I got 99 genetic deficiencies but the 'tism aint one.
As a Finnish person, "Maha" means "Belly" in Finnish.
A lot of MAHA are obese, so this fits very well..
Dey took 'er jerbs!!
MAHA sounds like the archetypical villain in animation aiming at impressionable young children, that or satire.
Mwahhahahahaaaaa!
You gotta understand the conservative perspective to understand that list is wins to them.
Conservatives want serfdom. (And that’s all they’re ever wanted).
Here’s what’s going on.
Two things:
The point of conservatism is to enforce socioeconomic hierarchy and empower aristocrats. They don’t think non- aristocrats deserve quality of life. They think high status people are always good and low status people are always bad. Democrats (in the USA) are low status for trying to empower (to an extent) non-aristocrats. Among other things, aristocrats have been mad about The New Deal since it passed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment this is what's going on right now in the USA. The ultimate goal is the dissolution of all nation states into many more "network states." Journalists should be asking all of these ghouls about Dark Enlightenment every day.
More on the topic https://medium.com/thought-thinkers/the-butterfly-revolution-america-is-being-stolen-ddeae909b270
https://www.patreon.com/posts/philosophy-doge-122591193
https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/
And none of the populist propaganda is new. Look at Goldwater in the 60s: https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/05/never_goldwater_the_failed_attempt_to_wrest_the_1964_gop_nomination_from.html This might as well have been written in 2024 about characters from 2024.
Supposed legal justification for current actions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unitary_executive_theory_%28uet%29
brilliant 😅😂🤣💀
No way, most Europeans are well educated. That sounds nothing like that. Ma' job maybe but not Ma'ha job.
If we have a sick and desperate (and uneducated) society with no medical insurance (as they attempt to do away with ACA), we have desperate parents who will work low wage jobs. When we see this stuff we have to ask who benefits from these choices. Always the billionaires
This. The US never got rid of slavery, after the civil war they just started a process of converting it into some version of indentured servitude and this is just one of the last building blocks for that.
Bingo!
Honestly at this point I wouldn't be surprised if another pandemic starts at this rate.
Taking bets now, who thinks we'll get COVID-20 or the return of the Black Death first?
COVID-19 is named after the year it was identified, 2019. It would be COVID-26. I am betting on the virus.
Hopefully, there will be a COVID-26 Pro max this time where only those with common sense will survive, and the single digit IQ's will continue to inject bleach and invermectin.
Lets call it the Great Old Pandemic, has a nice ring to it
More American Gravesites Again
MAMA, Make American Massgraves again
What about COVID-47, he does love seeing his name on everything after all.
Y'all acting like it went away. It's still a reasonable risk. We're literally one bad mutation away from pandemic 2
Don’t get ahead of yourself, there’s still time for COVID-25!
I'm going with measles or whooping cough.
Yeah, I agree. With the rise in antivax idiots refusing to vaccinate their kids and dumb fuck RK's.rhetoric, I think in the US there will be an epidemic of childhood illness like mumps, measles, whooping cough, and even the return of polio. It is very sad that we have gotten to this point after all the scientific advances we made in the last century.
Whooping cough is no joke. I was vaccinated as a baby 50 years ago, but wasn't so great at keeping up with my boosters. We have some foster kids who were shuffled around so much they missed some of their vaccines as well. We all ended up with whooping cough a couple of years ago - I broke four ribs from coughing so hard and spent about three months sleeping semi-upright. Why anyone would purposefully skip the vaccine is beyond me.
Because vaccines have done their job so well that morons forgot the horrors of the diseases that were all but eradicated.
This is why I got a Tdap vaccine in 2022.
RSV has been on the rise. Particularly risky for babies/infants and the elderly
Had multiple babies with whooping cough in the ED this month.
Saw it personally maybe once every other year before.
oh god please yes, and please wipe out exponentially more of those non-masking intentional assholes
Pandemics are easy to prevent. Simply ban testing.
Just stay away from the squirrels in the California redwoods
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a65863773/california-black-plague-case-2025-why-disease-still-exists/
bird flu is getting really interesting right now. there's a new version just showed up
I'm beting on measles going hard
H5N1 is flexing. As fast as it's mutating, it's going to be hard to keep up with vaccines.
Bird flu is in the pipeline and mutating at a scary rate.
It’s a race in my opinion if a new pandemic gets us before we fall face first into a depression when the ai bubble pops
I rewatched Don’t Look Up recently and it was a fun reminder of the batshit insanity of the COVID years.
It has been obvious for some time that T wants to take America back to the 19th century with his decrees; not MAGA but MAOA! (O = Old), Then he'll have the plague back too!
Statistically it’s much more likely now. The CDC has been a huge international resource for preventing pandemics and it’s…gutted.
Black Death can be treated with antibiotics so that's not at all terrifying.
So long as it culls this herd of knuckle draggers and hopefully leads to laws being made to permanently prevent bullshit liken this.
MAHA as in... Make America Hate Again?
Yes. But I think their idea was Healthy.
That's a good song by Thy Art is Murder. I recommend it.
I mean conservatives probably view all of those things as positive, if they have not affected them personally
Yup, because conservatives are majorly uneducated about nearly everything in relation to how things work. Not only did the Union not punish the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War, they took an extreme "hands off" approach to the Confederacy. The result is that the ex-Confederacy states teach the next generation that in the Civil War (or the "War of Northern Aggression") the Union attacked to take away state's rights, slavery had nothing to do with it, the Union stole all of the Confederacy's wealth and that's why they're so poor today, and slaves loved their masters so much they refused to be set free.
The end result is a terrifying number of people who praise the Confederacy, revere its leaders as heroes, and are determined to bring the US back to the '70s where if you aren't a white straight Christian man you have no rights, and medicine was so non-existent that scores of people were dying from diseases that are preventable today.
Yep. MAHA is eugenics and they’re not trying to hide it.
Ooh, Ooh can I play?
Yay America! 🇺🇲
Edited to add some more! Thanks friends for all the suggestions!
So, taking away people's option to even attempt to follow their horrible, unscientific, in accurate rules? Oh, I know what they want me to do! Go to Erewhon and get a $46 health smoothie to rebalance my humors, visit a salt room to suck out my bacteria, tape my mouth to stop my snoring, drink a raw liver smoothie to boost my immunity, and do Pilates while my husband is at work to tighten my kegel muscles! Finally, I can be healthy and my kids can be healthy only if we eat the white cheddar Doritos for $7 a bag. Thank you MAHA for taking away my insurance, making groceries more expensive while also cutting food stamps and WIC, and mudding the waters as to early childhood health advice. It's changed from "let them eat cake" to "fucking hurry up and die".
NPs and PAs not being considered professional is going to decimate rural healthcare. They are the ones keeping the hospitals open to see patients in these areas. MDs and DOs aren’t going to work in rural hospitals and make less money when they can make more by moving to a metro area and see a constant flow of patients.
Oh yes, I consult as a nurse for healthcare facilities in the rural West, we're already having critical access hospitals close and providers leave the state after 8% Medicaid provider cuts in our state.
Things that require a graduate-level healthcare degree: * Nursing education (already a huge shortage) * Public health * Nurse practitioners (esp pediatrics, women's health, acute care, psychiatric, urgent care, ICU, NICU & midwifery, anesthesia) * Physician assistants (esp ER, ICU, surgery, acute care, ortho, cardio & other medical subspecialists) * Physical therapists * Occupational therapists * Speech language pathology * Research/clinical trials * Specialized policy & legal areas * Adminstration and compliance * Therapy/counseling/social work
So if you plan on ever becoming any of those things, try to start saving now cuz you will not get a low-interest government-backed student loan that's enough to cover the cost of getting that degree.
Theology counts though, so plenty of clergy of all those funerals.
I'm waiting for Polio to rear it's evil head.
Polio is transmitted primarily through the fecal-oral route, meaning the virus (found in the stool of an infected person) enters another person's mouth, often from unwashed hands touching food or surfaces. It can also spread via respiratory droplets from sneezes or coughs, though less commonly. The virus is very contagious, and people can spread it even without showing symptoms, often before they feel sick and for some time after.
How it Spreads
Key Points
Prevention Focuses on Hygiene Washing hands thoroughly (soap and water work best, as alcohol sanitizers aren't always effective against polio) and practicing good hygiene after using the bathroom or changing diapers are crucial steps to prevent transmission
I think it's no longer a matter of IF but of WHEN with regards to the return of polio in the US. It's an inevitable consequence of reduced mass vaccination and the idiotic antivax disinformation campaigns.
But it's tha vaxxeen strayn of poleo!!!
/s
With the rise in popularity of eating ass, we're fucked.
Biggest MAHA change has been that for the first time since 1970 the average obesity rate has dropped in US.
Thank goodness all those ozempic et co. products are dropped off the insurance coverage lists next year so that this will be avoided in the future!
All this because people wouldn't stay in their houses for 2 weeks.
But they couldn't get their hair done or go golfing and had to cook their own food, the horror, the horror!
Madame Tussaud isn’t even trying anymore.
AtBF it is hard to blend wax with raw sewage.
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RFK Jr reminds me of this guy from Courage the Cowardly Dog (episode: Conway the Contaminationist). His name is Conway, and he's probably the most disgusting character ever featured on that show.
Hospitals seeing record numbers of Influenza A strain K because dufus cancel annual flu vaccine review meetings
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Maha wins (I love my silly little bird)
I mean, who wants a cancer vaccine? Not me. ....s/
Congratulations to curable diseases for winning the 2025 war against curable diseases.
Should call it "KARaVR"
Keep America Retarded and Voting Republican
Put-in approved.
HHS cut funding for American Academy of Pediatrics' Programs. The cuts come amid ongoing disagreements over vaccines.
Pandemic preparedness was the #1 priority after inception during the latter part of George W Bush( arguably the only good thing he did after the Katrina disaster) maintained/enhanced thru Obama's 2 terms but gutted during Trump's first term after John Bolton was hired and wanted that priority shifted to Iran. The far right went from decrying "death panels" during ACA passage to f**k old people and immuno compromised during covid in less than a decade. Countless lives were lost as a result.
RFK Jr is evil and stupid! He needs to go.
If anyone is interested in reading the list that links to, here it is:
Wow. 120 initiatives hey? Have any of them achieved anything?
Again, another initiative, but they don't even claim to have actually reduced prices.
Again, they haven't done anything, but the dairy industry has pledged to do something, eventually, pinky promise. It's not enforceable, and there's no definition of what "artificial" means anyway
Gender affirming care is healthcare, dickheads.
How the ever loving fuck is this a "win"?
Absolute morons. Also, proof reading is clearly woke.
Who needs results when you've got "pledges"?
No details, but I assume they're changing the food pyramid to include more roadkill.
What a royal shit show this has turned out to be.
Maha means belly in Finnish so personally my biggest MAHA win this year has been avoidin my beer belly growing in size. It didn't really get noticeably smaller either so maybe that's MAHA goals for 2026!
Not only that, billions of dollars of research grants have been blocked by the Whitehouse.
Wasn't Maha what that Amanda Show character with the buck teeth used to yell?
This is just such an unbelievable about face.
I moved over there early 2001 and visited the US Embassy and had to either prove I'd had my vaccines or had one of the nurses there provide them there and them.
I also had bloods done to ensure I wasn't carrying any STIs.
How did it come to this?!
It’s hard work to make it a third world country
Hey. The guy said "So much winning you'll be sick of it". This seems a lot like that.
Weren’t they also trying to remove fluoride from drinking water or is that just Utah so far?
They forgot the return of PFAS.
Personally have been more motivated over the last year than I had been in several decades. There is something about realizing people can get into those positions while being underdeveloped imbeciles in their twilight that helped me accept the responsibility to better understand and manage my physiology.
I saw this post/tweet/blueskywhatever the other day. I don't understand why a confirmed case of 'The Black Death' in the US mid-year didn't get a spot.
every day i am thankful that i don't have to live in the US
MAHA?
What did I miss?
I'm also hearing family members talk about a rise in shingles as well, not sure if that's due to our age or if it's got anything to do with the rampant distrust of science.
Brit sat here eating popcorn, waiting for them to bring back polio & smallpox.
Their "wins" are pathetic. They amount to stating the obvious, launching "investigations" and doing whatever they can to further harm trans and ND people
As a physician abroad, I thought I would never see the day when the evidence coming from the USA should be treated as falsehoods until verified in other parts of the world. It is outrageous that one of the most important producers of medical investigations are hindered by a power tripping mule and his lobotomised cronies.
I'm sorry for y'all
While in the world:
Down syndrome cured because scientist found the gene to remove
Cancer cell morphed into foreign cells so body fight it or even into healed cells
Japaneses found a way to make teeth grow again in adults mouth
Being bald will soon be cured for people who want to without hair implants
That's really 2 universes on the same planet
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MAGA, MAHA...
In the end it all comes down to MAFA.
Make America Fascistic ...Amirite?
Tf is maha?
All that is a good thing by his and dear leaders followers.
This is how we get more dead kids and a lower average life expectancy. I'm against that and uneducated buffoons routing health policy for the nation. Sue the maha moms into oblivion
MAHA sounds like an evil laugh to me. And since it appears that Captain Brainworm's main job is to put as many people at risk of serious illness or death as possible, evil laugh seems fitting.
In fact, it seems fitting for most of this administration...
Doctorates up the wazoo and still can't figure out how to use an apostrophe. But otherwise he's not wrong.
I think they are happy about measles.
I'm going full cleaner in barajas airport if some pandemic develop in the us.
I like the push to remove artificial dyes from food, but didn't trump just approve to spray our vegetables with pfas pesticide "forever chemicals"?,
Stupidity has consequences.
What a great Kennedy legacy he has now created. With introduction of no need of vaccines is this his idea of population control. And seems to be interesting it seems that those red states have the outbreaks.
Gimme some of that pertussy
You just mistakenly believe MAHA stands for Make American Healthy Again, it actually stands for Make America Hazardous Again.
Tell me more about this « Pertussy »
It’s like conspiracy theorists. They win because they get even the slightest victory and keep moving the goal posts
As a Swede, MAHA sounds like MÄHÄ, a stupid, slow and helpless person that has always do what they are told and cannot think for themselves. So basically perfectly describing RFKs fan base.
We can do this for many of our secretaries
Don't get me wrong, they should all be in jail BUT Pertussis is back everywhere. Pertussis is whooping cough. If you read this, there is a vaccine for Pertussis, it's very common and cheap. PLEASE PLEASE get it, even as an adult. This isn't some rare niche thing, it's fucking evil.
Source: me. I swear I came out of that shit a whole different person, it was weird and totally preventable.
They should cancel OSHA and FDA too ASAP...
It’s shameful. They want us all to die. He’s doing exactly what he said he would do during the nomination period. His poor wife. So embarrassing.
It's basically terrorism from within, from the top down.
Dont forget the shitshow at FDA
I just need polio for my MAHA bingo card.
In the next 10 years there's gonna be so many dead children and I guarantee MAGA will just blindly declare "it's the vaccine" about kids who probably never even fucking got any
Oh, it's meant to mean 'healthy', is it? I assumed it meant 'hate'.
Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
MAGA, and by extension MAHA, have this childish and vindictive sense of “winning.” It boils down to 2 things: 1) having their guys in charge and 2) upsetting the libs. What actually happens is immaterial. Their children could die and they’ll carry on. RFK could flip every last one of his policies and say the liberals hate that and they’ll accept that too. There’s no actual opinions in play. They don’t have concrete goals. They just want their enemies to “lose” and they’ll suffer every unforced calamity to see that happen.
Peter Hotez is a national treasure.
FDA is also in tatters, running on institutional fumes. Mehmet Oz told sick Americans they weren't being patriotic.
But the bottom line is that all of them are OK working for Trump, and are thus complicit in war crimes, illegal detentions, Epstein coverups, and dead African children.
Even his own family thinks he's nuts
Seems like the americans will eliminate themselves sooner or later 🤷♂️
I mean, personally… to be completely honest, I’m looking forward to not giving conservatives sympathy for their choices for the rest of my life. Oh no, Your children died because you thought prayer and natural oils could replace vaccines? Damn, fam lmfao
There was this dude the other day who would make a sound to call his cat and sounded like that : MA-HA :P
Don't forget cutting funding for SIDS research
This leadership is so desperate for a win they lie while the room they’re in is figuratively on fire. And their base happily believes those obvious lies.
didn’t they cure autism? /s
(It pains me to write that, I know it’s not a disease)
Hey, they failed to admit the biggest win yet! Pharmaceuticals and medical facilities will get a massive influx of new patients to exploit through whatever private bullshit healthcare Republicans saddle us with! Such a huge win.....for billionaires.
Also, the potential for a bird flu pandemic is way worse. They have inhibited the outside scientific community from helping at all.
Well yeah, the 'MAGA' is a lie - it's mean to make America, as corrupt and failing of a state as Russia.
Just get some sunlight on your asshole, you'll be fine.
did we at least get the better regulation on ingredients that we were promised?
Oh, ooooh, downward inflecting oooooooohhh, :(
This is only year 1. Can't wait to see what they do in the next 3 years