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Susan Brewer's avatar

Brilliant, Charlie. Thank you.

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Susan Brewer's avatar

He is starting to look like Gollum.

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Helen's avatar

How much do you want to bet that DeSantis vaccinates his kids? He just wants to prove he is "anti-woke" (i.e. anti-science, anti-intelligence).

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Barbara Didrichsen's avatar

David Pepper included a chapter from his book, "2025," which imagines what this will look like from the fictionalized perspective of a school nurse in Colorado. Worth reading: https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/anti-vaccine-insanity

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Stephen B.'s avatar

The Dahl piece is heartbreaking and so very important. Crazy Bobby is going to kill us all.

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JMM's avatar

California is a longer trip , but it has a reality based Gov. Oh, and I don't have to worry about my children dying from measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, and Boundless Florida Man Stupidity.

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Susie in OH's avatar

Thank you for this excellent piece on vaccines. I would also add that Baby Boomers and older should get boosters of the old childhood vaccines as well as RSV, Flu, Covid, and maybe update the Pneumonia and Tetanus vaccines. Some elderly people who received the childhood vaccines back in the 50s and 60s may not be as protected and a booster would be a good idea if they are around young school aged children now. Many of us never got the measles, chicken pox or mumps vaccines because those vaccines came later snd most of us had measles, mumps, and chicken pox infections anyway. I recall all of them, especially chicken pox, which was particularly miserable for me when I was seven. Anyone who had chicken pox should get the shingles vaccine when they turn 50. My husband got shingles and let’s just say it can pop out in very private places of the body, not just on your back. Get the vax.

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NLTownie's avatar

My son had measles and he was sicker than I have ever seen him before or since. He was 15 when he got the virus. Apparently the year he got the shot - 1973 when he was one year old, the measles component in the serum was flawed and didn’t provide full protection. He was so sick I had to lift his head up to help him drink. Fortunately his temperature didn’t spike so I was able to nurse him at home. It was really scary. The idea that loving parents would choose not to get their children protected by vaccines demonstrates that some people have not been taught public health history.

In addition, my older brother had polio in 1947 when he was two, before there was a vaccine. He limped on his left leg all his life and as a kid he had trouble keeping up when playing with his friends and could never ride a bicycle. Vaccines are essential to protect your child from serious, even mortal, harm. To refuse vaccines is unthinkable. Why would any parent trust the life and well-being of their child to the likes of a medical charlatan such as RFK Jr.?

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jon gazzard's avatar

sadly its a problem that we forget why we have regulation and science....i still remember when they cancelled the police checks for taxi drivers in the uk[or it was uber moving around it]..before the people remembered why that law was actually put in place to prevent crime against women in taxi cabs...it was forgot why it was done..it was only remembered why after the law was bypassed..and then people remembered...sadly it sometimes makes other people pay the price why such laws and regulations or even science was put in place in the firstplace and people have to learn the hard lessons why they were put in place ..all over again :(

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Diane Battista's avatar

Very well said Charlie, thank you

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Al Ciuffo's avatar

How ignorant can you be!

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jpg's avatar

To both Senate Dems and the handful of critical Senate GOP, what was the point of this embarrassing public display? I don’t see how this stops the damage being done by RFKJr.

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Libby's avatar

Anyone who has had someone close to them go through chemotherapy knows that herd immunity is 100% necessary for the immuno-compromised among us. How can people think the spread of serious disease doesn't matter? Frankly, I don't care if you protect yourself. But be an adult and protect the people who can't be vaccinated or who are otherwise vulnerable to measles, mumps, rubella, etc. We live in a society. Your personal freedoms do not include the right to infect someone else, especially someone whose body cannot defend itself against harmful pathogens.

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Mary Schweitzer's avatar

Here’s the thing - if CDC doesn’t REQUIRE vaccinations, insurance won’t PAY for it. Parents won’t be able to afford it for their children, even if they want to get it.

This is evil on an exponential scale.

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Mark Rodin's avatar

When Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal writes a scathing column denouncing Kennedy (Potomac Watch) you KNOW this man is dangerous to America's health. Check this out and quote it Charlie : RFK Jr.'s Goat Rodeo

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Robert Sihler's avatar

Here in the shithole country of Texas, I have to wonder what Abbott is going to do to best DeSantis in their friendly contest to be America's worst governor.

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