Friday, September 05, 2025

Making Polio Great Again

Ok. It's time to call a shovel a shovel. Anti-Vax pseudo-scientific nuttery has now gone mainstream in the Republican Party. RFK Jr. is turning the Department of Health and Human Services into an agency dedicated to all out warfare on modern medicine. Florida's Surgeon General wants to end ALL vaccine mandates for kids. Yes, even Polio! If this quack had been in charge a couple of generations ago, we would still have Smallpox in the world. If you don't know what that is, firstly you are very fortunate, and secondly it's because we eradicated it by mass vaccinations. In the 19th century one in four children did not live to adulthood. Vaccines are one of the most important reasons we have reduced infant mortality rates in the developed world to less than 1%. The most dangerous people are always well meaning fools with power. And these kooks are going to get people killed. 

4 comments:

Jon Marc said...

It's wild how profoundly selfish supposed Christians are...

unreconstructed rebel said...

The sad thing about reformation theology is that the denominations it launched do not understand the cruelty inherent in puritan ethics.

unreconstructed rebel said...

That those same denominations encourage Trump to prance around pretending to be a Christian is truly disgusting,

John (Ad Orientem) said...

See this... https://apnews.com/article/conservative-christian-right-washington-doug-wilson-8eb7a46747301dd939df18ba64ac5577