The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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Definitely the Sharpie. After all, an Executive Order isn't going to change the science.
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We told you so. Ten years ago, we told you. America is being run by people with zero medical background making objectively wrong medical decisions for children.
We hate being right.
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1.7K views · 293 reactions | Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. want to overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule by recommending protection against fewer diseases, requiring more appointments, and splitting up the MMR vaccine. All this while America exper
Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. want to overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule by recommending protection against fewer diseases, requiring more appointments, and splitting up the MMR vaccine. All...
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So the witch-hunt / demonization, persecution of Dr. Fauci is a distraction from the Epstein files?
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Meanwhile Trump hid in a catering cart
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Just a suggestion - take your medical advice from doctors and not from RFK Jr or Trump. Neither of those two have any medical background.
Donald Trump just signed an executive order gutting the childhood vaccine schedule. The revolt against it has a Republican doctor out front.
He signed it Monday in the Oval Office, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his shoulder. The order calls for the MMR vaccine, one shot protecting against measles, mumps and rubella, to be given as three separate shots at three separate visits.
Those single shots are not sold in the United States, and the White House acknowledged it. "That doesn't exist in the United States, so I don't know where he's getting that from," said Dr. Katherine Matthias, a pediatrician in South Carolina.
The same order cuts the list of diseases American kids are supposed to be vaccinated against from 18 to 11, by the White House's own count. Hepatitis B drops to high-risk children only. Flu and COVID become a conversation to have with your doctor. It lands in the worst measles year this country has recorded in 35 years, just as kids head back to school.
At the signing, Trump explained the medicine himself, comparing the dose to "a bottle of soda" and telling reporters, "It's inconvenient, it's five stops, but it's something that I think will have a huge impact on autism." Vaccines do not cause autism. The CDC says there is no evidence of any benefit in splitting the MMR shot, and that the vaccine is far safer than the diseases it prevents.
Then the wall went up, and out front was a Republican. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is a physician, chairs the Senate health committee, and cast the deciding vote that made Kennedy health secretary, on Kennedy's promise not to change the childhood vaccine schedule.
"I'm a doctor. This executive order is wrong," Cassidy wrote Monday. "Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism." He added: "Parents should listen to their child's pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order."
He was not alone. The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said the new recommendations are intended to "sow confusion so that more people doubt the importance of vaccines." More than two dozen states and the District of Columbia have already rejected this administration's vaccine schedule and follow the pediatricians' guidelines instead.
When the administration tried a version of this plan in January, a federal judge blocked it in March. "It will not go into effect and will almost certainly be blocked by the courts," said Lawrence Gostin, who teaches law at Georgetown.
And win or lose in court, there is money riding on the word "recommended." By law, insurers must cover, at no cost, the vaccines the CDC's advisory panel recommends, and that is the panel Kennedy replaced with his own picks. Un-recommending a vaccine is how a free shot can start costing a family money.
A signature is not medicine. The schedule your children's doctor follows did not change Monday, and the right person to ask about their shots is still their pediatrician.
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Donald Trump just signed an executive order gutting the childhood vaccine schedule. The revolt against it has a Republican doctor out front.
He signed it Monday in the Oval Office, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his shoulder. The order calls for the MMR vaccine, one shot protecting against measles, mumps and rubella, to be given as three separate shots at three separate visits.
Those single shots are not sold in the United States, and the White House acknowledged it. "That doesn't exist in the United States, so I don't know where he's getting that from," said Dr. Katherine Matthias, a pediatrician in South Carolina.
The same order cuts the list of diseases American kids are supposed to be vaccinated against from 18 to 11, by the White House's own count. Hepatitis B drops to high-risk children only. Flu and COVID become a conversation to have with your doctor. It lands in the worst measles year this country has recorded in 35 years, just as kids head back to school.
At the signing, Trump explained the medicine himself, comparing the dose to "a bottle of soda" and telling reporters, "It's inconvenient, it's five stops, but it's something that I think will have a huge impact on autism." Vaccines do not cause autism. The CDC says there is no evidence of any benefit in splitting the MMR shot, and that the vaccine is far safer than the diseases it prevents.
Then the wall went up, and out front was a Republican. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is a physician, chairs the Senate health committee, and cast the deciding vote that made Kennedy health secretary, on Kennedy's promise not to change the childhood vaccine schedule.
"I'm a doctor. This executive order is wrong," Cassidy wrote Monday. "Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism." He added: "Parents should listen to their child's pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order."
He was not alone. The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said the new recommendations are intended to "sow confusion so that more people doubt the importance of vaccines." More than two dozen states and the District of Columbia have already rejected this administration's vaccine schedule and follow the pediatricians' guidelines instead.
When the administration tried a version of this plan in January, a federal judge blocked it in March. "It will not go into effect and will almost certainly be blocked by the courts," said Lawrence Gostin, who teaches law at Georgetown.
And win or lose in court, there is money riding on the word "recommended." By law, insurers must cover, at no cost, the vaccines the CDC's advisory panel recommends, and that is the panel Kennedy replaced with his own picks. Un-recommending a vaccine is how a free shot can start costing a family money.
A signature is not medicine. The schedule your children's doctor follows did not change Monday, and the right person to ask about their shots is still their pediatrician.
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"Staged"?
Trump & MAGA lie, so their opponents should too?
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant". Louis D. Brandeis
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued in his divorce case that a doctor told him a dead parasite had eaten part of his brain — and that his cognitive problems and memory loss had hurt his earning power enough to affect what he could pay in alimony.
And now he is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Let that sink in.
The guy tasked with overseeing the nation’s health, public-health agencies, medical research, vaccines, food safety, Medicare, Medicaid, and the future health of our children is a man with no medical degree, no clinical training, no public-health credentials — but a truly astonishing courtroom résumé: “Your Honor, the brain parasite situation has impacted my ability to earn.”
Apparently, it did not impact his ability to fail upward into control over institutions staffed by actual doctors, epidemiologists, scientists, researchers, nurses, and public-health professionals.
Just think about the standard being set here. If you want to work in a hospital cafeteria, you need food-safety training. If you want to administer medication, you need licenses and qualifications. If you want to lead a local health department, you need expertise, experience, and a record of understanding public health.
But if you want to run the entire federal health apparatus? Apparently all you need is a famous last name, an endless supply of conspiracies, and enough political usefulness to powerful people who think expertise is elitist.
And before the inevitable whining begins: no, this is not making fun of someone for having a medical issue. It is pointing out the breathtaking absurdity of elevating someone who himself cited serious cognitive impairment in court into one of the most consequential health-policy jobs in the country.
He argued that his earning capacity was diminished. The Trump administration looked at that and said: Perfect. Put him in charge of the agencies that determine whether millions of Americans can access health care, whether disease outbreaks are handled competently, and whether scientific reality gets to survive the next four years.
Because in MAGA America, qualifications are apparently suspicious. Science is “corrupt.” Doctors are “the establishment.” And the guy whose brain-parasite story became part of his divorce litigation is somehow the grown-up in the room.
This is not government. This is a satire writers’ room that got a federal budget.
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Returning to vaccines and RFK Jr
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Have to say I'm surprised at how many of the comments agree with RFK Jr.
Enough with the anti-vax INSANITY. As measles cases surge and vaccination rates fall, Trump is pushing a vaccine agenda doctors warn will sow fear and confusion among parents. Vaccines save lives. Conspiracies put them at risk. Science should guid
Enough with the anti-vax INSANITY. As measles cases surge and vaccination rates fall, Trump is pushing a vaccine agenda doctors warn will sow fear and confusion among parents. Vaccines save lives....
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Have to say I'm surprised at how many of the comments agree with RFK Jr.