Free market capitalist Republicans… oh wait, 24 May 2025
Weirdo anti-vax infectious disease denier wonders why people who get vaccinated don't want hugs from her.
Marty Makary was copying Stephen Miller and saying America voted for this.
I’ve seen a lot of people on social media mad that Marty Makary said, “America doesn’t want covid boosters” and of course this doesn’t mean Americans don’t want covid boosters. He said “America doesn’t want covid boosters”. Important distinction. They don’t mean people in America don’t want boosters. This is the same as when Stephen Miller says “America voted for this” and insert whatever horrible courts defying unconstitutional thing he’s pushing. What they’re saying is that AMERICA VOTED FOR THIS. Marty Makary is invoking the idea that America voted for antivax, and they’re going to force it on us all. He means that the majority of American voters voted for Trump with RFKJr’s endorsement, and that means they will cater to those people who have made it clear that they don’t want anyone allowed to be vaccinated. The FDA VRBPAC hearing comments period was full of anti-vaxxers demanding covid vaccines be ripped off the market and parents be banned from vaccinating their kids. There’s no meeting these people halfway to hell. They’re out for eugenics blood, and they think they were given ultimate power, and they’re wielding it.
Free market capitalist Republicans… oh wait - they want to deny your choice of dental health too.
I hope everybody understands now that this was never about choice.
It was never about just doing away with mandates and allowing people to have so-called freedom. It was always about taking away vaccines, taking away masks, taking away fluoride, and opening the door to profiteering and selling "alternative" bogus quack cures in many cases.
NBC News - FDA moves to take prescription fluoride drops and tablets for kids off the market Despite decades of evidence that fluoride prevents cavities, the agency said the best way to keep kids' teeth strong is to stop eating so much sugar. May 13, 2025, 12:11 PM EDT By Erika Edwards Dr. Meg Lochary, a pediatric dentist in Union County, North Carolina, said she’s been prescribing more of the drops and tablets since county commissioners voted to stop adding fluoride to its water supply last year. “This is really going to hamper our goal of providing kids with fluoride,” Lochary said. “It’s ridiculous, and it takes away the choice of parents to allow their children to have better dental health. It doesn’t make scientific sense.”
The article states: "The supplements are usually given to kids at high risk for cavities."
West Virginia University - 5% Sodium Fluoride Varnish Pediatric Oncology Provider Training Children undergoing cancer treatment are at a much higher risk for cavities due to side effects like dry mouth. This is highlighted by the CAMBRA (Caries Risk Assessment by Risk Management) standard of care.
It's eugenics. Attempting to remove preventative care is about eugenics.
Once you understand how fluoride works, it's clear that the people making stuff up to scare people about fluoride are completely clueless and saying nonsense.
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C&EN The FDA’s new COVID-19 vaccine guidance is here. Now what? Agency appointees appear to sidestep advisory committees by Rowan Walrath May 22, 2025 “It is critically important to consider the practical effects of changing the vaccine target in light of the newly announced regulatory framework,” University of Wisconsin–Madison pathologist Kaitlin Sundling told the committee. “Why are two individuals making top-down decisions about vaccine policy?” she asked, adding that it sets “a dangerous and unacceptable precedent.”
MSNBC - May 22, 2025, 1:32 PM EDT By Walker Bragman, investigative journalist - What the FDA’s new Covid vaccine policy is really about With the current leadership at FDA and HHS, the incentives are simply stacked against humane vaccine policy. Some of the research demanded for broad approval of new Covid vaccines was infeasible and even unethical. There were no carve-outs for caregivers upon whom vulnerable people depend. The timing of the release appeared primed to usurp the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes vaccine recommendations. Valid as the criticisms were, the new approach to the Covid vaccines most likely has little to do with practical public health management. Instead, it appears to be an inevitable effort to reinforce narratives favored by the Trump administration and the political right. While it may seem unusual that Donald Trump’s FDA would go after vaccines developed through his Operation Warp Speed program in his first term — vaccines he once called the “gold standard” — America’s right wing has been getting solid mileage for years now out of politicizing all things Covid.
Radio Iowa - Supreme Court rules families of Tyson workers can sue over COVID deaths by Dar Danielson | May 23, 2025 The Supreme Court ruling says families cannot sue the company itself, but can sue a Tyson executive and supervisors.
Weirdo anti-vax infectious disease denier wonders why people who get vaccinated don't want hugs from her.
Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf · May 15 I have a horrible feeling that many vaccinated people will never fully recover their heart energy. Do you know what I mean? That warm glow you used to get from heart to heart hugging of people, is diminished with some vaccinated people, to a brief flicker, much fainter life Danny Wolf @dannysmanifesto I have a theory that most of the people who got the vaccine weren’t ensouled, so they’re technically not real human beings that have passion or a spirit anyways. Not exactly dead but not entirely alive, just something in between. 10:28 PM · May 15, 2025
Anti-vaxxers often say that they simply don't want to be compelled to get vaccinated, which is also anti-vax, because vaccines work best with large uptake. But then they clearly want to stop other people getting vaccinated, as is happening in the US government. But even more, they so often also go on to dehumanize and encourage moral disengagement toward people who are vaccinated, or even blame vaccinated people, or people taking any preventive precautions for harming others. Stirring up potential fear and hatred that could lead people to see violence as the answer.
Vaccination is far safer than getting covid unvaccinated.
Myocarditis after a covid vaccine is rare, even in people the FDA says are most likely to have that happen, it's rare. The truth of the matter is that getting myocarditis after a covid vaccine resolves quickly, but getting myocarditis from covid is far more likely and far more serious.
Trump's FDA full of covid deniers are fear mongering to dissuade people from vaccination possibly because of eugenics ideology aims.
And anyone who thinks there's an outside chance of getting exposed to covid you should want to be vaccinated to reduce the risks – and that's everyone because it's everywhere all the time and you can't predict if lightning strikes your house or a tree falls on you and you're taken to the hospital unconscious where there are covid patients not quarantined because of faulty AI.
I told the story about the faulty AI in healthcare as reported in a National Nurses United webinar before.
Does CDC HICPAC want to make a mockery of infection control in healthcare? Chloe Humbert Aug 21, 2024 At a recent NNU webinar on the use of AI in healthcare, someone told the story about an automated shift change report that just makes a sheet with no human to human handoff between actual healthcare workers. In this case the automated sheet failed to show that the person coming into the hospital had “no immune system” and had the nurse not made the extra step of checking the patient’s chart, they would’ve put the immune compromised person in with the patient who had covid and flu.
Sidenote is that CDC's HICPAC committee was terminated by Trump. So there's no guidance on infection control in healthcare settings other than very specific conditions under CMS's HAC reimbursement rules which don't include a lot of stuff that circulates in hospitals like covid for example.
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“One easy way to know if you should support cuts to Medicaid is to ask yourself if you want your nearest hospital to be open or closed next time you need it. Then repeat the question substituting “Emergency Department,” “Trauma Center,” “Stroke Center,” “Cardiac Cath Lab,” etc.” — Ryan Marino, MD