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Thank you, next (I shudder!!) President of the United States.
yecheill
Trump was clear that he supports the Polio vaccine. He also stated that he would not take immediate action but would start by asking questions and gathering information.
Almost all children are vaccinated, and once anyone gets polio in a community, all the unvaccinated get vaccinated. Vaccines work for life, and the effects of having polio are very visible and obvious. It won’t become a major problem.
There is a problem since some of the mistruths or half-truths the government public health officials spread during Covid (e.g. that Covid was a major threat to children so that schools needed to close, and those who got the Covid vaccine would have no side effects and wouldn’t have to worry about testing positive for Covid ever again) made people question the well established (and safe) vaccines such as the polio one which has been around for 70 years. I would suggest the blame falls more on the civil service (“deep state”) people in the health departments rather than President Biden, since no one ever took Biden seriously to begin with.
Even if the government will follow all RFK views (which I think it will not), this will be a very productive development. Presumably, the states will keep their own vaccine policies (that is RFK will not forbid vaccines, just not demand). Then, in a couple of years, it will be easy to see differences between the states and it will be not hard to adjust those – either at state level or by the future president. and
Given current vaccination levels, or lack thereof in some subgroups, the differences will not be drastic, but enough to be noticeable. Of course, the challenge will be for population to absorb the lessons. Covid experience shows that 50% of the population do not understand what “50%” means.
Yechiell: Why do you care? If you got the vaccine, you’re fine (unless you’re the one making an anti-vaxxer statement).
If other people want to take risks with their own lives, it shouldn’t bother you.
@akuperma Polio is a horrific disease. And with vaccines being voluntary, it’s almost guaranteed that significant groups of people will refuse it, even if it makes a recurrence. Which means that without a vaccinated population, the US will see polio injuries (or lo aleinu even deaths) on par with the slums of Calcutta.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Kennedy is to health what Ocasio-Cortez is to social justice. Meaning, he is the type to enact laws about whatever sensationalist nonsense he reads on the Internet or his friends tell him. Which is a huge problem for us.
And it’s also goodbye Chalav Stam if he gets his way with neutering the FDA.
Trump is belatedly learning about a lot of RFK Jr.’s political baggage on public health issues and trying to “walk back” a lot of his positions. In some cases, its gaslighting to tell the tzibur he “never said” what we have heard RFK Jr. say on multiple occasions. In other cases, they are spinning his misstatements to say that “what he really meant was that government should “STUDY” a vaccine or medication even though it has been studied over decades and the vast majority of public health and medical studies support efficacy and safety.
RFK Jr. has a unique opportunity to go after the real issues in public health and is squandering both his own (and indirectly Trump’s) credibility even with the Republican constituencies.
yechiyell,
Google your straw-man phrase, “polio making a comeback” and the first page of hits is from medical sites published over the past two years. In case you’ve forgotten, Brandon, Kamalek and their woke, demented lackeys have been incompetently running the country during that time. FEH!
Newsflash: you may have missed it but thankfully your corrupt, clueless party lost the election, so get over it or get help!
Yechiell: I don’t public health should exist as a concept. I have my approach to my health and you have your’s. If the government stays out of people’s business, we don’t have problems.
Your problem with Trump seems to be that he doesn’t force everyone at gun point to make exactly the same decisions with their bodies that you make with your’s. This is asinine and condescending. People like you are the reason Trump won again. Just mind your own business.
“And it’s also goodbye Chalav Stam if he gets his way with neutering the FDA.”
Baruch Hashem.
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