I'd like to find out if it's possible to go to Canada or Mexico as an American citizen to get vaccines legally and conveniently, in the event they get banned here.
One situation where corporate greed might help: its much cheaper for insurers to encourage vaccinations than having to pay for serious illnesses.
Right? 😭
Oh, but it's even cheaper to turn away sick or older people and "insure" healthy young individuals who don't need much care. I guarantee the Republicans are planning to bring back preexisting conditions and let insurers return to cherry-picking their customers.
You only get those healthy young people if they survive into their teens and twenties. They need vaccines to do this. It is a net profitable benefit for both insurers and pharmaceutical companies to promote vaccine use. Also, if RFK bans vaccines, what other drugs will he ban?
Scary for sure. I'm going to be making an appointment for my kiddo to get this year's scheduled vaccines in advance of the annual well visit. Just in case...
My lil's niece is barely a month old, and I will participate in the underground guerrilla black-market for vaccines to get her what she needs. Like hell I am letting RFK put her at risk. He needs to be removed from office, period.
I’m also concerned that there’s been no organizing against it. I wouldn’t know where to start with it. But there should at least be Bluesky accounts and Reddit boards for parents who want to vaccinate their kids. That’s the very least.
I'm wondering where are the pharmaceutical companies? The ones who make the vaccines? Don't they want to continue making money on them? It's mystifying that they're not speaking up.
Doctors abilities to actually care for their patients are being squeezed out by the corporate systems that they work for. It's really sad. Doctors have a high suicide rate as a result. It's only going to get worse.
I'm fortunate because I have solid relationships with my care providers and I let them know I care about them too. Some of them are at risk, right now, from this fuckery. We soldier on as best we can.
for your family's sake (and everyone else's), i hope that can happen. have you found/talked to a pediatrician about it? get it on record with them you want all the vaccinations?
i don't know if that will help if he really bans them before L is due, but it never hurts to get stuff in the med file.
Talk to your Drs and make sure they're not magats, and you will be able to. Make sure your wife gets any recommended jabs before your precious baby is born too. Mazeltov!
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Right? 😭
I’m also concerned that there’s been no organizing against it. I wouldn’t know where to start with it. But there should at least be Bluesky accounts and Reddit boards for parents who want to vaccinate their kids. That’s the very least.
i don't know if that will help if he really bans them before L is due, but it never hurts to get stuff in the med file.