One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.
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CBS is reduced to operating as a MAGA billboard.
Mass media has important functions influencing public opinion, determining political agenda, linking government and the people, acting as a government watchdog, and affecting socialization, entertainment, educating the masses & mobilization.
This is all just a temporary, everything they're attempting to do is being blocked by the courts, & they're hopefully going to end this nightmare soon. Either way, it's gonna end, & hopefully less than the million he killed last time will die this time. it's only fair to hope they're his voters...
50% of babies born get their care covered by Medicaid. Young mothers often have jobs with no health care provided, or it covers them, but not a family member. Or the father didn't get the wife/SO on his health care, nor a baby.
Mitch McConnell is a heartless bastard who will rot in hell. He corrupted our Supreme Court and gave tRump a boost to set him on the path to where he is. So he’s no hero. He is less than a zero.
I'm also from the UK. How have you missed what McConnel has done to the country? If he'd died or actually done his job Trump would not be president. He only voted as he did on this because it affects him!
No one has explained the sad humor yet, so I feel I have to. McConnell *personally* suffered from polio, so he understands that deadly diseases are bad. It's the basic Republican logic.
Unfortunately he is most certainly not one of the good guys. He spent his entire career ruining democracy and now that he’s almost dead he seems remorseful and is making token useless protest votes to polish up his upcoming gravestone
I blame Mitch McConnell for Trump being president. He should have voted to convict in the impeachment and told the Republicans to vote to convict. There should not be a January exemption.
Nothing says America first like doing things that directly harms Americans. Where is this "saved" money going to go? Is there a single American out there (other than the billionaires) who is going to benefit from this?
How do you calculate the cost of lost knowledge, loss of livelihood for millions who were fired, mental anguish, fear . . . vs alleged monetary savings that have largely been rejected
He is not there to save the United States government, of that I’m sure
Kids are now sick from all the vitamin A they were given in lieu of an actual vaccine bc that can help cure measels, what's his next suggestion twizzlers for hiv?
What on earth? He has got to GO! Unbelievable! This is MAGA GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy’s accomplishment, letting the nutcase out of committee. Cassidy’s a physician who can forget the Hippocratic Oath! Instead: make sure people will die.
My fu$king brain hurts trying to understand how SUBMISSIVE, SELF EFFACING AND SELF DENYING, so many "Adults" in the Senate and Congress can be.
Fu$king COWARDS. They can't hide anywhere. They'll try to.
PS
Just trying the Capitol⁴⁷ capital rant style.
Don't like it really. Juvenile. 🤦🏼
Apologies. 🙇🏼
We need a ban on the word "supports" on nutritional supplements for the next 50 years. Make every business that claims health benefits of a product or service prove it or get prosecuted for fraud.
when will this wormy ballsack keel over already? he looks leathery enough that it could be any day now, but every extra day he is alive is a day too long and another day he threatens the rest of us.
Trump, his Cabinet, and the Republican Party are going to kill Americans. Mainly poor. And that will include plenty, if not the majority of them being poor and working poor WHITE MAGAs.
When your family speaks against you, there's something very wrong with you. It's not the normal crazy uncle stuff either. I first thought these people were trying to destroy our country, but there will be global impacts as well. This is more like Maha from the 3 Stooges.
I'm guessing that those they don't kill off by increased unemployment and lack of government benefits, are expected to die from diseases they're now choosing to ignore.
The thinking of this numbnut is natural immunity is best. Just take a stroll through and old cemetery and check out the ages on the grave markers. Don’t forget to look for the small brick sized stones next to the larger ones these are usually the infants and young children.
It's criminal and I don't understand what he gets out of it but I fear in USA it's so callous towards each other people dying because of this just won't matter
I'm gonna get a lot of crap but genuine question. Given that HIV is dramatically reduced since the 80s does it make sense to have a dedicated unit instead of just rolling that function into broader infectious disease teams?
Dramatically reduced? Can we see statistical analysis of babies born to HIV mothers who are on HIV drugs? The reason there is a reduction is there are widespread drugs available. If you have ever had an HIV+ pregnant family member, you know about the life saving assistance for the children born
So are we just stopping at half? Is half good enough these days? This is a very dangerous and incompetent man who shouldn't even be in charge of a lemonade stand.
Progress in fighting HIV is due to 30 years of constant research, the development of medications and ongoing public health and education initiatives. Eliminating them, along with cuts to care access will turn the clock back quickly.
BECAUSE HIV drugs are being used for HIV+ patients. Should those drugs no longer be available and distributed, the transmission rates will increase again. Based on every other health issue currently, HIV+ treatments will be abandoned
The sad part here is that HIV comeback will be slow, and by the time we have data to support it - people will already be either infected or dead, and responsible for the policies will be long gone from the office (and therefore will not face consequences)
I'm HIV+. Said to friends & others that this administration might well kill me. They don't know what to say to me now. If I live through these next 3.5 years, it will only take the next bad administration to finish the job. If it hasn't sunk in yet, some of us are literally fighting for our lives
Same here. Ryan White funding will probably go next, then Medicare will axe paying for HIV drugs citing “costs” with a justification that they can’t be bothered to pay for a drug when we could have avoided sin via “ responsibility”. I am so scared for me and my partner. I don’t want to lose him. 😥😥
That is my fear as well, the Ryan White being cancelled. And I have no partner, so I can't even begin to imagine your fear. I hope more people start getting active.
I only hope that the effected workers and professionals can find private employment to continue their work. What the idiots in charge don't realize is they can also can be infected and die.
Oh, they will, other goverments are snatching up all these professionals. They won't let all the talent that has kept the USA in a leader role go to waste.
I hope so too, but most private companies don’t do basic research like NIH is performing. Without these basic studies, private sector will suffer and have harder time to create innovative treatments or drugs.
The goal is to not lose what is in development. Many private research companies would love what they know and had in development, it's cost savings for those companies.
We’re going to loose an entire generation of vital knowledge if we don’t stop this
Who’s going to want to study environmental science, virology, humanities etc etc, if there’s no job for you or you’re at risk being fired by the next admin?
I agree. If Congress had a backbone they could stop this. All they are doing is trying to stay in their job. They don't represent the majority of constituents.
I have an idea. Since he seems to think that all of these infectious diseases can be healed with cupping and aloe, why doesn't he inject himself with them and we can watch him magically heal.
It's not his misery he's interested in. You can probably guarantee he has been vaccinated!
Imo, He's a damaged being, with a death wish. He wants to bring what he can with him.
Guilt haunts him and his failures.
He's a coward. He's disgusting.
He will fail.
Sadly, not soon enough.
I am sure when he conveniently catches several infectious diseases, he will take horse meds and vitamin E and have a full recovery. I am sure his VACCINATED children will not worry like the ones who die because the parents believe his lies.
Impeach now - before his bizarre fucked up “cures” kills more innocent children. Is this how he would ‘cure his own children…? We aren’t stupid even though our leader likes to think we are.
This possibly from the "Billionaires"
Climate Change Action Plan.
Reduce the world's population so that Climate Change becomes a
nothing burger
Billionaires and families exempted as they believe themselves above just about everything...
Donnie certainly scraped the bottom of the barrel when he appointed this over cooked shrivelled prune in office many people will die because of him be warned 🤪
He was Donnie’s perfect choice. He knew what he was doing when he chose all of the incompetent people for his cabinet. I’m shocked only one bowed out saying he couldn’t do the job. They have no clue what they are doing but that’s the point
THAT WORM BRAINED MORON IS ALREADY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF CHILDREN! HE WANTS MORE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS! CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY! EXECUTE THIS MENGELA WANNABE!
Letting disease run amok???
No oligarch is safe...not unless they go boy in the plastic bubble.
Only our enemies would want this.
They won't be safe either.
This sudden dark age is so appalling and deadly.
Humanity never learns.
Ahh - they are so stupid! Another short-term consequence is that valuable research work into things that the administration doesn't like (climate change, for example) is being deleted from the records and the people who do that research are losing their jobs.
I notice that France is welcoming disillusioned US scientists whose work has been deleted or who have lost their jobs. I hope Canada and the other European nations will quickly follow suit. It would be a catastrophe if all that hard work and knowledge were lost for ever.
This administration is turning the US into a land of fantasy and denial and turning the accepted norms of the Enlightenment back to the dark ages where all that matters is money and power.
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Yes. And unfortunately UK tends to follow USA. We haven't all gone batshit anti-science stupid yet, like USA seems to have done, but the trend of idiocy is increasing worryingly. 🙁
Politics should never be allowed to have a say in how to interpret scientific evidence or medical needs. Just like you don't tell a surgeon where to put the scalpel.
Tell that to any single person capable of birth that wanted sterilized. Tell that to any woman that has been repeatedly Galit and ignored by doctors for years. Finally tell that to the people bleeding out in hospital parking lots and dying from having miscarriages.
they want people to die from disease. RFK and the rest believe in the concept of the superior race. Take away vaxx, the inferior die, the superior recover with immunity. They believe too many unworthy have been kept alive by vaccines.
What a total f**king idiot of a clown 🤡 what will replace it? A magic rock? A kiss from a fairy tale unicorn 🦄 or some stupid supplement sold on info wars. What total A*S… everyone in Trumps is uneducated monkeys 🙈 🙊🙉🐒
Who knew?
Pessimism with a dash of patience may be the safer option for people for a while.
Optimism is currently failing to prepare society for this evil.
I'm glad i decided to just stay single for the rest of my life. America is gonna have too many problems to navigate to even get close enough to date a person be them straight or otherwise. Knowing a partner might be infected with noway to test, count me out.
Gonna leave this here, this is miami. The gop thinks this will get lgbt people to off themselves. It's just gonna infect all heterosexual women if this data is to be believed, have fun owning the libs with that i guess conservatives.
On the brighter side, your productivity might go up. No more worrying about relationships going sour… “…Always look on the bright side of life….) Good luck!
i mean i stopped dating years ago when i realized the brainrot was taking hold of people, and after the pandemic just a simple, you vaxxed or not started heated debate and i decided if a person was willing to forgo a vax but use horse dewormer, they aren't worth a second of time.
Yup, look at how many of these lunatics believe in flat earth for starters, which isnt really a harmful belief, just ignorant. Then you get ones who believe BS that IS harmful, often trying to justify if with religious jargon, etc.
Oh but abortions are murder! Why even bring a baby into this world. They either die from some preventable disease or by being shot to death. What a death sentence. It’s time to send Elon and the whole corrupt administration packing!!!
You don't have to take care of your children, you just have to BIRTH them. Once they're born, they're on their own. Unless, of course, you have the attending physician do one of those "after birth" abortions that we libtards love so much.
If there were a god, he'd immediately ensure the person tearing up years of health science would be one of the first to suffer from the destruction he's done. He has children and grandchildren; it's amazing he's not doing his best to protect them other than suggesting they take plenty of Vit A. Sad.
And Bobby Kennedy chose heroin and three packs of cigarettes today and now he used his methadone and Adderall for fun. No vaccine only for billionaires. Everyone has to die naturally no fucking vaccines.
This isn't him making the decision. It was ordered by the two headed being known as Musump. Jis brain is too full of holes from his worm friends to think of doing this.
The FOTUS may have been given immunity but that does not cover anyone in his cabinet. If he does this and it is directly responsible for the deaths of U.S. Citizens, he will one day be held accountable. ETTD
Does it not make sense to set up an NGO shadow government? Not for any nefarious purposes, but to set up funding streams and communications where the Federal gov is not.
Obviously this requires a lot of money, but there are some very liberal billionaires…
Go calculate how much of his wealth that is (a tiny amount) and the amount he hasn’t paid in taxes (a huge amount). Further, there is absolutely no fucking reason to have that much money. He will never be able to spend it all; caping for billionaires is truly psychotic behavior.
There could be.
Rig one up to life support and impale them on an electrified pain spike in public.
One good billionaire.
If you rounded up the lot of them you could staple their hands together and make a happiness fence.
Billionaires don’t make their money. Moreover, healthy people who aren’t insecure don’t think hoarding resources and money from the greater community is healthy
I don’t see Elon out there on billion dollar yatchs with celebrities acting a fool like Bezos. I see him trying to make a positive impact despite his enemies propaganda that you fall for.
The USA will be known to the world as the land of preventable diseases, avoided like the plague (literally). A sad fate for a once notable - wouldn't say 'great' - nation.
DJT recently signed an EO stating that all US territories including states, counties, cities, towns, etc have "American" names. Therefore and e.g., New Mexico will be called New America, LA will now be Angel City, and Santa Fe will be changed to Santa Claus.
Public health will have to be run by individual states. The Federal government is supposed to be for the common good. That idea is being trampled by the elephant. States can unite for the common good. Cascadia will probably step up. Texas will continue to be stupid.
Eugenics. There's a whole movement that believes vaccines, antibiotics etc. are *bad* because they *do* work and therefore allow too many weak genetically inferior people to survive. They *want* more preventable deaths.
Apparently, he makes a lot of money and adoration from peddling pseudo-science and selling alternative treatments. I've read that somewhere, but don't know a lot about him myself. But it fits.
I understand why he makes some of his choices based on his conspiracy theories etc and I understand why he probably would gut HIV/AIDS but all infectious diseases?? 🤔
Parents who choose to not vaccinate their kids obviously don’t love them enuff to give them evry chance in life. Given their ignorance, in some ways by culling their already shallow gene pool are they may be doing society a favour? Yes, it’s harsh I know but true!
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Trickle-up murder.
Mass media has important functions influencing public opinion, determining political agenda, linking government and the people, acting as a government watchdog, and affecting socialization, entertainment, educating the masses & mobilization.
Then we wouldn’t need those departments.
Thanks 47!
#MAGAEQUALSNAZI
#DICTATORFORADAY
#therewillbeblood
They all have blood on their hands.
All of them.
We are with you guys, struggling against those you have in power... We are still cousins. Always will be.
How do you calculate the cost of lost knowledge, loss of livelihood for millions who were fired, mental anguish, fear . . . vs alleged monetary savings that have largely been rejected
He is not there to save the United States government, of that I’m sure
Fu$king COWARDS. They can't hide anywhere. They'll try to.
PS
Just trying the Capitol⁴⁷ capital rant style.
Don't like it really. Juvenile. 🤦🏼
Apologies. 🙇🏼
Nuh-uh!!!
Recover from that scathing intellectual rebuttal, In the burn unit!
Who’s going to want to study environmental science, virology, humanities etc etc, if there’s no job for you or you’re at risk being fired by the next admin?
Imo, He's a damaged being, with a death wish. He wants to bring what he can with him.
Guilt haunts him and his failures.
He's a coward. He's disgusting.
He will fail.
Sadly, not soon enough.
Spreading that approach is going to cause many more UNNECESSARY deaths and thousands of lives to be destroyed from getting sick.
He is a national threat TO US ALL
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Climate Change Action Plan.
Reduce the world's population so that Climate Change becomes a
nothing burger
Billionaires and families exempted as they believe themselves above just about everything...
This is Agent Krasnov's Revenge Tour.
No oligarch is safe...not unless they go boy in the plastic bubble.
Only our enemies would want this.
They won't be safe either.
This sudden dark age is so appalling and deadly.
Humanity never learns.
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That too-lightly laundered cash found its way directly into GOP campaign coffers nationwide.
July 4th. 2018, when the hook was firmly set in every GOP jaw, Putin ordered 8 of them to Moscow.
The entire GOP will be indicted with RICO and Espionage charges, if Putin drops a dime.
Now, he can also show the direct interference they played in our last election.
Knowing we would storm the capitol & hang them all.
Ever wonder what cartoonishly good might look like?
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-1-no-8?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
No value to be had in this action.
Or where can I find that information?
As a consequence, ignorant opinions are treated as being the equal of informed opinion.
prior to carrying out these
gross negligence
layoffs
Pessimism with a dash of patience may be the safer option for people for a while.
Optimism is currently failing to prepare society for this evil.
Brain-worm Boy quotes Q.
Potentially millions.
Fuck these fucks!!
Your not worthy to live or have money ,security, freedom
Obviously this requires a lot of money, but there are some very liberal billionaires…
I’m sure there are countless more too
Rig one up to life support and impale them on an electrified pain spike in public.
One good billionaire.
If you rounded up the lot of them you could staple their hands together and make a happiness fence.
Trump is eliminating the Department of Education and grants from the NIH.
He is threatening to withhold funds from colleges he sees as too progressive.
Conservative theologians will determine appropriate areas of study by examining chicken entrails.
And If you believe this, you are Maga.