True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/13/us/politics/kennedy-senate-confirmation-vote.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/13/us/politics/kennedy-senate-confirmation-vote.html
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As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults, all unvaccinated, had been infected with measles in a Texas county
Back in the dark ages.
I'm in my 80s now. Had childhood polio before there were polio vaccines. PT got me walking with a short leg brace & crutches, but substantial disability continued, and more late-life post-polio weakness.
Don't let RFK Jr invite polio back again.
Vaccines work.
I recommend Sheryl Gay Stolberg's New York Times article - published on Jan 18th. It's excellent. She interviewed polio survivors about their experiences. She posted a gift link to her article on her BlueSky page yesterday.
Catching it young gave immunity later down the line but also opens one up to shingles. With the vaccine now, we don't have to worry about shingles.
Ideally though, the kids never got into contact with the virus and those parties were probably not necessarily a great idea themselves
Can’t trust the education system so you can’t trust the educated.
It is that simple
It was no damn joke.
I remember how much I struggled to breathe, how sick I felt.
My grandma put a mustard pack on my chest & I ate syrup & onions.
That's all I know.
And now, meet our new health chief—Ole Leatherface, a proud vaccine denier! What’s next? Bloodletting and leeches?
Welcome to The Twilight Zone, where science is fiction and chaos reigns.
1. She was vaccinated,
2. She had had it just 18 months earlier.
My brother demanded they test for it... she had whooping cough again. Thank God for vaccines. She is almost 23 now.
But, then again, this is all bad.
What happens with flu vaccines as we start down the current avian flu?
What happens to kids who take ADHD meds?
SSRIs too.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/rfk-jr-senate-confirmation-hearings-lies-antidepressants-adhd-medications-addicts-addiction-wellness-farms/
School shooting, hunger, abuse, or from preventable illness — the method doesn’t matter to them.
Only that suffering and death are the outcome.
Get your jab!
This past fall, I’m like, nope, gonna fix this. Prior bloodwork showed that my measles immunity was gone. We had an outbreak in 2019 in NYC.
Nope. Sleeve up for this girl. Won’t be me.
And banned.
Trump was against masks and vaccines. A whole hell of a lot of people died on his watch. Now they don't want us to even KNOW about the dangers coming. Shithole country?
But I bet his family was vaccinated.
RFK, Jr has no business being close to the HHS nor any other health agency.
If you are on a public school family income, “you won’t be forced 😉 to vaccinate your children anymore”.
It likely didn't go quite the way he hoped, though.
Also, the GOP has run on government not working for 50+ years. They have continuously voted against any policy for the American people, fulfilling their slogans. Now, they are publicly dismantling government for $$$.
There was a great article by Tim Wise in 2020 that it’s a homicidal cult, and right now, we are seeing that he was disturbingly on target.
I ended up losing like 25lbs, and have had a chronic cough ever since.
I know I had had my TDaP before, but I was probably due for a booster then.
They will be useful in the coming years.
Same for MMR. Apparently it does wear off after a decade or so, it’s important to keep an eye on the titers.
I shudder when I realized that his vax saved his life
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/132/4/624/64846/Nonmedical-Vaccine-Exemptions-and-Pertussis-in
https://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/scientists-fear-a-new-thalidomide-if-rfk-jr-is-allowed-to-go-wild/
“radical antiestablishment medical movement ..threatening the achievements of a science-based public health order painstakingly built since World War II.”
I imagine RFK's unfortunate kids are fully inoculated. He's in it for the money.
#GOPBetrayedAmerica
https://bsky.app/profile/torrleonard.bsky.social/post/3le5cczfnlk2l
The way whooping cough kills you is because you cough so much that you can't get air and you suffocate, and you cough till you vomit then keep coughing, and you inhale your own vomit which causes pneumonia.
GET YOUR BOOSTER SHOT!
I had my childhood vaccine, but that wears off after 10 years, so I just got my Dtap booster ahead of the coming wave of whooping cough
💉👍
Vaccines are victims of their own success.
They definitely haven’t seen the maiming and death those diseases cause.
NYT ran an op-ed explaining why RFK Jr doesn’t deserve the positive connotations of “skeptic”—no diligence or attention to detail
Their “straight news” editors are missing the mark badly
The headline writers are condoning the relitigation of proven cures by conferring the positive connotations of the word “skeptic” on RFK Jr
Not even aspiring to be a paper of record
Spent weeks in a "tent" in nicu and a month in the nicu.