Make America Healthy Again - Trump populism comes to health regulation (3 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

This is going to need a thread as we move forward - there are now clear signs that Trump supports a new, critical if not dubious approach on vaccination, and his HHS nominee RFK Jr. regularly espouses eating raw milk and raw meat . . . dietary components most experts agree are more dangerous than their heated counterparts.

Health is certainly one of those areas were anti-institutionalism and turning to popular influencers over medical science comes with genuine risk of harm.

Today Trump provided his most clear indication that he is a vaccine skeptic - claiming (falsely of course) that the USA doesn't "do as well" as other nations that use no vaccines at all.

 

[Dragon]

This could go in multiple threads

Microscopic plastics could raise risk of stroke and heart attack, study says​

Doctors have warned of potentially life-threatening effects from plastic pollution after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics.
Researchers in Naples examined fatty plaques removed from the blood vessels of patients with arterial disease and found that more than half had deposits contaminated with tiny particles of polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
Those whose plaques contained microplastics or nanoplastics were nearly five times more likely to suffer a stroke, heart attack or death from any cause over the following 34 months, compared with those whose plaques were free from plastic contamination.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...e-risk-of-stroke-and-heart-attack-study-says?




With the Trump administrations attack on the environment - what could possible go wrong....

 

[Lapaz]

I take PrEP and so do most of my gay friends. The benefits of providing generic PrEP far outway the cost and negatives of not providing it. I get my PrEP through my private health insurance, but if it is not legally mandatory that it be covered, then private insurance will not cover it either. You will be affecting millions of people in this country and it will no doubt lead to an AIDS epidemic. That's just the plain truth. I mean, if you want to kill off gay people, that's a way to do it.

I wish I understood why the underlying intent of every health initiative of this administration was to bring back every epidemic we've ever had.

Sexually transmitted diseases is a risk for everyone that doesn’t practice safe sex. I don’t think that justifies giving away medicine to reduce the risk of catching a disease. Condoms and testing your monogamous partner would prevent them. I don’t know what other meds are mandated, but I suspect there are some others that aren’t justified, and there may be some that should be.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Article goes on to mention that some studies gave shown lower soerm counts today than 50 years ago but there is some debate about the results

This feeds right into the masculinity crisis the right is so obsessed with
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has declared a new “existential problem”: declining testosterone levels and sperm counts in teenage boys.

The 71-year-old baselessly suggested that testosterone levels in teens were being dwarfed by 68-year-old men during an appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime Tuesday to discuss the government’s plans to ban eight common artificial food dyes by the end of the year.

“The food our kids are eating today is not really food,” RFK Jr told host Jesse Watters, adding that the science surrounding the petroleum-based synthetic dyes has been “systematically suppressed.”

After touting his war on chronic disease and listing a raft of health issues faced by Americans, the nation’s top health official turned his attention to male fertility.

“We have fertility rates that are just spiraling. A teenager today, an American teenager, has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man,” RFK Jr, who revealed previously that he takes the hormone as part of his anti-aging protocol, said.……

RFK Jr claims teenage boys in America have less testosterone than 68 year-old men

‘A teenager today, an American teenager, has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man,’ the nation’s top health official tells Fox News host Jesse Watters

www.independent.co.uk

 

[coldseat]

Sexually transmitted diseases is a risk for everyone that doesn’t practice safe sex. I don’t think that justifies giving away medicine to reduce the risk of catching a disease. Condoms and testing your monogamous partner would prevent them. I don’t know what other meds are mandated, but I suspect there are some others that aren’t justified, and there may be some that should be.

"Justify" is an interesting word here the way you use it. I mean, I can "justify" it on several levels. It saves lives. It cost the government and insurance less to provide Prep than it does to treat HIV/AIDS. It makes the overall population healthier with the spread of less disease. It makes finding a cure to HIV/AIDS easier with less transmission because it has less opportunity to mutate. I mean, those justification are clear reasons for me to keep it.

I guess if you're talking about typical "moral" justification, then I guess some would say no. Although I would again question that type of morality.

I'm assuming you have a problem with birth control as well?