Make America Healthy Again - Trump populism comes to health regulation

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    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.

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    Let’s turn this argument around and look at responsibility, not just “parental choice.”

    Parents don’t get to leave a baby asleep in a pram outside a restaurant while they dine — even if they’re watching through a window — without risking child endangerment charges. Society rightly intervenes when a child is exposed to foreseeable harm. So why is it treated differently when parents refuse to vaccinate against preventable diseases like polio or measles, and the child becomes seriously ill or dies? And what about the immunocompromised child in the same daycare or school who gets infected and doesn’t survive — is that just “bad luck” or “God’s will”?

    What we’re seeing now feels like revisionism: decades of medical evidence and public-health success are being dismissed in favor of anti-science narratives pushed by influencers and social-media talking heads. This isn’t informed consent — it’s misinformation dressed up as freedom. At what point does a parent’s right to choose end, and a child’s right to live without unnecessary, preventable risk begin? And when those choices endanger others, why are they still treated as purely personal?

    What century are we actually in?
     
    arstechnica.com

    Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot

    Kirk Milhoan's comments come as federal vaccine policy slides to insignificance.
    arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
    Kirk Milhoan, who was named chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in December, appeared on the aptly named podcast “Why Should I Trust You.” In the hour-long interview, Milhoan made a wide range of comments that have concerned medical experts and raised eyebrows.

    Early into the discussion, Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist, declared, “I don’t like established science,” and that “science is what I observe.” He lambasted the evidence-based methodology that previous ACIP panels used to carefully and transparently craft vaccine policy.
     
    Republicans advanced a bill in the Floridalegislature this week to weaken vaccineprotections for children, but it fell well short of state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s promise made last year to end immunization mandates.

    The proposed new law, introduced by Jacksonville state senator Clay Yarborough, and which narrowly passed the chamber’s health policy committee on Monday in a 6-4 vote, seeks only to expand exemptions for parents who do not want their school-age children vaccinated.

    It keeps mandates in place for shots for measles, mumps and rubella, frequently combined into a single MMR vaccine; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP); and polio.

    In September, Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic appointed by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, caused outrage among public health experts when he declared children in the state would no longer be required to receive vaccines against a number of preventable diseases.


    He said he expected his push to eliminate compulsory vaccinations would receive the blessing “of God”, and that “every last [mandate] is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery”.

    Florida’s lawmakers, he said, “are going to have to choose a side”.……..


    www.theguardian.com

    Florida Republicans advance bill to weaken vaccine protections for children

    But effort fell short of state surgeon general’s promise to end Florida’s immunization mandates altogether
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Republicans advanced a bill in the Floridalegislature this week to weaken vaccineprotections for children, but it fell well short of state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s promise made last year to end immunization mandates.

    The proposed new law, introduced by Jacksonville state senator Clay Yarborough, and which narrowly passed the chamber’s health policy committee on Monday in a 6-4 vote, seeks only to expand exemptions for parents who do not want their school-age children vaccinated.
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    Maybe these idiots are learning? Nah, must have been something else.
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Republicans advanced a bill in the Floridalegislature this week to weaken vaccineprotections for children, but it fell well short of state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s promise made last year to end immunization mandates.

    The proposed new law, introduced by Jacksonville state senator Clay Yarborough, and which narrowly passed the chamber’s health policy committee on Monday in a 6-4 vote, seeks only to expand exemptions for parents who do not want their school-age children vaccinated.

    It keeps mandates in place for shots for measles, mumps and rubella, frequently combined into a single MMR vaccine; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP); and polio.

    In September, Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic appointed by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, caused outrage among public health experts when he declared children in the state would no longer be required to receive vaccines against a number of preventable diseases.


    He said he expected his push to eliminate compulsory vaccinations would receive the blessing “of God”, and that “every last [mandate] is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery”.

    Florida’s lawmakers, he said, “are going to have to choose a side”.……..


    www.theguardian.com

    Florida Republicans advance bill to weaken vaccine protections for children

    But effort fell short of state surgeon general’s promise to end Florida’s immunization mandates altogether
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    The blessing of God?!?!

    There is no end to the stupidity.
     
    Denmark experienced a small polio outbreak in 1961 and I am old enough to have had a classmate who was forever disabled due to contracting the disease. I also remember getting the oral polio vaccine as a child. Polio is really a horrible disease but those who abstain from vaccinating their children against polio today, are people who has never encountered a survivor - if they had - their children would be first in line for the vaccine
     

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