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Making America Sick Again
We are changing bulbs from being the cutting edge leaders of health science to the dim bulb pre-science public health policy. If they're smart, the rest of the world will require proof of vaccination from USA visitors.
While RFK Jr won't actually ban vaccines, he will have the bully pulpit from which the poorly educated will be convinced vaccines are dangerous. After all, he's the head of
The multiplier effect will cause a substantial reduction of vaccine usage. Herd immunity will fade away. Epidemics long since resolved will return. Children will no longer be safe from debilitating disease in school (or from mass shooting) Thousands of people will become infected and thousands more will die from easily preventable diseases.
We can no longer take for granted that the people at the next table, behind us in the theater, behind us in line at the grocery, next to us in the produce section, are not teeming with a host of resurgent virus making America sick again..
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Well your health care costs will have to go up then to cover those who fall sick
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How does that make you feel?
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It's easy to understand how Trump, the reality tv actor, would be easily fooled into thinking he's hiring smart people since he's so ignorant... and make no mistake about it; Trump is not a reader. He's supremely ignorant. His narcissism requires that he claim to possess a broad range of knowledge. It's part of the kayfabe he learned from the WWE McMahons.
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
ACIP is an independent committee of the CDC that examines vaccine safety and effectiveness data and then recommends which vaccines should be given to children and adults. The committee consists of up to 19 voting members who are independent vaccine experts in vaccinology, immunology, pediatrics, internal medicine, nursing, family medicine, virology, public health, infectious diseases, and/or preventive medicine. It also usually includes a “consumer representative,” an individual who can represent the community and social aspects of vaccine policy. There are also ex-officio members from other governmental agencies and there are non-voting members from groups that have an interest in vaccines like medical societies.
"ACIP recommendations are evidence-based, that is, they rely upon data from clinical trials and post-marketing studies that are generally published in peer-reviewed journals. Their recommendations are not based on opinions but on scientific data. None of the voting members are employees of a pharmaceutical company, so there is no bias in their votes.
ACIP recommendations are forwarded to the CDC’s Director and once adopted become official CDC policy.
There are several ways RFK Jr can cause damage:
1. He can change the makeup of ACIP, putting vaccine deniers on the committee. The HHS Secretary has the final say over who sits on ACIP, so he may replace every scientist with anti-vaccine crackpots. Can you imagine if Andrew Wakefield was put on the committee?
2. Since the CDC director is appointed by the President, RFK Jr may get someone who is in sync with his beliefs and will reject the ACIP recommendations.
3. He could change the system where ACIP no longer has an advisory role for vaccine recommendations.
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While RFK Jr won't actually ban vaccines, he will have the bully pulpit from which the poorly educated will be convinced vaccines are dangerous.
Yup. Sure, he doesn't want to restrict people's freedom, he just wants to give them the information to allow them to make their own decisions. The problem is that most people - apparently including RFK Jr.! - have no idea how to do meaningful research. Witness all the people who voted for Trump, and who believe numerous other fallacious nonsense all because they "did their own research" using only TikTok and Facebook as their source material. <smh>
