Personal Finance Topics / Retirement Investing
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On Monday, James Marriott of The Times, published in London, noted that the very stability and comfort of the post–World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish. A society with firm scientific and political guardrails that protect health and freedom, can sustain “an underbelly of madmen and extremists—medical sceptics, conspiracy types and anti-democratic fantasists.”
“Our society has been peaceful and healthy for so long that for many people serious disaster has become inconceivable,” Marriott writes. “Americans who parade around in amateur militia groups and brandish Nazi symbols do so partly because they are unable to conceive of what life would actually be like in a fascist state.” Those who attack modern medicine cannot really comprehend a society without it. And, Marriott adds, those who are cheering the rise of autocracy in the United States “have no serious understanding of what it means to live under an autocratic government.”
Marriott notes that five Texas counties that make up one of the least vaccinated areas in the U.S. are gripped by a measles outbreak that has infected at least 58 people and hospitalized 13. It may be, Marriot writes, that “[t]he paradise of fools is coming to an end.”Let’s hope.
Pissed off foks are starting to show up in red county districts to confront their representatives at town hall meetings about the utter insanity and chaos being unleashed by Trump and a mostly silent Congress
https://youtu.be/pAxAuBdm90o?si=XgkHHXDk1o13PMGLShades of the grassroots Tea Party- before it was coopted and astroturfed by the oligarchs.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Someone once said that no one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the people.
I'm not optimistic. I think they'll put up with being hurt if they think others are being hurt worse. A similar statement made by LBJ when he said that if you can make white people feel superior to black people, they won't notice you picking their pockets.
That's why the authoritarian playbook includes creating an "other" for people to hate.
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Marriott notes that five Texas counties that make up one of the least vaccinated areas in the U.S. are gripped by a measles outbreak that has infected at least 58 people and hospitalized 13. It may be, Marriot writes, that “[t]he paradise of fools is coming to an end.”As a side note, for those if us who may have gotten a dead (killed) measles shot prior to 68, the CDC is recommending an MMR booster. It didn't mention what to do if you remember getting measles, as I did, but MMR won't hurt. :) Depending on what you read, it's a little contradictory.
SNIP CDC
If you received a measles vaccine in the 1960s, you may not need to be revaccinated. People who have documentation of receiving LIVE measles vaccine in the 1960s do not need to be revaccinated. People who were vaccinated prior to 1968 with either inactivated (killed) measles vaccine or measles vaccine of unknown type should be revaccinated with at least one dose of live attenuated measles vaccine. This recommendation is intended to protect those who may have received killed measles vaccine, which was available in 1963-1967 and was not effective.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index....People born prior to 1957 have presumptive immunity.
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We updated our MMRs just last year. So we should be good for another 10 years.
I don't care what the worm-brained head of the agency says, we're going to be keeping up with our vaccinations.
I've mentioned this before...I just old enough to have met someone who had polio (junior high school). Just one. 1poormom said she knew several kids in her school. The reason kids today (and some 20-something moms) don't think it's an issue is because of vaccines. They've never met or seen anyone who had polio, because it had been nearly eradicated in the US (and globally, except for some pockets in Africa, and I think Pakistan or Afghanistan). Stop the vaccines, and it will come back, because "nearly eradicated" isn't good enough.
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I've mentioned this before...I just old enough to have met someone who had polio (junior high school). Just one. 1poormom said she knew several kids in her school. The reason kids today (and some 20-something moms) don't think it's an issue is because of vaccines. They've never met or seen anyone who had polio, because it had been nearly eradicated in the US (and globally, except for some pockets in Africa, and I think Pakistan or Afghanistan). Stop the vaccines, and it will come back, because "nearly eradicated" isn't good enough.
I seem to remember a fellow who had braces on his legs form polio - your talking about it brought the memory back. And an older fellow on my timeline had it as a youngster. I talked about it with the Doc and he didn't think I needed it, but I'll get it now. May have to call it in. I keep my shots on the phone for the Docs.
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I've mentioned this before...I just old enough to have met someone who had polio
There are polio survivors all around, but they are aging out. Mitch McConnell is one. A long time friend of mine, usually referred to as my other mother, was also a polio survivor. Cancer got her about 3 years ago now, in her mid 80s.
But pretty much anyone in their 80s and up have lived through the time when polio was common.
—Peter
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The boy I knew about (I didn't really know him, I just saw him around) had braces on his legs, and those hand crutches/canes (one for each hand). I asked someone what happened to him, and they told me he had polio when he was younger. The only one I ever saw in person.
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There are polio survivors all around, but they are aging out.
Joni Mitchell is another.
