Part the First: Make Polio Great Again! And measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, bacterial meningitis, chickenpox/shingles, cervical cancer, hepatitis B! The title of Part the First comes from an old friend in both senses of the word. He is one of the very few Florida natives you would ever meet. But he is not a Florida Man. Only the prototypical Florida Man could come up with this: Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say:
Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (Florida Man by way of Yale and Harvard Law School) to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic.
DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo (Florida Man by way of Wake Forest and Harvard Medical School) cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” said Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area. “They (always they) don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”
Slavery? Public health measures that have been shown to work since the 18th-century (smallpox vaccination)? Okay, then. The soft eugenics of MAHA is about to harden and get out of hand, even if this will be slow in developing. Human papilloma virus is stealthy and spread by normal human behavior between normal human beings. HPV is the usual cause of cervical cancer – research for which Harald zur Hausen was awarded half of a Nobel Prize with the other half going to the discoverers of HIV. HPV cares not one whit how otherwise healthy its victims are, but its transmission is prevented by a vaccine.
Measles kills. Mumps can render one sterile or cause encephalitis leading to permanent brain damage or death. And chickenpox reappears in old age as shingles, which can be painful and debilitating, not to mention unsightly. Hepatitis B causes liver cancer; an argument can be made that this vaccine can be delivered later, but there is no evidence that early vaccination is harmful. And contrary to the testimony of the Surgeon General in Waiting in the Court of Joe Rogan, there is no evidence that multiple vaccines cause harm.
When the rest of the world issues health and safety advisories regarding travel to the Sunshine State, what will happen to their largest business? Anyway:
In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.
Under DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing Covid vaccines on schoolchildren, requiring “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.
“I don’t think there’s another state that’s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,” the governor said.
Maybe you are ahead of the curve at the moment, Governor! But give RFKJr time. The rest of the nation will catch up soon enough. And people, young and old, rich and poor, will get sick. Some will die. Unnecessarily.
Part the Second. Around the Bowl and Down the Hole Goes CDC. I know this will come as a shock, After ousting CDC’s director, RFK Jr. mirrors her ideas to reform the agency. Or, in other words, the Secretary of Health and Human Services fired Dr. Susan Monarez, his handpicked choice as Director of CDC, and then used her own plan to explain why she became persona non grata. The Secretary’s plea in Wall Street Journal plea is archived here. The table in STAT is more complete and thoroughly damning. Here is the summary:
- The CDC’s data systems and infrastructure need to be modernized, they both wrote, “to meet 21st-century threats” (Kennedy) and “keep pace with the demands of the 21st century” (Monarez).
- Monarez made the case that the agency should “invest in workforce excellence.” One of Kennedy’s priorities is to “invest in workforce” at the agency.
- Kennedy writes that CDC needs to “empower states and communities.” Monarez calls for local partnerships and health guidance tailored to “state, local, and community levels.”
- Kennedy underscores that “effectiveness—not politics—will be the watchword of our leadership,” — while Monarez urges “results-driven public health efforts” that include “a rigorous firewall against political and bureaucratic influence.”
There were a few differences in policy and approach between Dr. Monarez’s plan and the Secretary’s version. But RFKJr, (Harvard, LSE, University of Virginia), would get a flat “F” for the simple-minded plagiarism in this opinion piece.
Part the Third. This Malicious Mishegoss Continues. Melissa Fay Greene writes in STAT (no paywall), CDC’s Injury Center has been devastated by cuts. Here’s what we’ve lost: The Injury Center’s experts on gun violence, transportation safety, drowning — all RIF’d:
On Aug. 8, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff in Atlanta came under attack. A gunman fired hundreds of rounds at CDC’s campus, shattering 150 windows. While public health experts crouched under their desks and their expelled colleagues watched the TV news in despair, many felt it to be the obvious result of the slander, disinformation campaigns, and conspiracy theories wielded against them for months by President Trump, amplified by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Now, they thought bitterly, American citizens are literally shooting at us.
Of course, in April, the entire Gun Violence Prevention team within CDC’s Injury Center had been RIF’d — as federal employees refer to those reduction in force layoffs — so no one conversant with the underlying causes of gun violence was available to comment.
The Injury Center may be among the least familiar of the CDC programs eviscerated by the White House, but acts of prevention rarely attract headlines. Many towns, for example, display white-painted “ghost bikes” at intersections where a cyclist was killed by a car. But no town displays a multi-colored bike with streamers to mark a crossing through which everyone glides safely home because Injury Center transportation experts got there ahead of them.
As Congress debates CDC funding levels for the upcoming fiscal year, I want to pay tribute to this place, which is being dismantled. “How can I relay the value of your work to folks who have never even heard of the Injury Center?” I recently asked a staffer.
He gestured at the people around us. None of them had drowned.
One of the excuses the Current Administration uses in its ongoing devastation of CDC is that, as we noted last week, “communicable disease” was removed from the name of an agency that grew naturally into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yes, CDC can be improved, especially at the executive level. Dr. Susan Monarez may have been the person to do just that, by staying in place and doing the work. Alas, we will never know.
As an aside, Melissa Fay Greene of Atlanta has written books that endure. Praying for Sheetrock (1991) is nearly perfect, coming from someone with some first-hand knowledge of the people, place, and time she described. The Temple Bombing is also worth the read, and a reminder of where we were then, in 1958, and where we are not now, in 2025. Same for Last Man Out (2002), which also describes were we were then, also in 1958, and are not now, despite having a lot of work left to do.
Part the Fourth: Institutions and a Lesson for Our Time from the Late Middle Ages. No institution of politics or society is immune to criticism. I have met no one who would really believe this, even if notional liberals and notional conservatives both have their protected favorites. But the spirit of the time is leading directly to the destruction of institutions that are essential for our cultural, social, political, intellectual, and individual health and survival. This is a two-way street, by the way. Both wings of the same bird of prey do it throughout the Neoliberal Dispensation in the Global North and a few other places.
I am currently reading The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance by Bernd Roeck (transl. Patrick Baker, 2025). At 949 pages and 49 chapters, I’ll complete the task in a month at 1-2 chapters per evening. I hope. We are still only just past Magna Carta (1215) in Chapter 12: “Vertical Power, Horizontal Power.” Both axes of power are essential in any society larger than a small group of hunter gatherers. Here is Professor Bernd on institutions:
Institutions – that dry term, which we have already encountered in the discussion of universities and in other contexts, denotes something very big and important. Institutions are what first allow the state to become perpetual; without them, it dies. If advisers appear as the mind and memory of the body politic, and the military its muscles, it is law and institutions that provide a skeleton for the state. They alone are capable of establishing justice over the long term. Only they can set limits to power and arbitrary will. They preserve knowledge of how to achieve success, as well as reminders of mistakes to be avoided in the future. No one knew this better than Cicero, who emphasized the Roman Republic’s special ability to gather experience and make decisions based on it. Before the advent of modernity, no section of the globe created institutions as robust and effective as those that developed in medieval Latin Europe. Moreover, these institutions were highly inclusive. The guaranteed protection under the law and the right to private property, provided education, and were relatively pluralistic (i.e., horizontally structured).
Indeed, Rome owed its success to its institutions. They then provided the states consolidating during the Middle Ages with models of compelling rationality.
This is not the place to quibble about details. But those who want to destroy our political, cultural, social, and educational institutions rather than improve them or refocus them along lines upon which reasonable people will agree? These unreasonable people are not to be respected:
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought (Russell Vought, OMB Director) said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”
Well, it is working and the lack of imagination and humanity here is striking. These “bureaucrats” are the scientists who make sure our food is safe and that the chemical plant on the waterfront is not dumping its waste into the tidal creek. They are the scientists who hunt down the causes of emerging diseases. They are the meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center who have gotten so very good at predicting the paths of cyclones. They are the men and women who sign up Vought’s parents for Social Security and Medicare. They are the people of the IRS who sent me a substantial tax refund because I overpaid, something pleasant I did not ask for nor expect. They are also the professors who teach engineers how to build bridges that will bear the load and teach medical students the basics of health and disease. And yes, they are the professors who teach us there is No Politics But Class Politics. The key here is that all of this is debatable by reasonable men and women of good will.
To paraphrase Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the institutions funded by our taxes are the cost of civilization. Perhaps we will remember this ancient wisdom before it is too late? Probably not. The urge to burn it all down, instead of rewiring the building and replacing the roof, is strong.
Part the Fifth. Where Did We Come From? Fair warning, a bit of science geekdom follows. The “we” here are not dangerous, flailing politicians, professional and amateur, but animals – us. This is one of the outstanding questions of biology and several laboratories are making progress, as reviewed in this short, non-technical article in Nature, How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer (the embedded video is here). Why, you might ask, is this part of today’s Coffee Break? Well, because this work was some of the last I did in the lab, and I still have not given up on it, completely. Plus, it is interesting.
Beginning in the early 2000s, researchers interested in this remarkable event made a series of unexpected discoveries. The prevailing view held that a flood of genes had to evolve to enable the key properties of multicellularity: the ability of cells to stick together, communication using molecular signals and the coordinated regulation of gene expression that causes each cell to specialize and take its position in the organism. But studies found that some unicellular organisms express a slew of proteins that control key properties of multicellularity in animals. The molecular toolkit required for multicellularity seems to have existed well before the first animals came to be.
While old-fashioned experimental biology will eventually tell the tale, the revolution in genomics provided the foundation for a deep study of animal multicellularity. About twenty years ago, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT funded a project called the Origins of Multicellularity Genome Database in which it sequenced the genomes of several organisms shown in the video. The project showed that the first protein in this molecular toolkit extends back nearly 1.8 billion years all the way to the “missing link” between the lineage that led to animals and the lineage that led to all other extant organisms (plants and most “protists”). Timetree of Life is fun: Humans and the pathogenic bacterium Haemophilus influenzae had a last common ancestor ~4 billion years ago – very deep time for a planet only 4.5 billion years old.
That “first” protein was the primary focus of my independent scientific research, and our laboratory was productive. But my NSF reviewers were singularly unimpressed, as every grant revision got a progressively worse review as it was passed around from one irrelevant review panel to another. As I have mentioned before, a reviewer threw a regular fit because I referred to a seminal, but largely ignored, paper on how to study biology at different integrative levels, written by a well-known cell biologist before there was a discipline called Cell Biology. Why was he (it had to be a “he”) so exercised? The paper was published in 1945 and therefore irrelevant. I have no doubt my reviewer had never heard of Alex B. Novikoff. Stuff happens.
But from a wider perspective, why should we care? There is no doubt the current berserkers besieging NIH and NSF do not care. Nevertheless, unconventional model organisms will lead to breakthroughs that are relevant to human health. Colonial hydroids have stem cells and they are easier to study at the fundamental level than human stem cells (according to Timetree, the last common ancestor of Hydractinia and humans was ~715 million years ago). The ctenophore at 0:14 in the Nature video could be a representative of the first multicellular animal, based on molecular phylogenomics (the use of DNA sequence data to construct evolutionary histories).
Perhaps more importantly, a hallmark of the cancer cell is that it loses control and stops behaving as it should in a multicellular organism. Among other derangements, it can dedifferentiate into a malignant, single amoeboid cell that can go virtually anywhere and seed new tumors. Could understanding how animals came to be multicellular provide a new perspective on the cancer cell? Who knows? But who knew before Leland Hartwell and Paul Nurse figured it out that yeast cells would provide the keys to how and when our cells decide to divide? Research on the control of cell division using cultured mammalian cells was going nowhere fast and that is where it would have remained because of the lack of genetic tools.
Like art, history, philosophy, building and manufacturing, and every other human endeavor, science is cool. You never know what you might find. But unless the current trajectory is seriously reversed, a lot of this coolness, none of which is an “Administration priority,” will remain forever unknown. The opportunity costs are unknowable but large.
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It seems to me that the good old USA is moving rapidly from a policy of Social Murder to one of Anti Social Murder.
Progress!
Much to think about. You quote the underlying article: “On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo (Florida Man by way of Wake Forest and Harvard Medical School) cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.”
People have been warning for years about this kind of rights talk.
Further, and I am seeing this with the widespread lack of commitment to democracy (small d) in the U S of A:: It is as of people are bored with self-government and the relatively good health most of us have benefited from the last 100 years. There is no sense of what chronic pain means, what rotten teeth will do, how so-called mild childhood diseases can later ruin one’s health.
I see no logic in repealing all vaccine mandates other than necropolitics. Ladapo and Kennedy, a half dozen or more degrees between them, and they live in the moral universe of a U.S. child (and many U.S. adults) who have tantrums over a serving of broccoli.
Also from Melissa Day Greene: “Of course, in April, the entire Gun Violence Prevention team within CDC’s Injury Center had been RIF’d — as federal employees refer to those reduction in force layoffs — so no one conversant with the underlying causes of gun violence was available to comment.”
More rights talk and where it has put USanians. Everyone has a right to a repeating blunderbus, because a gun is a tool, just like a can opener.
And then there are the regular tragedies, brought about by the second amendment, the Tragic Amendment.
Wait until people have to relearn the lessons of mumps and male sterility, as well as chickenpox and shingles in the optic nerve.
I am not a gun owner, nor will I ever be. But, I wonder how many of those committing gun violence are taking SSRI’s? Why exactly do we have to live in such a heavy chemical state (water, soil, plants, air, food supply)? Why do we have to live in a society that is so heavily militarized? You state male sterility and chickenpox as the demons, are you not aware of the crisis of sterility and infertility in our nation? Can you calculate the number of survivors of chickenpox? Have you seen the CDC recommended vaccination list? Take a peek. Then look at why there was an explosion of them since the 80s? Pharma has no liability for damage.
The tragedy is not the 2nd amendment, it’s the abuse of citizens by its government.
Because profits.
Because that’s what made your society “great”. Peaceloving people don’t create great empires. You love war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lMDbYZ26rg
I do wonder what is it in American society that’s bred such an arrogance of ignorance.
Something that Alex de Toqueville pondered about 200 years ago…
‘Murica, Fuck Yeah!
FWIW I believe RFK did say in the recent Congressional hearing that he is not opposed to the measles vaccine. Of course even the Florida guy didn’t say you aren’t allowed to give your children vaccines, just that the state won’t mandate on the grounds of “parental rights.”
And what may have provoked much of this parental rights talk or if you will hysteria? Maybe it’s school teachers in California asserting the right to advise children on gender reassignment without consulting their parents. Sorry if some of us can’t agree that “institutions” are the bedrock of civilization. They are just as vulnerable to corruption and abuse of power as real estate presidents or gadfly health secretaries.
And so an open mind and above all a healthy respect for common sense are arguably more of a bedrock. Much of what Trump does including the waging of lawfare is a parody of his opponents and their rules based order where they make the rules. We are definitely in trouble with Trump and the oddball RFK jr. We were already in trouble before that.
BTW it occurs to me that I didn’t get a smallpox vax as a child because the doctor thought it might interact with an allergy I had (or something like that). I did finally get one when I went off to college.
As a result I spent my childhood worrying about getting (mostly eradicated?) smallpox.
Anyhow my question is whether childhood vaccine mandates have always been a thing or a more recent development.
I started school in SC in 1958 and vaccines were mandated though there were few available compared to a few years later. I got one of the first polio vaccines before starting school. I eventually got chicken pox, mumps and measles while in school. Measles almost killed me so I am told. Why anyone would now subject their child to such a risk is beyond my comprehension.
Why you ask? Because the survival rate is high.
I agree with your take on Trump being a parody of his opponents. He was one from the beginning, though: I was amused to find, on this very site, that I was not the only one to call Trump Obama’s evil twin back in 2016, the other Hope and Change candidate.
Re vaccine mandates in FL: Let’s see how long it takes for Disney to quietly (or loudly) kill off this initiative. Being located in a state that is a swamp of dangerous diseases surely can’t be good for business.
Been researching a mid-19th century Cornish family lately and it is depressing to see late teenage children being taken out by things like Smallpox and Scarlet Fever. Now coming to a Sunshine State near you. I do not think that many companies will be wanting to have their Conventions there after a few years nor will many people want to attend – too risky. You want to know what this all sounds like? It sounds like the attack of the Sovereign Citizens who are now in power. Consider this one definition of them-
‘a member of a political movement of people who oppose taxation, question the legitimacy of government, and believe that they are not subject to the law.’
Tell me that this does not sound like the current crop of Republicans in power or Silicon Valley for that matter. They will give back ‘power to the people’ and ‘get government out of their lives’ because of their ideological beliefs. They do not know or care about institutional memory as it puts restrictions on how they want to act and years ago it was noted Republican hostility to expert government witnesses giving testimony. But there is going to be a helluva bill that will come due because of this and we will not have to wait that long to see it. As they say in Star Wars, ‘I have a bad feeling about this’–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ogIuFclGE8 (1:52 mins)
My cynical side considers the increase in deaths from disease as part of the Jackpot Process. The “let G– sort them out” crowd have always held an irrational belief in personal invulnerability to the vicissitudes of the world.
Echoing your citation of “I have a bad feeling about this” let me just mention this year’s theme; “Welcome to Alderaan.”
On a related note; would Elon’s project for Mars be considered a “Spacebnb?”
The movie (Sovereign) is coming to Netflix this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4JHPowGbg
When did the positive term (imho) civil servant become acceptable to be re-framed as the negative term bureaucrat by those who might know better?
My tendency is to not use the framing of the reptiles. But even I may not always succeed in that.
My best guess would be in the usage of the word “civil.” To be a ‘civil servant’ has the dual meaning of 1) one who is calm, rational, and peaceful, ie. ‘civilized’ and 2) the servant of the society, the civitas. Thus, when the “servants” obviously switched their allegiances from the civitas to the oligarchy, they then ceased to be “civil servants” and a new term had to be promulgated.
The use of the word bureaucrat as a pejorative goes way back. It too has a dual mandate. One is to describe the necessary functionaries needed to maintain the smooth running of a large organization. In that sense, it means persons vital to the system. Two is to describe persons responsible for obscurantism and delay in a system.
In the main, the two terms can exist simultaneously, in harmony. They describe the dual nature of the apparat. Essentially, governance is a form of Manicheanism. The Romans did not deify the god Janus for no good reason.
See: https://roman.mythologyworldwide.com/the-political-ramifications-of-the-myth-of-janus/
Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Stay safe.
A question for the German speakers: what’s the connotation associated with Bürokratie, which, I’m told, is the term Weber used? I can tell you that when I still taught, students had no clue what Weber was talking about, so strong was their preconception vis a vis the very word “bureaucracy” in Amerucan usage.
Nowadays it is a Janus one.
When talking about economic matters, it is often argued that the attractivity of a country is enhanced by elements such as a well-functioning bureaucracy (“eine gut funktionierende Bürokratie”), or that it requires a serious reduction of bureaucracy (“Notwendigkeit eines dezidierten Bürokratieabbaus”).
In the past years, business lobbyists and right-wing politicians (in a wide sense) have increasingly put forward the latter argument as an essential measure to give some pep to the industrial and construction sectors that are unremittingly going to the dogs.
So the trend is global, then?
In Western countries, certainly. Things might look different in other parts of the world (such as China and Singapore).
I believe it was a WSWS link here the other day that said that FDR, supporter of unions, didn’t believe government workers should have unions or be able to strike because they worked for the public even as they are the public–the adversarial boss/labor relationship didn’t apply.
Roosevelt himself tried to be a part of the public–refused to fix up the White House and when down South, as I have talked about before, stayed in a Warm Springs Little White House that was little more than a cabin.
FDR was a civil servant. Now we have bureaucrats both well meaning and self dealing and some of them think we are serving them. As I have also said maybe we should make America humble again–it was a better place. New country, new language.
Perhaps the above is unfair and with all the racism 20th c US was not a paradise for many. But it could be it was a more social place. Didn’t need smartphones. Now I rarely see someone walking down the street without one.
Thank you both!
I was wondering the same thing. I would include the Management in the “bureaucrats” group, but not a doctor, a teacher, a fire fighter, a NASA scientist, a Forest Service ranger, etc.
What would happen if we stopped vaccination?
This is a subject for imagination because we don’t have enough good data to make any projection. Here the author cites as an example that in the UK vaccination against Bordetella pertussis declined in the 1970s from 79% to 31% rate on the basis of presumed vaccine-associated encephalitis. This resulted in 28 child deaths and thousands of hospitalizations associated with the reduced vaccination rate. A lot more of unneeded medieval disease. Research showed that the vaccine had nothing to do with encephalitis.
I agree with KLG that the progress of disease would be slow, but relentless and resulting again in unwanted disease, suffering and deaths. With larger populations now compared with the 70s this push to keep the immune systems of the children naive against bacteria and viruses is a killing proposition with who knows how many casualties and how much unnecessary suffering. Why oh why, i ask, these back and forth pushes against vaccines. Then encephalitis, now atopy, autism and whatever. Vaccine slavery they say. And well… the problem is that your children are kept unvaccinated in an environment where everyone else is vaccinated you are indeed putting your children at risk and it would be wise to keep them segregated from the rest if you want them to survive. In this sense you can call it “slavery”.
Another analysis, more comprehensive that the previous link. It goes disease by disease: Leave it here for reference and discussion.
What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations? (2)
The current political environment is making my head explode. Vaccines, supplies of clean water and methods of sewage disposal (indoor toilets and running water for all!), as well as easily available medical care and modern pharmaceuticals have increased US life expectancies.
We have, according to some sources, 5% of the planet’s human population. But we consume 25% of the planet’s ‘resources.’ Unsustainable, if we continue on the current trajectory and lift the rest of the world to US levels of consumption.
So, do we 1) reduce the US consumption levels and living standards, or, 2) reduce the population.
It seems we have defaulted to option 2: reduce the population. Don’t maintain municipal water and sewage systems, eliminate vaccine mandates, and make medical care unavailable. Plus, increase the availability of harmful drugs and unhealthy foods. Oh, and continue to make housing unaffordable, as well as demonizing those who can no longer afford any form of permanent shelter. Plus, eliminate the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. (We could discuss the way in which companies exploit this group to keep wages low …..)
And, rather than distributing equitably the fruits of a successful economy among our population, we are continuing to funnel more and more of the US economy’s profits to a small group of, I have to term them apex predators. Example: Elon Musk’s proposed Trillion dollar compensation package from Tesla. I mean, in what sane society would this even pass muster? Who ‘needs’ this much money? And, when one considers the awful results of one person even having this much money and power, the fact that this is reported in the press with a straight face and not met with gales of laughter and lectures on ‘love of money is the root of all evil,’ and ‘power corrupts,’ is even more insane.
Am I alone in suspecting that this whole, eliminate vaccines, defund (our already pathetic) health care, continue sweeping immense profits to a small group and impoverishing the bottom 50 percent, is the path to population reduction? And, maybe we should be revising the ‘marketing strategy’ for pushing vaccines (and Medicare for All): Don’t let the rich bastards kill us off without a fight! And, here’s our battle plan.
For their next revelation will the Governor and his Surgeon General pronounce the use of daily Vitamin C or Vitamin D, two common examples, of little consequence? Just unreal.
Aye matey it’s high tide for scurvy on this here Disney ride, Pirates of the Caribbean! It’s as though Florida is racing to one up Texas for batsh*t crazy talk, Red State edition.
More regarding Part the First:
TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (1 hr. video)
September 6, 2025