Summary
Donald Trump’s nomination of anti-vaccine advocate David Weldon to lead the CDC has sparked celebration among anti-vaccine groups.
Weldon, a former congressman and longtime critic of vaccine safety, has promoted debunked theories linking vaccines to autism and appeared in anti-vaccine films.
His nomination raises concerns about undermining vaccine recommendations, public health messaging, and legal protections for vaccine manufacturers, potentially jeopardizing access to childhood immunizations.
Critics warn this move signals the Trump administration’s alignment with anti-vaccine ideologies, prioritizing politics over science-based public health policies.
I wish antivax idiots would just go visit a third world country. I know it won’t matter to some of them but maybe some would change their views when they see kids dying of diseases that have been eradicated in the US.
They have. Here’s an example of one prominent anti vaxxer visiting Samoa.
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Plus bird flu has like a 50% mortality rate and we won’t even be allowed to treat it.
I wish antivax idiots would just go visit a third world country.
Stick around, they are making this a third world country blazingly fast. Watch as the U.S. becomes our own shit-hole country.
He is one of us!!” the co-director of the anti-vax group Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights wrote on Facebook. “Since before our movement had momentum. Dream Come True.”
“Every day more good news!” wrote another prominent anti-vaxxer in West Virginia.
Definitely the first states I think of when discussing where to get the best medical care.
If it wasn’t for public universities propping up healthcare in those states, they would have a serious problem.
God I hope china actually does create a super virus to wipe us out. The level of fucking hubris here unimaginable.
How is a medical doctor not able to understand the necessity of vaccines? Fucking buffoonery.
In an alternative time line scientist have already found the cure for the common cold. In ours we are fighting over whether or not catching measles helps build character.
The USA is so fucked, damn.
I wish anti-vaxxers would think really hard and realize that 99% of them received the MMR (and others) vaccine as a child.
Numb fucks don’t understand that it’s vaccines that let them live as healthy as they have.And how many still receive flu vaccine every year? I’ll bet that while many are spouting anti-vaxxer bullshit out of one side of their mouth, they’re quietly scheduling the yearly shots out of the other.
Can’t throw around lies when sick in bed.I haven’t met any anti-vaxers who still get flu shots unless it’s the people who are specifically against the covid vaccines because of them being mandatory and “experimental”. But yeah they definitely benefitted from getting those shots as a kid and even if they didn’t they still benefitted from everyone else getting them due to herd immunity.
His cabinet is already stocked with batman villains lead by Elon Musk as the newly created secretary of layoffs. You’re going to have to do better than a everyday crazy Republican to outrage me at this point.
This should not be surprising to anyone. US had, what, over a million covid deaths? Guess the public and politicians need reminding of the very visual and dangerous viruses that caused insurmountable suffering to its victims and families (thinking of polio & others).
Damn, want them to drop the zombie movie where they had the cure but never used it because of regulatory capture by a bunch of idiots.
So basically the only things standing in the way of V for Vendetta (movie version) coming true is
a) the fascists achieving the technology and competence to deliberately create a pandemic without anyone finding out and
b) the fact that RL Britain would NOT survive via isolation.
SUPER. 🤦
At least these people will get what they deserve
