These men could kill you
Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen are two folks who are stepping up through lawsuits to reign in the insanity being perpetrated by Trump and his perfect idiot, National health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Together, they are "determined to roll back decades of science and life-saving public health measures provided by vaccines across the nation."
Now, Trump-acolyte DeSantis and his dangerously incompetent Surgeon General Joseph Lodato, have decided that Florida kids will no longer be required to receive certain vaccines before being enrolled in public schools. Vaccines that for decades have prevented mass misery and death of millions.
It is absolute wrongheaded and irresponsible mindlessness , to purposely be putting young lives at such dangerous and needless risk. Please consider this article emailed to me this morning.
....Sandspur
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few notes about polio, measles, and COVID:
- Polio used to kill or paralyze half a million people a
year worldwide. If you weren’t alive then, ask your parents or
grandparents, who may well have known someone who had to live inside a
huge metal coffin-like contraption called an “iron lung.” A safe and
effective vaccine eradicated polio from our country and nearly the entire
planet.
- Measles has been and remains one of the deadliest
vaccine-preventable causes of death in the world. But a safe and effective
vaccine (had) basically eradicated measles in the United States.
- Just a few years ago, COVID-19 was killing Americans by
the thousands every day. Donald Trump — who was president at the time —
was telling us all to ingest an anti-parasitic compound commonly used in
livestock and to inject bleach directly into our veins. But somehow his
administration managed to get out of the way enough for the development of
safe and effective vaccines that have saved millions and millions
of lives.
Earlier
this year — with votes from Republicans in the Senate who knew better and
should have blocked the nomination — Trump installed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to
run the federal government’s C
As we and others predicted, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on an absolute rampage
to roll back decades of science and life-saving public health measures. It goes
way beyond vaccines. RFK Jr. is defunding, downsizing, and dismantling
essential agencies and programs in practically every area of public health.
It seems like RFK Jr. won’t be satisfied until he has undone many of the great
achievements of modern medicine, even if that means taking us back to a time
when people died by the millions from preventable and treatable diseases.
By the way, it’s not like modern medicine — or the private, for-profit health
insurance regime we Americans are still forced to endure when it comes
to paying for it — is without fault. And nobody has done more than Public
Citizen over the past half century to fight Big Pharma, the health insurance
corporations, and their political puppets in pursuit of affordable medicines
and Medicare for All. But let’s not, you know, throw the baby out with the
bathwater.
Whatever his weird intentions may be, Kennedy is in effect on a crusade of
misery and death that could result in literally millions of Americans, not to
mention millions of people throughout the rest of the world, getting sick or
dying.
But if all Donald Trump really cares about is what’s good for him personally —
which we know is the case — even he should be able to see that the American
people will blame him when they and their loved ones get sick or die because of
the stupid, retrograde, and inhumane things that RFK Jr. is doing in Trump’s
name.
This week, Public Citizen and 60 other organizations sent a letter
to Trump urging him to fire RFK Jr.
Add your name in
support of our message to Donald Trump:
Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. is the most dangerous individual ever to hold the title of Secretary of
Health and Human Services. President Trump and Senate Republicans made a
grievous error when entrusting RFK Jr. with our nation’s health — with results
both horrible and entirely predictable. It is far past time that Trump
rectifies this error by firing RFK Jr. before more lives are unnecessarily put
at risk by his anti-science views and gross mismanagement.
Click to add your
name now.
Thanks for taking action.
For health and safety,
- Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen
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