• voracitude@lemmy.world
    1551·
    14 days ago

    Buckle up for the next NYT headline:

    RFK Jr is the real vaccination-class hero, not experienced nurses and doctors and hundreds of years of medical science

    • mriguy@lemmy.world
      51·
      14 days ago

      “RFK Jr: an iconoclast set to shake up a complacent public health establishment.”

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        481·
        14 days ago

        “If progressives truly want to bring the surge of polio deaths in the United States to an end they will have to learn to be nicer to our wealthy friends.”

  • Yodan@lemm.eeEnglish
    94·
    14 days ago

    What the fuck my grandpa had a skinny leg and a hole in his back from medical tubes due to polio as a kid, this shit is no joke

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      44·
      14 days ago

      Seriously. I’ve said this before here, but travel somewhere the polio vaccine wasn’t widely available. The amount of suffering via deformity and impacted development it causes is frightening.

      • AreaSIX @lemm.ee
        1·
        13 days ago

        Highly recommend watching the documentary “Benda Bilili!” about a group of street musicians in Kinshasa, DRC. They’re mostly paralyzed due to childhood polio, but it’s a very uplifting doc. They even sang a lovely song on their debut album about it called Polio.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    851·
    14 days ago

    My dads best friend had polio as a child. He still found a wife and had two wonderful children and a fulfilled life. Just because your legs are crippled, you need leg braces, special shoes and a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can’t have a great life!

    /s

  • thr0wmeaway@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    821·
    14 days ago

    You’d think they’re already murdering enough of us with the expensive/delayed/denied healthcare, the starvation wages, the cruel for-profit prisons, the cops, and the refusal to give even emergency abortions…but nope…they want to murder more of us.

    #FreeLuigi

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    562·
    14 days ago

    This is a world-laughs-at-you, history-book-making, memes-for-a-century level headline.

    America thinks it’s The Federation but really it’s the result of a torrid affair between the Ferengi and the SamaritansPakleds.

    Have a nice day, America. This guy was clearly out of reach.

    Edit: goofed

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        This is the kind of argument you see from the dipshit vaccine denialists, though. But typically, they like to credit modern septic systems/clean water for a lot of things.

        I think it’s really only maybe (younger) boomers and on down that could make the absolutely ridiculous arguments the vaccine denialists make, though. Most of the older people - esp Greatest Generation, but also older boomers, most likely - knew better from having seen children die/suffer from awful diseases.

        But yeah, starting with Gen X and on down - the dumbassery around vaccines has slowly started taking off and seems to be getting worse as it goes…

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    501·
    14 days ago

    Fuck this idiot piece of shit. Hasn’t even started and I’m so sick of this nation again.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      121·
      13 days ago

      Seriously. I’m going to be the most bitter and continuously angry person you’ve ever met by the end of this four years, and I’m not looking forward to it one bit.

      Make no mistake though, I’m going to be so free with “aren’t you glad this is what you voted for” to magas in my family and at work that the schadenfreude alone will be enough to power a small city.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        4·
        13 days ago

        Don’t worry, they may only get two years, but the damage they can deal will probably last the rest of your life. And if you’re transgender, the rest of your life might even be done before the two years are up.

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
      61·
      13 days ago

      I feel like my “being able to tolerate living in a nation led by imbeciles” meter had barely started refilling this past four years. I think I needed 16 or so for something close to a full recharge. I’m prepared to reach new lows.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    37·
    14 days ago

    MALILA!

    (Make America Live in Iron Lungs Again)

    Should we be making efforts to preserve guidance pages from cdc.gov, or do we trust that Internet Archive will survive through this administration to provide archived copies via wayback machine?

    • karashta@lemm.ee
      13·
      14 days ago

      If there’s a file of this somewhere for me to archive, I’ve likely got space.

      I’ve already got Wikipedia, medwiki and a few others in local files as I expect any fascist to destroy information and replace it with whatever suits their narrative

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        3·
        14 days ago

        Not sure / not that I’m aware of. I was going to see if anyone was working on crowdsourcing an archive via scraping or some similar method. Does Wayback Machine let you download archives, maybe?

    • sdcSpade@lemmy.zip
      4·
      14 days ago

      You won’t have to live in an iron lung if your health care provider refuses to cover the cost. See? The system works!

  • Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
    35·
    13 days ago

    Kennedy is an imminent threat to the health and safety of our children. I wish the worm would finish the job.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    35·
    14 days ago

    Bitch of it is that we almost drove that virus into irrelevant cycles. I think I read a couple of years ago that the UN believed we could declare victory on the disease by focusing on some suffering African areas. Who knew th at a western country of 300+ million would want to make iron lungs fashionable again? Sorry, Dr. Salk.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      92·
      14 days ago

      The country does not.

      A batshit sliver of people do. One of them just happens to be appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services.

      This is not a majority stance.

            • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
              3·
              13 days ago

              Well… The EU further increasing their regulations and punishments on US mega corps would be welcome. Official programs for medical tourism would also be nice, even in countries without universal healthcare the costs are cheaper even with a round trip flight to another continent

              We also have a very impulsive and narcissistic manchild about to return to the white house. He’s deeply insecure and likes to project - if figures mock and laugh at him publicly enough from the right angle, he’ll respond. He’s a wildcard so it’ll be like hearding cats, but in the absurdist state of the country it could actually help us

              Or it can be as simple as treating us like oppressed victims. The US as the land of freedom and opportunity is an image that holds us back… We’re not very free and we have very few opportunities (unless you’re rich). Chipping holes in that facade really gets to some people

              We might be the largest military and economic power, but we’re largely brainwashed by optics, and so that’s a weak spot that can be exploited

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    14 days ago

    This administration is going to ruin the lives of/kill so many people.

    The upside of Covid is that we jump-started vaccine research and have seen so much stuff at scale, and quickly. It might hold huge promise for things like cancer treatment.

    And these absolute fucking clowns are going to probably stall all that out. I sure hope other countries are not impacted in any way by this complete idiocy. The idea that complete morons would kill scientific progress like this is infuriating.