Headache and Sports Neurologist. Living in the Columbus area. American by birth, Toledoan by the grace of God. My employer does not endorse anything I post here.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
The black hole of disinformation and bullshit continues to suck in huge portions of the US. Rabies is spreading in the US. One reason is that many people are not vaccinating their dogs. Why? Many actually believe rabies vaccinations will make their dogs autistic.
Impeach, convict, remove and disqualify him immediately.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Hey guys, I get the feeling that health insurance companies just want to take our monthly premiums and not pay for any care.
As a new school year begins in Ohio, an old problem persists: child hunger. Now with less federal and state help, 1 in 5 children in the state still face food insecurity, amounting to more than 517,000 kids, according to Feeding America. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/26/b...
"mRNA is one of the most promising technologies for preventing and treating any kind of disease that you can imagine. Stopping development could put cures of chronic diseases such as cancer and HIV out of reach." My comments on mRNA research defunding in @prismreports.org:
“Millennial and Gen Z Americans are far more likely to die than their age peers in other rich nations.” slate.com/technology/2...
"he has remained publicly silent as the Environmental Protection Agency halts research and weakens regulations on air pollution and chemicals, including some McCanlies and her colleagues have identified as possible factors in the development of autism." Cause he's a eugenicist.
Joining an increasing number of people publicly demanding RFK’s removal as HHS Sec: Dr. Bill Foege, a literal (6’6”) & figurative giant of public health. He served as a CDC director under Carter & Reagan, & is credited with designing the ring vaccination strategy that enabled smallpox eradication.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
Dems are desperate for anyone who fights back. Not a huge fan but no one else is doing anything.
Feels like you can’t waste a 53 man roster spot on hooker at this point
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
YUP: "In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine" He has put a target on our backs
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
the biggest force for rural resentment of cities in the last three decades is that cities got way better and the countryside got way worse.
Just a reminder that this is the technology that RFK Jr. wants to crush.🧵
No one should ever have the power to autonomously cancel hundreds of millions of dollars for scientific research based on some lies they saw on YouTube.
mRNA vaccines do not cause “antigenic shift.” Antigenic shift is a term used for flu viruses when they shuffle their segmented genomes. mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives and continue to be effective in preventing severe outcomes of COVID. So far, mutations have never changed that fact.
They trust Facebook mom groups and news station pages on vaccine safety more than doctors so this isn’t surprising.
On his decision to end $500M worth of research on mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. said: “The the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu”. These vaccines saved 3.2M lives in the U.S. He is running a disinformation op against Americans.
it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
so so so so many people are going to die that could otherwise be saved by this novel vaccine tech.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
This is so harmful. Scientists are developing mRNA-based cancer vaccines that could save so many lives.
There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
A once-great nation literally committing suicide. bsky.app/profile/jben...
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
My goodness, you stink.
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
It’s almost as if #vaccineswork
This is a man-made humanitarian disaster that can end at any moment. Any leader who refuses to stand up and speak out against this crime against humanity is a coward, disgrace, and unfit for office. LET AID IN NOW. bsky.app/profile/prem...
Incredible. We should be investing MORE in science, not less.
an extraordinary achievement against something that was once a death sentence to an entire generation how many wonders like this are we going to miss because of the destruction of science in this country
They’re testing the new tajin taco in Columbus market and it’s #AllElite
I was wrong about the war in Iraq, even joked that I was excited for “bombing and basketball” because it started during March Madness. Later, I opposed Bernie Sanders until I realized (after COVID pandemic hit) he was right about everything.
RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. He truly doesn’t care if a lot of people die. He’s also batshit crazy, and k no one’s no more science than the average worm.
The best is when it’s raining and when you finally pass then, you can send them to splash hell.
Man who looks like a human polyp removed during a colonoscopy does not want mammograms, PSA tests, and HIV drugs covered by insurance b/c he wants people to die. #Deathcult
Cannot see these pictures and not think of my children. I cannot understand how anyone with children could. Tragic, banal, both—this is evil.
It’s never happening
It’s not hard to understand at all when you look at a certain PAC that donates to >90% of the members of Congress
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
Just to reiterate, the FDA director claimed to *personally* know of *multiple* people who died from mRNA COVID vaccines, and nobody has asked him anything else about that. These cases have never been reported in neither the medical and scientific records, nor literal death records.
Go in and make them arrest you. Have it all on camera.
Pure antivaxx propaganda at this point.
If you find yourself in this situation, here is some useful info: HIPAA doesn’t apply to dead people, and a death *caused by* a vaccine would be easy to track and not just cause it would be very publishable in the scientific literature. If they can’t provide any details it’s just cause they’re lying
When people lie this badly it is so easy to just be like “wow, tell me how one of the people you know died from a vaccine,” bc it’s obviously a lie & he won’t be able to answer bc it’s a lie. I’m not sure why nobody does that to these people? The tiniest amount of pushback would make them fall apart
Every country with Universal Healthcare has a longer life expectancy than the US by 6+ years. If you want to make America healthy again, pass Medicare For All.
I’ve found myself agreeing with a few takes recently from MTG, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and Portnoy. People are allowed to be correct and should be encouraged when doing so.
This is a genuine national emergency. In the next few months, tens of millions of people are going to be hit with astronomical increases in health care premiums unless there’s a policy intervention.
It’s also possible that they were planning to release doctored documents, saw that it took the internet 5 minutes to figure out that the “raw” jail tape was doctored, and got scared.
Voters constantly reelect politicians who fortify the power of their insurance donors to ration medical care & jack up premiums. In doing that, America has decided murder by corporate spreadsheet is acceptable. Until we make a different decision, the suffering will continue.
Those of us who spoke out against antivaxxers early and often were told we should be more understanding We did understand - they’re dangerous and that’s why we spoke out. It’s not too late. Speak up - this misinformation is more dangerous by the day. www.theguardian.com/society/comm... few
My god. People are going to die because Kennedy, trump etc are monsters. Actual monsters. How can they take this away from people?! “Early mRNA vaccine trials also indicated the recurrence of melanoma could be cut in half” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anti-vaxxers don’t care. You can continue to show them rigorous research with hundreds of thousands of participants and they’ll still deny it. It’s maddening.
The fact that we've downplayed the pandemic and allowed the dumbest freaks to act like the Vaccine was bad as a part of normal discourse is sickening
Measles cases are surging. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us www.theguardian.com/society/comm... "It’s probably the most depressing conspiracy theory there is ...because vaccination is the most concrete proof of how much we rely on one another’s care & rationality."
No hell hot enough.
Communities are going to learn the hard way, at the expense of children’s lives, why our grandparents prayed for these vaccines to be developed
Medicaid is health insurance not a handout. And it’s quite limited. Republicans are very intentionally lying to try to trick people into thinking that Medicaid recipients are getting cash in the mail or something, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Everyone should be able to access healthcare
Heartbreaking to read of a child in the UK dying from an entirely preventable infectious disease. Measles can be a vicious & deadly illness. The MMR vaccine offers superb protection & there is NO link between the vaccine and autism, contrary to what many medical charlatans try to peddle. (1/3)
[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad
I’m one of about 5 people in my entire building who still wears a mask of any kind at work. There’s several hundred people as patients or workers at the MEDICAL CLINIC building where I work at any given time. We’re cooked, man.
“The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years, hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious….”
idk dog I think the takes like "it's weird that we suddenly care about kids" over the floods in Texas are making me feel crazy. Like, yeah. People online are publicly lamenting that we as a society don't care about children. We do this every time kids die due to state negligence or violence
As is, there’s a predicted shortage of 80,000 US physicians by the end of the decade. Now add in new restrictions to foreign grads, federal loan caps, declining salaries, increasing demands, disrespect, and moral injury. Nutrition, exercise, and supplements can only do so much.
One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis. Children died often.
How to dismantle an atomic bomb was a tease because I thought they were going a little heavier, then they decided to become Apple’s corporate band around that time.
Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
The math on preventative health care for all is so blindingly obvious that everyone sees it except us. So we just keep paying the most money per capita for the worst outcomes and the most suffering, while for-profit health care manages its quarterly earnings.
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public
Just in case you missed this headline.
According to the NIH, 66.5% of those who declare bankruptcy do so due to medical debt (530,000 to 650,000 people each year.) Roughly 80% of those people already have health insurance. We are all one serious illness away from bankruptcy.
Billionaires should not exist, and it shouldn’t be remotely controversial to say so. So much wealth in so few hands presents a grave threat to our democracy, our national security, and our planet. As a class, billionaires take far more than they give back.
These people have to be in prison in four years
No religion actually opposes vaccination. Most of the ones you might have heard about actually have public statements explicitly saying they do not oppose vaccination.
Robert Malone said, “250 deaths, let’s acknowledge, is a relatively modest number” Kids don’t usually die. Last year was the highest number of pediatric flu deaths since 2009. It was also the lowest pediatric flu vaccine uptake since 2009. Coincidence? No amount of preventable death is acceptable.
“Immunizations work, they are very effective and safe, and they save lives. Vaccines are among the most rigorously studied and effective tools in public health.” Kudos to AAFP, AAP, ACOG, ACP, IDSA for this. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/v...
As US government authorities can no longer be relied upon to provide reliable medical information, the American Medical Association and 78 other medical societies have written an open letter to the American public underscoring the importance of vaccines. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
Per the CDC’s own accounting, childhood vaccination prevented more than 500M cases of illness among children born between 1994-2023 alone, along with 32M avoided hospitalizations & 1,129,000 avoided deaths, as well as direct economic savings of $540B & a societal savings bottom line of $2.7 trillion
Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
This thread is astounding. Career scientists - experts in the field - presented extremely robust, objective evidence, to the new vaccine advisory council that RFK Jr. made. They were met with weird lies and biases like “people weren’t really hospitalized for COVID” & “kids don’t actually get sick.”
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Love to rubberneck while a creep gets absolutely wrecked in an election, just a deeply satisfying sensation
raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible
Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.