Good public health is invisible. People tend not to notice the absence of disease. Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back. My new piece medium.com/@gidmk/good-...
Good public health is invisible. People tend not to notice the absence of disease. Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back. My new piece medium.com/@gidmk/good-...
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Like, the measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 89, mostly children. The anti-vaxers were incredibly successful.
Such opinions should be posted on X. Here, there is an echo chamber that will not reach enough ears.
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Honestly you could extend this to good governance in general. I fear the chaos this administration might cause.
He’s going to be amazing
Look into this. The guy is not against vaccinations, or fast food. He's about taking harmful ingredients out of these things to help make healthier people. You didn't have the amounts of autism, and allergies in the 1960's, that we have today. I believe that is due to big pharma taking hold.
Oh, how I long for the good old days of polio, smallpox and measles epidemics. If Republicans learned how to read, they would learn about those.
This will not be good. Infectious disease nurses are freaking out and so is this nurse.
MAGA, there's this thing called credible sources. Look it up. You might actually learn a real fact.
"...bringing it back..." the it being "disease" rather than "the absence of disease"
Very good point.
Great article! I used to explain that public health is aligned with public safety. Everyone benefits from a safe and healthy community (whatever its size).
i always say that public and occupational health are the kinds of fields where if no one knows what we’re doing, that means we’re doing our jobs well. sadly people have started to conflate their lack of understanding with a lack of importance/need. COVID + this admin have made me very worried
Of course I wrote this before I see your excellent opening. I’m hopeful given the health professionals i know. I just hope we do not see catastrophic damage to our already broken systems.
How can these people be so backwards and inconsiderate? Especially against science and things like vaccinations, which have been working for ages. It's simply incomprehensible.
Do you know how many vaccines are given to children?
Because we actually look at the data 💁🏽♂️ you have not looked at the numbers yourself have you?
It's clear that hygiene is a strong way to contain the disease. However, your graph ends in the 70's! Some diseases have even been eradicated through vaccinations.
There’s more here 🙏🏾 dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-image...
Why do you keep posting this graph? The woman who founded this website isn’t reputable and you’re grasping at skepticism while ignoring scientific consensus. None of this is substantiated.
This may help you 🤙🏾 your welcome dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-image...
Are you even able to describe precisely what is on those graphs ? Or did you trust the scammers who did this image to make the thinking for you ?
Yes. These deaths from disease, stopped before vaccines were introduced 🤙🏾
And not "stopped" but only decreased.
Yes deaths. Not incidence. Exactly my point. Less people dying doesn't mean there are no other long term consequences, and it doesn't show anything about a reduction of number of people getting sick. So, it is irrelevant to prove the efficiency or vaccination.
Some vaccines are fine, but we have way too many we don't need and some of them aren't just vaccine. Problematic.
If they arent vaccines then what the heck are they and how do you know you or anyone else doesnt need them? Why take the risk if millions of children could get sick or even worse, die?
can't wait for polio to come back and all our progress to be undone by the shitstorm that's to come
Refreshing
Ask the 85 people who died in Samoa taking RFKs advice concerning the measles vaccine
He is just scary.
So very true.
America is the SICKEST nation in the developed world with the lowest life expectancy (used to be the highest)! Chronic Disease is the NUMBER ONE medical expense in the country. You need wake up.
its the same with good leadership and government. if its doing its job right you should hardly notice they are there.
People are no longer taking it serious. They would rather play than be serious SOME WILL DIE.
America is unhealthier than it has ever been. By pretty much any and every metric.
Polio, MMR, Flu, Covid and other diseases are getting ready for a huge party
💯 true, those who work in public health are warriors who are effective. I’ve held children with whooping cough seen many with measles and a few with polio prior to vaccines 💉. Saddened by distrust and decline in vaccines rates. Will impact an entire generation 😢 of children.
It never hits home until it actually hits home and people start dropping. My opinion, their choice but if their choice involves being contaminated they need a big quarantine sign on their home. Asphidity spray to keep them at bay & SCBA recommended for food delivery.
When you’re doing it right, the next generation forgets because they don’t have to see it. I’m learning this isn’t the absolute positive I once thought it was.
Sure, then explain why this book is still for sale on Amazon, and why Fauci or Gates never sued RFK over it? It's because it's 100% accurate, with hundreds of pages of citations backing up every assertion. They'd sue the shit out of him otherwise. www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony...
RFK advocates for transparency around vaccine testing, and no mandates. That's it - show us the actual studies, and treat us like adults that can make our own health decisions. There is a reason Obama considered RFK as his head of the EPA in 2015, but once he sued Pharma, everyone turned on him.
Don Junior gave us a glimpse of that public health the other day, sticking his hand in his pocket and rubbing his finger on his gums. Nobody knows what that was about!
How dare you make a point without lewd language or nudity or something about how it's fake news. What is the deal man. Show some drama ! US right now.
LOL!
We are currently dealing with very vocal antivaxxers, while simultaneously dealing with measles outbreaks in the local schools. Its happened more than once in my county alone, and its only November.
Dr no
And now Dr. Oz. I’m fearful of the loss of the gains we’ve made in fighting viral, and drug-resistant bacterial diseases.
Good public health ... >75% of U.S. healthcare expenditures go to treating chronic disease, 74% of U.S. adults are overwt. or obese, 50% of adults in U.S. w/ type II diabetes or pre-diabetic, 1 in 6 children in the U.S. has at least 1 developmental delay (Cleveland Clinic Website) -out of characters
Health Nerd teaches us how to say, "I take payments from big pharma to push fear propaganda against those who threaten pharma's profits" without actually saying it. Pharma spreads around about a billion dollars a year for such purposes.
It's like insurance. It's the worst money you've ever spent. Until something bad happens. Then it's the best money you ever spent.
Rfk is like opening pandoras box
Please sho me where he said he'll ban vaxxes on the scale you claim? You people have been saying overblown crap like this and have been proven wrong time after time.
Are you hiring? Fellow Epidemiologist
He probably didn't pay attention to the big uptick of measles cases in Washington & Oregon some years back. I'm just hoping parents are given the OPTION to side with science, and still get their kids vaccinated. Maybe he'll ban childhood vaccines altogether, I don't know. What a moron.
RFK isn’t against vaccines. He is against harmful chemicals getting dumped into our bodies.
It's thinking like this that makes you wrong. No one is getting rid of real vaccines.... the ones they didn't have to change the definition for
Mmmmaybe you should listen to what he actually said, instead of somebody’s interpretation. Because *nothing* he’s proposed is stupid.
Removing fluoride from our water isn’t stupid? www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324...
There are many bad effects from fluoride in water. A brave doctor in the Netherlands acted before it was added here and convinced the government not to do it. It’s in toothpaste, as it belongs on teeth not in your body 🤷♀️
At worst that suggestion is questionable, not stupid. That study, for instance, didn’t even look at other health issues. It’s left to our imagination to assume the rates of disease and chronic illness remained the same through that demographic.
Poor dental health is now being linked to heart disease.
He want our teeth to look like his teeth
I’m old enough to remember children in school with leg braces and crutches, the after effects of polio, children deaf from measles and diphtheria and scars from small pox. Vaccines work!
It never made sense to me how people can be so ignorant to the importance of medicine. Even back in the less educated era people still understand what it is to be sick and the need for medicine
So very true. It is important we educate everyone, because it seems ignorance is the biggest health treat.
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Increasing reports of polio found in waste water underscores the point. Many diseases that were defeated by vaccines are returning due to false claims, disinformation and science illiteracy.
Like banning unhealthy food additions?
The disparity in care depending upon which community the center lies in is real. I've managed centers where the doctors didn't care, they had no respect for their patients. Misdiagnoises, errors in procedures were rampant. More oversight and accountability is needed.
27 years as an emergency physician, feeling like I need to learn how to identify polio, measles, etc and be prepared to treat bacterial meningitis in kids again. Well, it was a good run.
Just like government itself...it works best when you hardly know its working at all.
RFK Jr is your daddy
Need to get a Moderna shot before January...
Just plz don't mix those of us that have had issues with vaccines for DECADES into the mix...some of us have VALID reservations...and others have VALID religious reasons
So true We are the last generation that can remember polio and diptheria.....until we stop vaccinating that is
Make America Sick Again
Bring it back so they can fix it. Then claim that they fixed it. And the blank-staring hordes will rejoice.
Do you not think long covid is having an impact?
An impact yes, a substantial one, no.
It's very difficult as a lay person to sort out the current and longterm consequences of repeat infections. Studies come out showing vascular inflammation, increased stroke and diabetes risk, neuroinflammation. Flu and shingles are somewhat implicated in dementia.. But no change in data.
Some of you need to research the stats on the cdc website and vaers.
After 2 children were accidentally given faulty measles vaccine in Somalia in 2017 or 19, he went to Somalia and convinced the king to stop giving the vaccine. 80 some children died of a deadly measles outbreak! Just think what he's going to do to the US!
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It is invisible but oh, so important.
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According to my understanding of our 1st amendment freedom of speech rights, that we have the right to QUESTION our Federal Govt and ALL ITS DEPTS. Questioning does not mean elimination. I took the covid shots and respect others questioning the shot... Their ?s don't bother me
We did notice public health in 2020. Then the media turned away from the coronavirus and so did the rest of us. Next the money will go away, too. That is until the next health crisis appears on CNN or Fox News. Then the cycle starts up again. sigh
Best way to control masses is isolate in epidemics. It’s funny how pro-lifers sight 3.7% abortions are for life threatening pregnancies and it’s ok if that women die because of total abortion bans. But side effects of vaccinations are far less percentage, not life threatening and that’s an issue. ?
People also have a zero risk bias, which is magnified when it comes to health youtu.be/dAOOWOAjGd0
If America has been healthy, why have we not been healthy?
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Do you mean to say that people of like minds with RFK Jr. are bound to bring back avoidable illnesses, diseases, and death with their anti-vax rhetoric? If so, I wholeheartedly agree with you!!
I thought, “this will be an awesome block thread”, and I was correct.
I am Pro Choice. That goes for Vaccines to.
Reminds me of the guy standing on the corner snapping his fingers. When asked what he was doing he replied "keeping the elephants away". "There's not an elephant within 500 miles" replied the questioner. "See how good it works?" replied the guy.
We going to make polio great again.
You know what it’s invisible? Because there aren’t that many healthy people. For a country with as advanced of medical tech as we have, the life expectancy should be way higher than it is. So explain that to me. I’ll wait.
Every single medication I ever took gave me exactly what it was supposed to treat. Ever since I’ve been off of medication, I’ve lost weight. I’m not depressed. I’ve stopped watching TV. I’m happy. My sex life is back. Medication ruined my life. It’s all a scam, sir. Please stop.
What happened to "my body, my choice"?
Not one of these people commenting that vaccines are bad have an MD so please do not follow their opinions.
True, I can't wait til the men start getting the mumps!
This week’s radio4 “When it Hits the Fan” (Tues 4.30) talks about the pharma business speaking up to balance the discussion. We need experts to get involved to fill the knowledge void that is being filled by ignorance and opinion
We do need someone to deal with the 3 in 4 Americans who are overweight and obese, sadly. The problem with RFK is he is right about food, high sugar, corporate capture and revolving door in regulatory agencies, and food companies being oligopolies. Americans are unhealthy.
So true vaccines have saved so many lives and diseases
Nope. Check the data please. You’re just parroting vaccine producers propaganda.
I've read the "paper" that graph comes from and it is not a rigorous study. Not to mention, peer reviewed studies show something quite different. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Government data shows the same dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-image...
Another graph showing deaths. Where is the cases graph?
That's a really bold conclusion to jump to from what those graphs suggest and kind of screams paranoia and fundamental data analysis skills. But to be clear, disease prevention/harm reduction isn't supposed to be a single step solution.
No there’s lots more 🤙🏾 dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-image...
These curves don't show what you think they show, and if you sincerely believe them, then you are getting manipulated. They show death rate and not incidence of disease. So, they don't show the incidence decreased before vaccine, they just show the progress of medecine improved the patients outcome.
What?🤣🤣🤣 here you go dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-image...
That a little too “deep end of the intellectual pool” for some folks. A 37 year old maga annouced randomly to me yesterday that Him “I can’t wait until they get rid of all vaccines.” Me “Why? We need vaccines to stop diseases like smallpox?” Him “BS, I’ve never got that one” Me “yeah”😵💫
Are you arguing that we have good public health? The obesity epidemic is very visible; have you been outside?
The US has a mixed public health system, some good, some bad. The point, however, is that every country in the OECD has similar issues with obesity, they peaked some time ago in the US and elsewhere, and the reason that the US is doing *worse* is not obesity rates.
The point is we do not have an absence of disease; we have the opposite; an abundance of disease. I do not understand how doing the same thing is going to provide different results. Pretending what we are doing is working against all facts and measures seems to be naïve.
Life expectancy right now in the US is the best it has ever been. Kids born today will live years longer than their grandparents and decades longer than their great-grandparents. These are facts 🤷♂️
I highly doubt that. My grandmother just died at 94, my other grandmother is 95 and my grandfather is 96. 😂
Obviously, these are averages to which there are many exceptions.
We are 63rd globally in infant mortality and our life expectancy is equally bad. These are just facts. We also spend the most per capita in health care. We are not delivering the results for our people.
Wake UP! What’s the USA doing to prevent another PANDEMIC! #BirdFlu #AmericasPandemic www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/o...
I thought he was anti vacs
Hard to be anti-vax when he and his entire family of 7 children are all vaccinated, except for covid, which some did and some didn't. RFK is for transparency - aka, test this stuff and share the findings publicly. Listen directly to him, he sued and won against Pharma, that's his sin, why they hate
Anti-vax is a loaded phrase people toss around and politicize. Some are questioning the Covid vaccines due to their rapid development. Many times, people who get labeled “anti-vax” are against mandates and legal requirements of vaccination. People want freedom of choice, which is reasonable.
he is. vaccines are a good thing and there’s no legitimate reason to straight up be against vaccination
No, him and his whole family are vaxed. He just wants them held to the same medical testing as medication.
He advocates for vac safety. Not sure why that’s a bad thing.
Agreed. People notice when a pandemic ensues and all of the collateral effects of the disease are very visible. We need to do better.
INSANE. I worked with adults who were exposed to Rubella en utero. The disease devastated lives.
Most aspects of a well functioning society and state institutions are invisible until you realize the harsh reality their failures entail.
Americans need to take care of the body God gave them. Eat healthy exercise. Dont rely on medicine to make you well. Live healthy.
I think we should all be up to date with our Covid and Flu shots and I’m not even sure 6month intervals are enough
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Maybe we get Elon to make a vaccine against the Woke Mind Virus using the blood of his trans daughter - bet that would change RFK Jrs mind - get out there and vaccinate against being liberal
35 years in public health. 7 different presidents. Public health prevailed. Survived slim budgets and low staffing. But now face the real threat of non-existence as the bugs and diseases out there get smarter.
You can disagree on his stance about vaccines, but he's trying to get unhealthy, toxic additions out of our food supply, and that alone is worth a lot if he succeeds. I don't think long standing vaccines are at risk of being eliminated, but if their producers could be held accountable, that's good.
I am a pediatric ER nurse. I am dreading this upcoming disaster that will unfold. This is madness! 😣
Just like good government
Didn't you hear? A new pandemic is coming. www.agriculture.com/first-human-...
America is not in "good public health". Most obese nation inthe world.
Same with regulations and alliances. It’s too late when they go too far. Banking, healthcare, climate, NATO, & trade only a few examples.
@baeson-n.bsky.social seeing you post this makes my heart smile, public health bestie bb
“Health is a crown above the head of healthy people that only the sick can see”
So, I’m old. My Mom was in nurses training in the polio wards in Duluth Minnesota in the 1950s. The vaccine was such a blessing. Her kids got them all.
This is such a good point. I’m worried it’s lost on the cult members who think more people died FROM THE VACCINE than from Covid. The disinformation and naïveté cost us the election and our public health. But yeah! Owned the libs! 🙇♀️
Oneself must þank you, for speaking what should be a commonly accepted, and obvious truþ
Can't wait for a concept of a health plan 🙄
To think we are to take advice from a heroin addict. Good choice, Donnie.
I can see airlines refusing to fly to the USA in future.
P&G is committed to public health. Our R&D team is nearly finished with a pill that will release sunlight after swallowed or inserted. Coming 2026.
And functioning political systems are boring.
good luck everybody....... i live in Australia so I'm good. I had a heart attack a few months ago, died in the ambulance on the way to hospital, had surgery and spent 3 days in hospital. total cost to me $0
I don't notice all of the morbidly obese people when I'm out in public.
The problem with good public health is that it stops is the diseases that we are supposed to be worried about. So we don't see them, we don't worry about them. For those of more...umm...limited.... capacities, it makes them think we're all worried about nothing, and that public health is a scam.
It's giving Laurie Garrett ♥️
I think his brain worm is actually a small alien trying to take over the world… just a theory.
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Well written piece, I disagree with its message. Good public health is visible in masks and sick leave. It is visible in access ramps and speed bumps. It is visible in gender affirming and dental care. It is obtrusive. What you are normalising is healthcare as a veneer, which makes issues invisible.
Marc Lappé, experimental pathologist said do you want your children to become immune to polio by getting it? Immunization is vital
If millions of psychopaths are herded together to impose the Great Reset by eliminating all of the nonpsychopaths, would we take a fair and balanced position of only eliminating half of the nonpsychopaths?
If you want to see an example of lack of vaccines and poor public health, go to a cemetery and look in the older section. See how many graves there are of babies and young children.
#MaskUp
Excellent point, very well made! 👏
I missed one vaccination, one for the chicken pox. And guess what? I had it a week later. Never going back. 🙌🙌
Someone who knows nothing about what he is doing. He just wants power! Like the Covid advisory non professional clowns, advising everyone what they should do. Including drinking bleach.
The circus is coming to town.
I wish it was just to a town or hell even just one state the circus is going to DC to make decisions for us….
This is funny because asking questions isn’t scientific. “The science is settled” right? Good thing newton, Einstein and fleming didn’t believe the science was settled.
Or just no forced mandates from liars, you know one or the other.
Exactly!
What can we do to push back??