There’s plenty going on in the world of the anti-vaxxers over in that weird place, with Florida rolling back the years to the happier times of diphtheria, polio and chicken pox because of [checks notes] “slavery”.
Right.
And then a couple of days later, a voice of reason piped up with this line:
“I think those vaccines should be used. Otherwise, some people are going to catch it and they are going to endanger other people.”
And that voice of reason was [checks notes] [checks notes again] [and again]… er… it was Donald Trump.
What?
At a White House event, the president added: “You have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all, and I think those vaccines should be used.”
He went on to say, “The polio vaccine I think is amazing. A lot of people think that Covid is amazing. When you don’t have controversy at all, I think people should take it.”
What?
I’m so confused right now.
Thankfully(?), he reverted to type a 4 days later, amplifying a post from anti-vaxxer and [wow, there’s a lot of note checking to be done today, sorry] vaccine advisor to the Department of Health, David Grier.
Trump posted an undated video clip on Truth Social of anti-vaccine activists Mark and David Geier discussing thimerosal in vaccines with the text on the clipped video reading: ‘They’re ALL poison. Every. Single. One.’ David Geier has been leading an inquiry within the Department of Health and Human Services, at the direction of Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., into debunked assertions of a link between vaccines and autism.
Yes, David Grier that you read about here.
David Geier has written several papers on the alleged dangers of vaccines in causing developmental disorders in children, several of them funded by the non-profit Institute of Chronic Illnesses (ICI), Inc.
The CEO of the Institute of Chronic Illnesses (ICI), Inc. is one David Grier.
Everywhere else in America rolling back the years to happier time when kids died from measles. And the latest hotspot is Chicago. And the best bit about the latest patient in Chicago – an unvaccinated 4 year old – is that they had recently travelled through O’Hare Airport, which handles almost 300,000 passengers a day.
The public might have been exposed on Thursday, September 11 at O’Hare International Airport, at terminal 5 between the hours of about 7:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Fantastic news. It’s proper Outbreak stuff. But with less Ebola.
Elsewhere in the States, dyslexic anti-vaxxers are being blamed for a serious of attacks on beauty salons…
It’s a rubbish joke, but I still laughed, because otherwise, I’d still be crying.