This is a non-story, and Dems refuse to understand that the drip....drip....drip... of these stories only serve to minimize when truly damning information is released.
Not surprising, that is completely off the mark and bizarre. I wonder how he even got that idea. Many modern tractors are so simple - they use GPS to pretty much drive themselves. There are tractors that drive the same lines so that their tyres only compact small rows of soil, leading to better yields. Are they expensive? Sure, but environmental exesses aren't the reason. And farmers wouldn't buy them if their wasn't a reason they are worth it. But yeah, maybe they should return to sitting on a Ford 8N for days.
Rump learned the power of boosting his public persona from slimy Roy Cohn: https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
Karmically justified if Donnie drops from AIDS/syphilis : )
also I made a post yesterday with some words getting blipped out:
As far as what goes on in his head I really think it's just his life-long misogynistic narcissism and his ego being Roy Cohn-ed into a mega criminal in it for money/power, he got his sorry ass into the white house thanks to Murdach and Co. - Rump's really bad business mind is in second place, primary for him is soothing his vindictive hatred of smart women, his racism and his reflection in the media.
The kids unvaxxed now aren't Trump's fault. He wasn't in power when they entered kindergarten, and during his first term he hadn't yet coopted the MAHA crowd, so we still had a functional CDC.
In 5-7 years...watch out. We can blame the HHS Witch Doctor for that. But this outbreak is on Joe Rogan and the Instagram epidemiologists who came out of the woodwork during covid.
You're applying linear rules to exponential issues.
There is a moment when things spin out of control (see: COVID 19). Lower newborn immunization rates create exponential risk: once community immunity drops, diseases spread faster, even among previously immunized Kâ12 kids whose protection isnât absolute. Outbreaks surge non-linearly, overwhelming schools and exposing vulnerabilities created by small declines in early-life vaccination. It doesn't stop in the daycare...those kids have older siblings, who have friends with older siblings....and it spins...
The skepticism over the past 10 years isn't all to blame on Trump, but the MAGA doctrine has been attacking the government infrastructure, mandates, and the CDC for long enough to have weakened the foundation. Trump can be blamed for influencing reduced vaccinations since he lost in 2020. He fanned the flames of vaccine effectiveness (after taking appropriate credit for project warp speed) as a means to attack the CDC mandates. Kennedy is just the culmination of several years worth of stupidity.
Appreciate that all of these outbreaks are occurring in places with overwhelming support for Trump. Causation vs. correlation?
You're correct that the shit is gonna get very real further down the road (unless exposure immunity combined with immunization put an end to the outbreaks).
The kids unvaxxed now aren't Trump's fault. He wasn't in power when they entered kindergarten, and during his first term he hadn't yet coopted the MAHA crowd, so we still had a functional CDC.
In 5-7 years...watch out. We can blame the HHS Witch Doctor for that. But this outbreak is on Joe Rogan and the Instagram epidemiologists who came out of the woodwork during covid.
5-7 years ago was effectively 2019. The year that covid took root. trump was in the tail end of his first term. He was the among the leaders, and certainly the figurehead of the "scientists are elitists". So his recent CDC/RFK craziness hasn't had full effect, but he's certainly not 'immunized' from blame for the current state of affairs. He may be the symptom that has become it's own disease.
The ~95% assumptions means that there are roughly 5% of all ages that aren't immunized. When the rates for younger kids plummet, the infection spreads to a larger group of younger kids, who in turn begin spreading to the 5% who never got immunized. When they were kids, the rest of the community protected them. Now...those protections are gone.
That's not how calendars work.
The kids unvaxxed now aren't Trump's fault. He wasn't in power when they entered kindergarten, and during his first term he hadn't yet coopted the MAHA crowd, so we still had a functional CDC.
In 5-7 years...watch out. We can blame the HHS Witch Doctor for that. But this outbreak is on Joe Rogan and the Instagram epidemiologists who came out of the woodwork during covid.
Trump (or more properly RFK The Lesser) shouldn't get credit for this outbreak. Kids should be vaxxed before kindergarten. That omission predates Trump's second term.
They will deserve credit for the outbreaks in5-7 years tho. Those are really gonna suck.
That's not how herd immunity works.
The ~95% assumptions means that there are roughly 5% of all ages that aren't immunized. When the rates for younger kids plummet, the infection spreads to a larger group of younger kids, who in turn begin spreading to the 5% who never got immunized. When they were kids, the rest of the community protected them. Now...those protections are gone.
Trump (or more properly RFK The Lesser) shouldn't get credit for this outbreak. Kids should be vaxxed before kindergarten. That omission predates Trump's second term.
They will deserve credit for the outbreaks in5-7 years tho. Those are really gonna suck.
