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douglas9

(5,168 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:49 AM Wednesday

Pissed-Off Doctors Aren't Enough to Combat Trump's Attacks on Public Health

In response to the unspooling protections, groups of individual U.S. states have veered off in national schisms long found in U.S. public health. West Coast and New England states are establishing vaccine alliances whose policies supersede the CDC’s now-inadequate COVID-19 recommendations. In the other direction, Florida moved to ban all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren.

In op-eds in The New York Times and walkouts at the CDC, public health’s managerial class is punching back against Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to strip out federal-led public health research and policy.

It’s been a necessary and laudable response. It’s also telling that these very managers met protests against the Biden administration’s own eugenics-proximate response to COVID-19 with silence or dismissal.

Failure in deed matched failure in word. The Biden administration moved Paxlovid to the open market — at an exorbitant mark-up — and instituted an employer-friendly five-day recommendation for COVID-19 quarantine that the CDC subsequently dropped, entirely despite molecular kinetics showing high viral loads 10 days and on in many infected people.

What’s the point of all that peer-reviewed biomedicine the managers are defending if everyday Americans can’t access it? Is merely reverting to the policies and practices that helped set the stage for Trump’s return the correct strategy forward?

https://truthout.org/articles/pissed-off-doctors-arent-enough-to-combat-trumps-attacks-on-public-health/

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Pissed-Off Doctors Aren't Enough to Combat Trump's Attacks on Public Health (Original Post) douglas9 Wednesday OP
Medical research and advances are only for the wealthy. Irish_Dem Wednesday #1
We're the eaters wolfie001 Wednesday #2
We are useless eaters. Irish_Dem Wednesday #3
Yes! True! nt wolfie001 Wednesday #4

wolfie001

(6,273 posts)
2. We're the eaters
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 11:44 AM
Wednesday

Hitler used the same language as the fat orange imbecile. What amazes me is the much higher % of white Americans that are flaming racist, nasty pieces of walking sh7t. Didn't think it was so many. I was wrong.

Irish_Dem

(76,139 posts)
3. We are useless eaters.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 12:19 PM
Wednesday

The wealthy are done with the riff raff.
And yes there are a lot of wealthy who feel this way.

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