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Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state's top health official says
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoWith any luck, over time, the anti-vax problem will effectively solve itself.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoSadly kids can’t choose whether they want vaccines or not. They’re the victims of this policy, not their parents. Raw milk however is a self limiting problem. With the increasing rates of TB in the Midwest and a disdain of medicinal science becoming a political stance, cows are bound to start catching it one of these days. Bovine TB will set the tone on pasteurization real fast.
- scarface_74 2y agoIt still will work itself out. I have no sympathy for people or their families who get exactly what they voted for. See also: Arab Americans who voted for Trump and now regret it because of his stated policy in Gaza.
- rbanffy 2y agoMental note: a startup catering to Polio victims...
- lotsofpulp 2y agoWould polio victims, on average, have enough spending power to make it worth it?
- rbanffy 2y agoAt least health insurance should cost more on the "Vaccine Freedom" regions. I would expect insurers would want to adjust to new risks governments create.
- beAbU 2y agoThe united states has a great socialised healthcare system. Its called gofundme. So I reckon yes.
- rbanffy 2y agoI like Gofundme for healthcare because it attaches a layer of meritocracy on top of the fight for survival. You need to be popular/pretty/hot enough to get traction. If you are not, you die. Just to be clear, I’m being sarcastic.
- JojoFatsani 2y agoI once thought mass access to the internet would make society more intelligent and intellectual.. boy was I wrong.
- caspper69 2y agoTurns out, the masses don't want to actually learn. What they want to do is share what they think, and only read things that they agree with.
- babycheetahbite 2y agoNot sure it is solely "the masses" that engage in that behavior.
- caspper69 2y agoSeemed safer to say than "everyone", because there's always exceptions.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoI wonder if Neil Postman would have wanted to live long enough to see Twitter founded.
- rbanffy 2y agoWe were all optimists back then. We should have burned the thing to the ground. I'll go a bit further: we should never have made easy-to use computers.
- throwaway989899 2y agoThis is an old mistake. But don't make the other old mistake, of putting too much power in the hands of a few who seem more promising than the rest.
- fach 2y agoToo late.
- barbazoo 2y agoI feel bad for all those kids being hurt or even killed by preventable diseases but I guess this is what people want.
- CamperBob2 2y agoIt's what they voted for. Maybe they'll pay a little more attention next time.
- floor2 2y agoThe kids being hurt didn't vote for this. A bunch of kids are going to die before reaching voting age because of this.
- impish9208 2y agoI guess when they said they wanted to bring back high-tech manufacturing, they were also talking about iron lungs.
- moshun 2y agoWith the cost of healthcare and insurance company denial rates in this country? You better hope you can hold your breath.
- exegete 2y agoOne of the reasons the State promoted vaccinations is because it keeps healthcare costs lower. It should be obvious that preventing a disease is cheaper than treating a disease. Here’s a quote from the press release: [1] > Every business owner knows that to promote one thing, you must choose not to promote something else. We saw many examples of this over the past four years, in which people missed routine screenings and cancers went undiagnosed. Treatment for substance abuse was put on the back burner as deaths from opioid overdoses skyrocketed. Mental health disorders were left unattended, spilling over into crises of homelessness and crime. In Louisiana, maternal and infant mortality remain near the worst in the nation. All the while, chronic disease rates continue creeping up to crisis levels. These are the post-pandemic priorities of the Louisiana Department of Health. So they are saying promoting vaccines means they didn’t get to promote cancer screenings of mental health? I am doubtful this change will move the needle on those other issues. 1. https://ldh.la.gov/news/7478 https://ldh.la.gov/news/7478
- amluto 2y ago> In Louisiana, maternal and infant mortality remain near the worst in the nation. If they stop mass vaccination, they seem likely to experience infant mortality due to measles (which is currently not much of an issue due to mass vaccination, as infants are too young to receive the vaccine themselves). And pertussis (quite dangerous to infants, and expectant mothers and caregivers are frequently advised to get extra vaccine doses to minimize risk to the infants). Oh, and while hemolytic disease of the newborn isn’t managed by a vaccine per se, the same group of people seem to dislike the mitigation. Treating it is surely far more expensive than preventing it.
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- W-Stool 2y agoOne state not to visit.
- leotravis10 2y agoOne of many states as I suspect more will follow suit. Take Montana[1] for instance as they're likely will ban vaccines very soon. [1] https://nbcmontana.com/newsletter-daily/proposed-bill-would-ban-administration-of-mrna-vaccines-in-montana https://nbcmontana.com/newsletter-daily/proposed-bill-would-...
- Galacta7 2y agoWe're through the looking glass now.
- bglazer 2y agoThe surgeon general of Louisiana was formerly a U.S. House Representative. Luke Letlow was his campaign chairman and his chief of staff, almost certainly one of the Surgeon General's closest and most trusted colleagues. Luke Letlow died of COVID when he was 41 years old leaving behind a widow and two children. From Luke Letlow's wikipedia page: Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Letlow wore a mask only sporadically during his campaign, and was photographed speaking indoors to constituents when masks were not being worn by him or those gathered.[14] In October, he had encouraged Louisiana officials to relax pandemic restrictions, warning, "We're now at a place if we do not open our economy, we're in real danger."
- thebruce87m 2y agoReminds me of the Herman Cain award. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain_Award https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain_Award Here is a tweet from Herman Cains Twitter posted on 30 August 2020: > It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be. Note that he had already died of COVID one month prior to this tweet on 30 July 2020
- NoPie 2y agoThe problem with this is that he had been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in 2006. It is rare for a person with stage IV cancer to survive for another 14 years. He received treatment but most likely eventually he would have died anyway. Covid may have fastened his demise but his odds of dying were quite high even without covid.
- the_real_cher 2y agoThank you for the context.
- bglazer 2y agoA person at high risk of dying from a respiratory virus ignored public health warnings then got a respiratory virus and died. I think the surgeon general should consider this as a terrible object lesson in the value of protecting vulnerable populations.
- peppers-ghost 2y agoWe've gotta be the dumbest empire in history
- sitkack 2y agoThat we know of.
- scarface_74 2y agoWhat we really need in this country is a really deadly virus and a really good vaccine to prevent it. That would solve a lot of problems