Making America healthy again? Measles spread in the US is essentially out of control. Measles encephalitis is increasing and a case of SSPE has been reported. Measles deaths are eminent. Whooping cough is rising at a frightening rate. Pediatric deaths from influenza are dreadfully increased

The ICE Health Services Corp is in charge of dealing with the communicable diseases, like measles, that are blooming in ICE detection Facilities. They haven’t suggested vaccinations, but are probably prepared with leeches and ivermectin.

I ate an artichoke for dinner and it was a lesson in Trumpian government. In the beginning it was a beautiful bud, the leaves all ordered and symetric, but as I removed the leaves and ate them it became chaos and a mess to be discarded in the trash.

RFK's bizarre Food pyramid is this week's Whopper from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I had a conversation with the guy who comes to service my pool. During the conversation he said that his son had pink eye (which is caused by an adenovirus), and I mentioned that antibiotic eye drops would stop a secondary bacterial infection. He said he would rather his son let

Let me say up front that I am opposed to guns and the gun culture of the US. Much stronger laws and controls are needed. But right now we have the gun culture and the second amendment supporters, many of whom supported Trump. But now under Trump we are facing the loss of democracy and the onset

It didn’t start out looking like a good Tucson sunrise, but you have to wait for it.

FYI: DomainShifters is a science fiction novel about a group from the future (2085) who travel back in time to 2024 to stop the rise of an authoritarian conservative movement (the AuthCons) that has ruined the world.

@joho.bsky.social goes where no one has dared to tread (including me!). He names names. As you click on each link you see the depth of the collaboration of colleagues with key figures in this administration, how they promoted them, still do. It is a necessary task to open ourselves up to scrutiny.

My latest: New CDC Vaccine Chair Prioritizes Personal Choice via @forbes He wants to make #vaccines optional. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #PublicHealth #Measles #Polio #CDC with thanks to @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social and @jimalwine.bsky.social for comments

Kennedy and his plague mongers want to limit vaccinations to find out what will happen when American children and contagious viruses and bacteria are on a level playing field. Well guess what history tells us the answer, the viruses and bacteria win. They will win every time until

AZ @govhobbs please have the state join WHO.

We’ve lived in a golden age of medicine for so long that there are so many people who have never seen these diseases, don’t even think about them, don’t even know they exist any more. Or people think they’ve been eliminated, but they’re not. They’re just waiting. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

To restore trust in public health, Robert F. Kennedy must go. Latest OpEd by @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social and me. thehill.com/opinion/heal... @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

The 25th amendment should be enacted but those who can enact it are unable to think clearly because they are suffering from hypoxia, severe lack of oxygen, because they have their noses so far up Trump’s butt.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician who knew the value of vaccines, decided to pleaseTrump and cast the deciding vote for RFKJr thus setting a rabid anti-vaxxer upon us. Now his reward: Trump is endorsing his primary opponent. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

I was glad to hear that the injury to the peace dog marching toward DC with the monks was an injury from walking and not that it had been shot by Kristi Noem or injured in an ICE attack.

Truth

All US disease prevention services are on the chopping block, from vaccines to cancer screening. One reason for this is that prevention takes years to show the totality of the results. Ending it will also take years to show the totality of the results, long after The Regime is gone.

Defend Public Health’s @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy has shared some important personal reflections on RFK Jr.’s idiotic dietary guidance. You can read it here:

“What Morbidity Hath Secretary Kennedy Wrought?” “When ethics and morality are being put in the service of a crude, absurd ideology of freedom regardless of the price, then the interests of kids, and indeed all of us, suffer.” www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Many new cases of measles have been reported in South Carolina in the last few days, and there are cases popping up all over the country. This is because vaccination levels have dropped below the level that will protect the unvaccinated and the vulnerable. We have lost

Seems like viral illness are everywhere. So let’s talk about how viruses are transferred from person to person (transmission) and how we can prevent being infected. Examples will be a respiratory virus (influenza virus) and a stomach viruses (norovirus). Let’s start with some basic virology.

Kennedy’s vaccine recommendations and now dietary recommendations: “How do I kill thee? Let me count the ways.” Apologies to Elizabeth Barret Browning

Sara Lopez is a 2-year old who is paralyzed due to a rare complication from the flu. Her mother then did something very brave. She said she had not to gotten Sara vaccinated against flu, and is imploring parents not to skip the shot. RFK Jr. removed the flu vaccine for recommendation for kids.

This year’s flu has caused the most doctors’ visits in almost 30 years. It’s not too late to get vaccinated.

Headline: “this person died from complications of the flu (COVID, measles, etc).” This is true, but misleading. It emphasizes the death by the complication and downplays the deadly nature of the virus. This is similar to the COVID deniers saying “They died WITH COVID, not FROM COVID.” The truth

Senator Cassidy, a physician who knew better when he politically cast the deciding vote for RFKJr’s confirmation, “rips” Kennedy’s vaccine schedule change. Yes Senator, this will harm and kill children. You could have stopped it. Now do something to stop Kennedy. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Jan. 6 is the anniversary of one of the greatest attacks on American Democracy. Today, January 5, RFKJr changed the childhood vaccine schedule, allowing the greatest attack of viruses and bacteria on Children. The amount of harm and number of deaths will be far greater with Kennedy’s atrocity

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

The NYT’s morning news email called it “An operation in Venezuela.” An operation?! It was an act of war, an illegal act. The puppet masters who pull Trump’s strings made a big mistake. This will likely lead to another long term war with lots of young Americans sacrificed.

Honoring my southern heritage I am having Blackeyed Peas to bring good luck in the new year. I fear that the luck we need against the regime is far more than the poor beans can provide…but what the hell, every little bit helps.

I am heartened by the decision of Banner Health, a major health provided here in Tucson, to issue a mask mandate across all of its medical facilities starting today, Jan. 1. This is in response to increasing cases of flu caused by the dominant H3N2 flu strain (subclade K). It’s important

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Especially to those in the medical and life sciences and those who believe in science and the value of science-based public health. All those who have suffered under the insane rule of RFK Jr. We head into a new year

I wrote this last winter. I so wish I was wrong about where all this would lead. So much suffering, so much sickness and death because of this man. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

This speech is over 400 years old. It is gripping even now. He could be speaking of Steven Miller, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Tom Homans. It is devastating: "This is the strangers’ case And this your mountainish inhumanity." Share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceE...

Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

A Tucson Christmas, the Javelina on bicycle sculpture on the bike path at Kolb and Sabino Canyon is festively decorated. I particulaly like the Rudolph nose.

Lola and Jack say Happy Holidays and send treats.

OK, a lot of posts from people who are in their 70s, like me, and have lived through a lot, only to find the present situation in America intolerable. Well I hope that all of you are protesting, writing to senators and reps, writing OpEds and generally being a wrench in the works. It’s the only

Smidge In my home we have a unit of measure called a smidge. It is an ephemeral unit varying in size by the user (Smidgee) and the substance being smidged. For example, a smidge of whipped cream could be a dollop, or two or three, depending on the smidgee. Whereas a smidge of salt

I would love it if we would all focus on one issue that is threatening our futures in the US. Focus dispite the fire hose of atrocities and diversions being blasted at us by the adminstration. My focus is stopping Robert F Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine misinformation which endangers the lives 

Defend Public Health’s amicus brief for American Academy of Pediatrics et al. vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be read at the link below if you have any interest. Shout out to the incredible @doritreiss.bsky.social and all of the public health lawyers who are fighting for all of us.

Oh my God it just keeps getting worse. This #RFK sponsored #hepatitis vaccine trial in #Guinea-Bissau is being run by people whose research methods have been totally discredited. This isn’t research, it’s gun-for-hire antivax nonsense. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Like many others, I’ve been trying to figure out how the team that RFK Jr. just funded to do a randomized, controlled trial of HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau is going to get ethics approval. In this thread, I share what I think they will do to alleviate ethical concerns. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

An evil, unethical and inhumane study has been funded by the Pershing Square Foundation, the Bluebell Foundation and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the bidding of RFKJr. Researchers at the Bandim Health Project will initiate a randomized 

It's Whopper Wednesday! This week, we take on RFK's claim that food allergies might be caused by aluminum adjuvants in vaccines. (News flash, aluminum salt adjuvants in vaccines are safe. Removing them will decrease vaccine effectiveness, leaving our children vulnerable to infectious disease.)