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We Ran the CDC: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American's Health
90 cmurf 56 9/1/2025, 2:19:28 PM nytimes.com ↗
I hope at least this US admin will not ban importing vaccines developed by other countries… they may tariff them, but not ban.
There is herd immunity for a lot of vaccines. It might be decades before we have to break out an iron lung. Once we do we'll have to get a whole bunch because polio is extremely transmissible, but until then it will be easily deniable.
Similarly, without tracking a lot of diseases, it'll just be anecdotal. We already hear about E. coli and salmonella outbreaks. Will anyone really notice the difference if there are twice as many? (Especially if it's only reported in the much-reviled "mainstream media".)
The danger is obvious to anyone who knows anything at all about how disease processes work. But as Kennedy said, "We, you know, people, we need to stop trusting the experts." Anybody who knows anything is ipso facto untrustworthy, and you should believe the opposite of what they say. So it will be quite a long time before people have sufficiently "done their own research" (by dying).
Also likely to be extremely socioeconomically divided, as wealthy parents will likely be able to secure vaccines for their kids through vaccine tourism or the black market, while diseases run rampant through the lower classes.
And even then, it may not be enough. Antivaccine is as old as vaccines, with the same arguments forever, and I would argue that the mass adoption of vaccination in the 20th century has as much to do with social and cultural forces such as post-war optimism, fascination with science and trust in modernity, as with hard data like "efficacy" and having your kids escape illness.
40% has 2 or more. In any other sector would this be an acceptable outcome?
https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-disease/about/index.html
The old establishment health bureacracy should not be taken seriously. By any measure they are corrupt and incompetent fools.
Prescribe and subsidize exercise and GLP-1s, ban cigarettes, and you solve a lot of this. The medical establishment did not make the system humans exist in the US in, they simply try to treat it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_affluence
I think it's 84 years in Italy, 79.3 in the US. I'm sure a lot of that is due to healthier diets and less obesity, but isn't that the sort of thing RFK is trying to encourage?
You've asserted 60% of Americans having at least one chronic condition is a failure and begged the question that it is a failure (instead of a reasonable expectation of the health of mortals, especially mortals in a population that starts to skew older as our birth rates fall relative to the baby boom... Or the consequence of accurate tracking and reporting on an ever-widening set of understood or recognized conditions). Start by convincing the room there is a problem to solve before asserting leadership has failed at it.
And even if there is a problem to solve: entropy being what it is, there are infinitely more worse ways to do things than there are better. Even if the CDC's approach has room for improvement, from whence comes the confidence that putting a debunked conspiracy believer (https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/15/rfk-jrs-con...) and anti-vaccination activist at its helm leads to improvement?
Take, for example, myopia in children (which has grown from zero to nearly half of children today) or vitamin D deficiency (34.5% of Americans _sufficient_!) The cost is colossal - both myopia and vitamin D deficiency have huge knock-on effects. The intervention in this case is easy and free. And yet, because there is no profit to be made, approximately nothing was done. This is a completely insane state of affairs.
Implementation and enforcement are federal and state legislative responsibilities. The CDC has known vitamin D deficiency is an issue for awhile; why aren't we hanging out vitamin D tablets at school? Hint: it would cost money and at least one party has no new taxes as a pretty consistent plank.
What about the role of companies that develop and manufacture and market all this delicious, poisonous food?
I would still put my money on a person eating a commodity, non-organic, seed oil rich diet that is sanely balanced and appropriate for their activity level being healthier on average than an overeating gluten free organic-everything only touched by hemp fiber vegan who never exercises.
I covered corporate capture in the second half of my comment.
I assure you that banning vaccines isn’t going to fix people’s back pain.
https://diabetes.org/about-diabetes/prediabetes/adolescents-...
It's mystery to me why people rush to defend such extreme levels of failure.
Like “Who pays the tariffs?” in this context the question is, “Who do you think has the primary responsibility of raising healthy children? And why aren’t they able to?” [3] [4] [5] I think it’s highly unlikely changing vaccination requirements is going to improve the outcomes you’re stating are the problems in this thread.
[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u...
[2] https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-medica...
[3] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/parents-under-pressu...
[4] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/12/poverty-rate-...
[5] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-...
And how will banning vaccines will help with any of the problems you pointed out?