ProPublicaMar 27

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.

This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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Show threadNazaniMar 27
@ProPublica I advise everyone to do their family genealogy for 4 or 5 generations back. Take note of how people died and how old they were. Lots of babies didn't make it to christening and were just annotated in family bibles. That's where we're headed.
Show threadBarbara MonacoMar 27
@Nazani @ProPublica Not everyone has access to their genealogy. Part of my mom's family can be traced to early 17th century Europe.
My dad's family history becomes murky just a couple generations ago.
One thing that many of us can do is walk through an old cemetery. Look for the tiny headstones in family plots. In 1900 20% of kids in the US died before age 5.
It's nearly unbelievable that immense gains made in medicine in the 20th century could be thrown away by crazy people. A new dark ages.
Show threadJulesceltMar 27

@Barbramon1 @Nazani @ProPublica I live very near a family cemetery, all 5 children of the couple died before the age of 16. The mothers headstone says; died of a broken heart. I believe it.

It's so incredibly frustrating to see where this goes and the trauma its going to inflict.

Show threadBarbara MonacoMar 27
@julescelt01 @Nazani @ProPublica
I have been interested in old cemeteries since childhood. The stories one reads on headstones are full of heartbreak. Sometimes there is not even a headstone as they were unaffordable for a lot of families. Many children were buried in unmarked graves. 😔
Show threadJulescelt

@Barbramon1 @Nazani @ProPublica I remember reading a book on my Colorado History class list called "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" and the accounts of women giving birth on the trail and burying a child in unmarked graves, and one account of a woman who had that happen on the same day.

I kept that book to remind myself of what life was like before modern medicine.

Mar 27 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadBarbara MonacoMar 27
@julescelt01 @Nazani @ProPublica 💔