Eddie Hunsinger3d ago
ProPublica

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

#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model

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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Mar 27 at 1:10pmWeb
Show thread2qx 🔻Mar 27

@ProPublica

If our enemies are eliminating vaccine access, the only model that matters is #smallpox

If they did all the math, they'd see only one vaccine matters as well.

It's increasingly likely none of the simulations they ran will be remotely accurate because a good portion of the population will already be gone.

Show threadJeff McNeillMar 27
@ProPublica I despise this kind of information-impoverished visualization. Come on, haven't we learned any insight and elegance from Tufte and Rosling? Those luminaries started doing their thing 20 years ago.
Show threadKat the LeopardessMar 27
@ProPublica Im in a race against time.
Show threadWendroid 🇺🇦Mar 27
@ProPublica Back in my day, NYC IN the 1960s, white people with jobs, like my mother, caught infectious tuberculosis. It seems like there’s an effort to move our population back there. #Vaccines #infection #disease #tuberculosis #RFKJr
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 threadJulesceltMar 27

@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.

Show threadBarbara MonacoMar 27
@julescelt01 @Nazani @ProPublica 💔
Show threadRandall Lee6d ago
@Nazani @ProPublica Or walk through an old cemetery and find the oldest grave markers. Family plots tell the story of childhood disease and the lack of a health care system. So rfk can drink his shit filled raw milk and fuck off a tall building
Show threadNazoMar 27
@ProPublica We're going to go back to families having to have eight kids just so maybe one or two will survive to adulthood. But I guess the right loves that. It keeps the women too busy birthing children to work and the men too busy working to buy food and electricity to think for themselves. And the kids too busy working in factories to think for themselves either for that matter.
Show threadJonathan6d ago

@ProPublica

I'm completely tired of these murderers.

Show threadBrian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊2d ago

@ProPublica

Less people with vaccines = less people drawing welfare/Social Security.
Feature, not a bug.

Show threadGiliell2d ago
@ProPublica My daughter just spent a term in Australia. They sensibly have vaccination days at school. The things you can have when your government has some common sense.