Whooping cough (pertussis) cases have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021.
Deaths tied to the disease are also up — hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years — and cases are on track to exceed that total in 2025.
@Richard_Littler
Links to articles about #RFKjr views on autism 
#uspol #removeTrump and his minions
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-autism-statements-ableist_l_680034d4e4b0b55f47db6cc0
#RFKjr is a bad person, some doctors say the definition of autism is too broad.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/doctor-who-broadened-autism-spectrum-sorry-for-over-diagnosis/
#reserach #actuallyadhd #actuallyautistic #autism
#ADHD #science #factsmatter
So who had antisemitic slander right out of the European Middle Ages on their bingo cards for the Trump Administration?
...all of you? Really?
#Antisemitism #rfkjr #Kennedy #Trump #COVID
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rfk-jr-antisemitic-covid-19-conspiracy-theory-rcna94773
There’s something rich about Dr Oz claiming it’s an American’s “patriotic duty” to stay healthy when he’s in an administration actively trying to cut healthcare, abortion access, vaccines & public health (not to mention banning masks).
America is one of the only developed nations that doesn’t have universal healthcare. They refuse to acknowledge it as a basic human right. Surely that is also “unpatriotic”?
"#Virulent: The Vaccine War"
"[T]he film's worst prediction - that fear of the #CovidVaccine would lead to distrust of all #vaccines - is coming true as we see in the current #measles outbreaks.
"Virulent also exposes the ways in which the #antivaccineMovement led by #RobertFKennedyJr weaponizes history to target Black Americans and other minority communities."
#antivaxxers #conspiracism #disinfo #AntivaxxersKill #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #USpol #documentary #cinema @film
Dr Oz: “It is the patriotic duty of all Americans to take care of themselves. It’s important for serving in the military, but it’s also important because healthy people don’t consume healthcare resources.”
They’re all eugenicists. They only care about if you can pay taxes & serve in military.
If you “consume resources”? You’re expendable. Unwanted. Useless eater.
Eugenics and fascism always go hand in hand.
https://deadline.com/2025/04/dr-oz-trump-oval-office-1236371948/
It’s bad enough we have healthcare workers refusing to mask, now one openly admits to practicing medicine while he has measles!
Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer”.
Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license. He almost certainly infected multiple patients.
"The [Division of #Viral #Hepatitis] Laboratory Branch had the highest degree of viral hepatitis expertise of any #PublicHealth laboratory in the world," wrote Scott Becker, the assn's CEO. "Their loss eliminated critical national testing services that do not exist anywhere else within the #HHS agencies."
As of April 16, the assn had not received a response from #RFKJr, Becker said.
2 days after the lab's scientists received their reduction in force emails, #HHS Secy #RFKJr acknowledged that ~⅕ of the cuts at HHS were made *unintentionally* & some people would be offered their jobs back.
On April 4, the Assn of #PublicHealth Laboratories sent a letter to RFKJr urging HHS to reinstate all personnel in the Division of #Viral #Hepatitis & at the Division of #STD Prevention, another lab at the #CDC that was shuttered.
But on April 1, the #outbreak investigation was brought to a halt. All 27 of the lab's scientists received an email from the #HHS informing them that they were losing their #jobs. Like thousands of other employees who received similar emails that day, the scientists were told they would be placed on administrative leave until June 2, after which they would no longer work for the #CDC.
In the middle of a #hepatitis #outbreak, #CDC shutters the one lab that could help
After people started testing positive for #HepatitisC in a coastal #Florida town in December, state ofcls collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice & mailed them straight to the CDC in ATL, GA.
#Trump #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #cuts #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #USpol #science #medicine #disease
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5355131/hepatitis-cdc-lab-outbreak-ghost
#USPol #RFKJr #BrainWorms
https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/114365713943784373
byteseu@pubeurope.com - RFK Jr says there are no autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet https://www.byteseu.com/936613/ #America #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #WeThePeople
After watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spout ableism and eugenic theory on live TV while lying about and dehumanizing folks with autism, I'm alarmed that the story here appears to be "wow RFK Jr is a total crank" What it should be is that everything about RFK Jr’s sham HHS study into the “causes” of autism is a reactionary eugenicist nightmare that threatens the health & lives of autistic people, particular children.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/18/nina-bytes-kennedy-conspiracies-and-kids/
Nina-Bytes: Kennedy, Conspiracies, and Kids
"Reading this piece, two things immediately sprung to mind. First, I wouldn’t let Robert F. Kennedy Jr within ten feet of any child whatsoever if I had the ability to prevent it. Secondly; are we sure putting RFK Jr. in charge of Health and Human Services isn’t just a way to let some sadistic eugenicist freaks torture autistic children and profit from it? Because from out here, it sure does seem like that’s Kennedy’s plan and the reason for his department’s “massive testing and research” effort. I’m not a scientist, but somehow I doubt that conspiracy crank Kennedy and a fake doctor whose family business is apparently torturing children have the best interests of autistic Americans at heart; particularly when Kennedy is openly promoting the eugenicist idea that autism is an “epidemic” that is “destroying our children.”
@msbellows @broadwaybabyto people like #RFKjr are the reason schools in Germany ban non-staff & non-students off premises on schooldays except to deliver mail and goods or go to the principals' offices.
“Some $380M is now in limbo after reductions in the federal workforce affected staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy bills.
LIHEAP helps ~6M people survive blistering summers & freezing winters, many whom face greater risks now that the year’s warm season has already brought unusually high temperatures.”
#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #HHS #DOGE #Seniors #Firings #Sadism #Resist #April19 #USPol
@carrieberry Yes, and so in sync with what Canadians are worried about these days. My friends and I were just discussing this the other day, the horrible fact that we don’t have plastic straws anymore. Price increases due to tariffs, loss of jobs due to tariffs, childhood diseases killing children b/ of #RFKJr anti-vaccine policies, meh. But plastic straws? How intolerable! Thank heavens #PeePee is bringing this to the forefront of his election campaign.
MESSAGES FROM A FUCKED UP COUNTRY
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“Autism destroys families, but more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children,” he said. “And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date."
@Richard_Littler @actuallyautistic On behalf of Canadians, I deeply apologize to anyone with autism. That you should be so vilified by an ignorant dangerous and consummate american obscenity is beyond shameful. Please know that CANADA respects, admires, and welcomes you with open arms. I am so sorry that this vulgar man #RFKJr spoke these words, and even more, disgusted that media reported them. He should have been censured and immediately censored.
