A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony.
Senate Republicans plan to vote today on anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the secretary of health and human services. If they seat him, it will be Republican families that suffer.
After the last election, I have zero faith in the American public’s ability to learn any lesson. We’ve got a whole propaganda ecosystem dedicated to keeping that from happening. The lessons will have to get more painful than covid was.
If you cannot listen, then you will feel.
If bird flu takes off, it will literally be a real-life version of The Stand.
That might be a bit too much lesson for everyone.
Oh, well.