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.
Its sort of an all-or-nothing affair. RFK Jr isn’t just going to be HHS Secretary for the Republican-leaning parts of the country.
Also sort of neglects how the people who suffer the most under these policies are poor people not conservative voters. A general retraction of public health services hits the low-laying populations first.
The thing about infectious diseases is they don’t pick and choose by political affiliation.
Weren’t COVID rates fairly different based on party affiliation?
Yes, when we had Fauci allowing vaccines through. Without the health secretary allowing and pushing vaccines out and you know, not actively hiding a pandemic as I’m sure RFK will. I think rates would have been much higher on both sides.
We’re never going to make things better without Trump voters coming to their senses. So it’s a sacrifice that we unfortunately have to make.