Friday, February 14, 2025

Next: Bringing Back Polio And Smallpox!

Uhh...(doesn’t he want to dismantle DOE?)

And does he want another Covid pandemic?

Besides, vaccines are a matter of public health law, i.e., state law. Schools individually, or as districts, don’t require vaccines. They do so as a matter of applicable law. Trump can’t withhold federal funds because he doesn’t like state laws. Congress can (that’s how they forced states to reduce their speed limits to 55 in the ‘70’s). But Trump can’t.

Mostly because of Art. I and the APA, which bars such arbitrary orders. So this is just keeping more lawyers employed.
And the parental freedom to decide which diseases our children are exposed to? Funny nobody ever puts it that way.

I don’t mean to be cruel, but is there a betting pool on how many of Duffy’s kids survive childhood?
The measles outbreak first reported in Gaines County, Texas, has doubled to 48 cases since a count released  earlier this week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday. The first two cases were identified in late January and the numbers have been rising since. 
Forty-two cases are reported in Gaines County. Surrounding counties have also reported cases, three in Terry County, two in Yoakum County and one in Lynn County. With the contagious nature of the disease, the state health department says it expects more cases will be reported in Gaines County and the surrounding areas. 
All cases are in unvaccinated people or those who have unknown vaccination status. Most cases are in children age 5 to 17 years old. All the cases experienced an onset of symptoms in the last three weeks. 
Among the 48 cases, 13 have been hospitalized. Measles is a highly contagious airborne illness that can cause rash, fever, red eyes and cough. Severe cases can result in blindness, pneumonia or encephalitis, swelling of the brain. In some cases, the illness can be fatal. 
Coverage of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. The 18% vaccine exemption rate for the county is one of the highest in the state, according to data from the Texas health department. 
.... 
There were 285 cases reported in the US last year, the most since 2019, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This year cases have already been identified in Texas, Alaska, New Mexico, Georgia, Rhode Island and New York City. 
A record share of US kindergartners had an exemption for required vaccinations last school year, leaving more than 125,000 new schoolchildren without coverage for at least one state-mandated vaccine, according to data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in October.
The good news there is that, with 48 cases and rising, 80 people in the affected area have been vaccinated.  As Mike Tyson said, everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Sean Duffy is a fucking idiot. 

Anyway, it’s reassuring to know the president is well and reliably informed:
He’s also up to date on what’s happening in the DOJ. That can be true for AUSA’s. Seldom true for career people. He’s also well informed on foreign policy: BRICS—
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization consisting of ten countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. It is considered to be a counterpart and alternative to the G7 bloc of the world's largest economies and combined represent nearly half of the world's population.
Then again, he thinks NATO is a country club (!) to which members pay dues.
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