The two greatest public health advances in human history are regulations/ technologies to protect the safety of #water and #food, and the discovery and roll out of #vaccines.
It boggles the mind that Trump, RFK Jr., and the GOP want to eliminate them.
If successful, a lot of people, mostly children, are going to die.
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@petergleick Appreciation & approval of scientific achievements is what distinguishes responsible, caring, compassionate, patriotic governments fit for office from accumulations of reckless […]
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@petergleick MmmHmmm. How much you know about the origins of the Holodomor? Or the great chinese famine? Go read up on them. You'll find a number of deeply disturbing parallels.
@petergleick well, sick people make the health industry a lot more money than healthy people, especially when it is a chronic sickness. So from the view point of late stage capitalism it makes […]
@petergleick Remember when boomer boy scouts were told they should help old ladies across the street? Yeah... it didn't take.
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@petergleick Basically they want to negate those advances made during the 20th century.
That puts us back to the living conditions of the Gilded Age, when the wealthy lived lavishly and the […]
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🥥 Correct.
Children AND old people, Peter. 🥥
@petergleick I don’t know how we stop them now. A combination of lies, cultism and apathy has given them all the levers of power. I’m worried it will happen again in the next election.
@petergleick@fediscience.o Cruelty and death are the core of the GOP.
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