It might push back the electric/sustainable transition
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the problem is exactly what we see with measles.
- children who have no choice are the ones who suffer the consequences
- because most vaccines cannot be 100% effective (e.g., I got 3 extra MMR shots and I still don't have detectable measles antibody levels despite being fully immunocompetent), they do rely on herd immunity protecting those who don't mount full responses to the shots.
The thing about public health is that it's public interest over personal choices. In a functioning free society those personal choices would still align with public interest based on the understanding of societal good. So the antagonism is totally artificial.
This is the thing that distinguishes the intellect of orbán and trump. Orbán developed what he officially named "the system of national collaboration" with an unofficial motto of "those with us will thrive [and those who are against us will struggle]". So initially they made sure that it was a lucrative thing to align with the system making it very inconvenient for systematic resistance to emerge. Trump seems to be failing this idea already in the acute phase: maintaining pressure even when companies realign with him makes it much more convenient to push back straight up...
This guy is a charlatan. He doesn't understand medical facts or human behavior.
- Despite what the vitamin industry says, nutritional deficiencies are quite rare in the USA (except for vitamin D)
- As mentioned in the article, if your population isn't vitamin deficient, you can't assume that vitamin supplementation will have similar (or any) role as in developing countries with high prevalence of nutrition deficiencies to reduce mortality of infections.
- Vitamin A (along with the other fat-soluble vitamins) can actually be overdosed. (Fun fact: Polar Bear liver is toxic for human consumption because it contains vitamin A in huge concentrations)
- This kind of communication will lead for Vitamin A overdoses and vaccine avoidance.
- RFK will take no responsibility for either.
to apply right-wing logic to this: "if you label everything domestic terrorism, the term will lose it's meaning!!!11!!!"