It has been awhile for my short history lessons and it is time to let it all hang out.

We are in a stage of confirmation where a rabid anti-vaxxer is trying to run the HHS….RFK,Jr is a wildly irrational anti-vaxxer and it is a problem in this country…..but where did all this limited thinking originate?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has the potential to drastically reshape the public health landscape. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who ran as an independent in the 2024 presidential election before throwing his support behind Donald Trump, has expressed discredited claims that childhood vaccines are linked to autism and has advocated for a holistic approach to health. If he were to oversee government agencies like the CDC, NIH, and FDA, scientists fear that he could encourage states to weaken vaccination requirements.

The controversial nomination—and the relative popularity of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement—speak to a larger mistrust of expert knowledge. Yet they also fall within a longer contestation over state power, health, nature, and the body. From its inception, the anti-vaccine movement has been intertwined with a range of political, moral, and spiritual ideas around the rights of the individual versus the community, the limits of governmental power over bodily autonomy and faith in medical expertise, and institutional knowledge.

In the early-to-mid 19th century, most Americans welcomed vaccines against smallpox. Cowpox-based smallpox vaccines, which drastically improved upon riskier live smallpox inoculations, were first trialed in the United States in 1800 and quickly embraced by prominent figures such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Under Madison, “An Act to Encourage Vaccination” was passed in 1813, which provided for distribution of vaccines by mail. In newspaper coverage, vaccination was frequently represented as a measure of progress and enlightenment.

The efficacy of vaccines prompted some states to take a heavier hand in trying to eradicate the disease. In 1855, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate smallpox vaccination for children enrolled in public schools. By the early 1900s, several states had adopted similar policies. Given the devastatingly high mortality rates associated with smallpox, these laws were justified as measures to protect the general welfare.

Read On….

https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/

Personally I think it is a crime to endanger your child because you believe conspiracy that has NEVER been proven.

Apparently stupidity can be lethal.

Many Americans are willing to gamble with their children’s health because some mental midget told them to do so.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”