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.

  • @ceenote
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    8 days ago

    After the last election, I have zero faith in the American public’s ability to learn any lesson. We’ve got a whole propaganda ecosystem dedicated to keeping that from happening. The lessons will have to get more painful than covid was.

    • @GreyDawn
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      28 days ago

      If you cannot listen, then you will feel.

    • @[email protected]
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      08 days ago

      If bird flu takes off, it will literally be a real-life version of The Stand.

      That might be a bit too much lesson for everyone.

      Oh, well.