RFK Jr. wants to send anti-depressant users to "wellness farms"

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Wellness farms, just another name for concentration camps. And that's where the new Sec. Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wants to send anyone who takes an anti-depressant. Where the hell did this come from? To the best of my knowledge, there have been no reports of mass deaths from Prozac. The new health lunatic is spending his time, and, taxpayer money, on crap like this when the country has a new significant problem with the outbreaks of measles and bird flu.

Mother Jones covered the anti-depressant thing as far back as July of 2024...

"In a virtual event last week that was billed as a “Latino Town Hall,” presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled his plan to overhaul addiction treatment programs. Speaking during a live recording of the Latino Capitalist podcast, Kennedy described opioid, antidepressant, and ADHD “addicts” receiving treatment on tech-free “wellness farms,” where they would spend as much as three or four years growing organic produce."

Then, just recently, RFK Jr. submitted his plan to, " Round up people with mental health conditions in camps." He has completely flummoxed a clueless bunch of Republicans on his intentions for keeping people healthy, and suddenly digressed into the intention of creating his own system of stalags. Of course, in keeping with the ideology of Donald Trump. But I am both surprised and very disappointed there has been no massive outcry from the medical community. They've let the Kennedy outcast take healthcare into a downward spiral.

Here's the scenario from NPR...

New Mexico health officials [recently] confirmed the death of an unvaccinated adult who tested positive for measles. The first death was a school-age child in Gaines County, Texas, last week.

News of a second death comes as infectious disease doctors worry that the federal government's messaging about the outbreak is putting more emphasis on treatments like vitamin A than on vaccination, even as misinformation about some of these treatments is spreading online.

RFK Jr. did reference vaccine as good " for community immunity," but said "good

nutrition is 'a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses.'" NPR reports...

"That emphasis on nutrition and vitamin A to treat measles is concerning some infectious disease doctors."

Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said...

"Mentions of cod liver oil [by RFK Jr.] and vitamins [are] just distracting people away from what the single message should be, which is to increase the vaccination rate."

RFK Jr. told Fox News' Sean Hannity that the best immunization to measles is to catch it. If you haven't already heard, the latest fad is to have measles parties where you can pass around the highly contagious viral disease, for adults and children. What Kennedy did not tell Hannity is the fact that doctors claim the downside from catching measles is worse than getting a vaccination. The health care imposter didn't mention that...

"measles can be deadly, although rare, with approximately 1 to 3 out of every 1,000 people with measles dying, even with the best care, primarily due to complications like pneumonia or encephalitis."

But why would he even address the above possibility? RFK Jr. is a part of the Trump administration that cut U.S. aid to millions producing the following reaction from Irish Star...

"Experts have warned that Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID could cause over 2.1 million deaths per year over the next three years."

Considering the current objective to eliminate as much money and people from the U.S. Government as Trump and Musk can manage, it is obvious the Republicans just don't care. So why should RFK Jr.??? 

 

Doctors dump parents that refuse to vaccinate children but where do they go?

I did an article back in November of 2011, “Reckless parents endanger children by not vaccinating,” when this whole fiasco started about parents who adamantly decline to have their children inoculated properly.  It all started over a study done by a doctor in Great Britain that was proved to be wrong.  But families persisted in their refusal to vaccinate and now some pediatricians who have lost patience with this attitude are “firing” them from their practice.  Good riddance!



Child with measles



As a result of this denial, whooping cough is back, mumps are back, measles are back.  As of November 2011, there were 152 cases of measles, double a typical year; the biggest outbreak in 15 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In the pre-vaccine days, this disease killed between 3,000 and 5,000 Americans a year.  Doctors are only attempting to protect their other patients when they tell the stubborn ones to take a hike.

But, where do they go? 

In a Wall Street Journal piece, it was reported that “Medical associations don't recommend such patient bans, but the practice appears to be growing, according to vaccine researchers.”  And the docs aren’t giving in; a study done in Connecticut showed that around 30 percent of 133 doctors had asked this group to leave their practice.  In the Midwest, the figure was 21 percent.  Who wants to sit their child down next to another who could have God knows whatever?



Another concern of these misled parents was that mercury was used as a vaccine preservative, also disproved like the autism scare by numerous studies.  The WSJ found another interesting fact, that more medically educated parents these days are willing to challenge their doctors, thus, these physicians do not want to deal with patients that outwardly confront them.  This alone I cannot condone since a well-informed patient is the best kind of patient.

Some doctors said that they have not had much luck in persuading these misinformed parents to change their minds so the only alternative is to fire them.  Pediatricians do not agree on their obligations to these families but do know they want them to get the best medical care possible.  Unfortunately, those let go from these practices are “…probably going to gravitate toward another practice with unhealthy practices."  

And that is one answer to where will they go.  But there is yet another possibility; they won’t go anywhere and that is worse.

With the economy in the shape it is and affecting so many financially, along with a number of families without health care coverage, the ingredients are there for a real health care emergency.  40% of parents say they have deliberately skipped or delayed a shot for their children.  In another study, 1 in 10 parents vaccinated their children outside of the recommended schedule developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.



The doctor's pledge



A lot of younger parents today have not seen the havoc diseases like measles, mumps or whooping cough can cause.  They are willing to opt for the other side based primarily on emotionalism, reading material on the Internet without really checking its source for authenticity.  One Atlanta mom made the statement that any doctor should feel “obligated” to discuss vaccine risks. 

True, but if that doc tells you that you are endangering your child in what you are doing, and if you trust his or her judgment, then you should also take their advice.

Reckless parents endanger children by not vaccinating

Measles are back.  Mumps are back.  Whooping cough is back.  All thanks to senseless parents that have decided not to vaccinate their children for these diseases, or delay vaccinations from the recommended schedule.  So far this year there are 152 cases of measles, double a typical year; the biggest outbreak in 15 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In the pre-vaccine days, this disease killed between 3,000 and 5,000 Americans a year.

These irresponsible families claim the right to decide what is best for their children, but overlook the fact that what they are doing is affecting their entire community.  And this could spread nationwide if these crazies continue their crusade.  It all started with a nutcase doctor in Great Britain who published a study saying that a combined measles-mumps-rubella shot caused autism.  Many U.S. parents panicked and stopped their children’s vaccinations.

There were over twenty studies showing no link between the vaccines and autism, the incorrect study was retracted, and the doctor who submitted it was stripped of his license to practice medicine.  Yet alarmist parents continue to resist vaccinating their children: “…40% of parents say they have deliberately skipped or delayed a shot for their children.” 

This continued denial after debunking the autism study is possibly due to the book, The Vaccine Book, by pediatrician Robert Sears, who says "I'm not a proponent of mandatory vaccination for schoolchildren.  …vaccines should be a parent's choice.”

 

Forty-nine states allow parents to pass on vaccinations for religious reasons; 21 for their own individual reasons.  “From 1991 to 2004, the number of unvaccinated children in states allowing philosophical exemptions more than doubled,” according to a study in Journal of the American Medical Association.  And then there are those unvaccinated travelers bringing disease into the U.S. 

Diseased child

Cancer survivor Catherine Anderson, 41, contracted measles from a fellow passenger, even though she had measles as a child.  This was made possible because her migraine medications suppressed her immune system.  Children with cancer are even more vulnerable.

In another national survey it was found, “…that more than 1 in 10 parents vaccinated their children outside of the recommended schedule developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”  Others did not trust the recommended schedule and it was found that 13 percent used an alternative schedule.  A whopping 81 percent of parents who skipped or delayed vaccinations didn’t “agree” that what they were doing was harmful, thus, a complete lack of awareness of the consequences to the community.

The lead author of the study, Amanda Dempsey, says prior experience, or lack of, with the diseases could contribute to the attitude.  Those they would most likely skip were flu and chicken pox.  Dempsey also confirmed one of the reasons for skipping the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine was the bogus study on autism.  Also, they may never have seen someone with the disease and therefore can’t relate to the effects.  Doctors and scientists say this creates a dangerous situation where these parents fear the vaccine more than the disease.

Some pediatricians refuse to treat children that aren’t vaccinated.  But the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends not to “fire” them, rather they should work with them.  But this could pose a conflict.  If the doctor treats, does that mean he or she condones not vaccinating the child?

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