The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr
When a federal judge in Mississippi ordered a sweeping rollback of the state’s strict school vaccine rules in 2023, the ruling hit some doctors like “a gut punch”.
Mississippi had for years achieved some of the highest vaccination rates in the US for children – a point of pride in a place that consistently ranks at the bottom of other health measures.
The state health director warned of the dire possible consequences, including a comeback of preventable illnesses like measles, diphtheria and pertussis – known as whooping cough.
“None of these diseases are gone,” Dr Daniel Edney told a talk radio host as the state implemented the newly ordered rules. “They’ve not been eradicated. They’re just waiting. They’re lurking.”
What will it take for the US to start doing something about avoidable children, deaths and massacres? I’ve previously worked as a volunteer in Nairobi, Kenya. Even back then, everyone knew that the deaths we saw were completely avoidable. Families were desperate to obtain vaccination to protect their children.
What in the last 50 years of history leads you to believe that avoidable children deaths are even an issue for the US?
Nothing so far, hence the question
Maybe this is what we need to do. One argument is that we’ve done so well at preventing these preventable diseases that we’re insulated from the consequences, “surely it can’t be that bad”. Maybe people need to see the suffering and death for themselves, to come to their senses