tRUMP has already said he will have wormbrain RFK Jr take control of all health related agencies in the USA, including the CDC. The last set of know nothings tRUMP chose to take over the CDC restricted information to the public, gave false number of COVID deaths and seemed to be cooking data… https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-trump-promised-control-public-health-agencies/story?id=115303649
To add to the insanity… RFK Jr. recommends fellow vaccine skeptic, Florida's surgeon general, to Trump for HHS secretary https://abcnews.go.com/US/rfk-jr-recommends-fellow-vaccine-skeptic-floridas-surgeon/story?id=115365550
LEST YOU FORGET...
Covid deaths
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies. 400,000 people. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy
Vaccine insanity
Trump Transition Co-Chair Floats Plan To 'Yank' Vaccines 'Off The Market.' Billionaire Howard Lutnick said anti-vaxxer and Trump ally Robert F Kennedy Jr. wants to get "the data" to help him pull vaccines. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/howard-lutnick-trump-vaccines_n_67237fe0e4b02f5ab1d287fe
Haters and Taters
Idaho
In 2024, in Idaho a regional Public Health department isn't allowed to give COVID vaccines anymore. They say it is a cost issue as hardly anyone is using them, but look again at 2023…
In 2024, 3 hospitals in Idaho had to close their maternity ward because they could not recruit staff… A report found the state has lost 22% of practicing OB-GYNs since the state’s ban took effect.
“Idaho doctor who worked at closed maternity ward says abortion ban harmed recruiting.” https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/04/22/idaho-doctor-who-worked-at-closed-maternity-ward-says-abortion-ban-harmed-recruiting/
The CDC Aug 29, 2024
The levels remain moderately high...
Legislating insanity
The Idaho Legislature in 2023 rejected $16 million in federal grants, Idaho has less COVID wastewater data, the Sun reported. Only three Idaho sites recently reported wastewater data to the Centers for Disease Control, compared to an average of 17 sites per U.S. state. https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/09/04/theres-less-covid-19-data-now-but-heres-how-to-track-the-virus-in-idaho/
In 2023 some states drafted legislation outlawing the use of mRNA vaccines in humans and food animals, fearing it could end up in food products. (And ruin their Pureblood status, HAH!)
“ Idaho introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to administer any type of mRNA vaccine to any person or mammal, including COVID-19 vaccines. A Missouri bill would have required the labeling of animal products derived from animals administered mRNA vaccines but failed to get out of committee. Arizona and Tennessee have also proposed labeling bills. Several other state legislatures are discussing similar measures.” https://theconversation.com/vaccines-using-mrna-can-protect-farm-animals-against-diseases-traditional-ones-may-not-and-there-are-safeguards-to-ensure-they-wont-end-up-in-your-food-204774
“While policymakers in Texas banned health departments from promoting COVID vaccines and Florida's surgeon general bucked medical consensus to recommend against the vaccine, governmental bodies across the country haven't blocked the vaccines outright. … The six-county district along the Idaho-Oregon border includes three counties in the Boise metropolitan area. Demand for COVID vaccines in the health district has declined with 1,601 given in 2021 to 64 so far in 2024. The same is true for other vaccines: Idaho has the highest childhood vaccination exemption rate in the nation, and last year, the Southwest District Health Department rushed to contain a rare measles outbreak that sickened 10.” https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/idaho-health-department-allowed-give-covid-19-vaccines-115401427
Looking back...Idaho liked killing it's population
CODE RED August 31,2021 Idaho : Brad Little, Republican governor of Idaho says there are only 4 ICU beds available in the entire state due to the surge in COVID cases. The scariest part is they may have to turn to triage care soon… having to decide who gets the last bed, ventilator. https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/idaho-governor-covid-19-surge-brad-little-icu-announcement/277-1f4706eb-12d8-4bf7-a6a5-26cc6884b304
CODE RED Sept 06, Idaho 2021 has to triage/ration and “enacts 'crisis standards of care' as COVID surge overwhelms hospitals, warns some patients won't get needed care. Idaho public health leaders are letting the state’s northern hospitals ration health care because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement Tuesday and warned residents that they may not get all the care they need because of severe shortages of staffing and hospital beds caused by a massive increase of COVID-19 patients needing hospitalization. The crisis standards of care are for 10 hospitals and healthcare systems in Idaho’s panhandle and north-central Idaho. The move allows hospitals to allot scarce resources like intensive care unit rooms to patients most likely to survive.” https://localnews8.com/news/ap-idaho/2021/09/07/idaho-enacts-crisis-hospital-care-standards-amid-covid-surge
CODE RED Sept 07, 2021 Idaho: A video about Crisis care and what that means to people in Idaho… https://twitter.com/i/status/1435294647014862850
CODE RED Sept 16, 2021 Idaho, A doctor called coronavirus vaccines 'fake.' Now he sits on an Idaho regional health board. The “former president of the American Academy of Family Physicians who served on the board for 15 years had just been let go over his support for pandemic restrictions. To many, the clear choice for the replacement during a pandemic was an epidemiologist endorsed by the Idaho Medical Association. But hundreds wrote in for another doctor — backed by the Ada County Republican Party — who has called coronavirus vaccines “fake.” So of course the GQP wanted the latter… (OMG) https://t.co/8YZJPghhUq
Ryan Cole, vaccine denier: Ryan Cole calls the vaccine "clot shot" and "needle rape" was voted in the CDH (Central District Health) in Idaho https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/no-scientific-evidence-for-claim-by-pathologist-ryan-cole-that-covid-19-vaccines-weaken-the-immune-system/
CODE RED Sept 16, 2021 Hospitals in Washington State, already strained, are taking on an influx of COVID patients from Idaho, where the Republican governor has refused mask or vaccine mandates. "The idea that you would not immediately issue a mask mandate is just bizarre." https://t.co/n7ltEN07GO
CODE RED Sept 23, 2021 Ration care: Montana, Washington and Texas have started to ration care while Alaska and Idaho are already there… https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/17/hospitals-ration-care-covid/
I'm anxiously awaiting the day Trump starts denying federal funding to schools that enforce vaccine mandates. ...nice that folks with compromised immunity who get flu and COVID vaccines have to contend with kids whose mouth breathing parents aspire to bring back Measles.
Idaho is kind of a scary place. Trump's base are in Coeur d'Alene, but I saw the signs along the highway elsewhere last year. Never driving there again. They don't mind what he does to women either.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/listen-to-the-jeffrey-epstein-tapes-i-was-donald-trumps-closest-friend/