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"None of the Above" (see Bruster's Millions (Movie)) really needs to be an option...
It is. It’s called a protest vote, and it’s done by casting a blank ballot
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
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Here is an early article about the outbreak. [0] [0] https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/09/05/... Appears that it originated within a family group involving 6 kids and 7 adults.
It came from abroad.
From where? When?
Baffles me that someone would write something so definitively yet not expand on it in any way at all.
Not saying you're wrong (I have no idea), but what a low-effort comment. I'm curious, you seem (or claim, at least) to know something, can you help me satisfy my curiosity?
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#34This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
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The BCG vaccine is not protective against tuberculosis in adults. It helps prevent miliary tuberculosis in children.
I did my graduate work on tuberculosis. Those of us who weren't vaccinated because of our country of origin refused to be because the vaccine wouldn't help us and it changes testing for TB from a quick skin test to a lung x-ray.
It's not barbaric or corrupt or anti-vaccine in this case. It's details of this particular vaccine.
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#37This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
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The CDC is likely to be one of the primary sources for said media on national health issues like this.
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#38This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
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The implication is that the scientific and medical communities rely on infrastructure built and maintained by the scientific and medical communities to communicate and coordinate.
The general media consumes sources like this, obviously.
Doctors read bulletins like this so they're aware of what's going around and it can inform their clinical practice.
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#40This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
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Yes. The media will not communicate the depth and complexity of the details.