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Rhiannon12866

(238,738 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 01:22 AM 16 hrs ago

'Fringe movement to policy': Ron Johnson pushes anti-vax misinformation in Senate hearing - The Weeknight - MSNBC



Sen. Ron Johnson’s hearing titled “Voices of the Vaccine Injured,” was filled with anti-vax conspiracies and misinformation. MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny, who was in the room, joins The Weeknight to share the latest. Her full report is now live on MSNBC.com. - Aired on 07/15/2025.
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'Fringe movement to policy': Ron Johnson pushes anti-vax misinformation in Senate hearing - The Weeknight - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 16 hrs ago OP
One of the ways that vaccines work markodochartaigh 15 hrs ago #1
RFK Jr. would do well to heed your explanation, he may be TFG's most dangerous pick of all Rhiannon12866 14 hrs ago #2

markodochartaigh

(3,337 posts)
1. One of the ways that vaccines work
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 02:39 AM
15 hrs ago

is by reducing the number of infections in the general population. If you never come into contact with a person with contagious disease X, you will never contract contagious disease X. If you come into contact with multiple people every day with contagious disease X, your risk of coming down with contagious disease X is much higher.
I think that we are going to see a number of previously rare diseases become more common as our "herd immunity" from vaccination goes down.
It is also not completely unthinkable that the new department of "health" may stop requiring insurance and social safety net programs to pay for vaccinations, at least for some population groups.
It is probably a very good idea to ask your doctor if being very proactive about vaccinations for your family is appropriate.

Personal disclaimer: after putting off my shingles and pneumovax shots for no good reason, I just got my pneumovax and first, of two, shingles vaccinations. And being born in '57 and having family in the Texas measles outbreak area, I'm going to get my titer checked to assess my measles immunity.

Rhiannon12866

(238,738 posts)
2. RFK Jr. would do well to heed your explanation, he may be TFG's most dangerous pick of all
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 02:54 AM
14 hrs ago

And I got my Shingrix vaccine after listening to a woman I know telling me that she'd recently had it and it was so painful that she had to cut off her hair. Though I barely got shot #2 in because I got shot #1 just before everything closed down for Covid.

I always get my flu shots, but I should ask my doctor more about the rest. He did recommend the RSV, but I hope I'm immune to the childhood diseases since I had mumps when I was 4 or 5, measles when I was 7 or 8, chicken pox when I was 10 or 11 and rubella (chicken pox) when I came home for vacation during my first year of college.

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