Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass. Most people are good.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Trump's killers

A NYT opinion (not paywalled) by the editorial board, Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse, focuses on the resurgence of diseases that children are no longer being vaccinated for. Trump's policy as implemented by anti-vaxxer and medicine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. is now starting to be felt in the form of children getting infected and dying because they are not vaccinated.

So far this year, 1,700 cases of measles have been reported in the US. There were about 70 per year in the early 2000s. Three children died in 2025. Also surging is cases of  cases of whooping cough in unvaccinated children. Also apparently increasing is meningitis (caused by the Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria) that killed two unvaccinated Florida children. 

Child with bacterial meningitis

So, preventable deaths that Trump/Kennedy rhetoric and policy have caused are now happening in real time. The MAGA-hyper-stupified state of Florida is trying to get rid of some childhood vaccines, leading parents to distrust vaccines and refuse to get their kids vaccinated.  

One medical doctor comments that under the idiot/killer Kennedy, the CDC intentionally underestimates the current incidence of bacterial meningitis and other diseases in the US because the idiot, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, cut CDC surveillance and reporting of vaccine-preventable diseases. So, MAGA policy is to get rid of effective vaccines and hide the inevitable deaths and disease injuries from us.


Q: Are Trump and Kennedy guilty of murder or manslaughter, or innocent by reason of MAGA-stupification, gross incompetence, malicious, sadistic cruelty, or something else?

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