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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First on his list should be putting soda on the list of things people can’t buy with food stamps.[/quote]

The USDA is in charge of food stamps, not HHS. [/quote]

The typical MAGA is chock full of notions about what needs to be changed yet they don't even understand what they are talking about.[/quote]

They don't, but you do, right?

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Vaccines have eliminated and vastly reduced the incidence of  a number of serious infectious diseases.  before the vaccine was developed in the 60s,  one hundred percent of the population got measles.   Most recover but there are deaths and very very serious outcomes for a percentage of those infected.[/quote]

They don’t even think about all this. 100 years ago we had a bunch of “schools for the blind” and “schools for the deaf,” why? Because childhood illnesses - measles especially - left a small proportion of children permanently disabled. Measles also had a death rate of around .1%.[/quote]

One hundred years ago?  The infectious disease scourge is way more recent then that.  Every boomer and most Gen X know people that were permanently paralyzed in some part of their body from Polio.  I knew a half a dozen polio victims with permanent paralysis.[/quote]

No need to carp here - both of you are on the same track. I'm in the "know a half a dozen polio victims...." while my kids do not know any. In fact, when they - mid teens - asked me to compare COVID to something in my childhood, I shared stories my parents relayed to me of not being allowed to go out when there would be polio outbreaks around them. The relief my parents felt about vaccines was so palpable to me, even as a young child.[/quote]

America was great when our mothers and grandmothers had to live in fear of their children getting diseases that have been virtually eradicated?  Not in my book[/quote]

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