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Carol's avatar

at least he was unsuccessful in his crusade to have the most recent European aluminum in vaccines study that showed no contribution of the infinitesimal quantity of aluminum to pathological outcomes. The journal refused to retract the peer reviewed study.

David Meadow's avatar

Once again, thanks for your information and critical discussion of the facts. I’m so sorry that you and your colleagues have received the type of threats that you have and appreciate your continued efforts on our behalf. thanks

Kimberlyanne's avatar

Dr. Rasmussen, thank you for your needed, truthful information. My heart breaks for the family of the officer that lost his life at the CDC that day! I'm so sorry for what you & your colleagues are going through. The Scientists dedicated to health care of the citizens in the US! It's infuriating! Our country is going to become sicker and people will die. Innocent children! This regime is pure evil! You're correct in saying this is domestic terrorism!

Stephen Hooper's avatar

RFK Jr. is, like Trump, a political arsonist who sets fires and then wants credit for pretending to put out the flames.

onisillos's avatar

Such is the madness of extremists that an antivax lunatic goes on the rampage after antivaxxers have installed their man at the top of the organisation.

foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

Dr. Angela,

In this house, since 12/19 we have lived approximately 14 person-years...w/o a trace of Covid.

And this is while living in the scarlet-red state of South Carolina. (I actually heard a bank teller announce with pride that she was unvaccinated...as she spent her day in the faces of dozens of members of this Trump-worshipping community.)

How did we stay Covid-free? Vaccinations, boosters, masking, common sense, and regard for each other's well-being.

(FULL DISCLOSURE: My brother and father died of non-Covid-related causes during this time while under hospice care, and my mother's time under hospice care is drawing to a close, but none of them were/are due to Covid.)

Thank you, Doctor. You do much to keep me sane.

Walmart is apparently fully now invested in killing more of their "customers". Though receiving exactly the same two prescriptions for opioids for about a year, within 2 or 3 days of the now well known call between Trump and the CEO of Walmart (due to the threat to post "tariff costs" on Walmart price stickers), suddenly the people Walmart killed with oxy ($3.1B settlement worth), aren't enough, and they are now attempting to kill more of us, but now those with (in my case) a 25-year history with the same pain care specialist, and 55 years of constant pain. This was my third cut in a year, and while being solely responsible (other then hospice) for Mom's care (of which they are very aware.) FWIW, I've been 100% fully and permanently disabled for the past 25 years.

I'd estimate that there are between 10 and 20 million of us in America with this higher level of need for daily pain medication, and if they continue this deliberate strategy to shift blame from the Sacklers, Purdue Pharma and the FDA, to the people they have very successfully labeled as "ignorant hillbillies" the death will be great, even if hidden in all the other Trump horrors. The truth is that those of us with legitimate pain needs have a much-researched <1% addiction rate, and we will die by the millions when opioids are no longer available to people such as myself...

I'm hoping to find another path. At this new level (which I declined, in hopes of another option), I won't survive, and I will become just another of the 10% of American suicides caused by failures of pain management:

"Americans are Dying in Uncountable Numbers Because their Cause of Death Is Being Listed As “Suicide”, Not “DEA Dictated Pain Medication Deprivation” "

https://medium.com/@foofaraw/i-beg-you-to-consider-reading-what-i-desperately-hope-wont-be-my-last-medium-article-bf5cb5052a2c

I do understand that compared to what America (and the world) currently faces, even the horrors of suffering so great as to cause millions of suicides just isn't that big a deal. (If it hasn't been for the past decade as we died at our own hands by the many thousands, why should people care now?)

Thank you, Dr. Angela. I'm sorry to intrude, but today was the first day in 67 years where dying seems the more appealing option, and I have far too much to do yet. I'm not interested in surviving Covid just to be murdered by a Walmart pharmacist.

Lewis Carroll's avatar

It is the same as the stochastic terrorism they stoke against judges who rule against President Koresh, the quest to "hang Mike Pence" for doing his job, the Pittsburgh synogogue shooter after the propaganda about migrant caravan 'invasion' etc etc. It's how fascist MAGA rolls.

B.A. Tate's avatar

I still keep hoping against hope that we will wake up and discover it’s all been a bad dream. It’s bad enough to face the constant false allegations, threats and abuse that was an everyday occurrence before he was appointed. Now it’s like his supporters on social media feel validated and have ramped the abuse up to 12. The platforms refuse to do anything about it. Even after this episode of domestic terrorism, and yes, that is exactly what it is.

To turn the knife a bit more, his actions last week of firing the whole Workplace Violence Prevention team was the ultimate betrayal and eff you. That’s what bothers me the most about he and his rabid followers, they do not care if their beliefs are false and they don’t care about the abject harm they have and will continue to inflict. Not just on the scientists but on public health, on this country. I don’t know if this can ever be undone. Will we recover? How many lives will be lost in the process? How many missed opportunities to protect public health will go by? How many of us will there be left to carry on?

It’s so hard to believe that this is happening. I appreciate you so much for standing up and speaking the truth. It’s people like you that remind us why we went into this field and why we must not let this nightmare take over.