Two adjacent posts in my BlueSky feed just now:
Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.
Your Local Epidemiologist
Camp East Montana in El Paso is currently under quarantine following a measles outbreak and cases of tuberculosis.
Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social
Combine that with the ebola news from Congo as part of the ongoing public health crisis caused by stopping USAID funding for HIV and other chronic illnesses, and reports of RFK Jr.'s total disengagement and the vacancies and acting figures in top roles within our U.S. health infrastructure, and we have a perfect set of circumstances to sicken and kill many people, all while wreaking lots of economic damage along the way.
Oh and then there's the recent raw milk news. As Adam Serwer said today on BlueSky,
The raw milk thing is proof that you can trick conservatives into literally eating shit and liking it.
But how different is from vaccine denialism, really? They're both just different forms of the naturalistic fallacy.
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