Good summer morning Tahoma. It's Sunday. Yesterday's sirens on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe are explained today. One of the worst multiple accidents occurred yesterday in a boating accident near DL Bliss lakeshore park. A pleasure craft with at least 8 and maybe 10 onboard, capsized in strong winds and reduced visibility. Emergency responders from multiple districts approached the scene with limited resources. Eventually, 6 bodies were recovered,2 victims taken to hospital, and 2 still missing. The investigation continues.
Today's NYT describes a tragedy of monstrous proportions playing out across America-the outbreak of the measles virus. The reporter dug deep into the tragedy in Texas, near the city of Lubbock in the north panhandle. The story involves details of a family's confrontation with disease, a disease not unknown to science and medical practitioners. At the heart of the issue is vaccination and vaccines which have entered sections of the population that are skeptical of science and government sponsored programs. Coupled with restrictions on allowing unvaccinated students from entering schools, a minority of ignorant people has become enlarged as social media has entered daily lives of most households. These facts were coupled with the outbreak of the corona virus, the novel corona virus in 2019-2020. Additionally, politicians who joined skeptics found a vulnerable population searching for support for their uninformed positions and isolated ideas about science and medicine.
Among those politicians is Robert. F. Kennedy, a lawyer, who sought recognition as a well-connected member of a famous family. He achieved his notoriety by joining skeptics and espousing crackpot ideas and crackpot science(Non-science). All the issues surrounding Covid fueled the anti -vaxers position against all vaccines. Local governments became overwhelmed in some areas as exemptions were requested and allowed. And the results: outbreaks of a once declared-gone virus. This outbreak has confounded experts, despite promoting acceptance of vaccines in light of known facts. The experts have become aware of the new problem with information distribution: social media complicates dissemination of facts in the face of skeptics who abound on the internet.
Public health institutions are now faced with Kennedy the Skeptic in charge of the nation's health department. At his appointment by POTUS, it has become obvious that the nation's healthcare is in the hands of incompetent anti-science boobs whose grasp of their responsibility for healthcare is below a level expected from any government leader or any politician charged with oversight. Woe the followers of these two boobs. They do not care for your real lives and your real health.
Stay tuned.
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