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Michael Grant's avatar

Eventually the developed world may have to require the correct vaccinations for travellers to and from the US just to protect their populations, as is done with lesser developed nations.

Diana P's avatar

Good day Charlie, I have a question that you maybe able to help me or should say Canadians out.

There are only 2 countries that allow the opposition leader to reside in a house paid for by the taxpayers of that country..New Zealand and Canada.

I am tired of paying taxes for a multi millionaire to live in a house that I would never be able to own have a house maid a cook etc. How can we as Canadians get this man out of that house or make him pay for all the payments we as ordinary people have to pay for.

I know this question was not on the subject you where talking about but I do believe this is just as important

Thanks

Nancy Bremner's avatar

Also what is worse a pollster that is following the stupid regime by polling an uneducated public?! People are very delusional these days.

Hollyhock's avatar

Nothing like calling upon uneducated people to decide whether science is accurate. Incredible. What next? A public announcement from another public agency that the world is truly flat and not round due to the results of recent Survey Monkey?

Margot Gibb-Clark's avatar

Great one Mr. Angus

Judy Kiriak's avatar

Why is it that people follow conspiracy theories, are against science, until hospitalization is required. Then do anything medically available.

Donna D's avatar

Oh, I didn’t know that. That’s terrible.

Ralph Haygood's avatar

Just over a century ago, American attorney Clarence Darrow, defending Tennessee high-school teacher John Scopes, declared, "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States." Although Scopes and Darrow lost in court, they were widely regarded as having won in the court of public opinion.

However, the bigots and ignoramuses never conceded or disappeared. In suburban Los Angeles during the 1970s, I was raised by such people and sent to schools run by them. They grumbled incessantly that politicians like Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford weren't True Conservatives, because those politicians weren't devoted to reversing the social progress that had been made since 1960 or earlier. They longed for a "strongman" who would direct the power of the state against their enemies: uppity brown people, self-assertive women, "deviants", and "elites" like Clarence Darrow who were forever saying (correctly) that they were "bigots and ignoramuses", "deplorables", etc.

And now, such people have much of what they wanted. Things decent and thoughtful people recoil from, they celebrate. Credible polling indicates that about a third of the American populace supports the regime, even as it makes them poorer (e.g., by driving up the price of oil with its absurd war against Iran). People like the ones who raised me may not like being made poorer, but they consider it a sacrifice worth making for the sake of suppressing people they despise. This spiteful attitude isn't rational, but it is widespread in the USA.*

All of what Mr. Angus calls attention to in this post and much else besides are natural consequences of letting bigots and ignoramuses marshaled by propaganda have their way with a country. I've seen it coming for decades.

*The best exposition of this psychology and its history, particularly the racism, I've read recently is by Saida Grundy:

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/ng-interactive/2026/jun/21/american-racial-anxiety-white-working-class-rights

Lb 🇨🇦's avatar

This is unbelievable

Ben's avatar

The rise of liberal democracy in the west was concomitant with the rise of reason and science. If you undermine one, you undermine the other. In fact, this is precisely what is taking place in the US (and elsewhere): the attack on science is an attack on democracy, make no mistake. With all its flaws---and some are very significant---liberal democracy at least has a chance for reform and advancement. One can only shutter at what the alternatives would bring.

Charles Fraser's avatar

Trumpler and kennedy get their intel information from the national enquirer. Dr. Fauci compared to RFK, a complete incompetent person with no credibility allowed to destroy the health centers, many are/will die. During covid, they said best just let the old people die. This is another layer of trumpler's plan to destabilize america, he hates america and democracy. Children and women are dying and there is hardly a cry or a word! Crazy as this all is, there is very little blow-back. The closer we get to the mid-terms the more violence will bee unleashed by his ss/ice stormtroopers. Trumpler started illegal wars and wants WW 111 and wants to fire a nuke, complete insanity and he is allowed to get away with his insanity. the rise of the 4th reich, in real time. We know trumpler is insane and depraved, but what about the dangerous vile men who are pulling his strings? Like all relationships with malignant narcissists, the innocent ones end up losing themselves and don't know the differences from up and down, left or right, or right from wrong, crazy making....elbows up!

Lorna 0lson's avatar

Its unthinkable but there are over a hundred Iranian girls dead..evidence Israel's genocide is wiping out children to eliminate the next generation..depopulation.. part of the dark strategy..shine bright all!!

John F Psutka's avatar

Thanks Charlie. This is a very good review of the current USA dysfunction in Public Health. This is the pattern of Trump's America, complete utter stupidity with utter disregard to scientific facts. Thus all the previously highly regarded institutions such as DOJ, Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, Department of Energy and several others , all, are deteriorating in absolute free fall. I have absolute disdain for the American Congress and their current state of the Rule of Law. Robert F. Kennedy is a densely stupid burned out coke head , profiteering from his death and destruction of the American people. A truly vile individual. You must never believe any thing that comes from the CDC at this time. If you do, you will die.

Catherine Boston's avatar

I am one of those more than 1000 reported cases who suffered from INFLATION OF THE BASE OF THE BRAIN known as Encephalitis. Age 6yrs old. Transferred to a Communicable Disease Hospital as no one really knew what was happening at that time. Spinal tap performed.

Paralyzed needing to relearn simple tasks like walking, running, using a pencil, writing,most personal care needs.

Memory loss of anything previous to the Measles. Have no early childhood memories for the most part.

Balance became difficult. Not able to walk a straight line, required more focus on staying upright.

ADD and Bipolar II disorder as organizational skills and such were severely affected.

Calcification between my brain and skull which worsen significantly after injury.

70yrs young and have accomplished much, but not without constant attention to detail. Mom, wife, grandma, RN, MSW Clinical Therapist, Teacher, Jailhouse Nurse and Therapist, Mental Health and Developmentally Disabled Specialist. Two masters degrees.

There were many kids like me but never much research. Most research came out of English Medical Journals.

More importantly there were thousands that died or became seriously physically and developmentally devastated.

I think it is unconscionable the CDC gave into "polling" data to determine if vaccines caused Autism. There is study after study resulting in the REALITY that vaccines DO NOT caused Autism.

What's going on. Or are these people in charge hired by RFK,Jr. which is so dangerous.

IT MAKES ME FURIOUS!!!!.

Thanks for paying attention Charlie as it seems like no one here does m

Catherine Boston's avatar

Sorry supposed to say INFLAMMATION not inflation. Should have proof read better.

Kathleen Davidson's avatar

This is an important story to tell and retell. And share widely. Lack of education, misdirection and apathy cannot be allowed to bring these killer diseases back.

Susan Halvorsen's avatar

We need to move on from the CDC. There is excellent research and public health initiatives in Canada and other parts of the world to follow and support. Perhaps excellent American medical minds need to look outside the U.S.. Canada has long suffered from brain drain in the medical and technology fields -- it's time to reverse this phenomenon.