His long-held but discredited theory

Pig-ignorant Trump meddles with childhood vaccinations again.

 President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

His “theory” – it’s not a theory, it’s just a permanent brain-fart. He doesn’t do theory, he just talks.

The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. It also directs the nation’s health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied, and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, since that is not currently an option in the United States.

It ain’t broke so he’s busy breaking it.

Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. Childhood vaccines — and how and when to give them in combination — go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.

But Trump thinks he knows better, and has no inhibition about meddling with life or death medical issues that he knows NOTHING about.

Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link

Never mind your elitist scientific consensus and decades of study, Trump’s credulous ignorant loudmouth opinionizing gets to throw all that out.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the Senate health committee, slammed the executive order in a social media post, saying vaccines are safe and do not cause autism.

“I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong,” the Louisiana senator wrote. “The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.”

Asked on a call with reporters why the president was advocating splitting MMR into three single-disease vaccines, the White House official did not provide any studies supporting the decision. They said that was Trump’s long-held view and that some countries provide individual measles vaccines in certain circumstances.

The hell with Trump’s “long-held view”! Trump is a brainless uninformed moron and he has no business imposing his stupid “views” on all of us.

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4 responses to “His long-held but discredited theory”

  1. Sumi Avatar

    As a doctor, maybe Bill Cassidy shouldn’t have voted to confirm the nation’s foremost anti-vax conspiracy theorist as HHS secretary. It’s a bit late to be complaining about the foreseeable consequences.

  2. Mike Avatar

    More evidence of how the republican party has become the party of feelings. Trump’s feelings.

  3. Freemage Avatar

    Also, because there’s always more layers to the awfulness:

    In addition to the risks of infection during the proposed vaccine interregnum*, there’s also the very real risk that some parents will not manage the subsequent vaccine rounds, because three separate doctor visits will be difficult-to-impossible to manage for reasons of time and cost.

    The vast majority of those parents, of course, will be impoverished or at most ‘working class’. This is just another Trump plan that just happens to be likely to lead to lots of dead poor people, and due to economic demographics in this country, lots of dead people of color.

    Don’t know if that’s the primary purpose, but it absolutely is the sort of thing this piece of shit would regard as a bonus.

    *: Sometimes I like a good five-dollar word; sue me.

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Hey now. When have I ever objected to a good five-dollar word?! I use them myself all the time. It’s only the dud ones I object to. The filter of course is of my own invention; we all have our own particular filters. Interregnum is an excellent five-dollar word.

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