A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony.
Senate Republicans plan to vote today on anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the secretary of health and human services. If they seat him, it will be Republican families that suffer.
Texas leading the way in thinning their own human herds, attaboy!
Related note: I nevertheless feel bad for those who never wanted, or were powerless to stop this. They don’t deserve it.
The most vulnerable populations tend to be the poorest. Migrants, children, and other broadly disenfranchised peoples will suffer for these policies. Upper class white men insulated in their country clubs and gated homes will be the last to see any comeuppance.
We’re doing Masque of the Red Death IRL. Prince Prospero makes it all the way to the final page.