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Today in Labor History February 20, 1905: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There were lots of problems early on with the vaccine. For one, they reused needles, causing the transfer of syphilis from infected to uninfected people. They also had problems with bacterial contamination of the vaccine that made some people sick. On the other hand, because of the global mandatory vaccination program, the disease was eradicated in 1977, the only human disease to be completely wiped out. Keep in mind that as recently as the mid-1950s, over 2 million people were dying annually, worldwide, from the disease.
With respect to personal freedom, the Court ruled in Jacobson that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the state’s use of police power. Consequently, Jacobson has been invoked in other Supreme Court cases to justify police power. The ruling led to a mobilization of the anti-vaccination movement and the creation of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The Jacobson ruling was later invoked to support the eugenicist forced sterilization of people with intellectual disabilities (Buck v Bell, 1927); the federal partial abortion ban (Gonzales v Carhart, 2007); drug testing of students (Veronica School District v Acton, 1995); and, most recently, COVID mitigation mandates, like face masks and stay-at-home orders.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #smallpox #vaccination #publichealth #vaccinemandates #liberty #freedom #SCOTUS #publichealth #antivax
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Victorian anti-vax cartoon, showing a man in a white wig, with long nose, vaccinating a very upset man in a white white, with flushed cheeks and nose and red blotches on his face.
Explosive global measles outbreaks in North America. Mexico has reported more than 2,700 new cases so far this year. 900 new confirmed cases have been identified across the U.S. a fast-growing outbreak in South Carolina that’s the country’s largest since the disease was eliminated more than two decades ago, with hundreds of infections reported to date. Fast-growing outbreak in South Carolina, the country’s largest since the disease was eliminated more than two decades ago, with hundreds of infections reported to date. Dozens of new infections in Canada, with more than 70 cases in Manitoba.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-global-travel-risks-9.7093765
Our #RFKJr Whopper of the Week: Kennedy went to Samoa to spread #antivax disinformation and lied about it to #Congress ofter 79 kids and 4 adults died. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-went-samoa-spread-antivax-ideas-and-lied-about-it-congress
"FDA⚡agrees to review #Moderna #flu #vaccine application, splitting review into standard approval for: <65 & accellerated approproval for: 65+."
-M Herper
"Chaos🚨at #FDA is bad for patients. How is anyone supposed to know what the rules are & plan accordingly?🚨What about the small companies who don’t have the comms team Moderna has to make a stink?🚨What happens to their products when FDA makes a mistake?"
-S Despres
#Health #HHS #AntiVax #RFKJr #Eugenics #Protest #USPol
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/fda-moderna-reverse-course-flu-vaccine/
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Person holding a protest sign saying "childhood vaccines cause adulthood"
At least 20 students at Ave Maria University in Florida now have confirmed measles infections.
Florida has the fourth most measles cases so far in 2026, with 21 confirmed. South Carolina has by far the most (540, 920 if you count those still sick from 2025), followed by Utah (48) and Arizona (34), with those three states experiencing ongoing outbreaks that began in 2025.
At least 19 people have been hospitalized in S. Carolina during the current outbreak, with an untold number of patients suffering from measles-related encephalitis
95% are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccine status
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/campus-measles-outbreak-grows-florida
#measles #vaccines #antivax #rfkjr #publichealth
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Cartoon dr: Your son wasn't Vaccinated and now he has the measles.
Mother: I want a 2nd opinion
Dr: You're an idiot.
More #antivax quackery from #RFKJr's hand-picked and unqualified vaccine advisors. As a person approaching 70 yrs old already suffering nerve damage from my one bout of #COVID, this is a direct threat to my health and life. https://archive.is/gTwij
I'm looking into books not just about #ADHD, but specifically about the use of #psychostimulant drugs to treat it. I was hoping to find professional reference books. Instead, what I'm finding, overwhelmingly, are strident denunciations of #ADHD as unreal, and of the drugs as tools of diabolical mind control. The atmosphere of this discourse, the vibe, absolutely creeps me out. It's dismaying. It's worse — much worse! — than anti-addiction drug-war literature; many of THOSE people are surprisingly positive about what they see as responsible, legitimate use of scheduled drugs under prescription. Instead, the anti-#ADHD-drug literature is more reminiscent of the intensely toxic atmosphere of two other social pathologies we've become wearisomely familiar with: #antivax, and the "#autism overdiagnosis" school of thought that tries to deny the very reality of our identity.
Indeed, I suspect that at bottom the motivation behind all three social movements — #antivax, anti-#ADHD, and anti-#autism — is the same: denial of the Other. Whether it's plagues or neurodivergence, these people want above all to deny the reality of anything that would force them to make drastic alterations to their lifestyles. It's one step away from wishing other ethnic groups didn't exist.
Details emerge of #RFKJr's new Tuskegee study. This monster is willing to sacrifice African children to promote his #antivax nonsense. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-leaked-protocol-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183526&post_id=184624829&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
#JosephineBallon & #AnnaLenaVonHodenberg lead a German #LegalAid organization that assists individuals facing #online #abuse & #violent #threats.
#ClareMelford runs a British group that helps identify #disinformation.
#ImranAhmed is a British activist who runs an organization that has chronicled #antivax #content #on socialmedia.
On Tuesday, the #Trump admin accused all of them of a campaign of “censorship” against Americans.
#law #propaganda #immigration #tech #moderation #RevengePolitics
Measles and other diseases are making a comeback thanks to Trump and his administration.
The only disease that has risen faster is stupidity.
#cdc #trump #measles #infectiousdisease #MAGA #republicans #rfkjr #news #antivax
Liam Neeson, who thinks he's a doctor, has a very particular set of skills—skills he recently lent to a new #antivax documentary that glorifies the rise of HHS Secretary #RFKJr
The actor (yes, that is what he is), known for Schindler’s List and the Taken franchise, narrated the film, which includes interviews with Kennedy and other prominent anti-vaccine activists
Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed features a bevy of discredited claims about vaccines, including that they cause #Autism and aluminum toxicity, and frames Kennedy’s leadership of U.S. health policy as 'hopeful'
https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro
Liam Neeson Narrates #AntiVax, Pro-#RFK Documentary - https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro so Neeson turns out to be a moron. I shall avoid his films in future...
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#CDC panel makes most sweeping revision to child vaccine schedule under #RFKJr
The panel voted to eliminate a long-standing recommendation for every newborn to receive a #hepatitisB shot, excluding those born to mothers testing negative.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #vaccines #Trump #AntiVax #ACIP #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/05/acip-childhood-immunization-schedule-hepatitis-b/
The Advisory Committee on #Immunization Practices [#ACIP] approved the change despite fierce objections from #medical groups who said the recommendation had proved a successful #PublicHealth strategy, nearly eradicating the dangerous #virus among #US #children.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #vaccines #Trump #RFKJr #AntiVax #ACIP #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-babies-hepatitis-b-10f8db54beb38c5cd39a94f8a3657752?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-05-Breaking+News
Rather than get mired in the thought-terminating arguments around political parties or political factions, though, I think we'd do well to reflect on what sorts of other ways of thinking feed into this one: the measured life; standardized testing; the internet of things (sensors); tracking apps of various kinds; electronic health records; data science as a profession and Big Data generally; predictive modeling; generative AI and other optimization-oriented or productivity-promising technology. All of these function to render life as an object of knowledge in one way or another. All of them trace their origins through eugenics and the patterns of thought that led to it, and all of them threaten to enable and enhance further eugenic thinking. This is not to say these things are always all bad; this is meant to be a reflection on what exactly they're for.
Why read the number of steps your FitBit told you you took today, unless there were some sense in which you want your future self to be better than your present self? It's not an accident that this is called "physical fitness", "fitness" being the Darwinian concept describing which organisms should survive. Why subject children to standardized testing unless there were some belief it made them better students? To what end tends to be left out. Why adopt a technology meant to improve productivity, unless you're of the belief that improvement (optimization) were even possible?
Generally speaking, if one is able to bring oneself to believe that a human being is made better by a data-informed technical intervention, isn't one playing the same game as these anti-autism anti-vaxxers, just with different terminology? If your answer to this provocation is that your data is better than theirs or that you're more aligned with reality than they are--some variation of "the science is on our side"--you've ceded the territory: this is more of the same optimization logic that brought us to this point to begin with. I think we have no choice but to do better than this.
That's my reflection anyway.
#USPol #autism #vaccination #vaccines #antivax #eugenics #BigData #AI #PredictiveModeling #DataScience #science