What RFK Jr. Told Grieving Texas Families About the Measles Vaccine: The nation’s top public-health official has been promoting suspicions of the shot even as he offers comfort. - "Hildebrand said that, before they took Daisy to the hospital, his family was given advice on her care by, among others, Ben Edwards and Richard Bartlett, two West Texas doctors whom Kennedy has praised as " extraordinary healers" treating measles patients in Seminole. Edwards and Bartlett are pictured in a photo that Kennedy posted from his meeting with the two families, which occurred after the funeral at a steak dinner at the West Texas Living Heritage Museum, in Seminole. Like Kennedy, Edwards has raised doubts about the safety of the MMR vaccine and instead promoted treatments such as cod-liver oil, which is high in vitamins A and D. At one point, he was offering free cod-liver oil to Seminole residents at an ad hoc clinic next to a coffee shop." [ed. note: they treated her, she didn't get better, they delivered her to a hospital, she died]
The Tariff Damage That Can’t Be Undone: Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended. - "Yesterday morning, the U.S. economy appeared to be on the verge of catastrophe. The stock market had already shrunk by trillions of dollars in just a few days. Usually, when the stock market falls, investors flock to the safest of all safe assets, U.S. Treasury bonds. This in turn causes interest rates to fall. (When more people want to buy your debt, you don't have to offer as high a return.) But that didn't happen this time. Instead, investors started pulling their money out of Treasury bonds en masse, causing interest rates to spike in just a few hours.
"Suddenly the entire global financial system appeared to be at risk. If U.S. Treasuries were no longer considered safe - perhaps because the country that issues them had recently shown its willingness to tank its own economy in pursuit of incomprehensible objectives - then no other asset could be considered safe either. The next step might be a rush to liquidate assets, the equivalent of a bank run on the entire global financial system. 'This scenario is more serious than 2008,' Adam Tooze, an economic historian who wrote the definitive history of the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession, argued on Substack."
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths: If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed. - "Some scholars argue that we now inhabit a 'culture of offense,' a way of turning a claim that some behavior or statement is offensive into, in effect, a right to be offended, which creates a further claim of victimhood. I expect that we can all think of examples of how this culture can be used as a cudgel to disingenuously keep disfavored views and voices out of the public realm."
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