1/6
Reading ProPublica's reporting on raw milk made us feel physically ill.
Not because it revealed some hidden danger. The microbiology is clear. The outbreaks are real. The risk to children from foodborne illness has been understood for generations.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Pregnant? 🤰
Leading evidence-based health orgs recommend 4 vaccines during your pregnancy:
💉 Flu
💉 COVID
💉 RSV (around 32-36 weeks)
💉 Tdap (around 27-36 weeks)
Trusted groups like ACOG & American Academy of Pediatrics endorse these vaccines because they help protect both moms and babies
Good morning 🥴
If there were an emoji for federal workers in Trump 2.0, what would it be?
6/6
We keep coming back to the same question:
Who gets to decide that someone else's child should bear the consequences of a risk we already know how to prevent?
Because from where we sit, that's what this debate is really about.
4/6
Freedom. Tradition. "Natural" living. Distrust of institutions. Profit.
The rationale changes, but the sickened children and mourning families don't.
Alt CDC (they/them)
5/6
This is where public health often parts ways with ideology.
We spend our careers looking at preventable suffering and asking how to reduce it.
When a serious risk is known, and safer alternatives exist, "people should be free to choose" cannot be the end of the conversation.
The Grand Old Pedophile party will be celebrating Trump's birthday on Sunday. We will be attending No Kings concerts across the country.
Bring some friends. Cause a tantrum.
#NoKings 🚫 👑
3/6
One of the hardest things to grapple with in public health is that harm isn't always caused by ignorance.
Sometimes people understand the risks perfectly well.
They just decide those risks are worth it.
