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Yowza's avatar

My working theory is that team Trump is waiting to dove tail that topic in after taking control. As it is, people think I'm crazy when I tell them just a little bit of what is going on. Time will tell.

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Wouldn't assume the hepatitis thing is due to vaccine failure.

Parts of the third world have hepatitis as an endemic disease. I know in Vietnam some 8% of the adult population has it (and as a result, liver cancer is the leading cause of death), and quite a lot of those picked it up in infancy (mother-child transmission) and early childhood ("community exposure") rather than the standard routes we think of in the US (eg sex and IV drugs). So given the sheer number of migrants we've been taking in from those countries where hepatitis is much more common, I'd be shocked if we *didn't* see a rise in cases.

You can get a sense of relative rates of hepatitis infection using liver cancer as a proxy:

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/liver-cancer/by-country/

Though I suspect some of the lower number countries reflect a lack of access to medical care rather than an accurate low rate (if someone dies of liver cancer, and nobody makes a record of it, does it count?).

I'm willing to give RFK and DJT the benefit of the doubt on their silence for now. RFK is not entitled to security at the public expense until he takes the office, and if he can lull pharma into thinking he's sold out, he might actually live long enough to be installed at HHS. I mean, that's a mega-profit industry, and that much money at risk is... a big incentive. I worry like everyone else that they really have sold out on the vaccine-safety issue. But I'm not sure we know anything until all the new hires are actually in office.

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