There is such a long history of the accusation that illness is incentivized. We might call this the hystericization of ADHD & autism. #IllnessPolitics
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Can’t help but think of Alice Wong saying that “being disabled is a lot of work in an ableist society.” #IllnessPolitics
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Disabled & chronically ill activists have challenged the typical image of activism as ableist. Activism happens in multiple spaces & temporalities. #IllnessPolitics
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"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, & there is little hope for US health & science while he remains at the helm." #IllnessPolitics
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has been one organization that has effectively pushed back against Trump & RFK Jr’s destruction of health policy & undermining of children’s health in the service of a brutal eugenics ideology. #IllnessPolitics
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This is a moving portrait of #LongCovid & its impact on individual body/minds, social relations, & larger economic & healthcare structures. Darren Parkinson says Long Covid is like “gravity working overtime” & I can feel the weight of that experience. #IllnessPolitics
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Did RFK Jr vow to "restore public trust in health"? I would say that he did exactly the opposite, quite intentionally & glibly. Many, many experts warned that this would be a disaster & yet Republicans & some pundits failed to heed their evidence-based warnings. Here we are.
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Staley also notes "activism is thriving: the resistance to RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies reminded him of ACT UP’s early days. Activist groups such as Stand Up for Science, Defend Public Health & the Science and Freedom Alliance have been organising & mobilising." #IllnessPolitics
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Peter Staley: “We all knew Trump’s second term would be worse than his first...But few of us were prepared for the level of destruction–& the speed of it–that started immediately after his inauguration.” Project 2025 gave us the plan & timeframe.
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I would say “COVID contrarianism among the chattering classes,” as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social puts it, is one of the underlying conditions of the technofascist takeover of the US gov, mixed with a patriarchal white supremacist reaction formation against #MeToo & #BlackLivesMatter. #IllnessPolitics
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Infant mortality rises in Argentina for the first time in 20 years thanks to Milei's cuts to public health. #IllnessPolitics
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Too little, too late from Dr. Oz. Perhaps he’s beginning to worry about his reputation? However, the article does not show him critiquing his boss & his anti-vax ideology & policies at all, which are already having devastating consequences. #IllnessPolitics
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It’s shocking how quickly medicine & public health in the US have been taken over & undermined by quacks. #IllnessPolitics
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Let it rip eugenics. RFK Jr is the main architect, but many in the GOP have contributed to this example of illness as policy. #IllnessPolitics
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And immediately a very interesting development. Gov Newsom announces California will join WHO-coordinated international network. #IllnessPolitics
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It did not have to be this way. These are the devastating consequences of RFK Jr’s anti-vax ideology & policies. #IllnessPolitics
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I keep thinking about David Remnick's piece in the New Yorker called "This Old Man" that argued that, unlike with Biden, worries about Trump's age don't seem to stick because his "general malevolence" inoculates him. I would say the US media & political class have allowed this. #IllnessPolitics
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Exactly this. I’ve been writing about what I’m calling “illness as policy” as key to Trump’s agenda & operating both physically & psychically. #IllnessPolitics
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Adam Finkel, prof of environmental & occupational health: “It's very clear that N95s are (roughly) 90% effective, & why wouldn't you want 90% less viruses getting into you?” Unfortunately, I think the answer to that question is eugenics.
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These regional public health collaborations are a significant development as a response to Trump & RFK Jr’s aggressively regressive policies based on eugenics ideology. We will likely very quickly see increasing health disparities between regions of the US. #IllnessPolitics
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Now it moves to the Senate with a little bit of Dem momentum. There’s no doubt that the GOP’s attempts to cut tax credits that support access to health care are deeply unpopular with voters. Plus, the GOP has no plan. #IllnessPolitics
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I have also heard, anecdotally, that some doctors are hesitant to recommend Covid & flu shots to their patients because somehow that would be perceived as political, which defeats the purpose of their expertise. This of course generates more not less disinformation around vaccines. #IllnessPolitics
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"The present administration will continue to destroy evidence based public health programmes & policies unless clinicians, public health workers, & citizens fight back." #IllnessPolitics
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This has been RFK Jr's game all along. Disinformation about vaccines leads to decline in uptake which then becomes justification for more anti-vaccine policies. #IllnessPolitics
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Senator Cassidy is correct that "this decision will make America sicker." Too bad he didn't heed the clear evidence of RFK Jr's anti-vax beliefs when he voted to confirm him, giving him the power to do exactly what he is doing now. #IllnessPolitics
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This piece captures the exhausting work of disability—for disabled people & those who provide care, all of whom must jump through hoops again & again to prove they are deserving of support. It’s dehumanizing & inefficient. #IllnessPolitics
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"Bereft" doesn't really get at the horror of these bizarre "public health statements," but glad to see that the ridiculousness of Trump & RFK Jr's aggressively regressive public health policies are captured here. #IllnessPolitics
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Outrageous.
(But gotta love the annotation.) #IllnessPolitics
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American pediatricians have been some of the most stalwart opposition to Trump & RFK Jr’s regressive health policies. #IllnessPolitics
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American Academy of Pediatrics has consistently pushed back against RFK Jr's anti-vax policies & this is payback for their unwillingness to "lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health.” #IllnessPolitics
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