Phil Verhoef

single payer now!

i know. but… like… you have a perspective that very few others have. and i already know you to be a person who speaks truth, with integrity. tbh, i largely gave up engaging on social media because of how exhausting it is…but if you can keep going at least know that there is value in it.

please keep sharing your perspective.

how much does this really matter? elimination status does not materially impact how a local or state health dept responds to an outbreak, and we’ve all given up on the feds regardless right?

you just need tom waits.

…. which is all the more distressing.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on His Mission to Rebuild Public Trust in the NIH and CDC He discusses "DEI" research, campus funding freezes, ACIP, and the path forward for the nation's public health infrastructure

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread.

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i think this is the product of basing our development so squarely on a belief in capitalism. with capitalism, there MUST be winners and losers, hence his zero sum framing, and people buy in to this framing. i don’t think there should be any losers. his worldview depends on there being losers.

good riddance.

hard not to giggle about a broccoli called packman.

the robots in the later dark tower books by @stephenking.bsky.social could be considered stupid liars

in addition to the fact that just because he says one rational thing, it does not forgive all the other nonsense he has spewed, making this basically meaningless. a broken clock is still correct twice a day.

bacon and maple yummmmm

same.

flu season is rough this year in Hawai’i. i talked about it with @khon2news.bsky.social

…wherein i talk to @khon2news.bsky.social about my concerns about the new vaccine recommendations. this shift will lead to vaccine preventable deaths. hard stop.

1/ HHS just announced the most significant rollback of childhood vaccine recommendations in modern American history.
Seven vaccines are being moved to “shared clinical decision-making,” a category that sounds reasonable but functionally ensures millions of children won’t receive them.🧵

we just keep reaching new lows with this administration. it’s honestly scary how easily we keep sinking and sinking into the abyss of fascism and authoritarianism. we were so much more fragile than we realized.

yah that’s part of the problem. vance might be worse because he’s not demented (in the same way)

yeah. i’m intrigued by this. in the case of a system like Kaiser (which i presume was included), i think it’s not accurate to simply attribute it to hospital-MA alliance.

gah i’ve spent my intubating life (15 years) avoiding etomidate. i’ve prob only used it once or twice. this study does dispel some big notions however…i guess maybe i will try start using it…

i wonder how that squares with what we published a couple months ago… pnhp.org/removing-the...

Every time ACIP meets, Bill Cassidy (R, Coward City) makes pathetic mewling sounds about how bad the committee is.

It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.

Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.

goddamn right

couldn’t you really just say springsteen x 5?? :)

amidst all the insane chaos in the world, perhaps this is a palate cleanser (literally)… i just found out chewing gum is chock full of microplastics and my world is rent asunder. i quit coffee a couple months back but now i gotta quit gum too?????? what’s next???

he's a fantastic person.

i think you mean counting nickels… there are fewer and fewer pennies to count.

just more reasons to support campaign finance reform. this is messed up.

this is the foundation for how we make tofu buffalo wings