RFK Jr.'s measles 'cure' sickens Texas kids amid outbreaks

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It is a common misconception that because vitamins are generally good for you, large doses can't harm you. The thing is there are two forms of vitamins, fat soluble and water-soluble. The water-soluble vitamins are usually flushed from the body anywhere from 24 to 72 hours after ingestion. However, any excessive fat-soluble vitamins are stored in the liver until needed. If you ingest more than your body requires the vitamins will accumulate in greater and greater numbers until bodily functions become compromised and toxic reactions can be too numerous to record here.

Vitamin A is one of those fat-soluble vitamins and overdoses can be lethal!

Bobby Kennedy is beyond doubt the most inept of all Trumps incompetent appointees. He has no medical knowledge -- none, zilch -- yet with the arrogance of a zealot and the ignorance of a dullard -- he relies on anecdotes and old wife's tales while giving no consideration to the harm he will inflict.

Trump in now in the doldrums of his own inabilities and unwarranted confidence. He is watching as the economy he vowed to protect slips into recession as 401k's crater and the stock market trembles in fear of what Monday morning might bring.

Perhaps we all should have read the Trump/Musk Manifesto, Project 2025; it was all foretold there.

Read this:

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Covenant Children's Hospital says it has treated several children suffering from hypervitaminosis A — or vitamin A toxicity

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This article may be potentially distressing to parents with children.

West Texas has been gripped by a measles outbreak for the past several weeks and as a result of misinformation passed on by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., it now faces a second, related health problem: Vitamin A toxicity — or hypervitaminosis A — in infants and children. The situation appears to be the direct result of bogus medical information pedaled by the vaccine-skeptic secretary himself. Kennedy recently said that although the measles vaccine is the best defense against the highly contagious and potentially fatal infection, he emphasized that getting inoculated was a "personal choice."

Kennedy, whom President Donald Trump appointed to be the nation's top health advisor, suggested, "vitamin A can dramatically reduce measles mortality," or even prevent measles infections.

Kennedy recently directed the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to update measles guidance to promote vitamin A use in fighting the infection. In early March, the CDC's top communications officer, Thomas Corry, cited Kennedy's slow response to the West Texas outbreak and his embrace of so-called "alternative measles treatment," as the reason for his resignation. Numerous other CDC and HHS officials have resigned since Kennedy took over, more health workers still —so far at least 10,000 — have also fallen prey to Elon Musk's cost-cutting measures.

In all, HHS has lost a quarter of its workforce.

Though Kennedy and the CDC suggest vitamin A should only be taken under doctor's supervision, West Texas parents are apparently giving their children so much of it that they are now being admitted to hospital emergency rooms. Among other remedies, Kennedy has claimed that cod liver oil, which is rich in vitamins A and D, "works" as a treatment against measles.

Although vitamin A may be given to measles patients who suffer malnutrition-related vitamin A deficiencies, there is no evidence suggesting that it is effective in preventing measles.

And even though it is known that excessive cod liver oil consumption can have serious negative health consequences, demand for it has exploded in West Texas, with pharmacies saying, "it's flying off the shelf."

Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has said it has treated "fewer than 10 cases" of vitamin A toxicity over the past couple of weeks. Administrators say the children were initially admitted with measles symptoms but later determined to have had abnormally functioning livers as a result of vitamin A toxicity.

Doctors at Covenant are publicly warning against excessive vitamin A intake, saying that it could lead to severe side effects such as dry skin, impaired sight, bone problems and liver failure.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) on Friday said that it had recorded 481 cases of measles since January. The number of nationwide measles cases stood at 607 as of April 4, according to the CDC. Measles — a highly contagious respiratory infection that spreads when an infected individual sneezes, coughs or speaks, as well as when people touch their eyes, nose or mouth after contact with a contaminated surface — was declared eliminated in the US in 2000 thanks to decades of sustained mass-vaccination campaigns.

According to the CDC, the only effectively proven method of preventing measles is the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine, which boasts 97% efficacy.

In February, the Texas DSHS confirmed the death of a "school-age child who was not vaccinated" and who had "tested positive for measles" when she was hospitalized.

It was the first confirmed measles death in the US since 2015.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/rfk-jr-s-measles-cure-sickens-texas-kids-amid-outbreak/ar-AA1ClULq

There are massive protests scheduled all over the country today. If you’re protesting today, be safe. If anyone starts agitating or trying to incite violence film them. They’re MAGA and, in some cases, they might even be the Feds. Don’t take the bait.

Don’t wear a mask. If you wear a mask and they arrest you, you can catch extra charges just for having one on. Have a few numbers of people you can call written on your arm, just in case. Go with friends or meet up with people there!

But most of all, take pictures and videos and post them! The corporate media hasn’t been covering most of the protests since the inauguration. Do it for them!

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Nelson Mandela

Why would he crash the economy on purpose? I’m pretty sure Project 2025 tells us why.

Hold on, because here we fucking go. Everything is about to get a lot more expensive for no reason. 😣

I’m about to call Lauren Boebert’s office myself this morning.

This morning we witness an act of civil defiance underway. Senator Cory Booker is working on his 12th hour of Filibuster. May this go well into the night.

This article is a few months old, but this is something they are still trying to do. This should be on every major news outlet, but it’s not.

I will be posting the DOJ Evidence in the comments. This investigation should have ended the entire Republican Party because they have all been running this propaganda campaign for Russia since 2016 and the DOJ evidence proves it. Send this to your Republican family members. They need to wake the f*ck up already.

Not sure if it’s just a glitch or if we’re actually getting censored here now.

See the comments for the page.

A look behind the Trump/Musk tattered curtain.

Federal workers show up to Musk-ordered office and discover it’s just a dusty storage room.

Trump has been in office for about two months now, and it has been a graduate course in bumbling, stumbling, and gross incompetence and mismanagement. He institutes tariffs, rescinds them, then institutes them again on a lesser scale -- then rescinds those. It's like a four-year-old who wants chocolate syrup in his sippy-cup then screams when you put chocolate syrup in his sippy-cup',

(As of this writing he has issued tariffs on all imported cars)

Truth to tell, it does seem humorous as he and his supervisor, Musk, stumble through the bureaucracy like Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder performing a trapeze act. Yes, it would be funny except for Project 2025's promise to entirely disrupt the working of our government regardless of the damage to the critical infrastructure, the threat to childhood nutrition, the elimination of medical research, the near collapse of the veterans Administration, the dismantling of the Social Security Administration, and the intentional destruction of an untold number of critical agencies whose mandate is to keep our government up and running.

Yes, their ineptness and ineptitude would be funny if it weren't for the harm they are doing.

Her is a look from behind the curtain from a report from NPR -- it wasn't reported by Fox News.

Federal workers show up to Musk-ordered office and discover it’s just a dusty storage room

Story by Falyn Stempler

Federal employees have reported that the Trump administration's return to office mandates have been extremely disorganized. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an order that effectively ended remote work for federal employees, despite pre-COVID protocols that saved the government millions of dollars. He then proceeded to dismiss workers indiscriminately, including probationary staff who a judge ruled must be reinstated. These sweeping changes have resulted in widespread confusion and chaos as federal employees report returning to offices lacking supplies and receiving unclear instructions, completely undermining efforts to save money and increase productivity. Employees from several key agencies have reported shortages of desks, computer monitors, parking spaces and even basic items like toilet paper and paper towels in their offices.

Staff at the FDA's White Oak campus continue to express concerns about the building's drinking water, following the detection of Legionella bacteria in some areas during testing last year. Despite the agency's assurances that the water is now safe ahead of this month's push to return to the office, it has not provided updated test results to support this claim, according to an internal email reviewed by NPR. Earlier this month, a Department of Agriculture employee working remotely was given a list of office locations for their mandatory return - only to discover one was actually a storage facility. Intrigued, the worker drove to the address and found a real storage unit. The facility's owner, when questioned, chuckled and confirmed that the government does lease a unit there - not for office space, but for storing a Fish and Wildlife Service boat. The unit lacks heat, power or windows.

The COVID pandemic significantly boosted remote work, but many agencies had already begun this transition years earlier in a bid to cut costs on office space and enhance recruitment and retention, as per the federal Office of Personnel Management. Prior to Trump's call, one out of every ten of the roughly 2.28 million federal workers across 24 agencies held fully remote positions, while 54% worked on-site and 46% were eligible for remote work, according to a 2024 OMB study. This shift helped federal agencies save over $230 million in the fiscal year 2023.

Several agency employees have voiced their frustration over the lack of essential equipment and basic amenities needed to perform their duties. Federal workers have also expressed their anxiety about being left in the dark regarding potential office relocations. Employees at Texas' Internal Revenue Service have reported to NPR that they've been forced to work in classrooms, auditoriums and cafeterias with unreliable Wi-Fi during their busiest season. As a result of these conditions, some IRS workers were told not to return to the office, contrary to the president's orders, to avoid further delays. n the meantime, Veterans Affairs office employees have voiced concerns about insufficient space affecting patient care. The VA has stated it is taking steps to resolve these issues.

Similarly, Social Security Administration staff have cautioned that shortages are leading to extended wait times and registration delays, sparking worries about access.

Food and Drug Administration workers in Maryland reported that their mandated return was immediately met with traffic jams and a lack of parking spaces. Some weren't even provided keys to their offices.

"There are all the small indignities of being in a facility never equipped for this many people: toilet paper and paper towels running out immediately, very long lines at the cafeteria, loud noise, people working in hallways," one FDA employee shared with NPR.

Another commented: "It has seemed like an arbitrary punishment to lower morale."

The FDA has acknowledged the problems that have surfaced since returning to the office and said it is making efforts to address them.

Several disgruntled workers have voiced suspicions that the return-to-office mandate is a sneaky strategy to encourage resignations. DOGE head Elon Musk has been known to use similar tactics at his other enterprises, including X, formerly Twitter, as part of a broader scheme to cut down his workforce and boost profits. Concerns have also been raised about a chilling speech in 2023 by the incoming Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, who was instrumental in creating Project 2025. In his speech, he outlined his ambition to drastically shrink the influence of the federal government.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," Vought said. "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains."

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