#preventable illnesses

Everyone wants to be healthier. MAHA and RFK Jr will make people sicker—and poorer.

Make America Healthy Again, MAHA, claims it wants to improve American health, but MAHA actually opposes every single public health intervention and scientific innovation that improves health.

RFK Jr. and MAHA’s positions, rhetoric, and policy goals extend beyond anti-vaccine activism. The common theme: all of them will worsen people’s health. RFK Jr. and MAHA have shown, time and again, that they do not care about improving people’s health, only lining their pockets.

An anti-vaccine cult can’t call itself pro-health.

MAHA claims they want to tackle “chronic disease” yet ignore what this even means.

All organisms die—of something. Humans used to die prematurely because of acute causes. In 1900, US life expectancy was 47 years old and the leading causes of death were pneumonia, tuberculosis, and acute gastroenteritis (caused by food- and water-borne pathogens).

30.4% of all deaths in the United States in 1900 were in children younger than 5. Today, 0.75% of all deaths in the US are in children under 5.

Sit with that HUGE improvement. We are saving children’s lives because of scientific research, innovation, and medical developments.

We have eliminated the leading causes of death in 1900 from even being a blip on the radar in the US because of vaccines, sterilization, antimicrobials (antibiotics, antiparasitics, disinfectants), pasteurization, and hygiene measures (food hygiene, sexual hygiene, water treatment, plumbing, hand washing, etc).

People in the 1900s didn’t contend with chronic diseases because they were dying well before those chronic diseases would develop.

Today, leading causes of death are chronic: heart disease, cancers, and stroke top the list. MAHA claims this is cause for alarm: that there is a “chronic disease epidemic” — yet fail to understand that chronic diseases replaced acute illnesses as leading causes of death BECAUSE of the public health interventions they demonize.

Antivaxxers are bringing back measles—a completely preventable childhood illness that was all but eradicated in the year 2000