It cannot be over soon enough…

The articles and podcasts that praise MAHA for its stories, community, public appeal are --wittingly or not-- helping MAHA, burnishing its reputation, creating an illusion of power and support. It's sold as bridge building but it can veer into whitewashing.

End of soapbox.

And the counter to the antivax movement is creating a political coalition.

Patient groups, health care professions, businesses, coming together to fund the activities necessary to take back political power.

These groups exist and they are organizing. Join them.

Public health advances are written in blood.

This is why these articles and podcasts that weirdly praise the antivax movement for its appeal to the public rub me the wrong way.

The antivax movement is about money. It's a bz model wrapped in an ideology.

A real strategy is creating coalitions of groups who advocate for health policies loudly
Groups willing to lobby politicians in state legislatures and in Congress.
PR expenditures on the plight of ppl hurt by lack of safety regulations, falling vaccine rates, quack therapies gone awry.

Modern medicine and the biomedical infrastructure that underpins it needs a new, better political strategy.

And yes, part of that is addressing how the medical system fails Americans...

But to fix HC you need political power. You need to oust MAHA.

Finally, where is the money going to come from to counter the firehose of disinformation that is created by people who sell quack medicine, fear and false hope?

Whose job is that?

It's not random healthcare professionals showing up alone at CHD conference.