Amanda Byersdorfer

Mom of 3 crazy awesome boys, Love all things Cyclones

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Let’s play this out.

Let’s say you skip the MMR shot for your kid. He catches measles at school.

A kindergartner down the hall is between chemo treatments for leukemia. Her doctors can’t vaccinate her, no matter how much they want to.

Measles floats in that classroom’s air for two hours after your son leaves, so she never has to be in the room with him to catch it.

Her immune system can’t fight off what a healthy kid’s body handles in a week.

Same danger for the six-month-old child down the street, because they’re too young for their first dose.

They’re only alive because everyone else in that building stayed vaccinated.

One infected kid in a full room can infect twenty others. No common infectious disease spreads faster.

Your decision about your own child just endangered other people’s children.

This poor child is dead in Texas because her parents are idiots who think they’re smart.

Full story below.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The FDA has announced that 1.6 million eggs have been contaminated with salmonella, forcing a nationwide recall.

Last year, the Trump administration scrapped regulations to limit salmonella and laid off hundreds of food safety inspection workers.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Salmonella in the eggs.
Flesh-eating screwworms in the meat.
Diarrhea lettuce.
Smoke in the air.
Forever chemicals in the soil.
Data center pollution in our water.
Handing Saudi Arabia nuclear technology.
A war over a strait that was already open.
$5 gas.
Expensive groceries.
Skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Crushing utility bills.

Are we great yet?

[Prello @DPrello]

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did and promptly pulled it. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA

[kar @bustitopen420]

the air quality sucks, the food gives you explosive diarrhea, we have no public transport, medical care is unaffordable, they’re tearing down forests to build AI data centers and I still have to clock in for work

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

No money for health care and rural hospitals for the American people, but taxpayer funded helicopter rides to golf lessons for the children of elites

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Offering testosterone treatments to servicemembers = gender affirming care

[cloverfield ☘️🧚🏻‍♀️ @superednatural]

So when is anybody going to admit appointing a man with absolutely no medical background or experience who drinks methlyne blue and had a brain parasite to be in charge of human health services was a ginormous failure on purpose to weaken the population

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Shuts down Ebola research - Massive Ebola outbreak

Closes CDC Parasitic disease division - Huge parasitic diarrhoea outbreak

Defunds screwworm research - screwworm comes back to the US

Ladies and gentlemen I give you Health Secretary RFK Jr

[jezz @JezziiB]

"31 states now have a cyclospora outbreak--"

IT'S ALMOST AS IF THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS DOGE CUT TO TRACK THESE THINGS WERE PUT IN PLACE FOR A FUCKING REASON, YOU FUCKING MOLDY TATER TOTS.

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

I worked my ass off at Planned Parenthood for YEARS for news like this. Incredible. Such an incredible bright spot in a post-Epstein world.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Ok hear me out: instead of all of us having to become extremely knowledgeable on a new infectious disease every 3-6 months, what if we got a large group of experts together and just put them in charge of giving us easy to understand health recommendations. They could also do things like track outbreaks and predict future concerns.

[Michal Tal, PhD @ImmunoFever]

Last year some regrettable cost cutting decisions were made about foodborne pathogen testing, ending 28 years of screening for cyclosporiasis and quickly catching and quenching several outbreaks. Now we still have no idea what the source of this outbreak is. This is the price!!!

[Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson]

The severe diarrhea outbreak across the U.S. should surprise no one. It’s exactly the kind of thing we were warned about.

DOGE heavily targeted agencies related to food and agriculture, significantly impacting federal food monitoring aid and inspection capacities. This diarrhea is caused by a parasite in food.

What did people think was going to happen? DOGE didn't just cut fat; it cut into the bones.

@elonmusk we have a problem here. Your boys knew nothing. Perhaps you'll contribute to much needed emergency medical services, particularly in rural communities where hospitals are becoming overwhelmed.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

The USA has no universal healthcare, but it does have 49 billionaires who made their wealth from private healthcare.
Connect the dots, folks.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

A diarrhea-causing parasite has now infected over 1,000 Americans, spreading across 29 states.

Last year, RFK Jr and Elon Musk dissolved the CDC office responsible for preventing parasitic infections.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Just got off the phone with my college roommate.

His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.

He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.

7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.

He told me he’s not the same person anymore.

Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.

They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.

One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.

And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.

I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.

I really don’t.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. took four months off from Congress, fully paid, to treat depression. Time and again, he’s voted against paid sick leave legislation.

What a goddamn hypocrite. 😡

https://t.co/7LT0eJ8ZR8

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Dragging someone's small kids into some sick political game like this is truly evil.

[Iowa State Football @CycloneFB]

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