Keith Vance

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

"The nation’s top health official either doesn’t know what a vaccine dose looks like or won’t say so, and I honestly don’t know which is worse."

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Last night @SecKennedy defended the President’s claim that children receive vaccinations the size of a soda bottle. His explanation was that the President meant the cumulative volume of the whole schedule when he said he’d seen vaccinations “the size of a soda bottle being poured into a child.”

OK, then let’s do the whole schedule.
A vaccine dose is 0.5 milliliters. One tenth of a teaspoon. Every parent who has taken their kid in for shots has seen the syringe. It’s not a soda bottle. That’s absurd.

The biggest visit of a child’s life is the 2-month visit. Five injections, about 2.5 milliliters, half a teaspoon. Everything a baby receives by injection in the first 6 months of life adds up to roughly 2 teaspoons.

The whole schedule, birth through age 18, every recommended vaccine, including a flu shot every single year, comes to roughly 55 injections and under 30 milliliters. A shot glass holds 44. Eighteen years of childhood vaccines do not fill a shot glass.
A 20-ounce soda bottle holds 590 milliliters. That is more than 20 times the entire schedule, more than 200 times the biggest visit, and more than 1,000 times an actual dose. No version of this claim comes anywhere near a soda bottle. An executive order was signed anyway.

@SecKennedy also repeated that childhood vaccines were never tested in placebo-controlled trials. My colleagues and I have systematically reviewed every randomized trial of childhood vaccines back to 1940. Nearly all were placebo-controlled, every vaccine on the schedule was evaluated in at least one placebo-controlled trial, and close to half used plain saline or the equivalent. The mumps vaccine inside the MMR was proven against placebo in the 1960s. The first hepatitis B vaccine was proven in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980. The 1954 polio trial randomized roughly 600,000 children to vaccine or placebo, still the largest medical experiment ever conducted.

So here is where we are. The President described something that does not exist and could not exist, a soda bottle of vaccine poured into a child, the same instinct as suggesting people inject disinfectant. And when the Secretary of Health and Human Services was asked a simple yes-or-no question about whether it was accurate, he couldn’t say no. He defended it. The nation’s top health official either doesn’t know what a vaccine dose looks like or won’t say so, and I honestly don’t know which is worse.

Nobody around this president will correct him, even about a syringe, even with children’s health on the line. So the fantasy stands, the executive order stands, and parents are left frightened of something that was never real, in the middle of the worst measles year since 1991, with over 2,500 cases and counting.

The arithmetic takes five minutes. The fear takes five seconds. That’s the whole strategy.

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

@ruslivingood @TheHerdBros Gotta agree. Great atmosphere but sight lines on visitors side aren’t the best.

[Jacob Rudner @JacobRudner]

Scoring the first run of the College World Series on the first straight steal of home in Omaha in over a quarter century to break your school's single-season stolen base record is a pretty loaded accomplishment.

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

@_mikesoto They are the modern day mafia. Any purported savings goes to the PBM, not the patient or employer. They provide no value at all.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity. Thanks to everyone at @NASA for making this mission possible, and for taking us along for the ride.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.

Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.

He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.

Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.

They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.

And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.

The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.

That man was buried with Christ.

Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.

Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.

That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.

Walk out.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

People from a big city can’t comprehend small town America where the local team wins a state championship (3rd in a row) & stops on the way home to celebrate with a fan who couldn’t make it to the game.

This is Tug Valley High School from the coal fields of West Virginia..

[Mike DeFabo @MikeDeFabo]

Michael Pittman Jr. said that because of a stutter, he used to be “deathly afraid” of popcorn reading. Football has forced him to speak publicly and do things he used to avoid.

He hopes to be a positive example, “Just showing kids you can get through that and grow though that.”

[adambomb286 @adambomb286]

🚨🚨🚨Breaking: Josh Eilert has been named the Interim Ayatollah of Iran

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

@RepBuddyCarter @RepBuddyCarter your work to get the PBM bill across the finish line will do more to drive down drug and overall healthcare costs long term. Thank you for all you have done.

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

Love this!

[David Pollack @davidpollack47]

One of the coolest things I’ve ever read about Noah’s Ark.

What a perspective!!

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

@WakeFB @CoachDickert would love to see Nicco in Old Gold & Black…

[Nicco Marchiol @MarchiolNicco]

New Beginnings!

[Greensboro Police Department @GSO_Police]

Being kissed on the cheek in your sleep can be a sign of the purest form of love…unless you live alone.

Then you should call us.

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

The Neuroscience of Worship https://t.co/ykZSnhwRzc via @relevant

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

This right here 👇

[Jed Drenning @TheSignalCaller]

I’m not getting into specifics.

HS kids are just that - kids. Losing hurts. Losing a title game hurts immeasurably more. Trust me. I’ve lost them at every level.

If you’re not among those showing appropriate grace, put your device down and keep your thoughts to yourself.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

If your first move on X today is to dunk on someone… just remember: that energy follows you to into family gatherings and Thanksgiving dinner.

Choose kind. It looks better on you anyway! 😊

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

@KeithMorehouse @HerdFB That was a hard loss.

[Keith Vance @KEITHVANCE]

@mtgreenee You clearly articulate how a lot of Americans feel at the moment. Betrayed by both sides of the aisle.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

“While trust in health care institutions at large is at a low, people still trust their doctor, their nurse, their pharmacist. I think we need to encourage people to speak to their local trusted health advisers and not to listen to anyone on social media, TV or in D.C.”
https://t.co/sXpDL5PD37