A CDC panel voted on Friday to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine only to the babies of mothers who test positive for the virus, and to suggest that, for all other babies, doctors and parents should have a conversation about the risks and benefits of the shot, a process known as “shared clinical decision-making.”
That goes against what the federal government has recommended for nearly 35 years and against the guidance of medical organizations…
There isn’t really anything I can add to what’s already been said about these malicious idiots, only that I’m so very grateful to live in Washington state where sanity still prevails.
Speaking of healthcare in general, have you ever checked out Whole Washington?
They’re a group advocating for statewide universal healthcare, and if we can all get them well-known enough, we can get a vote-able ballot option to give nearly everyone in Washington universal healthcare, at a lower cost than our collective current costs!
(Pledge to sign!)
Well… at least for everything west of the mountains.
East of the mountains, not so much.
Depends on where you mean. Spokane city is pretty purple and the city council is more left-leaning than ever: https://www.inlander.com/news/progressives-and-moderates-dominate-conservatives-in-local-races-flipping-a-spokane-council-seat-and-ousting/article_ef72e2af-a02f-4a5f-966d-9813d8ba585f.html . They just passed a ban on algorithmic rent price fixing by landlords for example.
When you leave Spokane, the closer you get to Idaho the more regressive things get. Spokane and Spokane Valley are night and day in my view - no good reason for going into the latter. The same is true when you head north (hwy 2, 395) and south, at least until you get to Pullman. I haven’t spent much time in central WA but my impression is that it’s pretty right-wing compared to Spokane or Puget Sound, so yeah.
That said, I’ve lived in Seattle and the S. Sound and once you get out of the city proper and away from the Eastside and close-in suburbs like Issaquah (Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend are probably considered suburbs now too!), and also out of places like Olympia/Tumwater, it gets redneck in a hurry.
That whole strip from north of Vancouver to Tacoma is prime Trump country too. This is where the Proud Boys came from and is filled with loonies as you drive up and down I-5.
Downtown Spokane is a island of blue. Pullman is usually the same. By the time you get to Spokane Valley the people there actively vote for Christian Nationalist Terrorist organizers.
The Spokane City Council is actually very strongly progressive right now. The city’s districts were changed about 10-ish years ago. Since then the votes from downtown actually matter and the city is quickly improving on several fronts. Basically, it’s downtown demanding process with everywhere else demanding we woodchip homeless people and storm schools with ICE to beat up children.
You can say “of course that’s hyperbole!” I say: I canvassed Spokane door knocking for politics and I heard those exact ideas from the people I talked to. They’re fucking crazy. I don’t really know what happened, but the US lost any and all sense of humanity in the rural/suburban areas over the last 40 years.
Yeah, with the sundown towns showing up again and civil rights being trashed comes the regression to Jim Crow laws.