Going Wild: What Would Camus Say About Measles and Misinform
Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 8:08 amGoing Wild: What Would Camus Say About Measles and Misinformation?
Charlie Angus / The Resistance - May 21, 2025
EXCERPT: "Growing up in a world of penicillin and vaccines, many in my generation read The Plague as a metaphor for politics. During COVID, I realized it was a guide for what happens when people become complacent about public health.
Camus’ insights ring truer than ever in the face of preventable epidemics:
"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise."
But nothing is surprising about the entirely preventable return of measles. . . . .
Donald Trump went further, turning over the health budget of the United States to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a man denounced by his own family as a predator and is infamous as one of the most notorious "Disinformation Dozen" for his flood of vaccine falsehoods.
"I'm going to let him go wild on health. I'm going to let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines." - Donald Trump on appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . . . . . "
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Charlie Angus / The Resistance - May 21, 2025
EXCERPT: "Growing up in a world of penicillin and vaccines, many in my generation read The Plague as a metaphor for politics. During COVID, I realized it was a guide for what happens when people become complacent about public health.
Camus’ insights ring truer than ever in the face of preventable epidemics:
"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise."
But nothing is surprising about the entirely preventable return of measles. . . . .
Donald Trump went further, turning over the health budget of the United States to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a man denounced by his own family as a predator and is infamous as one of the most notorious "Disinformation Dozen" for his flood of vaccine falsehoods.
"I'm going to let him go wild on health. I'm going to let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines." - Donald Trump on appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . . . . . "
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/goi ... dium=email ]