Don’t get too excited because I haven’t heard any actual news about the Trump administration (sic) promising to bring back the McRib. But there is an effort to bring back polio despite the fact vaccines WORK!
Polio is a disease that causes paralysis and death, especially in children. After vaccines for polio were introduced in the 1950s, polio decreased rapidly. There were 350,000 cases worldwide in 1988. In 2022, there were only 30. Vaccines WORK!
Wild cases of poliovirus are only endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Donald Trump, with the help of his nominee to be Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and through his medical advisor, a lawyer, wants to add us to the list Pakistan and Afghanistan are on despite the fact vaccines WORK!
I remember getting my polio vaccine back in the early 70s. I remember because there was a lot of crying and I kept trying to get other kids to cut in line in front of me. I remember the shots were given in the basement of Grant Elementary School in Elgin, Illinois. I remember being scared to death of the shot and screaming my head off when I eventually got it despite my attempts to have everyone jabbed before me. I don’t remember if it actually hurt. I have never liked needles. My mother used to say there was never a danger of me becoming a heroin addict. But ya know what? I never caught polio because vaccines WORK!
So RFK Jr and his dum-dum lawyer, Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits and sticking his head up his own ass (which is a great way to catch polio), are vaccine skeptics. They say they don’t want to take away vaccines or anyone’s right to get them, but they don’t want them mandated or spread widely throughout the nation either. Yes, you have a right to vaccines and you also have a right not to catch Covid because some stupid ass vaccine skeptic who gets his science from Aaron Rodgers and Joe Rogan refuses to get vaccinated because they believe it’ll make them grow a tail or some shit like that. Despite these idiots howling that vaccines don’t work without providing actual information to support their claims, vaccines WORK!
I got a Covid and a flu vaccine last month before I traveled. I wasn’t required to get them but I got them anyway. I didn’t want to be sick while traveling because that would ruin everything. After I shared a photo of my jab bandages on social media last year, a relative messaged me a link to a YouTube channel of a guy “living off the grid” who was an anti-vaxxer, and my relative believed it would enlighten me (do NOT send me a link to a YouTube video reporting so-called news. I will not click it). I told my relative that anyone who has a YouTube channel is NOT living off the grid. And then I told her, “Vaccines WORK!”
What worries me is that this relative has children who are unvaccinated. I worry for the children and I wish she would listen to me and not idiots like Joe Rogan because vaccines WORK!
What also scares me is that Aaron Siri is helping RFK Jr review candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services. I expect Dr. Bunsen Honeydew or Dr. Teeth to get a gig in the Trump administration because they look good on Television. Remember that neither of these idiots (not Dr. Honeydey or Dr. Teeth, the other two idiots) are doctors or have any expertise in health, science, or medicine. Sawing off a whale’s head and tying it to the roof of your car and driving down the highway with it doesn’t make you a medical professional. Going to law school doesn’t make you a doctor either. And a lot of times, as is often the case in Trump World, having a law degree doesn’t make you a good lawyer. It would seem that reading a lot of books in college would make you educated enough to understand that vaccines WORK!
I bet even Dr. Teeth knows vaccines WORK!
Siri has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine along with filing a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines. I’m starting to think these idiots want us to die as they don’t understand that vaccines WORK!
I think it’s weird these idiots are trying to rewrite health guidelines through a fat racist orange asshole who lives off KFC, ketchup, and Big Macs. Even Donald Trump knows vaccines WORK!
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I was among the testers for the polio vaccine in the early '50s in Dayton, Ohio. My next door neighbor, Alan, got the placebo. How do I know? He got polio - he survived it but died too young because of its long-term impact. I am vaxed for most everything I think. Despite the vaccinations to the time of 3/2023, I still got COVID and now have long COVID. I imagine w/o the vaccinations I'd have been sicker and maybe the LC would be far worse .. which for me would be brain fog. I've "only" developed odd stuff like tinnitus, musical hallucinations (not "ear worms"), a rash that won't leave causing me the inability to walk more than a feet, and oh ... become almost 75% deaf. Imagine w/o vax.
Imagine when childcare places and schools close bec the kids made each other sick and then the teachers got it and then parents and other caregivers and the hospital staff who weren't vaccinated...oh I do sound like a fatalist and I guess I am having lived through my friend's polio. OPPOSE these putzes.
It just keeps getting crazier and crazier, Clay. And don't forget about Dr. Mehmet Oz, who pushes quack 'cures' on television ... perhaps his Ivermectin will replace the polio vax. How DARE these fools risk the lives of every person in this nation??? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ...