A regional public health department in IDAHO is NO longer providing COVID vaccines to residents in 6 counties after a

[applegrove]

Florida & Texas have ALREADY chosen not to promote the COVID vaccine, but still offer it. Could this be next?🤔😡

— Peter Morley ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) 2024-12-02T00:40:56.561Z

Florida & Texas have ALREADY chosen not to promote the COVID vaccine, but still offer it. Could this be next?🤔😡

Peter Morley 💙 ♿️‬ ‪@petermorley.bsky.social‬
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A regional public health department in IDAHO is NO longer providing COVID vaccines to residents in 6 counties after a narrow decision by its board of 4-3. SHARE EVERYWHERE!

[Biophilic]

1. So they are denying their residents Covid vaccines even if the want them?

[applegrove]

4. I think it is health policy mixed with economic goals: fewer old people due

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to covid deaths, less social security to pay out and Medicare.

Used to be health policy was based on what was good for health outcomes.

Of course rich people in Idaho will still have access to the info on vaccines and where to get them. The poor and uninformed and old in institutions or the homeless not so much as vaccine type herd immunity will go down in certain places.

That helps MAGA at the voting booth.

[Biophilic]

6. Thanks for the clarification.

[applegrove]

7. I thought your statement that started with "So"

was your take. I thought it was a statement.

[Biophilic]

10. It was, but also a question.

[applegrove]

11. Anyhow, certain vulnerable groups will need to be looked after

if they care to which they don't seem to. Imagine being homeless and living in a shelter. How many will have access to free vaccines. Ugh.

[Biophilic]

13. The expendables and I say that with both anger and sadness.

[applegrove]

14. Yes. They merged diplomacy and trade in the 80s.

Now it seems they are merging health and economics instead of good health outcomes being the goal itself. It is terrifying.

[DURHAM D]

2. The stupid it burns. nt

[usedtobedemgurl]

3. This is why i just got mine.

I have plans to cross the border to get them, if they get rid of them altogether.

[33taw]

5. You can still get them at a Walgreens or CVS. Just not the health department.

[WillowTree]

8. Well, that's a little misleading.

True, the health department in question is no longer providing the vaccines. But that doesn't mean that they're banning them. The majority of people will still have access; Medicare and Medicaid will still cover them. Also most commercial insurance will, as well, not out of philanthropy, but because it would be the fiscally responsible thing to do; they'd rather pay for a relatively inexpensive immunization than risk having to pay for treatment.

For the rest, who have no kind of coverage, some of the vaccine manufacturers are offering assistance programs for the uninsured. I know I read that Pfizer is, for one.

[applegrove]

9. Well good but that still leaves the old in nursing homes or anyone

who can't get to a private pharmacy, like the homeless or poor or illiterate, in a lack of herd immunity and a lack vaccine immunity situation (though you can't get true herd immunity from COVID it does transmit less if most of the people around you have the vaccine).

[DBoon]

12. German: Lebensunwertes Leben

The phrase "life unworthy of life" (German: Lebensunwertes Leben) was a Nazi designation for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime, had no right to live. Those individuals were targeted to be murdered by the state via involuntary euthanasia, usually through the compulsion or deception of their caretakers. The term included people with disabilities and later those considered grossly inferior according to the racial policy of Nazi Germany.

- Wikipedia