Education & Vaccinations: Tigwissel Tuesdays #39
Above, anti-vaccination loons -in the mode of Republican Congresswoman & one-time leading Presidential G.O.P. Candidate Michele Bachmann — pictured blindly marching to disaster. Numerous Republican elected officials, have stated they would like to eliminate the Food & Drug Administration, and with it, all regulations regarding Food & Drug standards. Industry can better self-regulate itself, they say, as there would be no incentive to endanger the public for profits. The current Meningitis outbreaks — caused by a Massachusetts pharmacy which used a loophole in the law to operate outside F.D.A. regulations, a loophole which anti-regulation Republicans have for several years been preventing to be closed — demonstrates precisely what risks with public health, unregulated industries will engage in, in the name of profit.
All the images in this posting, are extracted from the 1930 cartoon booklet, Health in Pictures.
Above, not by Clare Briggs, but with permission, an episode of Ain’t it a Grand and Glorious Feeling?.
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— Doug
