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@luckytran@med-mastodon.comVaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.
@luckytran shoutout to Onesimus
@luckytran Not having to worry about tetanus is one of my few comforts in life
@littlemiao @luckytran Polio too omg being in an iron lung would be so boring.
@monsoonrains @littlemiao @luckytran polio crippled people. My father suffered his entire life from the polio he had as a child.
@luckytran I guess we will see some travel warnings for the US in the future if basic vaccinations are not common anymore and the threat to get infected is rising significantly.
@thoralf @luckytran
This is totally gonna happen.
Why would international airlines let people spread deseases?
As a health official e.g. in the EU or Canada I would block unvaccinated people at the border.
The shitshow that is the Trump cabinet just keeps on shitting on competence, integrity, intelligence....
To be continued... 
@ruedi @thoralf @luckytran I dunno. I thought I’d see a uniform wall of international pressure to keep COVID down, but islands with tourism economies couldn’t afford to resist.
quod erat expectandum
@luckytran Is this the reason, why Trump appoints a anti-vaccination fan for the health sector?
SCNR - I'm still totally puzzeled.
(Not living in the USA, I fortunately don't need to be shocked)
@godot @luckytran Because Trump and his MAGA death cult want to create suffering and trauma and sow social division, disruption, & chaos on behalf of their Kremlin puppet master and to satisfy their own sadism?
The harder question is why so many Americans voted for this. Oh, right, they were unhappy with the price of eggs, are bigots, and/or are tragically (and often willfully) uninformed, misinformed, and disinformed. 
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga
@luckytran survival of Even the dumbest May be a long term Problem that cannot be under estimated.
@luckytran Vaccines are one of the few inventions that actually makes you stronger. Actually, maybe the only one.
Dear Peolpe of the USA, please use your WLAN router to exterminate viruses because vaccines don't work. OK, you will die of cancer but there's always something disturbing in health care.
Yours sincerely RFK jr.
@luckytran
We got our passports updated and ready to go.
Next on the list is getting as much medical and dental out of the way before he's sworn in.
Hoping others are doing this too 
@luckytran
Maybe. But it is not fashionable among the hoarders of resources today to keep people alive. Interferes with the hoarding.
@luckytran TB? The only TB vaccine I'm familiar with, BCG, is either totally or nearly useless. Last time I looked (years ago, admittedly), it worked only in Europe and not very well there. Inexplicably only working in one region is something it shares with, say, acupuncture (only found to have good effects in China, where you can't publish negative results on acupuncture, literally).
@nitpicking @luckytran I would be interested in your sources there @nitpicking . From a quick search myself, it looks like you're right that BCG is the only TB vaccine, but I can't quite see where the "nearly useless" comes from. According to a few places, but probably most credibly the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/tb/vaccines/index.html), the reason it's not used in the USA is because there isn't much TB in the USA.
I can see from the WHO (https://www.who.int/teams/health-product-policy-and-standards/standards-and-specifications/norms-and-standards/vaccines-quality/bcg) that it seems to prevent "disseminated TB" in people who are infected, which is the "more severe form of TB", but doesn't prevent infection.
I can't see anywhere that says it only works in Europe, though.
@Josh_Gallagher @luckytran I don't currently have access to scholarly pubs (that are paywalled), but here's a link I found: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(95)92348-9/fulltext
The way I was told (by a doctor at a convention) is that results vary across geography, and no one is sure why. It never seems to have *much* of an effect. I'm not a medical researcher. What I wrote is pretty consistent with what Wikipedia says, FWIW.
@luckytran I come from a family where too many of my aunts and uncles had passed away from small pox, I am glad I dont have to deal with that. But new age non-sense is getting on my nerves these days.
@luckytran for reasons known only to my parents, I wasn't vaccinated against whooping cough until I was an adult. The potential side effects of an infection were worse than the supposed side effects of the vaccination, and I obviously caught whooping cough as a child, one of my least favourite diseases.
@luckytran and you didn't even include smallpox, which was a deadly disease we eradicated using vaccines
True, but I heard a #joerogan #podcast where a guy saw a sign at a CVS offering vaccines and he woke up the next day with a swollen testicle so I think I'll skip getting them!
/s
Fuck #antivaxxers. I have immunity-compromised family members and infectious people are a real danger to them.
@luckytran hi! I always appreciate your information and opinions on public health. When you write alt text for data visualizations, please consider including information about what is actually shown in the data, not just a title or caption. It's a bit of a letdown to not have access to the trend the text is referring to.
@luckytran nothing for smallpox?
@luckytran please don’t try to convince MAGA followers with facts.
*confuse*
Confuse was the word I was looking for.
Sry
„To convince“ only works with people with brains, willing to use them.
@luckytran @briankrebs Prevnar’s impact is insane, given how recently it was put on the market.
Every #Republican voters sticks their fingers in their ears and says "we can't hear you"
What a shame
The rich won't stop getting them they'll just lie about it they are too dumb to understand what herd immunity is and what vaccines do
@luckytran it's was a kind of nice though expensive healthcare system