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  • The GOP Wants You To Die

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 3 10:44:44 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | Profiles in poltroonery: Senator Bill Cassidy
    |
    | The Louisiana senator and physician could have stopped the
    | world's worst antivaxer from taking over the regulation of
    | vaccines. He didn't. And now we're paying for it.
    |
    | When Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy first ran for the
    | U.S. Senate in 2014, he leaned heavily on his record as a
    | physician and public health advocate. And with good reason.
    | Here's the opening to a 2017 profile in the Washington Post:
    |
    | Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) vividly remembers his worst
    | day as a doctor. His patient, an 18-year-old woman with
    | hepatitis B, needed a liver transplant, and he arranged to
    | have her airlifted to Shreveport for the procedure.
    |
    | "I was sitting there thinking, if we had vaccinated
    | this girl with a $50 vaccine, we could have saved a
    | $250,000 operation and a lifetime of $50,000-a-year medical
    | bills," Cassidy recalled in a recent interview. There's a
    | happy ending to the story: The patient's liver began to
    | recover, avoiding the need for a transplant. But Cassidy
    | didn't know that as the helicopter took off. He was
    | motivated to set up a vaccination program to prevent the
    | infection. Over six years, 36,000 schoolchildren in his
    | state were vaccinated.
    | ... <https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-in-poltroonery-senator-bill>

    --bks

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Fri Apr 4 07:28:57 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:44:44 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    |
    | Profiles in poltroonery: Senator Bill Cassidy
    |
    | The Louisiana senator and physician could have stopped the
    | world's worst antivaxer from taking over the regulation of
    | vaccines. He didn't. And now we're paying for it.
    |
    | When Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy first ran for the
    | U.S. Senate in 2014, he leaned heavily on his record as a
    | physician and public health advocate. And with good reason.
    | Here's the opening to a 2017 profile in the Washington Post:
    |
    | Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) vividly remembers his worst
    | day as a doctor. His patient, an 18-year-old woman with
    | hepatitis B, needed a liver transplant, and he arranged to
    | have her airlifted to Shreveport for the procedure.
    |
    | "I was sitting there thinking, if we had vaccinated
    | this girl with a $50 vaccine, we could have saved a
    | $250,000 operation and a lifetime of $50,000-a-year medical
    | bills," Cassidy recalled in a recent interview. There's a
    | happy ending to the story: The patient's liver began to
    | recover, avoiding the need for a transplant. But Cassidy
    | didn't know that as the helicopter took off. He was
    | motivated to set up a vaccination program to prevent the
    | infection. Over six years, 36,000 schoolchildren in his
    | state were vaccinated.
    | ...
    <https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-in-poltroonery-senator-bill>

    --bks

    Nice made up story in an attempt to tug at the heart strings.

    Was the vaccine ever offered to this person in the past and refused?

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