There was the same anti-vax propaganda spreading last century. It was overcome.
Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up. Chloe Humbert Aug 08, 2023 The polio campaign in the U.S. was successful because of a concerted effort to do a door to door campaign that started before the vaccine was even available. The idea that vaccination was just a default and that everyone easily got on board back then is nostalgic fantasy, it took some work by some people to make that happen. The propaganda resisting public health was as toxic and bonkers as what spreads perhaps just more prolifically today on social media. Back then some even blamed paralysis from polio on Americans who made inferior dietary choices. Sound familiar? Some people made sure we countered that and had a proper vaccine drive. There was indeed resistance to the polio elimination campaign, and it was overcome.
Well look at this.
Important Context Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Took Social Darwinist View Of Pandemic Wellness influencer Casey Means wrote that Americans needed to get healthy or risk death from COVID, calling the crisis “a Darwinian moment for America.” Walker Bragman May 08, 2025 Donald Trump’s new surgeon general pick called the COVID-19 pandemic “a Darwinian moment for America” in the spring of 2020, echoing long-discredited pseudoscience. Stanford-educated physician-turned-wellness influencer Casey Means, whose nomination for the surgeon post was announced on Wednesday, made the statement in an op-ed for The Hill titled, “Healthy Food: The Unexpected Medicine for COVID-19 and National Security.” The piece was published on April 21, 2020, at the height of the pandemic’s deadly first wave. In it, Means, who a year prior had co-founded a wellness company, argued that the nation could not “continue to shut down our economy and parts of our military, and overwhelm our health care system.” Instead, she proposed a strategy of promoting “healthy living” through personal behavior changes and cuts to agricultural subsidies for “dairy, sugar, wheat, corn and soybeans.”
And they’re not even all on the same page.
Trump’s surgeon general pick exposes cracks in MAHA movement – by Joseph Choi, Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech and Nathaniel Weixel – 05/11/25 6:00 AM ET President Trump’s second choice for U.S. surgeon general has set off a wave of infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Casey Means is a prominent health influencer and ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but she is seen as insufficiently skeptical of vaccines by some of his prominent supporters — and a “total crack pot” by others in Trump World.
Let that be a lesson to the insufferable people on the left who keep insisting we need to unite everyone under one umbrella in lockstep over everything, or the people who keep insisting we need to hand it to weirdos on the points about food – the same people who didn’t want kids eating healthy when it was Michelle Obama’s idea, by the way.