2 October 2025

Earlier this week I wrote about ouright lies and censorship advanced by leaders of the US government.

Some are breathtakingly absurd (such as the vice president’s claim that residents in his homestate of Ohio were eating the neighborhood cats and dogs.)

Other lies feed into the many falsehoods that have taken hold in popular culture of, for example, vaccines.

I created a postcard (above) with the aim of offering the science about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

It is my contribution to The Resistance.

One notable lie came from the head of the country’s health and human services department who told reporters the MMR vaccine “contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles,” according to Reuters.

Experts say the claim is false.

Truth is, the vaccine has saved “94 million lives” worldwide, according to the non-profit, Our World in Data.

To give you context, 94 million lives is about the population size of Canada and Kenya, combined.

Measles is a highly contagious virus that can cause pneumonia (one in 20 people), brain swelling (two in 500) and death (one in 1000).

This year, two children—who were not vaccinated—died from measles in Texas: the first US deaths since 2003, according to PBS.

More than 750 were sickened and 100 hospitalized in the Texas outbreak that spread to 37 countries.

The head of HHS has been so reckless in his remarks and actions that Congresswoman Haley Stevens of Michigan filed articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on September 25.

In the postcard (above) I chose an image from a national vaccination campaign in Britain in 1985, and wrote the copy using sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

I mail the postcard to my friends and carry them in my purse so I can post them on community bulletin boards.

Thanks for listening.

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