He goes on to say: “If President Trump and Bobby Kennedy are able to take soda and twinkies off of food stamps, the food deserts would disappear because the food deserts are driven by the incentives of SNAP.”

Many states are now banning using SNAP for soda/candy/etc: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Caller from AR asks about how to get “whole foods” in food deserts and Means responds with:
“Just to confirm your question is how can lower income Americans possibly not poison their kids” and “well, ma’am, I think American mothers don’t want to be poisoning their kids”

this is deeply relatable and would add being very pregnant has made this an actual daily war, I’m just rotisserie-chickening every few minutes to get vaguely comfortable 😔

More details on the specific vaccines and what has changed

Yes I posted the link to the data repo in my thread! Lots of caveats, data notes, and all sourcing there.

We did, and included this chart in the story; there was a slight correlation re GOP v Dem margin/voters, and tbh pretty much no correl at the county-level for other demographic features I looked at. The big difference I saw was btwn states that allow non-medical exemptions and those that don’t.

Herd immunity is so so so important to protect everyone who can’t get vaccinated (including all babies under 6 months-1 yr w/r to measles), those who are immunocompromised, or anyone whose vax immunity has waned.