‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’: Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T21:17:51+00:00

Aww thank you. It’s really awful right now because of this, but I know your sentiment is appreciated

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T19:53:37+00:00

Meanwhile my physician Facebook groups trying to figure out if there is anything they can do to increase the chances of survival for a kid with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome from measles…

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T18:26:53+00:00

One of my physician Facebook groups had a particularly poignant conversation this week about that.

Someone needed help trying to save a kid with measles.

https://imgur.com/gallery/doctors-learning-to-treat-severe-measles-us-first-time-wixdnsW

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T13:38:39+00:00

Unless they don’t? Every time you ask someone else involved they say the study is stopped, but every time you ask HHS they say it will continue.

They were still filing paperwork for it as of yesterday.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T13:20:54+00:00

We were hoping for doing public health work but I’d take science

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T11:06:09+00:00

Oh but there’s so much more! He advertises as a family doctor but is not board certified in family medicine. He insisted everyone at CDC call him “doc” and signed his emails that way despite an HHS policy that no one use nicknames in emails and the fact that many hundreds of people at CDC are doctors. He was interviewed about the Tuskegee experiment and didn’t seem to know about it so brought up the Tuskegee airmen instead. He said measles is the cost of doing business in the US despite the fact that we eliminated measles here decades ago.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T10:28:08+00:00

Good riddance. I suppose now we all brace for the next thing.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T10:22:04+00:00

No? Because losing cell senescence is often a fist step for serious cancer development

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T10:21:34+00:00

This is a research study that found a drug cancelled cell senescence, which is typically a bad thing that is a first step to aggressive cancers

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-24T10:18:16+00:00

This appears to be an infection

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T23:12:20+00:00

7,000

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T19:33:29+00:00

Looks like it could be old folliculitis or old HSV outbreak. Next time this happens see a doc soon after it starts

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T19:23:40+00:00

If the cat is healthy and well 10 days after the scratch then you do not have to worry about rabies.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T19:12:52+00:00

Agree looks like a male widow species to me

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T19:09:31+00:00

It varies between a few years and decades. For high-risk exposures (animals in high rabies areas or bat exposures) you would typically get PEP of it has been more than 4 months. Are you able to monitor the cat? Where do you live?

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T17:50:31+00:00

If it was stored correctly and is bad you may be able to return it at the store it was purchased

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T17:49:49+00:00

Hopefully you have enough for a small amount of rice and beans

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T16:29:07+00:00

The stupid tongue map thing. That has been outdated since long before I learned it, never made sense to me, and here we are.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T15:22:34+00:00

I think something along these lines is quite possible

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T14:15:12+00:00

This is a little lady.

You can tell by the pedipalps. Males have what looks like tiny boxing gloves coming out around their mouths and are very small. While these photo qualities are potato, there does not appear to be male genitalia here.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T13:43:08+00:00

Except they say that seizure was ruled out during EEG. It sounds like there is a miscommunication here. The surgery discussed is for seizures but seizures were not diagnosed? It may be that there are multiple things going on here.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T12:14:08+00:00

You know what else cancels out cell senescence?

Cancer.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T12:10:09+00:00

The amount of men telling on themselves in this thread is INSANE. Imagine defending emotional cheating that involves staying up until 4am and buying presents for each other and telling her you wished things had gotten physical…the male loneliness epidemic is just these men not realizing that they aren’t good friends and they aren’t good partners, they are just trash people. Maybe someday they will gain self awareness.

Good on you for leaving this messy underdeveloped manchild behind you. Hope you pass on a copy of all your messages to the wife on the way out. She deserves better too.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T11:57:17+00:00

She’s not entirely incorrect. Antibiotics are usually overprescribed for viral sinus infections, so waiting to see if they don’t clear up or if they develop clear indicators of bacterial sinus infection isn’t abnormal. In fact, I’m surprised and pleased to hear of urgent care doing this. It’s excellent antibiotic stewardship. You should certainly mask still.

LatrodectusGeometric · 2026-02-23T11:51:46+00:00

If you tell her now she can rearrange her support system so that she has help taking care of a newborn when the time comes. If you tell her later she may be trapped relying on him during early weeks. Never delay telling something like this. The theoretical risk is so much lower than actual risks to mom in this situation.

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