LADAPO - “The right of a parent is absolutely critical” I watched 3 hours of public testimony, and @FLSurgeonGen really threads the needle here. The policy shift happening right now in Florida is changing the discussion around “safe and effective” and what the true drivers of population health are. Does a child who follows the CDC schedule but doesn’t exercise and lives on ultra processed food live a longer or healthier life than an Amish man/women who exits the system, eats healthy and works on the farm all day? This moment perfectly emphasises the shift in thinking about where Government power should sit. It happened after Paediatricians incentivised by the risk they pass on to children lined up to challenge him. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a treating physician, said of that how “disturbed” he is by “Doctors who dismiss a Mums intuition”

Here’s the wild thing about the Amish being fined in New York for not being vaccinated. In 2019 the state leveraged an outbreak of one disease that came in with travellers returning from Israel. The Amish didn’t start it and it never really reached their communities. How did the state respond? They killed religious exemptions for every vaccine on the schedule, not just the one connected to that outbreak. And for decades the numbers have been skewed in hospitals. They mainly test the unvaccinated. A vaccinated person shows up with mild symptoms and usually leaves without a test. The media amplifies those figures, the unvaccinated get blamed, and then bills get passed into law, just like the one Cuomo pushed through in 2019 (same time that climate laws brought solar next to Amish farmland). But.... certain Amish communities look healthier without the shots. - RFK Jr. has pointed to Dan Olmsted’s reporting on the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. - @AaronSiriSG has broken down the data. - @stkirsch drove through Amish counties looking for chronic disease and barely found any. So New York is fining a group that appears better off without a whole range of pharmaceutical products, over an outbreak they didn’t cause, that barely touched them. A lot of that built on numbers that mainly count the side that moves their narrative. When will they let them be?

Take away medical autonomy. Make that climate emergency law. Take away freedom and farmland. Two laws passed within months of each other opened up that story. In 2018–19, New York experienced a measles outbreak, beginning with traveller's returning from Israel and spreading inside Orthodox Jewish communities. Official CDC investigations show the transmission chains stayed there. Amish settlements were not the source, did not drive the outbreak, and showed no evidence of subsequent outbreaks. The state responded with a statewide repeal of the religious exemption for school immunization. That rule now applies to Amish schools. In 2022 the state assessed $118,000 in fines against three of them. The fines and the litigation that followed continue to this day. Then came the climate laws. Large solar projects began advancing on farmland in and around Amish settlement areas, especially in Montgomery County, after the 2019 climate law... utility-scale arrays moved through permitting on thousands of acres of agricultural land. Amish residents and local groups raised concerns about lost farmland, and those projects are already permitted or under review and represent a concrete, ongoing pressure on the land the Amish farm. These laws took effect within months of each other, signed by 56th Governor of New York Andrew M. Cuomo: 1⃣ - “The Vaccine Religious Exemption Repeal Law” was signed into law on June 13, 2019 and went into effect immediately upon Cuomo's signature. 2⃣ - “The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA)” was signed into law on July 18, 2019. With the rapid growth of AI infrastructure and the stated interest of federal governments in expanding computing capacity for advanced AI... added pressure builds. The measles outbreak that triggered the vaccine rule was not theirs.... and the solar build-out is driven by state renewable targets.... data-center interest, if it arrives, will be driven by power, land prices, and policy support for AI. The Amish just want to be left alone.