Picture a child in an iron lung, their chest rising and falling only because a machine breathes for them. This was America in 1952, when polio struck nearly 60,000 children in a single year. More than 21,000 were paralyzed. Over 3,000 died. Families lived in terror, praying their children would be spared.

Today, we risk a return to those days—not because science failed us, but because we are abandoning it. This is not a movie, not a TV show, not a TikTok clip that ends when the screen goes dark. It is a slow-moving horror, unfolding in real time.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no longer a fringe figure. Now, as Secretary of Health and Human Services—chosen not for qualifications but for his famous name—he is dismantling the very foundations of public health. He fired the CDC director, purged t

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