Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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A Health Nut, Falling? So, we are soon, to perhaps again, have a Kennedy in government, Chosen to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, But so different from his family history. His concept of medicine is bazaar. An opponent of vaccines, wrongly accusing them of unhealth. In the past, Benjamin Franklin lost a beloved son, When he decided not to inoculate the boy for smallpox. He lamented that decision for the rest of his life. How many will needlessly die, following this intended appointment folly? After many deaths, will humanity once again right itself? Why are we, admittedly a restless species, so ready To be so dismissive of our moderately sane medical legacy? Frank Maurer 21 November 2024 0915 Hours.