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Trump, 79, Says Cuba and the Amish Have No Autism in Bonkers Speech (The Daily Beast)The president, 79, was slated to give remarks on Monday afternoon that the administration had found links between autism and Tylenol use by pregnant women, an announcement that some doctors were already pushing back on.
However, Trump went off-script and made a series of rambling, eyebrow-raising comments about autism, vaccines, and butchered the pronunciation of acetaminophen, best known as the brand name Tylenol.
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Trump said there was no downside to not taking Tylenol. He called it not good and suggested pregnant women should tough it out despite Tylenol being the most commonly recommended pain reliever for pregnant women for decades.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-says-cuba-amish-221807237.html
bucolic_frolic
(53,035 posts)OhioTim
(366 posts)can't come up with a commercial showing Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen then I give up.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,282 posts)Our media is structured, and the people who need to see it to be woken up, the people that dont vote, almost no chance they will see it unless its on TikTok.
But I like the idea
mucifer
(25,403 posts)Weird Cuba claims
Coldwater
(483 posts)Lower reported rates are often due to underdiagnosis, cultural differences, and limited access to healthcare, not the absence of the disorder.
Link
https://tysonomomultimedia.substack.com/p/fact-check-trumps-claims-on-amish
allegorical oracle
(5,923 posts)time he feigns concern, it seems he believes that there would be no health issues if everyone just didn't get tested. He said that during Covid. So, if there's no testing -- and thus no disease -- there's no need for vaccines.
That's the way his mind works. If you deny whatever, then it never happened (like Biden's election win). He believes he won that election, which led to, and justified, the Jan. 6 insurrection. So he comfortably pardons the insurrectionists.
He. Is. Mentally. Deranged.
Coldwater
(483 posts)Sorry Donny, wrong again
In 2013 Cuba played host to the first International Forum on Autism and Inclusion, in order to help Doctors identify the disorder in children?
malaise
(290,653 posts)Cuba has autism too. Lots of it. But do they have a similar prevalence rate as the US, or other richer countries? Actually, the guesswork says no. But none of this is as yet proven. The resources needed for prevalence studies have just not been available, again, due to the blockade.
Historically, though, there really wasnt a great, visible need for the Cubans (in particular, their overseeing entity, the Ministry of Health) to implement large resources into autism programming; until 2010-2012, when they started hearing reports of larger numbers from their schools and pediatric offices (the first group of children they started working with is now 16).
Operating out of Havanas Borras Marfán hospital, Dr. Yoysy Rondon Acosta is the National Coordinator for Autism and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Working alongside Dr. Tania Adriana Péon, who heads the National Group of Child Psychiatry. they have been charged with coming up with national plans that can withstand the challenges of both the prevalence rise and the embargo/blockade. Every municipality in the country has its own health center that operates under the Ministrys guidelines. And the result has been a framework thats more than a little different
mountain grammy
(28,391 posts)How about YOU tough it out. As for us women, thats all we do.
Xavier Breath
(6,236 posts)mucifer
(25,403 posts)five minute news at the beginning of the hour. They said the CDC now recommends pregnant women not take acetaminophen. Just like that then on to the next story.
Volaris
(11,210 posts)By Donnie's logic, I guess that means we should just go ahead and shut down the power grids.
Somebody should tell him that he's right and Cuba doesn't have any autism...because they have universal healthcare.
Strelnikov_
(8,068 posts)It's even been found in cancer cells!
What are we going to do about this scourge?!
Volaris
(11,210 posts)Lithos
(26,591 posts)And not Acetaminophen.
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lark
(25,634 posts)He hates us and is doing everything possible to make our lives more miserable!
IronLionZion
(50,234 posts)Javaman
(64,757 posts)patphil
(8,445 posts)Yes, Amish people have children with Autism, and Cuba also has autistic children. In fact, its found everywhere in the world.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/autism-rates-by-country
https://publichealthcollaborative.org/alerts/anti-vaccine-myth-that-amish-children-dont-have-autism-resurfaces/
The strange thing is that Japan and South Korea have the highest rate of Autism in the world. Look at the map. Sometimes neighboring nations have similar rates of Autism, sometimes they're a lot different.
For example, Ireland has a much higher rate than Great Britain. I think some of this is reporting, not vaccines, or things like Tylenol.
One cause I would like to suggest for the overall rise in Autism could be micro-plastics. I think there needs to be a lot more research here.
Wiz Imp
(7,852 posts)
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Countries with the highest acetaminophen (paracetamol) use include Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, and the United Kingdom.
Autism rates for these countries (per 100,000):
United States 1050
Sweden 953
Denmark 892
Belgium 833
France 825
Finland 764
United Kingdom 710
allegorical oracle
(5,923 posts)Beyond oxygen, water, sunshine, and foods, the only thing I can think of is genetics.
pandr32
(13,596 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,052 posts)twodogsbarking
(16,466 posts)Mblaze
(858 posts)Both the Amish and the Cubans have autistic children.
obamanut2012
(28,987 posts)And mother health. Guess what Tylenol is great at?
Heidi
(58,845 posts)allegorical oracle
(5,923 posts)Or any other childhood diseases.
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Heidi
(58,845 posts)Irish_Dem
(77,147 posts)TheFarseer
(9,705 posts)Autism was first diagnosed before people invented Tylenol?
Strelnikov_
(8,068 posts)Your gettin all science'y an shit.