Reprise: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal: The End of Vaccine Mandates.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As The Bill Press Pod team takes a holiday break, we decided to re-run two of the episodes of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal series that we produced before the election. Though we produced it to warn people of what was coming if Trump were reelected, we think it's just as important now for people to understand what we can now actually expect in the next four years. And we hope it will help fuel our collective opposition and resistance to Trump 2.0
This episode tells the fictional story of a middle school that opens its doors to unvaccinated students after a possible second -term President Trump eliminates Federal funding for schools with vaccine mandates. The story follows the school nurse, Stephanie Morris, as she navigates the influx of unvaccinated students and the resulting disease outbreaks that spread rapidly through the school and community. The narrative illustrates the real-world implications of the president's policy, with outbreaks of diseases like measles, whooping cough, and the flu causing hospitalizations and even deaths among vulnerable students and staff. The story highlights the challenges faced by the school nurse in trying to protect the health of all students, including her own daughter who has an autoimmune condition, without the backing of mandatory vaccination policies. Overall, the episode demonstrates how Donald Trump’s promise to defund schools with vaccine mandates could have devastating consequences for children's health and safety.
We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode:
Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes , Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices.
Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser.
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal written by Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends and neighbors. As we head to the end of the year and hurdle toward |
| 0:11.3 | Trump II, we thought we might reprise a couple of episodes of our series Donald Trump's |
| 0:17.8 | Project 2025 up close and personal. |
| 0:25.8 | You'll remember during the campaign that Trump said he had nothing to do with Project 2025. Yeah, that was a big lie. Another one. His administration will actually be filled with |
| 0:32.1 | authors of chapters of Project 2025, and the policies found in that 900-page document are already pervading the |
| 0:40.6 | conversation among Trump loyalists as they prepare to take power. One area of concern, |
| 0:47.2 | among so many, is Project 2025 stance against vaccine mandates, a position so dangerous and so irresponsible that just last week |
| 0:58.3 | on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump's nominee as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human |
| 1:03.3 | Services, RFK Jr., felt the need to muddle his long time and persistent criticism of vaccines in order to get a few votes from |
| 1:14.2 | Republican senators. |
| 1:16.2 | Now, we produced this series, Donald Trump's Project 2025, up close and personal, because, |
| 1:22.2 | you know, sometimes fiction can communicate the human cost of toxic policies better than charts, graphs, and |
| 1:29.8 | newspaper articles. To understand how Trump's and Kennedy's and Elon Musk's opposition to vaccines |
| 1:37.5 | might work in practice, the author of this series, David Pepper, imagines a middle school in Colorado, where anti-vaxed |
| 1:47.3 | parents are finally allowed to send their children to a public school. |
| 1:52.5 | It's all hope at the beginning until nature takes over. |
| 1:56.6 | Laurie Burke reads Part 1. |
| 2:00.6 | Sandy Kruger didn't know who was more nervous, Ellie or her. |
| 2:03.6 | But she definitely knew who was more excited. |
| 2:06.6 | 11-year-old Ellie was absolutely beaming as they drove the 10 minutes from their home in suburban Denver to Cherry Fork Middle School. |
| 2:15.6 | Mommy, this is the best day of my life. |
| 2:20.4 | New friends, new teachers, and new life. |
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