Measles and vaccines were discussed on the state Senate floor yesterday in Frankfort as the Senate unanimously passed a concurrent resolution establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force.

The resolution is sponsored by State Senator Shelly Funky Frohnmayer And based on President Donald Trump's focus to make America healthy again.

The task force will encourage dietary and lifestyle style lifestyle changes to reduce chronic diseases, reduce public exposure to environmental health risks, and improve public input on state health policies.

While supporting the measure, Democratic state Senator Karen Berg, who is also a medical doctor in Louisville, stressed the importance of vaccines and keeping Kentuckians healthy.

Meanwhile, Republican State Senator Lindsay Turner offered an alternate argument.

This threat is real and our vaccination rates in this state because of misinformation, because of abject misinformation, are not necessarily high enough to give us herd immunity, which means, guys, everybody is at risk.

So I understand wholeheartedly the concepts of health and well-being and being response Bill, for what you put in your body and how you treat your body.

But I also cannot.

And under any circumstances, minimize what medicine has done to impact the survival of children in this country.

And I love the fact that she does bring up vaccination.

This is an area we should not be afraid to look into.

There is some stigma around vaccines that they are holier than thou and untouchable when the truth of it is you look at the side effects to some of these vaccines and they far outweigh the communicable disease.

But for some reason, we're not allowed to talk about that.

I'm okay to talk about that.

And I think it would be wise of every parent to talk about that and do their homework.

And it's interesting that nobody wants to notice how many children now have permanent heart damage from myocarditis and parasite pericarditis from being vaccinated from the COVID vaccine, which I've been trying to stop for a couple of years.

So this is about making America healthy again and Kentuckians being healthy makes America healthy as well.

And I think we owe it as a body to do that hard work and to look into these issues and not be afraid to talk about these and discuss them.

The Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force will meet monthly during the 2025 interim.