“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” McAfee acknowledged before my visit. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb.”

“We catch these things and divert the milk immediately,” McAfee said of the pathogens.

I assumed that after diverting batches, the farm discarded them.

Later that day, I learned otherwise.

“We have a red-flag system here, where if there’s anything that gets really out of whack, they can immediately tag the milk, and it doesn’t go to anything but cheese,” McAfee told me. “Because, you know, cheese is resistant to pathogens.”

Research has shown that raw cheese is not, in fact, resistant to pathogens; while aging can mitigate some risk, harmful bacteria can still survive the usual 60-day maturation process.

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    Which is why we should weed out the people who don’t believe in science. They harm everyone around them with ivermectin bullshit. We’re not contentious on the value of vaccines.

    My father almost died of polio as a child. His autopsy / cause of death was recently upgraded to say something about a side effect of polio that occurred later in life. I’d never heard of it until about a week ago when my brother told me. We’ll see similar for covid decades from now.