RFK Jr, HHs & MAHA | CDC RIF massacre

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“… Just as we began to recover [for the mass shooting at CDC Atlanta], I was confronted with another challenge—pressure to compromise science itself.

… Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pressured me to resign or face termination. But that meeting revealed that it wasn’t about one person or my job. It was one of the more public aspects of a deliberate effort to weaken America’s public-health system and vaccine protections.

… One of the troubling directives from that meeting more than a week ago: I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. That panel’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18-19.

… Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage….”
 
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He's (further) angling for the Nobel Peace prize, and he knows his best shot is to keep pushing Operation Warp Speed and other things like it. It's a net good thing, but it definitely isn't because he cares about people dying from not being vaccinated, as he repeatedly demonstrated during the pandemic.
 
nycfan said:


🎁—> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-s-goat-rodeo-70dbcb8a?st=Mu9rHg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[It is difficult to be much more consistently pro-Trump than Strassel has been for a decade]

“During the Biden years, Republicans skewered Xavier Becerra—a career litigator and politician—as incompetent and unsuited to serve as health and human services secretary. Oh, for the days of mere incompetence.

Donald Trump’s HHS presents something far more absurd. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a goat rodeo for the ages. New week, new mess: purgings, resignations, policy reversals, conflicts of interest, elimination of transparency. The agencies Mr. Kennedy oversees—the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health—already had problems after years of politicization and squandered credibility. Now they have problems on RFK levels of testosterone.

… Strip away how one feels about food dyes or processed food, Covid boosters or failed “experts,” and you are still left with a mess.

… One big problem: RFK alone among Mr. Trump’s cabinet members is pursuing his own agenda, not the president’s vision. … Mr. Kennedy? He’s perusing lists of his trial-lawyer friends, deciding whom to award influential government positions.

You’re forgiven if you don’t remember Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to empower Mr. Kennedy’s litigator set.

Performance? Nothing is getting done, in part because Mr. Kennedy can’t put together or keep a team.

… If Mr. Kennedy can’t find anyone to work with, it’s because he’s one of the only Trump cabinet officials who divide the base. The Make America Healthy Movement has gained some steam, mostly because of the Kennedy perch. But if there is a minority of HHS “customers” that gets jazzed by a raw-milk debate, there are many more (including Republicans) who find Mr. Kennedy a quack or would appreciate if he devoted even a few minutes to improving their Medicare experience.

And literally no one feels more confidence right now in the CDC or FDA—since no one knows who is in charge or how they are going to reverse themselves next. You can count Mr. Kennedy’s genuine GOP supporters in the Senate on one hand—even if their colleagues are too chicken to say anything publicly.

… This is overshadowing Trump successes. Are we talking this week about how the administration cut crime in Washington, or GOP plans for housing? No. We are talking about a Kennedy mess.

… Mr. Kennedy’s headlines are of the latter [negative] type, and they are making it too easy for critics to smear the entire administration.

… Mr. Trump presumably has to see that one of his departments looks decidedly unlike the others. And that this situation isn’t going to improve or settle down. The question is how long he allows this exercise in political self-harm to continue. The president honored a rival’s endorsement by giving him a top job. But no cabinet position is a sinecure, and Mr. Kennedy has had his trial run. There are plenty of other bold transformers that can take that job. Maybe it’s time for some interviews.“
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Knives out.
 
nycfan said:


“… did your department do any data analysis of how many new cases of these diseases there will be with no vaccine mandates?

JOSEPH LADAPO: Absolutely not

TAPPER: You didn't even do a projection?

LADAPO: It's an issue of right and wrong…”



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What do you expect from the DEI hire of a DEI graduate of a woke medical school?

@Ramrouser @Callatoroy - did I do that right?
 
Geisterfahrer said:
Knives out.
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I think some of the smarter Trumpers - and there are some who are smart enough to still know reality but are going along with Trumpism for grifting or political agenda reasons (and these people are horrible, btw) - are well aware that what Republicans are doing to medical and healthcare research and vaccines and other things is going to end in disaster, and that - most importantly for them - not even their wealth or power or prominence may save them from deadly viruses or germs, so they're turning against RFK, Jr. and Ladapo and these other nutcases and want them gone. The problem is that when you support Trumpism you can't just pick and choose, you get all of the crazy in every area all of the time.

Not that I have any sympathy for them, but as healthcare is important I guess in this instance I'll take any help in getting rid of these frauds and loons that I can get.
 
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