RFK, Jr.: Anti-vax HHS Secretary

[Crimson1967]

I had a minor surgical procedure on my foot this morning. It went well and was back home in a few hours.

What was strange was something that happened during check-in. The lady at the front desk screened me for measles. I didn’t have to do any bloodwork but she asked if I had a fever or a rash. (She specifically said she was checking for measles).

Never been asked that before. I live in Alabama. Just thought it was interesting.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I had a minor surgical procedure on my foot this morning. It went well and was back home in a few hours.

What was strange was something that happened during check-in. The lady at the front desk screened me for measles. I didn’t have to do any bloodwork but she asked if I had a fever or a rash. (She specifically said she was checking for measles).

Never been asked that before. I live in Alabama. Just thought it was interesting.

There's a world-wide surge of measles cases:

Measles could again become widespread as cases surge worldwide

The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the number of cases at home and abroad has experts worried.

theconversation.com

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921019011833184594

RFK Jr: “The MMR vaccine that we currently use has millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments.”

 

[Crimson1967]

I got the MMR as a kid and when I took some classes at UAB in the early 1990s they made me get another one.

Measles being in the news made me a little worried so I looked it up and the vaccine pretty much guarantees lifelong immunity from measles.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I got the MMR as a kid and when I took some classes at UAB in the early 1990s they made me get another one.

Measles being in the news made me a little worried so I looked it up and the vaccine pretty much guarantees lifelong immunity from measles.

As does childhood infection, but IDK how many of us are left. When I heard it, I just thought what a great fit he was for a president who surmised that injecting bleach might be a good treatment for Covid....

 

[Tidewater]

As does childhood infection, but IDK how many of us are left. When I heard it, I just thought what a great fit he was for a president who surmised that injecting bleach might be a good treatment for Covid....

Injecting bleach will definitely cured Covid.
It will also kill the patient.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921019011833184594

RFK Jr: “The MMR vaccine that we currently use has millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments.”

100% lies but the Fox News MAGA crowd will eat it up. RFK knows this and knows he can get away with saying whatever crap he wants because the Trump base never questions this admin on anything.

 

[Huckleberry]

NYT Gift Article

Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S. explosion in rates of obesity and a range of other chronic illnesses. “A facade of normalcy has masked this meteoric rise in chronic disease, and we can no longer ignore it,” he said recently. He intends to rid the U.S. food supply of nine chemicals — all petroleum-based, synthetic food dyes — in as soon as 18 months.

Mr. Kennedy has deservedly earned a reputation for embracing pseudoscience and making hyperbolic claims about public health — autism, vaccines, fluoride. But when it comes to the chemicals in our food, the situation may be even worse than he describes. It’s certainly more mysterious than many of us appreciate when we sit down to dinner.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

NYT Gift Article

Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S. explosion in rates of obesity and a range of other chronic illnesses. “A facade of normalcy has masked this meteoric rise in chronic disease, and we can no longer ignore it,” he said recently. He intends to rid the U.S. food supply of nine chemicals — all petroleum-based, synthetic food dyes — in as soon as 18 months.

Mr. Kennedy has deservedly earned a reputation for embracing pseudoscience and making hyperbolic claims about public health — autism, vaccines, fluoride. But when it comes to the chemicals in our food, the situation may be even worse than he describes. It’s certainly more mysterious than many of us appreciate when we sit down to dinner.

I agree and had some of the same thoughts - blind pig and all that,,,

 

[JDCrimson]

So what does this mean for the future of Clark Griswold's crunch enhancer?

NYT Gift Article

Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S. explosion in rates of obesity and a range of other chronic illnesses. “A facade of normalcy has masked this meteoric rise in chronic disease, and we can no longer ignore it,” he said recently. He intends to rid the U.S. food supply of nine chemicals — all petroleum-based, synthetic food dyes — in as soon as 18 months.

Mr. Kennedy has deservedly earned a reputation for embracing pseudoscience and making hyperbolic claims about public health — autism, vaccines, fluoride. But when it comes to the chemicals in our food, the situation may be even worse than he describes. It’s certainly more mysterious than many of us appreciate when we sit down to dinner.

 

[JDCrimson]

I'm going to miss my parmesan cheese powder fortified with sawdust and steamed plastic masking as steamed rice in my chinese food...

I agree and had some of the same thoughts - blind pig and all that,,,

 

[Bamaro]

RFK Jr. goes swimming with grandchildren in contaminated D.C. creek
The National Park Service has a longstanding warning against swimming or wading in Rock Creek due to "high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens."
Washington, D.C., has banned swimming in Rock Creek, the Potomac River and other nearby waters since 1971 as a result of contamination.
In one of the photos from Sunday, Kennedy is seen fully submerged in the water, with his grandchildren swimming.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Injecting bleach will definitely cured Covid.
It will also kill the patient.

It's like the whole alkaline diet quackery. If we were truly able to change our pH greatly, it would result in death. The body self-regulates it.

 

[Its On A Slab]

I'm going to miss my parmesan cheese powder fortified with sawdust and steamed plastic masking as steamed rice in my chinese food...

And ban the standard red dyes. Carmine coloring is the ticket. Made from ground up beetles.

 

[stlimprov]

And ban the standard red dyes. Carmine coloring is the ticket. Made from ground up beetles.

Millions of particles of beetles; there's tons of beetle dna in there!

 

[Its On A Slab]

Millions of particles of beetles; there's tons of beetle dna in there!

Did you say MILLIONS?

 

[JDCrimson]

Swimming in that creek is probably how he got that worm in his head...

 

[Huckleberry]

NYT gift link

Federal Officials May Limit Recommendations for Covid Vaccine
With new testing requirements, it’s not even clear how new Covid or flu shots can be made available this fall.


Come this fall, only older Americans and those with chronic health problems may be urged to get the Covid shot — assuming the vaccine is available at all.

For years now, scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been debating whether to continue to recommend that Americans 6 months of age and older be immunized, or to switch to a so-called risk-based strategy targeting only the most vulnerable, as is the practice now in most other countries.

The advisers are expected to decide on a way forward at a meeting in June. But the debate may have become irrelevant. New requirements for clinical testing of vaccines, announced earlier this month, may delay the availability of shots that had formerly been updated annually without complicated trials.
“Substantial updates to existing vaccines — such as those related to seasonal strain changes or antigenic drift — may qualify as ‘new products’ and therefore require additional clinical evaluation,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.

That category includes the Covid shots and “may” even include the seasonal flu vaccine, according to Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for H.H.S.

...

“I think that we are in the midst of watching the vaccine infrastructure being torn down bit by bit,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the F.D.A.



Kennedy is moving to limit vaccine availability in the United States. His anti-vax lunacy is going to kill people. If updates to existing vaccines such as the flu and covid are labeled "new products" that require additional testing, needless infections will occur. The Trump Administration is clearly anti-science, as is anyone who handwaves away Kennedy's actions.

 

[dtgreg]

I had a minor surgical procedure on my foot this morning. It went well and was back home in a few hours.

What was strange was something that happened during check-in. The lady at the front desk screened me for measles. I didn’t have to do any bloodwork but she asked if I had a fever or a rash. (She specifically said she was checking for measles).

Never been asked that before. I live in Alabama. Just thought it was interesting.

Polio next. Unbelievable. TB is actually back. You couldn't tell this to folks in the '60s.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5309654-trump-administration-covid-vaccines/

Trump administration set to limit COVID-19 shot approvals to the elderly, highest-risk

Top officials in the Trump administration on Tuesday announced they will limit the approval of new COVID-19 vaccines to adults over 65 and people who are high risk.

The move is a significant shift away from the current universal recommendation, and comes just two days before the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) independent advisers are set to vote on the formula that vaccine makers should use to potentially adjust their shots for the current strain.

In a commentary published in the New England Journal of Medicine, FDA leaders wrote they will require companies to conduct lengthy clinical trials to compare the vaccine against a placebo before approving shots for healthier people.

The shots will continue to be streamlined for people over the age of 65 and as well as children and younger adults with at least one health problem that puts them at higher risk.

It’s not entirely clear what the news means for people under 65 who are not considered high-risk.