RFKJr continues to tell pandemic denial lies, resurrecting old canards of propaganda.
America needs a shadow government organized to scrutinize and investigate everything that happens within HHS.
The truth is that the U.S. was found to be the worst in healthcare outcomes among the top 10 richest nations, despite spending being high. That's bad. But that's about our healthcare system, it's not really about the relative health of the population or anything that individual Americans are doing. And we have, or at least have had until now, by far, huge advantages over a lot of countries that struggle, and are now struggling so much more because of the end of USAID.
The truth is that well over a million Americans died from covid, as a direct result of getting infected with covid. People are still dying of covid, and covid complications. And many more people have had covid complications and may not even know that's what prompted a heart condition – even though we've known since 2020 that the risk of cardiac conditions is much higher with and following covid.
The truth is that the pandemic has shown that many people have no problem revealing themselves to be eugenicist, in that they think that if people die from covid because they have risk factors, then it's fine maybe, or perhaps deserved. And whenever someone starts talking about “underlying conditions” being the problem in covid deaths, you know they’re ridiculing the dead.
We’ve probably all known people who did everything right as far as "healthy lifestyle" choices and having every privilege, and still have gotten cancer. Disease is never fair, and it’s not a deserved punishment any more than a hurricane is. Everyone dies eventually, so I guess you can decide that everyone is bad because of that. But that’s superstition not reality. But what is reality is that some people use disease to put other people down.
And now we have a US Department of Health and Human Services head honcho that is reviving old disinformation and covid contrarian propaganda about people who die of covid, and pairing it with lies about Americans being the sickest in the world – we're not, we're among the richest citizens of the world, but the most likely to need to file for bankruptcy because of trying to get healthcare when we do get sick because of having a for-profit healthcare system. And now we're denying the actual most vulnerable and poorest people in the world the most basic of medical aid with the shutdown of USAID.
Secretary Kennedy Delivers Welcoming Remarks to HHS Staff U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Feb 18, 2025 "And the CDC says that's because we're the sickest people in the world. They say that the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So were they dying from COVID or were they dying from chronic disease?"
They were, and still are, dying from covid. They had covid, and they died of covid at that time because they had gotten infected with covid. That’s the real story.
And how about this – so what if you are among the sickest in the world? So what? What is he saying exactly?
RFKJr is speaking the language of eugenics.
We need a shadow government organized to scrutinize and investigate everything that happens at HHS.
Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized. Other countries do this where the party out of power acts as an oppositional check — it’s not like this is a novel idea. And I think it’s absolutely necessary.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said at his town hall that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC is fine because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
GOP congressman faces criticism and several boos at Georgia town hall By Shania Shelton, CNN Updated 10:18 AM EST, Fri February 21, 2025 “I’m in close contact with the CDC. They have about what, 13,000 employees, 13,000 employees at the CDC. In the last couple years, those probationary people, which is about 10% of their employee base, about 1,300 people, which you’re referring to. A lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI,” McCormick said. The mention of AI led to “no’s” and murmurs from the crowd, leading the Republican representative to say, “I happen to be a doctor. I know a few things.”
It's pretty shocking that a doctor would ever suggest that the health of humans, and decisions on public health, should ever be trusted to faulty AI chatbots that tend to put out incorrect information and according to actual healthcare workers it can be incredibly dangerous for patients, and also for healthcare workers! And I think AI chatbots should NOT be doing the people's business at all – that should be done by people!
Apparently Rich Mccormick also came out as pro-child labor at his town hall. That Brownstone Institute guy was found to be in favour of child labor. Odd how these things go together, isn't it. Trump’s pick for running NIH is Jay Bhattacharya, and he’s had association with Brownstone Institute too. And he’s posted things on social media that sure sound like he’s interested in social engineering with regards to public health and people having health related social support groups.
When HHS starts hiring more people again, and ramping up to replace the people who they pushed out, and of course they’ll be hiring more maga loyalists, we need to be prepared to notice, and understand what that might mean.
I don't say this lightly — I say this because I believe we are at very serious risk, of having who knows what active eugenics programs implemented because RFKJr is a deranged dynastic elite with a reported history of doing offensive things with animals, dead and alive, for starters. This is not a normal person running healthcare at the federal level. He asserts pseudoscience, inaccurate information even about food — (no, he’s not ok on food either, that’s a claim the media uses to both-sides this guy because they’re grasping for anything positive, especially probably because he’s a Kennedy).
Up until now the eugenics pushed into policies regarding the pandemic and especially for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, have been mainly more along the lines of passive eugenics. People in positions of leadership or power choosing not to really help the vulnerable or make things accessible to the high risk That's been bad enough. But I think influential people want more than that. And now they think they can outsource those decisions to AI perhaps? I believe RFKJr is not only capable, but willing, or possibly even might be eager in some cases, to implement such eugenics programs that would have been unthinkable to Americans a few months ago, but may quickly become horrendous level normalized harm.
HHS and every agency within needs oversight by people who have the expertise and resources to monitor the situation.
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