The nerve of this guy is amazing, but no, he’s not anti-vax, no, he won’t bring his personal thoughts into his new position. *cough*bull****cough* He’s not even trying. His personal feelings are very much on display, especially with the firing of the CDC committee members and the replacement of those who think the same way he does. How many more people is he going to kill with this? From Raw Story:
Six major medical organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleging he is putting American children at “grave and immediate risk” because of his policy on vaccines. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit charged that Kennedy earlier this year made a “baseless and uninformed policy decision” when he removed vaccinations against Covid-19 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) official immunization schedule for “healthy” children and pregnant women.
Covid is still running around here. Pregnant women have 2 lives to worry about. But they don’t need the vaccine? Excuse me? I get every booster I can. I’m close to, but not quite, what they call a “senior” citizen. Children get hit harder than adults. Nah, they don’t need the vaccine. This will make anti-vaxxers very happy. Idiots.
The organizations emphasized that unless Kennedy’s decision is reversed, “all children remain at grave and immediate risk of contracting a preventable disease” and further warned that it “exposes… vulnerable populations to a serious disease with potentially irreversible long-term effects and, in some cases, death.” The plaintiffs further charged that Kennedy’s directive removing the Covid-19 vaccines from the immunization schedule was “but one example of the secretary’s agenda to dismantle the longstanding… science- and evidence-based vaccine infrastructure that has prevented the deaths of untold millions of Americans.”
Yup, that would be Robert F Kennedy Jr inflicting his anti-vax views on the US. What’s he going to take away next? Something that had been accepted and approved for decades? How about what else he might take away from seniors, like RSV and Hepatitis B, and Shingles? That’s going to make me scream even louder. I’d love to send a letter to the guy, but I know it will never reach him.
The complaint then documented Kennedy’s long history of statements and articles that have peddled false claims about the safety of vaccinations and pointed to his mass dismissals of staff at HHS and his appointment of likeminded vaccine critics to argue that “it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” Should courts find that Kennedy’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious” as alleged by the plaintiffs, they would have the power to enjoin the policy under the Administrative Procedures Act, which was also employed recently to halt planned mass layoffs at HHS. The medical organizations urged courts to declare Kennedy’s policy change “unlawful” and demanded “the restoration of the Covid vaccine recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children ages six months to 17 years” of age.
There you have it. WHAM. Sorry, RFK Jr., but you are wrong. Put it back to the way it was. You shouldn’t be messing with these at all. Geesh. This isn’t Making America Healthy. It’s quite the opposite. Leave the vaccines alone. Thanks for sticking with me!
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“it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
And now the easy part.
Proving it in court.
“Hoist by his own petard” springs to mind.
We can only hope. I don’t know if it can be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt or not.
He’s killing children. In 2000 measles was declared dead in the water. Recently 1200 cases are afoot in the LAND OF EVIL MORONS. It’s the most easily spread deadly disease. May every plane carrying the present nazi administration go down in remote areas. I’d rather see HIM dead than a child.