And he did it so politely, all things considered. It’s a pity Jr won’t see it. RFK Jr has made a mess of HHS, culminating with “Dr.” Oz and Medicare. He has done so much harm to this country in slightly over a year. He needs to get kicked to the curb, and sooner rather than later, before he destroys something we can’t fix. He’s seriously a cause for concern. I appreciate Raw Story:
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, unleashed a serious criticism of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his lack of response to a recent rodent-borne illness outbreak. Reiner shared his stern criticism of Kennedy in an X post on Saturday.
Oof. And oof again. RFK Jr has most certainly not addressed this. He doesn’t (or won’t) see the problem. He gave us “Doctor” Oz for Medicare, a conspiracy theorist who is destroying people’s lives. Mafia run. Give us a break. RFK Jr is too busy pontificating about how vaccines are bad, even though he said at his confirmation hearings that he was beyond that. He lied.
“RFK Jr has yet to address the hantavirus outbreak,” Reiner wrote. “As leader of the massive US health enterprise he should be out front reassuring the American public about the threat, and our response capabilities. But he’s spent a career casting doubt on the safety and efficacy of vaccines and the risk of a variety of viral illnesses. He’s the wrong leader for HHS.”
We could have told him that. We watched RFK Jr’s hearings. We screamed into the void about how bad he was, how unqualified, how dangerous he was to the health of people in America. Trump likes broken people. RFK Jr is broken. He doesn’t believe in vaccines, even when deaths could have been prevented. Could you imagine if he had been in power during Covid? The death toll would have been much, much higher. *Much* higher. Would there still be a vaccine created?
Kennedy has faced widespread criticism from medical and scientific experts over his long-standing opposition to vaccines, promotion of debunked health theories and appointment of controversial figures to health agencies during the second Trump administration. Critics, including health experts, have expressed concern that his anti-vaccine stance and skepticism of established public health protocols could undermine disease prevention efforts and compromise the integrity of federal health institutions.
Compromise. That’s one way to put it. More like destruction. He is putting more anti-vaxxers in places they ought not be. The CDC is one of those. They’re already reducing the recommended vaccines for children. Let’s hope another epidemic doesn’t come along while he is still leading. RFK Jr is dangerous, even more so than his other cabinet members (except for Hegseth). He’s making a disaster instead of helping us. Something will break loose. His attitude will still suck. And we’ll be in trouble. It’s bad enough what Trump has been doing to us because he doesn’t give a damn about the people of the United States. Now, even our health is in danger. We would ask why, but events will show up and tell us why we didn’t ask.
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