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RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination (www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as U.S. health secretary has sparked backlash, with critics labeling Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist, a “clear and present danger.”

Advocacy group Public Citizen warned the appointment could lead to a “public health catastrophe,” while physicians condemned Kennedy’s history of spreading vaccine misinformation, linking it to fatal outbreaks like the 2019 Samoa measles epidemic.

Kennedy has also promoted debunked health claims, including raw milk and ivermectin for COVID, prompting fears his leadership could undermine U.S. health infrastructure.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

The United States is fucked if you get another pandemic, isn't it? They already did everything wrong on purpose last time but now it seems worse. It's as if they want to maximize death by preventable disease.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

We are extremely fucked even without a pandemic

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

We're already shambling slowly into an antiviral resistant H5N1 pandemic at the moment. It has the potential to make COVID look trivial if (and at this point almost certainly when) it kicks off. We had an opportunity to contain it when it was only working its way through our livestock industries but the CDC and Dept of Agriculture decided that "Don't ask don't tell" was a better policy for the dairy industry.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago

They’re rich. They want any kind of disaster they can get. So they can buy up more shit for cheap while the peasants struggle to survive.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

The United States is fucked.

Ftfy.