WASHINGTON ‒ Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during an explosive hearing refused to acknowledge more than 1 million Americans died from coronavirus and was reluctant to give COVID-19 vaccines credit in saving lives.
Kennedy’s skepticism about the role vaccines played to slow the COVID pandemic was the focus of a heated exchange with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia. The nation’s top health official defended his tenure on Sept. 4 before the Senate Finance Committee amid turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t know how many died,” Kennedy said when Warner asked him whether he accepts that more than 1 million Americans died from COVID, as is widely accepted in the health community. “I don’t think anybody knows because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC.”
Data chaos, huh? So that’s how you decided to say you don’t trust the data. So what’s with this next bit, then? (Still my bolding.)
The senator then asked whether he believes COVID vaccines did anything to prevent people from dying from the virus.
“Again, I would like to see the data and talk about the data,” Kennedy said in response.
Other than his desire to use eugenically purify the American part of humanity through the denial of basic medical treatment? Nothing . . . well, there is still the brain worm, the road kill dinners, and the whale juice but other than that nothing.
He has faith. He knows The Truth, and if the facts disagree with him that just means the facts are wrong.
And the Republicans have a pattern of putting people in charge of health care who reject medicine in favor of faith; I think it was Bush II who put in someone who thought AIDS should be treated with prayer. It’s just that now there’s no real pushback, and it’s actually socially permissible here to draw attention to what’s happening.
Ten years ago most people would have responded by insisting that RFK’s opinion was just as good as any other, that we shouldn’t “paint with a broad brush”, and that surely he had good reasons for his positions.
This has long been a pet peeve for me. Yes, everyone has a right to their own opinion. What that opinion itself does not have is a right to not be mocked if it’s inane, ill-formed, or not based on fact.
I saw he blamed the “chaotic“ data practices at the CDC during the pandemic under the Biden Administration when all those deaths occur
They should have asked him who was actually President during nearly that entire period. These clowns (and most of the US, for that matter) conveniently forget that part
Dear God. I literally correlated vaccine uptake in my state (by age and town) with mortality, hospitalization, and case count as the vaccines were rolled out.
Yes, lots of people died of covid. And yes, the vaccines had an enormous and obvious impact to reduce that.
Pete KegsBreath declares absolute authority to kill people in boats without evidence. Also declares, “All that shit I fed you about giving up boozing during confirmation hearing is, ‘SUCKERS’.” *
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that the United States has “absolute and complete authority” to kill suspected drug smugglers in “defense of the American people.”
Hegseth was asked by a reporter on Thursday what legal authority the Pentagon invoked when it conducted an airstrike in international waters against a boat that the Trump administration alleges was carrying 11 “narcoterrorists” and members of the Venezuela-based crime group Tren de Aragua.
He responded, “We have the absolute authority and complete authority to conduct that.”
Let’s try not to ruin one of the better movies, please! What’s worse is if someone were to show that scene* to the felon, he would likely believe there is such a rule for the US military.
*It would have to only be the scene. The felon’s attention span isn’t long enough for the whole movie.
