In a move that has drawn widespread condemnation from the scientific and medical communities, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly dismissed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Monday. He swiftly replaced them with eight new appointees—many of whom are known for their criticism of vaccines and for promoting misinformation.
This sweeping overhaul has raised alarm among public health experts, who warn that the nation’s vaccine policy infrastructure is now under direct attack. Kennedy appears to be acting with breakneck speed to consolidate control and institutionalize his public health agenda before meaningful resistance can be mounted against what many are calling a scientific counter-revolution.
So… what’s the real endgame here? What’s the agenda?
Is it strictly some mind bogglingly dumb but well intentioned effort to do what they genuinely believe is what’s for the best of human health, with a complete absence of understanding of how to apprehend let alone interpret the most basic of scientific studies?
Could a large cluster of people really be that skull fuckingly brain damaged?
Or - and I’m very cautious to not claim this as fact - is there some actual further nefarious agenda at play? (Which I’m having a bit of a hard time articulating?)
Is it an “X superpower has dirt on the administration, and is pushing for things that will harm the US in order to comparatively increase their international standing and influence” kind of play?
Or some “make them even more weak, sick and bankrupt (and having less access to education and critical thinking), they’ll be easier to control and manipulate” kind of play?
Or an “if we make public health even worst than it is now, we’ll (somehow?) find a way to privatize even more health related see stuff? (I don’t know what’s left to privatize in US health though)” kind of play?
Or literally “we need to fight overpopulation, and the rich will always have access to healthcare and vaccines anyways, so push that shit to eventually kill the poor in droves”?
Fack
I think RFK and a bunch of other people are anti-science because they’re hyper-Christian, and science is inconvenient for their stupid beliefs.
Religion is almost always the problem.
What I expect is all the “the FDA doesn’t want you to know this” grifters are really excited to have their snake oil supported by the government so they can sell their stuff better. No further thought that “we could make a lot of money doing this” and of the similar myopic thinking that cares about next quarter’s warnings call more than being in business next year
I’m honestly leaning towards “skull fuckingly dumb”, combined with a reckoning of how few idiots it takes to break the system.
Kennedy is a well established moron, so I don’t doubt for a second that he could do this simply out of stupidity. A problem of its own is that a person appointed by the president (rather than hired by a qualified board) can even do this in the first place.
All comes down to rules and guidelines built around the assumption that people have integrity, a moral compass, and will be held accountable. Just so completely fucking naive
I’m wondering the same.
As a vaccine hater, and putting anti-vaccine policies into place, it seems like there would be little work to do.
So maybe these people getting a job as payback for donating to a political campaign.
Or maybe the jobs are for colluding for market / stock manipulation, which could go in either direction.