Kennedy Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand & lifesaving

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.

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Kennedy Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand & lifesaving

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I just don't know with this guy...
Like 4/5 things he says make me think "holy shit, yes! The science has been clear for decades, highly processed food is the primary cause of obesity and probably more, but no one has been willing to actually take a stand against it". Even stuff like the camps for mental illness... Yeah, it sounds bad coming from an administration of fascists, but having a place where you can just exist as long as you need while doing chores is actually a sorely needed safety net that would genuinely make an enormous difference, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and many disorders are effectively treated by just letting people exist while doing basic labor
Then I get to the fifth thing, and I realize "holy shit, this guy is just actually insane". It recontextualises the first 4, because if you get rid of highly processed food by killing the FDA people are just going to get straight up poisoned. And the mental health retreat turns into a work camp if it's no longer completely voluntary
All in all, I don't know how to feel about the guy. Like, vaccines are probably going to become a mess of proprietary bullshit if we cut regulation and stop pushing for heard immunity... But they're probably going to become unaffordable and suffer the same fate with a replacement pick anyways
But I think he actually believes what he's saying...I just think his brain is broken. Would it be better or worse to have someone who just wants deregulation because they were paid off? Would it even make a difference if the rest of the administration is going to use everything for the worst outcome through execution anyways?
I just don't know how to feel about the guy... He's insane, but I'm certain I won't be on board with the replacement. He's a real wild card for sure... Who knows what he would achieve in either direction
- depression, anxiety, ADHD, and many disorders are effectively treated by just letting people exist while doing basic labor
  What the F…
  And you got your PhD where? How many years of study did it take you to figure out this sweeping solution for all these conditions?
  You haven’t a clue making your little gulag for “special” people.
  
  Oh, I'm one of those people. And behavioral activation + removing yourself from bad life circumstances + limiting abstract stressors is literally the best cure we know of
  We're not the problem, the insane world of "adulting" is the problem... Being able to retreat to somewhere where we can just live is a lifeline most can't afford.
  
  What works for you is not what works for everyone. If you’re “one of those people” then you really don’t have a clue either. ADHD or AuDHD is a wide spectrum, there is no OSFA solution. Throwing “all you gotta do is remove yourself from your life circumstance” is some real bootstraps BS.
  
  Well that's a whole lot of things I didn't say
  
  You understand that he wants to eradicate ADHD medication, right? The concentration camps are his alternative to provenly effective medication.
- Sorry mate, a place where mental health patients to just exist sounds to me like a terrible idea.
  Notionally, not having to worry about anything and just do some basic chores might sound therapeutic, but I can assure you that residing in such a place would be a harrowing experience.
- Then I get to the fifth thing, and I realize “holy shit, this guy is just actually insane”. It recontextualises the first 4, because if you get rid of highly processed food by killing the FDA people are just going to get straight up poisoned. And the mental health retreat turns into a work camp if it’s no longer completely voluntary
  I think he still wants raw milk to be a thing, for fuck's sake. I don't know if he's moved on that at all, given seeing headlines like "guy gives his cats raw milk and kills them with bird flu" type of thing. Maybe even Brainworms is not THAT tone deaf, but who the hell knows.
  
  You're commenting on an article about how he tried to stop the covid vaccine in the midst of the pandemic that killed over a million Americans. He is exactly that tone deaf
  
  I'm just saying when someone gives their cat raw milk and then the cat dies as a consequence because of bird flu...is a lot more visceral and the FAFO is a lot more apparent than the kind of experience many of his dipshit followers had and are having when it comes to the Covid vaccine.
  Being given lots of stats and facts about how many people donvict killed and how many lives the vaccine saved is more something "over there" and can be countered with, "yeah, but I didn't get the vaccine and it's just like the flu anyway, man", or "so and so died of a heart attack and they had the CLOT SHOT, you guys!"
  These people tend to use emotional reasoning for a lot of their thought processes. People tend to have emotional attachments to pets. Hearing about hundreds of thousands of Americans on life support and/or dying from "just the flu" can be shrugged off because "preconditions" like age, weight, diabetes, and so on.
  Even so, maybe RFK jr thinks about eating cats (I think he's ruled out eating humans, monkeys, and dogs, is he not merciful? Everything else: on the menu, though, apparently) and doesn't really give a fuck about cats dying from raw milk.

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