In previously unreported remarks, Trump’s HHS nominee said he found the "plandemic" conspiracy persuasive.
Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s HHS nominee, expressed belief in the “plandemic” conspiracy, suggesting the COVID pandemic was planned by the government.
He also compared COVID efforts to Nazi experiments and accused the government of using bioterrorism to implement social controls.
Kennedy’s statements raise concerns about his understanding of infectious diseases and his potential impact on pandemic response.
There was an unexplained spike in respiratory illness across all age groups, and a spike in pneumonia deaths starting in September. Google also tracked a spike in searches related to pneumonia. We didn't even have COVID tests until January of 2020, which is when the first diagnoses started coming in. None of the deaths in 2019 attributed to pneumonia were tested for COVID.
That doesn't mean it was definitely COVID, but it is enough to make me doubt the Trump narrative that China started it.
You'll also notice the incidence of scented candle complaints began in the latter quarter of 2019.
The problem is that China absolutely lied, obfuscated data, and generally did whatever it took to make it look like their COVID response was better than reality.
It is very, very, very likely that the COVID-19 virus originated in China, and it is also quite likely that Americans were infected with coronavirus before January 2020. Both of these things can be true without needing to resort to conspiracy.
No, there isn't. Anyone who was paying attention to news out of China saw that illnesses started being reported there in November 2019. By late December, it was obvious that something was going on.
There has been zero evidence that the same was true in the States.
There's strong evidence it was in the USA well before the first cases were reported in China.
In fact there is strong evidence against this conclusion. Here is a graph showing reported instances for China and the rest of the world (ROW) starting in January 2020:
In which you can see that Global Cases match China Cases until the end of February 2020.
And here is a graph showing cases in Hubei province, the rest of China, and the rest of the world starting in January 2020:
The Trump narrative was that China purposefully started it. Not that it was the origin. That is the "narrative" of the science. That you claimed "strong evidence" and then cite something you say may not definitely mean COVID but seems suspicious...that's not very strong. That's literal "trust me, I feel it's true".
Trump's first administration may not have planned it, but sure as hell wanted to let it ravage large metropolitan population centers for political gain.
Kennedy’s statements also raise the remarkable specter that the man who could soon lead the Department of Health and Human Services believes that the department may have carried out a “sinister” scheme to “enslave” its own citizens—and that this scheme was implemented under the leadership of Donald Trump, the very person who has now chosen Kennedy for the HHS post.
I guess the only problem Kennedy had with the claim is that he wasn’t in on it.
That's true about most of the conspiracy crowd. If you look at their ramblings there's a thick streak of envy running through them. They don't want to stop the shadowy individuals they believe run the world, they're angry that they're not one of them.
Do you remember when Obama was asleep at the wheel (as usual) and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? How this guy managed to get reelected always mystifies me.