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

What a fucking stupid period of history to live through
- Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times.
  If only the times we lived in were actually interesting instead of boring, tedious, and deadly.
  
  Even the rockets and global satellite internet thing that objectively is kind of awesome is completely ruined by just having the worst people involved. Although I guess it's classic USA to have your rockets being built by Nazis.
- What this reminds me of is all the fucking weirdoes, scam artists, racists, and conspiracy theorists that came to prominence during Obama's campaign and during his two terms, being put in office as donvict's revenge against smart people that laughed at him. Donvict looked around at things like Failin' Palin and Michele Bachmann and the circus of the teabaggers and thought - "I want people like those people to have power"
  Remember Orly Taitz? A podcast I listened to did a "where are they now?" on that clown, and she is still alive. I'm surprised dipshit donvict didn't give her a role in his maladministration. My guess is that she was more or less laughed off the TV at some point and donvict forgot about her, but donvict, who engaged in the exact same birther bullshit, was given a platform, so he bullshitted his way into office on white male anger over the fact that Obama got TWO terms and no, he wasn't a "Kenyan usurper".

pRoSeCuTe fAuCi
What a bunch of fuckin rubes, we just put all the people who should be prosecuted in charge.
- America always does the right thing. After it has tried everything else.
  
  Unfortunately there is an infinite amount of "everything else".
  
  I love a good quote from a genocidal imperialist that believes in Aryan race theory.
  Stupid Churchill and his stupid "wit" and "charisma" making him so goddamn quotable

I am not a prognosticator, I can't say how bad things will get. I can say that Covid didn't just magically disappear, and Bird Flu won't just go away. The reality is ignoring zoonotic pathogens is a surefire way to kill off a large portion of the population. RFK Jr is just another old fucking shit bag that wants to be right even if he is wrong and who doesn't care if his ignorance or self-righteousness kills you or anyone else. Your health is not his priority. His wealth and power are where his priorities lie. Please take care of yourselves and don't rely on a person with a letter by their name or fame and fortune to save you, they won't. Check on your loved ones, volunteer to help those vulnerable, and be empathetic and kind and we will get through this. Good luck.
Edit: I wanted to expand on the bird flu comment, as a couple of DMs pointed out there have been no sustained human-to-human transmissions of H5N1 to date.
A Science study published in December 2024 identified a single amino acid mutation, Q226L, in the hemagglutinin (HA) protein of H5N1. This mutation increases the virus's affinity for human-type receptors. While it does not enable human-to-human transmission, the virus’s capacity to mutate—especially with prolonged exposure—means it could potentially evolve in that direction.
This concern is underscored by the 2012 Erasmus Medical Center study, where gain-of-function experiments in ferrets demonstrated how easily H5N1 could acquire airborne transmissibility. Combine that with the risk of reassortment with H1N1 or H3N2, and the potential for an H5Nx strain to emerge becomes a legitimate concern.
That said, this is speculative, and I am neither a virologist nor a doctor. Please don't take this as a prediction or diagnosis—just an example of a "what-if" scenario from an old South Texas peckerwood who reads too much.
- He is also missing pieces of his brain ... Just reminding people he claimed to have a brain eating worm.
- I hear what you are saying - the reality-based community will do the right thing, most likely (if they are able to - Brainworms may make that difficult).
  Unfortunately, herd immunity is a thing. That's why we need a responsible government with sane stewards at the wheel. Having asshats like this in charge will KILL even those that do the right thing when it comes to vaccinations.
  
  herd immunity is a thing.
  It is, but a leaky vaccine doesn't give you it.
- RFK Jr is just another old fucking shit bag that wants to be right even if he is wrong and who doesn't care if his ignorance or self-righteousness kills you or anyone else. Your health is not his priority.
  His priority seems to be to attack big pharma. The arguments made in his petition are focused on the protection of public health. Although to do this he's using evidence from quack doctors and faulty studies.

THIS ASSHOLE AGAIN.
Imagine a world where this asshat managed to hold up the lifesaving vaccination. The fact that donvict killed more Americans than anyone else in history infuriates me as it is, but the fact that dickhead thinks he has standing for something like this. Just the fucking balls. The sense of fucking baseless entitlement ....JFC.

Is he turning orange now too?
- There is a minimum required amount of bronzer you're required to apply to be accepted into the MAGA leadership. See also the transformation Ron DeSantis pulled.
  
  Welcome to MAGA, here's your starter kit which includes a 1-month supply of bonzer, coupons valid to purchase food a McDonald's and a scalpel to remove any empathy you may still have in you.
  
  Deep (tan) state
  
  Maybe bronzer is the baptismal water that high-level cult members must be submerged in, before they can be confirmed?
- Colloidal silver... It does things to you.
  
  That makes people blue
- More of a creepy magenta.
- Does remind me of the Republican blonde stereotype
  https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/politics-of-blonde-hair-from-persephone-to-ivanka-trump.html
- [read in the tone of a comic book]. Once upon a time, RFK jr was a normal government bootlicker. Then one day he was bitten by a radioactive donald and became SUPER SPREADER!!! A masked hero fighing against common sense medicine and validatable science.

Alls ya need is a horse paste and bleach cocktail
- I'll take mine on the rocks. lol.
  
  Cloud you spread mine along a florescent bulb and let me deep throat it? Gotta get the light involved too.
- https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-century-of-evidence-putting-light

What was RFK’s end game? Watching a large slice of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists die off?
The insidious piece here is that healthcare was COVID vaccine prioritized and thus the biggest beta test ever. A 2-for-1 special of sorts. Happily, that beta test worked out. At this point the testing sample and time frame is robust, and the tech used for the COVID vaccine has led to an experimental cancer vaccine. The man needs to chill and let science keep hold of the wheel. The vaccine kept the bulk of the healthcare industry working instead of quitting. Hospitals stayed open because the vaccine promised a modicum of safety for staff they otherwise would not have had.
In RFK’s version of the pandemic timeline, hospitals shut down due to lack of staff, healthcare worker losses (from quitting, noping out, illness, and death) soar, and people suffocate to death at home in a horrific state of panic. RFK would likely make an appearance on Joe Rogan to say that an all natural organic death at home is preferable to vaccines.
- What was RFK’s end game?
  What do you think goes on in the mind of someone with a dead brain worm?
  Sometimes, the simplest answer is the most plausible answer.
  
  I hear the brain worm died because it starved
  
  If I was a brain worm that had taken control of a US politician, the first thing I would do is say that the worm is dead.
  
  Fair.
  And yet. Trump looked at RFK, considered his pandemic presidency, then said this is the guy I want to go wild on healthcare this term.
- I don't think he has one. He's one of those people convinced of their rightness and will see it through no matter the suffering it causes, no matter the demonstrable harm he has already done. In a sane world this kook bastard would be laughed at and ignored, minimizing his ability to harm anyone. Or better yet charged with culpable homicide. Instead he'll put in a position that allow him to harm EVERYONE.
  
  In a fair world he would get punched in the jaw every time he said something anti-human and without a shred of kindness while trying to speak on behalf of others, especially after he helped cause an outbreak in Samoa that killed nearly 100 people.
- As far as endgame, he presumably is a true believer.
  As to letting "science take the wheel", given the stakes it makes sense but the largest medical experiment in history is a frightening concept.
  Particularly for folks that lived when they DDTed the hell out of everything, or when doctors would lobotomize or electroshock people for mildly inconveniencing their family, or eugenics programs that went and sterilized "undesirables". Some skepticism of "science" can be expected.
  The thing is these people bake in their mindset when they are relatively young and do not adjust to account for improvements or for the dire contexts.

Again, remind me why you didn't vote because of Kamala's stance on the Palestinian genocide and because she was picked without a primary election when the alternative was this?
- Because of Kamala's stance on the Palestinian genocide and that she was picked without a primary election.
  Maybe if the Dems stop trying to compete in the shithead contest they won't keep losing.
  
  And that was worth having Trump instead? Really? With all the insecurity and instability and the anxiety that he's causing on a global scale? Both on the human rights front, world peace and world economy as well? Threatening the sovereignty of neighboring countries? And rigging the government officials, courts and institutions to execute his every demand and punish with jail time and death those who oppose him?
  Was that REALLY worth it just to tell the Dems to suck it?

That man looks like a chicken nugget
- No he does not look delicious, okay?!

Ok so, when you intend to run a dictatorship and let people suffer at the expense of idiots with actual dead brain worms in their head it's important to remember that if you kill off people's children and loved ones and others survive - the ones that survive typically lose their "civility" and take matters into their own hands.
All it takes is one member of the secret service to lose someone that matters to them by something this administration causes for the administration to be done with.
At some point, the people guarding the vault will realize that they can distribute the vault amongst themselves and get rid of the individual who owns the vault.
- I was just discussing this with a conservative relative. It’s meet in the middle in dead agreement territory.
  A lot if the tariffed Chinesium is going to be PC parts. Think of your mouse. I paid $10 for my ergonomic mouse with extra buttons. I had to replace it last year and it was $15. The guesstimates have prices doubled. Who wants to pay $30 for an $10 mouse? Those increases add up in trying to keep your entertainment source alive. My point is people already can’t buy groceries.
  They’re working very hard to shut down streaming sites like fmovies. Everything has subscription fee now, even single news articles. Again, people can’t afford to buy groceries.
  The last time people were bored with nothing left to do we had riots. In the name of a cause that deserved justice, yes, but the not having anything else to do part contributed a lot to the number of people outside, and stealing diapers.
  They’re creating an environment that will prime people for pushing back by simply taking away free and cheap entertainment.
  Pushing further on the rest (groceries, healthcare, workers rights) is just an ignition switch. We all feel it. That’s the sense of impending doom thats been lurking all year.
  Healthcare upheaval would be a societal nuke at this point.
  And yet that’s where Trump wants to go. And that’s where my conservative relative and I split. Oh no, T is going to solve the problems. Seriously. That was said.
  So politically, we agree an ignition point is approaching. We don’t agree on whether Trump will ignite it or diffuse it.
  Interesting times suck.
  
  They're are only two things I can guarantee Trump desires: self-preservation, and his daughter.
  He wanted the presidency to avoid prison and it worked. I assume he'll use the military to protect himself and his interests above anything else.
  After that? I don't really think he cares.
- The level of propaganda in this country - not only in "legacy" media, but the algorithms on "social" media - is so fine-tuned that they could probably get most people that went through that kind of tragedy to still want to put Fauci in prison and/or kill him.

This guy already has a body count and he will kill and kill again.
- Fwiw, Autism Speaks eventually shifted their official position and they now endorse vaccination, and no longer fund research trying to find/prove non-existent links between vaccines and autism.

Good luck America, the lunatics are running the asylum and that’s not going to be good for anyone.

Gonna be an interesting few years if you get another pandemic. The man is batshit.
- If WE get another pandemic, comrade!
  I voted against this bullshit. Ugh.

RFK jr. is an example of how ignorance is in itself a great evil.

We’re so fucked.

This guy needs to eat a lot more roadkill

That would count as attempted murder in thousands of cases.

When stupid meets power, everybody loses. Usually except the rich.

Wtf happened to his skin? When you look like that you don't get to talk about health, get healthcare yourself first. He looks like he literally got roasted
- 14 years of heavy heroin addiction leaves a toll. Kudos for him for getting clean, but also its reasonable to think that massive iv drug use at a young age causes developmental deficits.
  
  I've worked with a lot of people who have chronically abused opioids. None of them look like this guy. I suspect it's chronic, heavy smoking plus a horrible, horrible diet. And maybe using some comedically nonsensical, quacky health 'supplements' of some kind.

He wasn't in power then. I'm fine with screwballs testing to the system to keep it honest. Now he's about to be head of the Department of Health & Human Services. That is deeply concerning.

This is terrible news, if he bans vaccines I hope there would be a massive petition for many states to join Canada.
- Chevron could actually save us here since courts, not agencies can ultimately decide policy. This could be their entire strategy to "prove" that they were right.

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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.
- 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