Last night I was reading this story in the New York Times:
“On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream”
It’s about RFK Jr recently canceling almost $500 million in grants and contracts for mRNA vaccine research, the research that gave us the Covid vaccine and other vaccines, mostly for upper respiratory diseases. I think I barely scanned the second half of the story before I started typing a comment/reply:
I’m 82 years old and flu, Covid, RSV, or pneumonia could kill me in short order. I’ve never missed a vaccination for these diseases. If one of them takes me out because of RFK Jr’s rulings, I will haunt him for the rest of his days (as well as those who confirmed his appointment).
Alas, as has happened several times before, the comments were closed while I was typing. Well, this isn’t the Times, so at least I can post my comment here. Doesn’t matter if no one reads it. I’m so angry about that man’s confirmation and his crazy, ignorant ideas about science and medicine that I can hardly see straight.
(Full disclosure: My dad was a doctor and I was a medical editor.)
With Trump and his ilk we have entered an Orwellian era. Which will prevail, superstition or science? Nobody knows but it is certainly more depressing for those of our vintage.
I think I’d have chosen the word “horrifying.” I hope I live long enough to see the return of some kind of normalcy/sanity for my grandchildren, but I’m not betting on it. It’s going to take a lot longer to fix things than it did to break them.
He seeks to destroy it all and no one has the courage or power to fight him on it. My hope is that all of the damage he’s done to himself will catch up to him sooner rather than later
I know the Republicans in Congress are subservient to Trump, but I’d hoped they were at least concerned enough about their own and their family’s health to not confirm someone with Kennedy’s history.
they chose him to do this
Yes, they did. I wonder how many of them thought about the health of their families, their children and grandchildren, when they voted to confirm him. Kids picking up preventable diseases at school and passing them around to everyone — one of nature’s most effective vectors.
Do we know what happened to his vocal chords ? It’s weird to hear him talk like a bum in a gangster movie; but it is a voice that matches what it says …
He probably ate too much road kill.
Actually it’s a neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia.
Smarty-pants ! 🙂
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Of course ! – shoulda thought of that. 😀
This could affect older people more than anyone. Is this there sly way of getting rid of us?
One of these days it may dawn on the prez that he’s old too. And not aging as well as a lot of us. What’s puzzling is why he’s letting Kennedy destroy what he (Trump) accomplished with the covid vaccine, getting it produced so fast (Operation Warp Speed). Of course, as long as we’re bashing Kennedy, we’re not asking about the Epstein files …