Summary

Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as U.S. health secretary has sparked backlash, with critics labeling Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist, a “clear and present danger.”

Advocacy group Public Citizen warned the appointment could lead to a “public health catastrophe,” while physicians condemned Kennedy’s history of spreading vaccine misinformation, linking it to fatal outbreaks like the 2019 Samoa measles epidemic.

Kennedy has also promoted debunked health claims, including raw milk and ivermectin for COVID, prompting fears his leadership could undermine U.S. health infrastructure.

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    8 hours ago

    The United States is fucked if you get another pandemic, isn’t it? They already did everything wrong on purpose last time but now it seems worse. It’s as if they want to maximize death by preventable disease.

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      We’re already shambling slowly into an antiviral resistant H5N1 pandemic at the moment. It has the potential to make COVID look trivial if (and at this point almost certainly when) it kicks off. We had an opportunity to contain it when it was only working its way through our livestock industries but the CDC and Dept of Agriculture decided that “Don’t ask don’t tell” was a better policy for the dairy industry.

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      7 hours ago

      They’re rich. They want any kind of disaster they can get. So they can buy up more shit for cheap while the peasants struggle to survive.

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      4 hours ago

      I’m fine with the Pacific States of America and the Atlantic States of America doing their own thing. Jesusland in the middle though? I want border controls on those idiots.

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    9 hours ago

    This man (Trump) is forming a very powerful and also very unique squad.

    I NEED MORE POPCORN

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      4 hours ago

      Watching them commit political Sudoku never gets old. They’ll never work in govt again after a post in his administration.

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      8 hours ago

      Uniquely brain damaged 😅

      I wonder if a brain worm is considered like bonus rarity when collecting forms of brain damaged political figures- like a holographic trading card