RFJ jr to lead Department of Health and Human Services

This is the thing about things like diseases. The Pathogens don’t care who is in office or who you voted for. This is like those people who were dying of COvId telling their nurses they didn’t think it was real.

 

RFK Jr. off to a great start making America healthy again!

 

You beat me by one. I did:
Influenza
Adult pneumococcal
and a shingles shot.

Hard pass on Covid booster.

 

Conservatives: the government is too big

Liberals: no it's not

Conservatives: ok then we'll staff all the agencies with the stupidest people imaginable and make them actively harmful instead of just slow and clumsy

Liberals: ok nevermind yeah go ahead and shrink the government

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I see the long con the pubbies are playing. Clever girl.

 

I got flu, hepatitis B, Shingles and the COVID booster. I got CoVId this summer in Ireland. While it wasn’t too bad it kept me housebound for a week. Note I had my last CoVId shot prior to that in November 2023.

The timing of my latest vaccination has
Less to do actually with the political situation but more with that am traveling internationally over Christmas.

 

I was lucky to never contracted Covid. And I worked in close contact with many who caught it.
I think all the Tito's in my body is my vax against covid.
I have nothing against the vax.

Where were you in Ireland?

 

The United States and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs:

Years ago in the US, drug ads were directed primarily at doctors. But in 1997 the FDA eased restrictions to allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers. With restraints lifted, spending on prescription drug ads soared to nearly $10 billion a year, and is rising.

1997 - That is the Clinton years
so yes
THIS WAS A BAD THING

Rocket River

 

yea

Republicans: Everyone should pay for an education. If you cannot afford it then they should not get one
Others: It should be a public education
Republicans: OK . . so let us regulate it!
Others: What?
Republicans: We need to have #@@#-insert bullsh*t stipulation and over regulation -%$#^#%$&^%&^%&^%&^%$*&*&^ but private schools don't
Other: Public School are failing
Republicans: See we told you

They will regulate things to destruction
then turn it over to their buddies for private enterprise

Rocket River

 

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“Kids died.” The story of RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive

 

RFK Jr is a stupid brain wormed piece of trash living off his family's faded glory who wouldn't be allowed to work at HEB, let alone HHS.

Hope this person just dies honestly - he sucks and actively hurts children & society

 

The job he has been given isn't responsible for fighting big pharma

He isn't qualified for the job given it's responsibilities

 

You know how I can tell when I'm seeing fake populism vs real populism.

If your advocacy to combat big pharama revolves around raw milk and vaccine conspiracies and not advocating to dismantle the private health insurance industry and creating a public single player insurance pool that leverages its monopoly as the single buyer (monopsony is the technical term) in America that directly negotiates prices while also dismantling the drug patent system that often patents drugs where 80% of the research was publicly funded...

Then you probably are a fake populist.


I don't know if RFK was ever for a single player healthcare option (probably was before his current grifter motivated political realignment) but I do know he aligned himself politically with the very people diametrically opposed to such a concept. If he ever held any of these sincere populist positions he threw them out to the dumpster to obtain power.

 

I am against pharmaceutical companies being able to advertise on television or print media or social media.

I believe more Democrats are against this.

How are they different?

The Democratic Party is changing, we don't know which way it will end up going.

Having Elon Musk so vocal and involved in the Trump administration doesn't help the "corporate democrats" claim.

 

I would be willing to bet doctors are sick of pharmaceutical companies advertising as well.

 

If y’all really think the Trump presidency is going to seriously take on BiG Pharma I have some NFT’s to sell you.

 

Rocket River
Lol. He said a word....

 

You can't make this stuff up.

RFK Jr asks beleaguered farmer to apply for a new job... as FDA’s raw milk adviser

Robert F Kennedy Jr has asked a raw milk farmer whose products have been recalled for containing the bird flu virus to become a health adviser to the US government.

Mark McAfee, a raw milk producer from California, confirmed on Thursday that he had applied to advise the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on his product, after a request from Donald Trump’s Health Secretary nominee.

Mr Kennedy is understood to have asked Mr McAfee to apply for the role, despite his products being recalled 13 times since 2006 for containing bird flu and other pathogens.

His appointment to the FDA is not confirmed, and Mr Kennedy’s own nomination as HHS Secretary is subject to confirmation by the Senate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-asks-beleaguered-farmer-001204478.html