In case you want extra causes to not comply with something that Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated, simply know that the snake oil-talking grandfather took his grandchildren to sewage and bacteria-infested waters in Washington, D.C.’s, Rock Creek Park, the place they went swimming and posted pictures.
On Mom’s Day, the person who units nationwide well being requirements actually went for a swim in water that’s so disgusting that the Nationwide Park Service advises towards coming involved with it “attributable to excessive micro organism ranges.”
“Keep out of the water to guard streambanks, crops and animals and hold you and your loved ones (together with pets!) protected from sickness,” the advisory states. “Rock Creek has excessive ranges of micro organism and different infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and different contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) well being.”
Kennedy didn’t simply go swimming, he posted a photograph of himself totally submerged within the extremely infectious waters, which implies that inside this yr we will count on Kennedy to both develop full glowing powers or a 3rd ear.
It’s this degree of stupidity that sat in entrance of the Home Appropriations and the Senate Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pensions Committees, Wednesday, fully out of his depth and making an attempt to clarify his previous statements on vaccines and his efforts in his present place to scale back vaccine applications.
Mom’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek. pic.twitter.com/TXowaSMTFY
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Might 11, 2025
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From NBC Information:
Amid numerous measles outbreaks throughout the nation, with the biggest in West Texas, Kennedy has, now and again, provided tepid help of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, however continuously undercuts that message with false claims about harms and a scarcity of long-term safety.
Kennedy largely maintained his stance Wednesday, telling Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., in the course of the Home Appropriations Committee listening to, that he would “in all probability” vaccinate his youngsters towards the measles at this time, however added, “My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.”
“I don’t assume individuals must be taking medical recommendation from me,” Kennedy stated.
Whoa. Wait. What?
I do know that I’m studying this incorrectly.
The Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t need anybody taking medical recommendation from him?
First, I’m happy at this admission as a result of a minimum of he is aware of the bounds of his stupidity. Nevertheless, his job just isn’t solely to offer medical recommendation but in addition to set medical requirements. So I’m actually confused as to how your complete Congressional listening to didn’t cease to have him clarify this.
Anyway, they continued.
Extra from NBC Information:
Within the afternoon, throughout a heated back-and-forth with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kennedy even appeared to recommend that the measles vaccines was unsafe — regardless of many years of proof that the shot is protected and efficient.
Murphy stated that Kennedy had “constantly been undermining the measles vaccine.”
“You informed the general public that the vaccine wanes in a short time,” Murphy stated. “You went on the Dr. Phil Present and stated that the measles vaccine was by no means totally examined for security. You stated there’s fetal particles within the measles vaccine.”
When requested whether or not he would advocate the measles vaccine, Kennedy stated, “I’m going to inform the reality about the whole lot we all know and we don’t find out about vaccines.”
“I’m not going to only inform individuals the whole lot is protected and efficient if I do know that there are points,” Kennedy added. “I have to respect individuals’s intelligence.” Kennedy’s youngsters are vaccinated — a choice he has beforehand stated he regrets.
In a separate trade, Kennedy additionally claimed that solely the Covid vaccine has been examined in a placebo-controlled trial.
For the reason that starting of the yr, which might coincide with when Trump took workplace, there have been 1,023 circumstances of measles, and Kennedy has been pushing all of those wacky, unproven, poppycock treatments together with “a steroid known as budesonide, an antibiotic known as clarithromycin and cod liver oil, a complement excessive in vitamin A,” NBC Information reviews.
In the meantime none of those deal with measles and no knowledgeable, you realize individuals docs who research these items, even remotely agree with Kennedy’s dumb ass. The truth is, in the event you take an excessive amount of Vitamin A, it may trigger nausea, vomiting, and liver injury.
However that is what occurs if you appoint a person who has no medical coaching and believes within the college of “belief me, bro” to be the Well being and Human Providers Secretary.
“The issue is that the highest line of his job description is the nation’s chief well being strategist,” Dr. Georges Benjamin, govt director of the American Public Well being Affiliation, stated throughout a name with reporters Wednesday, NBC Information reviews. “His job is to offer individuals the very best recommendation that he can.”
And the issue is that nobody, not even his personal grandchildren, whom he let swim in a physique of water so contaminated that the park service has an advisory towards it, can belief something this man says.
Kennedy shouldn’t even take heed to his personal recommendation, which goes to be tremendous arduous with three ears.
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