It’s almost too difficult to keep up with the guy because he throws a ton of garbage up, and much of it sticks with (too) many. But I’ll keep at it.
If one person listens, one life is saved, or more importantly, if he gets impeached or fired I, we will have done our job.
Remember to push back on me if:
1. You find something political in my writing
2. You detect that I am in one party or the other
3. You find something not substantiated by science and,
4. I misquote him
Please,
If you make a statement, please send references to substantiate it. I promise I will evaluate it/them
OK, here we go:
My take on his latest blowbelogs.
1. Terminate the mRNA projects
2. Pull back recommendations regarding COVID-19 shots
3. Firing the panel that makes vaccine recommendations
4. Refusing to endorse vaccinations as a measles outbreak worsened
WRONG
Horrors. All very likely will endanger our health.
Pulling Back the mRNA projects
The Secretary's decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision ever,” epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
"Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he's talking about, but he doesn't," Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, reiterated.
Despite COVID relative success during the pandemic, Kennedy maintained that mRNA vaccines are not effective for viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract and are ineffective once a virus mutates.
WRONG
Osterholm said, "Besides cutting this research out, Kennedy just created more doubt in the minds of the public about these vaccines, which is absolutely a horrible, horrible situation."
Bird Flu
Bird flu is everywhere on dairy farms. A preprint study suggests that it is widespread on dairy farms, including in wastewater, in the air in milking parlors, and in the exhaled breath of cows.
“It is everywhere,” says microbiologist and immunologist Seema Lakdawala, who co-authored the study. “We need to be expanding biosafety measures, biosecurity measures, and trying to control where the virus is.”
If it breaks out of the dairy farms, we are in big trouble since the Secretary has cancelled bird flu vaccine development. I guess that’s why anti-vaxxers do... endanger public health.
Oh, did I mention that the Secretary suggested drinking raw milk? Duh. The virus lives on cows’ udders. It is removed with Pasteurization.
WRONG
Lastly Measles
Endorsement of the measles vaccine should have been pushed by the Secretary. If a child is unvaccinated against measles, be careful. Measles is spreading.
Children need to be vaccinated so that they don't have the chance, albeit rare, of dying from measles.
Do not put your child at that risk.
The vaccine does not cause death
The vaccine does not cause encephalitis, and
The vaccine does not cause autism
It’s safe
Two doses of the measles vaccine make it virtually unheard of that a child dies of measles.
Oh dear, we are in a health care mess, and it is getting worse thanks to Secretary Kennedy’s horrible decisions.
Copyright 2025
Go for it Ed. I hope everyone is reading this. We must support vaccinations to prevent the spread of diseases and listen to what science tells us.
Thank you for your persistence and dedication to good health practices. You are chronicling the most serious attack on the American health system by a person who is so deranged and deluded to think he is on a mission to protect us from ourselves. Trump's assault on every component of American Democracy is staggering, but a majority of the populace put the wheels in action. It is easy to find the multiple villains in Trump's dreamscape, but the fault is imbedded in the very core of the demographics of this continent's original immigrants. For 250+ years, the battle between democracy and autocracy has been waged with no decisive victor. Maybe the next 3 1/2 years will determine the ultimate victor from the vanquished.