In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
U.S. health officials, following recommendations by infectious disease experts, have been urging annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans ages 6 months and older.
A CDC advisory panel is set to meets in June to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among its options are suggesting shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.
He’ll ban the diagnosis of Autism next, then declare that it’s cured.
Then HitlerPig will take credit for it, and tell the world that he cured Autism all by himself.
His latest proclamation is he wants anyone with an NIH grant to be required to publish in a gov run journal instead of, say, Lancet or Nature. He feels they are “corrupt” without providing a shred of evidence, never mind they are peer reviewed. So he’d prefer a gov system where papers could be rejected because they don’t align with his conspiracy views and they wouldn’t be allowed to publish elsewhere.
A few things to get out of the way
- RFK is completely nuts and doesn’t belong anywhere, let alone in office.
- Vaccines are a good thing and vaccine campaigns have suppressed some very nasty diseases.
I don’t disagree with this policy though. (…and that is this post obliterated).
We already take a conservative approach with medical treatments and pregnancy, including some forms of vaccination which we do not give to pregnant women. I have absolutely no problem being conservative with treatment which work in a different way to previous treatments.
With young children, I don’t think the benefit / harm calculation for the individual ever supported giving it to them. The probability that catching COVID would cause you serious harm was always lower the younger you were. Whereas the probability for side effects was always there. The only rationale to vaccinate children was to limit transmission in the population which is something it utterly failed to do.
The role out of the COVID treatments was (IMHO) a high risk strategy but arguably necessary because of the situation we were in. We’re now in a different situation. We should be re-evaluating the decision made in a time of crisis to see if they still hold up.
I thought they’ve always been very conservative about pregnant woman and very young kids for vaccines (and other treatments in general).
Thank goodness we have the stupid conservatives in power so they can politicize everything.
Agreed. This is not even a political decision. Europe is doing exactly the same
(1) That link is for the Danish Health Authority, not all of Europe. (2) The Danish Health Authority recommends pregnant women get vaccinated, whereas RFK said it will NO LONGER be recommended for pregnant women to get vaccinated. So they are opposite. They align on saying healthy children and under 65 are not being recommended to get vaccination. (3) RFK made it political by making this recommendation BEFORE the public scientific review panel made its analysis of vaccine recommendations for the year. i.e. a political appointee made a decision for a scientific community without their input.
Same in UK including no pregnancies. I’m not going through every country in Europe. The point is that the US rules are not out of step with the rest of the world.
RFK and US medical insurance rules may be crazy, but the science is pretty standard.
I can’t comprehend how they can still be salty about the pandemic vaccines.
Sure, lots of things went wrong in the pandemic, but those who got the jab went on with their lives, no health issues.
A lot of people made an ass of themselves and now have to pretend for the rest of their lives that vaccines don’t work.
A lot of people made an ass of themselves and now have to pretend for the rest of their lives that vaccines don’t work.
So many of our problems literally boil down to people refusing to ever admit they were wrong about anything
They’ve built not only their political career on lies and misinformation, but also their personal lives. If they did admit they were wrong, they’d not only lose their jobs but it would force them to questions every aspect of themselves, and they’re far too afraid of what they’re going to find to ever do that.
They hated so many things about the pandemic. I don’t think the Venn diagram of the various idiotic pet peeves and conspiracy theories is exactly one circle, but there seems to be a lot of resentment for many things coming from the same basic set of people, clustered in the Republican Party. They hated so many things.
- The people that took measures to protect themselves and others, meaning social distancing and masks. The qons hated this and they hated it so much. They hated this stark reminder that donvict couldn’t just wish Covid away and make the stock market behave as he wished. They would often claim they saw everyone in cars by themselves with masks on, as if that was the only such use, lol. But boy they were mad about it!
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The government stepping to help people in need with stimulus checks. This seemed to enrage a lot of them, even if they cashed that check themselves.
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The notion that there was a safe and effective vaccine seems to have really driven them up the wall. I don’t know if it’s because they saw lots of people not relying on “thoughts and prayers” when it came to a pandemic? They really hated being laughed at about the horse dewormer stuff, let me tell you that much.
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I think what drove some of them the craziest is that many of them have a need to be in-person to bully someone and Covid probably denied them a lot of that. I noticed the people wanting people “back to work” the most were these types. I think Joe being able to “campaign from his basement” as donnie failed to get re-elected and do the most basic of things to be popular during a pandemic really just drove them to total incoherence. Many of them were already marginal with the Pizzagate and Qanon shit, but Covid drove them right off a cliff. I think Obama getting elected, then Covid drove a large portion of our population into batshit insanity.
I was reading the/r/conservative response to this last night and they see themselves as persecuted and are unable to grasp why people who were unlikely to die from COVID should still take precautions against it. To you and me the story is plain and simple; we do it to hopefully slow the spread and help keep the most vulnerable as safe as possible. Hooray that worked (mostly). Now they say “see it was nothing, the vaccine was and is fake.” They’ve completely forgotten about the literal truck loads of corpses and that COVID couple have been magnitudes worse if more variants had surfaced.
It’s awful but I kinda wish we did let it get that bad, if enough of those halfwits died the whole world would be better off.
Kennedy just needs to let the worm run things.
Didn’t he just say not to take health advice from him a couple weeks ago?
But this announcement means your aren’t taking health advice from him, it is now the official policy of the government.
That is just not a proper headline… You are missing critical context? More like, “Kennedy, who recently willingly swam in literal shit with his own grandchildren, says…”
“Kennedy, who’s brain was ‘partially’ eaten by a worm, says…”
pregnant women
Man, RFK really wants the US to just die out, make sure the next generation is dead or fucked up.
Let’s not go to the US, it’s a silly place
Yep, the world will soon belong to China and the EU, thanks to the self destructive actions of Rusia and the US.
My husband and I got Covid last week. Probably the new variant. Our latest booster was 6 months ago. This variant KICKED OUR ASS. We are on week 2 of coughing, wheezing, and feeling extremely tired. Lost a bunch of income from our respective businesses because we were not able to do any work at all.
This was a stark reminder of how important it is to keep up with boosters. I hope that we can find a way to keep getting them, even if that means paying out of pocket or lying.
It’s slower than Hitler’s gas chambers, but they don’t have to deal with the bodies.
I clicked that article fully prepared for it to be dated 2025, and immensely relieved when it was dated 2021 😷
Eeehhh, may 2021, 4 years ago. No need for misinformation
I’m not saying it’s happening now.
badelf intimated there wouldn’t be any dead bodies to deal with, but there were during the pandemic … and if we get hit with a variant that kills more (or quicker) there will be again.
You are right of course. I was thinking of normal endemic die off. Now that they defunded all vaccine research, the probability of another sh1t show like COVID is extremely likely.
This about sums up our collective future…
258 million. That is the death count they are looking for.
People are going to die because of his ignorance. He’s a murderer.
“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”. RFK Jr, Health and Human Services Secretary, May 14, 2025
