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One of the downstream consequences of Robert Kennedy’s appointment to head the Department of Health and Human Services is that vaccination rates in America will plummet.
Please understand that Kennedy is not a vaccine “skeptic.” He is opposed to all vaccines and claims that no vaccine is “safe.”
RFK’s formal merger with Trumpism will have the effect of making his view of vaccines a de rigueur tenet of MAGA politics. People who pledge fealty to Trumpism will discover that in addition to being required to believe that Trump won the 2020 election they are also required to oppose vaccinations of all types.
That’s coming. There’s no avoiding it.
And as sure as day follows night we will see the large-scale reappearance of preventable diseases such as measles and polio. Children will die.
But just like the alliance question above, there’s a silver lining here. Because the politicization of vaccines removes any ambiguity about the current character of American society.
Human history is not an unbroken line of progress. From time to time societies choose to disfigure themselves. A kind of civilizational self-mutilation.
The First World War is the most obvious example. The Iranian revolution is a more recent one; the French Revolution is probably the most famous.
When these paroxysms of self-hatred manifest they are usually the result of hardship or repression. Here was Dickens trying to explain both the horror and the inevitability of the French Revolution:
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrels carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in one realization, Guillotine. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
The French aristocracy was so decadent and the state of les miserable so pitiable, that Dickens believed the Revolution could not have been avoided. French society mutilated itself because French society had already become disfigured and vile.
In America today we have quite the opposite proposition.
The mainstream opposition to vaccines has arisen not because of some medical catastrophe or failure, but in response to a scientific miracle.
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Poorly informed people will listen to Kennedy, vaccinations will go down, and people will die as a result. The only question is how many.
So, red states.
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Kennedys relevance is, downstream of the “experts” Politicizing science and losing all credibility,
An uncertain number people, including children, will needlessly die because this absolute conspiracy crackpot will have a position as an "authority" on medicine.
Yeah well, your “authorities” like Fauci have plenty of blood on their hands. Children’s or otherwise.
Not anywhere near the truth. That's on the former 'president' traitor and all the unnecessary deaths from Co-vid
Also a deflection and lie
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies