U.S. is Way too Overcrowded? – RFK, Jr Has an App for That

  HHS Secretary RFJ, Jr.                        Surgeon General Casey Means              DJT         

  

U.S. is Way too Overcrowded? – RFK, Jr Has an App for That

Out of Cite, Out of his Mind

“Moms (and families) will not stand anymore for a country that profits massively off kids getting chronically sick… Nothing can stop the frustration that is leading to this [wellness] movement.” 

Future Surgeon General and “no longer licensed” medical doctor, Casey Means, on X, Jan. 30.

“I, and my co-authors, did not write that paper… It does make me concerned given that citation practices are an important part of conducting and reporting rigorous science.” 

On a MAHA report fabricated citation attributed to Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes.

If you can just steer clear of overwhelming factual evidence and keep trained and experienced health scientists out of the mix, you can certainly issue a report with a conspiratorial end-result that reads well… ok some of the citations imitated that famous “road to nowhere.” AI hallucinations? Not that everything in the RFK, Jr’s Make America Healthy Agreement (MAHA) is wrong; some of it makes a lot of sense.

There are clear benefits to eating healthy, natural foods, exercise and generally applying “common sense” taking care of yourself. OK. But then with Trump’s environmental protection cutbacks, the prescription of pollution free water, pesticide free crops and breathable air might be a little hard to come by for most Americans. RFK, Jr.’s rehash quest for the cause of autism is also an expensive “been there, done that, a long time ago” wasteful taxpayer journey. Sorry Robert, for sure it ain’t vaccines!

LA Times Opinion Writer, Michael Hiltzik (June 3rd) pulls no punches: “Serious followers of healthcare policy in the U.S. didn’t expect much good to emerge from its takeover by Donald Trump and his secretary of Health and Human Services, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr… But the agency and its leadership managed to live down to the worst expectations May 27, when HHS released a 73-page ‘assessment’ of the health of America’s children titled ‘The MAHA Report’ (for ‘Make America Healthy Again’).

“A sloppier, more disingenuous government report would be hard to imagine. Whatever credibility the report might have had as a product of a federal agency was shattered by its obvious errors, misrepresentations and outright fabrications of source materials, some of it plainly the product of the authors’ reliance on AI bots…

“What’s important is its context: concerted attacks by Kennedy and his associates on the fundamentals of public health in America… Those attacks have profound implications not only for Americans’ health, but on pocketbook issues and the U.S. economy generally. HHS bowed toward the latter issue by asserting in the report that the health profile of American children poses ‘a threat to our nation’s health, economy, and military readiness.’

“As it happens, the recent actions at HHS and its subagencies, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, increase those threats… Take the agencies’ May 20 decision to remove COVID boosters from the CDC’s list of recommended vaccinations for healthy children and pregnant women. The decision opens the door for insurance companies to start charging full price for the shots, rather than covering them without copays as the law requires for preventive services… That could mean out-of-pocket charges of $100 or more each booster, which could itself discourage families from getting vaccinated. This is a reminder of how family economics affect health…

“And although the report mentions that safety net programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — SNAP, or food stamps, school lunch and breakfast programs, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC—could play a role in promoting healthy eating, it doesn’t mention that those programs face severe budget cuts from the Trump White House.

“Last month [May], HHS canceled nearly $800 million in grants to the pharmaceutical company Moderna for the development of a human vaccine against bird flu, part of a Biden administration effort to prepare for possible future pandemics, the potential social and economic impact of which should be self-evident, given our experience with COVID. Bird flu already has devastated the dairy and poultry industries in many regions and sickened dozens of farmworkers.” This unscientific mantra is not just everywhere in the report, it typifies high level HHS appointments.

For example, Dr. Casey Means, quoted above, is our anti-vaxxer Surgeon General now. “Her opposition to California’s stringent childhood vaccine mandates, enthusiasm for magic mushrooms, and obsession with all things ‘clean’ and ‘natural’ have endeared her to everyone from raw milk fans to anti-vaxxers to boosters of Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of a healthcare chief executive who regularly receives fan mail while awaiting trial in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

“‘We’ve never had anyone in that role [of surgeon general] who almost anyone knew who they were,’ Dr. Joel Warsh, a Studio City pediatrician and fellow MAHA luminary, whose book on vaccines ‘Between a Shot and a Hard Place’ came out this week. ‘We know the public loves her.’” LA Times, May 22nd. Really, Dr Warsh? Loves her? If the United States had followed her precepts during the pandemic, tens of millions of Americans would have died from COVID-19.

The United States has already killed enough people in Africa and Asia by shutting down the food and medical services of USAID, closed by DOGE, so now, with HHS mandates, we have a path to cull the American population as well.

I’m Peter Dekom, and every once and a while, I have to wonder if (a) I am having a bad dream or (b) I must not be living in the United States of America.