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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.

The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. Its first meeting this year had been delayed when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly postponed its February meeting.

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[–] hashtagretired@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How quickly we have moved from democracy to idiocrasy!

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Let me guess which experts will get hired in their places

One will be a 22 years old gardener with 4 years of extensive research on vaccines on various forums

Another one will be someone with a master's degree in arts but with ten years experience on bashing against vaccines on sitter

Then there will be an high school dropout that became rich selling supplements on a website that is advocating using chlorine as eyedrop

Finally some stay at home mom with 5 years of experience selling essential oils, specialized in curing any kind of disease, even terminal cancer

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is a TikTok beauty trend where stupid people are rubbing beef tallow on their faces. Is this why RFK’s face looks like it came out of a fryer?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago

He agrees; no one should take health advice from him.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

UK's NHS and Health Canada have been my officially trusted sources of health guidance since Feb 2025.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This filthy traitor must be held to account.

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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is amazing. I am so glad we can rip this bandaid off. Now all the yuckles are gonna starve and pass from preventable sickness. Boiling away from short attention spans.

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Except urban areas are much more susceptible to contagious diseases, and tend to run blue. This seems to be a calculated attempt to cull urban blue voters.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Blue voters are generally vaccinated

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

That falls apart when vaccines are no longer approved or available

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Against what? No one is vaccinated against the next pandemic, and RFK is making sure Americans never will be.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they thought Covid would somehow stay in California and big cities, and kill mostly minorities, so they decided the best thing to do was nothing. Then all those people got vaccinated while the MAGA dumbasses refused, so it ended up killing far more conservatives than anyone else.

Now measles is mostly spreading in Red areas where people actually listen to the morons.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

What a gross person. I don't know what's the fucking point of this.

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Chaos, destruction. He's one who wants to watch it burn.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I honestly believe they literally get off on abusing vast swathes of humanity. I'll bet Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller jerks off while looking at photos of Nazi death camps. This freak too, probably, or something similar.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rest of the world needs to ban Americans. Who knows what kind of diseases they will be bringing.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The truly sad thing is that Pestilence and his goons halted food and medicines that prevented or suppressed serious diseases in poor countries. This will irreversibly spread HIV, TB, and other terrible diseases like malaria.

Even more worrying, people that used to be fed grains and other food staples from American farmers are no longer getting food shipments. This means American farmers can't sell their crops to the government anymore, and the people who received food are now starving. This encourages instability, war, famine, and worst of all, bushmeat hunting, which can harbor all sorts of endemic diseases. Some have rarely come into contact with people, so they've never made the jump to humans as a host. But the more people hunt wild game, the more and more chances it has to get things just right in order to jump to humans and spread. This is most likely the root cause of HIV and COVID, and there's speculation that Ebola started infecting humans the same way.

This is already a huge problem, and it's only to get worse as climate change makes conditions even more favorable to bacteria, viruses, and most worryingly, fungi, which we don't have many medicines for.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 3 days ago

Nurgle cultist is really on brand. I wonder if he smells like nurgle rot.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Good luck everybody!

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Where are the adults and why have children and toddlers been left alone for this long?

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