• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    He’s been spreading lies about vaccines for years, pushing anti-vax propaganda. Now that some poor child of an anti-vaxxer family has died, he’s suddenly pro-vax for just this one thing?

    No fuck him. He’s an asshole.

    • Steve@communick.news
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      That’s exactly how not to encourage people to be better.
      Wouldn’t you like for him to be better? Or are you just more comfortable in a black and white world of, once bad always bad?

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        you need to read further, hes only issuing 2000 doses, which means very little. hes only half-assing it.

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        I’m not the guy you’re replying to, but a broken clock being right twice a day doesn’t miraculously fix it. It’s still broken. Dude’s still an asshole, even if in this one moment he’s being ‘right’. He has already begun to dismantle the department he was appointed to as the head of. You’ll see next year, if we even get health and flu related death numbers anymore, what the impacts of his decisions, up to TODAY even, have brought.

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          Yeah, I mean people like to get into a position of power and foment vaccine hesitancy and we’re supposed to praise him?

          Fuck him. I’ll praise him when he goes comes back fully. This ten steps back and one step forward bullshit? Fuck that.

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        Wouldn’t you like for him to be better?

        I’d like him to admit he has no business personally advising anyone on the public policy of health matters, hire a capable person for the job and say “I will simply be following every directive of this competent person I hired on matters related to the national policy on health”. That would do it for me.

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        The man campaigned against measles vaccines in Samoa which was followed by a reduction of vaccinations and a measles outbreak.

        Now he was promoting fucking vitamins to deal with it. I bet his wife told him to get it together as she did during Covid for whatever party they had where guests needed to be vaccinated. He’s an asshole.

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          Also, this:

          As health secretary, Kennedy has also raised alarm for canceling meetings of influenza experts at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issued a stop-work order on contracts meant to develop new vaccines, and is “re-evaluating” a $590m contract with the vaccine-maker Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine.

          This guy shouldn’t be anywhere NEAR the levers of power.