Surely You Jesters
After RFK Jr. got picked by Trump as Secretary of Health and Human Services, vaccine and health stocks plummeted. If he gets confirmed, life expectancy numbers could do the same. From WaPo (Gift Article): 10 RFK Jr. conspiracy theories and false claims, in his own words.
+ Times of Israel had quite the headline: RFK Jr., who mused COVID was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews, tapped to head HHS.
+ For no particular reason, here are some charts covering the impact of vaccines over the past century.
+ RFK Jr is just the latest shocking but not surprising appointee. Timothy Snyder tries to put things into perspective. “Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence. From this perspective, Trump’s proposed appointments — Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard — are perfect instruments. They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done. These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.”
+ Related: Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks.
