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RFK: I don't want to take away polio vaccines. I just want to withdraw or suspend approval of them." WTF....?

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Appointing RFK to be the watchdog for American's health was a whole new level of stupid for Trump but now it's crossed over from the inane into the truly bizarre and dangerous. RFK keeps saying, "I don't want to take away a person's right to vaccines" but at the same time he's petitioning the FDA to withdraw approval of their use. I mean if the polio vaccine is not approved for use then why would a person's right to have them even come up if they've been suspended from production. That's like saying, "I don't want to take away a person's right to own a gun" while at the same time banning production of bullets. RFK isn't fooling anyone with these double-speak kinds of efforts. We eradicated the polio epidemic back in the 50's and the 60's with the Salk and Sabin vaccines and now RFK wants to bring back a polio epidemic by getting rid of them. I suspect he is a majority shareholder in iron lung manufacturers. If the news media is not screaming about this tonight I will have lost all faith in them.

RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man Exposed Trying to Abolish Polio Vaccine​

 
RFK’s positions is best described as: “I want to take away your vaccine, I just don’t want you to believing that I took away your vaccine.”

It’s a huge swing to figure out how to take away vaccines but blame it on Democrats, but I am confident that Donald and RFK will find a clever way to make it happen.
 
 
Not to worry big pharma will win. Just remains to be seen how much it costs them.
 
A novel OPV2 vaccine (nOPV2) which has been genetically modified to reduce the likelihood of disease-causing activating mutations was granted emergency licencing in 2021, and subsequently full licensure in December 2023.

RFKJ probably want to revisit this decision, not the legacy vaccine for the 50s.
 
Or perhaps not enough damage. More might have been welcome.
Not so oddly enough,

New polling shows Republicans are okay with Trump ignoring the law.

I suspect Trump is supremely confident he can appoint whoever he wants to whatever position he wants them in as long as they are sufficiently loyal to him, and he believes the public won't utter a peep against him. And he's probably right. Any outcries from Trump's detractors were quickly squashed in the media and forgotten. Looks like Hegseth is going to be the next Big Shot at the Pentagon.
 
Nope. From the link:

"Aaron Siri, a key legal adviser helping Kennedy select federal health officials for the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2022 filed a petition to force the Food and Drug Administration to end the approval and “pause distribution” of 13 vaccines, reported The New York Times. Those included vaccines that have effectively vanquished lethal illnesses from public life, including polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and hepatitis A."


"Siri reportedly called for a randomized, double-blind clinical trial of the polio vaccine before allowing the FDA to re-approve it (the polio vaccine hthe pas already been subjected to 300 studies that took place before and after its approval in 1955). That would mean giving half of the children involved in the study the actual polio vaccine and providing the other half with a placebo, allowing half of the study participants to unknowingly be exposed to a deadly disease that causes organ failure and paralysis."
 
Maybe - maybe not. I still have my doubts about Senate confirmation, despite the current political wave. He could prove to be so breathtakingly incompetent, his own Joint Chiefs might balk at his appointment.
 
Are you saying he's not articulate enough to express what he means? Or are we just too stupid to understand plain English?

RFK keeps saying, "I don't want to take away a person's right to vaccines" but at the same time he's petitioning the FDA to withdraw approval of their use.

He didn't say that . . .if he did say that, he didn't mean it . . . if he did mean it . . .
 
Even if he fails, he'll spread vaccine hesitancy with his platform. This will result in an increase in preventable disease and death that will last for decades. The debunked vaccine / autism hoax paper still has believers, and that was 26 years ago.
 
Don't worry. Once the decade overdue "TrumpCare" finally replaces "ObamaCare", all Americans will enjoy a long healthy life, and all disease will "disappear", just like COVID 19 disappeared during Trump's 1st term.

 
Don't worry. Once the decade overdue "TrumpCare" finally replaces "ObamaCare", all Americans will enjoy a long healthy life, and all disease will "disappear", just like COVID 19 disappeared during Trump's 1st term.


All except the ones we have (had) vaccines for.
 
Don't worry. Once the decade overdue "TrumpCare" finally replaces "ObamaCare", all Americans will enjoy a long healthy life, and all disease will "disappear", just like COVID 19 disappeared during Trump's 1st term.

Sadly, I think that we are going to find out what health insurance companies will do when regulations are removed.
 
Experimenting on children.....sounds Mengele-ish.

Well, as has been pointed out before re trump and MAGA: "Cruelty is the point".
 
Don't worry. Once the decade overdue "TrumpCare" finally replaces "ObamaCare", all Americans will enjoy a long healthy life, and all disease will "disappear", just like COVID 19 disappeared during Trump's 1st term.

"Any day now...."
 
Break out the iron lung...
 
This is the dumbest administration ever. And Trump isn't even president yet.

RFK Jr literally wants polio to make a comeback.

And the rubes who aren't cheering him on are making excuses for him.
 
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