The Pharmaceutical companies and their loyal minions must
be preparing for some flak coming their way with Donald Trump’s win on Tuesday.
While the Don himself does not have the best record on health and vaccines, his
promotion of American fastfood and his hand in pushing through Operation Warp
Speed during the pandemic are both blights on his record. Still, he seems to be
more than making up for it by promising to give Robert F. Kennedy Junior free
rain to bring some real change to America’s health guidelines.
To highlight how much of a positive development this is, the
usual suspects appear to be afraid,
“A key figure in Donald
Trump’s election campaign and a likely figure in his incoming administration is
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, or RFK Jr for short. After abandoning his own tilt at
president, the prominent anti-vaxxer endorsed and campaigned for Trump, helping
propel him to victory.
Kennedy promoted the banner
“Make America Healthy Again” during the campaign. Now Trump has made clear
Kennedy will play a significant role in health.
He has been promised a “big
role” in guiding health policy, and Trump has said he would enable Kennedy to
“go wild” on health, food and medicines.
So, who is Kennedy and what
could his vision of a healthy America mean for public health in the US and
globally?...
…What role will he have?
Although Trump has publicly
committed to Kennedy having a major role, it is unclear what that will be.
Based on a video obtained by
Politico, Kennedy said he was promised control of federal public health
agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and its
sub-agencies, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food
and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health.
Such broad authority would
be unprecedented. Appointments to major agencies and cabinet positions in the
US government require approval by Congress. Kennedy’s lack of experience in
health care or public health, and his absence of scientific training and credentials,
will make such an approval uncertain. His unscientific allegations would
resurface and there would be an almost certain media circus.
Even if Kennedy was in a
position of authority, many changes to these federal agencies would require
Congressional oversight. For instance, any changes to how drugs are approved
would be challenging to implement in the short term.
This is not to underestimate
the damage Kennedy could do. In the past, Trump circumvented Congressional
approval for various posts by appointing “acting officials”. So even without
any official post, Kennedy’s potential influence in the Trump administration is
alarming…”[1]
If people who fully
bought into the Covid scare are worried about the impact that
Kennedy can have, this at least shows that Donald Trump and his administration
are moving in the right direction. The institutional bias towards blacklisting
vaccine scepticism and anyone who questions the official health advice has gone
on for too long. I can think of many people I know who follow mainstream health
advice who are incredibly sick, constantly so, and some of whom which have died
way too early. There is clearly something wrong and it is good to see that there
will now be people in top positions seeking to challenge the corruption.
List of References
[1] Nancy
Baxter and Anne Kavanagh, 2024, https://theconversation.com/if-trump-puts-rfk-jr-in-charge-of-health-get-ready-for-a-distorted-reality-where-global-health-suffers-243152
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