In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
U.S. health officials, following recommendations by infectious disease experts, have been urging annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans ages 6 months and older.
A CDC advisory panel is set to meets in June to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among its options are suggesting shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.
pregnant women
Man, RFK really wants the US to just die out, make sure the next generation is dead or fucked up.
Let’s not go to the US, it’s a silly place
Yep, the world will soon belong to China and the EU, thanks to the self destructive actions of Rusia and the US.
I wish hell was real.
Where do you think you are right now?
“Even Jason figured it out?!”
Somewhere worse.
“People shouldn’t take medical advice from me.”
- US Health Secretary RFK Jr.
Narrator: He forced people to take his medical advice.
At least he is making these changes based on the recommendation of the scientific community, right? He is basing this off the recommendation of the scientific community, right guys? GUYS? IS HE??!
I remember seeing a while ago that his deputy resigned because Kennedy didn’t actually want to look at dissenting research and points, but just wanted to find evidence to what he already believed
That’s the entire playbook for someone in Trump’s cabinet.
*Anakin stare*
I don’t think so, Jim.
A parrot would make a better leader. In fact, a dead bear would make a better leader.
The worm was the source of RFK’s morality and sanity, until it died from starvation.
I can’t comprehend how they can still be salty about the pandemic vaccines.
Sure, lots of things went wrong in the pandemic, but those who got the jab went on with their lives, no health issues.
A lot of people made an ass of themselves and now have to pretend for the rest of their lives that vaccines don’t work.
They hated so many things about the pandemic. I don’t think the Venn diagram of the various idiotic pet peeves and conspiracy theories is exactly one circle, but there seems to be a lot of resentment for many things coming from the same basic set of people, clustered in the Republican Party. They hated so many things.
- The people that took measures to protect themselves and others, meaning social distancing and masks. The qons hated this and they hated it so much. They hated this stark reminder that donvict couldn’t just wish Covid away and make the stock market behave as he wished. They would often claim they saw everyone in cars by themselves with masks on, as if that was the only such use, lol. But boy they were mad about it!
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The government stepping to help people in need with stimulus checks. This seemed to enrage a lot of them, even if they cashed that check themselves.
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The notion that there was a safe and effective vaccine seems to have really driven them up the wall. I don’t know if it’s because they saw lots of people not relying on “thoughts and prayers” when it came to a pandemic? They really hated being laughed at about the horse dewormer stuff, let me tell you that much.
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I think what drove some of them the craziest is that many of them have a need to be in-person to bully someone and Covid probably denied them a lot of that. I noticed the people wanting people “back to work” the most were these types. I think Joe being able to “campaign from his basement” as donnie failed to get re-elected and do the most basic of things to be popular during a pandemic really just drove them to total incoherence. Many of them were already marginal with the Pizzagate and Qanon shit, but Covid drove them right off a cliff. I think Obama getting elected, then Covid drove a large portion of our population into batshit insanity.
I was reading the/r/conservative response to this last night and they see themselves as persecuted and are unable to grasp why people who were unlikely to die from COVID should still take precautions against it. To you and me the story is plain and simple; we do it to hopefully slow the spread and help keep the most vulnerable as safe as possible. Hooray that worked (mostly). Now they say “see it was nothing, the vaccine was and is fake.” They’ve completely forgotten about the literal truck loads of corpses and that COVID couple have been magnitudes worse if more variants had surfaced.
It’s awful but I kinda wish we did let it get that bad, if enough of those halfwits died the whole world would be better off.
A lot of people made an ass of themselves and now have to pretend for the rest of their lives that vaccines don’t work.
So many of our problems literally boil down to people refusing to ever admit they were wrong about anything
They’ve built not only their political career on lies and misinformation, but also their personal lives. If they did admit they were wrong, they’d not only lose their jobs but it would force them to questions every aspect of themselves, and they’re far too afraid of what they’re going to find to ever do that.
Kennedy just needs to let the worm run things.
So many women about to be arrested for murder when their body spontaneously aborts a fetus due to a preventable COVID infection
Didn’t he just say not to take health advice from him a couple weeks ago?
But this announcement means your aren’t taking health advice from him, it is now the official policy of the government.
Hey how’s that measles outbreak going
I’m glad this story is finally getting traction.
Oh the CDC said this?
What do doctors and scientists in respectable EU nations say?
No the CDC did not say this. RFK Jr did, I’m not going to be surprised when the CDC panel has different recommendations. Which shouldn’t really happen with the HHS secretary since the CDC falls under the HHS but we haven’t had someone as wildly unqualified as RFK Jr in that position (at least not that I know of) so normally the CDC and HHS leadership are in lockstep.
You’re right. I guess I read “Kennedy” and interpreted “CDC.”
I hope someone inside has the guts to speak out.
Much as I hate to sound like I’m defending Kennedy… The WHO doesn’t recommend routine vaccination for healthy adults under 50 beyond the first dose.
Germany’s RKI doesn’t recommend the vaccine for anyone below 60 except people at risk or working in medical fields, same with the flu vaccine.
Our public health insurances do not cover non-recommended vaccines as the board members are personally held liable if they cover what isn’t necessary or economical. Not if they cover too little though.
As such, only a small minority of Germans have received COVID boosters since ~2022.
That’s interesting to know. Thanks!
That is just not a proper headline… You are missing critical context? More like, “Kennedy, who recently willingly swam in literal shit with his own grandchildren, says…”
“Kennedy, who’s brain was ‘partially’ eaten by a worm, says…”
This about sums up our collective future…
Noted - healthy children and pregnant women should still get the shots.
Insurance companies will likely take their cues from him.
Which means you’d be able to get your vaccine…but if it’s not “necessary”, you’ll have to pay cash.
Excellent point I hadn’t thought about.
Wouldn’t it be in their best interest to cover it though, because Covid would be much more expensive? (Like how the flu shot is covered)
Why would they cover a preventable disease?
They would cover a portion of any doctor’s visits and prescriptions, similar to the flu I’m guessing. Same reason they cover flu shots and a portion of the costs related to diagnosing and recovering from the flu.
Plus they don’t cover “sick visits” at all until you meet your deductible anyway.
Let’s be honest…how many “healthy” (relatively speaking) Americans in these groups actually meet their deductible each year?
Already trying to rebrand rfk jr?
My husband and I got Covid last week. Probably the new variant. Our latest booster was 6 months ago. This variant KICKED OUR ASS. We are on week 2 of coughing, wheezing, and feeling extremely tired. Lost a bunch of income from our respective businesses because we were not able to do any work at all.
This was a stark reminder of how important it is to keep up with boosters. I hope that we can find a way to keep getting them, even if that means paying out of pocket or lying.
