Another day, one other trace that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is utilizing his function as well being and human companies secretary to not save Americans and enhance human well being, however to try to kill us all. On Tuesday, it was ending the advice that almost all kids and pregnant ladies obtain the COVID vaccine. Now it’s a quest to avoid wasting tons of of ostriches that possible have fowl flu.
Yes, the person who is meant to be maintaining the folks in his nation protected from illness is at present utilizing his energy to try to stop Canada from culling 400 ostriches that had been in touch with H5N1, the fowl flu virus that has killed tens of millions of birds within the US since final 12 months and contaminated dozens of individuals, one among whom died. Last week Kennedy inspired our neighbor to the north to not kill the birds—which Canadian officers concern will additional unfold the illness—however to check them. “We believe significant scientific knowledge may be garnered from following the ostriches in a controlled environment,” he wrote in a letter to the top of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Oh, and he and Dr. Mehmet Oz have offered to maneuver the most likely diseased birds to a Florida ranch owned by Oz, who’s at present serving because the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
As The New York Times notes, “most veterinarians agree that keeping birds alive that may still have active infections and could spread the virus to others is a threat to public health,” i.e., the factor Kennedy was employed to guard, not undermine. Kennedy, in fact, has a protracted historical past of doing bizarre shit with animals. While working for president, he recounted throwing a lifeless bear cub at the back of his automotive, solely to arrange an elaborate homicide scene with its carcass in Central Park after he realized he wouldn’t have time to get to his home to refrigerate the meat (sure). Later, his daughter recounted the time he sawed off a whale’s head and strapped it to the roof of his minivan, telling Town & Country: “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.” Kennedy additionally once lived with an emu that may assault his spouse.
In different fowl flu information, Kennedy’s division on Wednesday reneged on tens of millions of {dollars} in funding it had dedicated to Moderna to assist develop a fowl flu vaccine for people. The weird cause cited by HHS? Moderna’s use of messenger RNA expertise—which was utilized in two of the COVID vaccines developed throughout Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace.
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