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Make America Healthy Again? -- Digby
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/29/make-america-healthy-again-3/Not bloody likely
(Too much excerpted out - please read.)
In Bobby Jr’s HHS, only conspiracy nuts survive. The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official has been pushed out, according to people familiar with the matter.
God I get sick of this doublespeak crapola from these people.
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And, of course, the leader of this braindead movement is Bobby Jr who was hostile to the COVID 19 vaccine saying in back in 2020 “because the current risks of serious adverse events or deaths outweigh the benefits”.
The vaccine gave me my life back. For anyone over a certain age the COVID was a form of house arrest forcing us to give up any semblance of a normal life because we could very easily die if we got it. (We weren’t the only ones, of course, but the statistics for people over 50 were pretty terrifying in the early days.) But once we got the vaccines and the boosters, we got to live again. And when we eventually got the virus, as most of us did, most of us never had to go to the hospital. Even the long COVID sufferers had an easier time of it if they were vaccinated.
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Dr. Peter Marks, who played a key role in the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed to develop Covid-19 vaccines, stepped down Friday. He submitted his resignation after a Health and Human Services official earlier in the day gave him the choice to resign or be fired, people familiar with the matter said.
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote in a resignation letter referring to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The letter was addressed to acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner. His resignation takes effect April 5, the letter said.
“If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy,” an HHS official said.
God I get sick of this doublespeak crapola from these people.
. . .
And, of course, the leader of this braindead movement is Bobby Jr who was hostile to the COVID 19 vaccine saying in back in 2020 “because the current risks of serious adverse events or deaths outweigh the benefits”.
Studies later showed that claim was inaccurate. A study by the Commonwealth Fund found that Covid-19 vaccines saved 3.2 million American lives and prevented more than 18 million hospitalizations through November 2022.
The vaccine gave me my life back. For anyone over a certain age the COVID was a form of house arrest forcing us to give up any semblance of a normal life because we could very easily die if we got it. (We weren’t the only ones, of course, but the statistics for people over 50 were pretty terrifying in the early days.) But once we got the vaccines and the boosters, we got to live again. And when we eventually got the virus, as most of us did, most of us never had to go to the hospital. Even the long COVID sufferers had an easier time of it if they were vaccinated.
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