Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.

The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. Its first meeting this year had been delayed when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly postponed its February meeting.

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    I’ve entered an age where a gov department that is supposed to be dedicated to protecting public health is actively sabotaging it.

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      It’s eerie, too. They used to be the good guys. Now, they are actively evil. And they (health agencies )are the ones that are supposed to stop shit like e.coli, mad cow, and various waterborne diseases from entering our food and water supplies. Very unsettling…

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      You’ve entered this era in the US, most of the rest of the world is still pro-vaccine, exept for fringe groups

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    Weren’t they saying good thing about vaccines a few week ago? After saying they were useless? After saying they were efficient? After saying they caused whatever? After saying they weren’t against them? After saying they caused cognitive decline in kids? After saying they did not have an opinion? After saying they would not use them?

    If a massive amount of people were not put in harms way by this senile sick idiot, it would be hilarious to make a montage of their interviews flip-flops.

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    There is a TikTok beauty trend where stupid people are rubbing beef tallow on their faces. Is this why RFK’s face looks like it came out of a fryer?

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    The cover story seems reasonable

    “Kennedy said the committee members had too many conflicts of interest. Currently, committee members are required to declare any potential such conflicts, as well as business interests, that arise during their tenure.”

    But will RFKjr replace them with equally qualified, unbiased, incorruptible experts?

    I doubt it.

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    Let me guess which experts will get hired in their places

    One will be a 22 years old gardener with 4 years of extensive research on vaccines on various forums

    Another one will be someone with a master’s degree in arts but with ten years experience on bashing against vaccines on sitter

    Then there will be an high school dropout that became rich selling supplements on a website that is advocating using chlorine as eyedrop

    Finally some stay at home mom with 5 years of experience selling essential oils, specialized in curing any kind of disease, even terminal cancer

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    Where are the adults and why have children and toddlers been left alone for this long?

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    This is amazing. I am so glad we can rip this bandaid off. Now all the yuckles are gonna starve and pass from preventable sickness. Boiling away from short attention spans.

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      Except urban areas are much more susceptible to contagious diseases, and tend to run blue. This seems to be a calculated attempt to cull urban blue voters.

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        Yeah, they thought Covid would somehow stay in California and big cities, and kill mostly minorities, so they decided the best thing to do was nothing. Then all those people got vaccinated while the MAGA dumbasses refused, so it ended up killing far more conservatives than anyone else.

        Now measles is mostly spreading in Red areas where people actually listen to the morons.

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          Vaccinations depend on herd immunity, which we don’t get if

          1. The vaccines are never approved and disseminated, which RFK seems hell bent on doing
          2. If a token size of the population doesn’t take the vaccine
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          Against what? No one is vaccinated against the next pandemic, and RFK is making sure Americans never will be.

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    The craziest part of this, is that they are catering to all the nutjobs that don’t believe in science.

    Now they’re bringing in nutjobs that don’t believe in science to prove scientifically to those people that don’t believe in science that they can’t believe in anything.

    God forbid we waste tax payers money.