The health department in a region of the state of Idaho has been ordered to stop providing covid-19 vaccines to the public.
A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.
Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department.
While policymakers in Texas banned health departments from promoting COVID vaccines and Florida’s surgeon general bucked medical consensus to recommend against the vaccine, governmental bodies across the country haven’t blocked the vaccines outright.
This is just one region in one state. But creepy Donald Trump seems to have promised nutcase RFK Jr. a free hand in deciding policies over all food and health-related issues and that would be a disaster.
Robert F Kennedy Jr could assume some control over US health and food safety in a second Trump administration, according to reports on Saturday, alarming Democrats who believe the former environmental lawyer and independent presidential candidate could be empowered to act on his vaccine-sceptical views.
…Kennedy, who has also expressed doubts about Covid vaccines, told a rally last week that Trump had promised him “control” of public health agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
…Last week, Kennedy warned in a post on X that the “FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.”
He added: “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1 Preserve your records, and 2 Pack your bags.”
Ted Kennedy Jr, a cousin of RFK Jr and a healthcare lawyer, said he was “deeply concerned” about Trump’s choice.
“We can’t put anyone in charge of healthcare who doesn’t understand how doctors and scientists develop best practices and keep us safe, and has no medical background and no knowledge about how health care is organized, delivered and paid for,” he told Stat.
He has also promised to end the fluoridation of water, no doubt to maintain the purity of his precious bodily fluids, an obsession of cranks since forever, as parodied in the classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove.
You can see why RFK Jr., once a harsh critic of creepy Trump, is now his ardent supporter. He saw an opportunity to go from being a marginal crank to a crank who could impose his bizarre views on the entire nation.
There are many, many reasons why creepy Donald Trump and weird JD Vance should not be elected on Tuesday. The fact that RFK Jr. would be given such a huge role in major areas of our lives is yet another one.
I am utterly unsurprised that Idaho is outlawing vaccinations. Doctors are fleeing the state lest they be prosecuted and jailed for providing health care to women.
Idaho is…Idaho. You get a good picture of the state by reading Tara Westover’s book, Educated. I was stationed at Mountain Home (AF base) in the 1990s, and it was a real eye-opener. The land is beautiful, but the people are a whole different story. It’s a red state that collects far more in taxes than it pays in. Who settled in such a remote place? Some really good people, but the majority are anti-social, anti-education, close-minded, and--most importantly--heavily armed. Lots of Aryan Nation folks. It’s a place where you can see 12-year-old Mormon sister-wives with their babies on their hips and people subsisting on welfare and social security for disability while ranting about the “evil gummint”. It’s a place where people bring guns into Walmart.
There was an episode of the SNL skit Hans und Franz in which their guest was “the most pumped up man in the world.” I can’t remember if the character walked out onto the stage or was wheeled out on a hand truck, but his costume was meant to show that he could no longer move his limbs because they were too muscular. In his dialogue, he said things like “I can no longer feed myself, but it is a small price to pay,’ and “my wife and children have left me, but it is a small price to pay.” That’s Idaho. In their quest to own the libs, they are willing to totally sabotage their healthcare system. A small price to pay….
RFK Jr is getting his own “Private Idaho”…