{"id":70527,"date":"2025-03-28T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/the-consequences-of-an-rfk-jr-hhs-appointment-are-smacking-our-children-in-the-face\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:03:28","slug":"the-consequences-of-an-rfk-jr-hhs-appointment-are-smacking-our-children-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/the-consequences-of-an-rfk-jr-hhs-appointment-are-smacking-our-children-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consequences Of An RFK Jr. HHS Appointment Are Smacking Our Children In The Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The reemergence of measles, a illness as soon as declared formally eradicated in the USA, didn\u2019t begin with the second Trump presidential time period. It didn\u2019t even start with Trump\u2019s first time period. As an alternative, it began via an unholy alliance between far-right, typically religious<\/a> teams which have pitched the vaccines as both pointless or harmful mixed with a far-left group that’s typically celebrity-driven<\/a> pushing the identical factor. Nevertheless it\u2019s additionally true that this unlikely alliance is mirrored within the newest iteration of the Trump administration. Trump, as needs to be apparent, is aligned with the GOP. RFK Jr. has historically been a liberal. These two have mixed, via RFK Jr.\u2019s obscene appointment to the Division of Well being and Human Providers, to propel measles again to being a hazard in contrast to we\u2019ve seen in many years.<\/p>\n

The latest measles outbreak started within the south, in Texas by all accounts. As RFK Jr. has famous, there have been transient outbreaks of measles which have occurred just about yearly. Unnoted by the Secretary, nevertheless, is that these outbreaks historically happen in under-vaccinated geographical areas and that many of the infections and hurt happen among the many unvaccinated. As an alternative of persistently pushing for greater vaccination charges to fight this outbreak, RFK Jr. has as an alternative pivoted to blaming nutrition<\/a> for opposed results from measles, whereas additionally suggesting that it could be higher for everybody to simply go forward and get measles<\/a> in order that they’ve pure immunity. This, after all, follows years of vaccine skepticism from RFK Jr. that was picked up by individuals from either side of the political aisle.<\/p>\n

The results for this historical past and RFK Jr.\u2019s latest appointment are smacking us within the face. Or, quite, they\u2019re largely smacking our kids within the face. There are at present measles circumstances that occurred this 12 months in a double-digit variety of states, with many of the circumstances occurring in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas<\/a>. In accordance with the CDC\u2019s personal knowledge, the infections, hospitalizations, and 1 of two of the deaths from measles in 2025 have largely occurred amongst kids and among the many unvaccinated.<\/p>\n

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That knowledge just isn’t ambiguous. It isn\u2019t tough to parse. And the results are solely rising. Instances are doubling in Kansas every week<\/a> at this level. One youngster has already died. And we haven\u2019t even actually gotten into what will likely be eventual situations wherein individuals, particularly kids, who can\u2019t<\/em> be vaccinated resulting from different well being points, will finally fall sufferer to the callous and self-centered attitudes of the ignorant. And they are going to be cheered on by an HHS Secretary extra invested in conspiracy theories and never admitting error than the well being of, you already know, kids<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The measles is spreading. And it\u2019s spreading, partially, instantly due to the phrases which have come out of RFK Jr.\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, The New York Occasions reported that as measles continues to unfold, mother and father have continued to eschew vaccines and as an alternative\u00a0embraced \u201calternative\u201d treatments, including vitamin A<\/a>, which has been touted by anti-vaccine advocate and present US Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Vitamin A accumulates within the physique and might be poisonous with giant doses or prolonged use. Texas docs advised the Occasions that they\u2019ve now handled a handful of unvaccinated kids who had been given a lot vitamin A that that they had indicators of liver harm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So we\u2019ve now entered the realm wherein we’ve got compounding well being points, each from measles itself, in addition to the misapplication of so-called various well being strategies. And all of it’s utterly pointless. Folks, kids, don\u2019t have <\/em>to get sick. There doesn\u2019t must be the primary couple of deaths from measles, up to now, in a decade.<\/p>\n

No, it is a results of a deliberate selection made by a frontrunner extra intersted in trolling the libs than governing in a accountable means. Why the nation seems to be so sanguine in regards to the federal authorities sacrificing our kids for ego is solely past me.<\/p>\n

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