Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has sent Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax shares crashing. The Mail has more.
Moderna stock tumbled 7% following the announcement of RFK Jr. as his most senior health chief, as Pfizer’s fell 3% and Novavax saw its shares drop 5%.
The idea of one of the country’s foremost vaccine sceptics heading up health policy has many health experts in Government nervous, but he has earned praise from the Left and Right for his plans to crack down on harmful food ingredients that aren’t allowed abroad and emphasise exercise and healthy eating over taking pills.
As HHS boss, Kennedy would be in charge of America’s three healthcare agencies — the CDC, FDA and the NIH — and would have the power to bring in many of those changes and more.
Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” tapped into the frustration at the fact that the U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other country yet is among the sickest, with a lower life expectancy than peer nations like the U.K., Canada and Australia.
He claims this contradiction is being driven by corporate interests putting profits over Americans’ health when it comes to vaccines, medications and food and drink.
Kennedy has promised to purge swathes of the workforce at the country’s health agencies and stem the revolving door of staff leaving to lobby for food and drug companies.
This is how he could overhaul America’s health if his appointment is confirmed by the Senate, which is now made up of a majority Republicans:
Focus on prevention and non-pharma interventions
Kennedy wants to move the U.S. from a reactive healthcare system that treats people once they’re sick, to a preventive healthcare system that tries to stop diseases emerging in the first place.
He wants to extend Medicaid and Medicare budgets to cover visits to functional medicine doctors, which aim to treat people through nutrition and exercise rather than pharmaceuticals.
This taps into the idea promoted by Kennedy that drug companies have an interest in keeping someone unwell rather than improving their health. …
Kennedy has also suggested devoting half the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget to researching alternative healthcare, and devoting more federal funding to determining why people are getting sick.
Vaccine shake-up
Kennedy has previously claimed “no vaccine is effective” and suggested childhood vaccines could be driving rising autism rates.
He has also previously floated the idea that schools with vaccine requirements should be defunded.
He appeared to back away from that stance earlier this week, however, but left the door open to making some vaccines non-compulsory.
He told NBC News: “If vaccines are working for somebody, I am not going to take them away. People ought to have a choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information, so I’m going to make sure that safety studies and efficacy studies are out there and people can make individual assumptions whether that product is going to be good for them.” …
Crack down on food
Kennedy repeatedly hammers the food industry, saying it is “mass poisoning” the American public.
He has promised to ban ultraprocessed food from schools and provide families “with safe food and end the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children”.
He also wants to ban harmful ingredients that are illegal in food abroad.
He has only explicitly mentioned Yellow 5, but similar ingredients that could be under the microscope are Red 40, Blue 1, titanium dioxide, propylparaben and potassium bromate, which are often added to sweets and baked goods. …
Eliminate fluoride in drinking water
Kennedy has vowed to remove fluoride from the public water supply if elected within his first day in office.
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Well yes but isn’t “bloke” a purely biological term? How can you be biologically a bloke and not a bloke in other ways?
“Called his language “intentionally derogatory and disrespectful” and “not appropriate as a Clerk in Holy Orders”.
Maker’s Handbook, page 1, Genesis 1.27 ‘So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.’.
These words repeated by Jesus too.
The bishop is on dodgy ground. Roll on the Judgment.
To play devil’s advocate, no-one (in the Church of England at least) believes that bit any more though, do they?
““I’m self-evidently a woman, but I’m glad I was once a man.”
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No, you’re self-evidently a man who has no understanding of basic biological facts.
I went to the psychiatrist and said “I identify as a dog. I bark and wag my tail” —–He replied “Lay on the couch for me”——–I said “Oh I am not allowed on the couch”
It’s the way you tell ’em.
Please do not mis-species me. ——–ruff ruff ruff
Honestly, the fact this fellow has made the news shows us all in a poor light. A couple of hundred years ago, one can imagine there might have been some eccentric parson in a remote area, Devon perhaps, who sometimes styled himself “Lady Amelia” and rode side-saddle to hounds, and you can imagine he might have found his way into a small locally printed pamphlet on “Curious Devon Characters”.
But he wouldn’t even have made the local press. That would have been full of important news, like stock prices at auction.
The main reason I left the C of E (many years ago) was that it seemed to behave like a big corporation (and one that had lost touch of its core ‘mission’). This is just more of the same. If Murphy worked for (say) BP and made the vlog in some way that clearly identified him as a BP employee, I’m sure the outcome would be the same. It’s just another UK institution that has failed, but it’s been failing for 30 years or more.
There are many ways of pursuing a fulfilling spiritual life.
I don’t think the C of E is much help with that these days.
“There are many ways of pursuing a fulfilling spiritual life”
Hear, hear!
Taking a long, hard look in the mirror is the best place to start. I haven’t yet progressed past that stage
The light comes from self-awareness and humility.
But we are still right and they’re all still wrong about ThePandemic™, though!
A person identifying themselves in some way or other these days trumps how other people may identify them. But ofcourse is that such a big surprise in wokeworld when ideology trumps common sense on just about everything? ——-You cannot say who stole your mobile phone. It looked like a woman but who can tell these days, when women may have a 6 o’clock shadow.
We’re building a society around the promotion of the destruction of the traditional family unit. It started with feminism and it ends with the acceptance of mental illness, which is what transgenderism is, as normal. Pit women against men, pit men and women against their own biology, pit children against their parents; destroy, destroy, destroy. What we are left with is no sense of belonging. No sense of belonging to any group other that the state. Rehashed communism has been on its way for a long time. It always hid as a bloke in a dress.
Boom
Yes, if I remember correctly Jesus said something about the importance of having an impeccable “blue file” to enter the kingdom of heaven.
I think it was in the gospel according to Matthew. Or maybe it was Luke.
Help and support the Heritage Party which champions traditional values. And because of this it is targeted by Antifa which puts them in a good light doesn’t it?
According to the linked Telegraph article, he calls himself a woman and a lesbian. So he still fancies women and also wants to dress like one. Isn’t that a transvestite? Confused – we are supposed to be.
‘He added: “You clearly recorded your vlog wearing clerical attire aware that this would give you both status and make it clear you were a Church of England priest”’
So he’s being accused of honesty.
I’m unclear which particular Canon Law can be used against a clergyman who’s already left the CofE and calls out a transgender lesbian serving as an archdeacon. But then I’m a Baptist now.
Transgender lesbian is a nonsense term. That’s bloke who – for some reason only known to him – tries to appear like a woman in public but doesn’t want to extend to his private life, where he prefers to remain a bloke, ie, someone with a habit of putting his penis into real women. That’s self-evidently his own business. But he has no right to try to force others to partake in his cosplaying show.
This is my archdeaconry. I declined to go to the visitation for church wardens and lay sidespersons for the same reason – i’m not engaging with clown world.
I’d say, with all due respect, learn to juggle, or leave!
Welby is clearly Satan’s acolyte. I attend church every week. The Church of England will undoubtedly die but Christianity will NEVER die.
Jesus said “I tell you the truth”. Rev Murphy was telling the truth.
Revd Mann’s a man, he probably should have changed his name as well as his pronouns!!