RFK Jr. sagt

As per the original article:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has blamed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for being responsible for America having the highest rates of COVID deaths during the global pandemic, omitting the fact that Donald Trump was president at the time.

During a heated hearing on Capitol Hill, the controversial Health Secretary sought to justify the chaos at the CDC by accusing the agency of failing in its central mission: protecting Americans from infectious disease.

“America is home to 4.2% of the world’s population, yet we had nearly 20% of the COVID deaths,” said Kennedy, a known conspiracy theorist and vaccine sceptic.

“We literally did worse than any country in the world, and the people at CDC who oversaw that process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving.”

The comments come after CDC director Susan Monarez was forced out of her job, claiming she was resisting controversial policies pushed by the Health Secretary, leading to a leadership exodus at the agency and calls for Kennedy to resign.

But in a fiery series of exchanges on Thursday, the former Democrat failed to mention that Trump was in office when the pandemic hit in 2020 and ravaged America throughout that year.

While the president ended up creating “Operation Warp Speed” to speed up the development of COVID-19 vaccines, the U.S. was initially slow to roll out widespread testing.

Trump also minimized the threat in its early stages, calling it comparable to the flu and suggesting it would “disappear.”

He contradicted scientists, promoted unproven treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, and famously even suggested looking into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body.

Trump himself would ultimately contract COVID-19 in October 2020, and by the time his first administration ended in January 2021, about 400,000 Americans had died from the disease.

However, speaking at the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, Kennedy insisted that the agency was to blame.

“That’s why we need bold, confident and creative leadership at CDC, people who are able and willing to chart a new course,” he said.

Kennedy, the scion of America’s most famous political dynasty, was handpicked by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services after the former Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate promised to support him at last year’s election.

But he has come under fire for making sweeping changes to vaccine policies, including withdrawing federal recommendations for COVID shots for pregnant women and healthy children, and replacing the CDC’s expert advisory panel with anti-vaccine activists and other hand-picked advisers.

He traded blows with both sides of the aisle during Thursday’s committee hearing.

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician who voted to confirm Mr. Kennedy on the condition he wouldn’t disrupt access to vaccines, accused him of denying people access to vaccines.

Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan hit out at him over the F.D.A.’s decision to restrict authorization of COVID vaccines for people 65 and older.

And Democrat Senator Mark Warner lashed out at Kennedy for seemingly not knowing how many people died of COVID and whether the vaccines prevented deaths.

“You’ve had the job for eight months and you don’t know the data?” Warner fumed.

“How can you be that ignorant?!”

The funny thing was that Republicans hated how Covid and vaccines rolled out, yet were in charge of everything when it happened?

Now that they are fully in-charge, they plan on doing an even worse job. 

Something tells me RFK Jr may not be in post for much longer.

Wait, so masks and shutting down schools made the pandemic worse here?  That was before we had the vaccine. What is he saying should have been done?

He’s not wrong. 

Operation Warp Speed was the best thing that happened under his first term and he was still too busy shooting himself in the foot over it. 

„It was always going to be bad, but it never needed to be this bad.“ 

As they said. 

Trump being President in 2020 isn’t a fact that fits neatly into the simulated reality bubbles of probably 30 percent of Americans.

Funny that:

• it has been shown that [MAGA rallies were super-spreaders](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/31/coronavirus-trump-campaign-rallies-led-to-30000-cases-stanford-researchers-say.html), ignoring all conventional medical wisdom. Some reports say that [700 deaths can be attributed to Trump’s rallies](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/31/trump-study-coronavirus-rallies-433760), most were certainly MAGA nutcases and fanatics.

• it has been shown that many rural red states suffered from Covid more than the more urban blue states, even though they are mostly fly-over country and not homes to major ports of entry. The blue states got hit hard early, prompting [Trump to consider letting the plague spread](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-war-on-blue-states-is-worse-than-previously-thought.html) as a political weapon against Democratic leadership.

• Studies have shown that [more Republicans died from Covid](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10003493/) than Democrats. It is possible that Republicans also were more likely to suffer from Long Covid, although I don’t have any statistics on that.

The fact is Trump and the MAGA nutcases were non-compliant hotheads who went through the entire plague angry at the medical profession and getting themselves killed through their own negligence.

Will the White Coats please come retrieve your patient? He’s trying to annihilate an entire country.

The vaccines created by scientists of all citizenships in the U.S. were the best in the world. The shifting policy on quarantine, masking, and closings was all over the place. Basically, the government let the virus surge before shutting things down, instead of shutting things down to prevent a surge. The messaging on masking was even worse. The absolute worst messaging was around made up therapies like injecting bleach, eating fish tank rocks, and taking injecting horse medicine.

He also said, i believe before the same committee, that he has no idea how many Americans died due to Covid and that he didn’t know if the vaccination effort saved any lives.

Not untrue. The deaths were way higher per capita than in Canada

It was the worst because the rest of the world listened to the experts whereas trump was wishy washy on everything because he is too egotistical to tell people to listen to the experts and pandered to his uneducated base.

Yep. He was telling people to use bleach to cure it, then claimed he was just kidding

Joking about a worldwide health crisis. That’s what id expect from a pedophile like him

This entire thing was nonsense. He knows none of it matters and he’s too stupid to care. He just kept telling obvious lies and nonsense and being constantly called out and proven wrong. If he had a brain in his head, he’d be incredibly embarrassed. But that worm has sailed.

I’ve said the same thing since it happened! Trump is responsible for so many deaths.

Not invoking the defense production act was ridiculous….among many other things.

And he has NOTHING to do with creating the vaccine.