Will some Democrat Senators vote for RFK Jr?
He is their best chance at reform
Recently the Hill reported that some Democrat Senators are open to voting for RFK Jr.
I am not surprised to see these include Bernie and Fetterman. Both of these men realize that RFK Jr is the most realistic chance of improving Americans food (moving beyond processed shit), ending subsidies for cheap calories, and banning potentially harmful chemicals. Booker is apparently a third potential vote.
What about polio and measles? Won't these offset gains? When it comes to measles, there will be outbreaks— with or without Kennedy. That is inevitable. The uptake of MMR will diminish bc trust was poisoned by COVID. The CDC made a huge error adding COVID to the routine childhood immunization schedule, and public health failures have bred vaccine hesitancy. For this reason I suspect measles is inevitable. Yet, when it comes to polio, I am more skeptical of its reoccurrence in America. Pertussis however may also recur.
While infectious disease is one aspect of health, we cannot forget that a much larger driver of life years lost in America is chronic disease catalyzed by poor diet, exercise and potentially exacerbated by exposure to dubious and ubiquitous chemicals and plastic products. RFK Jr is the only HHS candidate who will tackle the latter.
To me, what is surprising is that more Democrats will not vote for him. I think that is because they put greater salience on improbable outcomes (widespread polio) over concern for much more probable harms (continued obesity and inactivity trends). I suspect also partisan politics and groupthink play a large role.
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Fetterman has impressed me lately with many prescient comments in interviews. I suspect he has a political knack and my prediction is that he will vote to confirm RFK Jr. How many Dems follow suit remains unknown.
Unfortunately the main reason any of the Senators won’t vote for Kennedy is they are deep in the pockets of Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Ag and Big Medicine. Those are the deciders, not the will of the people nor the logic of science.
I’m surprised that you, Dr.Prasad, have bought into the false legacy media story about RFK, Jr and the polio vaccine. I highly recommend listening to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Aaron Siri, an attorney who has represented RFK, Jr, on other matters not related to the polio vaccine. Apparently Mr. Siri is representing a group who is suing the manufacturer of one of six currently available polio vaccines. They are now asking in their suit for this particular polio vaccine to be taken off the market until safety studies are run. The media has conflated this with RFK, Jr. While he may agree that this one of six available vaccines be taken off the market while studies are run, he is in no way connected to this lawsuit. The only connection is Aaron Siri. In the interview Mr. Siri explains why his client wants this to be studied more and it makes perfect sense. He goes into detail about how this suit came to be and it was only after requesting information for over two years and getting nowhere did his client decide to pursue this route. Mr. Siri explains all of this in the first 30 minutes or so of the interview so you don’t even have to watch the whole thing. Please get the real story before saying RFK, Jr is trying to take away anyone’s ability to access a polio vaccine, as apparently even if this one is taken off the market, there are still five other options available.