RFK Jr. drags feet on COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, delaying shots for kids
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Photon_plumber
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Break the government, and hand over operations to the private sector. Expect service to be poor and taxes to go up.
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It will all be worth it so we can all be serfs for history's first trillionaires.
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I just got back from having bloodwork drawn at the VA, and getting my flu shot. I walked into the vaccination clinic and it was just me and two techs. I said, "you guys aren't busy enough." and they both laughed at the irony. And agreed. I asked about the COVID vaccine, and they said, "Go to Rite-Aid;. The VA isn't getting them for a while."
And the tone told me "for a while" MIGHT mean "ever again."
Then I remember Trump thinks veterans are a disgrace and "losers".
I don't believe in the supernatural, but if there is a god, I'm hoping all of those in the CDC dismantling it die of some horrible, preventable disease. The karmic Schadenfreude would be epic.
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Nora Lenderbee
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That's crass. It seems the head of USDA is fully on board with Trump's agenda and wants to keep the job.
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It's on many federal websites. It's not the head of the USDA's doing.
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Some Federal employees out on furlough had their Out of Office message changed to something similar, without their consent.
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ColdWetDog
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Yep. Apparently this doesn't quite trip the Hatch Act since it doesn't directly tell people to vote for a particular candidate.
However, I'm not sure how useful this nonsense is to the maggots. If you're a maggot, then you're already intellectually dead and pounding stupidity into a brain who would lose an intelligence test to a bowl of Jello really doesn't get you anywhere. Likewise, if you're in the hate Trump section, hating Trump just a little bit more doesn't get anyone anywhere. If there really are undecided people who actually would vote who have any bit of discernment left, this might make you jump to the Democrats, but JHC, it's a little late isn't it? And if you are one of those Jello Brained undecided who would actually vote, perhaps it might tickle the space in your brain left after 'Hee-Haw' went off the air, but it's a little late, isn't it?
And if you're one of the many Americans who can't be arsed to vote by anything, this isn't going to do anything at all.
Just simply the same performative nonsense we've been inundated with since .... it seems forever.
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Va will not be getting a covid vaccine any time soon imo. They might not even reimburse your community care vaccine (if you paid for it).
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Trump would also love to slap his name all over everything. See: TrumpRx.
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Is there any place in the US that has the 2025/26 COVID vaccines available for kids yet?
in NYC neither pharmacies not pediatricians appear to have them available.
in NYC neither pharmacies not pediatricians appear to have them available.
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Anti Jimmy
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Crassness, along with venality and willful ignorance, are MAGA virtues.
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Will that one person be on this thread nitpicking the wording of limiting access again to try and hand wave away the fact that RFK/trump/GOP are limiting access to COVID vaccines again, like they been all over the other recent stories about this subject? Or will they finally eat crow about it and admit they’re limiting access?
I’m setting pretty low expectations of the latter happening.
I’m setting pretty low expectations of the latter happening.
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We do have our share of stupid readers. But to be fair, it is less than our fair share.
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Think Stalin and the Holodomir, or Mao's campaign to boost harvests by killing all of the birds. (Who in fact were eating the insects which were eating the harvest). Lysenko at least had some faulty reasoning behind his decisions, and was a classic example of a little learning is a dangerous thing. Nobody can accuse Grima Wormbrain of a little learning.
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That seeming violation of the Hatch Act is on almost every front-facing .gov page.
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chaos215bar2
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Just heard about that. That's a wildly blatant Hatch Act violation.
Of course, who's going to prosecute anyone over it?
In case the site changes back, here's what it says:
And of course the Democrats are out talking about how they're fighting to save healthcare largely without countering the lie that they're trying to provide healthcare to immigrants who are in the country illegally or even just clearly calling out Republicans for causing the shutdown.
It's just surreal that some random internet commenter like me seems to understand why their messaging continuously falls flat better than most elected Democratic politicians. (A few like Bernie and AOC aside — they get it.)
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chaos215bar2
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Does the head of the USDA have zero control over the agency's website?
It may not have been ordered by the head of the USDA, but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility.
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Brooke Rollins is a long-time republican and Trump suck-up. A true believer in the smarmiest sense. It would not be at all surprising if the website header was done at her explicit direction.
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I've seen a brief mention elsewhere of TrumpRx, and am hoping to see an ars article (hi Beth, Ashley!) discussing it.
My immediate reaction is to think it equal parts corruption and malice, but I would really like some well informed coverage.
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The problem with the Hatch Act is it has no enforcement, no penalty. It's from a quaint time when it was expected officials would actually honored the law.
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No, it doesn't quite trip the Hatch Act because Trump has gutted the Office of Special Counsel, which is the Office responsible for 'enforcing' the Hatch Act.
That, and the investigations take so long, and penalties can only be imposed against officials when in Office (and whom the President and his cadre wish to fire) that even findings that there were violations are ineffective and essentially meaningless.
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Correct. The goal is to wreck any remaining trust in the Federal government and privatize everything. This allows a return to a new gilded age.
No rational person wants a return to those times that included poverty levels including the US not seen for at least a century. That's what they want for absolute control of society at large.
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Just part of his "well, if they die, then they die" approach to childcare/healthcare.
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