Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has devoted a significant part of his wealth to medical research and public health. So it should not be surprising that he denounced CDC red
as the selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS oversees all of the federal agencies concerned with medical research and public health.
Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, launched a lengthy broadside on Tuesday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., using his opening remarks at a public health conference to warn that installing Mr. Kennedy as health secretary would be “beyond dangerous,” and tantamount to “medical malpractice on a mass scale.”
Mr. Bloomberg, speaking at the two-day Bloomberg American Health Summit in Washington, called on Senate Republicans to persuade President-elect Donald J. Trump to “rethink” his choice of Mr. Kennedy for health secretary. If Mr. Trump cannot be persuaded, he said, the Senate has “a duty to our whole country, but especially to our children,” to vote against confirming him.
Mr. Bloomberg also assailed Mr. Kennedy for discouraging measles vaccination during an outbreak in the island nation of Samoa, where 83 people died.
“Parents who have been swayed by vaccine skepticism love their children and want to protect them, and we need leaders who will help them do that,” he said, “not conspiracy theorists who will scare them into decisions that will put their children at risk of disease….”
Among other things, Mr. Bloomberg chided Mr. Kennedy for “nutty conspiracy theories,” including making the “outrageous false claim” that the Covid-19 shot was the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” He said Mr. Trump deserved credit for Operation Warp Speed, the fast-track initiative that produced coronavirus vaccines in record time, noting that studies have shown that the vaccines have saved an estimated 20 million lives around the world.
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I’m no RFKJr. fan, but maybe Bloomberg should sit out for, well, the rest of his life. The man literally tried to buy himself the presidency. It does your cause no good to have narcissistic nutcases calling your enemies nutcases.
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Mr. Bloomberg should absolutely be speaking. Read your last sentence and see who that really applies to: the president-elect (ouch), musk, kennedy, vance, and the rest of the are the “narcissitic nutcases” calling out the Democrats, women, professors, scientists, anyone who accepts a dime from the government (“welfare”), or a necessary bureaucrat.
However, I wish the Bloombergs, media, and others would stop calling the out the president-elect (ouch) and others with middle school phrases like “nutcase” and “weird.” Those are cute putdowns but not serious and therefore not taken seriously. “Danger to humanity” “hurtful to children” “threat to women’s control over the bodies and health” are a far cry from “weird.”
And, the same which I’ve sent in before: “the big lie” minimizes calling and still talking about the 2020 election. The “big lie” is a pop reference like the big chill, the big bang theory, the big short, the big lebowski – – all caricatures to be taken seriously.
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Trump has said that his Justice Department will investigate the 2020 election. Since it’s his Justice Drpt, no doubt they will “find” that he was right!!
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Giving Operation Warp Speed credit for coming up with the Mnra vaccine after research had been ongoing for so many years is not my idea of being reasonable. Give credit where it is due. Government works when good people govern.
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Thanks for pointing out that almost all of the basic research for a Mnra vaccine was done since the beginning of this century.
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Off topic, but the University of Michigan is stopping the practice of having departments require applicants for professorships submit diversity statements detailing how their work would advance diversity and equity. This is great news (in my view), especially given that UM was such a leader in the trend of requiring diversity statements, and hopefully more universities continue this trend.
Gift article below.
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