The Thinking ‘Kat: Where Unqualified meets Idiocy
In the realm of healthcare, there are some reasonable certainties (such as how cleaning wounds can prevent infection, and the effectiveness of vaccines). Well-established guidance on the treatment of illnesses and injuries has saved millions of lives throughout history. The fields of chemistry and biology have become increasingly advanced, and whilst this is not always without risk, the development of medical technology continues to save and improve lives. Why then, do some people place their faith in a man with little understanding of any of this?
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the man appointed as Health Secretary by Donald Trump, is an anti-vaxxer, and he is also someone who would eat roadkill, who swims in rivers known to be contaminated with sewage and sources of disease, and and he once had a parasitic worm in his brain, quite possibly from eating undercooked pork or eggs (the most common form of transmission).
Kennedy has repeated long-debunked claims about vaccines causing autism, and about fluoride in water supplies. He has made misleading claims about covid-19. With so many easily-rebuked claims about medical care, how is it that somehow, he is still entrusted with making medical policy for hundreds of millions of people? There is a major vacuum of common sense here, a demonstration of how someone woefully ill-equipped to do a job can land a job, provided they know the right people, or repeat the right mantra. The only area I would agree with him on is about processed foods, and even then, there would be caveats.
The US healthcare system has been broken for decades, for it has been a system that has prioritised money over health, and now it is headed by someone who does not even understand the basics of health, and that someone has been appointed by someone who thinks money is more important than anything else. No wonder the system there is so broken, and it will take a miracle to fix it. The opposition to nationalised healthcare services seen all over the world has to be rooted in the most narrow-minded of thinking.
