RFK Jr. Thinks What We Need Right Now Is More Bird Flu

Another day, any other trace that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the use of his position as well being and human products and services secretary to not save Americans and beef up human well being, however to attempt to kill us all. On Tuesday, it used to be finishing the advice that the majority youngsters and pregnant girls obtain the COVID vaccine. Now it’s a quest to save lots of loads of ostriches that most likely have chicken flu.

Yes, the person who is meant to be preserving the folks in his nation secure from illness is lately the use of his energy to attempt to prevent Canada from culling 400 ostriches that have been involved with H5N1, the chicken flu virus that has killed tens of millions of birds in the USA since ultimate yr and inflamed dozens of folks, certainly one of whom died. Last week Kennedy inspired our neighbor to the north to not kill the birds—which Canadian officers worry will additional unfold the illness—however to check them. “We believe significant scientific knowledge may be garnered from following the ostriches in a controlled environment,” he wrote in a letter to the pinnacle of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Oh, and he and Dr. Mehmet Oz have presented to transport the most definitely diseased birds to a Florida ranch owned by means of Oz, who’s lately serving because the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

As The New York Times notes, “most veterinarians agree that keeping birds alive that may still have active infections and could spread the virus to others is a threat to public health,” i.e., the object Kennedy used to be employed to give protection to, now not undermine. Kennedy, after all, has a protracted historical past of doing bizarre shit with animals. While working for president, he recounted throwing a useless undergo cub behind his automotive, simplest to arrange an elaborate homicide scene with its carcass in Central Park after he learned he wouldn’t have time to get to his space to refrigerate the beef (sure). Later, his daughter recounted the time he sawed off a whale’s head and strapped it to the roof of his minivan, telling Town & Country: “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.” Kennedy additionally as soon as lived with an emu that may assault his spouse.

In different chicken flu information, Kennedy’s division on Wednesday reneged on tens of millions of greenbacks in investment it had dedicated to Moderna to assist expand a chicken flu vaccine for people. The odd reason why cited by means of HHS? Moderna’s use of messenger RNA era—which used to be utilized in two of the COVID vaccines advanced all through Donald Trump’s first time period in place of work.

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