There are many Trump voters and supporters who are pleased with changes to DEI, firing government employees without cause or plan, invading other countries, and so much more. I have heard from them often and clearly. I caution them on the impact of the appointment of Robert F. Kenndy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
At least 270,227,181 people or 81% of the population have received at least one COVID vaccine dose. Overall, 230,637,348 people or 70% of the population are considered fully vaccinated. Even if 100% of the people who voted for Harris were among these numbers (which is not the case), then at a minimum (likely more) +40 million out of the 74 million who voted for Trump, chose to get a vaccine. And it was a smart choice. Getting ourselves and our children vaccinated was a life-saving choice that crossed party and political lines. People for and against Trump got the vaccine in overwhelming numbers.
So, the +40 million Trump voters who did get the vaccine are now at a greater health risk, along with their families and children, along with all of the rest of us, by this decision.
It is one thing to celebrate all the things you want Trump to do. But what — if not this horrible appointment — will it take for you to finally speak up and say, well, yes, he did wrong here. If you spoke up soon enough, we could have prevented this. I wish ever one of you and your families good health as we all face the next health crisis together, as Americans.
In my columns, I have often quoted wisdom and advice from my Dad, Alfred Dean Stoneking. We can learn so much from those who have walked before us. We learn from their experience and their seasoned wisdom. Especially from the trusted source of a father. So before I address Robert F. Kennedy Jr., let’s pause to consider a few things that his Dad had to say, not just to his family, but to our nation. These are the things a good man says.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 -1968)
“Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.”
“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.”
“Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy (1925 -1968)
Read those again. I mean really. Such a great man and human being. There is a saying, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” In this case, it seems we have an exception. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell from the tree, rolled down the hill, and slipped into a rabbit hole of lies, narcissism, depravity, and injustice. Consider some of his opinions that follow, complete with reference links.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954 – )
In December 2021, Kennedy falsely called the COVID-19 vaccine “the deadliest vaccine ever made.”
One of his main false claims – repeated in a 2023 interview with Fox News, was that “autism comes from vaccines”.
Kennedy has long campaigned against the practice [of fluoride in water] and claimed in a recent post on X that Trump, as president, would be advising ”all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water”.
Other more incendiary comments he’s made in the past, such as comparing Covid-19 pandemic mandates to Nazi Germany and apartheid laws in South Africa, have also faced backlash from both ends of the political spectrum.
He has long peddled AIDS denialism conspiracy theories, alleging that HIV does not cause AIDS and questioning the “theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.”
Kennedy encouraged people to join him in telling strangers not to vaccinate their babies
In 2023, Kennedy drew sharp criticism after falsely claiming that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” to disproportionately attack Caucasian and Black people while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
Kennedy Jr. has promoted the disproven conspiracy that 5G cellular networks—an advanced wireless technology standard for mobile phones—allow governments to collect user data and “control” their behavior, CBS reported in 2023. He also told Joe Rogan in a June podcast interview that WiFi “radiation” causes cancer, “cellphone tumors” and “opens your blood brain barrier” to toxins (There is no scientific proof connecting WiFi or 5G to any illnesses, according to the American Cancer Society).
Family and Experts
Four of Kennedy Jr.’s 10 siblings criticized his presidential run before he eventually dropped his campaign in August. “Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same vision, values or judgment,” they wrote.
“So I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely get out and separate and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. in this flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father’s memory,” Kerry Kennedy said Sunday.
You know, Kennedy is a known vaccine skeptic. He’s called COVID vaccines a crime against humanity, pushed claims that vaccines cause autism over and over. That is not true. It is disproven. Josh Sharfstein, a public health professor at Johns Hopkins University, says Kennedy has been sowing doubt in public health for years.
“If he is appointed and continues in the same mode, I fear not just for the vaccination program in the US, but similar programs around the world, and for healthcare in general,” says Dr Elliman. “Vaccination has probably saved more lives and is better researched than most, if not all, aspects of healthcare. RFK Jr could set this back and be responsible for the death and disability of myriads of people, particularly children.”
Conclusion
+ 41 million Trump supporters chose the vaccine, then voted for the man, who appoints the man, who, in the same situation would have tried to abort the vaccine. Look to your family and friends who are alive but might not have been. Look to your children whose lives will depend on this man’s decisions. Look in the mirror. Is this what you want?
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