So I Guess We're All Gonna Die
So I Guess We're All Gonna Die
Which old-timey disease do YOU think RFK Jr. will bring back???
Today in medical news: medicine is over!
Now that anti-vax king Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to take over the CDC, the FDA, and all the other agencies of our federal health system, it’s time to speculate about which old-timey diseases are going to come roaring back. Polio? Diptheria? Smallpox? Leprosy? Come on down! Measles? Mumps? Rubella? Come on down!
How about the plague? Been a while since we’ve had a good plague outbreak. The fashion will be great!
Oooh, what about tetanus, that’s a fun one. Or chickenpox, if we’re ordering from the kids’ menu.
Or maybe we’ll wind up expelling all our organs out of our bodies thanks to the copious amounts of raw milk we’re getting force-fed.
Get your shots now, folks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. And let us know in the comments what vintage ailments YOU want to see making a comeback!
What's so frustrating is that he/they aren't wrong - pharma and food industries and etc are worthy of contempt for decades of malfeasance that has directly impacted the public health of this country. But I don't see RFK going after pharma bullshit like useless drugs that just exist to extend patent rights. I don't see him going after the blatant price-gouging for things like insulin and other staple drugs for blood pressure, diabetes, stroke prevention, cancer, etc. I don't see him taking on the huge insurance bureaucracies, or the incredibly excessive administrative costs in our system. I don't see him going after companies that violate public health rules and cause disease outbreaks (like the recent Boar's Head debacle.)
No, instead we'll get anti-vax and neutricitical horseshit and rolling back of hygiene standards.
What's so frustrating about RFK in particular is THAT MOTHERFUCKER KNOWS BETTER. He knows the number one sources of heavy metal poisoning (including mercury) are ENVIRONMENTAL, and result from things like coal-mining, fracking and our shit water infrastructure.
Yet, I don't expect we'll see any focus on the fact that American in the 21st century can't guarantee access to clean water for all of its citizens.
What a sick fucking joke.
I’m waiting for when Grandfather Nurgle’s forces get summoned centuries ahead of schedule, and we finally learn RFK was three Nurglings in a trench coat all along. In terms of vintage diseases, I’m expecting polio to make a comeback.