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Above is the main page of HUFFPOST this morning (article). This is how the story about of what is happening at the CDC is being covered on CNN:
Trump wants to control everything he thinks he can. This ranges from the ridiculous like how the Oval Office looks to what the Gulf of Mexico is called, to serious matters like how the Federal Reserve sets rates, and extremely serious things like turning cities into zones occupied by gun toting soldiers, and how immigrants are treated. Somewhere in the middle put taking possession of Greenland and the Panama Canal. This may not seem that serious to us, but you bet leaders and residents there don’t take it lightly.
Why in the name of all things holy and unholy does he want to allow RFK Jr. to control the nation’s health?
RFK Jr. has his MAHA, which if you haven’t heard, means Make American Healthy Again. It’s even the name of a commission. (Read NPR article)
Above: President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon at an event announcing the release of a Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22. Several other members of Trump's Cabinet who served on the commission, including EPA head Lee Zeldin, also attended.
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These fake experts are considering changing rules about who can get what vaccines to EPA regulations.
Ah, tis a mystery wrapped in bacon with butter on top why Trump is allowing this to happen. It could be that he really revels in knowing he can create chaos whenever he wants to.
If this attack on science based health and medicine plays out as it is likely to, people will die, hence the alliteration in my title. People’s remains will end up in mortuaries and mausoleums, and perhaps if America is restored to being a country free from MAGA and MAHA, the I hope that story will be honestly told in a Smithsonian Museum.
Did you know that The National Museum of Health and Medicine existed and that it is located in Silver Springs, MD? Here’s their website. It is run by The Department of Defense and is not a part of The Smithsonian. This is because it has collected and shared information about the history of medicine and American military medicine.
There is no Smithsonian museum specifically about medicine, although I recall seeing some exhibits about how medicine and dentistry was practiced in the colonial era when I visted DC years ago. If there were to be a health and medicine museum in the future, it buggers my imagination to think of what would be displayed after Trump and his medical madmen committed mayhem on American medical care.
Putting “Make America Heathy Again” on a hat or sign doen’t make it real when “healthy” means a time before Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, or even before Dutch scientist and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first to discover and describe microorganisms.
I wonder if RFK Jr. and Trump even know who the greats in medicine are? I read Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters when I was a teenager.
Reading this made me want to become a doctor until I got to college and as a pre-med aspirant had to take a difficult science course. I chose to take zoology because I thought I’d learn a lot about animals. I did learn many things I didn’t know but the exams were so difficult I changed my major to psychology.
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