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defineandredefine's avatar

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.

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Paul's avatar

I spent my whole academic career specializing in parasites and diseases, and the evolution thereof, and in retirement I get THIS! Not prone to expletives, but FFFFFFFFFFFFF. And in answer to your question Jack, how about a little whooping cough, although it's hard to argue with some plague, lovely disease.

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