If this reaches a pandemic level we're going to witness a massive catastrophe because the Public Health as an institution was completely obliterated at a global level for political gain.
Robert Kenedy Junior, the guy who said COVID-19 was designed to not affect Jews[0], will be in charge of the HHS.
[0]https://www.timesofisrael.com/rfk-jr-who-mused-covid-was-des...
> "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he added. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted at that or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential of impact for that."
The article notes he claims that this quote "twisted" his words.
https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-covid-comment...
Cheap political quips aside, it makes me uneasy and frustrated that vaccination is currently very popular but is being turned into a political issue just for a big grift.
The overwhelming majority of research shows vaccines are safe and effective. While I personally think it’s worth verifying research to the contrary, too many people make contrarianism with cherry-picking against science-backed norms their entire personality.
Cherry-picked Contrarianism as a personality is tolerable in limited doses, like from a certain batch of folks on HN, but not something I’d want from policymakers.