Your terrifying bit of news of the day. (Well, the morning anyway.) The New York Times reports that Bobby Jr has some ideas about bird flu. They aren’t good:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,” Mr. Kennedy said recently on Fox News.
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Mr. Kennedy does not have jurisdiction over farms. But Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary, also has voiced support for the notion.
“There are some farmers that are out there that are willing to really try this on a pilot as we build the safe perimeter around them to see if there is a way forward with immunity,” Ms. Rollins told Fox News last month.
Yet veterinary scientists said letting the virus sweep through poultry flocks unchecked would be inhumane and dangerous, and have enormous economic consequences. “That’s a really terrible idea, for any one of a number of reasons,” said Dr. Gail Hansen, a former state veterinarian for Kansas.
Every infection is another opportunity for the virus, called H5N1, to evolve into a more virulent form. Geneticists have been tracking its mutations closely; so far, the virus has not developed the ability to spread among people. But if H5N1 were to be allowed to run through a flock of five million birds, “that’s literally five million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate,” Dr. Hansen said. Large numbers of infected birds are likely to transmit massive amounts of the virus, putting farm workers and other animals at great risk.
Oh, I’m pretty sure it’s going to put all of us at great risk if the virus obtains the ability to spread among people. Which it could. We all know that having become conversant in the mechanisms of viral pandemics after living with one for a couple of years.
Bobby obviously believes that getting diseases make you stronger. And if you are a weakling, (like people his age who don’t take steroids) then sure, you might die. Kids too. Or people with other chronic illnesses. He talks all the time about how he had all the childhood diseases when he was a kid before there were vaccines and they all had tons of fun staying home from school. Well, many did, for sure. But many also had terrible long term effects and many others died. But he doesn’t care about them. Neither do all the MAGAs who care nothing for the million + who died from COVID.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that there is talk that they are going to end the mRNA research because the cranks now in charge of scientific research in America are down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. But you should know that an mRNA vaccine is showing incredible promise in treating pancreatic cancer, one of the most difficult of all. There are many other trials using this research underway. Bobby and his crew of weirdo health officials are thinking of ending it.
Will something like that be enough to wake America up to what these monsters are doing? I honestly don’t know. So many just don’t believe what they they don’t want to believe. But the fact is that people are going to die because of it. All to serve one man’s gigantic narcissistic need to exact revenge for having been held accountable for his actions.