This is what happens when you just shut your eyes and cross your fingers that larding the health system with nothing but conspiracy theorists and fringe weirdos in the medical profession doesn’t result in a catastrophe. Everyone with any sense is girding themselves for the inevitability:
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary signed off on the ouster of top vaccine official Peter Marks shortly after being quietly sworn in as the agency’s new leader late last week, four people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
The forced removal was Makary’s first major act as commissioner and sent a powerful signal to a stunned Washington that was already anxious about the role vaccine skepticism would play under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department. Makary and Kennedy had previously agreed to push out Marks, who led the FDA’s vaccine division for more than eight years, as part of a broader overhaul of HHS leadership.
The decision has alarmed lawmakers and the pharmaceutical industry, who see it as an effort by Kennedy to lay the groundwork for remaking the government’s approach to vaccines after years of sowing doubts about the shots.
For some reason they kept Makary’s swearing in a secret. I wonder why?
Makary’s involvement in the decision was not widely known even within the FDA, which has yet to acknowledge that he’s already been sworn in as head of the agency. On the agency’s website, Sara Brenner is still listed as the acting commissioner of food and drugs.
Even Marks appeared unaware of Makary’s status on Friday, addressing his resignation letter to Brenner and using his parting words to take aim at Kennedy. Marks declined to comment.
“I was willing to work to address the Secretary’s concerns regarding vaccine safety and transparency,” Marks wrote. “However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
I’ve written about the hostility to the mRNA research by Luddite freaks like RFK Jr which will inevitably delay or completely stop progress into this incredibly important new field that looks as though it could be a lifesaving treatment for various cancers. It sure saved a lot of lives during the pandemic.
But Bobby thinks that if we had all been eating organic produce (which I do already) there would have been no problem fighting off COVID 19 so there’s that. Maybe after Trump is finished with his tariffs he’ll get the agriculture department to find a magic way to make organic fruits and vegetables available and affordable for everyone and we will only need the “cures” from the 19th century to keep us healthy. You know, like they did then when life expectancy was in the late 40s.