RFK Jr. Reiterates The Same Rhetoric That Made His Own Employees Targets
from the unreal dept
Police have now confirmed that Patrick White is the man who killed a police officer while going on a shooting rampage targeting the CDC campus in Atlanta, Georgia. Police have also confirmed that the motive for the attempted mass shooting was White’s complaints about COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC’s response to the pandemic overall.
Documents found in a search of the home where White had lived with his parents “expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations,” GBI Director Chris Hosey said.
White, 30, had written about wanting to make “the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine,” Hosey added.
While RFK Jr. took his sweet time, nearly a full day, to even publicly comment on the shooting at all, and only did so after posting pictures to his private ExTwitter account to show off some fish he caught in Alaska, CDC Director Susan Monarez was fielding questions from CDC staff specifically about whether Kennedy and CDC and HHS leadership understood the role that misinformation played into the shooting.
“Do you expect Secretary Kennedy to make a statement about this, and are you able to speak to the misinformation—the disinformation—that caused this issue, and what your plan forward is to ensure this doesn’t happen again?” the employee asked.
Monarez did not directly answer the question, saying only that she had been in touch with Kennedy’s office. “It’s a good question. We’ve been in constant communication with the Office of the Secretary, and more will be coming,” Monarez said.
More did come. Monarez held an all hands meeting in Atlanta to address her staff’s concerns. And her message to CDC staff was quite good.
“We know that misinformation can be dangerous. Not only to health, but to those that trust us and those we want to trust,” Dr. Susan Monarez told CDC employees in an “all-hands” meeting Tuesday, her first since the attack capped her first full week on campus as CDC director.
“We need to rebuild the trust together,” Monarez said, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press. “The trust is what binds us. In moments like this, we must meet the challenges with rational, evidence-based discourse spoken with compassion and understanding. That is how we will lead.”
You have to imagine that message was met with anguish and confusion, however. Only a day earlier, RFK Jr. did an interview with Scripps, in which he first cast doubt on the obvious and now confirmed motives of the shooter that intended to kill as many of these same staffers as he could, only to pivot to repeat the same god damned rhetoric that made those staffers a target in the first place.
“We don’t know enough about what the motive was of this individual, but people can ask questions without being penalized,” Kennedy said.
“One of the things that we saw during COVID is that the government was overreaching and in its efforts to persuade the public to get vaccinated, and they were saying things that were not always true, and public health agencies should never do that,” Kennedy said.
I’m shaking with anger as I write this. Kennedy’s comments, in the wake of the shooting, align with the claims made by the shooter. Folks: he’s parroting the fucking shooter mere days after he shot up the CDC, an agency for which Kennedy is responsible. That isn’t just unhinged, it’s downright evil.
I hope to whatever god might be out there that there is not the further targeting of CDC personnel, or violence done against any other public healthcare servant. But if there is, RFK Jr. will be culpable for it, full stop. As will those that allow him to remain in his position.
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Comments on “RFK Jr. Reiterates The Same Rhetoric That Made His Own Employees Targets”
You know, when I said RFK Jr. was going to get people killed, I figured it would be from pushing anti-vax rhetoric, not from inspiring people to shoot government employees. But hey, here we are.
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turns out those aren’t always separate things 🙁
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He already murdered children in American Samoa by using antivax rhetoric, so now he’s branching into other ways of indirectly murdering people. Can’t wait to see what’s next! /s
Turns out this line has a (tiny) nugget of truth. Namely that the CDC direction that masks weren’t useful to normal people (given at the start of the pandemic) was, obviously, wrong.
Of course that’s not what RFK Jr is criticizing. Instead he’s criticizing the helpful and sane things the CDC said.
I do think the CDC should never lie about health issues (trying to get people to not make a situation worse by lying to them is never helpful). But what RFK Jr. is doing is more like a hairs breath away from endorsing murder. Which is beyond disgusting.
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And who, pray tell, are abnormal people?
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The ones who refuse to wear masks.
But that isn’t what was meant, and you know it.
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People with compromised immune systems.
“Typical” or “healthy” probably would have been a better word choice. But honestly, who really cares?
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Nobody, according to you because that’s clearly how you view people with compromised immune systems: as nobody.
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I have nothing against people with compromised immune systems. I view YOU as a nobody.
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“I have nothing against people with compromised immune systems,” AC lied. “I view YOU as a nobody,” they admitted into the mirror.
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Exactly.
Re: Nugget o' truth, eh?
“Turns out this line has a (tiny) nugget of truth. Namely that the CDC direction that masks weren’t useful to normal people (given at the start of the pandemic) was, obviously, wrong.”
And that too is completely wrong – there is NOT a nugget of truth in there. The CDC directed that available masks should have priority use among those most exposed, namely first responders, because there were only so many masks to go around, and it was a better use of available resources that way.
They knew darn well that masks were good for everyone, but they also knew there weren’t enough to go around. And they said exactly that, whatever you think they said.
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Giving advice/information that later turns out to have been in accurate it NOT the same thing as lying.
Early in the pandemic it was unclear if/how much healthy people could spread the virus, and one of the CDC’s priorities was preventing panic-buying of masks so that the limited supply would be available for health care workers. They also clearly stated this was the case.
The CDC didn’t lie, they made decisions based on the limited information they had and the reality of the situation at the time.
You have to see that in context
RFKj was hired by the president who messaged “we[sic] love you, you’re very special” to the Capitol rioters and pardoned all of them as soon as he got a chance.
Having the back of the people you are actually responsible for, whether as agency head, commander in chief, or as president, is not in the playbook of those sociopaths.
Kennedy is absolutely aligned with the shooter. And he absolutely wants to destroy the CDC. Except he wants to do it somewhat peacefully. But, hey, anything that gets the job done.
If this Patrick White would survive, I’m pretty sure Trump would have pardoned him because “Well, you know, the Biden administration forced people to get vaccinated, which is bad, and Patrick just wanted to get some answers, which is good. We need more people like Patrick that are actively seeking for more truth. By the way, I stand for David Rose’s family grief. It’s a very sad day for the police force.”.
Looks like the real criminals are still free to golf or go fishing.
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“Sad but true” button.
This Patrick White sounds like Trump’s kind of guy–he’d, no doubt, want to appoint him to some [anti]vaccine safety board.
Just expressing one of my deepest desires.
Numbers
Funny as they pat themselves on the back, with >1% affected in the USA.
The Under statement is that MOST of that >1% that Died, were Anti vaxers.
Lets take that number and compare it Only to the main group affected. I think its over 1%
Don't tell that to the rank and file, tell it to your boss
“We know that misinformation can be dangerous. Not only to health, but to those that trust us and those we want to trust,” Dr. Susan Monarez told CDC employees in an “all-hands” meeting Tuesday, her first since the attack capped her first full week on campus as CDC director.
“We need to rebuild the trust together,” Monarez said, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press. “The trust is what binds us. In moments like this, we must meet the challenges with rational, evidence-based discourse spoken with compassion and understanding. That is how we will lead.”
What she said is absolutely true while at the same time utterly meaningless, because so long as a pro-plague lunatic is the one in charge of health for the country any trust the public might have in the CDC or similar agencies is only going to get worse and rightly so, as any actual science is just going to get buried under piles of fraudulent, pro-plague pseudoscience.
He knows exactly what he’s doing. This was his intent all along – to encourage distrust and paranoia in public health.
He wants this to happen again.