So Dump has nominated a reasonably well qualified, non-insane person to be the new CDC Director. According to CNN, this was because people around the Dumpster concluded that appointing another lunatic would be politically disadvantageous. However, public health experts (count me in) are not convinced:
“She’s a good and well-qualified nominee, and would be in any administration. However, the issue is not her qualifications — it’s the environment that she’s being asked to work in,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “If this is supposed to be some kind of pivot away from what’s been going on for the last year, it will all be window dressing if RFK Jr. is still in place.”
What got Dr. Erica Schwartz over the line to get the appointment may have been the drubbing Robert "Brainworm" Kennedy recently took from Democrats in a congressional oversight hearing. That was not a good look with the midterm election coming. It probably didn't help that it has recently been revealed that he once cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy wrote in [his] journal. He added: “My kids waited patiently in the car.”
I keep having to remind myself that I'm not hallucinating or dreaming, this demented lunatic really is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Oh wait: that's a requirement to be a cabinet secretary.
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