Summary
Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.
At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.
Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.
The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.
While you’re at it, also licenses for government officials please! The man is minister of health damn.
licensing for parenting
“I’m sorry, you’re not white so you can’t be a parent” is, historically, how that’d go.
Who is granting these licenses and what are the criteria?
In the US right now, it seems that you may be required to reject vaccinations and to poison your children. The guy in charge of the agency eats roadkill and had a worm eating his brain (not attacks—facts out of his own mouth).
Be careful what you wish for.
Parents overdose their kids on vitamin A, you can’t really blame RFK for them being stupid enough to give doses several orders of magnitude higher than the RDA.
But then if they’re stupid enough to take health advice from RFK (or any politician, really), it’s a good example of correlation != Causation.
Only stupid people take health advice from Trump’s secretary of health, yes
can’t really blame RFK for them being stupid enough to give doses several orders of magnitude higher than the RDA.
Yes you can. If an idiot in power uses their power to convince stupid people to hurt their children, the person in power is still responsible.
But then if they’re stupid enough to take health advice from RFK (or any politician, really),
Yeah, what kind of fucking moron takes health advice from checks notes the secretary of health and human services?
Granted, you’re right in that people shouldn’t be listening to this specific director because he’s dumber than a bag of hammers, but saying people shouldn’t be listening to people in HHS (in general circumstances, not in this age of crazy pills) is as dumb as them listening to rfk.
Yes I can. His messaging directly caused this, and he’s in a position of power and influence over people’s healthcare decisions.
If parents and doctors aren’t getting in trouble for killing their kids with quack drugs, why are they getting in trouble for giving real medication when their “child” is still in the womb?
Doctors aren’t giving the kids the Vitamin A, doctors are sounding the alarm that children are coming in with Vitamin A poisoning.
We need to make suing government employees that make decisions easier. Things like discrimination for anyone that makes determinations for program eligibility, etc.
And definitely cabinet positions when decisions clearly are in opposition to available research and lead directly to outcomes like this, where a direct correlation is not only obvious but even easily provable in court.
Blanket Immunity to cover for incompetent government employees is complete bullshit and doesn’t serve the interests of the nation or it’s citizens at all.
Yeah this is one of those suggestions that sounds great on the surface but will just completely break government. Every single decision will result in a lawsuit, and the only beneficiaries will be lawyers. The inability to sue the cabinet isnt the problem, it’s the degenerates the American people vote in there.
There’s is no electoral system system and no regulation that can save voters from themselves.
But the Alchemist in Chief guarantees it works! Did you use fresh newt or canned?
