I saw the whole RFK and CDC debacle, how the agency is being weaponized to be antivax, and I cannot for the life of me understand what is happening. What does RFK has to gain with stopping vacines? What does the government gains from it? It cannot be just for show political streght, is it? Just to say “ha, in your face!” and then cause huge troubles for themselves down the road? There must be something they will have right now. But what is it? Money? Contracts? Favours?

  • zlatiah@lemmy.world
    5·
    17 hours ago

    Two possibilities…

    • RFK does have a supplement/snake oil business(?) if I recall correctly, so he does have a personal stake in “MAHA”
    • This sounds nuts but there is a possibility that he really believes what he is doing is correct, and became a useful idiot in the process

    And don’t forget the people within CDC who are more involved… I will never forgive Jayantha “Jay” Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli for dismantling the NIH. Btw the motive for Bhattacharya was very clear: he was an economist who proposed a fringe theory on COVID that was widely criticized, but then doubled down and essentially became entrenched in antivax himself. Which is also why I wonder if RFK also got high on his own supply

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
      3·
      10 hours ago

      This sounds nuts but there is a possibility that he really believes what he is doing is correct, and became a useful idiot in the process

      You’d have a harder time convincing me a brain wormed, road-kill eating, fried potato has the capacity for such a lie.