Can we ask the worm? Is the worm in charge of the DHHS?
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Well it's literally your job to know about health matters........a job you are wholly unqualified for and should quit!
This is the most American thing I’ve heard all day (the rfk quote)
You are right, we should be getting it from an expert. So how did you get this job asshole? Oh right, you hopped on that Sunny D.
I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me
Says the guy in charge of the department responsible for medical advice.
This is one of the incredibly rare instances where I agree with something RFK Jr. says, I agree nobody should be taking medical advice from him. Now if he could fucking resign and you know stop giving medical advice that would be great.
No one should take medical advice from him.
One should be able to get good medical advice from anyone in his position.
What’s wrong with this picture?
To be fair, I think it holds true for any head of department of health (or whatever they're called) - that's a position that calls for organizational skills and not a medical doctorate. In the same way my project manager doesn't answer questions about clustered datastorage, that's what he has people like me for.
However, leading JFKJrs department also calls for common sense and skepticism towards conspiracy theories, two qualities he severely lacks. But at least he's right in that particular statement.
That's like saying he shouldn't be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You're right, but it's also not really the point.
He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the "engineers" and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.
Which he is not doing... Which has resulted in a body count... Which should at the very least cost him his job...
But if anyone thinks that's going to happen, they've not been paying attention.
*(I don't know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It's some technical thing to do with vaccines)
Yes, that's pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.
Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.
Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn't need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information
You give me too much credit. I got curious and started googling, lol.
So he's resigning from his position, right?
“Who do they think I am, the Secretary of Health?”
Is there any way to get rid of the guy based on this statement? I mean, a brick could do his job better by staying out of anything that already works.
Giuliani suggested trial by combat, seems more reasonable today than it did then.
I agree.