RFK abd Samoa

I assume we will soon be seeing RFK Jr walking through the halls of Congress, having interviews with Senators as now Pete Hegseth is doing. Rachel Maddow talks about the connection between RFK Jr and a past incident of deaths of unvaccinated children in Samoa from measles.

Speaking of RFK Jr, I recently read that he was a heroin addict for 14 years. I know ... nowadays drug use is considered more an affliction than a crime, but I still remember my high school days in the 60s, when smoking dope could land you in prison for years. How is it that heroin addiction is not at least seen as a character flaw?

Do we really want a former addict, an accused sexual abuser, a road-kill eater, and a host to a brain worm to be the head of HHS?

Here's a bit of The New York Times opinion piece on this ...

I’ll Never Forget What Kennedy Did During Samoa’s Measles Outbreak

In November 2019, when an epidemic of measles was killing children and babies in Samoa, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who in recent days became Donald Trump’s pick to lead the department of Health and Human Services — sent the prime minister of Samoa a four-page letter. In it, he suggested the measles vaccine itself may have caused the outbreak.

He claimed that the vaccine might have “failed to produce antibodies” in vaccinated mothers sufficient to provide infants with immunity, that it perhaps provoked “the evolution of more virulent measles strains” and that children who received the vaccine may have inadvertently spread the virus to other children. “Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance,” he added, writing in his role as the chairman of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group.

At the time of his letter, 16 people, many of them younger than 2, were already reported dead ...