Cowards.
Fucking cowards, the lot of them.
I am, of course, writing about the Senate and the Senators and the confirmation of the Kennedy who wants desperately to be relevant.
The man who is a lawyer, is not in the healthcare field at all. But spews misinformation and lies about vaccines and fluoride in drinking water and processed food.
Vaccines save lives and fluoride saves teeth. Ultra-processed food, often the only kind of food a person can afford, is probably not good for humans. But he says nothing about the root cause of the ultra-processed food. Which are food deserts and the price of food.
His insane belief is that covid was engineered to strike Caucasians and black people and not Chinese or Ashkenazi Jews. This has been debunked and is a bat shit crazy belief. He has tried to walk this back.
His non and incorrect beliefs in science and vaccines are getting people killed. And now that he is the Health and Human Services secretary.
Great. (heavy sarcasm)
Only one of the Republican senators voted AGAINST the confirmation of a known anti-vaxer whose misinformation led to the deaths of many on Samoa. When I write many, I mean above 10. Eighty-three Samoans died because of the Measles outbreak directly related to his lies.
And that senator that voted against him? Mitch McConnel. I didn’t have that on my 2025 Bingo card. But he did have Polio as a child. Anti-vaccination sentiment has brought Polio back to the United States. The Iron Lung, which was a treatment for Polio that some lived in for decades, is no longer in production and hasn’t been for years and years. So we are starting from rock bottom there.
Regardless, RFK Jr. is dangerous.
Like so much of this cabinet. But he can impact vaccines and so very much more. BTW- all of the Democratic senators voted against his confirmation.
I will be watching his office CLOSELY. And I will report back the insanity.
Are you paying attention yet?
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 
I’ve been paying attention and I’m disgusted! I’m especially disgusted that a senator who is a physician, Bill Cassidy, voted for him! I’ve been a nurse for 34 years. I worked through COVID at a local hospital without pandemic/crisis pay while hearing people say COVID is fake, health professionals are lying, etc. This may be the end of my nursing career.
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I understand. I’ve been a nurse for 24 years myself and I count this Senate as the whiniest bunch of cowards I’ve ever seen. I am the co-chair of the hospital Research Council. All research done within the hospitals comes to us for approval. We were working on the next agenda and I asked if the research pause was going to be brought up. The other two white women in the group said they didn’t know too much about it. And one was the nurse scientist for the system.
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