New Top RFK Advisor Promoted Mass Covid Infection - The Tuesday AM Quickie 12/2/25
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Today you’ll read about RFK Jr.’s pro-pandemic top advisor, Trump’s decision to halt all asylum cases indefinitely, and the record-breaking year of profit for weapons manufacturers.
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New Top RFK Jr. Advisor Promoted Mass Covid Infection
A man who penned a manifesto arguing that the US should confine older and at-risk people to their homes and let Covid rip through everyone else is now one of “Health Secretary” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s top advisors. RFK Jr. named anti-vax activist Martin Kulldorff as chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, a unit that acts as his “in-house think tank, providing policy advice,” the regime announced yesterday.
Kulldorff was for about six months the RFK Jr.-appointed chair of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee that makes vaccine recommendations. During his brief tenure, he made a series of destructive calls that infuriated doctors and medical groups. At a September meeting that “devolved into chaos and confusion,” according to the NYT, the group “voted to limit access to the Covid vaccine and to stop recommending a combination shot against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox for children under 4.” Panelists also recommended removing the preservative thimerosal from flu vaccines even though they acknowledged that there’s zero proof it is harmful, and refused to recommend the Covid vaccine, saying it’s a personal choice, the AP reported. The panel is set to meet again this Thursday and Friday and will be led by its new chair, Kirk Milhoan, who is also a quack. It is “likely to decide” that newborns should be denied the hepatitis B vaccine, and may decide to deny it to children altogether, the NYT reported this morning. The reason babies get the hepatitis B vaccine is because without it the virus will kill them. According to Johns Hopkins, “Without vaccination, as many as 9 in 10 infants infected with hepatitis B in their first year of life will develop chronic infection that can lead to liver failure and death.”
Kulldorff also co-wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 manifesto that essentially recommended forcing elderly and high-risk people to stay trapped at home while everyone else returns to regular activity with no protections. Covid-19 vaccines weren’t available at the time, but that’s OK because mass infection would be good in the long run, he argued, without sparing a single thought about long Covid. The manifesto omitted entirely any mention of contact tracing, masks or physically distancing. We already know how well this approach works, because Kulldorff’s home country of Sweden tested it out when lawmakers there did absolutely nothing to stop the spread of Covid. What happened next was that ten times more people died in Sweden than in neighboring Norway. Naturally, Kulldorff defended Sweden’s decision to go for a 10x death rate.
All of this is to say that Kulldorff is a dangerous person who has even more power to influence policies that have a direct bearing on our health and how long we live. Yes, it is fun to mock RFK, Jr. and his cabal of cranks. It’s grimly entertaining to read tales of the health secretary who has a worm in his brain, forces his grandkids to swim in fetid water, drives around with the corpses of the animals he killed for fun. It’s entertaining to read about his ghastly sex poems to a much younger woman who calls herself a journalist, a saga in which everyone involved comes off as a narcissistic bimbo. But RFK Jr. and his circle are doing real, deadly, unforced harm to people in the US. All of them should be driven out of office and out of public life forever.