RFK Jr. Takes His Grandkids For A Mother’s Day Swim In A River Of Human Shit
Look, folks, I have to admit that I’m running out of ways to open these posts about RFK Jr., so let’s just do this quickly. He’s a vaccine skeptic with a ton of bad ideas on public health policy, is letting the current measles outbreak expand for no good reason, has promised to have the cause of autism uncovered by the tail end of summer, will get the government to stop poisoning all of America with chemtrails, and might kinda be into a light version of eugenics. I’ll remind you again, should you have forgotten, that this is the man in charge of American healthcare.
Perhaps as alarming is some news that slipped by me a couple of weeks back: RFK Jr. has written in a book that he doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease, opting instead for the miasma theory. What’s that you say? You haven’t heard of the miasma theory? Well, that’s probably because it was abandoned around the time his Nazi-appeasing grandfather was born.
The miasma theory was advanced by Hippocrates in the fourth century BC[3] and accepted from ancient times in Europe and China. The theory was eventually abandoned by scientists and physicians after 1880, replaced by the germ theory of disease: specific germs, not miasma, caused specific diseases.
Just impeach this guy already, damn it.
But my main point in bringing up yet another of Kennedy’s absurd healthcare beliefs isn’t merely to add a 59th reason he shouldn’t be the Secretary of HHS. It’s also because it makes what he posted to ExTwitter over Mother’s Day all the more strange.
Yes, Kennedy took his grandkids on a hike! And a swim! In a creek in which you are prohibited from swimming due to dangerous bacteria in the water? Why? Well, because it suffers from known sewage runoff, dear friends. Kennedy took his grandkids swimming in literal shitwater.
The creek is known for having a sewage overflow problem and posing a health hazard to any who enter it. The National Park Service, which manages the Rock Creek Park, strictly bars all swimming and wading in Rock Creek and the park’s other waterways due to the contamination, specifically “high levels of bacteria.”
A notice on the NPS website advises “Stay Dry, Stay Safe,” warning, “Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health. Please protect yourself and your pooches by staying on trails and out of the creek. All District waterways are subject to a swim ban—this means wading, too!”
If I wanted to be kind to Kennedy, I could refer to this as the George Carlin method of healthcare. One in which you intentionally expose yourself to as many health dangers as possible in the misguided attempt to build up your immunity.
Now, if you watch that entire Carlin special, as I have, you know just how much tongue and cheek stuff is in there. But even if you wanted to take Carlin’s words at face value, he was a fucking comedian. He was the functional equivalent of a professional clown, whereas Kennedy’s clownery is as unprofessional as it gets. And, also like Kennedy, he too has zero medical training or background.
It would be easy enough to think that Kennedy will lie in whatever bed he’s made by swimming in unclean water, of course. But there are children to consider here. I, for one, wouldn’t want Kick or — checks notes — Bobcat, to get some flesh-eating bacteria inside their tiny bodies and have something horrible happen. Were Child Protective Services to witness a parent bathing their children in their home in a solution concocted of water, feces, and urine, those children would be whisked away and put in the charge of actual thinking adults. But here Kennedy is doing essentially the same thing, but out in a stream.
And the larger point is, again, that this man is in charge of American healthcare at the moment. He believes in disease theories from the 1800s, doesn’t like vaccines, thinks everyone should get measles and the weaklings will die, and is now a documented shit-diver.
Really, honestly, truly… how much more does anyone need to boot him from his post?