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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/accountability-robots-friday-march

Secretary Kennedy has obviously been a very busy boy. And he’s clearly no sentimentalist. Astonishingly, NPR ran yesterday’s most accurate HHS headline. To wit: “The Trump administration restructures federal health agencies, cuts 20,000 jobs.” Boom.

Let’s pause a moment. I’d like to speak directly to all the people who, like me, fumed during the pandemic’s deadly bureaucratic excesses. We passionately longed for mass firings at the public health agencies. We wished upon a star that thousands would get pink slips for what they did. But we never allowed ourselves to hope, not really, because it was too much to hope for. Because, honestly, when has anyone in government ever been accountable for anything?

Welp, be of great cheer. Today is our day. It’s finally here! Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., strode into the Department of Health and Human Services like a multi-armed spanking robot set on ‘high.’ Yesterday, HHS announced a total downsizing of 20,000 jobs, reducing headcount from 82,000 to 62,000. Not only that, but Kennedy is slashing the total number of divisions within HHS practically in half, evaporating the health behemoth to 15 divisions from 28 (it had been happily shooting for 30).

It was truly an astonishing comeuppance for the so-called “health” agency, but it was not just that. Secretary Kennedy explained, “We aren't just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic.” He plans to do more with less. He continued, “This Department will do more –a lot more– at a lower cost to the taxpayer.” ...

Seriously, being forced to wear a hospital mask at Publix made us feel like how the North Koreans must feel whenever their porky Dictator-de-jeur orders everybody to clap for an hour straight. Faster! Now do it standing on one leg! Even faster! Now stick your tongues out! Guards! Kill that one! And that one!

Anyway. Dear health agency employees, I am sure some of you are hardworking, honest folks who did your best. But you should have spoken up. Now you face the spanking robot. Bend over.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/accountability-robots-friday-march

Finally, enjoy yesterday’s headline from Fierce Healthcare: “CDC, DOGE claw back $11 billion in COVID-19 grants nationwide as agency roots out 'censorship' contracts.”

It’s so much better than that. The article reported that a new directive “went out to HHS employees the morning of March 26, telling them to urgently identify contracts that may lead to censorship or cause someone to hold certain ideas more than others. Examples given included COVID-19 vaccine usage, masking and education and outreach advertisements.”

“Hold certain ideas more than others.” In other words, and for example, just one small slice canceled all studies on vaccine hesitancy, and similar sorts of thought control.

Put simply, the government spent billions making sure we thought the “right” thoughts about masking, vaccines, and school closures. Now the spanking robot is cleaning HHS’s house.

Woot! Excellent move. I've argued for this on my platform:

https://patrick.net/post/1303173/2017-02-19-patrick-s-platform

Ban all levels of government from attempting to influence public opinion aside from direct quotable speech by specific elected officials; government should respect and reflect the will of the people.

I'm already starting to see RFK Jr's work in action. The strawberry jelly my daughter bought the other day, Shmuckers, has no artificial colors, or added sugars, just pectin and fruit. The difference is night and day. Taste like the strawberry jelly my Mom used to can ever summer.
Had some today with our breakfast on the biscuits this morning. I hope to see more of this.
But here's the thing, there wasn't some smug condescending upcharge for not getting the extra shit that is bad for you.
That's what I never got about the Organic movement, it was coddled into some boutique elitist food isle. Rather than any real movement to demand that all food be grown that way.

Now the Liberals loath RFK Jr. after all the shit talking about bad food, while they justified their 500% Wholefoods grocery receipt markup. Liberals are just so full of shit. It was never about eating healthy, nor do they give a good greasy grimmy fuck about the quality of food the poor and fat people eat. They just want to feel privileged paying $300 for $50 worth of groceries.

Tenpoundbass says

But here's the thing, there wasn't some smug condescending upcharge for not getting the extra shit that is bad for you.
That's what I never got about the Organic movement, it was coddled into some boutique elitist food isle. Rather than any real movement to demand that all food be grown that way.

It destroys the whole concept of "Sin" taxes. Why should you pay more for shit that is better for you than the industrial crap? I saw this over the whole 15 years I've been doing 100% grass fed beef from local farmers. It's gone up about 50% over that time, but grocery store shit meat has gone up by 300%.Beer has gone up the least of everything.

Tenpoundbass says

strawberry

Strawberries are consistently ranked as the fruit with the highest pesticide contamination. Fortunately you don't live in NY state. They have some human shit recycling program where they use it to fertilize strawberries.

One of the farms is one of those, "Pick your own", places where people trot out into the shit fields to fill their baskets.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Strawberries are consistently ranked as the fruit with the highest pesticide contamination.

Why it just rolls right off the tongue and sounds like the truth doesn't it?
That recycled bullshit comes from one unscientific source, without any data to support it at all. I mean how in the fuck are they going sell $10 pint of Strawberries when assholes like me are buying them at 3 for $7?

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its annual “Dirty Dozen” list, ranking the pesticide residue levels of fruits and vegetables.

now there's a very Conservative sounding group huh? I Googled your quoted portion and every instance came up with the same reference.
I even went to the original article and it read like one of those CNN "Who's the best guitarists" lists. Just listing them without naming the pesticide found, the amount, any variations from region to region. Now surely in my 56 years of living on this green earth, I have become smart enough to know that not every region and every farmer is using the same exact pesticide for the same crops. The list then goes on to list practically every fresh produce anyone would buy, vs canned, frozen or processed somehow. It's a love letter to Wholefoods and the Organic criminal enterprise.

Are you going to eat that....(TPB grabbing the scrumptious strawberry off MCM's plate, and popping it in his mouth)

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-hhs-secretary-cdc-sub-agency-vaccine-injuries

‘Long-overdue Crack in the Dam’: RFK Jr. to Create CDC Sub-agency Focused on Vaccine Injuries

Vaccine safety advocates hailed HHS Secretary Kennedy’s plan to create an agency within the CDC focused on vaccine injuries and also long COVID and Lyme disease. ...

During an interview Thursday night with Chris Cuomo on “NewsNation,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said:

“We’re incorporating an agency within CDC that is going to specialize in vaccine injuries.

“These are priorities for the American people. More and more people are suffering from these injuries, and we are committed to having gold-standard science to make sure that we can figure out what the treatments are and that we can deliver the best treatments possible to the American people.”

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/liberated-wednesday-april-2-2025

Reuters ran an alarmist headline yesterday that probably gave every career bureaucrat heartburn: “Trump begins mass layoffs at FDA, CDC, other US health agencies.” The agency’s former commissioner, Robert Califf, cried “the FDA as we've known it is finished.” Thank goodness. They should have taken the deal.

It might’ve been the biggest single-day purge of the federal government in U.S. history — and it was certainly the largest decapitation of the byzantine health bureaucracies. Newly minted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. posted on X: “Our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs. But the reality is clear: what we've been doing isn't working.”

Kennedy had already promised to reduce headcount from 82,000 to 62,000, and to trim the number of health agencies from 28 to 15. So it shouldn’t have been a surprise.

According to Reuters, the layoff blitz was so fast and so brutal that some employees were notified by security guards when they tried to badge into the HHS offices in DC. Those who’d been axed were handed a ticket and sent home. Reuters complained that workers waited in line for hours, not knowing what would happen when they got to the front.

It wasn’t just line workers. Even Fauci’s heir NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo was canned — though she reportedly was offered a “transition job” in the less glamorous Indian Health Service. Reuters didn’t say whether she accepted. Maybe she’ll send up a smoke signal from the reservation to let us know.

No one reported exactly how many federal health employees got the boot. But it was a lot. The unhinged language in the media coverage was apocalyptic: “bloodbath,” “massacre,” “devastation.” You can easily imagine the hysterical quotes; I don’t need to list them here.

The problem isn’t just the crooks at the top; it’s the culture of cowardice beneath them.

All these “good” CDC and NIH employees kept their mouths shut during covid. They could have spoken up and mitigated the harm. But the “good ones” stayed silent, kept their heads down, to save their jobs. Now, they’ve lost their jobs anyway, since the public has learned the hard way that the bloated health bureaucracies are an imminent danger and must be pruned to protect us all.

Silence in the face of institutional corruption is complicity.

Despite all the pearl-clutching predictions of civilizational collapse, I have yet to see a single example of a clear win for public health. Trump’s critics complain only about things that might happen. The CDC prevents pandemics, they cry. But it didn’t prevent covid, did it? We cannot measure things that didn’t happen. But clearly, the massive investment in public health hasn’t stopped cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, autism, the opioid crisis, or a raft of other burgeoning diseases afflicting our country— things that aren’t happening in other countries.

They even helped enforce a false narrative about Alzheimer’s that stalled progress for twenty-five years.

So … what do we need them for? All they’ve done is balloon into a multi-billion-dollar apparatus of failure and finger-pointing. The pandemic proved the federal health agencies are more dangerous to the public than the diseases they claim to fight.

Finally, as we see Trump fulfilling his campaign promises, we should note his brilliance. Trump broke the rules. The reason no administration ever tried this before wasn’t because they couldn’t — it’s because they wouldn’t. Political appointees always feared the inevitable media meltdown and career-ending backlash.

But Trump appointed people who’ve already been through the media’s mangling machine. What can the media now say about Kennedy they haven’t already dished out in heaping measure? Or Bhattacharya, Makary, or the rest? These folks have already been through the cancellation wringer. They don’t care.

I’m sympathetic that some good scientists will experience a temporary period of underemployment. But they should be back to work soon, snapped up by the private sector for their awesome skills.

This is a long-overdue reckoning. I’d even call it karma.

They were complicit with the poisoner Pharmakeia for profit, fake pandemic, and murderous vaccine programmed democide apparatus against the populace for thirty pieces of silver. Loss of a job is a minimalist 'punishment'. They deserve much worse. They represent the banality of evil at its epitome.

Their jobs were to spin health fictions that harmed rather than helped.

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/christine-grady-wife-of-dr-anthony

Christine Grady, Wife Of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Among Many Fired From NIH In Massive Purge

Yes! Wonderful!

Fauci will appear with a cap saying "Make Healthcare Lobbying For Profit And Democide Great Again".

https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/1907090380811620641

https://x.com/Humanspective/status/1907170095396442369

AmericanKulak says

Woah - SNAP is about 25% of Coke's revenue!?

They'll still buy it. Once hooked it's like an addiction. Caffeine and sugar. I relied on caffeine for 2 decades roughly. Cut it out and it was rough, but now I can wake up at 4:30am with no need for a boost.

The problem is this push as kids for 8 hours of sleep. I used to sleep 10 hours as a kid. So when reality hits and you have to get ready as an adult for a job you feel like shit. You've lost 10% of your life sleeping. So most do coffee and I know a lot do soda as well in the morning which is worse.

Given the time of this comment you really don't need much sleep. I get more done when everyone is sleeping. Daily tasks are done before anyone wakes up. Less stress on me and everyone. I generally will crash at 9pm and get up at 3-4am.

What I'm saying is I think the sleep hours are arbitrary from a different time. If I was some homesteader or city dweller in the 1800's with no electric I'd eat dinner and go to bed. I don't know if they still do it, but the Spanish had it right with Siestas (naps). I know I can't sleep 8 hours straight so I usually take a Siesta. Helps with insomnia and not be drained since I won't take pills.

AmericanKulak says

Woah - SNAP is about 25% of Coke's revenue!?

Possibly so, considering that would include soda and other drinks And when the taxpayers are paying for it, you are going to buy the name brand, not the store brand like you and I would. And that 25% would be for the US only though. I suspect that if Food Stamps disallow sugary soda and snack foods then deadbeats will use their food stamps for name brand diet soda and other name brand drinks, and probably their non food stamps money on store brand junk food (Pepsi does not make private label snack foods, but only make name brank junk foods). Presumably Pepsi would be impacted more here.

More hopium. Stretch your vestigial and puckered Overton windows, bippies.



https://t.me/WeTheMedia/121784

Well, maybe that does explain Kennedy's 180 degree turn.

They killed his father and his uncle (and possibly his nephew). How credible would a threat to him now to do the same to him and his family be?

stereotomy says

They killed his father and his uncle (and possibly his nephew). How credible would a threat to him now to do the same to him and his family be?

If he is that afraid, what's the point of wanting to join the cabinet in the first place?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/anomalous-thursday-may-1-2025-c-and

Yesterday, the Boston Globe ran a story headlined, “RFK Jr. will order ‘placebo’ testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts.” What would we do without alarmed health experts? Is there any other kind? Anyway, not only was the Globe’s article another fine example of journalistic malpractice, but for careful readers, it accidentally cut the vaccine industrial complex’s femoral artery.

On some future day, aging medical school doctors will look back on our time, and tell their fresh-faced students how, back in the day, pharma firms used to test vaccines by leaving them out overnight and seeing whether they were still there in the morning. If the wee vaccine fairies didn’t spirit the needles away in the small hours, then Bob’s your uncle: approved.

I exaggerate, but just barely.

Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy and HHS made what could be the simplest but most impactful announcement in American history (if you count in total life-years-saved). From now on, with limited exceptions (like the annual flu shot), the FDA will require all vaccines —including those already on the schedule— to be tested against an inert placebo, like pure saline.

“All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” an HHS spokesperson told The Washington Post. ...

You trusted that they were doing the work. You gullible dopes actually believed they weren’t just chanting “supercalifragilistic” ten times and hoping for the best.

But no. Here’s the giveaway: despite the article’s main theme was about how testing against placebos alarms experts, the Globe never bothered to explain how vaccines are currently tested. If non-placebo testing is so wonderful, then why didn’t that information come first, right up front? But that bit was conspicuously absent, concealed behind empty technical jargon and meaningless buzzwords like “correlates of protection” and “biological responses.”

Nearly every other drug except for vaccines must succeed against a placebo. But under long-standing FDA regulations, vaccines are excepted. ...

Not only that, but they don’t even test for efficacy anymore by measuring whether the drug actually reduces the disease or prevents hospitalizations. They just test whether victims’ immune systems produce certain antibodies. If so, they assume that also means fewer people will be hospitalized for the disease, which is a classic but oddly-named logical fallacy called “begging the question.”

They know it’s circular reasoning, yet they all keep pretending “everything is going to be fine.”

But now it’s all over. Placebos are back! You are probably feeling relieved and thinking, good, at least we have that debate settled, glad we have all behind us now. Sorry! Au contraire, mon ami. We must now deal with the experts. ...

Michael Osterholm, the University of Minnesota infectious-disease expert on Biden’s transition team, said the change _threatened the existence of coronavirus vaccines_. I’m not sure Osterholm realized what he was admitting there. If covid jabs can’t survive a placebo-controlled trial, then… they shouldn’t be sold. Again, it’s common sense, doc. ...

The Globe and the rest of corporate media studiously ignored a very basic problem with all the experts’ arguments: the simple fact that all other drugs require placebo testing. So any ethics concerns, delays in releasing, additional expense, and ‘risks’ of non-approval are equally applicable to all other medicines. Somehow, for all other drugs except vaccines, placebo testing is considered not just acceptable but de rigueur.

What jab experts need to explain isn’t why placebo trials are ‘too risky’ — it’s why vaccines get a hall pass while new blood thinners, cancer drugs, and antidepressants must run the full gauntlet. If a heart drug that could save millions is required to beat a sugar pill in a fair fight, why not a shot you’re giving to a perfectly healthy infant? ...

The experts aren’t afraid that RFK Jr. is wrong— they’re afraid he’s right. They are terrified the public might start noticing how little scrutiny vaccines have actually received compared to every other drug on the market. If experts were confident in the science, they’d welcome placebo trials as vindication. Fine, go ahead and do your little placebo trials, you’ll see we were right all along. Their panic tells you they’re not afraid of being disproven — they’re afraid of being exposed.

This simple policy change was much more than a first step. It was a seismic move. With only a little luck, it could change everything.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hhs-halts-deadly-disease-research

HHS Halts Deadly Disease Research at Fort Detrick BSL-4 Biolab in 'Safety Stand-Down'

Decision follows "identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility's safety culture."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered the halt to deadly disease research conducted at the Integrated Research Facility (IRF), located within Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army base in Frederick, Maryland.

Fort Detrick has long served as the U.S. military’s bioweapons epicenter—where government scientists conducted classified gain-of-function research, aerosolized virus dispersion trials, and weaponization of deadly pathogens like anthrax, plague, tularemia, and Ebola under secretive programs such as the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division and Project Jefferson, much of it hidden behind black budgets and shielded from congressional oversight.

The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has been placed on administrative leave, according to a Wednesday WIRED report.

The great sham was safety testing vaccines against a "control" which contained everything except the biological agent. That meant that both test and control got the same adjuvants, aluminum, mercury, etc.. This irreparably confounded the trials, since probably most of the symptoms were caused by the preservatives and adjuvants in the vaccines, at least until the 1980's, when the biological components became increasingly more hazardous.