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Bobby F Kennedy before turning his back on his Uncle Jack for Uncle Donald.

A doctor wrote the NY Times recently, urging readers to learn about the epidemic monitoring safety net that President Trump is hellbent on dismantling. It was an American project to protect Americans and the world from pandemics after the 1918 “Spanish Flu.” 

Watching Trump add a hundred thousand corpses to America’s million total covid deaths in his panic to be re-elected tested my patience. His suggestion that cleaning solvents could cure Covid and removing his mask after it nearly killed him only soured me further. 

Now President once again, he has appointed an ex-heroin addict who called for Dr. Fauci’s prosecution as our new Secretary of Health and Human Services.  You bet I read John M Barry’s book, The Great Influenza. I filled 456 pages with yellow marker.

New strains of influenza arrive each year, resulting in fevers and diarrhea. In a typical year they take the lives of about 36,000 Americans, similar to the number who are shot to death. 

Several times each century a mutation wreaks havoc. When it begins killing health care workers, no one is safe. The American Medical Association calculated that as Covid took hold between March and December of 2020 it killed an average of 50 doctors each month. There were five nurses for every doctor, thus roughly 250 monthly deaths. And, of course, hospitals were full of other staff and visitors sharing the virus-filled air. Deaths soared until vaccines blunted the reign of terror. 

Had Trump not pushed to send Americans back to work, church and school a hundred thousand lives would have been spared. There was an economic cost but it was piddling compared to the losses Trump’s hairbrained tariffs have imposed. Now Trump is rewriting that history on Truth Social.

Our new Secretary of Daily Vitamins should read chapter 30. He would learn how people perished in 1918. The lucky ones were healthy one minute and dead the next. The unlucky died in an agony of oxygen deprivation their bodies blue or even black. The world’s 50 to 100 million deaths birthed the World Health Organization to prepare for future pandemics. That was in a time when crossing the oceans took weeks. 

Today, thanks to his boss’s fury for losing the 2020 election, RFK is pulling the plug on American support for WHO. Maybe eating roadkill has dulled his conscience.

The Great Influenza’s early chapters describe how a virus started in my birth state, Kansas. It was turbocharged in crowded boot camps where men trained to fight in French trenches.  

As barracks became wards for the sick and dying the government, eager to send men to France, hushed up the carnage. Healthy-appearing men loaded on crowded trains and ships arrived in France and new camps sick and dying to spread the infection to uninfected military and civilian populations. 

Hardest hit were healthy young people. After the pandemic’s end perhaps one-in-ten of the world’s 21-olds lay dead. As with Covid 19’s “long covid,” influenza’s survivors often suffered for years. Researchers found that the brains of the dead were swimming with macrophages. Their bodies had sicced them on the invaders. 

Watching Trump ripping America apart in his first hundred days I can’t help but wonder if Trump isn’t suffering from long covid despite being first in line for new medications. 

Four of Secretary Kennedy’s brothers and sisters warned against sending him to Washington. Whatever you think of his father, and I was never a fan, Bobby Senior had a lot of heart. 

A few days ago, I glanced at my copy of Profiles in Courage, a book authored by President Jack Kennedy, Secretary Kennedy’s Uncle. Bobby’s father, Robert, had been asked to write its forward just weeks after the assassination when he was still deep in grief. His preface was very bland. 

But five years later when he found himself addressing a largely black audience in Indianapolis, Indiana, moments after learning of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Bobby Kennedy rose to the occasion. He calmed an audience that had come to hear him campaign for president. His consoling words spared Indianapolis from the riots that shook so many other major cities. His impromptu words can be found at the Kennedy Library’s website.

What would the father say to his son who is discouraging the once universal vaccinations that made the measles disappear during his son’s childhood? 

What would his father make of the eight Minnesota Republican legislators who authored a law to outlaw the mRNA vaccines that saved millions of lives during Covid 19? 

Their guru is a Florida hypnotist who calls this lifesaving vaccine a “weapon of mass destruction.” (Similar experts convinced GOP legislators that school children calling themselves “furries” were demanding to relieve themselves in school litter boxes.) 

RFK is pulling the plug on cavity-suppressing fluoride in drinking water in an era of declining dental insurance. Suffer the little children’s teeth. 

How will Uncle Donald thank Secretary Vitamin? 

Along with Kennedy, Elon Musk, Marjory Taylor Green and other Trumpians have called for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be prosecuted. Like Trump they blame Fauci for Trump’s 2020 loss. 

As a precaution President Joe Biden pardoned Fauci after Trump was elected. Trump ridiculed Biden for the pardon but it sure looks like a vengeful Trump wants Fauci dead. He ended the good doctor’s Secret Service protection, which was provided because so many MAGA republicans were sending Fauci death threats. And Trump yearns for a Nobel Peace Prize!

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