An opportunistic infection in a weakened body politic

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

What’s a sociopathic narcissist to do? Poor Donald Trump: In the before times, he rightfully bragged about getting the covid vaccine up and running at “warp speed.” He hadn’t spent much time with beakers and Petri dishes, and he benefited from the prior 20 years during which the groundwork for mRNA vaccine development reached its zenith right on time. Nevertheless, initial fatuity aside (disbanding President Obama’s pandemic preparedness team, it’ll be over in weeks, bleach, light, etc.), he deserves credit for that.

So, what to do when the craziest of his crazy patronage hires claims those vaccines were ineffective, deadly and should be banned; replaces vaccine experts with quacks; and defunds further research? Does he defend Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Does he fire the guy he touted before, saying he’d let him “go wild” at Health and Human Services? (The Hill: tinyurl.com/2wild4u) It’s a horned dilemma. He’d rather be grifting.

Junior Bobby Kennedy is nuts. Has been for a long time, well before Trump put him in position to kill Americans; well before every Republican senator except one, including four medical doctors, voted to confirm him. The exception? Mitch McConnell, the hypocrite’s hypocrite most responsible for keeping Trump in office.

Bobby Junior Kennedy claims he can tell which children are “overburdened with mitochondrial challenges” (not a thing) just by looking at them (Gizmodo: tinyurl.com/2Bburdened). He quotes medical research reports that don’t exist, and misquotes and misunderstands those that do (Forbes: tinyurl.com/notexist4u). He couldn’t tell properly-run science research from the roadkill in the trunk of his car. There’s a worm in his brain that died after eating part of it, possibly killed by the heroin that once poisoned his bloodstream. Bobby spreads misinformation like a farmer spreads manure, but, unlike farmers’, his manure ends, rather than stimulates life.

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