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The amount of people who RFK has already murdered is intense but looking back RFK will be seen as one of the key figures of the final, utter collapse of the social safety net in the US. He is going to be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths if not hundreds of thousands. This is not hyperbole.
Hey but whatever, glad centrists shut down any prospect of progressive change in healthcare, I am sure we will just be able to move back to a moderate position after all this blows over and everything will work out!
The CDC flip-flop masking during COVID probably killed thousands of people all by itself. RFK has actively undermined the credibility of federal health resources to a point where rational intelligent people are rightly ignoring them. It will absolutely kill millions over the years it takes to recover (assuming that we even start recovering).
Covid was a novel virus they were mostly doing their best wrt public policy. It’s not at all comparable to what’s going on now, reversing decades of proven science progress.
Yes, that is the observation that I am making.
His legacy will be the American Memgele.