• @[email protected]
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    I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me

    Says the guy in charge of the department responsible for medical advice.

    This is one of the incredibly rare instances where I agree with something RFK Jr. says, I agree nobody should be taking medical advice from him. Now if he could fucking resign and you know stop giving medical advice that would be great.

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      To be fair, I think it holds true for any head of department of health (or whatever they’re called) - that’s a position that calls for organizational skills and not a medical doctorate. In the same way my project manager doesn’t answer questions about clustered datastorage, that’s what he has people like me for.
      However, leading JFKJrs department also calls for common sense and skepticism towards conspiracy theories, two qualities he severely lacks. But at least he’s right in that particular statement.

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        That’s like saying he shouldn’t be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You’re right, but it’s also not really the point.

        He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the “engineers” and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.

        Which he is not doing… Which has resulted in a body count… Which should at the very least cost him his job…

        But if anyone thinks that’s going to happen, they’ve not been paying attention.

        *(I don’t know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It’s some technical thing to do with vaccines)

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          Yes, that’s pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.

          Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.

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            Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn’t need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information

      • @[email protected]OP
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        But…isn’t the point that you need to know at least both? There should be thousands of people in the venn diagram between doctors and managers enough people to become health secretary: senior doctors, senior healthcare managers. Certainly not this dipshit.

    • Skvlp
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      No one should take medical advice from him.

      One should be able to get good medical advice from anyone in his position.

      What’s wrong with this picture?

    • Basic Glitch
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      The Alex Jones defense. “Oh you guys thought I was serious? Lulz seems like that’s kind of on you.”

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      One of the requirements for administering any department is being able to tell when it’s doing its job, and for his position that means being able to tell good policies from bad ones.

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    Is there any way to get rid of the guy based on this statement? I mean, a brick could do his job better by staying out of anything that already works.

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      22 months ago

      Somebody write that down on list of good ideas to rebuild society after the collapse jic any humans survive:

      1. Hold public officials to the same standards anyone else bad at their job would be held to. Make accountable for own words and actions?
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        12 months ago

        The end is nigh when Giuliani retrospectively seems a wise oracle by comparison.

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    312 months ago

    You are right, we should be getting it from an expert. So how did you get this job asshole? Oh right, you hopped on that Sunny D.

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    292 months ago

    Well it’s literally your job to know about health matters…a job you are wholly unqualified for and should quit!

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    Lol says the guy in charge of the health department, this is literally satire at this point

  • Basic Glitch
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    132 months ago

    Holy shit… This timeline is too dumb to ever be learned about in history books.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    “I don’t think people should be taking financial advice from me, either. Or parental advice for that matter. Or party planning advice. Or interior decoration. Matter of fact, why is anybody listening to me at all?!?