Perhaps this can be viewed as a "win", but I suspect it's a temporary win until the decision is overturned. I don't think Trump will reign in Kennedy even if his decisions are politically unpopular. I am grateful to Judge Brian Murphy for applying the law to Kennedy and his band of kooks setting policy at the CDC, but like so many of these legal battles, the decision slows down the works, but doesn't stop it. While a slow down is better than nothing, it's a low bar. Trump seems to be counting on voter suppression and election interference as his means of staying in power and the Republican party seems to be complicit with this plan. I am certainly not holding my breath that SCOTUS, given their dismal track record on voting rights, will do the right thing.
So yes, a temporary win is better than a loss. We will not solve this problem with legal wins. It will require a complete thrashing of Republicans in Congress. Democrats can't just win elections, they must win in landslides. After that they will have to show a lot more courage to address the corruption that got us in this siutation in the first place.
I also find it helpful to speak out continually in support of medical science, even if it's just in the comments or in line at the pharmacy. My father had polio as a child and went on to become a physician at a time when the mere availability of penicillin and emerging drugs was a godsend to human health. He would never have believed that our country would sanction animosity toward life-saving protocols. I tell this story as often as possible in order to counter the counternarrative.
This judge is no fool and isn’t fooled by the bulls**t pseudoscience RFK Jr is peddling. Anyone without a medical or science background or degree doesn’t get to decide what is or what isn’t public health policy. This is what you get when you’ve put an idiot in charge of HHS.
When you go to your doctor, do you ask what their "feelings" are? That should be the litmus test for ineligibility for healthcare or insurance. If you don't believe in it, then you don't get to access it.
Razor-sharp, Mr. Nesbit, which is what's needed to excise this cancerous growth on the body politic.
Perhaps this can be viewed as a "win", but I suspect it's a temporary win until the decision is overturned. I don't think Trump will reign in Kennedy even if his decisions are politically unpopular. I am grateful to Judge Brian Murphy for applying the law to Kennedy and his band of kooks setting policy at the CDC, but like so many of these legal battles, the decision slows down the works, but doesn't stop it. While a slow down is better than nothing, it's a low bar. Trump seems to be counting on voter suppression and election interference as his means of staying in power and the Republican party seems to be complicit with this plan. I am certainly not holding my breath that SCOTUS, given their dismal track record on voting rights, will do the right thing.
So yes, a temporary win is better than a loss. We will not solve this problem with legal wins. It will require a complete thrashing of Republicans in Congress. Democrats can't just win elections, they must win in landslides. After that they will have to show a lot more courage to address the corruption that got us in this siutation in the first place.
I also find it helpful to speak out continually in support of medical science, even if it's just in the comments or in line at the pharmacy. My father had polio as a child and went on to become a physician at a time when the mere availability of penicillin and emerging drugs was a godsend to human health. He would never have believed that our country would sanction animosity toward life-saving protocols. I tell this story as often as possible in order to counter the counternarrative.
This judge is no fool and isn’t fooled by the bulls**t pseudoscience RFK Jr is peddling. Anyone without a medical or science background or degree doesn’t get to decide what is or what isn’t public health policy. This is what you get when you’ve put an idiot in charge of HHS.
When you go to your doctor, do you ask what their "feelings" are? That should be the litmus test for ineligibility for healthcare or insurance. If you don't believe in it, then you don't get to access it.