Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies on the “Weaponization of the Federal Authorities” listening to on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States on July 20, 2023. | Supply: Anadolu Company / Getty
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) actually is the poster youngster for conflating correlation with causation.
He’s the embodiment of everybody on the web who thinks they’ve confirmed the conspiracy is actual by citing info from SeeTheConspiracyIsReal.com. RFK Jr.’s persistent refusal to let go of the argument that sure racial teams being disproportionately affected by COVID-19 means the virus was created in a laboratory that develops “ethnically focused bioweapons” is a first-rate instance of this.
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In fact, these remarks, wherein he additionally implied the “bioweapons” have been designed to spare Jewish and Chinese language individuals have been extensively denounced as racist and antisemitic, so he needed to stroll them again whereas nonetheless clinging to chemical warfare conspiracy principle like his life and candidacy relied on it. (As for the latter, the alternative is probably going true.) And now, RFK Jr. has reverted again to his tried and true (however false) narrative that COVID vaccines didn’t do a lot to sluggish the unfold of the virus. And he’s leaning on Africa and Haiti with the intention to push his white nonsense.
On Thursday, the presidential candidate who simply received’t finish his obvious marketing campaign to proceed embarrassing the Democratic occasion testified earlier than Congress throughout a listening to on federal authorities “censorship” of Individuals’ free speech on social media.
From Politico:
Kennedy argued that U.S. Covid information confirmed that widespread vaccination did little to cease the unfold of Covid. “We’ve 4.2 p.c of the worldwide inhabitants and 16 p.c of worldwide Covid deaths,” Kennedy stated earlier than citing decrease Covid dying charges in impoverished nations like Haiti and Nigeria. Many nations within the Caribbean and Africa skilled decrease dying charges from Covid-19, however specialists consider this was largely the results of strict journey guidelines on the outset of the pandemic, in addition to youthful populations much less vulnerable to noncommunicable circumstances like weight problems, most cancers, diabetes and autoimmune problems, amongst different components.
So, Principally, there are quite a few components that might logically, statistically and scientifically clarify why unvaccinated Africans and Haitians didn’t die as usually per capita in comparison with different nations, even ones which can be extra developed economically. However RFK Jr. has determined to skip over all of these components in favor of no matter cherry-picked non-data that he can current as proof to assist essentially the most far-fetched conclusion his “2+2 = nuclear ethnic genocide” thoughts might give you.
Sadly, all he has to do is enchantment to fellow pseudo-intellectuals who will label any try to curb the unfold of harmful medical misinformation as “censorship,” and people will proceed to look to him as a revolutionary who is aware of greater than the overwhelming majority of the worldwide medical and scientific communities.
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