I got COVID and can’t smell. But RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies still stink

For five years, I dodged each ball.

I don’t know how I managed to beat Covid-19 for so long, even if family, friends and colleagues were struck with the coronavirus. Although I have taken precautions from the start, with masking and vaccinations, I was also a lot in public for work and travel.

But my luck was ultimately exhausted, and it was to be the trip by plane that made me. I came back from a cross-country trip with a razor blade sore and tenacious headache, followed by pain and pain.

The first test was positive.

I thought it had to be false, given my history of super-immunity.

The second test was even more positive.

So I was quarantined in a corner of the house, alternately reaching the tylenol and the thermometer. Everything is a little vague, which makes it difficult to distinguish between reality and imagination.

For example, how can it be true that, just as I become cocvid for the first time, the news is suddenly dominated by stories linked to making?

It must be a hallucination induced by fever. There is no other way to explain why Covid is increasing again with another Bugger of a tension, the best tool against the virus – the vaccine – is in storm by the leaders of the nation.

They make it more difficult, rather than easier, to recommend drugs by the overwhelming majority of the legitimate wing and not crackpot of the medical community.

As part of new vaccination policies, prices are increasing. The authorization of doctors is necessary. Depending on your age or your original state, you may be lucky.

Meanwhile, President Trump A licensed Susan Monarez, The head of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mainly to put his own professional integrity and his commitment to the public service above Crackpot directives from a cabal of vaccine skeptics.

And following the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cancellation of $ 500 million in research on mRNA vaccinesTrump requires pharmaceutical companies proof of show that vaccines work.

My eyes are red and burning, but can it be fully coded to blame?

I got a booster before my trips, even if I knew it might not resist the new tension of COVID. It is possible that I have a softer case that I could not have had without the vaccine. But on this question and many others, when new waves keep coming to us, wouldn’t the intelligent decision be more research rather than less?

Trump minimized the virus during his first appearance in 2019 and 2020. Then he blamed it in China. He resisted the masking, and the lemmings by thousands of people fell ill and died. Then he became covid himself. At one point, he recommended that people get the vaccine.

Now he puts the brakes?

My headache comes back, my eyes still burn, and unless my tylenol is prevented from LSD, I think I I just saw a clip in which Kennedy and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth tried 50 pull -ups and 100 pumps in 10 minutes.

I appreciate health and fitness, and because Kennedy and I are the same age – 71 years old – it’s impressive to see it in the gymnasium.

But there is something to say about the Kennedy-Hegseth training band:

They cheat.

Take a look at yourself and do not be fooled by the tight t-shirts carried by these two kings back.

They were not full chin or pumps.

Not even near.

Cutting the corners is the bad message to send to children in the country or to any age group. And how will someone go to the gymnasium if he goes down with Covid because they couldn’t get vaccinated?

Honestly, everything must be a fever dream that I have, because in the middle of training, said Kennedy, and I quote: “It was President Trump who inspired us to do so.”

It is a lot of things, President Trump. The role model in fitness is not one of them, regardless of the number of times it explodes sand traps at business time.

Returning to cut the corners, Kennedy declared in the search for research on mRNA that “We studied science“, With a press link to a 181 -page document allegedly supporting its assertion that vaccines” do not protect themselves effectively “.

This document was eviscerated by hordes of scientists who were dismayed by the distortions and erroneous errors of Kennedy.

“It is either an astounding incompetence, or a false deliberate declaration,” said Jake Scott, doctor of the infectious division and professor of the University of Stanford, write the media company Stat. “Kennedy uses evidence that refutes his own position to justify the dismantling of the tools we desperately need when the next pandemic will arrive.”

I lost my smell a few days ago, but even I can tell you that it stinks.

Steve.lopez@latimes.com