NYT on RFK jr (also can be headlined, "we're totally fucked"): Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfol

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/ebola-vaccines-kennedy-health-department.html

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Sheryl Gay Stolberg covers Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement.
June 7, 2026

Shortly after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in Africa a public health emergency, a reporter asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he was worried about the virus. Six Americans had already been exposed. His response was brief: “Yeah, we’re working on it.”

In the nearly three weeks since, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed travel restrictions to keep the virus from coming to the United States, Mr. Kennedy has made no public comments about the spreading outbreak. He has received very few briefings about the virus from C.D.C. scientists, although he speaks daily to the acting director, according to people familiar with his response.

Mr. Kennedy’s approach to the crisis reflects his broader management of the Department of Health and Human Services, which affects the health of 340 million Americans and provides health care to 40 percent of the population through Medicare and Medicaid.

Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, they say, he is single-mindedly focused on his top priorities, including food recommendations and pesticide exposures, and hunting for evidence to support his long-held beliefs that vaccines are harmful

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1. Totally unqualified for the job, what would a briefing do?

It would be like me trying to explain the double slit quantum paradox to a toddler.

Briefings to mango Mussolini are just as useless although it appears that some of the sides know how to stroke his ego enough to get him to sign off on crap between naps.