Advocates for pregnant people said they are alarmed by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s unprecedented and unilateral decision to remove Covid-19 booster shots from the recommended immunization schedule.
WOMEN. Women women women. Pregnant women. No men get pregnant. “Women” is not a dirty word: use it. Erasing women is peak misogyny.
A vaccine’s inclusion on the schedule is important for patient access, because many private health insurance plans determine which vaccines to cover based on the schedule.
Bad Kennedy is happy to endanger pregnant women for the sake of his crank suspicions.
“Kennedy’s unilateral decision to change the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule for Covid-19 vaccines demonstrates once again why he is completely unqualified to be the HHS secretary,” said Dr Robert Steinbrook, research director at consumer rights group Public Citizen, said in a statement. “In Congressional testimony on May 14, Kennedy said, ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.’ Yet two weeks later he is making arbitrary public health decisions, defying norms, and with no accountability.”
He’s a very bad man. Egotism that kills is very bad indeed.
Meanwhile the Guardian is adamant about erasing women.
Despite the known risks of contracting Covid-19 while pregnant, public health authorities have struggled to get pregnant people vaccinated. CDC data shows only about 14% of pregnant people received the most recently updated Covid-19 vaccine.
“Women” is not a dirty word.
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‘People’ there I assume includes transpeople. The Groaniad is just trying to be ahead of the times, I’d say. While at the moment men cannot get pregnant, it is likely that researchers somewhere are working on it. Maybe they seek to grow a foetus in a wombless male abdomen and remove it by caesarian section at term. But then again, it would probably be easier and cheaper to just use a surrogate mother; except that that defeats the purpose of the whole project; if getting a man through a pregnancy of his own is the name of the game.
Pity the poor child if they succeed. But then again, Kennedy might go out on the next Covid mutant, or maybe get run over by a truck loaded up with the vaccine for it.
If I did not have a woman
I would not be here tonight
If I did not have a woman
I might not think that I was right
And if you did not have a woman
You might not care the way you dress
If you did not have a woman
You’d not be like the rest
(yeah)
[Chorus]
Woman! is not a dirty word
Woman! is not a dirty word
Woman! is not a dirty word
Don’t you believe what you’ve seen or you’ve heard
To paraphrase the Skyhooks “Ego Is Not A Dirty Word”