RFK Junior Is Going To Die Someday
He can't accept that, so we'll all die sooner
(I’m Henry Snow, and you’re reading Another Way.)
RFK Jr. and many of his ordinary, everyday “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) sympathizers– you know people like this, even if you don’t think you do– tell themselves death is something that happens to sick people. Health is a trait you can cultivate by eating right and living right. To quote Kennedy himself speaking in West Virginia earlier this spring: “according to CDC, the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. . . healthy kids were not dying. Healthy Americans were not dying of COVID.”
Which is why he’s decided we don’t need vaccines. Earlier this week, Kennedy announced that the federal government will no longer recommend vaccination for “healthy” children and pregnant people. This means insurance won’t pay for them. This will kill children, because healthy kids have died, and will continue to die, of COVID. This will kill parents too. And it will kill Americans in general, because vaccines work best when we use them to achieve immune resistance in the population broadly.
Robert F. Kennedy Junior cannot believe vaccines work. Today we’ll talk about why: he thinks the world is a game to be won, he refuses to accept that he will die, and the structure of his denial has a deep intellectual heritage in economics as well as eugenics.
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Arguably the original “social Darwinist,” Herbert Spencer believed in– as longtime readers will know!— Lamarckian rather than Darwinian evolution. I didn’t linger on that in my earlier Spencer series, but it’s worth going into now. Lamarck believed that characteristics acquired during life could be inherited biologically. If I become good at swimming, then have children, my children will be better adapted to swimming because of this.