Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 10:16     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I work in health policy, and today’s hearing was gutting. I’m obviously up to date on the news at HHS given my job, but today’s hearing was something else- RFKs gaslighting, lies, misinformation, the fighting. I’m feeling really down and out, like my life’s work is not just meaningless, but it’s only getting worse and we can see it getting worse. I worry about my kids and the world they’re growing up in. A world where we look back and think, wow everyone used to get vaccines? I need a pick me up to help me start a fresh day tomorrow. Help?!


You sound on the verge of a nervous breakdown OP. Perhaps check in to a facility for some time away from media and news. They are bad for your mental health.


On top of that, I would suggest taking some time away from this board. Disconnect from the Internet and get back in touch with the non-digital world. Exercise also does wonders for your mind.


No OP is right, you are an idiot.
RFK Jr is horrifying, and his actions during these hearings are insane. He probably has COVID and is a super spreader. He looks sick. He's a heroin addict in charge of the country's health. He destroyed his first wife, he is a subhuman idiot with zero qualifications and he's a liar every day all day.


Sounds like you have a personal problem with him that is completely irrelevant to the issue of helping OP mitigate his/her feelings.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 07:25     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
It looks like this is the reliable source of info now:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-integrity-project/immunization-info

Along with AAP and ACOG, the Western Coalition and the Northeastern one.

Thank you to those working at NIH and the CDC until now. Know that many of us in the lay public in this country and around the world revered your institution and your guidance.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 19:39     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I work in health policy, and today’s hearing was gutting. I’m obviously up to date on the news at HHS given my job, but today’s hearing was something else- RFKs gaslighting, lies, misinformation, the fighting. I’m feeling really down and out, like my life’s work is not just meaningless, but it’s only getting worse and we can see it getting worse. I worry about my kids and the world they’re growing up in. A world where we look back and think, wow everyone used to get vaccines? I need a pick me up to help me start a fresh day tomorrow. Help?!


You sound on the verge of a nervous breakdown OP. Perhaps check in to a facility for some time away from media and news. They are bad for your mental health.


On top of that, I would suggest taking some time away from this board. Disconnect from the Internet and get back in touch with the non-digital world. Exercise also does wonders for your mind.


No OP is right, you are an idiot.
RFK Jr is horrifying, and his actions during these hearings are insane. He probably has COVID and is a super spreader. He looks sick. He's a heroin addict in charge of the country's health. He destroyed his first wife, he is a subhuman idiot with zero qualifications and he's a liar every day all day.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 19:36     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I work in health policy, and today’s hearing was gutting. I’m obviously up to date on the news at HHS given my job, but today’s hearing was something else- RFKs gaslighting, lies, misinformation, the fighting. I’m feeling really down and out, like my life’s work is not just meaningless, but it’s only getting worse and we can see it getting worse. I worry about my kids and the world they’re growing up in. A world where we look back and think, wow everyone used to get vaccines? I need a pick me up to help me start a fresh day tomorrow. Help?!


You sound on the verge of a nervous breakdown OP. Perhaps check in to a facility for some time away from media and news. They are bad for your mental health.


On top of that, I would suggest taking some time away from this board. Disconnect from the Internet and get back in touch with the non-digital world. Exercise also does wonders for your mind.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 19:19     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:I work in health policy, and today’s hearing was gutting. I’m obviously up to date on the news at HHS given my job, but today’s hearing was something else- RFKs gaslighting, lies, misinformation, the fighting. I’m feeling really down and out, like my life’s work is not just meaningless, but it’s only getting worse and we can see it getting worse. I worry about my kids and the world they’re growing up in. A world where we look back and think, wow everyone used to get vaccines? I need a pick me up to help me start a fresh day tomorrow. Help?!


You sound on the verge of a nervous breakdown OP. Perhaps check in to a facility for some time away from media and news. They are bad for your mental health.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 18:27     Subject: Re:Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
I woke in health policy as well and I feel the same way.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 18:11     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:Well I don't trust CDC or FDA or any government science agency now.


Of course not.

The Trump administration wants his subjects dead and or suffering.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 18:07     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Well I don't trust CDC or FDA or any government science agency now.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 14:52     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:hang in there – the country will survive this, and things will change under a new administration, Democratic or Republican.


Not Republican. The last nine months have proved that.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 14:49     Subject: Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Take heart in the coalitions being formed! The western us coalition and the new 8 state one in northeast. Listen to the Osterholm update at CIDRAP. We need you right now! This trump rfk jr stuff is temporary.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 14:47     Subject: Re:Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You are full of self pity right now. For a very long time - maybe forever - your field has shown an upward trajectory. Until now. Now there's a blip in the road called RFK. And your reaction is to be defeated. Take a look at how other groups have handled adversity. Has the pro choice movement given up? Has the LGBTQIA movement given up? Did the women's rights groups give up when they got arrested for pushing for the right to vote? No. They got up and continued the fight. They developed a new strategy. They banded together with different groups. Now it's your turn. You need to reframe your role and move forward. The world for your children will be what you make it. And, if you decide to give up then you need to own your role in what the world becomes.


Please remove the chip from your shoulder and the stick from your posterior. Public health and science in general has "faced adversity" at least since Copernicus and Galileo, science that overturns peoples wrong cherished beliefs is almost never appreciated in its own time, and if you think that the "blip in the road called RFK" is the first problem public health professionals have encountered in the field's supposedly relentless upward trajectory of acceptance you have clearly been in a coma since at least 2020.


RFK Jr is not a "bllp" he is staying til he kills millions of Americans.

He's a dam liar and unqualified hack. He is an addict for god's sake. Nothing he says is true and children will die and suffer needlessly because of Republicans this is not a "blip"
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 14:45     Subject: Re:Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:You are full of self pity right now. For a very long time - maybe forever - your field has shown an upward trajectory. Until now. Now there's a blip in the road called RFK. And your reaction is to be defeated. Take a look at how other groups have handled adversity. Has the pro choice movement given up? Has the LGBTQIA movement given up? Did the women's rights groups give up when they got arrested for pushing for the right to vote? No. They got up and continued the fight. They developed a new strategy. They banded together with different groups. Now it's your turn. You need to reframe your role and move forward. The world for your children will be what you make it. And, if you decide to give up then you need to own your role in what the world becomes.


Absolutely BS.

RFK Jr is going to kill people many people what do you not understand about that?
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 14:40     Subject: Re:Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:You are full of self pity right now. For a very long time - maybe forever - your field has shown an upward trajectory. Until now. Now there's a blip in the road called RFK. And your reaction is to be defeated. Take a look at how other groups have handled adversity. Has the pro choice movement given up? Has the LGBTQIA movement given up? Did the women's rights groups give up when they got arrested for pushing for the right to vote? No. They got up and continued the fight. They developed a new strategy. They banded together with different groups. Now it's your turn. You need to reframe your role and move forward. The world for your children will be what you make it. And, if you decide to give up then you need to own your role in what the world becomes.


A blip? There's a lot of people in the US that believe the Earth is flat.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 13:43     Subject: Re:Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
Anonymous wrote:You are full of self pity right now. For a very long time - maybe forever - your field has shown an upward trajectory. Until now. Now there's a blip in the road called RFK. And your reaction is to be defeated. Take a look at how other groups have handled adversity. Has the pro choice movement given up? Has the LGBTQIA movement given up? Did the women's rights groups give up when they got arrested for pushing for the right to vote? No. They got up and continued the fight. They developed a new strategy. They banded together with different groups. Now it's your turn. You need to reframe your role and move forward. The world for your children will be what you make it. And, if you decide to give up then you need to own your role in what the world becomes.


Please remove the chip from your shoulder and the stick from your posterior. Public health and science in general has "faced adversity" at least since Copernicus and Galileo, science that overturns peoples wrong cherished beliefs is almost never appreciated in its own time, and if you think that the "blip in the road called RFK" is the first problem public health professionals have encountered in the field's supposedly relentless upward trajectory of acceptance you have clearly been in a coma since at least 2020.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 11:35     Subject: Re:Need positive thoughts - public health under RFK
You are full of self pity right now. For a very long time - maybe forever - your field has shown an upward trajectory. Until now. Now there's a blip in the road called RFK. And your reaction is to be defeated. Take a look at how other groups have handled adversity. Has the pro choice movement given up? Has the LGBTQIA movement given up? Did the women's rights groups give up when they got arrested for pushing for the right to vote? No. They got up and continued the fight. They developed a new strategy. They banded together with different groups. Now it's your turn. You need to reframe your role and move forward. The world for your children will be what you make it. And, if you decide to give up then you need to own your role in what the world becomes.