Summary
RFK Jr. is using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States.
The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records from government and commercial databases, including “prescription records from pharmacies, lab testing, and genomics records from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, private insurance claims, and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers.”
Kennedy, a longtime critic of vaccination, has made the study of autism one of HHS’s primary goals. He has called autism “preventable” and claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”
My whole family is AuDHD. We’re potentially vulnerable here, but I don’t think that’s where RFK is headed with this. I don’t think he’s planning anything good, but I don’t think extermination is on the menu. I’m still trying to suss out the wellness camp narrative, it doesn’t sound great, but what we know is little and there’s a lot of hype about it.
Trump is already murdering people by sending them to El Salvador. He and his backers want everyone they dislike to die.
I know. You don’t have to convince me that they’re evil Nazi bastards. What I’m trying to be cognizant of is the Bannon strategy of flooding the zone with bullshit.
On one hand, I get this
On the other hand, people have been playing this game ever since Trump was first elected and everyone keeps being shown to be right about them as they go down Hitlers playbook.
One of the groups that got rounded up were people who had things such as autism.
The people who think less of those with autism and who think it destroys people and their families are now creating a database of all autistic people
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Yeah, I agree with that. I’m just trying to keep my head in a post truth world, and I know that there’s a dual incentive to spread misinformation and hype; first on the part of the administration to “flood the zone will bullshit” and paralyze the opposition; second on the part of the media to generate more clicks and get more ads and subscriptions in front of people.