Fascinating. I gather there is still a bit of debate on the topic but it sounds like a great theory. Thanks! I love learning new things.

Now branded as “Make America Healthy Again!,” Mr. Kennedy’s health freedom movement is preoccupied with instances where the government is supposedly colluding with industry to make people sick. The prevalence of chronic disease, America’s declining life expectancy, vaccine mandates: These are all, in Mr. Kennedy’s view, not just public health conundrums but also elite conspiracies.

This reminds me of how people during the Black Plague in Europe used to kill cats because they thought that the plague was caused by witches and cats were associated with witches. They probable made things worse because the cats, had they not been killed, would have been killing rodents that carried the fleas that transmitted the plague to people. Likewise, getting rid of vaccine mandates is sure to increase chronic disease and reduce life expectancy.

Rescheduling is a lot more complicated than that. The president can not just wave a wand and make it legal. Congress could pass a law doing so, but they are not going to do that. The other way is via the Controlled Substances Act which is, to put it mildly, is a cluster fuck.

In a nutshell, administrative rescheduling begins when an actor—the Secretary of Health and Human Services or an outside interested party—files a petition with the Attorney General or he initiates the process himself. The Attorney General forwards the request to the HHS Secretary asking for a scientific and medical evaluation and recommendation, as specified by 23 USC 811(b-c). HHS, via the Food and Drug Administration conducts an assessment and returns a recommendation to the Attorney General “in a timely manner.” The Attorney General, often through the Drug Enforcement Administration, conducts its own concurrent and independent review of the evidence in order to determine whether a drug should be scheduled, rescheduled, or removed from control entirely—depending on the initial request in the petition.

If the Attorney General finds sufficient evidence that a change in scheduling is warranted he then initiates the first stages of a standard rulemaking process, consistent with the Administrative Procedures Act. During rulemaking and consistent with Executive Order 12866, if the White House—through the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of information and Regulatory Affairs—determines the rule to be “significant,” it will conduct a regulatory review of the proposed rule—a very likely outcome given the criteria in the EO.

FYI, Biden already initiated this process to reschedule marijuana in 2022. At this point, it has been reviewed and the Attorney General has submitted a rule change to the DEA. They will have a public comment period which they will no doubt drag out as long as possible. If approved, marijuana will be reclassified at the same level as steroids (schedule III). It is disappointing that Biden only requested changing the schedule rather than descheduling it all together. Not ideal, but a hell of a lot better than now.

Anger, fear, and hate are the language his followers speak. They wouldn’t follow The Dude, they’d follow Walter, just exchange golf for bowling and put him in a diaper.

I haven’t looked lately, but the posts/comments come more frequently than that because they come in 16 hour spurts. The last time I looked anyway, the user made a point of taking an ~8 hour break our of every 24. After all a single human poster could not post around the clock for two months straight, mods would ban the account.

He said he was hoping to be able to stick around long enough to vote for Kamala.

It’s not that they have nothing better to do. The cruelty is the point. They ruin lives because they like to ruin lives. It makes them feel powerful.

Have you considered listening to the pretty extensive explanations they’ve given in this comments section as to why?

I was just entertaining a notion as I lack the skills to do an analysis like you did.

As for reading the other comments here, I have read them now, and they are interesting, but when I first commented, there were no other comments here and the post stood at -3.

The same people who are downvoting you, I guess. I’m not really sure what the objection is but they are very consistent. I’ve actually wondered if someone set up some bots to downvote all the MBFC bot posts for some reason.

If a car seat is keeping him from knocking up his wife then he is doing something very, very wrong. From what I’ve heard about this guy and furniture though, I can’t say I’m really surprised.

HIPAA covers what information health care professionals can provide. It does not cover what your boss or anyone else can ask you. Some states have their own laws. In California, for example, you would be correct, but that is a state law, not HIPAA.

Requests from your employer

Your employer can ask you for a doctor’s note or other health information if they need the information for sick leave, workers’ compensation, wellness programs, or health insurance.

However, if your employer asks your health care provider directly for information about you, your provider cannot give your employer the information without your authorization unless other laws require them to do so.

Generally, the Privacy Rule applies to the disclosures made by your health care provider, not the questions your employer may ask.

What your employer can do if you refuse to answer or lie to them, I have no idea.

I thought that at first too. Then I realized that it wasn’t a rhetorical device and that they literally meant that they want to reduce Palestinian suffering.

Absolutely. If you’re this guy do you really want a fair trial?

More voters is always bad for Republicans.

If you aren’t going to call them out for blatant lies like this, then you can expect them to lie every time it would be to their advantage. Why on Earth would you give them a pass on this? I’m tired of this kind of lie being considered normal. This should not be considered normal.

Silly billies. Don’t they know that the law doesn’t apply to rich people?

To be fair, in this case it’s election fraud, but your question is no less valid because of it.

Here is a list of 1,126 Republican Sexual Predators (and counting). I’m afraid that the list does not break them out by age of the victim. Not all of them assaulted children, though a good percentage of them did.

Now, please be so kind as to provide a list of Democratic abusers so that I can compare them.

Yeah! What about pet murder? What are the stats on pet murder?!

Yep.

After dropping off the plastic bags with trackers in bins specifically labeled for plastic bag recycling at Walmart and Target locations, ABC News and its collaborating stations monitored each tracker’s location multiple times a day for months. The trackers pinged whenever they were near a compatible digital or mobile device.

The trackers were super glued and wrapped inside multiple layers of clean plastic bags. ABC News checked every location the trackers pinged from on their journey and determined that they likely did not encounter plastic bag sorting en route that could have potentially separated a tracker from a bag.

One of the first trackers to move was one deployed at a Target store in Kingston, New York, in December 2022. It showed up about a week later deep inside the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Waterloo, New York — as we deployed additional trackers over the next couple months, many other trackers also made their way to landfills.

Fast forward to May 2023, and half the trackers launched last pinged at landfills or trash incinerators; seven stopped pinging at transfer stations that do not recycle or sort plastic bags, and six last pinged at the store where they were dropped off and haven’t been heard from in months, while the locations of three other trackers in the U.S. were inconclusive.

Three other trackers last pinged thousands of miles overseas – in Asia.

It’s all a scam to keep people using plastics. Plastics which are now in out bodies, including our hearts , livers, testicles, placenta, and even our brains.

And this isn’t just in one person, or a few people. It was found in every human placenta tested in the study linked above. Every single one. And remember this isn’t only people. If this plastic debris ends up having a negative effect on reproduction, it will impact every single mammal on the planet including us.