Is Bobby Kennedy The "Dr. Semmelweis" of 2024?
Making America Healthy Again
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), a Hungarian physician and scientist working in Vienna General Hospital, is now known as the Father of Hand Hygiene. He is considered the first doctor to discover the importance of hand washing for medical professionals. Semmelweis noticed that women who gave birth aided by physicians & medical students had higher mortality rates than women who gave birth aided by midwives. He concluded that physicians were passing on bacteria or viruses to pregnant women after handling corpses during autopsies. Semmelweis mandated hand washing in his department and found that the number of new mothers dying from what was called childbed fever dropped significantly.^ Pregnant women also noticed and demanded they be assigned to his department. His work is still relevant today, as hand washing is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to prevent the spread of viruses.
COLLEAGUES THREW HIM IN INSANE ASYLUM
Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to handwashing. Some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. They were also jealous that patients wanted to deliver their babies in his department, not in theirs. In 1865 his colleagues threw the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis into an insane asylum. In the asylum, he was beaten by the guards and died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand caused by the beating. [Did he acquire the infection from doctors & nurses who attended his wound with dirty hands?] The Father of Hand Hygiene was only 47 years of age.
TRUMP’S AGENDA 47
On June 6, 2023, Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump added a video to his Agenda 47 website. In part he said:
“Every year, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to treat these chronic problems rather than looking at what is causing them in the first place,” President Trump said. “Too often, our public health establishment is too close to Big Pharma—they make a lot of money, Big Pharma—big corporations, and other special interests, and does not want to ask the tough questions about what is happening to our children’s health.”
TRUMP-KENNEDY: NATURAL PARTNERSHIP
For thirty years, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been studying and sounding the alarm about the increases in chronic diseases which were unheard of three generations ago. Sixty percent of American children have one or more chronic disease. Seventy percent of them could not get into the military because they are physically unfit. Now, Bobby has a powerful partner who is willing to listen, Donald J. Trump. Since 2023, Trump has said: On Day One of his new term, he will assemble a chronic disease taskforce to investigate the causes of these relatively new and widespread health problems.
DEM ESTABLISHMENT RUNNING SCARED
Outspoken Democrats, such as James Carville, are saying that Bobby Kennedy, Jr. should be put in a white restraint jacket and committed, in order to protect society from his “crazy ideas.” If Harris/Walz win, will they have Bobby thrown into an insane asylum?
Back in the 1940s, growing up in South Africa, there weren’t any vaccinations for children, except for smallpox. Government public health nurses visited all schools to vaccinate us on our upper left arm, leaving two scars where the vaccine was scratched into our skin. We (and our parents) suffered and struggled through measles, mumps and whooping cough, along with colds and flu, which were treated with a warm drink of honey and lemon. Cuts were treated with Sulphur ointment. During the polio epidemic we wore a little bag of garlic around our necks. We weren’t without medical or pharmaceutical help. Our family had close friends who were doctors and pharmacists. We had the best available healthcare at the time. When the Salk polio vaccine became available, my brother and I were among the first to get it — a few drops under our tongues. We spent most of our young lives at an elevation of 4,800 feet running around barefoot wearing shorts and getting sunburned. The winters were cold, pipes sometimes froze. There was no central heating, just a coal burning fireplace in each room lit an hour before bed. A hot water bottle was used to warm the sheets. At Dale College, a private boy's boarding school in King Williams Town, we started each day with a cold shower, a school tradition to get you going before breakfast, and ready for class, followed by mandatory school sports — rugby, cricket, tennis, squash, swimming and rowing. You chose your sport and competed against other college teams. Everyone participated. No excuses. One exception. A doctor’s note excusing you from participating — until you were healthy to compete. Our diet was meat, vegetables and fruit. Porridge, eggs, bacon and toast with marmalade started the day. No processed foods. Don't recall anyone being obese. Some 80 years later, age has caught up with us. Unfortunately, many of today’s younger generation have health issues we never dreamed of, which brings me to Bobby Kennedy. In his book, Art of the Deal, Donald Trump reportedly says: “Hire the best available person, but don’t trust them.” Personally, I don’t trust Democrats, but if Bobby Kennedy can discover and reveal the root cause of the many chronic health issues facing America’s children, he will be a hero. However, we must first re-elect President Trump.
Thanks for an interesting analogy!