The new pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, doesn’t have an active medical license. But she does have ‘impeccable MAHA credentials’
Honestly, the author of this article, Arwa Mahdawi, is hands down the worst columnist at the Guardian.
She’s an internet reporter who thinks she’s reporting news when she’s just regurgitating the most surface level takes from bluesky and reddit.
She also makes money from dietary supplements that she promotes on social media and has co-authored a book with her brother that claims “almost every chronic health symptom that Western medicine addresses is the result of our cells being beleaguered by how we’ve come to live”.
I think that last sentence actually does have some value, if one isnt just saying it to hock dietary supplements.
Its hard to argue against it though if you consider all the issues with highly processed foods, nutrition deficiencies, the fact that we are meant to move far more than we usually do on a daily basis, microplastics, screen time, etc. I mean hell even eating 3 square meals a day is pretty unnatural from your body’s perspective. Kids being put on ADD medication just for normal child behavior instead of any severe issues. Theres a million examples of how our lives are deeply disconnected from the way that our bodies developed over hundreds of thousands of years
I dont think the point should be used to sell shit so much as it should be used to get people to reconsider their lifestyles. And it especially shouldnt be used to argue that modern medicine is entirely useless or that correcting any of those kinds of things can cure everything that is wrong with anyone. Obviously there are all kinds of heath issues that arent derived from some externality. That said, I think its fair to say we are all round pegs trying to fit the square hole of modern life to some extent; which reframes many health issues people can have as logical results of that situation, instead of just as an isolated problem
Well obviously, she and Rat Fucker Kennedy would make quite a pairing.
While we will all be unhealthier (if not deader), the poorest among us are being forced into also being the unhealthiest among us.
🤡 🖕
RFK Jr + Dr Oz + this nutbag.
Truly, the adults are in charge now.
Kids would work FAR better in deciding right from wrong than these people. They’re actively evil.
actually waiting for that shoe to drop… Oz was announced way early on, but to my knowledge hasn’t started the confirmation hearings right?
MAHA is Make America Healthly Again…
I assumed that was some acronym for job in the health care industry like someone in health insurance like a benefits manager. No it’s just complete fucking bullshit.
I don’t believe in God, but if there is a God, she isn’t testing us. She is mocking us.
I just hear Nelson from the Simpsons doing his obnoxious laugh, anytime I read or hear ‘MAHA’.
Ok, so…
The surgeon general is going to be ‘We have crunchy-mom brand Julianne Moore from Children of Men at home’.
Got it.
Sure yep, ok, makes sense, thematic continuity, sure.
Finally I see something that calls out the total hypocrisy of this regime. They claim merit hires and then literally only wtf hires. The wtf as we all know is blind moronic loyalty or blackmail loyalty.
Finally???
Yah! At least the content I consume. I’ve been yelling this to myself. Granted I don’t go on many major channels Els. Cheers matey.
I can’t wait until we’re adjusting our humors, blood letting, and institutionalizing women for hysteria… or really anything that exhibits individuality.
Trepanning, labitomies and leeches for all!
And no doubt a return of phrenology.
Once Kennedy was in at HHS, the lobotomies were sure to follow.
Don’t forget the quicksilver (mercury) underwater and creams!
