We need a shadow government to scrutinize everything that happens at HHS.
Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized.
Other countries do this where the party out of power acts as an oppositional check — it’s not like this is a novel idea. And I think it’s absolutely necessary.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said at his town hall that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC is fine because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
GOP congressman faces criticism and several boos at Georgia town hall By Shania Shelton, CNN Updated 10:18 AM EST, Fri February 21, 2025 “I’m in close contact with the CDC. They have about what, 13,000 employees, 13,000 employees at the CDC. In the last couple years, those probationary people, which is about 10% of their employee base, about 1,300 people, which you’re referring to. A lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI,” McCormick said. The mention of AI led to “no’s” and murmurs from the crowd, leading the Republican representative to say, “I happen to be a doctor. I know a few things.”
It's pretty shocking that a doctor would ever suggest that the health of humans, and decisions on public health, should ever be trusted to faulty AI chatbots that tend to put out incorrect information and according to actual healthcare workers it can be incredibly dangerous for patients, and also for healthcare workers! And I think AI chatbots should NOT be doing the people's business at all – that should be done by people!
Apparently Rich Mccormick also came out as pro-child labor at his town hall. That Brownstone Institute guy was found to be in favour of child labor. Odd how these things go together, isn't it. Trump’s pick for running NIH is Jay Bhattacharya, and he’s had association with Brownstone Institute too. And he’s posted things on social media that sure sound like he’s interested in social engineering with regards to public health and people having health related social support groups.
They are already having AI LLMs and chatbots make decisions in government, even though that should never happen because AI chatbots are notorious for producing dangerous health misinformation.
I believe we are at very serious risk, of having who knows what active eugenics programs implemented because RFKJr is a deranged dynastic elite with a reported history of doing offensive things with animals, dead and alive, for starters. This is not a normal person running healthcare at the federal level. He asserts pseudoscience, inaccurate information even about food — (no, he’s not ok on food either, that’s a claim the media uses to both-sides this guy because they’re grasping for anything positive, especially probably because he’s a Kennedy).
Up until now the eugenics pushed into policies regarding the pandemic and especially for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, have been mainly more along the lines of sort of passive eugenics. People in positions of leadership or power choosing not to really help the vulnerable or make things accessible to the high risk That's been bad enough. But I think influential people want more than that. And now they think they can outsource those decisions to AI perhaps in an attempt to not be held accountable for the results they actually want. I believe the people running government agencies are willing, or possibly even might be eager in some cases, to implement such eugenics programs that would have been unthinkable to Americans a few months ago, but may quickly become horrendous level normalized harm.
HHS and every agency within needs oversight by people who have the expertise and resources to monitor the situation.