I’m backing RFK Jr.

In the spring of 2021, I was barred from attending the remainder of my graduate school program at NYU for refusing to take the Covid shots, as hundreds of colleges across the country implemented novel vaccine mandates for students and faculty. I had spent the entire last year of lockdown Zoom school researching coronaviruses and mRNA biotechnology. By the time these drugs were rolled out at “warp speed” without long-term clinical data demonstrating their safety or efficacy, I could find zero compelling evidence that these experimental gene therapies would stop transmission and end Covid-19, the only morally compelling reason to mandate them. What I did find, however, was that young women I knew who took the shots were experiencing extremely dysfunctional menstrual periods and severe illness afterward. That did not inspire confidence, nor did the fact that never in the history of human or veterinary medicine have scientists ever been able to fudge together a successful vaccine against any coronavirus. They just mutate too quickly. My academic background in the history of medicine and public health did not make me hopeful for what was about to transpire with these so-called vaccines. 

By the time I returned to the city to collect my things from NYU, which were dumped out into the street, New York’s restrictions against the “unvaccinated” were in full effect. Thousands of us (including children) were not allowed in restaurants, bars, theaters or museums, and were barred from participating in virtually any public life outside of churches or parks. For months, unknowing super-spreaders carried around freedom papers touting their acceptability as public citizens, armed with a false sense of security from Covid and superiority over the plague rats who carried on a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Countless people lost their jobs, schooling and friends over hesitancy to take a drug that everyone later found out could cause severe uterine bleeding, myocarditis in healthy young adults and children, strokes, fatal blood clots and a host of other health catastrophes.  

It was a horrific time: millions of people are coerced into taking drugs that worked for less than six months. The most disturbing part of this scapegoating campaign was that it was manufactured by the Democratic Party, America’s bastion of progressive and inclusive politics. “Left”-leaning (if you really want to call it that) media tormented dying people in their hospital beds for not getting the shots. NPR ran stories about how the vaccinated were “fed up” by the dangerous Trump supporters killing their neighbors. The Biden administration even promised a winter of “severe illness and death” for those of us who didn’t “do the right thing.” We were censored, fired, threatened, and we will never forget. 

During this nightmare, environmental lawyer and longtime Big Pharma critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one of a tiny handful of public figures speaking out against the insanity of Covid restrictions and mandates. His book The Real Anthony Fauci was a national bestseller even though it was ignored by almost all of the media. Many thought his claims regarding the horrors of pharmaceutical collusion with government were too outlandish to be true, but I had already learned about most of these stories during my undergraduate bioethics seminars. Have people really never looked into the history of what happens when governments use public health as a tool for social control? RFK Jr. certainly has. I will regret being coerced into voting for Biden in 2020 for the rest of my life, but Kennedy’s announcement as opponent to our literal undead, war-mongering president makes me feel pretty great. 

As a lifelong leftist whose only political concerns have been workers’ rights, the ending of all wars, and protection of our environment, I have no difficulty identifying the only acceptable candidate. I have never seen any candidate outside of Kennedy express so clearly our moral obligation to care for the earth. The Democratic Party’s miserable persecution of farmers and the working class’s gas stoves in the name of “climate change” is elitist and only benefits one of their only priorities, to make a heap of money off electric industry stocks.

I could not care less about what The Science says about climate change, I care about the animals and plants and children who have been poisoned by a merciless capitalism that has no spiritual regard for life on this planet. The war-hungry Democrats, with their ruthlessness against China and Russia, railroad unions, Alaskan wilderness and biological women, share this disregard for real life. RFK Jr. is the only candidate with decency, a deeply American disdain for authorities like the CIA, and true concern for the earth and its inhabitants.