As usual, you're spot-on. Casey Means as Surgeon General would be a national health embarrassment. As with RFK Jr, both do not know how much they do not know. Their health and nutrition literacy are extremely poor -- more evidence of their lack of qualification for his post and her nomination. But in this administration, the ONLY qualification is that you be on board with whatever the HHS Secretary and DJT are promoting. And your willingness to submit to a polygraph and sign an NDA. Frankly, ANYONE willing to do all three should be automatically disqualified.
I would go a step further... experience is not only optional, it is a mark against you. RFK has no experience and in fact one might argue based on his rhetoric that he is unqualified. Means certainly has no experience and i would argue unqualified. Both work in a direction diametrically opposed to what the department is supposed to do. look no further than one of the biggest departments and budgets placed in the hands of a cameo Fox news host, no military experience, no budget, no experience in national defense or strategy.... now we can turn to homeland security where we replace the dog killer with a person who's qualifications were listed by the president as a good maga supporter and a MMA fighter... this is the hallmark of authoritarians... get rid of outside experts... the authoritarian becomes the expert... use Clorox, dewormer medications, and light to kill covid.. use nuclear weapons to break up hurricanes.. you cannot make this stuff up... we are putting the health of millions at risk with RFK and Means, putting the health of millions at risk by pulling out restrictions on air pollution, water pollution, mercury, glyphosate etc etc etc... i grow angrier by the day at the people who were so stupid to vote for trump, the people who did not vote for Harris (or even my cat for that matter) to try to prove some point, and those that stayed home and sat on their hands...
From the President on down, we have replaced intelligence and competency with a level of idiocy that continues to place us in harms way. The nomination of Casey Means is just another horrifying example. In any branch of health care, a degree does not qualify you to do anything. Nothing! I’m a mental health provider. In addition to a minimum of a Master’s degree, you must complete a clinical internship, followed by 3000 supervised delivery hours before you are eligible for licensure. Medicine is even more rigorous. The fact that we are giving credence to people who haven’t completed their training - let alone having practiced, which is how we gain knowledge and expertise - is alarming. And don’t get me started on people who are licensed in one area, then take a detour, marketing themselves as an expert in an entirely different area for the sake of making gobs of money. (Health/wellness and longevity seem to be the areas that are most popular for charlatans.)
As usual, you're spot-on. Casey Means as Surgeon General would be a national health embarrassment. As with RFK Jr, both do not know how much they do not know. Their health and nutrition literacy are extremely poor -- more evidence of their lack of qualification for his post and her nomination. But in this administration, the ONLY qualification is that you be on board with whatever the HHS Secretary and DJT are promoting. And your willingness to submit to a polygraph and sign an NDA. Frankly, ANYONE willing to do all three should be automatically disqualified.
I would go a step further... experience is not only optional, it is a mark against you. RFK has no experience and in fact one might argue based on his rhetoric that he is unqualified. Means certainly has no experience and i would argue unqualified. Both work in a direction diametrically opposed to what the department is supposed to do. look no further than one of the biggest departments and budgets placed in the hands of a cameo Fox news host, no military experience, no budget, no experience in national defense or strategy.... now we can turn to homeland security where we replace the dog killer with a person who's qualifications were listed by the president as a good maga supporter and a MMA fighter... this is the hallmark of authoritarians... get rid of outside experts... the authoritarian becomes the expert... use Clorox, dewormer medications, and light to kill covid.. use nuclear weapons to break up hurricanes.. you cannot make this stuff up... we are putting the health of millions at risk with RFK and Means, putting the health of millions at risk by pulling out restrictions on air pollution, water pollution, mercury, glyphosate etc etc etc... i grow angrier by the day at the people who were so stupid to vote for trump, the people who did not vote for Harris (or even my cat for that matter) to try to prove some point, and those that stayed home and sat on their hands...
From the President on down, we have replaced intelligence and competency with a level of idiocy that continues to place us in harms way. The nomination of Casey Means is just another horrifying example. In any branch of health care, a degree does not qualify you to do anything. Nothing! I’m a mental health provider. In addition to a minimum of a Master’s degree, you must complete a clinical internship, followed by 3000 supervised delivery hours before you are eligible for licensure. Medicine is even more rigorous. The fact that we are giving credence to people who haven’t completed their training - let alone having practiced, which is how we gain knowledge and expertise - is alarming. And don’t get me started on people who are licensed in one area, then take a detour, marketing themselves as an expert in an entirely different area for the sake of making gobs of money. (Health/wellness and longevity seem to be the areas that are most popular for charlatans.)