RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people

https://lemmy.world/post/28573170

RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people - Lemmy.World

Summary RFK Jr. is using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States. The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records from government and commercial databases, including “prescription records from pharmacies, lab testing, and genomics records from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, private insurance claims, and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers.” Kennedy, a longtime critic of vaccination, has made the study of autism one of HHS’s primary goals. He has called autism “preventable” and claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”

Get ready my fellow autists, for you are the new jews, this time in magastan instead of Germany.
Those seasonal depression Palestinians won’t know what hit ‘em. /s
I don’t think they are the “new” anything… LGBT will be the new jews… I’m pretty sure autistic people will have their same place in the new reich that they did in the old one.
Yeah, being “euthanised”.
The Nazis started with the disabled, trans, gays, and autistic. The Jews came after the political dissidents.
Don’t worry. I’m sure MAGA will start hating Jews soon enough.
Holy shit, do they want to speedrun fascism?
Yes. They laid it out with Project 2025 and a staggering amount of people voted for it.

Pretty sure the staggering amount of people who voted for Trump have never heard of P2025 before the election, as FoxNews pretty much never spoke about it.

Until after the election; foxnews.com/…/heritage-president-project-2025-lib…

Project 2025 disappears from liberal grievances amid Trump's frantic second-term pace

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts spoke to Fox as left-wing banter about Project 2025 seems to have subsided with the rise of DOGE -- led by Elon Musk, not the "do-tank."

Fox News
I don’t buy that. I live on the other side of the planet and I know what project 2025 is and its key action points. It’s not just foreign media that were reporting on it. I also watch some US late night shows, especially when a major event like an election is about to happen. Most late night shows also discussed project 2025 at length.
Yes. There are a lot of ignorant people but I feel they choose to be ignorant.

Ahh of course. Cause feelings about other people is far simpler than attempting understanding.

Don’t let reality get in your way of your desired scapegoats. A strategy much loved in the current year.

And plenty still heard about it and instead of doing an ounce of actual research, they wrote it off as propaganda. Because it was just “too crazy to be true.”
Why do you think they are so concerned about “government efficiency”?
You’re already living under fascism at this point. You just haven’t woken up yet, because they didn’t get to your door. Yet. The sooner you wake up the better.
I don’t live in the US.
They already have
He’s looking for the solution to the autistic people question
Might you call it the final solution?
Next will be ADHD people… and I’m sure they all will be sent with a camp, that will help them focus… a concentration camp if you will.

A camp? Its not like he’s ever suggesting sending people to camps before. Oh wait:

source

See? Its not a camp, its a “wellness farm”. Aren’t you relieved now? /s

Fact Check: Yes, RFK Jr. Proposed 'Wellness Farms' As Solution to Drug Addiction

The former presidential candidate referred to people who use opiates and even psychiatric drugs.

Yahoo News

So while RFK Jr. is dangerously and stubbornly doing some wrong stuff, this at least conceptually wasn’t a horribly dangerous idea, though perhaps uselessly naive.

It was proposed as a voluntary sort of facility that someone could go do if they chose, and from how it was described, ability to leave whenever they felt like too.

Generally speaking, I view RFK Jr as dangerous due to his convictions, naivete, and belief in some gnarly conspiracy thearies, but not intentionally malicious.

A fine ‘ol solution?
A Nazi does what???
A nazi heroin addict
Hey now, to be fair, 99% of heroin addicts aren’t nazis. He’s like this all on his own.
lol good point. I sincerely apologize to all non-nazi heroin addicts.
We accept your apology. /s
#JunkiesAgainstNazis
I haven’t done heroin in 15 years, but MAGA…not even once. It’s important to have standards in life.

I’m glad you’re doing what you want with your own body. Tough to do these days it seems.

I’m saving heroin use for my later years personally. I’m sure I will be in much more pain then. (If I make it that far)

Honestly, I don’t recommend it. The drawbacks are much bigger than the benefits.

If you want a legendary high in your old age that also won’t kill you or make you an asshole, I highly recommend LSD combined with Nitrous Oxide. Turn the brain on with LSD, and turn the body off with laughing gas for 30 seconds at a time to ride in and out of pure creative consciousness. Works pretty well with MDMA too, but that can hit the stomach hard, and could be a bad idea for an older person.

Heroin will just remove all feelings of guilt and remorse for your actions until you subtly shift out of alignment with your own values. It removes all fear, which is what people get addicted to, but then you become a total piece of shit because you will feel no negative impact from being cruel. That’s the secret that I wish I had known going in. Don’t become a nasty tempered old junkie—that is a tired cliche and there are much better highs.

I thought the nazi drug of choice was pervatin (meth)?
I’m sure he’s fine with either. That might go better with whiskey anyways.
OK, how are they getting consent for this from the subjects? I do basic research with tissue from patients and if they change their mind and revoke consent, we are legally obligated to destroy any remaining tissue or data.
Consent is required only if you believe in the law.
Based on recent history, Trump will declare some sort of national health emergency that will allow him to ignore laws and court orders that get in his way.
This must be the final solution to autism
“Fund a cure” — a solution, as it were.

I bet at some point soon he’s gonna suggest the creation of camps for ADHD-havers to help them concentrate better. We can call them “concentration camps”.

Wait… wait no no NO NO N-

Pretty sure he’s already done that.
RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.

RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms” to be “re-parented.” The US used to do this to people with disabilities.

Teen Vogue

The resulting court case, Buck v. Bell, went all the way to the Supreme Court, where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who wrote for the majority, declared in reference to Carrie, her birth mother, and Carrie’s daughter that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” In the end, Carrie Buck was sterilized against her will. Buck v. Bell was never overturned, and 31 states still allow the forced sterilization of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center.

Land of the free. Yeah, right.

Yet we have an imbecile in the White House
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"

The farms will "reparent" them.

Mother Jones
Yep, I remember seeing that a while ago. That’s what I was referencing.
This is fucking terrifying. How is this not a HIPPA violation?

Because it’s called HIPAA, not HIPPA. The second P is the one that stands for privacy.

Fifty years ago, doctors would protect their patients by accidentally losing certain files if they didn’t think the authorities had a good reason for seeing them. Under HIPAA, they’re required to keep and maintain good records in case the government subpoenas them.

For those trying to keep the spelling straight, it helps me to think the last two letters stand for “Accountability Act” meaning it can never be spelled “HIPPA” as there is only one “a”.
HIPAA died with Roe v. Wade.

What’s crazy is that it’s perfect. Getting rid of autistic people is exactly the intellectual purging that fascists want when they get into power.

I know not every autistic person is “an intellectual” but many transgressive artists and radical leftist college professors are autistic.

claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”

Is it camping? Oh boy do I hope it’s camping!

It’s brainworm infested bear meat.
And just last week he spent time dehumanizing autistic people boldly saying that they’ll never have a good life and they’ll never pay taxes (let’s really emphasis on that part). They are a monolith of “useless eaters” regardless if they are “productive” members of society (have jobs) to shit stains like RFK Jr. Like others have stated this isn’t going to stop. Anyone who dares to reach out to therapists and take Rx meds to help them normalize brain chemistry is next (Wellness Farms!)

A couple things I would like to highlight for the unfamiliar, and I’ll preface this by saying that I am autistic myself.

First, autism is not something for which there are any clear medical indicators, no blood tests or brain scans or anything of the sort are involved in diagnosis. It’s entirely subjective and observational, something that states entrust people who are ostensibly professionals to determine.

I point this out because I want people to understand that there is absolutely nothing stopping the present administration from hiring people (or using AI) to simply diagnose undesirables with autism through whatever criteria they decide to deem fit.

This might sound absurd, but we’re seeing people with nothing but tattoos being transformed into “criminals”, “gang members”, and “terrorists” by similar logic.

Second, Asperger was a Nazi, and the child euthanasia program was one of the main projects which experimented with the tools and machinery of mass murder that would later be used in extermination camps. Zyklon B was tested on autistic children and other “diseased offspring” long before it was ever used in the gas chambers.

How long do you think it will take before they are using AI to comb through the social media and medical records of teens looking for any indications of anything they don’t like, and flagging them as potentially autistic? September has been RFK’s set date since he first started talking about it, and people have been puzzling about that from the beginning. September is the start of the school year.