The Bernhard Perspective
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) was one of Donald T****’s stellar additions to his cabinet. And one of his most controversial. Known for his lack any medical background or training, for his anti-vaccine beliefs and for his espousing of controversial and conspiratorial ideologies, there was much trepidation among science, research and health systems professionals as Kennedy assumed office.
And there was good reason. The Mission Statement of HHS, which is found on its own and other government websites, says the Department’s mission is “to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.” Kennedy’s first acts constituted clear acts of betrayal of that mission.
Consider these actions taken in his first seven months.
He fired thousands of federal health care workers, severely weakening programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more. He cancelled virtually all investments in promising medical research. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals whose only requirements were they share his unscientific views.
He announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs such as Gavi that protect millions of children and keeps Americans safe. And he advocated for federal legislation that will cause millions of people to lose their Medicaid coverage.
He has also cancelled ongoing projects addressing maternal health, LGBTQ+ health, racial and ethnic minority health, autism, cancer, substance abuse and diabetes in underserved communities. His response to the largest measles outbreak in the United Sates in a generation was to focused on unproven treatments while downplaying vaccines.
Kennedy’s alignment with the anti-vax movement has left the populace vulnerable for contracting inflictions such as polio, measles, rubella, hepatitis B, tetanus and more, many of which had been virtually eliminated.
And finally, Kennedy has fundamentally altered the COVID mandates, dropping them for all but the youngest and oldest. His claim that healthy adults don’t need the vaccine is an outright lie; otherwise healthy people died by the tens of thousands during the pandemic.
His blocking of federal funding for school COVID vaccine programs even targets children. Federal prohibition chills local policy, depresses uptake, and increases transmission in a setting where respiratory viruses spread efficiently, raising risks for families and medically vulnerable community members.
Indeed, Kennedy’s authorization of the 2025–26 COVID shots largely to older adults and certain high-risk groups can lead to hundreds of millions Americans being un-protected. And since the out-of-pocket cost for a COVID vaccination typically ranges from $140 to over $200, Kennedy’s statutes specifically target the poor and underclasses. Expect more hospitalizations and deaths in those unprotected populations because of this.
Evidence that these actions are not intended to be the result of scientific research or opinion as required by the HSS mission comes from the Secretary’s own words. Kennedy has declared that all actions taken by HHS, and especially the Center for Disease Control (CDC), must conform with President Donald T****’s political agendas.
For his part, President T**** has bilaterally cancelled dozens of research projects both at HHS and universities nationwide. These include but are not limited to cancer research projects including breast and ovarian cancer, cancer immunotherapies, and disparities in Indigenous people’s access to medical care.
He cancelled funding for an NIH grant to study sickle cell disease and a device designed to support blood circulation in infants with congenital heart defects. He terminated a $65 million grant impacting 14 Alzheimer’s Disease research centers. Funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program tracking pre-diabetes and diabetes patients aimed at preventing transmissions among young people were wiped out by the president.
Taken together, T**** and Kennedy have cancelled research and prevention programs covering virtually the entire spectrum of human health and medical services. They have intentionally delayed or halted progress in finding treatments and cures for dozens of ailments and afflictions. Because of these actions, Americans with inherited tendencies or have simply contracted diseases, many of which are wholly preventable, will suffer and die.
The claim that these cuts are necessary to reduce the federal deficit is laughable at best. The total proposed or enacted health and science-related cuts made by these two is perhaps some $40-50 billion. Relative to the budget’s estimated cost of anywhere from $3-4 trillion, that amounts to at best no more than 1.7% of that total; an insignificant drop in the fiscal bucket.
Constituting a seminal betrayal of the HHS mission, these actions by the president and his secretary seem close to madness. And indeed they are.
Since it’s clearly not about the budget, what are T**** and Kennedy’s motivations for these acts of madness? What are they really advocating? We gain that insight by taking Kennedy at his own words concerning a deadly virus that raged through this country just this year.
And the answer is terrifying.
Remember the bird flu? In March 2025, Kennedy advocated a strategy that instead of culling flocks of chickens infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should consider, “letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it.” His rationale was that these genetically superior survivors of the epidemic could be identified and used to establish new, supposedly superior, resistant flocks. Fortunately, Kennedy’s proposal to “let the virus cull susceptible birds” was not adopted as policy.
As of now there is no record Kennedy issuing a retraction, clarification (or apology) for anything he has said or done. Not for his staffing of his entire agency with incompetent sycophants and charlatans. Not for his curtailing or eliminating medical services across the board. Not for his advocating the catastrophic destruction of a critical agribusiness. And most definitely not for his wiping out research at virtually all levels of medical science.
In truth, Kennedy has exhibited the same consideration for certain segments of American society that he does for chickens: let the weak die and the strong survive. And these are the methods of this madness.
It is a madness that is not concerned with the plight of certain segment of the population. And that includes the sick and infirm, those inflicted with or vulnerable to preventable disease, the marginalized and the poor. It includes those suffering from cancer, stroke, heart attacks, diabetes, lead poisoning, bad water, climate change, and more. It is a madness designed to facilitate not survival and flourishing, but of dying.
It is a madness that refuses to advocate for vaccinations that have proven to safeguard the population from diseases, many of which have all but disappeared in America decades ago.
This is a madness advocating that in order to make America healthy, only those most resistant and resilient to disease and the well-off are best positioned to and therefore should survive. This is a madness advocating that a segment of the population languish and ultimately perish.
That segment is specifically identified as the underclasses, the sick, the vulnerable, the marginalized and the poor. The children of these populations would be over-represented in the sample; they would never reach puberty, and indeed, that is the point.
By the methods of this madness it is clear that Kennedy cares as little for the lives of people as he does for chickens. And in betrayal of its mission and his sworn duty, he has re-purposed of HHS to assure that by the methods of this madness, he will be advancing Donald T****’s political agenda.
Yes, without question, the most insidious, the most hidden and the most damning element of this agenda is the nature of their targeted populations. Along with the already identified populations, it includes lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and other marginalized people, it most definitely includes the invisible ones, the undocumented and homeless. These are people who, to a major extent, cannot successfully advocate for themselves
And since it also includes the poor, the underclasses and the struggling, the targeted populations are significantly overrepresented by Black and Brown people. And it is that racial aspect of the madness of Donald T*** and John F. Kennedy Jr. that is the most egregiously horrifying and damning.
There is a word for this madness: Eugenics
Eugenics: The modern psudo-scientific concept of organized advocacy and policy proposals which advocates that society should encourage “desirable” traits through the enhancement of those qualities in much the same way farmers engage in animal husbandry.
Historically, eugenics has been intertwined with scientific racism and other discriminatory ideologies implemented through policies such as forced sterilizations and marriage restrictions.
If this all sounds familiar, it should. Eugenics was the program used by Dr. Mengele and his team of Nazi doctors to advance their political agenda of creating Adolf Hitler’s “Master Race.”
In furtherance of this goal, Nazi doctors performed experiments including sterilization, artificial insemination, and racial – including Jewish – investigations. The broader Nazi program included systematic forced sterilization and euthanasia. Whole populations were identified and put to death.
Now of course we are not anywhere close to the Nazi horrors. But Donald T****’s inherent racism and his affinity for white supremacy is well-documented, as is his distain for the poor, the marginalized and the underclasses. And as head of the HHS, Kennedy has shown a similar distain by eliminating virtually all programs and research designed to aid and assist their targeted populations to survive.
Clearly, T****’s and Kennedy, in order to advance their program to make America healthy, they have instituted the process of not aiding and assisting all segments of the population to achieve health. Instead, their policy, based on a political agenda rather than medical science, aims to diminish to the point of elimination, those segments of society which they deem undesirable. That is what the Nazis did in Germany. That is the essence of eugenics.
And by the specific and intentional actions of Donald T**** and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it is happening now, in America.
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