The Moment You Know That The Person In Charge Of Your Country's Health Care Is Crazy

      Last week while I was scrolling through the news stories, I came across this  statement made by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a press conference in Texas:

     I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids while I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement, and from their lack of social connection. And I know that's not how our children are supposed to look.
        Now, never even mind the plethora of dubiosities in that statement, since so much of what comes out of RFK jr.'s pie hole - I mean, fruit, vegetable, nuts and seeds hole - is  rank dubiosity. 
        According to Google AI (which I consulted on the question), RFK jr. doesn't take commercial flights these days:

       So...when and why would he be walking through airports full of sickly-looking kids?
      And what street does he go walking down that's also full of sickly looking kids? Does he mean the street in the aristocratic Georgetown neighborhood where he and his wife recently bought a 4,876 sq. ft., $4.4 million home?

     (Of course, what do I know? Maybe RFK jr. actually is the neighborhood creep. After all, his children's babysitter alleged that she was molested by him, which RFK jr. has obliquely referred to as a skeleton in his closet).
     And then, of course, there's RFK jr.'s much-razzed conceit that, without so much as a nurse's aide certification let alone a medical or any kind of science degree, he can diagnose a child's medical condition by a passing glance at their face and body movements (which, again, he shouldn't be checking out on every kid that he passes). And what - and how? - could he know anything about these kids' social connections, anyway? 
      But never mind all that, it's all just so much typical RFK jr. anti-science, slightly creepy hogwash. But there was one part of one sentence from his statement that leapt out at me: I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...
      Overburdened with mitochondrial challenges?  I thought. What the @#%! does that even mean?               
        Then it hit me what it meant: It meant that Robert F. Kennedy jr. is crazy. It meant that he's a 70 -year-old ex-heroin addict who used every day for 14 years starting in his teens, those important years of significant brain development when drug use can seriously and permanently affect that development, which in RFK jr.'s case it apparently did, and who later in life had a parasitic worm that ate part of his already drug-damaged brain. 
        And  I thought now of all the crazy-sounding things RFK jr. has said over the years:
        That it's safe to drink unpasteurized milk
        That having fluoride in our water is making Americans stupider
        That Blacks have stronger immune systems than whites.
        That there's no vaccine that is safe and effective
​        That vaccines cause autism
        That polio vaccine killed many more people than polio did.
        That COVID and flu vaccines kill people.
         That COVID targets Blacks and Whites, but that Ashkenazy Jews and Asians have more immunity.
       That doses of vitamin A great enough to cause organ damage should be given to children instead of vaccine to fight measles, and that measles shouldn't be taken that seriously, anyway.
        That he can see that children are overburdened by mitochondrial challenges by looking at their faces.
         And it occurred to me in that chilling mitochondrial challenges moment that our health care is in the hands of a deranged old man, a geriatric mad scientist without the science. Only the madness.
​        Can't you see it in his face?

        https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/health/robert-f-kennedy-jr-polio-vaccines.html   

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15612-mitochondrial-diseases