The standard pandemic-preparedness playbook “has failed catastrophically,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Principal Deputy Director Matthew J. Memoli wrote in City Journal

I'll offer this in response, which the author failed to note:

Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus “came out of nowhere” and “blindsided the world.” They’ve been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.

The miasma theory claimed diseases were caused by bad sanitation, foul odors and unhealthy air. Before the discovery of germs, it led to the creation of a sewer system in London, and ventilation systems in hospitals, (both of which helped reduce exposure to the germs they didn't believe in) although it didn't stop greedy water companies from pumping drinking water from downstream on the Thames, or ease overcrowding and poverty.

The problem with Kennedy's "just get healthier" version is that like all other Republican schemes it doesn't provide any actual support for doing so. Because that would take money from the deserving wealthy to aid the indigent poor!

We all know where the real foul odor is coming from....

The episode of Sawbones where they talk about this, they imply that RFK Jr doesn't even know what miasma theory is. The thing he talks about is weird nonsense unrelated to old medical idea (which was also wrong)

I love how our health system has embraced eugenics wholeheartedly

Ah yes, just being healthy overall is enough to ward off pathogens. Someone please remind our cytokines not to kill us next time around. Maybe if we tell them they're acting unreasonably they won't cause young, healthy people to drop dead when they get sick.

Of fucking course it is

What, like a disease? An infection?

Can I get vaccinated against RFK Jr?

Please overlay the map of this theory’s spread with the spread of measles.

What century is it?

If the universe has any justice this idiot will die of something thats been completely preventable for decades

He needs to cleanse his humors because this ain’t it

just being in better shape will carry the U.S. through an infectious crisis is reckless, experts told me—especially if it’s executed at the expense of other public-health responses.

it sure helps a lot… “at the expense of other public health responses” is the real issue here

Better start stocking up on leeches- next he'll be promoting the 4 humours theory.

RFK should be removed from office along with all of his goons and sycophants.

Traditional method: Study pathogens that could be a future threat and stockpile vaccines.

RFK Jr proposed method: Eat well, excercise and maintain an overall healthy lifestyle.

Why do we need to choose between them?