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"Before Dr. Brian Christine was tapped to lead America’s public hantavirus response, he was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants, CNN reported Friday.

Christine currently serves as the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as such is one of the top public health officials running the country’s infectious disease policy. Earlier this week, he told reporters in Nebraska that the agency’s response to the dangerous outbreak would be “grounded in science” and “grounded in transparency.”

Yet Christine’s resume seems far and away from that of a typical U.S. health official. While he has some public health experience under his belt, having served as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he has also espoused dangerous far-right beliefs and spread wellness conspiracy theories.

He rebuked coronavirus mandates and spread conspiracy theories about treatment plans that sowed doubt and division over the government’s public health response at the time. He has claimed that the pandemic was a part of a wider government plot to control people, and he skirted questions from the U.S. Senate as to whether or not he would recommend the Covid vaccine to his patients.

The 62-year-old admiral also hosted a YouTube series titled “Erection Connection,” a professional show for other urologists discussing erectile dysfunction..."

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Dude I swear to fucking god if we don’t have a revolution we deserve to go extinct

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 0 points 7 hours ago

what's stopping you?

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 10 hours ago

They are just playing with us all, as they prepare to snuff us all out within a handful of years.

Because we aren't guillotining them.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

must be the same DR that botched MUSK's penis enlargement surgery.

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Bruh got’s to work off all the F ups he done did. He ain’t getting paid. Mf’er just tryna stay alive rn.

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

If one gets Penis Hantavirus. Well, they are gonna have a really bad time.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 hours ago

Why even assign a hantavirus official? Just for stoking fears and using them politically? It's not like a pandemic is looming.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I mean I know a country whose top epidemiologist isn't even a doctor (I only know that because I'm related to the idiot)

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how they know each other.
Does anyone have a clue?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Did they say it was his personal penile impaler? Penis impostor? Dick driver?

Let's start some rumors y'all. Liberal application of fiction.

[–] emmanuel_car@k.fe.derate.me 4 points 10 hours ago

Not fiction, alternative facts

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

And this headline doesn't even crack the top 10 of the worst things Donald has done.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Trump likes to assign such jobs to people he knows. Go figure.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 hours ago

Actually, he's got a great pool guy who he has never heard of, at all, and definitely didn't have anything to do with giving him a contract to paint the reflecting pool

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 4 points 8 hours ago

The word you are looking for is crony capitalism.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

I vaguely remember someone mentioning that both Trump and Epstein had deformed penises. I thought it was b.s. but now I'm not sure.

Why else would he want to reward a penis implant specialist?

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 43 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

That is one hell of a way of telling us to get fucked. Takes a bit of thought to get there, 4/10 joke.

Next up: Ivermectin and penis enlargement prevents hantavirus!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Probably Trump personally doctor. We all know Trump has a small Dick.

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

What he lacks physically, he makes up for figuratively in all other aspects of his miserable, tragically-long life

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 15 points 19 hours ago

So they actually think it's hentaivirus?

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago

On the other hand, maybe we'll all die of hantavirus before having to suffer through the rest of the fascist takeover

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

The right person to prevent it from getting out-of-hand.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

On the one hand urology and ED are important specialisms, and it's annoying seeing them mocked. He also actually has experience in public health which makes him more qualified than most trump appointees.

On the other hand, outside of that his record is, for want of a better term, "yikes".

[–] totesmygoat@piefed.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

If he was Elons surgeon.... Looks like he's about to continue to screw things up.

[–] agingelderly@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He rebuked coronavirus mandates and spread conspiracy theories about treatment plans that sowed doubt and division over the government’s public health response at the time. He has claimed that the pandemic was a part of a wider government plot to control people, and he skirted questions from the U.S. Senate as to whether or not he would recommend the Covid vaccine to his patients.

Boom he's a piece of shit. Get him out. This moron shouldn't be anywhere near a medical decision.

[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Trump or the guy that can make your knob bigger?

Interestingly, theres a left wong politician in the UK who the right call "the tit whisperer" cause they misunderstood something he said.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I'd rather be a tit whisperer than a dick enhancer

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 3 points 20 hours ago

Got tired of getting penises up, so he switched to getting infection rates up instead.