"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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    Presumably, the same guy who botched Elon’s junk. It must grate, seeing this doctor whenever visiting the Orange House.

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    That’s one way of telling people to get fucked

    Americans: “But, sir, there’s a pandemic” Trump: “Fetch me my dick doctor”

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      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.

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    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.

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    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!

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      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

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      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?

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    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”.

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    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.

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      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.

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        It was a setup by a Murdoch paper, deliberate distortion.

        My tits get bigger every year without hypnosis. It happens to older guys.

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

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