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Mental Health is Not a Personal Failure

Barbaric Solutions Must be Condemned

It is appalling that Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. frames mental health as not a medical issue, but a personal failure.
His "solution" for mental health is to put people into labor camps, which he euphemistically calls "wellness farms."
These farms would be located far away from the general population. Inhabitants would be denied their prescription medications. They would also be barred from having cell phones, computers, or other means to contact the outside world.
They would be put to work full-time, presumably for little or no pay, growing organic food.
RFK Jr. claims this process would "reparent" supposedly broken people.
This is a barbaric plan that would have appealed to Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps.
Shame on RFK Jr.

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