Comment from Peter Saxon-
By the northern spring of 2022, Dr Anthony Fauci, who was Chief Medical Advisor to the then former President Trump, found himself fulfilling the same role for President Biden. To Fauci’s relief the White House had taken on a much less combative atmosphere under the new administration.
With Covid-19 largely under control in the U.S., Fauci was tasked with a new top-secret mission to figure out what was causing a new pandemic. Sometimes known as “Vocal Fry”, it caused patients to speak from the back of their throats. Initially, dismissed as a mere affectation among young women and some older men who wanted a more sonorous sound signature to augment their personal brand, it soon turned out not to be the case.
Respondents to an early survey confirmed that their condition was totally involuntary. Many reported that it drove them crazy to hear themselves speak yet could do nothing about it. What’s more it drove everyone they spoke to crazy too. Some had even lost friendships over the sound of their voice. It ruined some marriages. One person was reportedly kicked out of the family home and told not return until they could speak like a normal human being or just shut the eff up and take to writing notes instead.
By the beginning of 2024, Fauci had made little progress in finding the cause of this “Vocal Fry” disease. Meanwhile a much more infectious, full-blown version of the disease was rapidly spreading and found to cause hair loss and impotence in men, as well as infertility in women 65+. In extreme cases, it was suspected to be the cause of actual death in those in the 75 – 100 age group. Indeed, those not choosing to join a silent order of a religious sect, often opted for suicide instead.
With the 2024 presidential election looming, Dr Fauci at age 83, announced his retirement in the event that Donald Trump were to be re-elected. The rest as they say…
Enter Robert F. Kennedy jr (RFK) – nephew to the fabled President John F. Kennedy who was assassinated in 1963 – and son to the President’s brother Robert F. Kennedy who, in 1968, was also taken out by an assassin’s bullet soon after he was confirmed as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency.
Having failed to win enough support to run against Trump in the 2024 election and no wish to be the third Kennedy to die in a hail of bullets, RFK jr did what any self-respecting American whose lineage was Democrat royalty would do, he switched sides and kissed Trump’s ring. And for that, he was anointed Secretary of Health and Human Services.
This Kennedy, an outspoken anti-vaxxer and critic of Dr Fauci was determined to succeed where Fauci had failed in determining the origin of Vocal Fry – a condition with which he, himself had been afflicted from early in his political career. He thought it was simply brought about by the long hours spent talking on the campaign trail. But now, riding Fauci’s research coattails he became convinced that Vocal Fry was more likely the product of a virus, or perhaps a germ of some kind.
Unencumbered by formal medical qualifications, Kennedy relied on his immense, self-proclaimed, powers of deduction to arrive at a theory that would be so fantastically ridiculous that the MAGA faithful would eagerly embrace it as God’s Truth.
Working on the assumption that the best way to lead an audience to the “ultimate truth” is through the ‘known’ before revealing the ‘unknown,’ Kennedy weighed the relative values of declaring the germ’s genesis to be the wet markets of Wuhan fame or the alternative fact that it escaped from a Chinese laboratory. After lengthy self-consultation lasting almost three minutes, he settled on the lab leak. Granted, the image of exotic, weird, wet and wild animals spreading their diseases to humans through a toxic liquid disguised as processed baby formula sounded much ickier than the sterility of a laboratory. However, the lab theory (which by now had firmed to hard fact in RFK’s mind) offered more scope to speculate – with certainty, of course – that Vocal Fry was no accident.
What if Vocal Fry was deliberately developed by the CCP to control the narrative in western media? RFK could see it all clearly now. The common thread that he’d established was audio. Talk radio, streamed panel discussions on YouTube, and countless podcasts with a host and a panel of so-called experts unwittingly spread the disease between them while the hapless listener thought that this was merely the latest fashion in speech. Not just new words but a whole new sound. Soon every western singer would strive to sound like Leonard Cohen.
But the joke was on them because no one could stand to hear themselves or anyone else talk.
“Damn clever those Chinese,” he thought. And with that, Robert F. Kennedy jr, still above ground with his head in the clouds (when not up his ass, as the yanks might say) while his forebears rolled in their graves had helped Make America Great Again!
It was then that Sinatra came on the radio singing the Anthony Newley classic, “What Kind of Fool Am I?”

Peter Saxon – Managing Editor.
Initially, the headline was about people working in studios were contracting a disease affecting the vocal chords of those who work in studios.
Immediately, I thought about people contracting breast cancer at the ABC studios in Brisbane.
Most recently, former ABC staff from the Elsternwick studios have died from the effects of exposure to asbestos in February 2025:
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/at-least-four-abc-employees-die-from-asbestos-exposure-20250207-p5laeu.html.
So people were being injured or dying in radio and TV studios, especially the latter issue of exposure to asbestos
However, reading on, the tenor of the article was contained unsubstantiated claims about people contracting a disease affecting the vocal chords.
Rather the disease affecting the vocal chords morphs into stories with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories promulgated on social media.
There is a plethora of conspiracy theories on social media.
Conclusion, I come to the conclusion that since this story was published on April 1, and the article contains unsubstantiated evidence with the overall point of social media media spreading unsubstantiated stories, this is an April fool's joke.
This joke also is raising concerns at stories on social media discussing and raising conspiracy theories with unsubstantiated evidence.
Anthony, Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Strathfield South, in the land of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation
Idiotic commentary!