A brand new PSA from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is drawing extra ridicule than inspiration after the pair’s much-hyped “mountain climb” turned out to be a shaky scramble up a modest boulder.

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Filmed at Colorado’s Garden of the Gods, the video was meant to advertise strolling quarter-hour a day as a cure-all for well being woes. But it’s the awkward ascent, captured in close-up, then revealed to be far much less dramatic when the digicam zooms out, that’s fueling mockery from precise climbers and critics alike.

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz climb a rock

RFK Jr. posted his video with Medicare administrator Dr. Oz on Wednesday, and it hasn’t but cracked 700,000 views. As the 2 males walked round Colorado’s Garden of the Gods, they spoke on how mountaineering may also help with the whole lot from curing sleep issues to fixing the male loneliness epidemic.

“Big news,” says Oz. “You walk 15 minutes a day, you save the country $100 billion in health expenses.”

Healthcare in America could be very costly, however he in all probability meant these financial savings may occur if each citizen walked quarter-hour a day, not simply you personally. Even so, we’d prefer to see a supply on that.

The most remarked-upon a part of the PSA, nonetheless, was the duos rock climb. X consumer @Mollyploofkins gained over 1.5 million views by clipping that half out for her followers. The Health Secretary’s limbs visibly quiver as he ascends a steep rock with none security tools.

Many commenters on the brief clip questioned how excessive RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz truly climbed, and the true fantastic thing about the total video is that you would be able to see them climb down. When the digicam zooms out and so they land on the bottom, it’s clear that they didn’t, as they mentioned they’d, climb a mountain.

“This mountain is not gonna climb itself,” mentioned RFK Jr. earlier than ascending possibly 15 ft.

Climbers rip into their method: “jeans, sneakers, no safety gear”

Critics of the Health Secretary, who since he took workplace defunded vaccine analysis and gave a bunch of children vitamin A toxicity by claiming that the vitamin may combat the measles outbreak taking place on his watch, have been desirous to dunk on him.

“Soloing ten feet in tennis shoes and then acting like it’s an accomplishment?” @SkilosRising scoffed. “Absolute gumby behavior.”

“He climbs like he talks,” quipped @newconciousness, nearly actually referring to RFK Jr.

Actual rock climbers have been significantly aghast at their method and lack of preparation.

“Both utter dumba**es. Jeans, sneakers, no safety equipment. Kennedy is shaking like a leaf due to his disability,” mentioned @asweetgrace. “In fact guys, keep climbing like this! Tell others to do it as well. F**k safety.”

“’Let’s climb the smoothest, steepest, no hand or foothold rock we can find with slippery sole shoes and no safety gear,’” wrote @sully384.

The largest haters, nonetheless, inspired the 2 males to proceed this habits.

“This seems wise to do at their age,” joked @DecodingFoxNews. “They should do this every day…who needs safety equipment? Maybe they could grease the rocks up for extra fun.”

“Come [on] gravity, we’re rooting for you!” mentioned @gatesisthedevil.

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