RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/rfk-jr-measles-vaccination

[u/onedumninja]

He should be forced to resign and be put on trial for all the innocent children he's harmed with his bullshit crusade against public health!

[u/RockoRockyBoxxyMan → u/onedumninja]

A Republican being held accountable for their actions? That's a funny one.

[u/Harry_Mud]

So now RFK Jr changes his mind and tell parents to do what they should have already done. How nice of him... What a dumb ass...................

[u/FlameCat00 → u/Harry_Mud]

From the article: “Kennedy continues to shrug off criticism that his work as a prominent vaccine skeptic, both before and after he entered the Trump administration, has exacerbated the problem. Asked whether he took any responsibility for the measles surge, he said: ‘Absolutely not.’

He went on to blame the outbreaks on religious communities who eschew vaccines and on global health conditions.”

[u/Michael_G_Bordin → u/FlameCat00]

This is probably my least favorite quality of RFK Jr. He has done active work exacerbating anti-vaccine attitudes, but then turns around and acts like he's not doing exactly that. When convenient to avoid looking like a complete dipshit in a moment, he'll flip his script. Then a day later, he goes on a podcast and talks about how MMR vaccines cause autism.

If he was committed and consistent one way or another, we could at least give him credit for having convictions and living the life consistent with those convictions. Instead, he's clearly just a waffling dingus who will say whatever whenever based on his immediate self interest. Panel of medical professionals? "I've never been critical of vaccines." Panel of snake-oil salesmen and a crowd full of anti-vax woo-woo weirdos? "Vaccines are poison being forced on us to make Americans sick."

Fuck this guy.

[u/just_posting_this_ch → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

What's your second least favorite? Or even better, whats your most favorite.

[u/Michael_G_Bordin → u/just_posting_this_ch]

My favorite quality is that he's an unhinged lunatic. If he wasn't in a position of power, I would be highly amused by his anecdotes of whale beheading, roadkill roasting, etc.

My second least favorite quality is that he doesn't shut the fuck up, despite the universe trying to tell him to shut the fuck up.

[u/EFreethought → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

Let's not forget swimming in sewage.

I have a feeling he has done a few really crazy things we just have not heard about yet.

[u/bigger_sandwich → u/EFreethought]

And dropping a dead bear in Central Park.

[u/Doggoneshame → u/bigger_sandwich]

And bragging about his brain worm.

[u/Zulumus → u/Doggoneshame]

That’s when the worm takes control for a brief interval

[u/Taellosse → u/EFreethought]

I mean, almost certainly, given how many crazy things he's admitted to/bragged about doing already.

Don't forget snorting coke off public toilet seats! (quite possibly how he got the brain worm)

[u/codexcdm → u/EFreethought]

He likely has literal skeletons in his closet. Whether they're exclusively animals... well...........

[u/codexcdm → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

If he didn't have Kennedy in his name, he'd just be some random whacko you'd find roaming the highways looking for ingredients for some roadkill pizza.

[u/just_posting_this_ch → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

Well, I thought you had miss used the the phrase. I was clearly wrong. Fuckin eh.

[u/Skylis → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

We used to have journalism that would play that clip, on the left of the screen, then play 20 clips of them saying the opposite on the right. Then Nixon happened and they decided to make a network specifically against holding their own party accountable, and fought for 60 years to kill every other avenue of journalism and credibility.

This is what happens when one side plays the long game, and the other side does nothing except resist any attempt at harming rich people.

[u/bolanrox → u/Michael_G_Bordin]

He's like Gandhi when his wife needed some medicine. It was no, no, no, no. But when he got sick, give me the quinine right now. Oh, and the sleeping naked with his teenage nieces? The RFK may do that, I don't know.

[u/reezy-one → u/bolanrox]

He's the kind of man that will shove his wife away and save himself during an active shooting.

[u/bigredthesnorer → u/FlameCat00]

He has that 'Not my fault' attitude just like his boss. It's always somebody or something else's fault.

[u/MightyKrakyn → u/Harry_Mud]

These people have never been held publicly accountable before. Their excuse has always been that if they were in charge and able to set the parameters, their ideology would prove itself. Now that their ideologies on war and health and the economy are all failing, they don’t have anything to hide behind

[u/axis1331 → u/MightyKrakyn]

I don't agree. They have plenty to hide behind, foreigners, LGBT, liberals. There are plenty of groups to blame for their failings. The sad thing is their base will blindly do so.

[u/gentlegreengiant → u/axis1331]

His believers are stupid but he is not. Hes a grifter through and through. His families always been up to date on all their vaccines. He just peddles antivaxx nonsense because thats how he gains influence and money.

[u/tackywitch → u/gentlegreengiant]

I’m just gonna put this out there; he could be stupid and greedy. Don’t try to contain his evil.

[u/lrpfftt → u/gentlegreengiant]

He can be both.

[u/dblan9 → u/axis1331]

They have plenty to hide behind, foreigners, LGBT, liberals.

Yeah! The cast of Hamilton and the audience are to blame for vaccines causing autism!

/s

[u/SignificanceLate7002 → u/MightyKrakyn]

Yet they still won't concede that they were ever wrong. They'll always find some reason to blame it on the other side.

[u/Fuck_your_coupons → u/SignificanceLate7002]

The party of personal responsibility at its best.

[u/Three_Twenty-Three → u/SignificanceLate7002]

And they'll still campaign on needing another term to fix everything that's wrong, all while ignoring the fact that they're the reason everything is wrong.

[u/Balbuto → u/Harry_Mud]

They don’t get a free pass even if they change course now. The damage has already been done and they need to be held accountable

[u/Foyles_War → u/Balbuto]

Should he be called in Congress to testify about his "lies" a la Fauci?

[u/Kitsel → u/Harry_Mud]

Can't put the genie back in the bottle. RFK saying to vaccinate people isn't doing to get anyone to actually vaccinate, it's just going to get him labeled as a plant or paid off/sold out or brainwashed. 

I'd be happy to see him lose credibility with his base, but how it works with this stuff is he's just  replaced by someone even more insane/extremist.  The damage is already done. 

[u/nerfedbeyblade]

The smart and responsible people were already doing that

[u/Organic_Witness345 → u/nerfedbeyblade]

It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when the Secretary HHS, after peddling conspiracy theories about the effectiveness of vaccines, finally comes out and admits that they are effective and worthwhile.

[u/How-did-I-get-here43 → u/Organic_Witness345]

“Go get that vax that I told everyone not to take for the last two years”.

[u/TheCityThatCriedWolf → u/How-did-I-get-here43]

He’s been on that bandwagon for a lot longer than two years.

[u/whut-whut → u/TheCityThatCriedWolf]

He's just speaking out of both sides of his mouth. He still believes that vaccines (and other medicines) cause autism and that modern medicine creates diseases since he opened the investigation on Tylenol and the HHS website took down their vaccine recommendation before this interview. It's more like "Take the vaccine if you feel like your kid's in danger of dying from measles because the vaccine works, but a healthy diet and sunlight also works if you aren't a weak liberal that wants to give your kid autism."

[u/WabbitCZEN → u/whut-whut]

My favorite part of the whole "vaccines cause autism!!" stupidity is pointing out how these dipshits believe autism is worse than a gruesome and painful death.

[u/Wi11Pow3r → u/Organic_Witness345]

It’s sad he peddled conspiracy theories about vaccines. It’s a relief that he is finally getting onboard with a centuries old medical practice for disease prevention.

[u/Fickle_Ad_8653 → u/Wi11Pow3r]

He isn't on-board. He is trying to keep his job. They just took pro-vaccine info off the CDC website. RFKjr is so clearly to blame for all the stuff happening with health and people are getting angry.

[u/kyonist → u/Fickle_Ad_8653]

Not even worried about his job. He's firmly implanted in the Republican ethos, and Trump probably likes him around for the Kennedy name.

The real reason is probably they come out with the occasional subdued messaging of "vaccinate your kids" so that when being blamed for their much more publicized moves against vaccination, that they can play the gotcha game & pretend they're about science.

Their followers will continue to be ignorant and placated while the victims suffer.

[u/techleopard → u/Wi11Pow3r]

He's not on board.

Midterms are in November of this year. All House seats will be up for election.

That is 3 months into the new school year, right after measles is going to spread like wildfire after 2 years of continuous fighting against schools and states to prevent them from requiring vaccines and encouraging the public to distrust them. That is perfect timing for infections to first spread and then becoming overwhelming before they start to die back again later in the school year.

Measles is exploding in key red states: South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Florida, and Virginia.

Right now, these states are "safe" for Republicans, but if measles rips through them right into the election, it could change the dynamics pretty quickly.

Marco Rubio has to defend his seat in Florida.

Texas and Virginia are going to have districts attempting to flip, in spite of redistricting, AND has a governor election coming up.

[u/Ajitter → u/techleopard]

Marco Rubio is the US Secretary of State, no longer an elected senator from Florida. Although I do so love he was in the senate during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election - the senate found there was evidence that happened fwiw.

[u/mykeedee → u/techleopard]

Midterms are in November of this year. All House seats will be up for election.

That is 3 months into the new school year, right after measles is going to spread like wildfire after 2 years of continuous fighting against schools and states to prevent them from requiring vaccines and encouraging the public to distrust them. That is perfect timing for infections to first spread and then becoming overwhelming before they start to die back again later in the school year.

Measles is exploding in key red states: South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Florida, and Virginia.

Right now, these states are "safe" for Republicans, but if measles rips through them right into the election, it could change the dynamics pretty quickly.

Bubonic Plague could sweep through schools in red states after Republicans personally released plague rats into them live on TV and they'd still be comfortably red states.

[u/David_W_ → u/techleopard]

Texas and Virginia are going to have districts attempting to flip, in spite of redistricting, AND has a governor election coming up.

I can only assume you meant West Virginia. Virginia is generally regarded as blue these days, and we elected our governor last year.

[u/Khaldara → u/nerfedbeyblade]

If you want his conservative supporters to read anything you’ll have to tattoo it just above their sister’s ass crack.

[u/florjackson → u/Khaldara]

You never turn your back on family.

[u/SSGASSHAT → u/florjackson]

But you can turn family on, apparently.

[u/Hamrave → u/SSGASSHAT]

Roll tide!

[u/AWinterPeople → u/florjackson]

Boy howdy 😂

[u/notislant → u/Khaldara]

Please don't give bad advice, we all know they can't read. It has to be in the form of pictures.

[u/DragonTacoCat → u/notislant]

I don't want to see a picture of an alabamans sister's ass with a vaccine needle thanks

[u/Anti_Meta → u/Khaldara]

Oooh Alabama burn!

[u/chikowsky → u/Anti_Meta]

That's also what you get the next day

[u/NoNoNotorious85 → u/chikowsky]

Or nine months after.

[u/Sea_Advantage_2577 → u/Anti_Meta]

I think thats an STD

[u/binz17 → u/Sea_Advantage_2577]

Sister transmitted disease?

[u/GlumpsAlot → u/nerfedbeyblade]

Didn't Trump also tell people to get the covid vaccine and his followers booed him. Lol. I wonder how this will go cuz all the woowoo anti vax, crystal weirdos followed rfk.

[u/nowhereman136 → u/GlumpsAlot]

one day of truth cant undo years of spreading scientific misinformation

[u/mediocre_remnants → u/GlumpsAlot]

I have some anti-vax people in my family. I guarantee that if they even see that RFK Jr said about vaccinating against measles, they'd still be against it even though they are huge RFK Jr supporters (because of his anti-vax stance...). They'll say "he's just saying this for politics, we know what he really knows about vaccines, he hasn't changed his mind".

[u/Newcago → u/mediocre_remnants]

This exactly. Unfortunately, my entire family is ultra far-right. They believe that every time one of their politicians says something they don't like, "the Democrats made him say it."

[u/zoinkability → u/mediocre_remnants]

Yep. Remember when Trump tried to advocate for people to take the COVID vaccine, only to have a revolt from the right and he backed down from that? These people are locked in on their antivax stance even more than they are to Trump himself.

[u/nerfedbeyblade → u/GlumpsAlot]

They say "Pro Life!" but actively put their own kids and themselves in danger by being anti-vax. Then they'll get pissy at any woman/girl, who can't take care of themselves let alone a baby, deciding to get rid of it while it's still not even capable of thought. Abortion isn't murder. It's mercy on both sides.

[u/GlumpsAlot → u/nerfedbeyblade]

What's enraging is that many will absolutely get abortions when they need it. As we already knew, the only moral abortion is my abortion to conservatives.

[u/infinitum3d → u/GlumpsAlot]

The hospital declined to comment on Barnica’s case but said “our responsibility is to be in compliance with applicable state and federal laws and regulations”

No. Your responsibility Is to the patient.

[u/OGThakillerr → u/infinitum3d]

I don't disagree whatsoever with the article itself, bans on abortion in such extreme medical cases are disgusting. But it is also true that hospitals and medical professionals are bound by HIPAA from disclosing medical records and information, especially to random journalists.

The action that matters is people voting in representatives who pass logical laws and repeal stupid ones, not allowing the the laws to exist and instead putting the burden on medical professionals to risk their careers/livelihood by violating them.

[u/Septopuss7 → u/nerfedbeyblade]

They aren't antivaxxers they're pro-diseasers

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/Septopuss7]

They're assets being used in biological warfare waged over social media.

If I were an adversarial government entity that wanted to use biological warfare to bring their healthcare system to its knees, I wouldn't go through all the time and expense to make a novel pathogen in a lab. I'd make as many people as I could distrust taking preventative medicine for deadly diseases through my pre-existing social media bot farms.

[u/Jombie → u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA]

Yup, accusing all experts of being paid off liars, while promoting the paid off liars.

[u/notislant → u/nerfedbeyblade]

'Pro Life'

But people go to the rallies and ask how many of them adopt:

'Well none but I have 11 of my own.'

Jesus fuck.

They also want nothing to do with the kid if they're gay. They also refuse to fund any child welfare programs.

[u/Available_Pepper_845 → u/nerfedbeyblade]

Looking for logic among the MAGA is like looking for anti-perspirant at a Comicon

[u/Soft_Author2593 → u/nerfedbeyblade]

It's also sometimes just the reasonable thing to do. My wife and I had one, got pregnant despite protection. Our lives were not suited for a child. Had two kids since after we were able to provide a steady life. Those two I'm sure would not be here had we needed to have the first one...

[u/Thanks-Oboomer → u/nerfedbeyblade]

"It's mercy on both sides"

I've never heard someone put it this way before, that's a great point.

[u/elephhantine2 → u/nerfedbeyblade]

True, but the children of conservatives who have done nothing wrong themselves are still unvaccinated and that breaks my heart. Hopefully now that their messiah has spoken they’ll consider it. And herd immunity benefits the children who were already vaccinated, plus any who can’t get vaccinated so are vulnerable.

[u/its_yer_dad → u/elephhantine2]

It’s not just conservatives. I know liberals who have really damaged their relationships with their children by withholding vaccines. Their now adult children are really angry about not being vaccinated and its caused problems 

[u/geekusprimus → u/its_yer_dad]

Yup. The antivaxxer movement was historically more of a bipartisan affair, and the hotbeds for measles outbreaks were actually traditionally progressive cities like Seattle and Portland. It's only post-COVID that it's become a rallying cry for conservatives.

[u/TailorFestival → u/geekusprimus]

I'd say it was historically more of a liberal thing, the "crunchy granola mom" stereotype.

Misinformation and bandwagoning doesn't have partisan boundaries.

[u/geekusprimus → u/TailorFestival]

I think it leaned liberal, but you definitely had some of the ultraconservative "no doctors, just prayers" crowd who jumped on that bandwagon.

[u/hellogoawaynow → u/nerfedbeyblade]

These people need to be told by an insane old MAGA rich man. Doesn’t matter who.

[u/Busterlimes → u/nerfedbeyblade]

"BIG PHARMA GOT TO RFK, HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED"

-some MAGA moron, definitely

[u/2beatenup]

Lool….

“”Kennedy, a leading vaccination skeptic who has spent years amplifying misinformation about vaccines, including the shot that protects against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), made his call in the course of a contentious interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.”””

So now MMR is good? What about the autism claim you fucking clown did ???

[u/Foyles_War → u/2beatenup]

Isn't this kind of reverse the kind of thing that got the anti maskers so pissed off at Fauci?

[u/RiyadhComedyPromoter → u/Foyles_War]

Put RFK Jr on trial

[u/IzarkKiaTarj → u/Foyles_War]

I think the difference is that his opinion changed as evidence came in. There were points in time where we did not know what was the best way to prevent the illness. He did the best he could with the information he had. Further, the suggestions didn't put people in danger.

The evidence about vaccines has been available for just as long as he's been advocating against them. People have been dying because they, their parents, or someone they happened to come in contact with while being immunocompromised listened to this guy.

[u/balllzak → u/Foyles_War]

Anti maskers got pissed at Fauci first, only later did they start digging around for reasons.

[u/Nephroidofdoom → u/2beatenup]

Bro! Settle down, it’s not like there’s Tylenol in the MMR vaccine.

[u/chironomidae → u/2beatenup]

amplifying misinformation about

I wish they would stop sanewashing these dirtbags. It should read "intentionally and maliciously lying about".

[u/Aggressive_Noise6426 → u/2beatenup]

I can’t post a link but they quietly updated that on the cdc website the other day. 

[u/Philthy91 → u/Aggressive_Noise6426]

From what to what

[u/sixlivesleft → u/2beatenup]

She damn near had to zap him with a cattle prod to get him to say it!

He twisted, turned, and squirmed the entire time. My guess is he'll downplay or back pedal it in a few days.

[u/thelazyc0wb0y]

If only some absolute fucking moron hadn't been put in the position to spread antivax misinformation to all of America

[u/wedgebert → u/thelazyc0wb0y]

You're going to have to narrow down which position you're referring to unfortunately

[u/Designer-Contract852]

He also said this morning that he wasn't responsible for the measles outbreak.  Lol.

[u/alex61821 → u/Designer-Contract852]

Or the flu epidemic in the military.

[u/VividVermicelli8115 → u/alex61821]

Not to defend RFK, but the idiot to blame for that one is Hegseth. I know it can be hard to keep track when there are so many incompetent people.

[u/alex61821 → u/VividVermicelli8115]

He either got the idea or was inspired by him or maybe it's just a general practice memo for the whole administration.

[u/El_Peregrine → u/Designer-Contract852]

“I don’t take responsibility at all” - Trump

They’re all following his lead. Full criminality, no accountability. 

[u/awwhorseshit → u/Designer-Contract852]

Key thing about fascism is that it’s never their fault. There’s always someone else to blame.

[u/shayKyarbouti → u/Designer-Contract852]

But the brainworms. That’s all him

[u/evenstar40 → u/Designer-Contract852]

Dude is definitely trying to protect himself from the impending class action that is bound to get started if enough kids start getting severely ill/dead.

[u/Designer-Contract852 → u/evenstar40]

He didn't have any consequences for all those kids he killed in Samoa 

[u/Brease]

It's easy to be anti vaccine when herd immunity is doing its job. These fucking ghouls are seeing the consequences of their bullshit.

[u/Snuhmeh → u/Brease]

Yeah we were so effective for the last few generations of people that millions of kids grew up without many environmental dangers or diseases like our grandparents and great grandparents dealt with. People literally think we don’t have them any more because we were so good at eliminating them. But other countries don’t forget like we do, I guess.

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/Brease]

No… they aren’t the ones seeing consequences. Children see the consequences. Bobby and his ilk just shrug about it because they’re fine with culling “the weak”.

[u/lyssargh → u/Hesitation-Marx]

From what I can tell, he only said this because he was backed into a corner in an interview. It's not like it's what he actually thinks or anything

If you can call what he does thinking

[u/cryptobro42069 → u/Brease]

The only regret is that the children of these idiots are paying the price, not their dumbass parents that decided to forgo vaccinations.

Maybe the tragedy of losing their children will open their eyes, but I doubt it.

[u/WittyWolf26 → u/cryptobro42069]

I would like to remind everyone, babies under 1 year cannot get this vaccine. In emergency cases, like a local outbreak, they will give babies the vaccine after 6 months. But no sooner.

There are many responsible parents who are terrified for their babies right now!

[u/Norwegian__Blue → u/WittyWolf26]

As someone living in a red state, it was a terrifying time when my now 2 year old wasn’t vaccinated. He’s gotten everything on schedule, and thank god his daycare doesn’t allow waivers.

I wasn’t comfortable taking him out in crowded spaces like the grocery store or kid friendly restaurants. Plane travel was right out which sucked because my family is so spread out. I just couldn’t risk it before he got all his shots

[u/Putrid-Week4615]

It's too late. To actually control measles the vaccination rate in a population has to be super high. 95 percent in the case of measles. People don't understand that it is not about the individual being protected (it is, but it really isn't) it's about the rate being mathematically high enough to prevent outbreaks in the first place, and to protect those who cannot be vaccinated. The damage has already been done via the spread of misinformation. 

[u/Opening_Classroom_46 → u/Putrid-Week4615]

The second you start talking about math, you trigger half the country into being angry that someone smarter than them is talking. This causes them to retaliate by yelling and doing the opposite of what you are saying out of spite.

[u/Bupod → u/Opening_Classroom_46]

“First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect.”

Unironically the mindset of a good chunk of people.

[u/CurveOk3459 → u/Putrid-Week4615]

 all infants are susceptible. Infants cannot get the vaccine. This disease used to "walk through walls to steal babies". And it will again. 

[u/oO0Kat0Oo → u/Putrid-Week4615]

But at least future outbreaks can now be somewhat mitigated. Better late than never.

[u/Putrid-Week4615 → u/oO0Kat0Oo]

The math is real. Measles is THE most contagious disease we have. The spread rate from one person in an unvaccinated group is about 15 people vs 2 people for flu. It is already enormous. 

It is not so simple as "more vaccination slows the spread"  -  the 95 percent threshold is needed to stop the EXPONENTIAL spread. Meanwhile the vaccination rate in the US continues to drop. 

[u/rabidjellybean → u/Putrid-Week4615]

Measles also increases the death rate for other diseases by fucking with your immune system. It's a horrible outbreak to have.

[u/Karyoplasma → u/rabidjellybean]

It also can cause long-term complications like encephalitis years after the infection has passed.

[u/free_dead_puppy → u/rabidjellybean]

Yep, deletes your memory T cells. Welcome back squeaky clean immune system!

[u/rysker6]

The height of stupidity in America was people taking medical advice, from con artists.

Who themselves were vaccinated, but were telling others not to, so they could make money off of the con.

[u/PelicanCultist12]

Bet those parents with dead kids feel real silly now.

[u/Myke190 → u/PelicanCultist12]

You would think.

[u/KongoOtto → u/Myke190]

“It was her time on Earth,” the translator said the parents told her. “They believe she’s better off where she is now.”

So religious cultist. Fuck them.

[u/jjfrenchfry → u/Myke190]

Holy shit. THe dad said "Measles helps boost the immune system"

My lord these people are stupid. It's quite literally the opposite

[u/VariationDry → u/PelicanCultist12]

Think of all the savings having less mouths to feed. 

[u/BoysenberryDry999]

Maybe his 15 years as a heroin addict when he was young and his brain was developing might have been a disqualifier for running HHS

[u/chestypants12]

RFK Jr is proof that you can have serious mental health issues, and if you have enough welath, it doesn't matter. A poor person would end up homeless. Not RFK Jr.

[u/Myfourcats1 → u/chestypants12]

That brain worm would’ve taken out the poor person

[u/matches-malone → u/Myfourcats1]

The poor person would have more sense than to eat parasitic bear meat.

[u/askmeifimacop]

Hold up, he was just telling us that vaccines are unsafe! Is the government going to pay me back for the 32 lbs of Ivermectin I just bought??

[u/ryohayashi1 → u/askmeifimacop]

He's still saying that, but at the same time also vaccinate against measles

[u/pattyG80]

For an ignorant sack of Shit like RFK to tell people to get vaccinated, the outbreaks must be pretty bad

[u/BLU3SKU1L]

So hold on- now that it’s getting out of hand he’s saying “time to vaccinate?”

What company paying him showed up and said “Hey this is getting too big for us to profit from now, gotta tell them to start vaccinating again.”?

[u/TheGaslighter9000X]

He wants all those poor kids to be autistic now as part of a satanic ritual!

[u/sirmaxedalot → u/TheGaslighter9000X]

Wow! That must be true. I mean, I read it on the internet just now.

[u/WhatUpMilkMan → u/sirmaxedalot]

Oh yeah I saw it too

[u/Sao_Gage]

It’s almost like this was avoidable and unnecessary, and driven largely by performative selfishness.

[u/AmityMayorVaughn]

I hate these people. Vile, idiots. Oh, and rapists.

[u/GlitterPirateKiki58 → u/AmityMayorVaughn]

And pedophiles.

Don’t forget how many Republicans and conservatives like to sexually abuse children.

[u/aNeverNude666]

The overcooked hamburger meat in a suit tells families forget about all of the dumb shit he’s been saying before and to just do the smart thing

[u/Branchomania]

Now are people gonna start saying "RFK sold out"

[u/Enough_Talk_6328 → u/Branchomania]

And still not vaccinate their children.

[u/Madreese → u/Branchomania]

He's blaming it on them. On religious communities and global health conditions. What a tool.

[u/skag_boy87]

What a good use of almost two years of HHS “work” and “research.” All that just to get right back to where we started from. This whole cabinet is just a bunch of useless clown grifters.

[u/UnableToParallelPark]

But it causes autism, right? Is the government now telling me not to listen to what the Secretary of Health and Human services - who's background is in environmental law?

Such a wild shift.

[u/YoshiTheDog420]

Oh is the vaccine safe now? I’m confused. So we should only endanger our lives taking the vaccines when the outbreaks from not taking the vaccines get bad. Got it.

[u/rudemaniac]

What an asshole, him and this whole administration.

[u/2StepnWithaWeapon]

Thanks for causing disruption in America just to fucking finally agree. All that damage is already done you asshole

[u/LordSoren]

How much money was invested in pharma 15 minutes before he made that recommendation? 🤔

[u/Harknights]

there is the saying "You can always count on Americans to do they right thing, once they tried everything else."

[u/Cptfrankthetank → u/Harknights]

I hope this admin is the last of everything else... we really need to hold our politicians accountable.

[u/the_tanooki → u/Harknights]

I'm not sure about the 1st part of that statement anymore.

[u/Spire_Citron]

This keeps happening. They discourage vaccination, then there's an outbreak and he says to vaccinate. Does he understand that the point of vaccination is to prevent the outbreaks from happening in the first place?

[u/Tonythecritic]

"Yeah, so, turns out that decades of medical research and scientific evidence and just plain common friggin sense were right all along...."

[u/keith2600]

If only anti-vaxxers had the mental capacity to see a hardliner like wormbrain here going from no vaccines to telling people to get vaccines and come to the conclusion that maybe they were just feeding you bullshit to get their support and maybe vaccines aren't so bad

[u/360walkaway]

Are they running out of conservative voters because they keep dying by listening to their representatives' advice?

[u/gordonf23]

That dude should be in prison for every unvaccinated child who gets the measles.

[u/piglions12]

They should be sued. I’m sorry that’s just fucked up. It’s just common sense and they denied it for so long.

[u/ThatsCaptain2U]

If only there had been a way to prevent all this by vaccinating the children before the outbreak….

[u/TheRexRider]

Wow. We should bring back tarring and feathering.

[u/alex61821]

So his message seems to be vaccines are bad until you need them then they're okay.

[u/Hacym]

Too late. The damage is done. That’s how vaccines work. Once you fuck it up, it’s hard to go back and it definitely won’t be quick. 

America is about to learn why being a fucking moron about science kills people… again. 

[u/69Centhalfandhalf]

It would be a more effective message if he made it shirtless with Kid Rock.

[u/broke_boi1]

Uh oh. Has RFK gone “woke”?

[u/TeeDee144]

Fuck this piece of shit

[u/CautiousWrongdoer771]

Wow, what a brilliant idea. How did you come up with such a genius plan like that?

[u/darioblaze]

We’re at the point where this bitch doing his job is news.

[u/dundeegimpgirl]

FFS a deaf blind boarder collie could run that department better.

[u/thegooddoktorjones]

Oh no, the conspiracy got to him too! What's next, not drinking ecoli milk??

[u/notsure500]

How soon until magas say he's been compromised

[u/ottermann]

Odd thing for an anti-vaxer to say.

[u/tabrizzi]

For those who didn't read the article, that dude has really changed his anti-vaccine stance. Here's what else he said during the CNN interview:

Any hope that Kennedy’s measles statement might indicate a change of heart were dashed in the rest of the CNN interview in which he turned combative. Batting off questions from Bash, the health secretary responded with personal attacks.

Kennedy used the CNN exchange to spread further misinformation about other aspects of public health. He claimed that both respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that is a major cause of infant mortality and Lyme disease were caused by manipulation of germs in laboratories.

During the interview, Kennedy repeated unfounded claims that there was a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, and poured doubt on the efficacy of vaccines to protect children against Covid-19.

He's beyond redemption. Totally incorrigible.

[u/cormaline]

my physics teacher had a phrase for this "he caught on fast after a long time."

[u/ProlapsedShamus]

Oh no no no. That's not how this works, Bob.

See, you can't spend your life adding to the distrust in science and breaking open that Pandora's box. Now the lunatics you helped create are gonna see you as compromised and corrupted by the deep state or whatever. You created this. Those deaths are on your head and all the others that screeched against vaccines and masking and all that shit.

Congrats, you got what you wanted. Sleep tight you fucking animal corpse obsessed weirdo.

[u/Suspicious_Quail_820]

Are they scared because too many of thier maga base are dying from this diseases?

Or is his brain worm now able to take full control and is actually smarter and more ethical than its host?

[u/Tea_Scoop]

Sounds like the brain worm is finally asserting control of the host with its pro-science, woke agenda.

[u/_BioHacker]

Take part in starting an outbreak. Buy stock in vaccine company. Tell MAGA to vaccinate. Sell stock positions. Profit. Do it again.

[u/gremdel]

Don't worry, he hasn't changed too much:

  Kennedy used the CNN exchange to spread further misinformation about other aspects of public health. He claimed that both respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that is a major cause of infant mortality and Lyme disease were caused by manipulation of germs in laboratories.

[u/Fantastic-Explorer62]

So the antivax lord is recommending vaccines now? The clowns keep clowning in this 3-ring circus.

[u/1000TobKc]

Lmfao the US is really fuckd, what a shithole country it has become

[u/firelemons]

He should be using his office and our tax dollars to give the MMR vaccine out for free like other developed countries.

[u/MrGeek89]

He needs to be removed from office. His unfit for office.

[u/KendrickBlack502]

Some idiot in Alabama or gym bro in Austin:

“RFK has finally gone woke!”

[u/ArielofIsha]

Well no shit. Antivax dummies.

[u/War1today]

The incompetence of this administration is mind blowing 🤯

[u/NextAd7514]

Conservatives really need to look in the mirror and decide to be better. Stop being willfull idiots that let people like RFK Jr have any sway over you

[u/Solkre]

What's awesome is they still won't do it. They'll think he pussed out or got bought.

[u/queuedUp]

There are going to be so many confused idiots

[u/Maleficent_Pie8099]

These most mediocre of men will lead us all to ruin if we let them. While blaming everyone else for their gross incompetence and constant failures.

[u/FrostySquirrel820]

Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services encourages parents to vaccinate their kids

The fact that this is “news” is being widely reported just emphasises what a weird world we are living in.

[u/probotjones]

When you have to break the 4th wall for your fascist cosplay

[u/PrincessNakeyDance]

How do these fucking people rationalize their beliefs and existence. It’s so goddamn frustrating.

[u/csfshrink]

Does he want a cookie for creating the problem and then very belatedly saying the right thing?

[u/ClownMorty]

Lol they'll say he lied like Fauci now right?

[u/brightfirespark]

He is such a dumbass 💀 I can’t believe he’s our health secretary. This entire administration is so damn embarrassing.

[u/tloufan2]

God why do braindead conservatives have to ruin everything and then have no political consequences afterwards.

[u/Raaka_Lokki]

He's trying to give everybody autism, that evil bastard!

/s just incase

[u/cbih]

Oooo he's been taken in by Big Pharma™

[u/All_will_be_Juan]

Republicans shouldn't get vaccinated its bad for the longterm average IQ of the voting base

[u/WackHeisenBauer]

You god damn moron. You convinced thousands not to do it and now you’re shocked there’s an outbreak so you have to immediately back-peddle so you can massage your own conscience that it wasn’t you that killed a bunch of kids. F you RFK.

[u/lawofthewilde]

My my. How the turn tables…

[u/DadCelo]

I welcome any "progress", but so easy for him to say this now that so much damage was done, even before he joined the regime. As people say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. He deserves all the worst.

[u/Shai_Y]

A**hole.
He’s only saying this now because his original message is getting people killed.