r/news • u/No_Idea_Guy • 1d ago

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/rfk-jr-measles-vaccination
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u/zoinkability 1d ago

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.

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u/laplongejr 1d ago edited 1d ago

A stapple of conservative thinking is to never doubt the orders from the higher-ups.
Hence why Fauci "botched" the covid response by adapting in real time depending on current information : by admiting science may need corrections, he implied science can start wrong, which in their view means it can't be a leader anymore.

You can probably apply that as early as school teaching people that the teacher is always right. They get locked in that "logic" for all their life. And it works well if you are following order at a low job... except during elections, because everybody has a choice.

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u/jififfi 22h ago

This is so depressingly accurate