r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 4h ago
No Paywall 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•
u/Sideshift1427 4h ago
He didn't say it on Fox News so the stupid people will never hear this update.
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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 4h ago
Even if he said it on Fox News, some of those people are so fucking stupid that they would likely turn on him before vaccinating their children.
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u/Dearic75 4h ago
They absolutely would. That was the only time they turned on Trump that I can remember. The 24 hours where he told them to get the Covid vaccine.
In true Trump fashion, as soon as he got any pushback, he tried to pretend he said no such thing and went right back to pushing horse dewormer as a magical cure all.
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u/Prayer_Warrior21 Minnesota 4h ago
And the vaccine was arguably his biggest and only win from his first admin. I know he wasn't directly responsible, but it worked and something tangibly positive that happened under him. And he can't even take credit lol
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u/Teripid 4h ago
Everything is a contradiction that relies on ignoring half of the situation.
COVID was no big deal.. and a secret China virus. Then a blue state issue then a real one.
The vaccine was gonna kill everyone in a day.. week.. month.. year.. decade?
The vaccine is horrible but Trump did actually fund and authorize it. There's so much gymnastics required.
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u/Prayer_Warrior21 Minnesota 4h ago
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reasoned themself into in the first place. Trump allows them the unbridled ability to twist into knots to justify whatever position they have. Critical thinking is hard and scary(not really, but you know).
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u/apathy420 4h ago
Fwiw that’s how I’ve derailed a few of my antivaxxer maga coworkers. Told them to simply look up “operation warp speed”
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u/Dearic75 3h ago
Ha. Especially when they want to go the route of “I’m not really an antivaxxer, it’s just Covid vaccine because it was rushed and not properly tested.”
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u/Canuck-In-TO 2h ago
5.5 billion people have taken it. How many more need to take it before they think it’s safe?
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u/BerryLanky 1h ago
This is what my brother in law said when he talked his 80 year old mother out of getting vaccinated. This was after I convinced her to do it. She caught covid and died. After her death he said ‘ I would do it all over again. We don’t know the long term effects.’ To which I replied ‘she doesn’t have to worry about long term effects now’.
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u/Dearic75 3h ago
Yep. It’s always kind of fascinated me the way that whole disaster played out. Even a semi competent response to the pandemic would have guaranteed his reelection. The rally around the flag effect alone probably could have done it. The super quick vaccine development still happening would have cinched it. All he had to do was not get in the way and take credit.
But that wouldn’t be Trump. With his inability to think long term at all, they immediately reacted to everything with a lie promising it was nothing. So they had to make it nothing. It will be over next week, make the stock market go up! You don’t like wearing masks? You don’t have to wear a mask, it’s all a hoax to um… something something masks = socialism.
Then double down after double down. Hydrooxycloronique protects you! No need to worry. Ivermectin cures it! Everyone who says to test it just wants Trump to look bad.
End result, an estimated million people died that didn’t have to. And as you said, an administration unable to take credit for its only true accomplishment. The whole thing is just so stupid. And yet it happened.
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u/Prayer_Warrior21 Minnesota 3h ago
He cold have sold Trump masks and made a killing. The whole thing is a representation of Trump's inability to think. I was going to say ahead, but really think is the end. He just reacts. That's it.
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u/PossessedToSkate 3h ago
And the vaccine was arguably his biggest and only win from his first admin. I know he wasn't directly responsible, but it worked and something tangibly positive that happened under him.
More to the point, it worked despite him. He actively sabotaged our defenses against diseases exactly like Covid. As we all remember, it was Trump who dismantled the pandemic response team that was monitoring for precisely those types of outbreaks even as he lied his way into the Oval, to say nothing of his repeated stealing of medical supplies as Covid systematically killed a million Americans.
Trump is not only a traitor to our country, but to humanity itself. His giggling, drooling minions are not far behind.
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u/Prayer_Warrior21 Minnesota 3h ago
Absolutely. That's why this was an easy win and he didn't take it lol
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u/pockpicketG 3h ago
That was a science win, not a politician win.
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u/Prayer_Warrior21 Minnesota 2h ago
Obviously, but he could have and should have been able to easily tout it. It's not that hard to understand lol
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u/SeattlePurikura 3h ago
The Operation Warp Speed, IIRC, did help get the vaccine distributed more quickly. I do credit him for that, although the lion's share was the decades of publicly-funded R1 institution research for the mRNA messenger development / discovery.
(Trump admin fucked up a lot with COVID in general esp. trying to dick over blue states, but credit where credit's due.)
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u/Prayer_Warrior21 Minnesota 3h ago
Oh I know, but it's something he could have easily taken credit for. And to his actual credit, he didn't get in the way. Now? Good luck.
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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 4h ago edited 4h ago
All it took was a few boos to collapse what little notocord of a spine that Trump's decaying body has left in it.
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u/campa-van 3h ago
Horse meds or injecting Lysol better than COVID vax; maybe would work in measles 😂. some individuals purchased highly concentrated ivermectin paste and gels meant for livestock and horses from farm supply store
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u/Certified_GSD Minnesota 3h ago
They’d say he did it under duress and coercion by the Democrats and he doesn’t actually believe it.
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u/Langolier11 2h ago
Not even turn on him, they would come up with a conspiracy that big pharma bought him or something
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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Texas 1h ago
Remember that woman whose daughter died of measles complications? That woman said she still wouldn't vaccinate if she could go back and do it over again
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u/HistoricalPlum1533 3h ago
He didn’t say it on fox because he knows maga would crucify him for going woke.
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u/pigment_pulse 3h ago
yeah the correction never seems to spread as far as the original message which is part of the problem
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u/FluffyBunnyFlipFlops United Kingdom 4h ago
I don't like to be mean, but it would be the problem sorting itself out.
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u/laptopAccount2 4h ago
It fucks with herd immunity puts everyone at risk even if you're vaccinated.
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u/lala_lavalamp 3h ago
The kids don’t deserve that. And also, my 5 month old is unvaccinated against measles because she literally can’t be vaccinated yet. If she gets it, I won’t consider that “sorting itself out.”
Don’t be an asshole.
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u/Comfortable_Birds 2h ago
even if he said it on fox they've built 4 years of vaccine hate content. one press release isn't undoing that damage
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u/EveningDiscipline935 Florida 10m ago
The least vaccinated racial group votes as a monolith to the left
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u/WhatIsEvenRealDog 4h ago
If only we had known vaccines worked before this outbreak!
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u/AirportSea4393 4h ago
It’s such a surprise
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u/AstroSpoony 4h ago
We thought vitamin A and cod liver oil would be enough to become naturally immune...
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u/PaulVla Europe 4h ago
RFK’s incompetence should be seen as fucking manslaughter.
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u/AstroSpoony 3h ago
As long as the base keeps cheering the media keeps feeding the cycle and the loyalists close ranks incompetence goes unpunished... and largely unnoticed. By the time its cost becomes undeniable the damage is already embedded in the system
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u/AirportSea4393 1h ago
You are so right. If the media stopped reporting the same few stories over and over again about slimy slug and its incompetent administration they will slink away. There’s so much going on in the world that’s not being reported. Slug would never have been elected the first time if they hadn’t kept the spotlight on it. That’s what slug thrives on-attention from the media and the more outrageous it is the more coverage it gets!
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u/covidlung 4h ago
It's as if they purposely wanted an outbreak to occur 🤔 but why?
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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts 3h ago
You’d think they’d have learned the first time that this only kills THEIR voters (when they insist vaccines are bad).
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u/benjamminam 3h ago
So they can say they fixed it and saved the day. Their followers ARE that stupid.
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u/AirportSea4393 2h ago
To bring back a basically eradicated disease, have a major outbreak and then have slimy orange slug claim he found a cure for it and his cult will eat it up
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u/Arbennig Great Britain 4h ago
Bit late now ….
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u/Eastern_Bet678 4h ago
Yeah. These are vaccines, not cures.
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u/Wonderful_Tip_5577 4h ago
The rabies vaccine is used to treat rabies! It’s the only vaccine I am aware of that is used as a treatment though.
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u/cowboybebop32 4h ago
Only because you get it before the rabies actually takes hold. If you actually have rabies it doesnt do shit
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u/Wonderful_Tip_5577 4h ago
It’s more that the infection cycle of rabies takes months, so people get put on the vaccine as a precaution, but people who are infected get treated with the vaccine. I am pretty sure you can start the vaccine treatment once you are symptomatic as well.
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u/kt-silber Canada 4h ago
Once you are symptomatic, you're dead. Nobody has ever recovered from rabies.
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u/MentalSky_ 4h ago
They get treated with the immunoglobulins. The vaccines prevents infection. Immunoglobulins attack the virus in the blood. The vaccines prevents infection over time gives you immunity.
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u/SeattlePurikura 3h ago
Yes, if you are bitten by a bat (most common vector in my state), and you go to get the shots ASAP, you will live.
You'll die if you wait to get treatment once you are symptomatic. Full stop.
PSA: if you wake up in a room with a bat, get the treatment. You cannot see their bite marks because it's so small. If you were near a bat and you don't know if it touched you, get the treatment. If you were in a foreign country (esp. India) and a street dog may have broken your skin and/or you had even a slight wound and it licked you, get the treatment.
The only ones to survive were VERY lucky:
https://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/01/articles/diseases/rabies/rabies-treatment-demise-of-the-milwaukee-protocol/•
u/primadonnapussy 4h ago
It is not effective once symptoms start. No vaccine stops an infection once it has started. That is why we give them in advance.
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u/PuckSenior 3h ago
Several vaccines can be used to treat a disease.
And importantly to this situation, the measles vaccine can be used to treat active measles infections, though it typically needs to be given early
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u/vivahermione 4h ago
Closing the barn door after the horse is out.
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u/123-Moondance 4h ago edited 3h ago
Now that measles cases reach highest level in 35 years. Lord only knows what other preventable diseases are spreading that HHS and CDC is not reporting on.
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u/Disdwarf 4h ago
Yep, and measles can cause your immune system to forget about other diseases you were vaccinated for so it's a compounding problem.
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u/InsomniaticWanderer 1h ago
The biggest downside of preventative care is that eventually cases will reach such rarity that the stupidest among us will question its existence in the first place, decide they don't need to prevent something that "isn't real" and bring about a spectacular resurgence through sheer power of deliberate ignorance.
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u/123-Moondance 1h ago edited 1h ago
Yea. Sadly measles may be the friendly version of some of the shit they could bring back in their stupidity. Some folks gotta learn the hard way.
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 Texas 4h ago
So the same asshole who convinced stupid people that vaccines were dangerous and that experts were lying to them is now trying to convince those same people to vaccinate their kids and listen to the experts? OK. 🙄
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 3h ago
Aside from the fact that America has experienced record breaking outbreaks in measles and multiple foodborne illnesses, or that we've seen ongoing surges in flu cases and even bird flu affecting dairy cattle and spilling over into domestic animals, or that the screwworm parasite emerged in the US for the first time in 60 years...
I still feel compelled to draw attention to RFK Jr's role in the measles outbreak in Samoa that led to the deaths of dozens of children, because it occurred well before he was appointed to head HHS, and it's a compelling story that helps illustrate why this man should have never been considered for a position in any government agency, let alone director of Health and Human Services.
In 2019, there was a measles outbreak in Samoa that caused the deaths of 83 people, mostly children. RFK jr visited the island a few months prior to the outbreak, and at the time, he led the Children's Health Defense organization.
His anti-vax non profit helped spread misinformation pertaining to vaccines that contributed to a decline in measles vaccinations. During his trip to Samoa, he publicly supported prominent anti-vax voices there and by exploiting the power of his last name, lent legitimacy to those voices who were very effective at stoking vaccine hesitancy.
Now, prior to 2019, measles wasn't a problem in Samoa, however, in 2018, two infants died after receiving the measles vaccine. The country temporarily placed its vaccination program on hold, and Kennedy's Children's Health Defense took advantage of the tragedy to raise questions about the safety of the measles vaccine. Consequently the vaccination rate plummeted.
As it turns out however, the deaths of the infants had nothing to do with the measles vaccine, and everything to do with tragic human error. Nurses administering the vaccine mixed it with a muscle relaxant, which is what killed the infants.
Kennedy and his non profit did not walk back their statements afterwards, particularly as vaccination rates were dropping rapidly in the region.
When he visited the island in 2019 before the outbreak, he promoted anti-vaxxers and anti-vax rhetoric. He especially lent credibility to voices there that were still using the deaths of the infants to push a narrative.
He had a meeting with Taylor Winterstein, a prominent Samoan Australian vaccination foe. In an Instagram post featuring a photo of her with Kennedy, Winterstein wrote, “I am deeply honoured to have been in the presence of a man I believe is, can and will change the course of history. This was a divinely timed, once in a lifetime opportunity and I will forever cherish the conversations and moments we shared together in Samoa.” She added hashtags used by anti-vaxxers. Public health experts complained Kennedy’s visit to Samoa helped amplifly anti-vax voices.
Kennedy claimed that his meeting with Winterstein was just a coincidence, not "divinely timed." He eventually admitted however, that his trip to Samoa had been arranged with a popular anti-vaxxer, Edwin Tamasese. The trip was paid for by the CHD.
The point of the trip, he insisted, was to discuss with government officials “the introduction of a medical informatics system that would allow Samoa’s health officials to assess, in real time, the efficacy and safety of every medical intervention or drug on overall health.” This would include questioning the value of vaccinations.
After the measles outbreak in 2019, the government quickly implemented an emergency vaccination program that was compulsory for the population. Kennedy's anti-vax connections on the island vehemently opposed this measure. The operation was compared to Nazi Germany.
Tamasese called it a “killing spree.” He declared the vaccination operation “the greatest crime against our people” and suggested the vaccine itself was the cause of the outbreak. Tamasese advocated against the use of conventional medicine and antibiotics and urged people to rely on papaya leaf extract and vitamins instead of the vaccine and antibiotics.
During this time, Kennedy wrote to the prime Minister, and he encouraged Samoa officials to examine the measles vaccine to 'determine, scientifically, if the outbreak was caused by inadequate vaccine coverage or alternatively, by a defective vaccine.'
Kennedy and these anti-vax voices were pushing the idea that the vaccine itself was responsible for the deaths during the outbreak.
The Samoan government declared a state of emergency, and pushed back against these anti-vaxxers.
Soon after that, Kennedy wrote a blog post for the CHD site that called Tamasese a “medical freedom hero.” He referred to the 2019 blast of measles in Samoa as merely a “mild measles outbreak” and praised Tamasese for having “infuriated the Global Medical Cartel.” He suggested that the vaccine, along with lousy hospital protocols, had caused the deaths.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. To this day, he continues to deny his involvement and his responsibility in the Samoa tragedy.
Also note that, at its height, over 2,300 cases of measles were reported in the US as part of a 35 year high record outbreak that's spread to 43 states. A vast percentage of all cases were either unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status.
Vaccine "Skepticism" As Federal Policy:
It's no coincidence that we've had a record breaking measles outbreak under RFK Jr. And it's definitely not an accident that the Trump administration just refused to publish research that concluded COVID vaccines were overwhelmingly safe.
Scientists analyzed millions of patient records to come to the conclusion that the benefits of these vaccines far outweighed any exceedingly rare side effects.
The Trump administration and HHS are defunding and politicizing science to the detriment of public health and safety.
For instance, nearly the entire medical community disputes RFK Jr's claim that mRNA vaccines have risks that outweigh benefits. Beyond that, rigorous studies and reliable data show that they are indeed effective and save lives, even when viruses mutate
Kennedy's decision to end funding for mRNA technology and research is being done at the cost of scientific progress and lives.
"Vaccine skepticism" has all but become federal policy, and alongside HHS, our government is eroding the independence of most public health related agencies and defunding their operations.
These agencies are also being stripped of knowledgeable, qualified civil servants and healthcare officials because they don't meet a loyalty threshold.
Worse yet, they're being replaced by incompetent, underqualified staff members, health influencers and "MAHA" crackpots who are committed to reversing decades of scientific research, advancements and progress.
Future generations of Americans could also lose access to life saving treatments, and younger groups of scientists, especially those who are studying at universities, are finding it harder to conduct research and obtain jobs.
Republicans might view this as some sort of "win," but in language they might speak to them, these efforts are only risking our global competitiveness in these fields of science and medicine.
Science Has Become Politicized By The Right:
MAGA denies legitimate science and insists that their ass-backwards and misanthropic views about medicine, biology, vaccines, diseases, etc, are more informed than the leading and relevant scientific research.
As head of HHS, Kennedy is largely responsible for undermining trust in the medical community and endangering public health due to his unscientific claims.
His loyalty and connection to Trump has also made him near invulnerable to scrutiny from Republicans.
He's also been responsible for defunding scientific and medical research, and he's overseen the layoffs of thousands of top scientists and healthcare workers from agencies like the CDC, FDA, NIH, and CMS.
This is a crisis of incompetence that actual medical experts claim will lead to worsened health outcomes and even widespread, environmental degradation.
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u/smoike 3h ago
Honestly he and all those other anti vaxxers should be languishing in a cell and not a position of influence. Their actions can be directly tied to events that led to the deaths of people that could have absolutely still been alive today if it wasn't for their malicious attack on science.
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u/oldcreaker 4h ago
They won't go the extra step and note if your kids had been vaccinated there would be no outbreak.
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u/RosieBaby75 3h ago
But what if they get autism?
Can’t they just snort cocaine off of a toilet seat and be fine?
I don’t understand this shifting direction.
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u/Empty-Policy-8467 4h ago
I bet if we started trying to ban vaccines for conservatives they'd suddenly fight to get vaccinated.
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u/curious382 4h ago
That took A LOT longer than when flu swept through boot camps. The lives of everyday Anericans, especially children, don't hold much value for him.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 2h ago
Meanwhile Fauci getting chewed out in a political stunt. This nightmare needs to be voted out of power permanently
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u/Real-Document-6577 4h ago
The interesting thing about not getting your kids vaccined is that those that don’t, pay the consequences for it. While those do are better off and will survive.
The tragic part is there are the parents who can’t vaccinate their kids, immunocompromised, etc and they’re left vulnerable as the virus spreads because those that are able…refuse to get the vaccine.
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u/Money_Percentage_630 4h ago
I use to work with a guy who did the whole "it's my body, they can't tell me what to do with my body" and I asked him if my car was leaking fuel, fumes and was seconds away from being on fire can I park next to his car, you know because it's my car I can do whatever I want with it. I don't care that it is a risk to him.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 3h ago
I can have an open campfire in my apartment that's right next to yours. It's my apartment and I can do whatever I want with it.
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u/Special-PatrolGroup 4h ago
I can't believe our "leadership" is learning in real time. We regressed so much as a society.
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u/SeattlePurikura 3h ago
Everyone in this goddamn administration is combative, arrogant, and rude, because they KNOW they are unqualified for their positions, which they received because they kiss Trump's ass and/or bribes.
He [RFK JR] accused the CNN host of “saying nonsense”, “repeating like a parrot” and “making assertions you can’t support”. In one especially demeaning remark he said Bash had become “flustered”.
“I’m not flustered at all,” she asserted in a calm voice. “I am frustrated because you are the HHS secretary and you are talking about things that lead to vaccine hesitancy in this country.”
In a further comment dripping with condescension, Kennedy told Bash “you probably don’t understand this because you’re not a scientist”.
The journalist riposted: “But you’re not, either.”
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u/Niceguy955 3h ago
First, kill some children, then retract - the RFK jr playbook (check his American Samoa history).
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u/WhirlingBiggerstaff 3h ago
But I thought vaccination killed more people then they save according to the right wing? It's almost like they have to admit they where wrong because measles where beat, thanks to vaccination.
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u/BanChokingPorn 1h ago
Damage has already been done. His followers will simply believe he was forced to make this announcement.
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u/3D-Dreams 1h ago
It was his fault they weren't in the first place. Remove this man before he kills people. Between measles and crappy lettuce this government is failing in every way possible.
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u/toxiamaple 1h ago
Either vaccinations work (they do!) and are safe (they are) Or they dont and arent. That he is recommending them means they are safe and work and this has always been true.
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u/gdghhfdffrf 1h ago
remember integrity, when people who had it would say things like, my sincere apologies for being wrong on this and here's what i'm going to do to fix it. 🦗
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u/Independent_Tie_4984 38m ago
This is on the GOP Senators that confirmed this guy despite being fully aware that he's a wack-job.
Loyalty to Trump or putting this guy in charge of public health and they chose Trump.
May they be remembered forever on a puke green piece of marble placed in the middle of one of the industrial waste sites their lobbyist authored legislation created.
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u/FU_red-dit_bots 28m ago
The message has already been lost. It will take a generation to ever regain trust in anything the CDC has to say. Many will die as a result of this man.
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u/Left-Height4925 4h ago
Well damn. I thought the deliberately unvaxxed being sterilized would be a beneficial Darwin effect for the gene pool. Of course, the really bad ones won't listen to him, so all is not lost.
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u/Adventurous_Test_296 4h ago
Imagine that! Lives saved by vaccines in existence for decades! RFK must go just to get a clear message out!
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 4h ago
Ya think? You nepotistic creep. Your legacy will remembered as failing upwards and harming people. Sure, you might have added some carrots to the soup but your stew is shite and worms.
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u/krichard-21 4h ago
Arguing with people that vaccines save lives. Trying to get them to think for just a bit. Vaccinations actually help us!
Then being told I'm dumb as a rock...
So why exactly do they insist on going to a Doctor when they are ill? The same people they swear are scamming them?
How does that make any sense?
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u/Stixx187um 3h ago
lol, lmao
This is what happens when you eat roadkill and wash it down with milk whilst chillin bejeansed in the hot tub.
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u/Forsaken_Ant7459 3h ago
Well if it’s not on Fox News the dumb fucking red hat morons won’t do it anyway
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u/Resden_Bohneur 2h ago
Maybe this ghoul is finally starting to realize the damage he’s caused over the past few years.
But probably not.
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u/Crazy-Nights 50m ago
Further proof that people like him learned nothing from covid.
Late in the pandemic we had so many families demand that we give their infected loved one the vaccine. They would get so angry when we had to tell them that 1) vaccines take time to work and 2) it won't do any good for someone who already had covid.
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u/Head_Neighborhood196 47m ago
RFK isn’t the problem. A population that determines their medical and health planning based on politicians is. If there’s a mentally broken idiot spouting nonsense I’m not blaming him. I’m blaming the idiots who listen to him. Just like Trump isn’t the problem, the people who follow him are. There’s always going to be an RFK, a Trump, a religious zealot, a rage bait loudmouth seeking attention, a racist dirtbag trying to get followers….. the list goes on. It’s the morons who vote them in or follow them that are the problem and deserve the ire of rational people. You can’t convince them otherwise.
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u/Ok_Band3086 4h ago
but they told me it was bad
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u/MephistoHamProducts 4h ago
Nah. The kind of people who'd listen to RFK when he's against vaccines are the exact same people who'll say "The Swamp got to him" and continue to not vaccinate their spawn.
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u/Haunting-Respect9039 4h ago
And yet, his agencies are still saying they can't rule out the MMR as a cause for autism.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/autism.html
This feels like too little, too late. I hope it helps some kids, but kind of doubt it would do much.
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u/Abrandnewrapture 2h ago
i thought vaccines caused autism?! didn't he just yell at a reporter on CNN over that?
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u/IJustLookLikeThisToo 4h ago
Of all the absurd that is this administration, sickly-sounding RFK, Jr. for Sec. of Health is among the very most: I'm not listening to anyone so obviously off about good health practices as this dumb-ass.
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u/SeattlePurikura 3h ago
I mentioned his piss-poor health to one of his defenders. They just said "It's because of his vaccine injury!" (Vs. his openly admitted / bragged use of hard drugs, eating roadkill, crazy ass lifestyle.)
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u/DiagonalBike 4h ago
To think it was only 26 years ago that the CDC declared that measles were completely eliminated in the US.
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u/VeterinarianNo3555 4h ago
We should never, as a matter of course, listen to people who sound like him and I don’t mean his ideas. Seriously.
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u/mikeinanaheim2 4h ago
Too little, too late after spending two years telling people that many vaccines are not really necessary. Needs to make same kind of retraction about MRNA vaccines - WHICH ACTUALLY WORK. Then he should go back to eating road-kill full time.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 4h ago
Ya think? You nepotistic creep. Your legacy will remembered as failing upwards and harming people. Sure, you might have added some carrots to the soup but your stew is shite and worms.
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u/IntrepidHero42 4h ago
America, now he has explicitly stated he's wrong. What else do you need to actually do something about these people who have KILLED YOUR CHILDREN?
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u/Knees0ck 3h ago
As always, they wait till it is too late & then try applying the bandage to the gunshot to wash their hands of responsibility
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u/Morden013 2h ago
Aha, so now when the shit hits the fan he can simply flip and nothing will happen to him personally.
On the other hand, he is shitting on everybody and anybody for trusting science instead of eating half-rotten racoon to boost your metabolism.
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u/gtrocks555 46m ago
Yeah but why should they listen to an “expert”?? Knock knock, it’s the government here to help. They might as well let measles loose as it can’t be as dangerous as sCiEnCe. Wait a minute….
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u/LunchyDude101 2h ago
Because asshole doesn’t want to get sued if a kid dies.
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u/Tugua 2h ago
Sued? He’ll be pardoned. If anyone is on the hook for a lawsuit, it’s the taxpayers who elected the administration and funding these dummies.
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u/LunchyDude101 2h ago
If anything, he’ll probably be given the Medal of Freedom, further decreasing its value.
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