All y'all dumping on him for being anti-vaccine: You're not wrong, but remember, we want to reward positive behavior! Else, why would anyone ever reverse course?
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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We have to be nice to plague rats or they will kill their children out of spite
Was thinking more along the lines of raising children. You always reward the behavior you want to see, however they get there.
Yeah, a bit sad that the person in charge of the fucking health of the whole US is the last one to get the memo on Earth.
So now when shit really hits the fan you're admitting that vaccines are good, but you of course won't admit you were wrong and I guarantee you that once this is over, you'll again continue with your anti vaccine crusade because of course you will
OK that actually wasn't on my 2025 bingo card
Hilarious that someone admitting the obvious makes the news these days.
Sir! Fresh off the presses, water is wet!
Can my line show up in the press now too?
Is that water, gasp, fluorinated‽‽‽ My pearls!
oh god utah. Can't wait to see all the mormons without front teeth in 20 years.
Absolutely! Fifteen minutes of fame, headed your way!
Buy your "Not vaxxed, not afraid" baby onesie today!
He is just saying that any vaccine created since Jenny McCarthy got up to speed on Andrew Wakefield's nonsense is bad.
All of those other vaccines that did so much good when he was young are fine.
If it didn't come out of "the good old days" of when these people were in their prime it is some liberal conspiracy after all. /s
RFK and the goons have fired medical doctors at the FDA this week because they would not say that MMR vaccine caused autism. Don't believe these clowns have changed their story. This is just more lies and distractions.
Not only has there never been a link shown between autism and vaccines. Autism is genetic. Someone is born autistic. It's not a disease you can contract later in life. From vaccines or anywhere else. Which makes the claim all the more dubious.
~~dubious~~ horseshit
dubious; adj. open to doubt or suspicion
There's no doubt or suspicion.
Oh, is he just going to pretend that he hasn't been spearheading a crusade against vaccines for literal decades?
Yes. This is called lying. This is what these people have been doing for a while now. I don't think this will change soon.
I think he actually thinks the things he says, and is just plain nuts. I don't get the impression rfk doesn't care about people deep down like I do with most of them. I think he's genuinely profoundly stupid.
Cynicism is not really correct here. Maybe if you turn one half of one degree and see literally anything else going on right now, but not here.
He didn't seem to care when he got dozens of kids killed by measles in American Samoa, but now that it's white kids in the metropole he changes his tune...
WOT?! I thought he didn't recommend vaccines until they were safe! Is this a John Kerry style flip-flop???
Flipping to pro vaccine should be seen as a good thing.
I agree, but the amount of anti-vax folks who used RFK getting into the government as "proof" vaccines are bad is pretty astonishing. I'm sure they won't point to him as an example anymore.
Is the brain tissue growing back?
Oh? I thought you said it was vitamin A, you brain worm dumb fuck
Most effective is to get a vaccine before being exposed to Measles ffs.
Why do you think we give herpes vaccines to pre-teens? It's not because we are expecting them to be sexually active, it's because it works better before they are exposed.
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