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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocated for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine during a visit to West Texas on Sunday to comfort two families whose children died of the disease.

https://archive.ph/hIrAC

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

Someone got a blank next to him and severed his link to nurgle?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hahahahahahaha have fun with that, Texas, and other antivax-friendly states. I’m out of sympathy. You shit your bed, now lie in it.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The problem isn't with the idiots who voted for it though. The problem is that the children, you know the innocent ones who can't make decisions, are the ones who get to suffer. As are the people around the idiots who have weaker immune systems, and who may have not voted for the stupid or may just be too old and/or vulnerable. I love watching the actual idiots get their comeuppance, but I hate seeing innocent people suffer for their arrogant selfishness.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Can I add to this.

There’s a lot of people that aren’t able to get the vaccine who otherwise would be vaccinated.

Immunocompromised, allergy to MMR, chemo, steroids and other meds. The list goes on. These people are now in danger of suffering from hearing loss, brain damage, going blind, lung damage, learning disabilities seizures…and death.

All because Tinfoil Totin Tammy wants to be a Facebook Pharma Fighter but wound up putting the “no” in immunology” instead.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

allergy to MMR

That's my wife. To say we're worried would be an understatement.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did anyone check what the greatest intellectual Joe Rogan thinks of his change of mind?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

IIRC, RFK’s stances on health issues were mostly based on a conspiracy theory that the institutions he now leads were deliberately burying studies and mass amounts of data. If that were true, he’d obviously be crowing about it at every opportunity.

Instead, he found out that his conspiracy theories are bullshit, and that he’s now beholden to Trump and MAGA fascism. He’s going to accidentally say something against the narrative from time-to-time. I’m sure Trump or Elon or whoever is in charge will make him do something humiliating to atone for it.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not defending RFK, Jr. it’s extremely sad that the apple fell so very far from the tree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Shut up.

Your whole argument relies on:

  1. Him being able to read

  2. Him bothering to read

  3. Him understanding medical research

  4. Him believing it's not all just part of the conspiracy

The chances of all that happening are lower than the chances of winning all the numbers in powerball.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yelling at his underlings and then getting a PowerPoint about it are probably closer to the real situation

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know that everyone likes to joke about RFKJ and his questionable personality, his anti-vax conspiracies, and his brain worm. But did you ever consider that maybe he is naturally a shitty asshole and this is actually the brain worm's work?

Maybe that brain worm was just a cool little guy who used to pop out to say hi until he died. And now his positive vibes occasionally echo through RFKJ's cesspool of a brain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

RFK jr, minor system lord of Sol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

still a larval symbiote, not a mature one. or one of those parasites from Early tng.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

*Second most effective way to prevent spread.

Technically, the most effective way is to eliminate all viable hosts.

Source: I've read World War Z like a dozen times and that scene on the Ukrainian bridge with the RVX gas haunts me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It’s honestly a fascinating book

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocated for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine during a visit to West Texas on Sunday to comfort two families whose children died of the disease.

Driving the news: Both children in Gaines County were not vaccinated when they died of measles, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Maybe they were too young yet? Somehow I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

They were not. Even if they were, typically, mmr is pretty standard for the parents and anyone else who will be coming into contact with a child too young. Because this is the result otherwise

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The worm in gnawing on his brain must have given him a temporary reprieve. Or perhaps there's a more reasonable explanation to Bear Roadkill-Devouring, Whale Guy suddenly changing stance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Those released from nurgles love tend to hate what they become. Im sure grandpa nurgle will embrace him soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 184 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah now that shit might get really serious really quick you're changing your stance? Huh Bobby? I must say I'm a little surprise. You didnt do that the last time you did this.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Feels like he’s admitting the lives lost were his fault.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s more likely that the families of the kids with vitamin A toxicity from his recommended treatment are preparing to sue the government.

https://www.gastroenterologyadvisor.com/news/measles-outbreak-leads-to-dangerous-vitamin-a-toxicity/

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

I doubt that the threat of suing the government would make him change; after all, it won’t be paid out of his pocket. But if the families were being inundated by offers of attorneys to represent them in a civil suit against RFK Jr himself…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It takes awhile to get used to enacting policy that rapidly and publicly kills children.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tell me about it! The last time I couldn't sleep for almost an entire night, I was so annoyed!

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's playing both sides.He's going to go back to saying all the other nonsense shit.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is an argument I have with friends, water is not wet, it makes things wet. It's why firefighters add things like dish soap when they need "wet water."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The water on the other water makes the other water wet, and vice versa

Coming at it from a colloquial definition and not a chemist's definition, though. And I prefer the colloquial definition of "wet".

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Are fish in the sea wet? Or are things wet only when they have some water on them but not all of the water? So then do fish get wet the moment you take them out of the water?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That’s my job actually

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are correct. There is even such a thing as dry water. I was first going to put the sky is blue, but similar arguments can be made there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

We find joy where we can in these crazy times and finding this nothing burger of an argument brings me joy.

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