Like most con men, RFK is using people's ignorance of what odds mean. If the chance of getting sick from swimming in that water is only say one percent, he knows the odds are extremely good that he won't individually get sick, and then he will palm this off as "evidence" that it's all a big fuss over nothing. The park service might know maybe 100,000 people will swim in that water this season, so they'll probably save about a thousand from getting sick by closing the place. Even if somebody who does get sick manages to get the attention of a news outlet, they can be scoffed at as an anomaly. "How do you even know the water was responsible? Where else have you been? You're just looking for attention!"
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Don't worry, he put a spiritual spin on it (probably) so it's ok, it's actually cleansing you see!
What a shitty grandpa.
Wow this is next level stupid, i really thought it was the onion. I'd say i'm even shocked at this demonstration of stupidity, but the fact his grand children are led into this is beyond sad.
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How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality
I think their hidden agenda is actually to bankrupt The Onion.
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In my state if you swim in any body of water it's almost always tainted somehow, maybe not with sewage but perhaps some other toxic pollutant. The only exception I can think of is the man-made reservoirs used for drinking water that people swim...
and pee in.
Jesus Christ what happened to water just being normal, dirty, outside water? How did we fuck it up this badly?
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go go power Darwin!
With modern medicine, we have switched to survival of the richest.
Funny enough not even Steve Jobs level money can save you if you prefer alternative treatments over modern medicine. Of course despite your stupidity you end up stealing a liver that actually someone else deserves more because you are stinking rich but even that does not prevent the inevitable.
Money won't do shit for you if you're too delusional to believe in modern medicine lol
I love that we're literally going back in time. They thought we'd have flying cars and end world hunger, but instead we have to watch our politicians swim in shit water.
Edit: HE TOOK HIS GRANDCHILDREN!?
RFK Jr entered into a tontine with himself. He's the only member.
The fact that people have any thought that this guy is smart or a good person makes me hate humanity.
I'm rooting for chlorea here tbh.
Unfortunately, the proper treatment for cholera is to essentially just keep drinking clean water. To my understanding, cholera was only ever really a problem before we knew about germs/bacteria and we didn't have any infrastructure and our only drinking water was tainted with... more cholera.
So this guy, even if he gets cholera, wouldn't have to do much, lean on our existing pretty good water treatment facilities, and would claim he did it because he's so strong Because he's now a Trill or something.
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Let him swim in the Seine!!!
Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.
...maybe this problem will solve itself?
Worm or sickness? Who will be faster! MAKE YOUR BETS NOW!
numerous century-old municipal sewer lines that run under the park. These lines have cracked over time and leak sewage
This is easy to fix.
Shame the article doesn't say how much the municipality is being fined every day they continue to leak raw sewage into the watershed.
There are these linings that are deployed into old pipes, which would be otherwise costly to replace.
I wonder if there's a legitimate reason this technique couldn't be used here.
It is possible those only work for smaller diameter pipes.
Costly, sure. But easy. There's no design or engineering challenge here.
We just need to assess fines greater than the cost of replacement, and it'll happen.
The only pipelines we should be putting in the ground are for clean water and sanitation. Lots of jobs to be had. Can't find the funding? Take it from the military. Easy.