In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments.
He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research.
He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research.
He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved “almost miraculous and instantaneous” recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.
This again is literally what he said in the aftermath of Samoa, victim blaming. “Those ~6000 people that got the measles and 83 people who died were at fault because they were malnourished, not because I mislead them with fearmongering and faulty statistics”. Never mind that once the island widely adopted vaccination in the aftermath of my nonsense measles once again disappeared
The man is a murderer with a confirmed body count and instead of accountability he continues to gain notoriety
I’m still waiting for that natural immunity to ebola to kick in. Am I malnourished?
At this point I don’t think Trump really cares for RFK Jrs viewpoints, but he admires the hell out of his complete disconnect with reality.
He’s well-positioned to kill even more people than ever before. Who knows, he might kill even more than little d did in his first term…
Right, so you’re going to cut all the programs that give poorer people access to said healthy food and medical care, and then allow the state programs that do that to be refunded, and take it juuuuust a step further by being a fucking idiot and saying measles doesn’t affect healthy people? May the universe hit you with the best of what is out there to humble your old stupid ass, you POS.
“Hey, hey, RFKJ, how many kids have you killed today?” should be his greeting whenever he appears in public.
Misread the title as “cringe theories”, which I guess still holds to be honest
BUT hE ResiGned fRom antVax NoNpRofIT.
Fucking ingrates.
What a fucking ghoul
RFK Jr.: “Yes, I am idiot.”
Oh my god. How did we end up here?
TL;DR: Fox News
Probably social media spreading conspiracies too…
So much of everything that is awful today originates with Ronnie Raygun and his “revolution”.
JFK jr. is a warning to the rest of us that anti-corporate, anti-pharma, and anti-government skepticism can devolve into denialism and delusion even for left-thinking people.
JFC, this guy.
HAHAhahahaha Oh man all those kids are gonna die. Ah! Too funn- wait.
Why isn’t anyone stopping this?
Stopping RFK from spreading lies? Or stopping the Texas Measles outbreak?
Yes.
Any reason but the real ones. Because the real reason would imply that it is the parents fault that their kids got sick and died, and they don’t want to hear that.
Ahh, there’s the bullshit I was expecting.
