Oh how the turns have tabled.
To everyone saying broken clock and a glimmer of hope, you just need to read the article that it isn’t. He was just cornered and had no room to wiggle out of it.
Any hope that Kennedy’s measles statement might indicate a change of heart were dashed in the rest of the CNN interview in which he turned combative. Batting off questions from Bash, the health secretary responded with personal attacks.
He 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.”
Kennedy used the CNN exchange to spread further misinformation about other aspects of public health. He claimed that both respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that is a major cause of infant mortality and Lyme disease were caused by manipulation of germs in laboratories.
which is it, vaccinate or not to vacicnate. anti-vaxxers are unlikely to vacciante.
Yes. Because they don't trust the vaccinations and won't accept the risk of side effects to their body. Because if those side effects hit them, there is no help to get anywhere.
There isn't even a way to prove that a random symptom that occurs in your body may be from a vaccine. There is absolutely no way to know where it came from.
As a parent myself it's quite the dilemma :
Fuck life is hard
I think you forgot the /s
[...] Kennedy told Bash “you probably don’t understand this because you’re not a scientist”.
The journalist riposted: “But you’re not, either.”
Lmao! Well done!
I have received +3 Mental Damage from reading that first bit.
Even if we could magically vaccinate every single American today, the virus has a foothold and will spread by usually transmission. People will still go to work, school, shopping, social events etc. There will be more deaths. RFK llike to moron he is, will probably use that to say that vaccines arent effective.
Vaccinating now is still helpful, so if you're not covered, get covered! Tell everyone you know.
The health secretary’s call for parents to vaccinate their children for measles contrasts starkly with the many years in which Kennedy has been a leading proponent of misinformation questioning the efficacy and safety of vaccinations. Even since he became the country’s top health official, he has depicted a measles vaccination as a personal choice and claimed inaccurately that the power of the inoculation is waning.
Children are dead because of what he chose to say.
He went on to blame the outbreaks on religious communities who eschew vaccines and on global health conditions.
I mean... a broken clock is right twice a day, I suppose. But he should not be in the position he has been appointed to. More people are dying.
Don't worry... It'll only take another 20 years to get back the herd immunity we already lost. And that's assuming the idiots who listened to him in the first place don't decide this is a liberal psyop and they know he REALLY means NOT to get the vaccination.
Yeah they aren’t likely to listen to anyone tell them something that doesn’t fit their cult narrative. Some will mental gymnastics their way to getting vaccinated, but kore will mental gymnastics their way to ignoring his statement, if they even hear it in the first place.
Half his audience are those religious nuts so he is effectively throwing his audience under the bus. The only people who will be his audience are the crunchy Karen types who have convinced themselves that they are different from the other girls.
To be honest im kind of surprised he backtracked, i was fully certain he would let people die and perpetuate an outbreak just to stick to his schtick
Before bending the knee to Trump, RFK Jr. said he believed the FDA was suppressing data on a host of issues. It’s likely he’s now been aware for quite some time that isn’t the case. Maybe the full weight of how wrong he is finally has an effect on him.
That, or he’s looking to distance himself from Trump like so many others. Blood in the water.
I'm assuming someone finally told him he could later face consequences for this. Not that he will, but perhaps he just got a little paranoid of what could happen if the world got saner at some point.
You mean continue to let people die and perpetuate the already record outbreak?
He still denied the rest of the thing about vaccine though.
But… what about the autism?
What about the AUTISM??1?
I need more! My database looks like shit!
It was since discovered this is caused by women abusing Tylenol.
Oh yeah it's TOTALLY caused by Tylenol you guys we figured it out
(it is not caused by Tylenol)
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-tylenol-and-autism
WOW TYLENOL CAN EDIT THE DNA IN YOUR GAMETOCYTES TO MAKE AUTISTIC KIDS WOW
Suddenly worth it or smth
Ohhhh that's gonna piss off the plague rats.
Hahaha can’t wait to see the MAHA morons whine about this. 😂
Are you floofing kidding me
Tell those kids he killed in American Samoa to get vaccinated
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