Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing after two unvaccinated people died from measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There have been 393 confirmed measles cases in 28 counties in Pennsylvania this year, and 2,777 total cases nationally—a 35-year high.

These are the first measles deaths in the United States this year, and in Pennsylvania in more than three decades.

“RFK Jr.’s lies and conspiracy theories are making Marylanders sick,” Democratic Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks wrote Tuesday on X. “RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. Vaccines are safe and effective. Listen to your pediatrician.”

“Measles is officially out of control. How many more people need to die before there is a nationwide call for RFK Jr. to resign?” said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of the pro-science organizing group 3.14 Action. “His anti-science, anti-vaccine policies are killing people and infecting a generation of Americans with dangerous vaccine skepticism that will take years to recover from.”

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[–] 7 points 1 hour ago* (1 child)

Daily reminder that the billionaire class wants most of us dead. They will not give you health care. They will destroy the CDC. They want pandemics to ravage the masses and reduce our numbers. They want our assets and our wealth and they want you dead. They don't want things to be safe. They don't want cars to be safe. They don't want your drinking water to be safe. They want it all to be as hazardous as possible so that the most number of people die.

They are happy when bad things happen to you. And they really believe that they're entitled to the planet. This is all working towards their goal.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago

    When RFK Jr. was born, the measles vaccine hadn't even been created.

    He described himself as a "measles survivor" because he had a very mild case. I'd like to see him go up to a child who is dying of the measles and try to explain how it's not supposed to be that bad.

    I imagine that people like RFK Jr. are the reason that humans invented the idea of hell. There's literally no punishment that the man could possibly receive that would even put the smallest dent in the amount of misery he's needlessly created.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Uhh it leaked earlier today that they're trying to revamp the categories of vaccine so they can reduce the number of required vaccines for everyone including kids. Worst timeline. Could not have made me believe this was possible 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 44 minutes ago

    20 years ago I was at a university that was studying mRNA bombing as a way to deliver "impossible" vaccines. We were young millennials, still dreaming of a better future. We really thought that 80% of cancers would have effective vaccines by the time we were 50.

    Instead, most of us are repeating that MMR is safe, moving up our first colonoscopies, and exhaustedly reminding our parents not to believe anything they see on the Internet. If this isn't the worst timeline it's an honorable fuckin' mention.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Just last week I was looking at the measles stats for 2026 and thought to myself, "huh, no deaths yet." And here we are.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    You cannot shame people who are shameless.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    2? Rookie numbers. 2 don't even register for these morons. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    For every two measles deaths, more boils pop on rfkjr's surface area and her gains armor points but grows more orange and gets softer in the middle

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    I love how (some of) his former supporters are all up in arms over this, but still can't see that everyone else in the administration they voted for is just as bad.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Just wait until people sink their teeth into the beef

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    I'm not sure his resignation would help, clearly Trump is more antivaxx than he is and is breathing down his neck to prove vaccines cause autism. Trump would only replace him with someone more radical.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    Robert roadkill penis eater is not qualified for the job he is employed at, or any other job for that matter.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    What about all the assholes besides him that are there, though? I don't think he was the only dumbfuck anti-enlightenment asshole put into power in these critical government positions.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Lol he killed a shit load of Somali children, two more people ain't gonna mean a thing to him.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 hours ago

    What, ivermectin not working? :p

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    His hanging would be fine

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  • [–] 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    How old were these people?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I looked around at other sources and they’re specifically not releasing info on the people who died due to privacy concerns. I think they may have been children.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    I mean that seems kinda important, don't it? If they're adults then they'd likely be unrelated to any changes in vaccine disinformation.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    they'd likely be unrelated to any changes in vaccine disinformation

    Not necessarily true. If they were vulnerable adults for whom the vaccination had little/no effect or who were immunosuppressed, for whatever reason, herd immunity amongst the younger population would have protected them. Now it doesn't, thanks to the anti-vaxxer in chief.

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