• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The first phase was the “fuck around and find out”-phase.

      Well, the fucked around and are probably in full damage control now

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      Not really; or rather, they’ve been doing that since day 1. Both Mr. Worm-In-My-Brain and Mr. Orange Baby. In the age of governing through social media there’s no such thing as consistency anymore.

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    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.

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    […] 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!

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      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.

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        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.

        Yes there is, sweetie. It’s this thing called science.

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        As a parent myself it’s quite the dilemma :

        • Will I risk to inflict minor side effets such as fever for a few days AND imaginary side effects like autism to my children ?
        • Or should I put my kids in danger of dying or suffer brain dammage because I obviously know better than decades of research and use of the vaccine with my two degrees in french and english litterature.

        Fuck life is hard

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          As a parent, the bit dilema i face is different diagnostics by different doctors, or different treatments for the same one.

          The dilemma I don’t have is about vaccinations. They all agree vaccination is the right thing to do following the official schedule.

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          Lol, minor side effects like fever. :)

          I wish, man. That would be amazing.

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          That was kind of you to grant them an exit from the ratio-destroyed ignorance expressed in their comment. I’ll be using this line - thank you.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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

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      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.

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        Gotta be the latter. I think they’re all looking at Grandpa and seeing how long he has left - and everyone, every one of them is eyeing that big chair.

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      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.