Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    1 day ago

    Now imagine if instead of recommending vaccination during an outbreak, it was recommended before anything happened. Crazy thought, I know. Only way this could have happened is by not having a complete moron obsessed with his countless delusions as the fucking head of the health department of one of the largest country in the world, is all.

    • Napster153@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      19 hours ago

      Capitalism when the plague outbreak shatters an economy and all the money you piled on isn’t going to save you from sickness that doesn’t give a damn.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    1 day ago

    The sad thing is that millions of people have actually been looking to him for medical advice, which is like taking wardrobe and makeup advice from Ronald McDonald.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    1 day ago

    “I lost my virginity to an all metal toilet in Guam. It was Robert Downey Sr’s 43rd birthday party, I was bill cosby’s +1 and we were celebrating at the corporate training restaurant for Cici’s pizza. The toilet penetrated me with the confidence of an Olympic fencing champion and I saw the face of god. They served corn dogs, but reverse what you’re picturing.”

    -RFK Jr., 12 years old, mumblng to himself and convulsing before passing out in a ditch after snorting the entire contents of a full size fire extinguisher

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
    27·
    1 day ago

    He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.

  • aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    Imagine one of the dumbest persons on earth who is also a well known antivax telling you that you have to get some vaccines… and yet many people will still firmly oppose… We do live in the dumbest timeline.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    105·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • gedfromgont@piefed.caEnglish
    124·
    2 days ago

    […] 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!

  • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.todayEnglish
    145·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        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.