Originally published at: How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues - TPM – Talking Points Memo
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We have forgotten how horrible these childhood diseases are, so people focus on speculative risks instead of the very real ones. I pity the children condemned to a life of suffering by their parents’ poor choices, and I pity the parents who will see their children die or maimed due to preventable illnesses.
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Never could figure out why even Trump would put a vaccine denier and nutjob into such a role. I don’t know how the 1918 flu epidemic compares to, say, the covid pandemic, but one must wonder. Vaccines are one of the greatest medical inventions ever. They must be employed for every humanitarian reason ever posed.
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So, the vaccine agenda for the country is being established by a former, admitted 14 year heroin addict who openly confessed to sniffing cocaine off of a toilet seat?? Good God Almighty!!
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Nutjobs are a key component of the MAGA coalition.
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It’s yet another instance of stochastic mass manslaughter. One doesn’t deliberately kill any one individual specifically, rather, by deliberate action one kills multitudes of indivituals chosen at random. Whether one particular individual may die as a result of these actions has a non-zero probability; that many will die is a certainty. Parents lose their children to Moloch while talking heads gibber about concerns.
Let’s drop the technical jargon and call it what it is: mass murder. Not just the idiot RFK Jr. is guilty. So are all those who allow him to continue knowing full well that he’s full of shit.
ETA: instead of
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
the headline should be
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Kills Children As Certainly As Night Follows Day
and continuing
while Republicans watch.
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An easier question is why wouldn’t he? Answer: no reason.
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RFK Jr is nothing short of a mass murderer, plain and simple. This is despicable.
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RFK has already contributed to the deaths of children in SOMOA…HE went there to conduct an experiment..in a small village , he used 80 children, vaxxinated 40 with measles vax and gave the other 40 a placebo…the placebo kids did ok whne the measles struck the village.the other 40 all became very sick..some died…RFK packed his diddy abg and left; i read this in a journal in a readers digest magazine. some time ago… read it because i had 5 kids and that it was about vaxx.i it was interesting.
Link?
From Lancet:
A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa’s 2019 measles outbreak.3 In this island nation of 200 000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa’s Ministry of Health cited Kennedy’s visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment.4 Kennedy’s non-profit, Children’s Health Defense, contributed to this atmosphere of mistrust just months before the outbreak.4 Samoa’s experience underscores how even one prominent anti-vaccine figure can ignite a public health crisis.
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