At what point do we get to demand hazard pay from our employers for going into the office?
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I get it. By giving everyone a measles infection, their immune system will be trained on the pathogen, and learn how to fight it in the future so you don't get infected again. That's a brilliant idea, but maybe we can play it safe by giving them just a little bit of measles so they don't have to deal with the associated risks?
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"Dont trust the medical institutions until you're sick" is just the self-harm logical extension version of the plague of right-wing myopia of broke self-reliance americanism and detriment individualism. American culture is completely unsalvageable
I fucking can't with the news anymore. Holy shit.
The only correct answer to RFK saying that is: "No it wouldn't."
There is zero scientific evidence that supports his claim. Him saying this is about akin to someone saying that we should build only brick houses because the sky hates the color red which is why it is blue. It makes no sense and so does his argument. But that's to be expected from someone who quite literally has zero formal training in medicine.
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What if we were to somehow make the virus inert first, and then give it to everyone? Maybe he's onto something there...
Oh wait that's a vaccine
He’s so gross.
Goodness, this guy is a fucking charlatan. Perfect man for the current administration.
Let the entirety of the US have measles, and a good percentage will die, another good part will be scarred for life and have disabilities from it and the country will collapse
rfk is a terrorist who wants to use biological weapons.
How to kill a lot of children.
Louis Pasteur is rolling over in his grave.
Brainworms like measles.
Measles is the mot infections virus we know of. If not for the vaccine, we would all get infected. I guess that's what he means.
No, don't interpret the Pubelicans words. They mean exactly what they say. There is no hidden meaning or "what he really means". For years the news and media did the "what he probably means" with Trump and it was not true, he literally meant what he said. Don't do that for this piece of shit, if he can't speak clearly and truthfully then he's unfit for his position. We as a people should not have to read between the lines.
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That's exactly how a vaccine works you dummy it just uses an inert version of the virus that isn't as dangerous.
Looks like it is really hard for onion to make a parody: https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-vows-to-make-measles-deaths-so-common-they-wont-be-upsetting-anymore/
Edit: and you know what's crazy? He is advocating that everyone should get measles, because when he was young that was normal.
His voice is caused by disease called spasmodic dysphonia, which is also linked to childhood measles or mumps:
It can be better if only Republicans got measles. They're the ones that like them right? Why don't they all get them?
"the vaccine is useful for some protection and for other people it wanes"
Yeah and the measles makes some people immune and for some people they die.
Edit: also, what kind of argument is that in the first place? "Yeah well sometimes it provably provides a positive benefit to people's lives in a statistically significant way, and sometimes it's neutral with no downsides????"
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Ask not what your immune system can do for you, but what you can do for your immune system
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