I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.

My favorite JFK conspiracy is that no one killed him. His head just did that.

I like to imagine that he entered a Mandela trance that gave him a peek into our timeline where he saw RFK Jr. Then his head blew up.

You know, there's something called "rule of three"...

Head not worth shooting i guess, even the worm inside it is found dead, probably from suicide.

the worms give him immunity.cant assasinated more than 1 worm at a time.

Yah while I'm aware of the situation and what's been said, what has been said wasn't exactly from a highly reputable source, it wasn't even from the DHHS, it was someone who "talked to" RFK, and somehow every news outlet picked it up.

That all said, it could indeed happen, the administration is unhinged and a spike in covid deaths would be great for their plan of manufactured chaos, but they also have a much longer track-record of leaking crazy implications in order to fuck with the valuation of stocks.

They may also be planning to do the Chairman Trump thing again and leverage their threats for a 10% cut of Moderna and Pfizer's profits. I just don't see them cutting off a profitable company for no other reason than an-anti vax narrative they never really cared about, and just pushed to fleece the country's stupidest fucks.

All in all, it's way too unverified and unpredictable to know for sure what's going to happen, however this infographic/poster thing is really terrible. It's framed like an announcement, posted in first-person, and has no links or sources. It's so terrible I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone in the administration made it and leaked it also.

Go get your boosters/vaccines and your kid's vaccines anyway, it shouldn't take this to do the right thing.

I guess they're not authorizing the licensure of them, so that's why it's so tentative. He's doing the trump vague thing, so you can't go after him directly and then slowly take things away.

The rise in COVID comes as the Trump administration has delayed the rollout of the updated vaccine for the fall. Last year, the federal government had fully green-lighted the annual reformulation of the vaccine by June, in time for a rollout that began in September.

This year, however, the Department of Health and Human Services led by vaccine skeptic Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has in effect delayed the rollout of this fall’s COVID shot.

“Updated COVID-19 vaccines have been delayed this year due to federal policy changes, and we are awaiting [Food and Drug Administration] licensure of this season’s products,” the L.A. County Department of Public Health said in a statement to The Times. “This means availability in September may be later than what people experienced last fall.”

The California Department of Public Health also warned that because the federal government hasn’t made decisions on licensure approvals and recommendations, “availability and timing of specific COVID-19 vaccine products may be more limited and occur on a later schedule.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-26/covid-rising-fast-in-california-fueled-by-new-stratus-variant-tied-to-omicron

Please send help - an Albertan

"Pestilence" is such an underused word. They're a lot like locusts.

At the rate that things are devolving, if you have the means, you may consider emigrating somewhere else. And maybe not Canada because we'll probably be invaded by your country in the following years, or months.

Lupus is on the list of conditions that merit a vaccine for the under 65 crowd, since it is an autoimmune disease with immune compromising medications.

It's actually a pretty long list. Being overweight (BMI over 25), having ADHD, depression, being sedentary, being a current or former smoker, having substance misuse disorders, along with all the other ones you'd expect, like asthma, cancer, heart disease, transplant recipients, and anyone who needs a careworker.

As of now, you can self certify as being in one of these groups (you don't need a doctor's note). And your doctor can still recommend it for you if you're not on the list, as long as you don't have an anti vaxxer doc.

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html

Or are extremely delusional and have a terminal savior complex. You'd be surprised to know how much people believe these kinds of bullshits, even if they start out as lies.

"A good liar will eventually believe their own lies if they were truth from the very beginning." - some of the people of the early far-right I could talk to personally. I even heard the "Truth is not on our side" line a bit too much.

Trump’s health department is stacked with people hostile to the idea of public health. The People’s CDC, an anti-COVID advocacy organization, had this to say about NIH Director Bhattacharya in March prior to his confirmation:

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a health economist with a medical degree but no further medical training or practice. He endorsed and promoted mass COVID-19 infections to pursue an impossible to achieve infection-driven herd immunity. His policies such as mass infections relying on natural immunity would have led to even more illness, Long COVID, and deaths across the US. His extraordinarily wrong views on the pandemic include predicting, even late in 2020, that US COVID deaths would not reach 50,000, and assuring Floridians in mid-2021 that enough had been vaccinated – though far more have died since then. Videos from as recent as 2024 continue to show him advocating ineffective treatments for COVID-19 such as ivermectin, opposing layered protections against COVID-19, and belittling the value of important tools such as masking and vaccines.

Instead of focusing on advancing the medical sciences, Bhattacharya wants to intertwine politics and policies at NIH and prioritize funding based on academic freedom instead of innovative and impactful medical and health sciences research. If confirmed as the director of NIH, he will continue to downplay the seriousness of COVID-19 and potentially other infectious diseases, and steer NIH towards investment in ineffective treatments for diseases such as focusing on seroprevalence studies. Ultimately, this will harm and reverse the already monumental discoveries at NIH. He will likely assist Secretary Kennedy’s current efforts to delay and even prevent the development of effective therapeutics for infectious diseases, including COVID-19 – and for Long COVID. Finally, there is no reason to think he will fight this administration’s attacks on NIH staffing and cuts in research funding.

The vaccine has a risk of causing heart complications. It should be monitored. COVID has a much higher risk of heart complications.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9653149/

i wouldnt trust info coming from someone like trumps admin, who is stuffed with his lackeys. especially someone lIKE RFK jr who doesnt believe in vaccines.

The NIH director was appointed by Trump, which came with a pretty strong anti-mask, anti-vaxx, and general 'covid was a hoax' sort of baggage, so he is unfortunately not that credible.

There is a study that correlates to the ages he specifies, but the conclusion is that the risks inflicted by the vaccine were still lower than the risks of COVID itself even for that age group, but no matter how they sliced it the risks either way for the age group was minimal, neither the vaccinne nor COVID were too risky overall. Pre-vaccine chicken pox was deadlier to kids than COVID was to that age group, and we didn't consider that to be particularly risky, mostly worth vaccinating due to heading off the chances for shingles later.

Tldr: us gov is no longer reliable for basically anything good, and can be now considered as explicitly and actively hostile to us all

My understanding is that because of the type of protien that it encodes for, the immunity imparted by the vaccine decreases over time (because of complex immune system reasons). Never to 0%, but lower. The annual booster not only prepares you better for oncoming strains (in theory, when the vaccine research, development, and approval systems work as expected), but re-ups your immunity to existing strains.

The theory as I understand it is that because viruses like COVID-19 pass through populations in waves, your body is developing a very strong short-term immunity to neutralize any immediate "rebound" waves (imagine a wave bouncing off the side of a pool, yes, viruses move through populations like that). It then maintains a weaker, long-term response. By fooling your immune system into thinking you have COVID-19 right now, the vaccine bumps your body ino "short-term" response mode, so your best possible immune response is at the ready if the real thing shows up.

I am not an epidimeologist, but I read a lot of their work from 2020-2023. I might have details wrong, but if it's been >6mo since you've had a booster, you would probably benefit from getting another one.

Waiting for the "sounds like you need new friends" joke, but that's really a bummer. It's difficult to make friends and connect with people as it is, and then this shit polarizes us and makes what used to be a fairly private stance something that would rarely, if ever, come up in friendly conversation. Hopefully they aren't raging Nazis or anything...

I read that it's still effective because the latest version is an ofspin of one strand compatible with the vaccine.