RFK to HHS
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Is 49% fringe? Asking for a friend.Only 51% of Americans believe childhood vaccinations for polio, etc. should be mandatory.
Democracy!
Robert F. Kennedy's approach to vaccine mandates is fairly popular
President-elect Donald Trump nominated for HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is well known as a vaccine skeptic.www.newsweek.com
Then they must have not known anyone that had it.Only 51% of Americans believe childhood vaccinations for polio, etc. should be mandatory.
Democracy!
Robert F. Kennedy's approach to vaccine mandates is fairly popular
President-elect Donald Trump nominated for HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is well known as a vaccine skeptic.
Ten-twenty years ago, I'm guessing many of the parents saying their 3-year-old is trans would have been antivaxxers. A lot of weird sub-groups of people out there in America.
I think you two could have a rational and productive conversation here (actually, have already done it well) but it would be a lot better to drop the shitlib/MAGA labels and personal stuff.
I think you have a good faith position and Marv is pushing you on the margins. I believe you that you are not anti-vaxx but skeptical of the COVID vax. RFK Jr. clearly is skeptical, wants more transparency, but has said he won't take vaccines off the table.
It could be, though, that having a prominent person like him as Sec. of HHS will further depress vaccine #'s among the general populace to a dangerous level. Remember for most vaccines to work well, they have to be administered to a certain % of the population.
Polio Vaccination Rates in Some Areas of the US Hover Dangerously Close to the Threshold Required for Herd Immunity – Here’s Why that Matters - UConn Today
The US recently recorded its first case of polio in nearly a decade
today.uconn.edu
So even if he doesn't push law or policy that affects the vax rates, his attitudes might be legitimized in a way just from his appointment so as to cause harm to the US (and maybe the world).
Parents who demand that their kids be allowed to go to school, regardless of vaccination status, seem sort of woke.
Thanks for the article. No, he isn't anti-vaxx. I mean he says so, what in below would possibly mean he is anti-vaxx:Here's a recent write up:
Is RFK Jr. anti-vaccine? Everything the HHS secretary nominee has said
Kennedy has been nominated to lead the federal government's health agency—what does this mean for vaccine access in the U.S.?
when asked if there were any safe and effective vaccines on the market, Kennedy told podcaster Lex Fridman, there are "no" vaccines in that category.
Fridman pushed Kennedy on the polio vaccine—which is widely considered one of the other greatest medical advances of the 20th century and has been estimated to save more than 1.5 million lives and prevented paralysis in more than 20 million children—but Kennedy suggested the vaccine killed more people than it saved.
Polling people on vaccine safety is like taking a vote on whether the Earth is flat or not
Even better would be smallpox. Modern humans seem to have no idea of the historical death toll of smallpox. Smallpox killed over 300 million people in the 20th century alone, before its eradication. In 70 years. It was around for over 3,000 years. Killed Egyptian pharohs, Greek scholars, Roman statesmen, and countless soldiers in every army ever, before the 1970s.
You think war is bad? Smallpox says "hold my beer". Smallpox's historical death toll dwarfs the death toll of all wars in human history, combined, by a factor of over a thousand.
Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it.
More contagious than Covid-19 and with a 30 percent mortality rate, smallpox was one of history’s biggest killers. Now it’s gone.
www.vox.com
Of course. Supporting vaccine development was the best thing he ever did. But then he found political gain in pushing wackadoodle ideas, like sticking UV lamps up your butt and putting bleach in your veins. Like a cleaning!
In honor of Thanksgiving, let's not forget...Even better would be smallpox. Modern humans seem to have no idea of the historical death toll of smallpox. Smallpox killed over 300 million people in the 20th century alone, before its eradication. In 70 years. It was around for over 3,000 years. Killed Egyptian pharohs, Greek scholars, Roman statesmen, and countless soldiers in every army ever, before the 1970s.
You think war is bad? Smallpox says "hold my beer". Smallpox's historical death toll dwarfs the death toll of all wars in human history, combined, by a factor of over a thousand.
Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it.
More contagious than Covid-19 and with a 30 percent mortality rate, smallpox was one of history’s biggest killers. Now it’s gone.
You know, that game was the turning point with me for Crean. I was very sympathetic of him and appreciative of the fact he started from ground zero.
But that game was so inexplicable to me. Not that we lost, but that we had zero - ZERO - clue how to attack that zone. And he'd faced that same zone countless times when he coached Marquette.
To this day, it still pisses me off and it's just.... inexplicable is the only word to describe it.
At least the man knew how to recruit - and use - 3 point shooters.
Pretty much my experience. I had no boosters after the first vaccines and haven't got Covid I had it after I had the original vaccine.
I'm not sure the initial one had anything to do with it, since I never got Covid before that.
Well.....what was your figure on lives saved? 14.4 M? If 1 person died from bleach in his veins, the Donald would still be up 14.399,999. Meanwhile, most would have been dead if your hero, Fauci, had been in charge. As I recall, he said it would take YEARS to come up with an effective vaccine, if one was possible. You might even say he was a denier.
What other president in history can make a claim to having been responsible for personally saving 14M lives?
I find it very embarrassing that there are so many self-described Republicans that "know" so much that just isn't so. I'm hoping at least one of them will eventually understand that.
Who does that? Who thinks all vaccines are bad?
Or is this just another caricature of MAGA that the media has sold you?
I'm not saying there aren't individuals who believe that - you can find crazies anywhere.
Crean was 0-4 against Boeheim. So beating that zone wasn't something he ever figured out. But that team should never have struggled that much.
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