RFK to HHS

[Spartans9312]

Kennedy must already be happy with his progress, measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.

Texas measles cases are up, and New Mexico now has an outbreak. Here's what you need to know

The measles outbreak in West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday. Eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with the highly contagious disease.

apnews.com

Note the Texas state health department calls the Mennonite community "under-vaccinated".

And to note it, the Mennonite religion does not have a faith-based argument against vaccines:

USMB beliefs don’t support vaccine mandate exemption, leaders say | Anabaptist World

Mennonite Brethren leaders in the U.S. released a statement indicating denominational beliefs and practices do not support a religious exemption to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

anabaptistworld.org

What does this have to do with Kennedy?

I’m having a hard time connecting the dots with this particular outbreak.

 

[GooglyMooglyWooglyBoogly]

Saved the best for last.

The caterwalling begins in earnest when he's approved.

Kash isn’t the last. People are overlooking Lori Chavez-Deremer who is by far Trump’s worst nominee. Her hearing is today.

She will likely get through with a fair share of Democrat votes and less than 50 Republicans.

 

[Spartans9312]

Kash isn’t the last. People are overlooking Lori Chavez-Deremer who is by far Trump’s worst nominee. Her hearing is today.

She will likely get through with a fair share of Democrat votes and less than 50 Republicans.

“Donald Trump and the Republicans have re-made the electorate”

Chavez is a thank you to part of that electorate

 

[Marvin the Martian]

What does this have to do with Kennedy?

I’m having a hard time connecting the dots with this particular outbreak.

Kennedy has spread all the stories about vaccines and autism.

FactCheck.org: Kennedy Cites Flawed Paper in Bid to Justify Vaccine-Autism Link | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

We've compiled a list of essential FactCheck.org reads about Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org

The thing is, I don't think Kennedy believes the crap. I think he just found he could profit by going after vaccines. And he has profited, greatly, by his anti-vaxx stance. But it doesn't do well to admit one is willing to have a measles outbreak so they can get rich, so he pretends to believe all the antivaxx stuff.

He also claimed the pertussis/diptheria vaccine causes death. Of course when statisticians look at that, it isn't true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/health/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-video.html

That one is about 65% down the page.

 

[DANC]

Kennedy must already be happy with his progress, measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.

 

[Spartans9312]

Kennedy has spread all the stories about vaccines and autism.

FactCheck.org: Kennedy Cites Flawed Paper in Bid to Justify Vaccine-Autism Link | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

We've compiled a list of essential FactCheck.org reads about Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org

The thing is, I don't think Kennedy believes the crap. I think he just found he could profit by going after vaccines. And he has profited, greatly, by his anti-vaxx stance. But it doesn't do well to admit one is willing to have a measles outbreak so they can get rich, so he pretends to believe all the antivaxx stuff.

He also claimed the pertussis/diptheria vaccine causes death. Of course when statisticians look at that, it isn't true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/health/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-video.html

That one is about 65% down the page.

I get that but don’t see the correlation with the measles outbreak in Texas/New Mexico. Did Kennedy outlaw vaccination amongst this population? Did they say they didn’t vaccinate based on recommendations from Kennedy?

 

[Marvin the Martian]

I get that but don’t see the correlation with the measles outbreak in Texas/New Mexico. Did Kennedy outlaw vaccination amongst this population? Did they say they didn’t vaccinate based on recommendations from Kennedy?

Just his comments. The more people have spread the vaccines=autism myth, the lower rates have dropped. There is no way of saying Kennedy wants these specific children unvaccinated, his words indicate he only wants MORE children unvaccinated.

 

[Spartans9312]

Just his comments. The more people have spread the vaccines=autism myth, the lower rates have dropped. There is no way of saying Kennedy wants these specific children unvaccinated, his words indicate he only wants MORE children unvaccinated.

Anyone not vaccinating their children against measles is an idiot. Anyone advocating not vaccinating children against measles is an idiot.

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

I get that but don’t see the correlation with the measles outbreak in Texas/New Mexico. Did Kennedy outlaw vaccination amongst this population? Did they say they didn’t vaccinate based on recommendations from Kennedy?

We're these outbreaks in areas with large populations of illegal aliens?

 

[dbmhoosier]

🔥

 

[Spartans9312]

We're these outbreaks in areas with large populations of illegal aliens?

Don’t know…Marv said Mennonites?

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

Don’t know…Marv said Mennonites?

Population of Mennonites in TX and NM?

 

[Spartans9312]

Population of Mennonites in TX and NM?

I would have guessed a number close to zero

 

[Marvin the Martian]

I would have guessed a number close to zero

By the early 2000s Texas had some fifty or more Mennonite congregations across the state, with the largest populations located in the Panhandle and High Plains and along the Gulf Coast. Texas Mennonites consisted of more than 4,000 baptized members and many more non-baptized children and youth.​

Mennonites

The Handbook of Texas is your number one authoritative source for Texas history. Read this entry and thousands more like it on our site.

www.tshaonline.org

How many would it take to have most of 43 cases be Mennonite?

The article said most were Mennonite.

 

[Spartans9312]

By the early 2000s Texas had some fifty or more Mennonite congregations across the state, with the largest populations located in the Panhandle and High Plains and along the Gulf Coast. Texas Mennonites consisted of more than 4,000 baptized members and many more non-baptized children and youth.​

Mennonites

The Handbook of Texas is your number one authoritative source for Texas history. Read this entry and thousands more like it on our site.

www.tshaonline.org

How many would it take to have most of 43 cases be Mennonite?

The article said most were Mennonite.

Dude…I said I didn’t think there were many Mennonites in Texas. I never said you were wrong. Obviously, I am not up to speed on location of Mennonites

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Dude…I said I didn’t think there were many Mennonites in Texas. I never said you were wrong. Obviously, I am not up to speed on location of Mennonites

Sorry, I really was more pointing that out to the other poster. Sorry to quote you.