Archived link (thank you @gAlienLifeform)
Buckle up for the next NYT headline:
RFK Jr is the real vaccination-class hero, not experienced nurses and doctors and hundreds of years of medical science
“RFK Jr: an iconoclast set to shake up a complacent public health establishment.”
“If progressives truly want to bring the surge of polio deaths in the United States to an end they will have to learn to be nicer to our wealthy friends.”
RFK Jr acknowledges health care system is flawed.
In case it’s not clear enough, successful revocation means NOBODY can get the vaccine.
Ah, a classic move by “the party of personal freedoms”.
I’m fucking moving to Canada if this happens. This is one of the best vaccines ever made.
Wait it even the wealthy? Wonder how many wealthy babies need to suffer before the poors can get their world back.
Rules for thee, not the wealthy.
What the fuck my grandpa had a skinny leg and a hole in his back from medical tubes due to polio as a kid, this shit is no joke
Seriously. I’ve said this before here, but travel somewhere the polio vaccine wasn’t widely available. The amount of suffering via deformity and impacted development it causes is frightening.
Highly recommend watching the documentary “Benda Bilili!” about a group of street musicians in Kinshasa, DRC. They’re mostly paralyzed due to childhood polio, but it’s a very uplifting doc. They even sang a lovely song on their debut album about it called Polio.
You’d think they’re already murdering enough of us with the expensive/delayed/denied healthcare, the starvation wages, the cruel for-profit prisons, the cops, and the refusal to give even emergency abortions…but nope…they want to murder more of us.
#FreeLuigi
Fuck this idiot piece of shit. Hasn’t even started and I’m so sick of this nation again.
Seriously. I’m going to be the most bitter and continuously angry person you’ve ever met by the end of this four years, and I’m not looking forward to it one bit.
Make no mistake though, I’m going to be so free with “aren’t you glad this is what you voted for” to magas in my family and at work that the schadenfreude alone will be enough to power a small city.
I feel like my “being able to tolerate living in a nation led by imbeciles” meter had barely started refilling this past four years. I think I needed 16 or so for something close to a full recharge. I’m prepared to reach new lows.
This is a world-laughs-at-you, history-book-making, memes-for-a-century level headline.
America thinks it’s The Federation but really it’s the result of a torrid affair between the Ferengi and the
SamaritansPakleds.
Have a nice day, America. This guy was clearly out of reach.
Edit: goofed
Ferrengi and Pakleds, but yeah
“No-one even really gets polio anymore, so it’s just a waste of money…”
Holy shit did he really say this??
No
This is the kind of argument you see from the dipshit vaccine denialists, though. But typically, they like to credit modern septic systems/clean water for a lot of things.
I think it’s really only maybe (younger) boomers and on down that could make the absolutely ridiculous arguments the vaccine denialists make, though. Most of the older people - esp Greatest Generation, but also older boomers, most likely - knew better from having seen children die/suffer from awful diseases.
But yeah, starting with Gen X and on down - the dumbassery around vaccines has slowly started taking off and seems to be getting worse as it goes…
Just have polio partys for children so that they can catch it early and be protected!
Kennedy is an imminent threat to the health and safety of our children. I wish the worm would finish the job.
The brain worms are strong with this one.
Bitch of it is that we almost drove that virus into irrelevant cycles. I think I read a couple of years ago that the UN believed we could declare victory on the disease by focusing on some suffering African areas. Who knew th at a western country of 300+ million would want to make iron lungs fashionable again? Sorry, Dr. Salk.
The country does not.
A batshit sliver of people do. One of them just happens to be appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
This is not a majority stance.
If the result is the same does the distinction matter?
Exactly. Viruses could care less if you’re a lunatic or not.
Yes. It means we’re in distress and need help
Help from who? What would that look like?
Well… The EU further increasing their regulations and punishments on US mega corps would be welcome. Official programs for medical tourism would also be nice, even in countries without universal healthcare the costs are cheaper even with a round trip flight to another continent
We also have a very impulsive and narcissistic manchild about to return to the white house. He’s deeply insecure and likes to project - if figures mock and laugh at him publicly enough from the right angle, he’ll respond. He’s a wildcard so it’ll be like hearding cats, but in the absurdist state of the country it could actually help us
Or it can be as simple as treating us like oppressed victims. The US as the land of freedom and opportunity is an image that holds us back… We’re not very free and we have very few opportunities (unless you’re rich). Chipping holes in that facade really gets to some people
We might be the largest military and economic power, but we’re largely brainwashed by optics, and so that’s a weak spot that can be exploited
This administration is going to ruin the lives of/kill so many people.
The upside of Covid is that we jump-started vaccine research and have seen so much stuff at scale, and quickly. It might hold huge promise for things like cancer treatment.
And these absolute fucking clowns are going to probably stall all that out. I sure hope other countries are not impacted in any way by this complete idiocy. The idea that complete morons would kill scientific progress like this is infuriating.
Hopefully someone just leaks all of the mRNA technical info so that other countries can make them.
Let’s see if even Mitch McConnell would confirm this guy given that he had polio. Don’t have much faith though.
I think the GOP have already proven that they’d rather die than admit they were wrong.
*they would rather kill our children with preventable viruses than admit they were wrong
Surely this Republican who faced hardship won’t want anyone else to go through what he did.
Indeed, Kennedy is a fuck nut.
I guess it just works too well?
Kind of. Basically nobody remembers how bad it was when polio and smallpox and whatnot were killing people so they think getting a shot is worse than the alternative.
That’s one of the big issues I’m having with this, people do remember. Both Mitch McConnell and Neil Young have experiences directly related to polio, and that’s just off the top of my head.
That being said the last iron lung polio survivor passed away this year. (Last one so far.)
Sure, not literally nobody, but the younger of the two people you posted is 79. But an insignificant percentage of the population.
I think the point was more that despite their personal experiences, they are still supporting this mindset. So even if it was more widespread, it wouldn’t be preventing whatever is causing this “movement”.
Vaccination is actually one of the few (possibly the only) areas where McConnell is on the right side of history.
The anti-vax movement isn’t primarily 80 year olds.
Suddenly I care about Mitch McConnell’s health and well-being, in a way I’ve never felt before.
I’ve hated that guy since I started reading politics. A world where he’s a good guy, needs improvement.
In 1955, when the success of the polio vaccine was announced, “Church bells rang, parades were held, and people danced in the streets”
Joni Mitchell too.
