RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
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RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
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What if you take the measles virus, weaken it and infect people with that?
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That's a stupid idea. God created this virus as a test of our own faith. You can't weaken it. (someone around me might say)
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To illustrate how fucking insane this is:
Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases. With US population at 340,000,000, that means 340,000 - 680,000 dead. And that's out of the 85 million people hospitalized, which would be a society destroying situation.
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Not only that but measles can cause immune amnesia! Which is when "the immune system forgets how to fight off infections it successfully dealt with before—and [research] showed that this effect lasts for years!"
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not only forgets, but the measles infects the dendritic cells which presents antigens to T-cells(i thought it was b-cells) which fights the viruses, so its actually immunosuppression.
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I did not know that and thinking of that stuff like this is possible is fucking scary.
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Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases
Oh, its much worse. That's the death rate for people who get treated, in a vaccinated population in a modern hospital. In low-income countries (or in, say, places with 85 million hospitalizations) over 20 out of a thousand people die. And in displaced refugee children, it can rocket up to 3 out of every 10 infected children dying.
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Yeah but those statistics are before we discovered horse paste
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And that's just death, measles also creates life long conditions, some that appear years or decades after. For example the way he speaks, his disease is linked to childhood measles ironically.
Also another bad thing about makes is that it can reset your immune system, so now other diseases that you didn't have to be afraid before now can be deadly.
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They do try to destroy the country in every possible way. At this point they just want to make sure it’s really dead.
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More or less than taxifs and SS on Ice?
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“It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” he said, then taking a swipe at the vaccine. “The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people it wanes.”
"Some"=97%, "Many"=3%
And you know what the vaccine also doesn't do? Kill you!-
I love how they say shit like "it wanes" as though that's a reason to not get it. Like, just get a fucking booster and you're good.
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For real, I thought he was going to name something of actual consequence even if it wasn't true like, "it makes your head explode." But, "it wanes"??? Uh ok, it wanes so some people might get measles anyway. Isn't that just problem solved then since you think infection is good? Completely nonsensical.
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MTG pulled this stupid shit promoting "measles parties". For the younger folks, let me explain.
Parents used to deliberately infect their kids with chicken pox. No big deal for litte 'uns, big deal when you're older. (Got it at 16, still have the scars 40-years later. And yes, I'm up on my shingles vaccine.)
These people are so dumb they're conflating chicken pox and measles. Fuck me, I'm just now learning about measles because that shit was gone when I was a child. It was like polio or smallpox, unheard of.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce the United States Secretary of Health!
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Rest of the world should ban Americans from coming in. Who knows what kinds of diseases they might be carrying.
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Ah, measles. Nature's Ultimate Antivaxxer.
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Oh wow, didn't know that. Where's this text from?
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Immune by Philipp Dettmer of Kurzgesat. Highly recommended reading...and watching.
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It would be better if this guy fucks off.
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Okay brainworm, go intentionally get the measles and let us watch you for the next 6 months so we see how safe it is.
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Unfortunately, he's almost certainly vaccinated against measles, because his parents were sane people
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he made sure the children of SAMOA got measles, and about 86+ died from it, when he convinced the govt to stop vaccinations.
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No, what would be better is if that guy got a bad case of my backhand across his mouth every time he opens it.
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Guys, if you live in Magastan, talk to your doctors, ask them to give you any shot they can of anything that needs a booster over time (or that you miss) and do it ASAP. If a new pandemic from a new virus comes, you'll be fucked, but at least you won't be if what you suffer is an epidemic of a fucking preventable disease.
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Already did! They can't ban my blood from helping others now, can they!
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I really hate that this motherfucker gets government-funded health care now, because every nasty-ass virus he gets is not only going to be well-treated, but actively buried.
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I'm sure he had bonkers good healthcare before anyway. His name is Robert Fucking Kennedy Jr..
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The worm is driving
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To be fair, he didn’t say it’d be better for the humans
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Well, less humans would be good for humankind as well as the rest of the planet. But I think this is one of those "not like that" situations.
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Cool. I can't wait for my immunocompromised friend to die of a preventable disease that we had eradicated in the US until this year.
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A recent episode of The House of Pod podcast included a virologist and an ER doctor (the host is a gastroenterologist) and they talked about measles and the potential lifelong effects that a non-fatal case can cause, like blindness or deafness. They also contrast with the efficacy of the vaccine, the virologist got checked before going to SE Asia and despite her last MMR dose being in the 90s she had enough antibodies that her doctor said she didn’t need a booster. She went on to talk about how while measles has mutated it has not changed to bypass immunity.
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one of the fun things virus love to do is give people meningitis, and encephalitis, its more common then people think. chickenpox(and also shingles),mumps,rubella all can do this too.
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God I can't wait for this season of South Park
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And that’s why I got all the vaccines. All of em. I treat vaccines like a sticker album or Pokémon cards. Gotta have them all… and the shiny ones are best.
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Coming up: It would be better if 'Everybody got Polio'.
Next week Trump will be at the White House promoting the new Telsa Iron Lung.
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It is truly the golden age of the idiot
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That's what the media cycles misses. There's been no better time in history to be a rich uninformed idiot. History will look back on this as the golden age of the rich idiot
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Lol, he's right. I got measles, or... at least, an attenuated version from the FFUKCING MMR VVAccine, you dolt!
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hes an expert he made sure samoa got measles, and got 86children killed by it.
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what a jackass
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Okay you first buddy
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It would be great if he would just fall off a cliff.
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his worms will keep him alive though, his body is a just a empty husk, hollowed about the worms.
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He's just Mister Oogie-Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas at this point.
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The brainworm has spoken.
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I wonder if he is volunteering to get measles
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Measles is a terrible disease that can easily kill you.
What was the reason against vaccines again?
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RFK hates poor people.
What other reason does he need?
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You first you weird fucker
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A true Republican. Anything that amplifies imbeciles and keeps poor people poor is the priority. Control the conversation of the masses with an endless string of stupidity so that they never think for themselves and take reasonable action. They can't collectivise with no time to think.
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Daft cunt
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This take only makes sense if you some how believe that he has everyone’s best interests in mind, but he is some how too far misguided and “daft” to make the correct decision.
The reality is this is a highly calculated move to hurt people disguised as an incompetent mistake. Don’t be fooled.
That’s Trump’s entire admin in a nutshell. The whole point is to do maximum damage, disguised as “making America great again”.
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And the Darwin Award goes to...
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Weasel: "I. Have. MEASLES!"
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The republican party has some major interest in spreading measles. They may be getting financial kickback from healthcare organizations to ensure more people end up in hospitals, driving up medical debt. Or they're devils in human form. It's hard to tell.
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It's both.
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wouldnt it contradict insurance, since they dont want to payout for a patients healthcare, so they would support vaccinations because then they do not actually spend insurance money on someone thats in a hospital. kaiser does this, they are all in on prevention methods over actual services. the ones that would benefit would be pharmceutical charging for thier lifesave drugs.
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They don't want to payout for patients, so they deny paying for treatments, and they keep taking people's monthly payments. Kaiser has the lowest percentage of denials, based on an infographic I saw a few months ago. Insurance is a scam, making profits off of people's poor health, letting them die when costs exceed potential returns. It's what makes Luigi a hero, doing what none of us could to make life better for the rest of us.
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