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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40537048

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“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

If only there was another proven way of doing this without the risk of serious complications of getting sick.

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[–] Bort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

He's making money with the grift to lie to Americans and act out a role. Money/"power" has fried these people's minds to the point they tell you how to die. I hate these people with a passion, skip the measles, they should just die in a fiery car crash.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It'd be better for the world if I fucked him hard enough in the mouth enough to choke him to death.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I know right? I have a beautiful cock and watching it end the life of one of the worst people who exists is amazing.

[–] ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You know what? Good for you my man. I hope it works out.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Same with you my main man. hope everything is good with you too

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It would be better if he dropped the fuck dead on live tv.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

It sure would be a shame... If he caught measles.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

Doesn't deserve it. Deserves to die in a fire, slowly.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

He may of honestly

What a crazy guy

[–] 8ender@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

What if we could simulate everyone getting the measles without actually getting the real disease?

[–] diverging@lemm.ee 39 points 10 hours ago

Measles silently wipes clean the immune system’s memory of past infections. In this way, the virus can cast a long and dangerous shadow for months, or even years, scientists are finding. The resulting “immune amnesia” leaves people vulnerable to other viruses and bacteria that cause pneumonia, ear infections and diarrhea.

Those aftereffects make measles “the furthest thing from benign,” says infectious disease epidemiologist and pathologist Michael Mina of Harvard University. “It really puts you at increased susceptibility for everything else.” And that has big consequences, recent studies show.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/measles-immune-system-memory-infection

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 44 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What an insane thing to say.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 18 points 9 hours ago

People are literally going to die because of him.

[–] upandup@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 hours ago
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

You guys might want to check your vaccinations are up to date...

[–] courageousstep@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago

Just got three of mine updated. I just don’t understand the anti-vaccine sentiment from parents were have been vaccinated their entire lives and have no adverse effects.

Like. The critical thinking is in the negative.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 8 hours ago

Got tetanus updated. Apparently that was recommended on my last medical checkup.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 hours ago

This guy is the classic villain

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

You first, Bobby

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

I hope he fucking dies soon.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago

In developed countries the mortality rate is lower, for example in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 death occurred between two and three cases out of 10,000

In children one to three cases out of every 1,000 die in the United States (0.1–0.2%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles

So, the US has ~340 million people with 21% under 18. Maybe half are under 10? That's about 34 million children. Say none of them were vaccinated and they all got measles. That's 34k dead kids.
Vaccination rates are probably around 90% at the moment though, so of the 34 million, 3.4 million would be susceptible. That's 340 dead kids.

If RFK Jr. thinks that's an acceptable number of lives to sacrifice, go ahead. Do it.

[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago

He didn't actually say this, he said that the vaccination immunity doesn't last a lifetime and doesn't get passed from the mother, which increases the risk to the very young and elderly. He very explicitly encouraged people to get vaccinated.

I don't like him but in this particular case he hasn't said anything wrong. My only problem with what he said is the way he weighed the potential side effects of the vaccine and measles as if they're even remotely comparable.

Articles like these act as noise which drowns out the much larger issues in the administration.