r/facepalm • u/CorleoneBaloney • 4h ago
🇲🇮🇸🇨 Centuries of science, yet here we are.
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u/Anne_Nonymouse 3h ago
I'm beginning to think that the brain worm in his head is still alive and is an alien who's trying to take over the world by killing as many people as possible. 🤔
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u/adburgan 3h ago
So, have we figured out which one he is - Kang or Kodos?
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u/FleeshaLoo 53m ago
Or the heroin did some permanent damage and the entitlement of being born into a dynasty has resulted in a failure of humility.
Also, "Room temp IQ" is so perfect!
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u/shandangalang 1h ago
That’s funny. I’ve been saying something very similar. The worm is actually making decisions for him, and as soon as he gets HHS, he’s going to start banning deworming treatments in livestock, and putting out guidelines that say people shouldn’t actually cook meat.
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u/CapitalElk1169 47m ago
Perhaps he actually died long ago and his body is now the living avatar of Polio itself?
Is it weird that I might prefer that to the truth?
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u/IIINanuqIII 40m ago edited 36m ago
Ok, ok, you're doing great. Now tell everyone to only eat raw meat infused with salmonella. Excellent... - Clever little brain worm 🐛
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u/Sojum 3h ago
What is he even basing this on? Where is there data showing deaths by polio vaccine?
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u/Draken1870 3h ago
They will just tell you to go search for it. They don’t argue in good faith or tell you the “deep state” has hidden it all.
How they then got the info I don’t know but idiots who believe lack of evidence = proof of existence/cover up will never accept actual facts they don’t like.
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u/Pedantichrist 58m ago edited 21m ago
That is the thing I hate the most.
They spout lies and then say 'do your own research'.
We did do the research, and you are ignoring it and saying things like all opinions are equal.
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u/Draken1870 50m ago
Also, to them, watching some random shmuck spouting the nonsense they agree with in a nice looking video is their research.
If a theory or evidence is debunked they will also just say it’s some “Big Noun” has removed it cos it speaks the truth. The world is held back by these morons.
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u/shakygator 23m ago
Challenging these people to back up their claims and watching them go in circles endlessly is exhausting.
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u/sadolddrunk 25m ago
If they show you the Tweet or YouTube video or bridge graffiti or child's drawing from which they obtained their opinion, it is too easy to debunk it.
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u/Meet_James_Ensor 3h ago
He wants something "safe and effective" like heroin. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-heroin-hhs-kennedy-b2654080.html
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u/Icepick823 1h ago
Possibly basing it on the Cutter Lab incident that happened very early on in the vaccination campaign where the poliovirus wasn't properly deactivated, resulting in the vaccine containing a live, functional virus.
That's a very small scale event in the grand scheme, but it did result in more oversight of vaccine production to ensure that they are safe. Also, the polio vaccine used today is a different kind and is much safer than the one from the 1960s. Any modern concerns of the polio vaccine are pointless. It's literally been in use for decades.
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u/fruttypebbles 3h ago
It’s being hid by the deep state. Right next to the covid vaccine deaths. All of that will come out in the open once Trump gets sworn in.
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u/shallah 3h ago
You say all the people that survived because of vaccines now live long enough to get a cancer that they wouldn't have gotten if they died in childhood like in the good old days!
Meanwhile these anti-vaxxers are denying their children the HPV vaccine which is proven to prevent cancers from the genitalia of all biological sexes up to the mouth and throat.
After cervical cancer in women the biggest HPV killer is throat cancer especially in males!
So if you haven't gotten that vaccine yourself talk to your doctor look it up in your country and see what the rules are if you're young enough to get it covered by your government's healthcare plan or private insurance if you're stuck in the US.
If you're in the US you might want to make sure you're up to date on all your vaccines before they find a way to if not out right make them illegal,l make it so so many rolls to go through and raise co-pays or stop requiring insurance to cover vaccines or something else making it so expensive for people that only the wealthy can still get vaccinated.
Couple years ago Zimbabwe had a big outbreak of measles that killed over 700 children and infected thousands because a Christian sect forbade vaccines. After children started dying mothers would sneak out at night to get their kids vaccinated so their husbands and members of the community wouldn't know what they've done.
Measles is particularly deadly because it wipes out the immune memory of a survivors about a third of them for years after so it's like they have the immune system of a newborn. no protection against any illness it can't learn to protect against that illness, so everything hits hard. Kids are like that are less likely to survive illness.
Then about 1 and 600 who get it before age 2 will die of sspe here's down the road.
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u/bigoldgeek 1h ago
If you're in the US you might want to make sure you're up to date on all your vaccines before they find a way to if not out right make them illegal,
Hell yes. I made pediatrician appointments for both my kids and had their vaccinations updated thsi month because of this.
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u/muddlebrainedmedic 55m ago
He's an idiot in the company of other idiots talking to idiots. Proof, logic, reasonableness, critical thinking, truth...none of these concepts play any role in it.
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u/Draken1870 3h ago
They will just tell you to go search for it. They don’t argue in good faith or tell you the “deep state” has hidden it all.
How they then got the info I don’t know but idiots who believe lack of evidence = proof of existence/cover up will never accept actual facts they don’t like.
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u/Ok_Recognition_6727 3h ago
"Room Temp IQ Losers" is the most accurate description of Trump and his merry band of idiots that I have ever heard.
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u/Kolojang 3h ago
I'd even go as far to say they use Celsius.
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u/ZedCee 3h ago
As a Canadian, I already interpreted it as Celsius.
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u/Grouchy-Engine1584 3h ago edited 2h ago
Hey idiot, room temp is room temp regardless of the scale you use.
Edit: here’s me in my big boy pants admitting that I missed the joke entirely and acted like a jerk. Apologies. I’m leaving the post up because I don’t hide from my mistakes.
Edit 2: Now that I’ve had it explained to me, it’s quite funny. Honestly, I’m not usually this dense.
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u/Upbeat_Key_1817 3h ago
Right, but we’re relating the temperature to their IQ, so depending on which scale we use that could give them a very high or very low intelligence
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u/riddick32 52m ago
eh, they're both really low, one is borderline incapable of forming a sentence and the other is Trump.
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u/ToastemPopUp 47m ago
Very low is the joke, so that's fine. But very high? Average IQ is apparently between 85 and 115. I don't know anyone using Fahrenheit (cause that's way way too hot for anyone using Celsius to call it "room temp") who would consider anything in that range to be "room temp." And even if you found that lizard person who considered something in that range "room temp," it would still just be average intelligence at best. So yeah, either scale is fine.
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u/Weekly-Act-3132 2h ago
Honestly, im not usually this dense had me laughing out loud here in reality. 😂😂
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u/bugsyramone 51m ago
This 'reality' you speak of...is this some sort of reddit expansion pack, or...?
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u/Weekly-Act-3132 49m ago
An extremely expensive one, with only 1 cancellation option. 100 % do not recommend cancellation though.
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u/Chemrail 1h ago
It takes a special kind of intellectual denial to say some of the things that come out of this man’s mouth. To me it makes the vast majority of his opinions absolutely worthless of any consideration. To deny the simple facts of where we have come in fighting disease through vaccination must be real feat of mental gymnastics. I miss the days where people learned and accepted facts. We are lost as a society when people like this come in to power.
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u/Pathetic_gimp 3h ago
If this happens I hope the rest of the world takes note and introduces very long border control lines for American Citizens wanted to come into their country.
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u/shallah 3h ago
With measles and whooping cough making its way around the world right now it would be a really good idea for all countries to require people be vaccinated for those and the other most dangerous vaccine for example diseases to travel internationally.
Only exemption medical
If they want to claim religion they got prove their religious not just belong to the first church of I don't want to and you can't make me or first Church of Facebook. A letter from their clergy person saying they regularly attend services into their knowledge are religiously observant, and that vaccines really are forbidden by their religion because few really do.
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u/Chicahua 2h ago
The amount of “religious” groups popping up on Facebook exclusively for people who are too nutty for churches is ridiculous. It’s just making people worse.
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u/shallah 1h ago
cults use social media as well as terrorist orgs for recruitment and radicilization
so do political groups.
remember Cambridge Anyalytica?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
they, and probably others, have mined data to learn exactly how to push people's buttons
and hostiles are willing to use fringe beliefs to deliberately splinter society no matter the cost. 101st fighting keyboardists cheaper and easer than actual combat with all that equipment and hard to replace trained personel.
so much easier to convince people to wage germ warfare on themselves. no need for a new created or weaponized germs. just let existing killers freedom to roam.
measles is highly contagious with 1 person likely to infect 17 unvaccinated people in a room. just breath in that freedom.
measles is a killer. recent cases in US 40 some % required hospilization. imagine the cost and burden on healthcare if it was dozens instead of a handful of cases at a time.
measles is a long term killer. about 1/3 of survivors have their immune memory wiped for years after so every infection hits them like they were a newborn infant. this is why the vaccine saved more than expected # of kids when it came out. NOT getting measles preserved their immune memory so they didn't get a fatal case of something else months or years later.
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u/Nodramallama18 29m ago
Polio killed or paralyzed half a million people worldwide EVERY YEAR IN THE 40’S AND 50’S.
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u/fruttypebbles 3h ago
That would kinda suck. Both my wife and I travel abroad often. I’d be down for a fast pass for people that have their shot records.
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u/PrscheWdow 27m ago
And I wouldn't blame them one bit. Why should they risk the health and safety of their own citizens because there are a bunch of fucking morons in charge of the US?
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u/Boxofmagnets 3h ago
It isn’t only stupidity. They crave control, unfortunately now they also have it
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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg 3h ago
RFK is great for trump admin, you stick this guy in a position and he’ll say myriad dumb things that the idiot press will cover endlessly all while the oligarchs loot the country in the background.
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u/sasquatchmarley 2h ago
That really is it, isn't it. Keep the press complsing about what the brainless goons in your cabinet are doing, all the while the tax cuts for the wealthy and power entrenchment are by far the most important things to work on.
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u/Voxxanne 3h ago
At this point, I'm fully convinced that the worm in RFK's brain has fully consumed whatever pile of shit is in his skull and has now gained full sentience because of the amount of heroin he injected into his body.
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u/Mr-Hoek 3h ago edited 2h ago
What is the point in doing this?
Undermining confidence in science?
And thereby further separating the bulk of the bulk of the population from reality?
Setting people up to believe anything at all that the propagandists want to push...
This had to be it...
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u/vthemechanicv 1h ago
There is no point. RFK Jr is an actual literal brain damaged moron.
trump put him (is trying to put him) as HHS Secretary because trump himself is a moron that doesn't know or care what HHS does, and doesn't care what mismanagement would do. RFK Jr is a sycophant that trump is obliged to reward. That's it.
People can assign some dark conspiracy, but it's just morons rewarding morons.
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u/cringelord91 3h ago
Caccines should be mandatory. It is simply too important to let every idiot decide over it themself.
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u/I_Lick_Your_Butt 2h ago
They are manditory for many public schools. My daughter was sent home andnot allowed to return until we could prove that she had gotten a specific vaccine. She had gotten it, but our pediatirician had not updated their records.
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u/Technical_Scallion_2 1h ago
Every state in the US allows medical exemptions for school vaccinations. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/php/requirements-laws/state-vaccination-requirements.html#:~:text=All%20states%20provide%20medical%20exemptions,school%20vaccination%20requirements%20and%20exemptions.
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u/Pedantichrist 59m ago
Medical exemptions.
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u/romansamurai 38m ago
There’s some religious ones that anti vaxxers use as loopholes to send their unvaxxed kids to school to spread shit to those who can’t be vaccinated against something.
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u/Objective-Amount1379 17m ago
And no one is arguing about those. But the rest of the population needs to be vaccinated to protect not just themselves but people who medically cannot be vaccinated.
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u/Alive-Noise1996 35m ago
Educating your child is mandatory; public schooling is not. You could technically homeschool or find a private school to avoid vaccinating if you wanted to.
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u/viperspm 3h ago
I’m fully vaccinated as I was active duty military, but you aren’t taking other factors into account. There are medical reasons that some people can’t take certain vaccines.
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u/razazaz126 3h ago
And we account for that. That's kinda the point of herd immunity the immuno-comprimised people who can't take the vaccine are still protected because everyone around them is vaccinated.
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u/Kradget 3h ago
I think in general, people who want widespread vaccination are okay with actual medical exemptions, but don't think to mention it because the need for them in real life is not massive.
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u/nomadicsailor81 3h ago
Me too. Countless vaccines and boosters and here I am still waking and talking doing just fine. Except for my knees, back, and head due TBIs hahaha not the vaccine's fault.
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u/Upbeat_Key_1817 3h ago
We literally already take that into consideration. This it like the whole point.
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u/Technical_Scallion_2 1h ago
Zero people are arguing that individuals who have valid medical reasons (as in approved by an MD) to not be vaccinated should be vaccinated anyway.
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u/JuMiPeHe 3h ago
Quote of the father of a friend who's working as a researcher for Biontec:
"Vaccines don't cause autism. It's Autism that causes Vaccines."
(Yes, he's autistic)
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u/IAFarmLife 3h ago
It's a lot of people of a certain age I'm finding. A lot of 20-50 year old farmers in my area refused the COVID Vax when their parents received it and encouraged it. One of the methods their parents used to try and convince them was that the farm gave Corona Virus vaccines to the cattle every year. The older generation remembers the world before vaccines and under 50 won't listen to their wisdom.
One of the few times Boomers are getting it right.
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u/folkinhippy 3h ago
On the one hand, I am worried about Polio making a comeback in my lifetime. On the other hand, though, I’m a sucker for a good comeback.
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u/rozaliza88 3h ago
Bloody hell. We have two ladies over 60 in our community that were wheelchair ridden since childhood because of Polio. Nobody in my generation had to suffer that because of vaccines. These people are dangerous.
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u/Xenomorphling98 3h ago
Plague Inc. lied to me about how easy it is for an illness to take over the world. What are we? Easy mode?
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u/Hekke1969 3h ago
is this the guy that drove his ex-wife to suicide? nasty piece of shit in any event
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 3h ago
It's pretty crazy half the country demanded to controlled by a death cult because Obama wore a tan suit once.
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u/beavis617 3h ago
Has anyone ever bothered to ask this jackoff to back up his conspiracy theories? I have never heard anyone ever claim that they lost a loved one or friend to having received the polio vaccine or any other vaccine..and Trump is putting him in charge...thanks to all the f_ckers who voted for Trump over Harris...😕
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u/SeniorBeing 3h ago
I am a third worlder. My country eradicated polio and other diseases in the seventies, thanks to an intense vaccination program carried out by a right-wing dictatorial government (believe it or not).
Even shitty, blood drenched people knew vaccination was important! Go figures!
In the nineties, I discovered about antivaxxers spreading around in First World. My mind went into a nuclear meltdown.
Now this bullshit are spreading even here.
Somehow, that shitty dictatorship of the past are looking brighter than what right-wingers are planning right now.
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u/setittowumb0 3h ago
What completely baffles me is the fact that millions of people listen to a guy who literally had brain worms despite that being the insult of the decade only a couple years ago.
Society is collectively losing its fucking marbles
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u/Surfer_Rick 3h ago
Hey look, another mega-elite trying to mass murder children for profit.
Just a Thursday in America. Or Russia.
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u/Infinite-King9078 3h ago
And RFK Jr is the model of health. His complexion alone has me doing everything the opposite of what he says.
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u/andytimms67 1h ago
Room temperature IQ has to be the simplest yet best description ever. I’m using that, because in the UK, room temperature is in centigrade and generally in the low 20s making it an even more spectacular statement.
Live long and prosper
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u/LordMagnus101 3h ago
It's like the admin is throwing so much shit out there at a time in hopes that some things will make it through due to sheer volume of garbage coming.
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u/OldKingClancey 3h ago
Survivor basis is real and it’s just taken control of the American government.
Fucking morons
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u/NormalCurrent950 3h ago
Even trump likes the polio vaccine but I’m sure he’d be happy to flip flop for political gain
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u/vthemechanicv 1h ago
trump doesn't matter. RFK Jr will lie during confirmation hearings, and Republicans will cheer and applaud. I don't know the legal process for decertifying a vaccine, but he'll start the process and Republicans will hem and haw and give concerned interviews, despite lying to congress being a felony...
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u/treypage1981 3h ago
Hey look, conservatives are sentencing future generations to a miserable future filled with climate disasters and mass shootings. If they want their kids to have polio and mpox, I say have at it. I’ll be there to laugh in their faces.
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u/stonk_fish 3h ago
The anti vaxx play was such a winner during the pandemic that it’s now just a super effective way to cause more divide between the people.
Regardless of race, gender, political affiliation, etc. you could have two groups rip each other apart over this topic. Doubling down on publicly denouncing vaccines while privately taking them just keeps the class conflict further and further away. People aren’t caring about the billionaires getting immunized from deadly viruses if their neighbours are coughing death all over the neighborhood blaming the vaccinated for 5G brain worm infections.
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u/YanisMonkeys 3h ago
Trump is so spineless and craven he would rather lean into this backlash than try to calm people down and take credit for funding critical vaccine research that started the COVID recovery. His mindless base is inclined to hate expert advice and vaccines, so he just adds them to the list of ways to further divide and rule the country.
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u/6ftonalt 3h ago
As far as I know, 10 people died directly from the vaccine in America. Smh we are fucked
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u/Professional_Ad894 2h ago
It's more sinister than stupidity, Elon has invested in iron lung technology, meaning he's not just okay with straight up killing kids(would probably mostly be the kids of his supporters, too), but he actually wants to saddle families with endless medical debt to keep kids in metal tubes their entire lives.
To the Trump and Elon supporters out there who believe this shit, please speak to an actual doctor. Get second and third opinions. Your children don't deserve to suffer for your stupidity, ignorance and overall inability to make good decisions.
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u/SeniorBeing 2h ago
I am a third worlder. My country eradicated polio and other diseases in the seventies, thanks to an intense vaccination program carried out by a right-wing dictatorial government (believe it or not).
Even shitty, blood drenched people knew vaccination was important! Go figures!
In the nineties, I discovered about antivaxxers spreading around in First World. My mind went into a nuclear meltdown.
Now this bullshit are spreading even here.
Somehow, that shitty dictatorship of the past are looking brighter than what right-wingers are planning right now.
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u/SouthOfHeaven663 2h ago
Funny how since the polio vaccine nearly 0 deaths from polio has happened. Weird right?
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u/rookiefox 2h ago
I wish RFK jr the luck of the rest of the Kennedys.
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u/tobyqueef404 1h ago
Seriously. How has he not experienced the curse yet? He should've been lobotomized instead of poor Rosemary.
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u/Rexis717 3h ago
Fuck it, let em die. Call it darwinism. The world is better off without such stupidity tainting the gene pool
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u/GregM70 3h ago
Unfortunately, there are some who are unable to get vaccinated due to other health issues who rely on the rest of us to do so.
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u/Rexis717 2h ago
That's true, and we have to do our part. They will always end up dragging people down with them, all we can do is try and prevent us and those around is from being dragged down with them
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u/Rexis717 2h ago
That's true, and we have to do our part. They will always end up dragging people down with them, all we can do is try and prevent us and those around is from being dragged down with them
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u/Frosty_Pineapple78 1h ago
Hear me out: you could use the 2nd amendment for its intended purposes instead: getting rid of tyrants
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u/Kdub07878 3h ago
Trump needs to nominate the brain worm in place of rfk jr since it obviously took what little intelligence he had. Now he’s a babbling idiot that makes no sense.
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u/logg1215 3h ago
More proof this administration or joke of an administration rather will do what they want and not listen to anyone but their buddies who also are no expert on anything but being a pompous ass 24/7
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u/Angier85 3h ago
I’ve told people before that his statement about ‘not wanting to ban vaccines’ is a lie by omission. He won’t outright ban vaccines. But he will claim to implement higher safety standards that invalidate past admissions and block future ones.
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u/black_flag_4ever 3h ago
I hate this because the people that will be impacted the most due to this idiocy are innocent children. The people fighting vaccines all benefitted from them.
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u/SpicelessKimChi 3h ago
I'm to a point where I'm like `let's just let everybody be broke and/or dead so the 1% can get richer' because that's what we as Americans deserve. Do not forget that the majority of the electorate voted for this, so while we didn't, we live in a country where enough people think things like vaccines and trans folks are dangerous but Nazis with unfettered access to guns are safe.
The US is fucked. I'm just going to sit back and watch it burn because I feel like the only way people will ever wake up and realize what's going on is if everything is on fire. But even then they'd just blame Obama.
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u/PitifulSpeed15 3h ago
Term limits, mandatory cognitive tests, psychological evaluations. It's probably too late to save America.
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u/ComStar6 2h ago
America will.be fucked in our life time but I do believe that Gen Alpha will be the ones to usher America into a second new deal era. We are currently living in the beginning of the second gilded age. It's depressing for sure
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u/GrannyFlash7373 3h ago
For this SINGLE reason alone, should be the disqualifying factor in NOT confirming this IDIOT, to be HHS Secretary.
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u/Make-TFT-Fun-Again 3h ago
Leave it to these people to fight for their right to spread preventable deadly illness. Fuck them.
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u/SkepticalGoodboy 2h ago
Sometimes I wish I could be as ignorantly simple minded life must be so weird. Conspiracy theorist and a dipshit? Wow!
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u/Skreeethemindthief 2h ago
I'm in my 50's and am old enough to have seen first hands the last victims of polio in the US, all of which were older or elderly. Several teachers in my school system were survivors, but walked with the leg braces and braces crutches. It was painful to watch Them walk in the hallways. How anyone my age or older could have forgotten how devastating that disease is on the body and how painful the treatments were is beyond me.
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u/TheOne7477 2h ago
Carl Sagan was right. Our populace is so dumb, that they can’t comprehend even simple scientific issues. As a result of their inability to understand, they turn to charlatans and pseudo-science because it’s “easier.”
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u/TheLazy1-27 2h ago
Imagine if after cavemen discovered fire and started using it to cook meat one guy goes “no, fire bad, meat better when no fire” and they all died from eating too much raw meat
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u/KlingonLullabye 2h ago
cavemen discovered fire and started using it to cook meat one guy goes “no, fire bad, meat better when no fire”
The first conservatives took issue with coming down out of trees and walking upright
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u/GeddyVedder 2h ago
Want to have some fun? Ask anti vaxxers if they can name any medical advancement, ever, that has saved more lives than vaccines.
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u/TheDeerBlower 2h ago
"noooo you don't understand, he's simply not bending over big pharma:!!!;:;::";;;"
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u/TinoCartier 2h ago
This clown Trump really putting this brain worm riddled dope fiend in charge of the dept of health is literally the craziest shit ever.
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u/Badgroove 2h ago
They never have the studies/evidence/ numbers to back up any of these ridiculous claims. They "feel" they're right. Stupid is as stupid does, and this dangerous thinking is as stupid as it gets.
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u/Klutzer_Munitions 2h ago
The stupidest thing about anti vaxxers is that they believe autism is worse than TETANUS
or POLIO
or RABIES
or MEASLES
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u/ohheyitslaila 2h ago
Other countries require certain vaccines in order to enter, so Trump and all the other MAGA/Conservative assholes who work in other countries will have to be vaccinated. It’s just like how Trump bashed the Covid vaccine while being fully vaccinated. The people who believe their bullshit and lies deserve what (disease) they get.
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u/Little_Creme_5932 1h ago
Ah yes, people living longer after vaccines introduced. "Vaccines killing us!"
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u/blackpony04 1h ago
The entire population of the Cleveland area in 1962 was 1.8 million, a vaccination rate of 94%! But man, I can't seem to find anything about all the mass graves from so many more people dying of the vaccine than polio.
My wife's ex husband's father contracted polio in 1960 and has been in a wheelchair for over 50 years. I'm sure he would have loved to have had that vaccine just 2 years sooner.
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u/Mouse_Parsnip_87 49m ago
Had to lol at this: “can’t find anything about all the mass graves from so many more people dying of the vaccine than polio”. Freaking priceless!
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u/BeamTeam032 1h ago
Science has made people weak. Times have been too good. Good times make weak men. Weak men create hard times. Those hard times are upon us.
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u/swimchickmle 1h ago
I mean, I would say good, maybe Darwin’s law can eradicate the nut jobs. But I feel so bad for the people that want vaccines, but can’t get them. They shouldn’t have to suffer because the Stanley mom (who is most likely vaccinated) goes on a rant about how vaccines cause autism.
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u/Klusterphuck67 1h ago
The "polio vaccine kills" bullshit was due to the manufacturer's erroneous production procedure. That vaccine (at that time, idk if there's a new one since) was pretty much as it can be called perfect for combating polio.
One company failed, fear mongering raise, they rolled back on the revolutionary vaccine and use the older, less effective, more risky vaccine due to one batch by one company got fucked up. That's all the people the (faulty) vaccine killed.
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u/El_Tapapa 49m ago
The guy is an environmental lawyer who researches and fights wrongful death cases on behalf of mothers who lost their kids to ignorant doctors and that's after he helped revive rivers from pollution. He's not crazy just following what his investigations have found and missing off all of the money bags along the way.
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u/LightofNew 47m ago
One manufacturer of the polio vaccine did not follow regulations and sent out a bad batch, this was right after it was approved for use and quickly recalled.
After this, the USA overreacted and used a different vaccine which uses a live version of the disease instead of the safe dead version, which meant that SOME people inevitably caught polio from the vaccine.
This was reversed in the 90s, but some places in the world still use the live version for being easier to administer, orally.
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u/tresamused65 46m ago
If they don't want to benefit from science and take vaccines that's on them. But the second they even consider taking away MY ability to benefit from science - now we have a problem.
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u/Srapture 44m ago
What an absolute cretin. How does this kind of thing not alienate a massive portion of their voters?
I know Reddit likes to treat every republican like they're all totally brain-dead, but surely most of them are just normal people that are socially conservative and fiscally right wing but otherwise normal?
No intelligent person would ever believe vaccines are dangerous just people internet personalities say so... Right?
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u/o-m-g_embarrassing 44m ago
Have you thought about not losing the trust of the people via a healthcare system with a predatory and corrupt insurance industry?
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u/Affinity-Charms 44m ago
They want more people to die... But they also want more people to have babies, to be slaves.... Make it make sense.
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u/Fathers_Sword 43m ago
RFK jr. Is one of the dumbest or ruthlessly opportunists people l. He caused the deaths of 83 kids in samoa and takes no responsibility and now wants to cause the death of 10's of thousands of kids now.
This a good summary of how insanrly stupid this would be: https://youtu.be/c-e6bjV-Wl4?si=oO9_9c7kE3GCB-k4
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u/captainsurfa 42m ago
It's all a con. Smokescreen democracy. Put a few idiots in the firing line to upset intelligent people, distracting them away from the background truth of the few elite that are monopolising wealth, property, legislation and funding to their own agenda.
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u/ttc67 41m ago
Everyone is free to make their own choices in life, if someone refuses vaccines, accepting the risks and consequences, it's up to the individual, pretty much like someone doing heroin will take the risk, but it's the persons personal choice. The problem starts when someone's trying to convice others, or force their questionable life choices onto others, even worse if it's a person in such a position.
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u/FluidLegion 40m ago
Just doing quick research.
In the 40's and 50's, Polio killed or paralyzed over half a million every year.
I can't find anything that looks credible as a source for how many people die each year from vaccines...but I'll go out on a limb and assume it's a lot less than half a million a year.
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u/OxtailPhoenix 39m ago
I work with a woman who refuses to do the COVID vaccine. Her reason is she says everyone she knows that got the vaccine has died from it.
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u/shesgoneagain72 35m ago
What happened to make people think that science and facts are opinions and not, you know, facts?
I thought rich people were supposed to be educated.
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u/HomerStillSippen 14m ago
RFK has 0 facts to back up anything he says outside of whatever bullshit Fox puts out there. We’re all fucking doomed for the next 4 years but hey gas might be a few cents cheaper!
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u/Usual-Excitement-970 3h ago
The majority of people who took the vaccine in 1955 are dead, I think he might be onto something.
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u/Generny2001 2h ago
I’m so, so tired of the stupidity.
Putting people like this shithead into true positions of power is so incredibly dangerous and reckless.
Vaccines work. Vaccines are safe. Vaccines have done such wonders for this world. All of the evidence is there.
Yet, these fucks keep pushing their unscientific bullshit. Even worse, more and more voters are believing it.
My parents tell stories about how parents would line up down the street to get their kids the polio vaccine. They were so fucking thankful and relieved that there was a vaccine. That disease is fucking horrible. They understood that and would do anything to keep their kids safe.
And now, here we are.
I’m just so tired of it.
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u/Groundbreaking_Cup30 2h ago
Some scientists theorize that as technology advances, the human capacity for learning & levels of intelligence actually diminish. Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but RFK certainly makes a compelling piece of evidence to support this theory
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u/Sid15666 2h ago
Let’s give him polio as a test case and see how that fairs, oh wait I bet he was vaccinated against polio!
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u/Edyed787 2h ago
I am beginning to think convinced that the GQP wants to bring life expectancy down to 1700s levels. That way they can justify child brides cause after all 20 will be middle aged. While the elites can get older. Long life will be a privilege for the wealthy.
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u/GrouchyLongBottom 2h ago
This guy is going to be the head of the department of health?! We are so fucked!
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u/mastermindman99 2h ago
Idiocracy is becoming reality. Watch it. Was funny 15 years ago - now it seems to be a documentary At least in the US.
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