“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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

  • halyk.the.red@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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.

  • FreeRangeMustard@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 days ago

      hes an expert he made sure samoa got measles, and got 86children killed by it.

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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    22 days ago

    “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!

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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.

      • half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        22 days ago

        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.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    No, what would be better is if that guy got a bad case of my backhand across his mouth every time he opens it.