"If I believed the stuff that's written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy said.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed the media for dragging his campaign Sunday, saying he has been slammed “even more than President Trump was slammed” by mainstream media outlets.

“I’ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented,” Kennedy said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic who is running a longshot primary campaign against President Joe Biden, is more popular among Republicans than Democrats, according to polling.

The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and the son of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. has been hit with backlash for his stances on vaccines, particularly recent comments he made suggesting that the coronavirus could have been “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while sparing Jewish and Chinese people. Kennedy denied allegations of racism and antisemitism, saying on Twitter: “I have never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.”

“I mean, listen, if I believed the stuff that’s written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy told host Maria Bartiromo. “I would think I was a very despicable person.”

    • Drusas@kbin.social
      52·
      1 year ago

      Obviously. They get chicken pox, which is the same virus. Having chickenpox as a child predisposes you to shingles as an adult.

      • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
        27·
        1 year ago

        So it seems you don’t understand.

        I recommend reading the NHS website for their opinions on why they don’t recommend the chicken pox vaccine.

        • snipgan@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          If a childhood chickenpox vaccination programme was introduced, people would not catch chickenpox as children because the infection would no longer circulate in areas where the majority of children had been vaccinated.
          This would leave unvaccinated children susceptible to getting chickenpox as adults, when they’re more likely to develop a more severe infection or a secondary complication.

          So, basically get chicken pox earlier to build immunity, regardless if it makes you more susceptible to shingles, to better protect you from shingles as an adult. Since it is more likely to hurt you as an adult versus as a kid.

          Sill seems fine to still vaccinate as that would lower the amount of chickenpox floating around to begin with…

          Both options seem reasonable to me, although I would lean on vaccination still.

          • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
            12·
            1 year ago

            Both options seem reasonable to me, although I would lean on vaccination still.

            If both getting vaxxed or not getting vaxxed is reasonable, is that something we should require for nearly kids?