Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines.
“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X.
Kennedy said his federal Department of Health and Human Services would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine – typically meant to be given to children in a series of two shots at 12 to 15 months old as well as between the ages of four and six years old – through its immunization program.
“I sent vaccines to the antivaxxers, this is a great idea that will surely resolve the issue.”
Guy needs a new brainworm to pilot him cuz that move is stupid as fuck.
The idea that RFK is piloted by a brain worm is ridiculous misinformation. The worm in RFK’s brain died. Probably because his thoughts are so toxic.
The pilot died? Well that does explain a lot.
standing on uncovered shit spigot while shit sprays in face and mouth at high pressure
“Hmmm maybe I’ll consider putting the spigot back on. Gotta contain the shit y’know”
He’s sending supplies of oil of oregano and industrial bleach.
2000 doses…that’s it?
It’s more effective than mandating it and forcing health care companies to pay for it. /Sarcasm in case anyone was wondering
Yeah. That’s nothing.
on one person.
Specifically the already dead child will be given all of the doses
Oh does he now wish to keep his position?
his worms love to. rfk jr’s brain died decades ago.
Bird flu in the corner, gleefully rubbing its hands. Soon I will get the spotlight.
They have found bird flu in rats now
and the cultists will say “SEE HE’S DOING SOMETHING HE SUPPORTS VACCINES!!!eleven!!!”, the media will praise the administration for this action, and the smart ones will point out that 2000 vaccine doses for a measles outbreak is a pathetically small number that might stem the tide a bit at best. this entire response has been an absolute clusterfuck and our spineless media won’t call it out for fear of retaliation.
2000 doses is enough to vaccinate 1000 individuals. He’s sending enough to vaccinate a single neighborhood. This is almost medically meaningless. It’s only for show and does not cover the situation or care for any individuals at length.
It does however expose that he does believe in vaccines to some degree and that jfk jr doesn’t actually believe his own bullshit in an emergency.
Depending on the area, 1000 could easily not even be a neighborhood
Surely the bigger issue is that even if you have 1000 kids to vaccinate, there are 10,000 parents who don’t believe measles is anything to be worried about?
The NIH believes 7% of Americans are anti-vax, so in Texas that 10,000 is more like 2.1m.
“And so, I am putting America’s best homeopaths and aromatherapists on the case”
Instead of sending us all COVID tests, they’ll send us a pack of healing crystals this time.
And they won’t come pre-charged.
Space-X© healing crystals, provided for free but at an acquisition cost to the US government of $37 per crystal.
Just attended a vendor event with a bunch of vaguely witchy stuff, including lots of tarot and crystals. I assure you 37 bucks would be a steal.
New emergency number: dial 711, and the homeopath-helicopter will be dispatched to your location to administer emergency foot zone therapy and essential oils.
Dispatched spiritually. Much faster and the angels don’t cost our government a dime! Check mate socialists!
Uh, the angels that cover your malady require a 10% tithe.
The government will be handing out free healing crystals starting tomorrow.
The government will be awarding a contract to Elon Musk to provide subsidized for-profit healing crystals to those with mandatory healing-crystal insurance.
After that he can tackle the weasel outbreak in the white house.
Dead kids changing a Republican’s behavior on a politicized issue???
Cool, now do guns.
Must have realized it was a white kid who died.
There is big heat on Kennedy because a Mennonite no vax child died of measles. There hasn’t been a death in 20 years so its a big deal because kids shouldnt be dying of Measles in 2025. Vax up people or its going to be diseasey soon. Keep the herd healthy because we are all in this world closely together.
With Nazis running the show I don’t think giving them a monopoly on force is a good idea.
If you think the type of arms you can get your hands on will help one iota you are gravely mistaken
Should the people ever need to fight the government of the US there are only two things that will matter:
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How much of the military joins which side
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Which nations supply each side with arms
Either the people get some of the military on their side (along with the planes, tanks, drones, etc they bring along) and are propped up by foreign interests, or the military steamrolls any resistance.
This has been true in every major conflict in the last several decades. You either have the support of military assets and foreign governments or you lose.
Tell that to Afghanistan.
Or vietnam
Or Iraq
It’s not the size of the gun, it’s who you point it at. Taps head
Cool cool cool. So let’s do an experiment. I’ll take a A-10 Warthog (and pilot) with its 30mm GAU-8 Avenger. You take a Walther PPK. Since the size of the gun doesn’t matter, just who you point it at, you should come out on top, right?
Your sophistry is just gun lobby propaganda in a pretty package.
If it comes to that, at least I can take as many of them with me as I can lmao
Good luck shooting the operator of the drone that wipes out your apartment complex. Or the tank driver. Or the F16 pilot.
In 2022 there were 47 fatalities in the US just from school shootings alone.
Meanwhile, in the war in Gaza, the IDF death toll - facing an opposition backed by multiple governments, Hezbollah, and Hamas - is 844 since Oct 7 2023
Like, I’m not even a “ban all guns” person. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to own a gun
Fighting the gubment ain’t one of 'em. It’s a joke.
Doubt they’ll be carpet bombing neighborhoods on our own soil lmao. Just talking about the idiots walking around carrying guns on their own terms
Anyways what’s this have to do with Gaza? Got more things to worry about here with keeping my wife and kids safe from crazies.
And any deaths are awful, but that’s a terrible stat to try to use. That’s not even an average of one person per state… there’s about 350 million people in the US
Doubt they’ll be carpet bombing neighborhoods on our own soil lmao.
It wouldn’t be the first time the US has bombed its own neighborhood…
The point is that if the total IDF death count in Gaza is that low after more than year of fighting, you and your rifle aren’t gonna do shit against the government if they’re able to convince the military to attack Americans on their own soil.
Like I said, I’m not trying to ban guns outright. If you want to defend your family from other crazy civilians with guns, I can appreciate that.
But this conversation started with a comment about Nazis being in power. You cannot fight that kind of power with the firearms available to civilians. Only other civilians with equally weak armaments
And my original comment was simply pointing out the hypocrisy of reversing course on vaccines when kids start dying when there are thousands of deaths every year, dozens of which are children in schools, and our leadership won’t even consider strengthening background checks or banning bump stocks
There’s no real comparison between the US and Palestine. That place has been a war zone on and off for decades. I can prob count on one hand how many major attacks there have been on US soil from foreign powers since the revolutionary war.
The thing you’re implying would mean that US military would start gunning down its own citizens en masse. That’s never happened and I don’t see that happening, even with the crazy shit going on.
When it comes to vaccines… what are we supposed to do with those idiots beyond banning them from being in certain public places? And that said - would you want everyone walking around marked in some sort of way to identify that? It’s unfortunate, but people have the right to be morons
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We are sending 2000 gun shot vaccines! Lol
Was RFK ever pro-gun? I sincerely don’t remember.
Yes, he has a consistent record of voting in line with the arms manufacturers’ lobby interests. He does not believe gun violence should even be researched.
That’s weird, why would he send vaccines? Those have 5g signal receivers in it for mind control. Is he stupid?
Because it’s rural Texas. They need the bars!
“I think the metal plate in your head is fucking with my reception…”
They included 2000 tin foil hats in the package
would send Texas 2,000 doses
Yeah, that actually sounds reasonable for a small localized outbreak when most are already vaccinated…
A total of 164 measles cases were reported as of 27 February across Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, information from the CDC showed. About 95% of those infected were unvaccinated people, including children whose parents did not follow CDC recommendations to get them immunized with safe, effective vaccines providing protection against measles as well as other easily preventable diseases. Another 3% were from people who received only one of the two required shots for immunity, CDC data showed on Friday.
These cases were reported in nine jurisdictions, including Kentucky, marking a near 80% jump from 93 cases reported a week ago.
Too bad it’s fucking everywhere and spreading insanely quickly…
2000 is laughable. And they’re having “measles” parties? lol gl!
remember back in elementary school and you thought $100 was a lot of money but when you got older you realized that $100 wasn’t a whole lot? I see the same thing here, except that those people who think that’s a lot of doses for this situation probably have a 7th or 8th grade understanding of, well, everything but they’re older than 50.
there needs to be at a minimum 500,000 doses for west texas.
You don’t need measles parties. The virus is so contagious you more or less can get it by looking at an infected person if you are not already immune.
Unfortunately, I suspect we’re in the incubation phase of a likely superspreader event (the contagious kid who spent time in crowded college areas, two weeks before (a) symptoms appear and (b) one of those colleges goes on spring break).
I’m betting that, of the hundreds of people exposed and the couple dozen people who probably caught it, at least some of them will go on spring break, and infect other spring breakers who will then bring it home to their colleges. It’ll have a couple months to spread there, then some of them will bring it home for the summer.
It sure would’ve been nice if we’d had politicians who were actually both sane and foresightful … :(
Wait until one of those Texan cow wranglers manages to crossbreed the measles he got from his “f-ck vaccines” support group with the avian flu he got from kissing his cows.
The immunity rate if fully vaccinated is 97%, but that still means 3% of people that did the right thing could die because of shithead conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr. Heard immunity only works if everyone that can does the right thing. We learned with COVID that many people would rather turn to conspiracy theories then science if it means they get a feeling of belonging to a group, even if that group is a cult.
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