Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, is voicing support for the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak, mainly in Texas.
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Asshole.
Guy does the right thing and you call him an asshole for it.
He’s been spreading lies about vaccines for years, pushing anti-vax propaganda. Now that some poor child of an anti-vaxxer family has died, he’s suddenly pro-vax for just this one thing?
No fuck him. He’s an asshole.
That's exactly how not to encourage people to be better.
Wouldn't you like for him to be better? Or are you just more comfortable in a black and white world of, once bad always bad?
I’m not the guy you’re replying to, but a broken clock being right twice a day doesn’t miraculously fix it. It’s still broken. Dude’s still an asshole, even if in this one moment he’s being ‘right’. He has already begun to dismantle the department he was appointed to as the head of. You’ll see next year, if we even get health and flu related death numbers anymore, what the impacts of his decisions, up to TODAY even, have brought.
Yeah, I mean people like to get into a position of power and foment vaccine hesitancy and we're supposed to praise him?
Fuck him. I'll praise him when he goes comes back fully. This ten steps back and one step forward bullshit? Fuck that.
Wouldn’t you like for him to be better?
I'd like him to admit he has no business personally advising anyone on the public policy of health matters, hire a capable person for the job and say "I will simply be following every directive of this competent person I hired on matters related to the national policy on health". That would do it for me.
The man campaigned against measles vaccines in Samoa which was followed by a reduction of vaccinations and a measles outbreak.
Now he was promoting fucking vitamins to deal with it. I bet his wife told him to get it together as she did during Covid for whatever party they had where guests needed to be vaccinated. He's an asshole.
Also, this:
As health secretary, Kennedy has also raised alarm for canceling meetings of influenza experts at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issued a stop-work order on contracts meant to develop new vaccines, and is “re-evaluating” a $590m contract with the vaccine-maker Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine.
This guy shouldn't be anywhere NEAR the levers of power.
he also drove his previous wife to suicide i believe.
you need to read further, hes only issuing 2000 doses, which means very little. hes only half-assing it.
Youre the guy praising Hitler for building highways.
Ask all those Samoan kids if he's an asshole, oh wait! You can't! Cause he killed them.
And further he remained unrepentant for his role in murdering 83 Samoan children (most of which were babies). Instead deflecting blame onto the people of Samoa, saying it was because they were malnourished, or possibly because they had the audacity to get vaccinated during an epidemic that he had a direct role in causing (and thus the vaccines killed the unvaccinated children who died of measles, somehow)
He's sending 2000 doses of the MMR vaccine to Texas.
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-health-department
It's a two-part series, so that's enough for one thousand people to be properly vaccinated. That's nothing. There are already about 160 identified cases. It's extremely contagious. Measles has a reproduction number of about 15, meaning 1 person can infect 15 other people. Compare that to the WHO's value of 1.4-2.4 for COVID.
Secondly, he stuck to his stance that "the decision to vaccinate is a personal one", which is a nod and wink to antivaxxers to continue their denial.
He's not doing this because he's changed his stance. He's still anti-vaxx. He's just feeling some pressure to do something, so he is, but he's dragging his feet and doing the minimum possible.
Secondly, he stuck to his stance that “the decision to vaccinate is a personal one”, which is a nod and wink to antivaxxers to continue their denial.
This. This could be the single most worst thing, ever. Even if he doesn't work to attack vaccines with the power he has (and it looks like he IS doing that, given some of the other things he's done).
By giving even 5-10% the notion that they are right to be vaccine denialists, he could destroy our herd immunity levels country-wide.
The right thing for him to do as the secretary of health and human services would be to resign, as he’s unqualified for the position.
Touting the effectiveness of vaccines was actually the bare minimum if you’re going to be the health advisor to the fucking president.
Do you know who this man is? He did the good thing once and only because he's well aware he's a fraud. 🤣
He helped cause this situation. Doing the [barest minimum you can even consider the] right thing after it's too late doesn't change the fact that he did the wrong thing for years before this. And will go right back to that wrong thing the moment he thinks he can get away with it
Here’s the “/s” you meant to use
