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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 10, 2025, 09:34 PM Mar 10

RFK Jr. lives up to his anti-vaxxer reputation amid measles outbreak

As a measles case hits the Washington, D.C., area, public health agencies led by anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr. are ignoring it and instead wasting resources on testing vaccines for a false and long-debunked association with autism.

A measles outbreak in West Texas began in January, but on Sunday, a case was confirmed in Maryland, with the possibility of further exposure to people at Dulles International Airport and the Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. (The two outbreaks are not believed to be connected.) And officials are still trying to identify who has been exposed, according to The Washington Post.

However, it’s clear we’re not in the safest of hands, at least federally. During President Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting on Feb. 26, Kennedy claimed the outbreak in Texas and New Mexico was “not unusual”—despite that it has led to the first two deaths from the preventable disease in a decade. Additionally, there have been more than 200 reported cases and 23 hospitalizations due to largely unvaccinated populations, as of March 7.

“There’ve been four measles outbreaks this year. In this country last year, there were 16,” Kennedy said, pushing a false narrative of public health normalcy. “So it’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/10/2309191/-RFK-Jr-aims-resources-at-wacky-pet-project-amid-measles-outbreaks

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RFK Jr. lives up to his anti-vaxxer reputation amid measles outbreak (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 10 OP
Imagine BOSSHOG Mar 10 #1
By the time The Orange Menace is dead or out of office--whichever comes first--the death toll Ol Janx Spirit Mar 10 #2
If Elon and his stooges were serious about cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse" dflprincess Mar 10 #3

Ol Janx Spirit

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2. By the time The Orange Menace is dead or out of office--whichever comes first--the death toll
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 09:43 PM
Mar 10

of his incompetency and his callous indifference to the lives of ordinary Americans is going to be astounding. We can only hope they are not Hitler or Stalin-territory numbers, but at this point I would not bet against it.

dflprincess

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3. If Elon and his stooges were serious about cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse"
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 09:46 PM
Mar 10

they would shut down the vaccines/autism study.

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