Summary

Donald Trump plans to discuss potentially ending childhood vaccination programs with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services.

Trump expressed openness to revisiting vaccine policies, citing concerns about autism rates, despite scientific consensus debunking links between vaccines and autism.

Critics warn reducing vaccinations could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles.

Kennedy, known for questioning vaccine safety, would oversee the CDC if confirmed.

Public health experts remain concerned about the implications.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    99 dead kids in the ground,

    99 dead kids

    Remove a vaccine, no longer to be found

    999999999 dead kids in the ground

  • @[email protected]
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    25 months ago

    Suddenly it’s an elective procedure and no longer covered by insurance.

    Though I guess it may get more expensive for insurers to cover the unvaccinated so the market might actually win out with that one…

  • @[email protected]
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    1095 months ago

    “trump to discuss bringing back ever terrible disease we got rid of or mitigated in the 1900s with RFK Jr.”

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    145 months ago

    This has such “Doctor Strangelove” vibes, although the idiocy on display in that movie was meant to be satirical and absurd, yet here we are

  • Sabre363
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    35 months ago

    Ah yes, the ol’ classic vaccination / autism correlation. It makes perfect sense, I mean I’m autistic and then I got vaccinated. Definitely a connection here, let’s ban the 'tism and solve all the problems.

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      55 months ago

      While the link between pollution and autism is very clear, but people still vote for drill baby drill.

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    955 months ago

    Okay, idiot republicunts. You happy now? Not only are eggs going to be MORE expensive because of bullshit tariffs, but your kids are going to die from measles and shit. Way to go, cunts.

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      465 months ago

      They won’t know about it until it personally affects them, then they’ll play the victim card.

    • @[email protected]
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      365 months ago

      Not their kids, they can afford the vaccines at list price. It’s the poors who will die, as Supply Side Jesus intended.

      • JaggedRobotPubes
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        105 months ago

        How does that help them? It’s a vaccine. If just you have yours, it doesn’t work very well. It still helps some and objectively improves things so it’s still a good idea, but it’s not like having it when everybody does their job.

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          You are thinking like someone who gives a damn about other humans. Yes, everyone benefits when everyone who is able to gets the shot and we can keep the overall spread down.

          But what if you are the type of person who thinks that everything is a zero-sum game, and you’re not really a winner unless you have more than the other guy? What advantage is there to you, personally, if everyone benefits? It’s much better if you get the benefits, and people you hate do not.

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        All those hillbilly fuckbrains who voted for trump? All those suburban moms who voted for a rapist? Nah bruv, those people can’t afford a $1200 vaccine or whatever the fuck. The traitor oligarchs can, sure. Perhaps they will meet their fate via a different route, nahmean?

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      25 months ago

      Not to worry, they will probably come up with a near total ban on abortions and birth control, and then there’ll be that many more children, so that enough of them can survive to become wage slaves for the billionaire class.

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      55 months ago

      To be fair, the price of eggs will likely be more affected by bird flu which will spread uncontrollably, since Trump will abolish all common sense regulations.

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      95 months ago

      I feel bad saying this, but part of me wonders if this is what they need. A real wake up call, a real understanding a real view of how bad a country can get if you throwaway the guardrails in place that was there to keep the very government in check and allow them to outright eat the poor to supplement the rich.

      I just hope it doesn’t destroy the country before they realise what’s taken from them.

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        a real understanding a real view of how bad a country can get

        How many people died from Covid from refusing to wear masks and refusing to get vaxed during Trump? Then Trump claimed credit for getting the vaccine made.

        Yet here we are.

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        85 months ago

        I have a deep yearning for this to happen. But logically I find it far more likely that they’ll just blame anything going wrong on Biden and Obama initiatives.

        With the Supreme Court in play, They might just start locking up people for criticizing the government. It’ll be fake news soup to nuts

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    145 months ago

    I think we are forgetting the rate at which Trump chews through allies. Kennedy is simply another useful idiot. He was useful to have his idiot base vote for the turd. They will (maybe) look at the numbers, pharma will say that stocks will go down, and Kennedy will be substituted by another useful idiot. Wash, rinse, repeat.

    • Ioughttamow
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      125 months ago

      That’s the only thing I can hope, is that the pharmaceutical and insurance industries will tell him to bury rfkj in a hole in the desert

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    It’s not the vaccines that cause autism, you nincompoopidiots, it’s the violent videogames, obviously!

    🤪

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    65 months ago

    I guess Trump wants to eradicate the American population? How does this make them money?

    A new period of prohibition begins. How do I buy vaccines illegally?

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      35 months ago

      Likely Elon Musk and some other people are covert eugenicists. A lot of eugenicists work with Lysenko-style “genetics”, and think generations surviving deadly diseases will bring forward a smarter and stronger humanity,

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      25 months ago

      Well, if America is no longer a superpower, then Putin and all his oligarchs buddies are planning on sweeping up the spoils of its ruin for themselves.

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        15 months ago

        Wouldn’t the diseases travel back to Europe of the US weakens at all? People immigrate to where the money is.

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    65 months ago

    Many nearly extinct diseases are already planning their great comeback tour in the US.

    Wonder what will happen when the rest of the world denies entry to Americans for health reasons.