• SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    The health secretary’s call for parents to vaccinate their children for measles contrasts starkly with the many years in which Kennedy has been a leading proponent of misinformation questioning the efficacy and safety of vaccinations. Even since he became the country’s top health official, he has depicted a measles vaccination as a personal choice and claimed inaccurately that the power of the inoculation is waning.

    Children are dead because of what he chose to say.

    He went on to blame the outbreaks on religious communities who eschew vaccines and on global health conditions.

    I mean… a broken clock is right twice a day, I suppose. But he should not be in the position he has been appointed to. More people are dying.

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Don’t worry… It’ll only take another 20 years to get back the herd immunity we already lost. And that’s assuming the idiots who listened to him in the first place don’t decide this is a liberal psyop and they know he REALLY means NOT to get the vaccination.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        Yeah they aren’t likely to listen to anyone tell them something that doesn’t fit their cult narrative. Some will mental gymnastics their way to getting vaccinated, but kore will mental gymnastics their way to ignoring his statement, if they even hear it in the first place.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      Half his audience are those religious nuts so he is effectively throwing his audience under the bus. The only people who will be his audience are the crunchy Karen types who have convinced themselves that they are different from the other girls.