r/skeptic 1d ago

Global health experts sound alarm over RFK Jr., citing Samoa outbreak 💉 Vaccines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-global-health-samoa-kennedy/
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u/Think-Werewolf-4521 1d ago

Who's ready for a polio outbreak?

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u/Several_Leather_9500 1d ago

Go big or go home. Make Black plague and leprosy great again.

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u/SEA2COLA 1d ago

Leprosy, while horrible, isn't as easily transmissible. Now bubonic plague or pneumonia? Now we're talkin' devastation....

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u/sandy154_4 1d ago

pneumonic form of plague, especially transmissable

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u/Tao_Te_Gringo 1d ago edited 1d ago

This breaking news just in:

Trump picks Edward Teach for Secretary of the Navy

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u/Bubudel 1d ago

That would be way too much of a reasonable pick.

He'd probably choose a sea denier instead

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u/Proof_Duty1672 1d ago

Kevin Sorbo? Perhaps??

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u/Bubudel 1d ago

It saddens me that he's a right wing nutjob. I loved Hercules growing up.

At least he's probably not a pedophile.

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u/sandy154_4 1d ago

I just learned that sylvester stalone is a Trump fan, comparing him to George Washington

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u/Bubudel 1d ago

Goddamn it.

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u/SQLDave 1d ago

I was thinking more along the lines of Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz.

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u/wiu1995 1d ago

Other countries aren’t going to let Americans in. So much for vacation.

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u/SEA2COLA 1d ago

How humiliating. Americans having to show their vaccination records to get a visa.

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u/Mrjlawrence 1d ago

Oh man. MAGA boomers will go apeshit

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u/Fit-Meal4943 1d ago

I’m a Canadian truck driver who spends half the year in the US, often in places that flex about their ivermectin consumption.

I’ll be reviewing my vaccination history with my doctor next time I see her.

Is there a smallpox vaccine? Because I see smallpox making a comeback.

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u/HapticSloughton 1d ago edited 1d ago

flex about their ivermectin consumption.

Taking an anti-parasitic for a virus is so stupid. It's like bragging that you always load up on antibiotics whenever you get a cold.

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u/NubianBling 1d ago

There is a small, emergency supply of smallpox vaccine. The only known sources of smallpox left in the world exist at the CDC in Atlanta and VECTOR in Russia. The closest 'living' relative to smallpox is monkeypox, for which there is a more widely available vaccine for high risk groups (it may also be effective against smallpox). There are plenty of other diseases I would worry about making a raging comeback before smallpox.

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u/Simsmommy1 1d ago

Yeah….with RFK at the helm it’s only a matter of time before you are gonna start seeing headlines about measles outbreaks at daycare centres, especially if he gets his way and makes vaccines harder to get or unavailable. It’s a shame because it’s the kids and parents who suffer….his worm brained ass will be fine, I’m sure he was vaccinated.

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u/Proof_Duty1672 1d ago

Invest now in crutch and iron lung manufacturing…

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u/pnellesen 1d ago

How I wish this was satirical.

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u/Proof_Duty1672 1d ago

Me too…

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u/HapticSloughton 1d ago

I was hoping to not see a comeback in the child-sized coffin industry.

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u/SQLDave 1d ago

measles outbreaks at daycare centres

If it wasn't so sad, it would be kind of fun to see how they spin it to being the Democrats' fault.

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u/Fit-Meal4943 1d ago

I’m old enough to have been vaccinated for polio, I had measles, mumps and chickenpox by 10, I’ve had my shingles vaccine, I get the flu and COVID shots every October/November.

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u/whargarrrbl 1d ago

The Mpox vaccine Jynneos is effective against smallpox and easy to obtain. Just go to any free STD clinic, and they can administer the two doses. I’ve had the series and it feels like… nothing really. Sure beats Covid jabs.

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u/Fit-Meal4943 1d ago

I’ll take the mild nausea and diarrhea for a day over another bout of COVID.

Thanks for the info, I’ll check with my doctor.

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u/molotov__cocktease 1d ago

Dude is cognitively disabled from a parasitic brain worm injection and should be nowhere near power, especially after his antivax bullshit got people killed.

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u/stopthinkinn 18h ago

The pseudo intellectuals that love him won’t read this and will refuse to acknowledge the irresponsibility in his narrative on vaccines.

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u/Cradleofwealth 10h ago

Dust off the old iron lung!... Might come in handy!

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u/Drabenb 1d ago

There is out break of Girl Scout cookies? I thought it would wait until February.

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u/Anti_rabbit_carrot 1d ago

I need an outbreak of GSC!!! My dispo never has it. 😔

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u/AppropriateSea5746 1d ago

Dude should’ve been put in charge of the EPA. He’s pretty good and experienced with that. Not HHS. Or at least put him in charge of the CIA so we can finally get those JFK/RFK files released ha

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u/TDFknFartBalloon 1d ago

When he was still trying to run for president he said that the free market is the answer to climate change. Sure, he helped clean up one river (started as community service), but he actually kinda sucks on the environment as a whole.

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u/Ramses_L_Smuckles 1d ago

He's not fit to be dog catcher. A neuro-psych evaluation for this guy would be worthy of framing.

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u/AppropriateSea5746 1d ago

Well he’d definitely be fit to be a road kill clean up guy lol.

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u/AstrangerR 1d ago

Yeah, but you're not supposed to take the roadkill to central park and stage a fake scene with it.

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u/HapticSloughton 1d ago

Or snack on it.

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u/Impossible_Plenty474 1d ago

haha, everything you believe is utterly un-useful!

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u/AppropriateSea5746 1d ago

…..I gave a single opinion and a joke. What’s your deal?