You guys know that RFK jr. wrote an article in Rolling Stone that basically introduced America to Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who did the “study” that linked vaccines to autism? While it’s true that anti-vaxers have been a thing almost since the founding of the Republic, it was niche until RFK, Wakefield, and finally Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carry (with the help of Socials) took it mainstream and fomented the movement we see today.
What is he trying to achieve here?
His job as the Fourth horseman of the apocalypse? 🤷♂️
A second pandemic
I hate to ask what might seem like a stupid question, but….why?
He is not trying to create a pandemic. He believes that vaccines are unnecessary. Humans existed long before vaccines, and he believes they do not do anything. This is 100% false and vaccines effectiveness has been proven in numerous trials. Before vaccines humans died of a lot of diseases.
Unfortunately, in the USA vaccines have become a political and social issue with many people sharing or partially sharing this belief.
Ok, another daft question….its a fact that vaccines are effective. So why is he against them?
There’s no polite way to say it. He’s not very intelligent and has a poor grasp of the information that would lead you to see that they’re effective.
If you don’t trust the government or establishment and you don’t have the capacity to evaluate evidence, then anything the government or established medical system says is good must be bad.The most charitable explanation is that he, admittedly, had a worm eat part of his brain.
You can find reasons that people could be pushing vaccines that don’t do anything, but that doesn’t mean they actually are doing so.
Brain worm is taking over his already feeble mind.
He probably believes that vaccines are bad and people should eat healthier.
So he’s been given control of health care to dismantle it rather than be given control of the department of agriculture where he would push for better food practices.
In terms of politics, “the freedom to choose” not to vaccinate.
The “saner” arguments of the anti-vax movement is parents and individuals should have the right to not vaccinate.
But bare in mind that these arguments are rooted in the same conservative arguments: rules apply to YOU. They don’t apply to ME. I am a Christian and therefore know what’s best. The law exists to protect me from YOU and allow ME to punish YOU.
Bottom line is that this isn’t about vaccinations as much as it is about allowing conservatives to ignore government regulations that have been oPpReSsInG tHeM.
