Let’s look, for a painful moment, this fact: the absurdly unqualified leader of the US Department of Health and Human Services was sitting in the steak and suggested, in the midst of a measles outbreak, that obtaining measles is better than getting a measles vaccine.
Play this scene in your head several times and then accept that this is the real life in America in 2025.
Long-time anti-vaxine Number Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Having been declared a health leader in America earlier this year, he had already destroyed the concepts of logic and common sense. But the murmuring of fried potatoes while telling Fox News Nitwit Sean Hannity that a safe, effective, rescuing measles vaccine causes “adverse events” and “death every year” is that the history of blood moments will be remembered.
While the measles outbreak spread, Kennedy still worships anti-vaxisers
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is recognized as President Donald Trump is turning to a joint congress session on March 4, 2025.
As of Tuesday in Texas, there were 223 confirmed cases of measles, with 29 people being hospitalized and an unvaccinated child dead. New Mexico has 33 confirmed cases, most of them along the Texas border. One person there also died.
New cases have emerged this week in Oklahoma and Vermont, and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have followed additional cases in 12 states.
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Measles spread quickly as the virus tends to do. That is why we have incredibly effective vaccines.
It helps this spread of the disease are people like Kennedy, who have erupted a lot for concerns of vaccines that have been approved by any reputable physician and medical organization that exists.
Vaccines of a crucial importance for public health rather than the problem of “freedom of choice”
Kennedy’s comments, who aired this week on Haniti’s show, will certainly not help. While he continues to claim that he is not an “anti-vaxine”-something that flies in the face of his last decades of malicious lie about vaccines-he also expressed things in a way that allows anti-vaxine people to wave, in which they have to believe the lies that have been fed.
For example, President Donald Trump’s Health Chief said: “I am a person for freedom of choice. We need to have transparency. We had to have an informed choice. But if people do not want it, the government should not force them to do it. There are side events in the vaccine. This causes deaths every year. This causes all the diseases that the measles themselves cause. “
It’s slippery a little nonsense.
Protester at the Senate Confirmation of the Nominated Robert F. Kennedy -Jr. on January 29, 2025.
According to infectious diseases, the public of America: “It is not shown that death is related to the MMR vaccine in healthy people. There are rare cases of deaths from the side effects of vaccines among children who are compromised with immunizes, so it is recommended that they do not receive the vaccine. “
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And one of the keys to the efficiency of the vaccine is to ensure that enough people are vaccinated, which is why the vaccine requirements are something.
RFK -Jr. sounds that life was perfect before the vaccine against MMR
Kennedy also looked long for the good old days of measles parties, and I suppose, many children die of measles: “It was before you and I were children, they all got measles. And measles have provided you with protection, protection throughout life against measles infection. The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but many people are decreasing. “
Infographic for the measles virus at a press conference on public health in Austin, Texas, on February 28, 2025.
This is not what CDC – which Kennedy now controls – says about the vaccine: “MMR & MMRV vaccines usually protect people for life against measles.”
And CDC has guidance for all adults that may need additional vaccination later in life.
The presence of an anti-vaxine anger responsible for health is not great
Kennedy acknowledged that the vaccine stopped the spread of measles and said that anyone who wants to receive it, but this is not a good enough message from a person in his position.
Any “vaccines are good” moods he exports while doing his advertising on Bizzaro-World Free Steak ‘N Shake with Hannity, was soaked in warnings and skepticism that would nourish the minds of scientific skeptics.
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It is strangling that an unskilled stranger like Kennedy is in the position he is in, thanks to a president who sells US health in exchange for voters, brainwashes from Kennedy’s anti-vaxine grandmother.
But it was a few steps beyond the shocking people to see how Kennedy was helping Hannity sell burgers and fried potatoes until he found ways to sow with skepticism of the vaccine in a country where measles – declared uprooted in the United States in 2000 – made a deadly return.
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