r/PatientPowerUp • u/Northern_Blue_Jay • 22d ago
What RFK Jr. gets wrong about mRNA vaccines and fighting future pandemics - The Trump administration is terminating biodefense research funding for mRNA projects, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to fight future pandemics.
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u/BadgerValuable8207 21d ago
I was reading that pharmaceutical companies are excited about the profit opportunities from developing treatments for measles.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 21d ago
Better, of course, would be getting as many vaccinated, as possible, and so people doesn't acquire measles in the first place, or, if they do, it's very mild in comparison. Those children didn't have to die, but apparently, Bobby Jr. still hasn't learned.
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u/BadgerValuable8207 21d ago
Yah sorry I thought it would be obvious but I should have said how stupid that is. Here’s a straight-faced article in WSJ of all places, just accepting that oh well, people don’t want to get vaccinated any more.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 21d ago edited 21d ago
I agree that it's stupid not to get your children vaccinated against measles, if that's what you mean by what's stupid, in this case.
But under Kennedy, they're promoting the idea that it's better for people not to get vaccinated, and even as some unvaccinated children have recently died of measles. And Kennedy is so shameless, he even showed up at the funeral, IIRC (or something comparable) with the parents grateful for his appearance, and probably because it helps them remain in denial about their own role as parents in having failed to save their own children's lives through something as basic in public health as a vaccine - and a vaccine that's completely safe. And out of nothing more than their own willful and stubborn ignorance, and later, a reluctance to admit that they were wrong, that their ideas were foolish, and their children paid with their very lives, as a result.
They're probably still not vaccinating their children, even after measles killed one of their children. We saw this with some parents with covid. Talk about selfish narcissism on the part of both Kennedy and these irresponsible parents.
Other parents, by contrast, got up there and told the public - don't make our mistakes. Get yourselves and your children vaccinated. They learned from their mistakes, and they tried to help others do differently.
Not this bunch, though what else can you expect from a guy who molested his own children's babysitter, and goes swimming in a river the public health authorities told people not to swim in because it was contaminated by a sewage leak with E coli. Then - he even invited his own relatives' children to jump in the water with him - though fortunately those children had their own parents with them to stop it, and because they know their relative has his screws loose when it comes to the subject of public health.
Measles vaccines are down because of a propaganda campaign against vaccination. Not because the public has figured out that measles vaccines are bad for you - but because the public has been misled - including by people like Kennedy.
And measles vaccines could rise again if our public health agencies were being managed by someone who is not out of their mind, as Kennedy obviously is, and by someone who instead believes in the public good of public education about the benefits of vaccination -- and believes in putting money into that public health education -- and so that more people, not less people, get vaccinated.
I'm not knocking treatments for measles, in general, but it's a lot easier and a lot less costly, both in terms of money and human costs, including great suffering, to simply promote vaccination. But maybe these companies have calculated that they can make even more money if people aren't vaccinated and get sick, instead?
In which case, this is the very definition of insanity. But our entire health care system is the very definition of insanity, to begin with - or we would have a national single payer health care program - like other 21st C developed nations - in which quality health care for every person is treated as a human right, and not a commodity.
Aren't enough Americans dying under the current health care system, as it is? And without Kennedy adding to those numbers with his cracked ideas about not getting vaccinated, no longer pasteurizing milk, swimming in sewage, drinking lots of Coca Cola as long it has sugar instead of corn syrup, not to mention, whatever went through what he calls his "mind" when he allegedly and sexually assaulted a young woman under his employment and while he was married, no less, and with his children at home at the same time.
Is rape a public health issue, in Kennedy's "mind?"
And how is it cognizant of public health, not to mention the safety and well-being of children, if you take a dead animal and dump its large, rotting carcass in the middle of Central Park -- and where thousands of children freely play -- then propose to your fans that it's funny instead for a grown man and father to do this? I could see an adolescent - a couple of 14 year old boys doing something like this as a prank ... but a mature adult?
And the same adult in charge of public health for the entire country?
He doesn't even understand the meaning of public health as it applies in a public urban park and the presence of a large rotting carcass.
So I hope this clarifies what I myself think is not only stupid, but pure lunacy, and sometimes even criminal.
And just for the record - I used to like Kennedy before I knew all this other stuff. So I didn't come into this with any bias against him. He earned my full and total disrespect all on his own.
I see him, too, as a total waste of a human being because he could have been so much more in the positive sense, and for the entire country. Instead, he is helping to destroy the United States, and in the case of public health, send us back to the ignorant standards of even the 1600s.
I weep for my country.
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u/BadgerValuable8207 21d ago
My theory is we are living in a simulation game being played by a nice couple in another dimension, but they went on a trip and their psychotic teenager is wantonly destroying the world they created. Nothing else makes sense.
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u/GraciousPeacock 22d ago
What doesn’t that idiot get wrong? It’s hard to view anything he does in some sort of positive light